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05/11/2021

Here are Missouri's public bill hearings for Tuesday, May 11, 2021. You can provide written testimony online by following the links and instructions.

🏛Missouri House
None

🏛Senate
https://www.senate.mo.gov/hearingsschedule/hrings.htm
📧Click on the bold link toward the upper right of the page

🪑Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight at 9:00 AM

HCS HB 1204 - Establishes the Missouri Cybersecurity Commission

05/10/2021

Here are Missouri's public bill hearings for Monday, May 10, 2021. You can provide written testimony online by following the links and instructions.

🏛Missouri House
📧Follow the hyperlinks for each committee
Click on the link at the upper right to submit written testimony
Click on the bill number to get more information about it

🪑Crime Prevention at 12 PM
https://house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6299

HB 843 - Requires training on human trafficking conducted by the department of public safety to include instruction on victims' statements

HB 844 - Requires local law enforcement agencies to add current photos of missing persons to missing person profiles within ten days of the time a missing persons report was filed

HB 1263 - Requires hospital employees to receive training on detecting and reporting human trafficking

🪑Judiciary at 12 PM
https://house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6305

SB 317 - Modifies provisions relating to the suspension of licenses for failure to comply with a child support order; Requires due process and consideration of circumstances

🏛Senate
None

05/07/2021

Here are Missouri's public bill hearings for Friday, May 7, 2021. You can provide written testimony online by following the links and instructions.

🏛Missouri House
None

🏛Senate
https://www.senate.mo.gov/hearingsschedule/hrings.htm
📧Click on the bold link toward the upper right of the page

🪑General Laws at 9:15 AM

HCS HB 944 - Modifies provisions relating to fi****ms, including preempting local ordinances or state laws regarding regulating restrictions of firearm businesses including during emergencies; allows concealed carry on public transportation; Allows discharging weapon from stationary vehicle on private property in unincorporated part of state if protecting livestock; Blair's Law which prohibits firing weapon negligently in or into municipality; Lowers age to 18 to receive concealed carry permit; Allows concealed carry in places of worship

HCS HB 1358 - Establishes the True COVID Liability Act to prohibit quarantining, raise bar on liability for exposing people to contagious disease so need to do knowingly and purposely, and to prevent limitations on businesses

05/06/2021

Here are Missouri's public bill hearings for Thursday, May 6, 2021. You can provide written testimony online by following the links and instructions.

🏛Missouri House
None

🏛Senate
https://www.senate.mo.gov/hearingsschedule/hrings.htm
📧Click on the bold link toward the upper right of the page

🪑Ways and Means at 9 AM

SB 597 - Modifies income tax brackets by reducing from 10 to 2 brackets and setting tax rates by a formula

05/05/2021

Here are Missouri's public bill hearings for Wednesday, May 5, 2021. You can provide written testimony online by following the links and instructions.

🏛Missouri House
📧Follow the hyperlinks for each committee
Click on the link at the upper right to submit written testimony
Click on the bill number to get more information about it

🪑Downsizing State Government at 12 PM
https://house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6266

HB 241 - Prohibits the use of hand-held wireless communication devices by drivers of any age

HR 288 - Calls upon Missouri's young men to engage in the "Missouri Manhood Challenge"

🪑General Laws at 12 PM
https://house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6287

SCR 4 - Calls for an Article V convention of the states to propose amendments to the United States Constitution placing limits on the federal government, including imposing fiscal restraints, limiting federal jurisdiction, and imposing term limits

SB 231 - Creates procedures for the appointment of commissioners to a convention called under Article V of the U.S. Constitution

🏛Senate
https://www.senate.mo.gov/hearingsschedule/hrings.htm
📧Click on the bold link toward the upper right of the page

🪑Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources at 1 PM

HCS HB 508 - Modifies provisions relating to feral swine, including increasing penalties for releasing swine into the wild

🪑Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment at 1 PM

HCS HB 242 - Caller ID Anti-Spoofing Act

🪑Health and Pensions at 1 PM

SB 543 - Establishes standards for demographic data collection by certain entities, including making de-identified data public

SB 550 - Modifies provisions relating to the "Justice for Survivors Act", including with respect to training

05/04/2021

Here are Missouri's public bill hearings for Tuesday, May 4, 2021. You can provide written testimony online by following the links and instructions.

🏛Missouri House
None

🏛Senate
https://www.senate.mo.gov/hearingsschedule/hrings.htm
📧Click on the bold link toward the upper right of the page

🪑Transportation, Infrastructure and Public Safety at 8:30 AM

HCS HB 307 - Modifies provisions relating to motor vehicles, including electric bicycle laws and permitting left turns on red one-way streets

HB 167 - Designates the "Sergeant Robert Wayne Crow Jr. Memorial Armory"

HB 313 - Modifies provisions relating to driving while intoxicated to require victim impact program participation

HB 911 - Designates the "US Navy SEAL Scotty Wirtz Memorial Highway"

HB 352 - Modifies provisions relating to the operation of canteens and commissaries by correctional centers

🪑Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics at 9 AM

HCS HBs 848, 617 & 822 - Establishes the "Daylight Saving as New Standard Time Pact"

HCR 29 - Approves the statewide mission designation in STEM for Harris-Stowe State University

🪑Economic Development at 12 PM

HCS HB 689 - Authorizes a tax credit for certain physicians providing preceptorships

HCS HB 849 - Establishes the Capitol Complex Tax Credit Act

🪑Education at 1 PM

SB 116 - Authorizes the Gasconade R-II school district, which crosses county boundaries, to use the county that yields the highest dollar value modifier under the school foundation formula

SB 585 - Creates provisions relating to funding allocations for institutions of higher education and provides more funding for based on a workforce readiness scores

HB 257 - Specifies that Head Start buses shall be considered school buses for certain traffic control purposes

05/03/2021

Here are Missouri's public bill hearings for Monday, May 3, 2021. You can provide written testimony online by following the links and instructions.

🏛Missouri House
📧Follow the hyperlinks for each committee
Click on the link at the upper right to submit written testimony
Click on the bill number to get more information about it

🪑Elementary and Secondary Education at 12 PM - https://house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6244

SB 323 - Allows school districts to offer elective social studies courses on the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament

🪑Emerging Issues at 12 PM - https://house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6250

SB 36 - Establishes the Capitol Complex Tax Credit Act

SB 45 - Creates new provisions relating to certain firefighters who contracted certain types of cancer as a result of employment as a firefighter by permitting monetary award from a pool

SB 272 - Prohibits the publishing of identifying information of lottery winners

🪑General Laws at 12 PM - https://house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6247

SB 78 - Modifies provisions related to state employees, including allowing payment to be biweekly instead of semimonthly, requiring interviews for every veterans who applies for a position, and modifying the 2-year ban on working with gaming after termination from state employment for certain positions

🪑Utilities at 12 PM - https://house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6242

SB 202 - Modifies provisions relating to electrical corporations

🏛Senate
https://www.senate.mo.gov/hearingsschedule/hrings.htm
📧Click on the bold link toward the upper right of the page

🪑Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight at 1 PM

HB 763 - Eliminates requirement for legislature to pass a resolution to retain staff after adjournment of session

04/29/2021

Here are Missouri's public bill hearings for Thursday, April 29, 2021. You can provide written testimony online by following the links and instructions.

🏛Missouri House
📧Follow the hyperlinks for each committee
Click on the link at the upper right to submit written testimony
Click on the bill number to get more information about it

🪑Utilities at 8 AM - https://www.house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6229

SB 108 - Creates provisions relating to telecommunications, including Broadband Improvement Districts and prohibiting state and local taxes on satellite or streaming video service

🪑Local Government at 8:30 AM - https://www.house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6217

HB 274 - Creates provisions relating to trauma centers requiring them to be maintained in St. Charles, St. Louis, and Jackson counties unless granted approval to terminate services by the Governor and Department of Health and Senior Services

🏛Senate
https://www.senate.mo.gov/hearingsschedule/hrings.htm
📧Click on the bold link toward the upper right of the page

🪑Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight at 8:15 AM

HCS HB 27 - Requires that governmental bodies post their meeting times and minutes on websites and on social media, and must post proposed and adopted rules, ordinances, laws, or regulations within 24 hours

HB 177 - Creates safety reporting system for Department of Social Services; Requires municipal courts to provide police report, probable cause statement, or video to those charged with possibility of 15 days or more in jail; Permits closing records under Sunshine Law when records relate to security procedures, utility usage and and bills, and emails and telephone numbers when they are submitted for sole purpose of receiving communications

HB 507 - Modifies provisions relating to gambling facilities to permit them to be in nonfloating facility within 1,000 feet of Missouri or Mississippi Rivers

HB 834 - Enacts provisions relating to payments for prescription drugs, including reporting to the legislature

🪑Ways and Means at 9:15 AM

HCS HB 66 - Modifies provisions relating to property tax assessments of certain aircraft

04/28/2021

Here are Missouri's public bill hearings for Wednesday, April 28, 2021. You can provide written testimony online by following the links and instructions.

🏛Missouri House
📧Follow the hyperlinks for each committee
Click on the link at the upper right to submit written testimony
Click on the bill number to get more information about it

🪑Downsizing State Government at 12 PM - https://house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6220

SB 27 - Modifies several provisions relating to county officials

🪑Judiciary at 5 PM - https://house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6238

SCR 6 - Urges the United States Congress to resist any attempt to increase the number of Justices on the United States Supreme Court

🏛Senate
https://www.senate.mo.gov/hearingsschedule/hrings.htm
📧Click on the bold link toward the upper right of the page

🪑Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment at 9 AM

HCS HB 734 - Modifies provisions relating to electrical corporations

🪑Seniors, Families, Veterans & Military Affairs at 12 PM

HCS HBs 1123 & 1221 - Modifies provisions relating to the protection of children, including child custody

HB 317 - Modifies provisions relating to the reemployment rights of members of Missouri Task Force One who are called to active duty

HB 391 - Classifies Missouri National Guard members as state employees for certain purposes

HB 76 - Modifies the "Safe Place for Newborns Act of 2002"

HB 299 - Modifies provisions relating to child custody arrangements

🪑Health and Pensions

HCS HB 589 - Modifies provisions relating to public health including crimes involving animals, animal confiscation, prohibiting requiring vaccine documentation, and classifying religious services as essential services

SB 608 - Modifies provisions related to the Public School Retirement System and Public Education Employee Retirement System

HB 370 - Authorizes pharmacists to dispense medication for HIV preexposure and postexposure prophylaxis

🪑Local Government and Elections at 1 PM

HCS HB 252 - Modifies provisions relating to transient guest taxes

HB 563 - Authorizes the city of Springfield to create a land bank agency

HCS HB 334 - Requires people voting absentee in person to provide specific unexpired photo ID

HS HCS HB 738 - Modifies several provisions relating to elections; Permits Secretary of State to audit voter lists and require election authorities to remove names; Prohibits changes to election laws in 26 weeks before presidential election; Loosens residency requirements for some elections personnel; Requires registration of person soliciting more than 10 voter registration applications; Restricts election data that can be made available to the public; Creates 3-week window for no-excuse in-person absentee voting with photo ID

04/27/2021

Here are Missouri's public bill hearings for Tuesday, April 27, 2021. You can provide written testimony online by following the links and instructions.

🏛Missouri House
📧Follow the hyperlinks for each committee
Click on the link at the upper right to submit written testimony
Click on the bill number to get more information about it

🪑Special Committee on Redistricting at 8:30 AM - https://house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6035&sdid=04252021

Provide public input for redistricting of Congressional District 1.

🪑Agriculture Policy at 9 AM - https://house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6212&sdid=04252021

SB 377 - Modifies provisions relating to liability of a landowner of property used for recreational purposes in compliance with a wildlife management program

🪑Public Safety at 9:30 AM - https://house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6208&sdid=04252021

SB 212 - Modifies provisions relating to the Department of Corrections, the Division of Probation and Parole, and the Parole Board, including regarding health care, providing feminine hygiene products, and use of canteen funds

🪑Insurance at PM - https://house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6204&sdid=04252021

SB 29 - Permits religious denomination with more than 25 members with motor vehicles that discourages purchasing of insurance to obtain certificate of self-insurance from Dept. of Revenue

🏛Senate
https://www.senate.mo.gov/hearingsschedule/hrings.htm
📧Click on the bold link toward the upper right of the page

🪑Small Business and Industry at 8:15 AM

HCS HB 162 - Modifies provisions relating to entities registered with the Secretary of State, especially LLCs and real estate brokers paying compensation to licensees

HCS HB 649 - Modifies provisions relating to employment security benefits to reduce them depending on unemployment level down to 12 weeks

🪑Transportation, Infrastructure and Public Safety at 8:30 AM

HCS HB 307 - Modifies provisions relating to motor vehicles

HB 167 - Designates the "Sergeant Robert Wayne Crow Jr. Memorial Armory"

HB 313 - Modifies provisions relating to driving while intoxicated

HB 911 - Designates the "US Navy SEAL Scotty Wirtz Memorial Highway"

🪑Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics

HCS HBs 848, 617 & 822 - Establishes the "Daylight Saving as New Standard Time Pact"

HB 1069 - Modifies provisions relating to offenses committed against a body of the General Assembly

🪑Economic Development at 12 PM

HCS HB 689 - Authorizes a tax credit for certain physicians providing preceptorships

🪑General Laws at 12 PM

HCS HB 402 - Prohibits publishing of identifying information of lottery winners

HCS HB 556 - Modifies requirements for the naming of ballot measures to match system of letter labeling of local initiatives to statewide system

HCS HB 1030 - Creates new provisions relating to the disclosure of personal information to public agencies

HB 585 - Authorizes the next-of-kin of a deceased person to delegate control of the final disposition of the remains

🪑Education at 1 PM

HCS HB 137 - Changes provisions related to funding for charter schools

HB 151 - Establishes provisions relating to elementary and secondary education permitting school innovation waivers and extra funding for districts sharing superintendents

HB 257 - Specifies that Head Start buses shall be considered school buses for certain traffic control purposes

HCS HB 320 - Changes provisions relating to elementary and secondary education regarding computer science education and petitioning school boards

HCS HB 733 - Modifies and establishes provisions providing alternatives in elementary and secondary education, including the Workforce Diploma Program

04/26/2021

Here are Missouri's public bill hearings for Monday, April 26, 2021. You can provide written testimony online by following the links and instructions.

🏛Missouri House
📧Follow the hyperlinks for each committee
Click on the link at the upper right to submit written testimony
Click on the bill number to get more information about it

🪑Budget at 12 PM - https://house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6200&sdid=04252021

HB 1356 - Creates the Committee on Local Recovery Accountability and Transparency to oversee funds received under the American Rescue Plan

🪑Utilities at 2:00 PM - https://house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6202&sdid=04252021

SB 44 - Establishes multiple provisions related to water and sewer infrastructure

🪑General Laws at 6 PM - https://house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6205&sdid=04252021

SB 126 - Modifies provisions relating to the sale of intoxicating liquor, including permitting to-go orders

🪑Transportation at 6 PM - https://house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6204&sdid=04252021

SCR 16 - Urges President Joe Biden and administration officials to approve the TC Energy Keystone XL pipeline

🏛Senate
https://www.senate.mo.gov/hearingsschedule/hrings.htm
📧Click on the bold link toward the upper right of the page

🪑Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence at 2 PM

SB 274 - Modifies provisions relating to child custody

HCS HB 825 - Enacts provisions relating to package delivery and personal delivery devices

🪑Professional Registration at 2 PM

HCS HB 475 - Modifies provisions relating to the professional registration of dietitians to permit those credentialed in field of nutrition to provide advice and consulting as long as not advising on medical nutrition therapy or holding selves out as dieticians

HB 500 - Establishes the Missouri Statewide Mechanical Contractor Licensing Act to regulate mechanical contractors; Permits mechanical contracting company to only have one worker licensed for mechanical contracting

🪑Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources at 2:30 PM

HB 1070 - Modifies provisions relating to liability of landowners, including liability for camping on private campgrounds and liability of land used for recreational purposes

04/22/2021

Here are Missouri's public bill hearings for Thursday, April 22, 2021. You can provide written testimony online by following the links and instructions.

🏛Missouri House
📧Follow the hyperlinks for each committee
Click on the link at the upper right to submit written testimony
Click on the bill number to get more information about it

🪑Local Government at 8:30 AM - https://house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6188

HB 1274 - Modifies provisions relating to the Municipal Land Reutilization Law, including provisions related to sheriff's sales and notices

HB 1365 - Changes the composition of Regional Convention and Visitors Commission to be proportional to the financial contributions of the county and city of St. Louis

🪑Special Committee on Redistricting at 8:30 AM - https://house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6034

Public comment on redistricting of Congressional District 2

🪑Economic Development at 9 AM - https://house.mo.gov/AllHearings.aspx?nid=6189

SB 5 - Extends time during which advanced industrial manufacturing zones can be established

🏛Senate
https://www.senate.mo.gov/hearingsschedule/hrings.htm
📧Click on the bold link toward the upper right of the page

🪑Appropriations at 8:30 AM
HCS HB 1 - Appropriates money for the payment of public debt

HCS HB 2 - Appropriates money for the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

HCS HB 3 - Appropriates money for the Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development

HCS HB 4 - Appropriates money for the Departments of Revenue and Transportation

HCS HB 5 - Appropriations money for the Office of Administration

HCS HB 6 - Appropriates money for the Departments of Agriculture; Natural Resources; and Conservation

HCS HB 7 - Appropriates money for the Departments of Economic Development; Commerce and Insurance; and Industrial Relations

HCS HB 8 - Appropriates money for the Department of Public Safety

HCS HB 9 - Appropriates money for the Department of Corrections

HCS HB 10 - Appropriates money for the Departments of Mental Health and Health

HCS HB 11 - Appropriates money for the Department of Social Services

HCS HB 12 - Appropriates money for elected officials including the General Assembly, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and Attorney General

HCS HB 13 - Appropriates money for statewide leasing

🪑Ways and means at 9 AM

SB 627 - Reduces the top rate of income tax by 0.5%

HB 991 - Exempts federal economic impact payments from state income tax

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