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2012 Bill(s)

* SS SB 464
Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
Status: VOTER APPROVED
Description: Prohibit the administration from implementing the federal law on health insurance exchanges. Require authorization for an exchange be established by law. Enactment requires statewide voter approval rather than signature by the governor.
See: 
  • House roll call - SS SB 464 (05/18/2012): Final passage of a bill to prohibit the administration from implementing without legislative approval a health insurance exchange as part of the federal health care law.
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 464 (02/02/2012): 3rd reading of a bill to prohibit the administration from implementing without legislative approval a health insurance exchange as part of the federal health care law.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 465
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Perf
    Description: The Buchanan County and towns in the country establish a district to impose taxes for teather, cultural arts and entertainment activities.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 511
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Health
    Description: Require approval by the Joint Committee on MO HealthNet to make any change in Medicaid coverage.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 512
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Health
    Description: Declare void a medical plan contract provision that prohibits a physician from practicing in a particular geographic area.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 515
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Health
    Description: Require the state to develop a standard form for filing an group insurance application.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 516
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Prohibit public or consumer members of boards appointed by the governor from having a financial interest in the area regulated by the board.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 519
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Health
    Description: Require an HMO to provide each provider with the carrier's standard fee schedule. Establish provisions requiring HMOs to accept providers agreeing to the HMO terms.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 520
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Require a candidate political committee designate in the filing the office the candidate is seeking.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 526
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Impose a 60 day deadline for a health benefit plan to decide on credentialing a health care professional.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 527
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Education
    Description: Require home school students be treated the same as other students for state financial aid for higher education.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 529
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Health
    Description: Prohibit a hospital from requiring a physician to make referrals to the hospital as a condition for receiving medical staff privileges. Prohibit discrimination for being a member of another hospital system or health care facility.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 530
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Repeal the 2015 sunset for allocation of the non-resident entertainers and athletic team tax to agencies such as the Arts Council and Humanities Council.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 533
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Health
    Description: Repeal the requirement for state approval for a new medical facility (Certificate of Need) if the project creates ten or more new jobs.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 534
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Prohibit a health insurance plan from denying image diagnostic service charges solely because of the board certification of they physician. Essentially requires health insurance pay for a physician for reading an xray or other type of medical image.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 550
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Health
    Description: Require various state departments to verify the accuracy of information involving health care posted on the web at least twice a year.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 565
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: H Health Insurance
    Description: Add four legislators to the Missouri Health Insurance Pool.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 617
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Health
    Description: Require the Social Services Department to file rules detailing how the "spend down" process operates for qualifying for Medicaid. The process allows a person with an income too high to qualify to become qualified by subtracting medical expenses from the reported income.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 618
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Require real estate auctioneers to be licensed as real estate brokers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 639
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Health
    Description: Legalize a mother breast-feeding a child or expressing breast milk in public. Prohibit any local ordnance declaring it indecency or sexual conduct.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 640
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Health
    Description: Change the membership of the Health Facilities Review Committee that approves medical facility expansion and construction. Remove the legislative members. Require testimoney to be under oath.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 674
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Health
    Description: Limit a health insurance prescription drug co-pay to no higher than the actual customary retail price of the drug.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 678
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Health
    Description: Require hospitals to report incidents of various events that could adversely affect patient health
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 686
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Require disclosure of prior ownership to sell an electronic device or appliance that has been returned.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 709
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Prohibit persons getting various welfare benefits from boarding a gambling boat.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 716
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Health
    Description: Ban an HMO from requiring lower rates by a health carrier if the carrier accepts lower rates by another carrier. Ban an HMO from forcing a doctor to disclose rates paid by another carrier or accepting a lower rate based on another carrier's rates.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 727
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Establish a pilot program for extending child care subsidies for a lower income parent upon payment of a premium.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SB 727 (04/05/2012): 3rd reading of a bill to expand state-funded child care services for children of lower income parents.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 751
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Education
    Description: Allow a school district to adopt an eight hour day.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 836
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Health
    Description: Require various state departments to keep their websites up to date and verify the information on the websites. Prompted by Schaaf's discovery that the Social Services Department was not following its published rule on determining Medicaid eligibility.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 855
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: Include the resources of a household's illegal immigrant when determining eligibility for food stamps
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 858
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Health
    Description: Let an advanced practice nurse working in a collaborative practice with a physician order restraint or seclusion of a patient in a mental health facility.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 907
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: Require some employers to post notices that workers are not required to join unions or pay union fees.
    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.