Almighty and loving God, we ask for Your presence in this Chamber today, as we discern those matters which will bring light, peace and joy to the people that we serve. Let us be united in the common good and not distracted by those things which divide us.

May our thoughts and words be reflections of the honor of this institution now and in the future. Let us remember that history will judge us not just by the outcome of our debates, but also by their manner. We ask this and for all things in Your holy name. Amen.

The Speaker appointed the following to act as Honorary Pages for the Day, to serve without compensation: Chris Kirk, Chelsea Rice, Alyssa Roberts, Mary Kate Shoemaker and Samara Crowell.

The 2006-2007 Missouri Future Farmers of America State Officers were introduced by Representative Quinn (7).

HCS HJR 1, relating to state court jurisdiction, was taken up by Representative Cunningham (86).

AMEND House Committee Substitute for House Joint Resolution No. 1, Page 2, Section 3, Line 9, by inserting after the word "taxes" the following:

"[.], unless such order of the court is issued as a remedy for non-compliance with provisions of the Missouri Constitution."; and

Further amend House Joint Resolution No. 1, Page 2, Section 3, Line 13, by inserting after the word "legislation" the following:

"[;], unless such order of the court is issued as a remedy for non-compliance with provisions of the Missouri Constitution;"; and

Further amend said title, enacting clause and intersectional references accordingly.

AYES: 064

Aull	Baker 25	Bland	Bowman	Bringer
Brown 50	Burnett	Casey	Chappelle-Nadal	Corcoran
Curls	Darrough	Daus	Donnelly	Dougherty
El-Amin	Fallert	Frame	George	Grill
Harris 23	Harris 110	Hodges	Holsman	Hubbard
Komo	Kratky	Kuessner	Lampe	Liese
Low 39	Lowe 44	McClanahan	Meadows	Meiners
Nasheed	Norr	Oxford	Page	Quinn 9
Robinson	Roorda	Rucker	Schieffer	Schoemehl
Shively	Skaggs	Spreng	Storch	Swinger
Talboy	Todd	Villa	Vogt	Walsh
Walton	Whorton	Wildberger	Witte	Wright-Jones
Yaeger	Young	Zimmerman	Zweifel

NOES: 092

Baker 123	Bearden	Bivins	Brandom	Bruns
Cooper 120	Cooper 155	Cooper 158	Cox	Cunningham 145
Cunningham 86	Davis	Day	Deeken	Dempsey
Denison	Dethrow	Dixon	Dusenberg	Emery
Ervin	Faith	Fares	Fisher	Flook
Franz	Funderburk	Grisamore	Guest	Hobbs
Hoskins	Hunter	Icet	Jones 89	Jones 117
Kelly	Kingery	Kraus	Lembke	Lipke
Loehner	Marsh	May	McGhee	Moore
Munzlinger	Muschany	Nance	Nieves	Nolte
Onder	Parson	Pearce	Pollock	Portwood
Pratt	Quinn 7	Richard	Robb	Ruestman
Ruzicka	Salva	Sander	Sater	Scavuzzo
Schaaf	Schad	Scharnhorst	Schlottach	Schneider
Schoeller	Self	Silvey	Smith 14	Smith 150
St. Onge	Stream	Sutherland	Thomson	Threlkeld
Tilley	Viebrock	Wallace	Wasson	Wells
Weter	Wilson 119	Wilson 130	Wood	Wright 159
Yates	Mr Speaker

PRESENT: 000

ABSENT WITH LEAVE: 007

Avery	Brown 30	Haywood	Hughes	Johnson
LeVota	Stevenson

Representative Pratt raised a point of order that House Amendment No. 2 goes beyond the scope of the bill.

On motion of Representative Cunningham (86), HCS HJR 1 was ordered perfected and printed.

Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Budget, to which was referred HB 16, begs leave to report it has examined the same and recommends that the House Committee Substitute Do Pass, and pursuant to Rule 25(21)(f) be referred to the Committee on Rules.

Mr. Speaker: Your Special Committee on Energy and Environment, to which was referred HB 159, begs leave to report it has examined the same and recommends that the House Committee Substitute Do Pass, and pursuant to Rule 25(21)(f) be referred to the Committee on Rules.

Mr. Speaker: Your Special Committee on General Laws, to which was referred HB 215, begs leave to report it has examined the same and recommends that the House Committee Substitute Do Pass, and pursuant to Rule 25(21)(f) be referred to the Committee on Rules.

Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Rules, to which was referred HB 69, begs leave to report it has examined the same and recommends that it Do Pass by Consent.

Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Rules, to which was referred HCS HB 221, begs leave to report it has examined the same and recommends that it Do Pass.

Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Rules, to which was referred HCS HB 272, begs leave to report it has examined the same and recommends that it Do Pass by Consent.

Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Rules, to which was referred HB 319, begs leave to report it has examined the same and recommends that it Do Pass by Consent.

Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Rules, to which was referred HB 344, begs leave to report it has examined the same and recommends that it Do Pass by Consent.

Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Rules, to which was referred HCS HB 346, begs leave to report it has examined the same and recommends that it Do Pass.

Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Rules, to which was referred HB 351, begs leave to report it has examined the same and recommends that it Do Pass by Consent.

Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Rules, to which was referred HB 488, begs leave to report it has examined the same and recommends that it Do Pass.

Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Rules, to which was referred HB 576, begs leave to report it has examined the same and recommends that it Do Pass by Consent.

Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Rules, to which was referred HCS HB 620, begs leave to report it has examined the same and recommends that it Do Pass.

Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Rules, to which was referred HB 625, begs leave to report it has examined the same and recommends that it Do Pass.

Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Rules, to which was referred HB 808, begs leave to report it has examined the same and recommends that it Do Pass, with a time limit of 3 hours for debate on Perfection.

Pursuant to Rule 45(b), the following bill, having remained on the House Consent Calendar for Perfection for five legislative days, was ordered perfected and printed by consent with all committee substitutes and committee amendments thereto adopted and perfected by consent: HB 70.

HB 912, introduced by Representatives Pollock, Day, Ruzicka, Dethrow, Wilson (119), Sutherland, Loehner and Quinn (7), relating to hunting and retrieval of game.

HB 913, introduced by Representatives Cooper (120), Villa, Young, Walsh, Daus, Spreng, Meiners, Zweifel, Komo and Vogt, relating to the advertising of liquor at retail businesses.

HB 915, introduced by Representatives Dougherty, Jetton, Day, Fisher, Stream, May, Kraus, Nance, Bivins, Wilson (119), Richard, Nolte, Kingery, Wright, Wasson, St. Onge, Tilley, Dusenberg, Schaaf, Hunter, Marsh, Loehner, Deeken, Lembke, Burnett, Young, Hoskins and Hubbard, relating to an exemption for veteran's organizations from certain bingo taxes.

HB 916, introduced by Representatives Dougherty, Jetton, Day, Fisher, Stream, May, Kraus, Nance, Bivins, Wilson (119), Richard, Nolte, Kingery, Wright, Wasson, St. Onge, Tilley, Dusenberg, Schaaf, Hunter, Marsh, Loehner, Deeken, Lembke, Burnett, Young, Hoskins and Hubbard, relating to an exemption for veteran's organizations from taxes on pull-tab cards.

HB 917, introduced by Representatives Low (39), Talboy, LeVota, Lampe, Storch, Shively, Oxford, George, Bland, Yaeger, Baker (25), Scavuzzo, Zimmerman, Villa, Lowe (44), Witte, Harris (23), Komo, Robinson, Spreng, Page, Walsh and Frame, relating to drug testing of rape victims.

HB 918, introduced by Representatives Kraus and Emery, relating to the public service commission.

HB 919, introduced by Representative Schneider, relating to political subdivisions.

HB 920, introduced by Representatives Schneider, Lipke, Donnelly, Jones (89), Burnett, Bringer, Grill, Deeken and Smith (150), relating to the uniform real property electronic recording act.

HB 921, introduced by Representative Cooper (120), relating to sales taxation of coin-operated amusement devices.

HB 922, introduced by Representatives Kratky, Deeken, Pollock, Richard, Wasson, Nieves, Schoemehl, Meiners, Salva, Chappelle-Nadal, Villa, Haywood, Donnelly, Wood, May, Hubbard, Burnett, Guest, Liese, Lowe (44) and Yaeger, relating to absentee ballots.

HB 923, introduced by Representative Kratky, relating to the St. Louis board of police commissioners.

HB 924, introduced by Representatives St. Onge, McGhee, Threlkeld, Faith, Loehner, Deeken, Kuessner, Cooper (120), Flook and Meadows, relating to damage to underground facilities.

HB 925, introduced by Representatives St. Onge, Page, Wilson (130) and Moore, relating to ignition interlock devices.

Mr. Speaker: I am instructed by the Senate to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has taken up and passed SB 19, entitled:

An act to repeal section 301.140, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to refund of motor vehicle registration fees.

Mr. Speaker: I am instructed by the Senate to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has taken up and passed SB 25, entitled:

An act to repeal sections 210.145 and 210.183, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to a child abuse or neglect investigation involving the death of a child.

Mr. Speaker: I am instructed by the Senate to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has taken up and passed SCS SB 52, entitled:

An act to amend chapter 227, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to annual bid bonds for state highways and transportation commission construction and maintenance projects.

Mr. Speaker: I am instructed by the Senate to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has taken up and passed SB 81, entitled:

An to repeal section 67.1360, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to a transient guest tax for funding the promotion of tourism.

Mr. Speaker: I am instructed by the Senate to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has taken up and passed SB 84, entitled:

An act to repeal section 210.482, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to criminal background checks for emergency child placements.

Mr. Speaker: I am instructed by the Senate to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has taken up and passed SCS SB 115, entitled:

An act to authorize the conveyance of property owned by the state in Pettis County to the Girl Scouts - Heart of Missouri Council, Inc., with an emergency clause.

Mr. Speaker: I am instructed by the Senate to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has taken up and passed SB 152, entitled:

An act to authorize the conveyance of property owned by the state in St. Francois County to the city of Park Hills.

Mr. Speaker: I am instructed by the Senate to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has taken up and passed SCS SB 232, entitled:

An act to amend chapter 227, RSMo, by adding thereto two new sections relating to memorial highway designations.

Representative Charles Schlottach is no longer a member of the Joint Committee on Transportation Oversight.

Representative Bob Onder has been appointed a member of the Joint Committee on Transportation Oversight.

Pursuant to Chapter 105.461, RSMo, this letter is an official report that I have a contractual relationship with Lindenwood University. The Missouri Ethics Commission has by letter verified that this relationship does not constitute a conflict of interest with my duties in the General Assembly.

Please publish this report in the Journal of the House pursuant to RSMo, Chapter 105.461.

Please allow this letter to serve as a request to be removed as co-sponsor of House Bill No. 495.

As a new legislator, I have made every attempt to be careful as to the legislation that I would sign on as co-sponsor. I have not freely decided to sign on any bill that has come my way, without having a good understanding as to what the bill entailed. I have shown great reservation, and chosen not to sign on to bills that may in fact, in the end, prove no harm to the people of my district. As a result, I have a good working knowledge of the type of bills that I have co-sponsored.

Thus, I am gravely concerned that I appear as co-sponsor, on legislation that I would never have knowingly signed on. House Bill No. 495, establishes a Missouri State Park Board to oversee a Historical Marker Program, a program that would have the power to erect a "statue, seal, flag or symbol" or any historical marker which would celebrate or commemorate the role of the Confederate Army here in Missouri.

As an African American legislator, I find this portion of the legislation offensive in that, although historical, the loss of the Confederates was pre-emptive for what allows me to assume my office as an elected legislator, thus giving me the capacity to write this letter today. My strong belief in equality and lack the suppression of any certain people, would have precluded me from ever knowingly signing on to, legislation of this nature. With this being said, I strongly request that my name be removed from this bill.

I respectfully request that House Bill No. 543 be withdrawn. Thank you for your consideration of this request.

On motion of Representative Dempsey, the House adjourned until 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, February 21, 2007.

Continuation of budget review from Departments of Mental Health, Health and Social Services.

Department budgets for Economic Development; Labor and Industrial Relations; Insurance,

Thursday, February 22, 2007, Hearing Room 1, forty-five minutes after morning adjournment.

Joint meeting with the Senate and House Tourism Committees and Tourism Commission.

HCS HB 444, 217, 225, 239, 243, 297, 402 & 172, (Fiscal Review 2-19-07) - Jetton