EMPLOYEES - EMPLOYERS

Missouri House of Representatives
93rd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2006)
Bills Indexed by Subject
EMPLOYEES - EMPLOYERS

: Gives hospital medical staff the right of self-governance on certain issues

: Allows employers to provide or contract for health insurance benefits at a reduced deductible level for employees who do not smoke or use tobacco products

: Requires that all state service contracts awarded after August 28, 2006, must include specifications that employees of contractors or subcontractors be citizens of the United States

: Requires cities to pay the difference between the amount of the salary and workers' compensation benefits to certain public safety officers who suffer a traumatic job-related injury

: Changes the laws regarding workers' compensation benefits for certain diseases resulting in exposure to certain occupational hazards

: Prohibits a person from employing or subcontracting with an illegal alien on any publicly financed project

: Makes it an unlawful employment practice to subject an employee to an abusive work environment or to retaliate against an employee who opposes that type of environment

: Prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to work seven days a week except in certain circumstances

: Changes the laws regarding unemployment insurance

: Makes a claimant's refusal to take or invalidate results of an alcohol or controlled substance test employee misconduct and specifies that the results will be included in the administrative record as evidence

: Changes the laws regarding the release of information about an employee to a prospective employer or law enforcement agency

: Requires all noncertificated employees to be appointed and promoted pursuant to local school board rules

: Establishes the Volunteer Firefighter Job Protection Act

: Establishes the Missouri Worker's Freedom Act which prohibits employers from requiring employees to participate in communications regarding the employer's opinions on religious or political matters

: Authorizes the Superintendent of the State Highway Patrol to establish guidelines under which members of the patrol may accept other secondary employment

: Provides whistle-blower protections for persons reporting Medicaid fraud

: Establishes the Public Assistance Beneficiary Employer Disclosure Act which requires certain public assistance recipients to identify their employers

: Changes the laws regarding Missouri's minimum wage and requires that every employee be paid at least a "living wage"

: Changes the laws regarding employment security

: Requires an employer to verify that an employee has a valid Social Security number

: Requires certain employers of 10,000 or more employees in this state to pay an assessment based on health care benefits paid for employees that do not reach a minimum expenditure level

: Requires expenditures for political activities by labor organizations to be made exclusively from a fund established for that purpose

: Requires labor unions not subject to the federal Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act to publicly disclose information concerning their finances

: Changes the laws regarding Missouri's workers' compensation residual market plan

: Exempts work done on a school from the prevailing wage rate requirement if approved by the school board

: Establishes the Fairness in Public Construction Act to fulfill the state's proprietary objectives by promoting expenditure of public funds in publicly funded or assisted construction projects

: Establishes the Health Care Rights of Conscience Act which allows a health care professional to not participate in a health care service that violates his or her conscience

: Requires employers to pay employees equal wages for equal work regardless of employee's gender

: Makes an employer ineligible for any state aid or financial incentives if at least 25% of his or her employees earn less than the federal poverty level

: Authorizes a tax credit for employers who hire qualified high school students for summer jobs

: Allows certain juvenile court employees to participate in the Local Government Employees' Retirement System (LAGERS)

: Allows police, deputy sheriffs, and State Highway Patrol officers to form labor organizations

: Establishes the eligibility requirements of an employed disabled person requesting medical assistance under the federal Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999

: Specifies that no business can prohibit the storage of firearms and other weapons in a locked employee-owned vehicle

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide the employee disqualification list to nursing or medical schools to check it against students participating in patient care services

: Expands the authority of a peace officer as designated by the Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Control to make arrests, searches, and seizures

: Establishes the Guard at Home Program to assist the spouse of an active-duty National Guard or reservist with immediate needs and employment to prevent the family from falling into poverty

: Requires that a confirmation test for the presence of blood alcohol or a controlled substance be given to an employee who tested positive on an initial test

: Creates the felony crime of employing an illegal alien

: Exempts work done on a school in a noncharter county from the prevailing hourly wage requirement if approved by the school board

: Establishes the Occupational Safety Standards Commission to promulgate, modify, or revoke safety and health standards in the state

: Requires private mental health facilities and group homes for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled to meet the same requirements as state-operated facilities

: Establishes the Small Business and Entrepreneurial Growth Act to allow for the expansion of small businesses

: Establishes the Health Care Responsibility Act which requires applicants for Missouri Medicaid Program assistance to identify their employers

: Authorizes a tax credit for hiring disabled workers

: Repeals the provision requiring an employee to take paid leave, personal leave, or medical or sick leave when taking off for medical treatment, medical evaluations, or physical rehabilitation

: Establishes additional protections to prevent workplace violence

: Allows spouses of deployed soldiers to take certain amounts of time off from work without pay and without fear of retribution from the employer

: Establishes the Safe Patient Care Act to regulate the mandatory overtime of health care workers

: Requires any person convicted of hiring illegal aliens to repay double the value of any tax credit, tax abatement, or loan

: Establishes the Health Care Whistleblower Protection Act to protect health care professionals from retaliatory actions by employers for reporting violations of law

: Establishes certain employee rights

: Changes the laws regarding unlawful employment practices

: Modifies the laws regarding sexual offenders

: Allows small employers to obtain medical coverage through the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan

: Protects the conscience rights of pharmaceutical professionals

: Requires employee authorization for public employee labor unions to withhold fees from paychecks

: Modifies the prevailing wage law

: Creates an income tax deduction for small businesses and farmers that provide health insurance coverage for employees

: Requires applicants for Medicaid and CHIPs to identify the proposed beneficiary employer

: Requires state employees to contribute a percentage of income toward their health insurance

: Removes statutory restriction that prohibits employer purchasing alliances from forming for the purpose of providing group health insurance

: Creates the volunteer firefighter job protection act.

: Removes references to male and female employees and requires equal pay for the same work regardless of gender

: Creates the Public Employee Due Process Act

: Clarifies employment security for owner/operators who lease or contract vehicles to common or contract carriers

: Modifies requirements for labor posters

: Creates the "Fairness in Public Construction Act"

: Creates the "Public Service Accountability Act"

: Modifies unemployment compensation for teachers

: Bars employers from misclassifying employees as independent contractors

: Amends requirements for workers' compensation benefit payments

: Requires large employers to dedicate a percentage of profits for health care costs

: Allows for the formation of small employer purchasing alliances to purchase health insurance

: Modifies overtime eligibility requirements

: Allows a Highway Patrol member to accept other employment under a general order issued by the Superintendent

: Amends law relating to the hiring of unqualified employees on public projects

: Modifies and enacts new provisions pertaining to health care facilities

: Modifies Missouri law regarding overtime for state workers

: Modifies law relating to misclassified, nonresident, and undocumented workers

: Requires construction employees to take drug tests before working on projects on school property

: Relates to the duty of pharmacies to fill prescriptions

: Modifies and enacts new provisions pertaining to health care facilities

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated November 29, 2006 at 9:52 am