Apr 1 – This Week in the MO House
Floor Actions
The House third read and passed the following bills:
• HBs 1-13, which make up the FY2012 operating budget.
• HB 423, which would authorize Missouri to adopt the provisions of the Health Care Compact to improve health care policy by returning the authority to regulate health care to the state legislatures.
• HB 434, which would require co-employees to be released from liability for negligence in performing the non-delegable duty of an employer to provide a safe workplace when the negligence contributes to injury or death.
• HB 475, which would change the laws regarding health care quality data standardization and transparency and establishes criteria for programs of insurers to compare the quality and cost efficiency of health care providers.
The following Consent Bills were third read and passed:
• HB 38, which would require certain administrative officials of jails or detention facilities to notify the Missouri Uniform Law Enforcement System within five hours of the escape of certain specified dangerous felons.
• HB 68, which would prohibit a political subdivision from imposing a fine or penalty on the owner of a pay telephone on the owner’s property for calls to an emergency telephone service from the pay telephone.
• HB 98, which would extend from June 30, 2011, to December 31, 2015, the 50-cent fee that is collected on the retail sale of a lead-acid battery as well as the fees for any hazardous waste generated.
• HB 118, which would require local law enforcement agencies and other government agencies serving ex parte orders of protection to enter the data into the Missouri Uniform Law Enforcement System (MULES) within 24 hours.
• HB 263, which would revise the monthly retirement allowance reduction for certain retirees of the Missouri Local Government Employees’ Retirement System electing a partial lump-sum distribution.
• HB 287, which would change the laws regarding health care professional identification badges
to include the employee’s name, title, recent photograph, and the name of the health care facility
or organization.
• HB 340, which would allow counties of any classification to erect and maintain a jail or holding
cell facility at a site other than the county seat.
• HB 344, which would establish the Farm-to-Table Advisory Board to increase awareness of local
agriculture and promote the incorporation of locally grown agricultural products into school and state institution cafeterias.
• HB 462, which would repeal the provisions requiring the Missouri Energy Task Force to reconvene at least one time a year and issue an annual status report to the Governor and General Assembly.
• HB 503, which would repeal a provision requiring a presidential primary to be held in February in any year a presidential election is held and sets the primary to be held in March of each presidential election year.
• HB 578, which would allow the state or any political subdivision or agency of the state to transfer
ownership of used tires, scrap tires, or tire shred to a private entity for disposal or recycling under certain conditions.
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