Issue 9 - March 2, 2007
ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
HB 657 Tilley (R)
Relating to the fitting, programming and dispensing of hearing devices
Expands the practice of audiology by adding fitting, programming, and dispensing of assistive listening devices. Licensees who sell these devices are required to provide a purchase agreement to the buyer containing product information including the terms of sale, name of manufacturer, make, model,
and current condition of product.
Status: 2/22/07 Referred Spec Comm. on Professional Registration & Licensing; Issue 6
EDUCATION
COMPLUSORY ATTENDANCE
SB 243 – Mayer (R)
Relating to compulsory school attendance age
Status: 2/28//07Public Hearing Scheduled. Bill not heard; Issue 3
EDUCATION
HB 29 – Cunningham (R)
Relating to terms of service for members of certain special school districts
Status:Status: 2/21/07 Public Hearing Conducted; Issue 1
HB 181 - Sanders (R)
Requires captioning of electronic video instructional material
Status: 2/27/07 Public Hearing Conducted; Issue 1
HB 265 – Cunningham (R)
Relatiing to due process hearings
Status: 2/21/07 Rules Reported Do Pass – Federal Mandate (H); Issue 3
HB 415 – Cunningham (R)
Relating to First Steps Program
Eliminates all sunset provisions relating to early intervention services, known as the First Steps Program.
Status:1/17/07 Second Read; Issue 5
HB 418 – Cunningham (R)
Relating to the First Steps Program
Removes the special education enabling authority from a list of sections related to the First Steps Program scheduled for sunset by August 28, 2007.
Status: 2/1/07 Referred Elementary and Secondary Education; Issue 4
HB 449 – Schoemehl (D)
Relating to the First Steps Program
Eliminates all sunset provisions relating to early intervention services, known as the First Steps Program.
Status:1/18/07 Second Read; Issue 5
HB 623 – Faith (R)
Relating to the First Steps Program
Eliminates all sunset provisions relating to early intervention services, known as the First Steps Program.
Status:1/29/07 Second Read; Issue 6
HB 718 – Pearce (R)
Requires public school students enrolled in kindergarten or first grade to receive a comprehensive vision examination
Status: 2/22/07 Public Hearing Conducted; Issue 7
HB 951 – Faith (R)
Changes laws regarding early intervention services for children
Currently, as children who receive early intervention services reach three years of age, they move from Part C to Part B of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, administered by the local school district. This bill requires school districts to continue the services of a child's Part C provider upon the parent's request and if the cost is no more than what the district would charge for the services. The reporting requirements and deadlines for the requests are specified. The parent may furnish and the initial individualized education program team may consider any outside evaluation information during the team meeting. The bill also exempts the state's early intervention services for children, known as First Steps, from
the sunset provisions. Pilot programs are created in the southwest and greater St. Louis points of entry. The southwest area program requires the system to hire, by January 1, 2008, one or more providers of early intervention services, either directly or through contract with sheltered workshop boards. The greater St. Louis program allows the regional interagency coordinating council to hire, by January 1, 2008, a child-find coordinator. A study of the programs must be completed by September 1, 2009, and the programs will expire September 1, 2010. The Part C Early Intervention Pilot Program Fund is created in the state treasury for implementing the pilot programs.
Status: 2/26/07 Second Read; Issue 9
SB 16 – Scott (R)
Requires a comprehensive vision examination for each child enrolled in kindergarten or first grade
Status: 3/5/07 S Formal Calendar S Bills for Perfection w SCS; Issue 8
SB 36 – Days (D)
Relating to the First Steps Program
Status: 1/16/07 Referred Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight; Issue 1
SB 112 – Rupp (R)
Removes the reference to sunset of the statute that provides authority for special education of age 3 to 21 population
Status: 3/5/07 S Formal Calendar S Bills for Perfection; Issue 1
SB 131 – Rupp (R)
Relating to the sunset provision for the First Steps Program
Status: 3/5/07 S Formal Calendar S Bills for Perfection; Issue 1
SB 133 – Rupp (R)
Alters provisions regarding due process hearings
Status: 2/7/07 Public Hearing Conducted; Issue 1
SB 140 – Rupp (R)
Relating to boards of education and due process hearings
Status: 2/7/07 Public Hearing Conducted; Issue 1
SB 141 – Nodler (R)
Removes reference to sunset of statute relating to special education of age 3 to 21 population
Status: 1/17/07 Referred: Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight; Issue 1
SB 142 – Nodler (R)
Renders the MO Sunset Act not applicable with regard to the First Steps Program
Status: 1/17/07 Referred: Education; Issue 1
SB 147 – Nodler (R)
Alters provisions regarding expedited due process hearings
Status: 1/17/07 Referred: Education; Issue 1
SB 148 – Nodler (R)
Relating to boards of education and due process hearings
Status: 1/17/07 Referred: Education; Issue 1
SB 374 – Rupp (R)
Relating to funding for First Steps Program and HMO's
Status: 2/20/07 Voted Do Pass; Issue 4
SB 435 – Rupp (R)
Requires captioning of electronic video instructional materials
Status :3/1/07 Voted Do Pass; Issue 6
SB 436 – Rupp (R)
Modifies provisions relating to the First Steps Program
Status:2/28/07 Public Hearing Conducted; Issue 6
SB 566 – Kennedy (D)
Modifies provisions relating to the First Steps Program
Status: 2/26/07 Referred Education; Issue 8
SB 617 – Rupp (R)
Relating to Part B of IDEA
Provides that the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education shall not promulgate rules or regulations modifying identification and evaluation standards for state services pertaining to the Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Act.
Status: 3/1/07 Referred Education; Issue 9
OTHER
HB 451 – Baker (D)
Requires school districts to incorporate social & emotional development programs into their educational programs
(See Mental Health/Services)
EMPLOYMENT
EMPLOYMENT
HB 39 – Portwood (R)
Establishes eligibility requirements of an employed disabled person requesting medical assistance under the TWWIIA
The perfected substitute requires the Department of Social Services to determine the eligibility of an employed disabled person requesting medical assistance whose family gross income is less than 350% of the federal poverty level. The substitute: 1. Requires that an individual meet the definition of a disabled person under the federal Supplemental Security Income Program or of an employed individual with a medically improved disability under the federal Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999; 2. Requires an individual who has a net income that does not exceed the limit for permanent and totally disabled individuals to receive non-spenddown Missouri Medicaid Program benefits; 3. Requires any participant whose gross income exceeds 100% of the federal poverty level to pay a premium for participation in this program; 4. Requires an individual to participate in an employer-sponsored health insurance plan if the department determines that it is more cost effective; 5. Exempts any income earned by individuals eligible for certified extended employment at a sheltered workshop for the purpose of determining eligibility; and 6. Exempts deposits of up to $5,000 per year into a medical savings and/or an independent living account from the asset limits for eligibility. The provisions of the substitute will expire six years from the effective date. The substitute contains an emergency clause.
Status:: 3/1/07 Referred Health & Mental Health S; Issue 9
HB 891 – Kratky (D)
Authorizes a tax credit for employing a disabled worker
(See Funding/Tax Relief)
SB 77 – Scott (R)
Creates graduated increase in payments for sheltered workshops
Status:2/6/07 SCS Voted Do Pass; Issue 6
SB 532 – Loudon (R)
Modifies MO Human Rights Law
(See Legal Rights & Responsibilities/Other)
SB 637 – Bray (D)
Creates the Healthy Families, Healthy Communities Act.
Under the bill all employers would be required to provide sick leave for employees. Regular employers must offer one hour leave for every 73 hours worked, not to exceed 40 hours in a year. Small employers must offer one hour leave for every 80 hours worked, not to exceed 26 hours in a year. Employees may only carry 40 hours from one year to the next. Sick leave shall accrue monthly and may be used as it accrues. Leave may be used for absences due to physical or mental illnesses, injuries, medical conditions, the seeking of medical diagnosis, medical care or preventative medical care, and for caring for a child or a relative. Employers may require certification to corroborate the need for leave and must keep all health information submitted by the employee confidential. Employers must post notice regarding sick leave conspicuously on the premises or in a handbook and may not take any action against the employer for exercising any rights or taking any action relating to the sick leave policy. The Attorney General may enforce the provisions of this law by bringing an action in civil court. Damages and other relief, which may be sought in the action, are provided.
Status: 3/1/07 Referred Small Business, Insurance & Industrial Relations; Issue 9
FUNDING
OTHER
SB 208 – Gross (R)
Requires the balance of all state funds to be transferred and credited to the state General Revenue Fund if state revenue does not increase by two percent
Status: 1/8/07 Bill withdrawn; Issue 1
SB 222 – Gross (R)
Requires the balance of all state funds to be transferred and credited to the state General Revenue Fund if state revenue does not increase by two percent
Status: 2/19/07 Public Hearing Conducted; Issue 2
TAX RELIEF
HB 40 – Portwood (R)
Changes laws regarding long term care insurance tax deduction and Establishes MO Long Term Care Partnership Act
Status: 2/27/07 Referred Fiscal Review; Issue 1
HB 104 – Meiners (D)
Relating to sales tax and modifications of a vehicle for a person with a disability
Specifies that the purchase price for calculating the sales tax of a motor vehicle excludes the cost to modify the vehicle for use by an individual with a disability.
Status: 2/28/07 HCS Voted Do Pass; Issue 1
HB 116 – Denison (R)
Allows MO residents to deduct from taxable income 100% of non-reimbursed amounts paid for long-term care insurance
Status: 2/7/07 Replaced with HCS HB 40, 116 & 367; Issue 1
HB 149 – Salva (D)
Authorizes a tax deduction for health insurance premiums
Status:1/4/07 Second Read; Issue 4
HB 168 – Hoskins (D)
Relating to an income tax credit for certain taxpayers age 65 and over
Status: 3/1/07 Referred Special Committee on Tax Reform; Issue 1
HB 307 – Fares (R)
Authorizes a tax credit for elderly and disabled for real property taxes
Status: 2/7/07 Public Hearing Conducted; Issue 3
HB 359 – Frame (D)
Exempts residential property owned by those 62 and over from increases in assessed valuation
Status: 1/25/07 Referred Ways & Means; Issue 4
HB 364 – Ervin (R)
Authorizes tax deduction for personally funded health insurance premiums
Status: 2/28/07 Referred Rules Pursuant to Rule 25(21)(f)(H); Issue 4
HB 367 – Dethrow (R)
Authorizes tax deduction for non-reimbursed amounts paid for long term care insurance
Status: 2/7/07 Replaced with HCS HB 40, 116 & 367; Issue 4
HB 383 – Wildberger (D)
Relating to tax deductions for long term care insurance premiums
Status: 1/16/07 Second Read; Issue 3
HB 455 – Kraus (R)
Exempts real property owned by certain individuals age 65 and over from increases in assessed valuation
Status:1/25/07 Referred Ways and Means; Issue 4
HB 456– Kraus (R)
Limits increases in assessed valuation on real property owned by certain individuals age 65 or older
Status: 2/5 /07 Referred Ways & Means; Issue 4
HB 457 – Sutherland (R)
Increases amount of credit allowed under Circuit Breaker program and re-names the program
Status: 2/1/07 Public Hearing Scheduled; Issue 4
HB 506 – Bivins (R)
Authorizes a homestead exemption for elderly and disabled in St. Louis County
Status: 1/25/07 Referred Ways & Means; Issue 4
HB 516 – Portwood (R)
Changes the laws regarding the MO Homestead Preservation Act
Status: 2/1/07 Public Hearing held; Issue 4
HB 823 – Zweifel (D)
Relating to the Circuit Breaker Tax Credit
Status: 2/12/07 Second Read; Issue 8
HB 823 – Kratky (D)
Authorizes a tax credit for employing a disabled worker
Authorizes a tax credit for employing a disabled worker against a company's corporate income tax; corporate franchise tax; financial institutions tax; or bridge, express, and public utility company tax. Individuals are excluded from this tax credit. The amount of the credit is based on the disabled
employee's average hours worked per week in a taxable year. If the average is at least 10 hours, the credit will be $1,000 per disabled employee; $1,500 if the average is at least 20 hours; and $3,000 if the average is at least 40 hours. The credit cannot be refunded, carried over, or transferred. The provisions of the bill will expire six years from the effective date.
Status: 3/3/07 Referred Special Comm. On Job Creation & Economic Development; Issue 9
HB 928 – Casey (D)
Exempts residential property owned by taxpayers age 62 and older from certain increases in assessed valuation
Freezes the assessed valuation of residential property for taxpayers 62 years of age or older who own and have lived in their principal residence for at least three years. The state will reimburse the political subdivisions based on the State Auditor's determination of lost revenue from the limitation on
assessed valuation. Does not include people with disabilities.
Status: 2/22/07 Second Read; Issue 9
SB 07 – Loudon (R)
Creates an income tax deduction for medical expenses
Status: 1/16/07 Referred: Ways & Means; Issue 1
SB 08 – Kennedy (D)
Provides a tax credit for modifying a home for a disabled person
Status: 3/5/07 S Consent Calendar; Issue 1
SB 32 – Bray (D)
Allows senior citizens to defer property tax payment
Status: 1/16/07 Referred: Ways & Means; Issue 1
SB 324 – Loudon (R)
Modifies provisions of the Special Needs Adoption Tax Credit Program
Status:1/22/07 Referred Ways & Means; Issue 4
SB 615 – Callahan (D)
Modifies provisions of the Homestead Preservation Exemption Tax Credit Program
This act requires the director of the Department of Revenue to calculate the levels of appropriation necessary to set the homestead exemption limit anywhere between one hundredth of one percent and five percent for reassessment years and one hundredth of one percent and two and a half percent for non-reassessment years. In doing so, the General Assembly could appropriate sufficient funds to offset any increase in property tax liability experienced by eligible taxpayers in a given year.
Status: 3/1/07 Referred Ways & Means; Issue 9
HEALTH CARE & PERSONAL ASSISTANCE
CONFIDENTIALITY
SB 612 – Portwood (R)
Modifies provisions on confidential medical test results
Under current law, every infant born in Missouri is tested for certain metabolic and genetic diseases and specified health professionals attending to births are required to assure that appropriate specimens are collected and submitted to the Department of Health and Senior Services. All medical test results and personal information relating to genetic testing and obtained from any individual shall be held confidential by the department with certain exceptions. This act provides that in addition to the certain prescribed exceptions, the department may release the results of newborn screening tests to a child’s healthcare professional. The bill also provides that specimens collected by the department shall be retained for five years and then destroyed. However, at the time of testing, or up to five years after the specimen was initially submitted to the department, the parent or legal guardian of the child from whom the specimen was obtained may direct the department to return, destroy or store the specimen. A specimen released for anonymous study shall not contain information that may be used to determine the identity of the donor.
Status: Issue 9
INSURANCE
HB 39 – Portwood (R)
Establishes eligibility requirements of an employed disabled person requesting medical assistance under the TWWIIA
(See Employment)
HB 40 – Portwood (R)
Changes laws regarding long term care insurance tax deduction and Establishes MO Long Term Care Partnership Act
(See Funding/Tax Relief)
HB 72 – Baker (D)
Increases the resource limit for eligibility for medical assistance
Status: 2/14/07 Referred Health Care Policy; Issue 1
HB 95 – Sater (R)
Relating to reforms for the MO Medicaid Program and purchase of health insurance for uninsured
Status: 2/6/07 Public Hearing Conducted; Issue 1
HB 116 – Denison (R)
Allows MO residents to deduct from taxable income 100% of non-reimbursed amounts paid for long-term care insurance
(See Funding/Tax Relief)
HB 149 – Salva (D)
Authorizes a tax deduction for health insurance premiums
(See Funding/Tax Relief)
HB 364 – Ervin (R)
Authorizes tax deduction for personally funded health insurance premiums
(See Funding/Tax Relief)
HB 367 – Dethrow (R)
Authorizes tax deduction for non-reimbursed amounts paid for long term care insurance
(See Funding/Tax Relief)
HB 383 – Wildberger (D)
Relating to tax deductions for long term care insurance premiums
(See Funding/Tax Relief)
HB 424 – Whorton (D)
Increases resource limit for eligibility for medical assistance
Status: 2/1/07 Referred Special Committee on Health Insurance; Issue 4
HB 447 – Schaaf (R)
Relating to MO Medicaid benefits
Status: 2/6/07 Public Hearing Completed; Issue 5
HB 484 – Hughes (D)
Establishes the MO Universal Health Insurance Act
Status:1/22/07 Second Read; Issue 4
HB 484 – Louden (R)
Prohibits the substitution of anti-epileptic drugs
Provides that a pharmacist shall not substitute one version of an anti-epileptic drug for the anti-epileptic drug originally prescribed without prior notification and the signed, informed consent of the prescribing practitioner and the patient or the patient's parent, legal guardian, or spouse.
Status:3/1/07 Referred Seniors, Families & Public Health; Issue 9
SB 15 – Scott (R)
Establishes a long term care insurance public-private partnership program
Status: 1/30/07 Public Hearing held; Issue 1
SB 95 – Bray (D)
Requires applicants for Medicaid and the CHIP to identify proposed beneficiary’s employer
Status:1/23/07 Public Hearing Held; Issue 1
SB 113 – Shoemyer (D)
Requires health carriers to include DME providers within their service provider networks
Status: 1/17/07 Referred: Small Business, Insurance & Industrial Relations; Issue 1
SB 118 – Griesheimer (R)
Requires insurance companies to provide coverage for computerized prosthetic devices
The SCS establishes a hot weather rule during the period from June 1 to September 30. During this time, natural gas or electricity providers are prohibited from disconnecting service to households eligible for assistance under the cold weather rule on days when either the temperature is expected to rise above 95 degrees or the heat index is expected to rise above 105 degrees for the following twenty-four hour period or on days when service personnel will not be available to reconnect service and the temperature or heat index is expected to rise above these marks.
Status: 2/15/07 SCS Voted Do Pass; Issue 8
SB 122 – Bray (D)
Establishes the MO Universal Health Assurance Program
Status:1/30/07 Public Hearing held; Issue 1
SB 179 – Green (D)
Requires any applicant for health care benefits under a public assistance program to identify their employer
Status: 2/13/07 Public Hearing held; Issue 1
SB 248 – Days (D)
Establishes a long-term care insurance public-private partnership program
Status: 1/18/07 Referred: Health & Mental Health; Issue 3
SB 577 – Shields (R)
Enacts the "Missouri Health Improvement Act of 2007"
Status: 2/26/07 Referred Health & Mental Health; Issue 8
SB 577 – Shoemeyer (D)
Modifies provisions relating to the state medical assistance program
Repeals the June 30, 2008, sunset provisions to the state Medicaid program and to the healthcare for uninsured program (CHIP). The bill also provides that eligibility requirements in the state Medicaid program and state Medicaid services, cost-sharing, long-term care services criteria, and CHIP affordability standards shall be no more restrictive than those in effect on January 1, 2005, except that for Medicaid eligibility for custodial parents, non-custodial parents, extended transitional medical assistance, and extended women's health services, the eligibility requirements shall be no more restrictive than the January 1, 2002, eligibility requirements. The bill also provides that by June 1, 2009, the General Assembly shall develop a plan that outlines a Missouri solution to provide access to affordable, high-quality health care for all Missourians and to take all necessary steps to ensure meaningful public input into each step of developing the plan. The plan should be based on best practices and any implemented changes shall be subject to annual review and evaluation of the impact on providers as well as its impact on those insured.
Status: 2/28/07 Referred Health & Mental Health; Issue 9
OTHER
HB 55 – Slater (R)
Establishes the Healthcare Technology Fund and the MO Healthcare Technology Commission
Status: 2/14/07 Referred Health Care Policy; Issue 1
HB 182 – Bruns (R)
Establishes the Outside the Hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate Act
The substitute establishes the Outside the Hospital
Do-not-resuscitate Act, which requires that a copy of this order must be included as the first page of a patient's medical record. A patient or patient's representative and the patient's attending physician may execute an outside the hospital do-not- resuscitate order. The Department of Health and Senior Services must develop and approve uniform forms and personal identifiers. The identifiers must alert any emergency medical technician, paramedic, first responder, or other health care provider of the
existence of this order for the patient. The substitute specifies that the outside the hospital
do-not-resuscitate order will only be effective when the patient has not been admitted to or is not being treated within a hospital. These orders and protocols will not authorize the withholding or withdrawal of other medical interventions such as
intravenous fluids, oxygen, or therapies other than
cardiopulmonary resuscitation. An outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate order will not be effective when a patient is pregnant or when believing in good faith that a patient is pregnant.
Emergency medical technicians, paramedics, first responders, and other health care providers are required to comply with an outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate order or identifier unless the patient or patient's representative expresses to the
personnel in any manner, before or after the onset of a cardiac or respiratory arrest, the desire to be resuscitated. A physician or a health care facility other than a hospital that is unwilling or unable to comply with this order must take all reasonable steps to transfer the patient to another physician or
facility where the order will be followed. The substitute specifies individuals and entities that are exempt from civil or criminal liability for withholding or withdrawing resuscitation pursuant to an order or identifier as long as the actions were performed in good faith and without gross negligence. Anyone who knowingly conceals, cancels, defaces, or obliterates an order or identifier without the individual's consent or knowingly falsifies or forges a revocation will be guilty of a class A misdemeanor. Anyone who knowingly executes, falsifies, or forges an order without the individual's consent or knowingly conceals or withholds the knowledge of a revocation of an order will be guilty of a class D felony.
Status: 2/28/07 Referred Rules Pursuant to Rule 25(21)(f)(H); Issue 1
HB 203 – Deeken (R)
Modifies eligibility requirements for the Netabolic Formula Distribution Program
Status: 2/28/07 HCS Voted Do Pass; Issue 2
HB 204 – Whorton (D)
Relating to MO Medicaid benefits
Status :2/1/07 Referred Health Care Policy; Issue 2
HB 216 – Stevenson (R)
Establishes the Umbilical Cord Blood Bank Program
Status: 2/7/07 Public Hearing Conducted; Issue 1
HB 569 – Portwood (R)
Increases fees for copying patient medical records
Status: 3/1/07 Referred Special Comm. On Health Insurance; Issue 5
HB 817 – Davis (R)
Establishes the Universal Patients Protection Act
Establishes the Uninsured Patients Protection Act which prohibits Missouri-licensed hospitals from charging a person who is not eligible for medical assistance and who is uninsured more than the current federal Medicare reimbursement rate for the services provided.
Status: 2/12/07 Second Read; Issue 8
SB 07 – Loudon (R)
Creates an income tax deduction for medical expenses
(See Funding/Tax Relief)
SB 80 – Shields (R)
Modifies provisions of the Metabolic Formula Distribution Program
Status:1/30/07 SCS Voted Do Pass S; Issue 1
SB 274 – Shields (R)
Creates the "Healthcare Technology Fund"
Status: 3/5/07 S Informal Consent Calendar S Bills for Perfection; Issue 3
SJR 10 – Bartle (R)
Repeals the constitutional provisions regarding stem cell research
Status: 1/22/07 Referred Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence; Issue 2
PHARMACEUTICAL
HB 314 – Tilley (R)
Relating to the practice of pharmacy and establishing the Well-being Committee
Status: 1/30/07 Withdrawn; Issue 3
LEGAL RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES
OTHER
HB 528 – Donnelly (D)
Relating to criminal securities fraud against the elderly & disabled
Status: 1/24/07 Second Read; Issue 5
SB 177 – Green (D)
Relating to crimes of security fraud against the elderly or disabled
Status: 1/17/07 Referred: Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence; Issue 1
SB 465 - Callahan (D)
Authorizes individuals to sue for Medicaid fraud & modifies various provisions relating to investigation of such fraud
Status: 2/8/07 Referred Health & Mental Health; Issue 6
SB 532 - Louden (R)
Modifies MO Human Rights Law
Status: 2/21/07 Referred Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence; Issue 8
VOTING
HB 138 – Salva (D)
Relating to voting machines and paper ballots
Status: 1/4/07 Second Read; Issue 1
HB 349 – Skaggs (D)
Relating to requirements for distribution of voter registration applications
Status: 1/16/07 Second Read; Issue 3
HB 867 – Donnelly (D)
Authorizes advance voting procedures and additional penalty provisions regarding elections
Beginning January 1, 2008, voters would be allowed to cast advance ballots starting on the third Wednesday before any election. Voters may always cast advance ballots at the central voting location; and voting will be allowed on weekdays from 7:00
a.m. until 7:00 p.m. and on Saturdays until 12:00 p.m. For federal elections, the election authorities must provide up to six satellite-voting sites, with one satellite site established for every 50,000 voters. For other elections, the use of satellite sites is discretionary. Election authorities must provide information about the location of these satellite sites on their web site and at their offices and may publicize the location through other means. These satellite sites will be subject to the supervision of election judges with at least one judge from each major political party at each site. Any voter casting more than one type of ballot during the same election will be guilty of an offense. The disclosure of voting lists containing the names of those using either advance ballots or absentee ballots to unauthorized persons will also be an offense. Those voting by advance ballot receive the same protections as those voting by absentee ballot.
Status: 2/15/07 Second Read; Issue 9
SB 596 – Donnelly (D)
Modifies voter identification requirements
Modifies personal identification requirements to be shown to gain voter eligibility at polling places. The identification must be issued by the United States or the state of Missouri, include the individual's name and photograph, and must have not expired before the date of the most recent general election unless it is a non-expiring or non-expired Missouri non-driver's license or a non-expired Missouri driver's license . Voters with physical or mental disabilities, handicaps or sincerely held religious beliefs and those born on or before January 1, 1941, who do not have sufficient identification are exempt from the requirement if they execute an affidavit stating such a sufficient reason. These individuals may cast a provisional ballot. The bill allows for issuing non-driver's licenses with photographic images to fulfill the identification requirement. The state of Missouri shall pay all the legally required fees for applicants for non-driver's licenses. All persons requesting such an ID shall be issued a non-driver's license through a mobile processing system operated by the department of revenue at no cost.
Status: 2/28/07 Referred Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections; Issue 9
MENTAL HEALTH
SERVICES
HB 435 – Stevenson (R)
Creates the crime of abuse of a vulnerable person in the first, second and third degrees
Status: 2/5/07 Referred Health Care Policy; Issue 5
HB 451 – Baker (D)
Requires school districts to incorporate social & emotional development programs into their educational programs
Status:1/18/07 Second Read; Issue 4
HB 534 – Walsh (D)
Establishes the Safe Staffing and Accountability Act for Mental Health Facilities
Status: 1/24/07 Second Read; Issue 5
HB 535 – Walsh (D)
Changes the laws regarding the regulation of state and private mental health facilities
Status: 1/24/07 Second Read; Issue 6
HB 767 – Aull (D)
Requires private mental health facilities and group homes to meet the same requirements as state-operated facilities
Status: 2/7/07 Second Read; Issue 8
HB 947 – Walsh (D)
Changes laws regarding mental health facilities and group homes for mentally retarded/developmentally disabled
Changes the laws regarding mental health facilities and group homes for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled. In its main provisions, the bill: 1. Requires private mental health facilities and group homes for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled to have the same requirements as state-operated facilities; 2. Adds private mental health facilities and group homes to the provisions regarding the Family Care Safety Registry and Sunshine Laws; 3. Expands the licensure and standards requirements for
residential facilities and day programs to include private mental health facilities and group homes; 4. Requires the dismissal of private contractor employees who violate state laws and rules; 5. Requires facilities or homes to report staff turnover to the Department of Mental Health and the General Assembly; 6. Places a moratorium on patient transfers until the Family Care Safety Act is fully implemented; and 7. Requires the department to terminate contracts with private vendors having a pattern of abuse and neglect of patients and to
submit a cost-benefit analysis and written plan prior to the closure or downsizing of any facility to the appropriations committees on mental health of the Senate and House of Representatives for their consideration.
Status: 2/7/07 Second Read; Issue 9
SB 03 – Gibbons (R)
Enacts provisions on mental health reform
Status: 3/5/07 S Formal Calendar S Bills for Perfection w SCS; Issue 8
SB 174 – Green (D)
Modifies laws on mental health facilities and group homes
Status: 2/13/07 Public Hearing held; Issue 1
SB 191 – Days (D)
Enacts provisions on children’s mental health
Status: 1/17/07 Referred: Health & Mental Health; Issue 1
OLMSTEAD
OLMSTEAD
HB 466 – Schaaf (R)
Limits Certificate of Need Program to long-term care facilities
Status: 2/21/07 Rules Action Postponed; Issue 4
HB 674 – Dempsey (R)
Relating to sprinkler systems in long term care facilities
Status: 2/13/07 Public Hearing Conducted; Issue 6
HB 769 – Bruns (R)
Prescribes protection for vulnerable adults and children & transfers Div. Of Aging from DSS to DHSS
Status: 2/8/07 Second Read; Issue 8
HB 775 – Wasson (R)
Requires DHSS to supply the employee disqualification list to nursing and medical schools
Status: 3/1/07 Voted Do Pass Consent ; Issue 8
HB 786 – Oxford (D)
Requires the development of caseload standards for DHSS and DMH
Status: 2/8/07 Second Read; Issue 8
HB 943 – Sutherland (R)
Relating to long term care facilities
Requires a signature on all documents for a long-term care facility license application to ensure that the document is true and correct.
Status: 2/26/07 Second Read; Issue 9
SB 15 – Scott (R)
Establishes a long term care insurance public-private partnership program
(See Health Care/ Insurance)
SB 248 – Scott (R)
Establishes a long-term care insurance public-private partnership program
(See Health Care/ Insurance)
SB 397 – Stouffer (R)
Modifies provisions relating to applications for long term care facilities
Status: 3/5/07 S Consent Calendar w SCS; Issue 5
SB 446 – Goodman (R)
Modifies provisions relating to fire safety standards in long-term care facilities
The SCS provides that by December 1, 2010, all residential care facilities and assisted living facilities licensed by the Department of Health and Senior Services shall have in place sprinklers, heat rise detectors, and smoke alarms. As part of licensure, such facilities shall be annually inspected by the division of fire safety within the department of public safety for testing and maintenance of the fire safety equipment. Reports of the inspections shall be forwarded to the Department of Health and Senior Services.
Status: 2/13/07 Public Hearing held; Issue 6
SB 490 – Mayer (R)
Modifies provisions relating to citizens most at risk for exploitation
Status: 2/14/07 Referred Seniors, Families and Public Health; Issue 7
SB 579 – Mayer (R)
Modifies provisions relating to certificate of need
Raises the long-term care facilities capital expenditures limit for necessitating certificate of need review from 600,000 dollars to one million dollars, eliminates the major medical equipment requirement and the raw number of bed increase requirement for certificate of need review and increases the percent bed increase from 10 percent to 25 percent. Also, current law provides that any residential care facility or assisted living facility may relocate any portion of such facility's current licensed beds to any other facility to be licensed within the same licensure category under certain specified conditions. Also, certain health care facilities may be replaced in their entirety under specified conditions. This bill provides that such relocation or replacement shall not require approval under the state certificate of need laws. The bill also provides that prior to licensing by the department of health and senior services of any facility or beds required to obtain a certificate of need on the basis of being a new institutional service or facility, the owner of such facility shall provide an independently audited statement to the department that such facility complied with the certificate of need granted. In addition, as to facilities exempt from certificate of need review, the owner of such facility shall provide an independently audited statement that such facility was exempt from certificate of need review. If an owner is unable to verify compliance with submission of the audited report, no license shall be granted by the department. Anyone submitting a false or misleading audit report is guilty of a Class D felony. The owner of any facility or beds exempt from certificate of need review may submit a request to the department to verify exemption prior to beginning construction. Such decision shall be considered final and subject to appeal but not preclude the owner's responsibility from complying with submission of the audited report.
Status: 2/28/07 Referred Seniors, Families & Public Health; Issue 9
PREVENTION
OTHER
HB 90 – St. Onge (R)
Requires all drivers and passengers in cars or trucks to wear seat belts
Status: 2/21/07 Rules Reported Do Pass; Issue 1
HB 155 – Dusenberg (R)
Relating to the motorcycle helmet law
Status: 2/28/07 Rules Reported Do Pass; Issue 1
HB 443 – Roorda (D)
Requires all drivers and passengers in cars or trucks to wear seat belts with certain exemptions
Status:1/18/07 Second Read; Issue 4
SB 252 – Ridgeway (R)
Relating to the motorcycle helmet law
Status: 2/28/07 Voted Do Pass; Issue 3
SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
SERVICES
HB 87 – Kraus (R)
Creates the Needy Persons Fund
Status: 2/27/07 Public Hearing Scheduled. Bill Not Heard; Issue 1
HB 98 – Parson (R)
Authorizes each Area Agency on Aging to establish a volunteer transportation program for the elderly
Status: 2/7/07 Public Hearing Conducted; Issue 1
HB 242 – Bruns (R)
Relating to Autism Awareness Month & Day
Status: 2/5/07 Referred Health Care Policy; Issue 2
HB 314 – Tilley (R)
Relating to the practice of pharmacy and establishing the Well-being Committee
(See Health Care/Pharmaceutical)
HB 330 – Schaaf (R)
Relating to state disabilitity benefits
Status: 2/5/07 Referred Health Care Policy; Issue 4
HB 573 – St. Onge (R)
Relating to disabled windshield placards
Status: 3/1/07 HCS Voted Do Pass; Issue 5
HB 582 – Storch (D)
Changes the laws regarding the Missouri Family Trust
Status: 3/1/07 Referred Health Care Policy; Issue 5
HB 590 – Tilley (R)
HB 545 – Wasson (R)
Establishes the Well-being Committee to aid impaired pharmacists
Under the perfected substitute the State Board of Pharmacy may establish the Well-being
Committee to aid pharmacists who suffer from illness, substance abuse, mental illness, or physical impairments. The board will enter into contractual agreements with nonprofit corporations for the purpose of creating, supporting, and maintaining the
committee. All communications involving the licensee and the committee are confidential and not considered public records. The committee may disclose information about an impaired licensee
when it is necessary to further the intervention, treatment, or rehabilitation of the licensee; the release is authorized by the licensee; the committee must make a report to the board; or the information is subject to a court order.
Status: 3/1/07 Referred Financial Governmental Org. & Elections (S); Issue 9
HB 612 – Komo (D)
Relating to the Vietnam Veterans Survivors Grant Program
Expands the Vietnam Veteran's Survivors Grant Program by including Vietnam veterans who are 100% disabled as a result of injuries sustained while serving in the military during the Vietnam War. These veterans will be eligible to receive scholarships under this program regardless of their age.
Status: 1/29/07 Second Read; Issue 6
HB 646 – Young (D)
Relating to disabled parking signs
Requires all new signs erected after August 28, 2007, relating to disabled parking to contain the words "Accessible Parking" instead of "Handicap Parking."
Status: 3/1/07 Referred Transportation; Issue 6
HB 745 – Davis (R)
Relating to the Blindness Education, Screening & Treatment Program Fund
Status: 3/1/07 Referred Health Care Policy; <Issue 7
HB 796 – Dethrow (R)
Relating to renewal of disabled license plates or placards
Exempts any disabled person 65 years of age or older from the physician's statement requirement when renewing disabled license plates or placards.
Status: 2/28/07 Public Hearing Conducted; Issue 8
SB 11 – Coleman (D)
Creates a hot weather rule for maintenance of utility services
Status: 2/15/07 SCS Voted Do Pass S; Issue 1
SB 14 – Scott (R)
Authorizes volunteer transportation services for the elderly
Status: 2/20/07 Voted Do Pass; Issue 1
SB 238 – Stoffer (R)
Relating to requirements for renewal of windshield placards
Status: 3/5/07 Senate Consent Calendar; Issue 3
SB 333 – Stouffer (R)
Revises provisions relating to the newly renamed MO Brain Injury Advisory Council
Status: 2/20/07 Public Hearing Conducted; Issue 4
SB 464 – Callahan (D)
Relating to disabled parking signs
Requires all new signs erected after August 28, 2007, relating to disabled parking to contain the words "Accessible Parking" instead of "Handicap Parking." The bill is similar to SB 1180 ands HB 1035 (2006).
Status: 2/8/07 Referred Transportation; Issue 6
SB 621 – Engler (R)
Changes name of Division of MR/DD
Changes the name of the Division of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities to the Division of Developmental Disabilities
Status: 3/1/07 Referred Seniors, Families & Public Health ; Issue 9
Last modified: 02.26.07
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