From Missouri Digital News: https://mdn.org
MDN Menu

MDN Home

Journalist's Creed

Print

MDN Help

MDN.ORG Mo. Digital News Missouri Digital News MDN.ORG: Mo. Digital News MDN.ORG: Missouri Digital News
Help  


2012 Bill(s)

* HCS SS SB 448
Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
Status: H Rules
Description: Give the Health Department the power to investigate and shut down an unlicensed child care provider if there are pending criminal charges against the provider. Increase child care license violation penalties. Give the state power to immediately close an illegal, unlicensed facility.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 449
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Require the Mental Health Department to develop a plan for moving residents out of state-funded facilities for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled to other settings.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 450
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Retain the three-year term provision rather than six years for a school district that becomes an urban district because of the 2010 census. Urban district members serve six-year terms. Applies to St. Charles County schools.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 483
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: S Education
    Description: Provide a college scholarship program for students who graduate from high school early. The scholarship would cover both public and private higher education institutions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * HCS SCS SB 484
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: H Rules
    Description: Various restrictions on telemarketing. Expand the state's no-call law on telemarketers to include cell phones. Restrict blocking caller IDs and robocalls. Require a political solicitation call to identify the sponsor of the call.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HCS SB 620
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Allow Missouri insurance companies to write some types of insurance outside of the U.S.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SCS SB 657
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Provide lawsuit protection for a health care provider or institution to refuse any medical service that violates the provider's religious, moral or ethical principles. Prohibit dismissal or job punishment for refusing.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 658
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: S Health
    Description: Require RU-486 or any abortion inducing medication to be administered in a hospital or abortion facility in the presence of a physician.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HCS SB 721
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Restrict tax increment financing projects in the St. Louis area that provide tax breaks to developers. Restrict a county from overriding a TIF commission rejection unless a majority of the TIF commission members voted for a project.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 774
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: IN SCS SB 817
    Description: Require the Secretary of State to post on the Web the text of proposed initiative petitions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SS SB 803
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: H Professional Registration
    Description: Expand the law on licensing behavior analysts to include provisional and temporary licenses. Repeal an older statute on provision licenses.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 847
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: IN SCS SB 767
    Description: Designate a portion of Highway 64/40 in St. Charles County the Darrell B Roegner Memorial Highway.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 848
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Change the method for calculating interest rates for a variety state government financial transactions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HCS SCS SB 856
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Create a Senate committee to study whether to privatize the Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance Company that provides Workers' Compensation coverage for businesses. Prompted by a state audit criticizing the financial transactions of the quasi-governmental agency.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SCS SJR 47
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Repeal the constitutional ban on the legislature appropriating funds to aid a church or private school.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SJR 49
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: Prohibit government from requiring health insurance cover abortion, contraceptives or sterilization.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

  • Note: The descriptions of bills, amendments and roll-call votes are written by MDN journalists. MDN's database may not include committee assignments of bills made on the last day of the session since it is too late for the committee to act on the bill and, thus, the delayed assignment has no practical effect.