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Below you will find information regarding legislation important to Missouri's Regional Planning Commissions. The information provided is for the current legislative session.

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Missouri's 94th General Assembly, 2008
Second Regular Session

Bill Sponsor(s) Description
HB 1318    Davis Specifies that an employer will be immune from civil liability for providing information on an employee's job performance unless a lack of good faith is shown.
Bill History 01-10-08 H Referred to House Committee on Special Committee on Workforce Dev & SFTY
02-06-08 H Not heard in committee Special Committee on Workforce Dev & SFTY

HB 1335    Salva Specifies that lease or rental agreements made for public buildings or facilities are public records.
Bill History 01-10-08 H Read second time
02-12-08 H Referred to House Committee on House-Judiciary

HB 1336    Wood Removes villages from a certain incorporation procedure for cities and towns and increases the required number of signatures on a petition to incorporate.
Bill History 01-10-08 H Read second time
02-28-08 H Referred to House Committee on House-Local Government

HB 1338    Muschany Prohibits any state entity from closing a state highway with a certain traffic volume for a continuous period exceeding 60 days.
Bill History 01-10-08 H Read second time

HB 1349    Portwood Changes the laws regarding property tax rates.
Bill History 01-24-08 H Referred to House Committee on House-Ways and Means

HB 1371 Wilson-119 Allows rural empowerment zones to exist in any county with 18,000 or fewer residents and prohibits more than two rural empowerment zones in any county.
Bill History 03-26-08 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate-Eco.Devo./Tourism/Local Government
04-02-08 S Hearing conducted

HB 1453    Roorda Allows any county to retroactively apply planning and zoning regulations to certain subdivisions of land.
Bill History 01-10-08 H Read second time
04-10-08 H Referred to House Committee on House-Local Government

HB 1467    Nolte Limits the increase in assessed valuation of residential property by the percentage of increase in Social Security benefits for the elderly and disabled who own and live in their principal residence.
Bill History 01-24-08 H Referred to House Committee on House-Ways and Means

HB 1499 Cooper-120 Establishes the Manufacturer Responsibility and Consumer Convenience Computer Equipment Collection and Recovery Act to assist in the recycling of computer equipment.
Bill History 02-27-08 H Public hearing completed

HB 1568    Hobbs Establishes the Regional Economic Development Initiative which allows tax credits for donations to regional economic development organizations.
Bill History 01-10-08 H Referred to House Committee on Special Committee on Job Creation & Eco Devo
02-20-08 H Public hearing completed

HB 1663    Young Changes the standard for violation of the Open Meetings Law, commonly known as the Sunshine Law, by a governmental body from knowingly to negligently.
Bill History 01-16-08 H Read second time
04-10-08 H Referred to House Committee on House-Judiciary

HB 1712    Sander Changes the laws regarding emergency services.
Bill History 01-24-08 H Referred to House Committee on House-Crime Prevention and Public Safety
04-01-08 H Public hearing completed

HB 1732    Walsh Establishes the Public Service Accountability Act which requires most public bodies to analyze the costs and benefits of privatizing any service valued at $25,000 or more.
Bill History 01-22-08 H Read second time
02-28-08 H Referred to House Committee on Special Committee on Workforce Dev & SFTY

HB 1832 Cooper-120 Establishes the Missouri County Planning Act.
Bill History 03-28-08 H Set on the House Calendar
04-08-08 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate-Eco.Devo./Tourism/Local Government

HB 1853 Bivins Requires any public governmental body to make and retain a verbatim audio recording of any closed meeting.
Bill History 02-28-08 H Referred to House Committee on House-Judiciary
HB 1958 Silvey Creates a county jails fund to be administered by the county sheriff for the purpose of maintaining each county's jail funded by a portion of the fee charged for the collection of delinquent and back taxes.
Bill History 02-28-08 H Referred to House Committee on House-Local Government

HB 2005 Icet Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Office of Administration, Department of Transportation, and Department of Public Safety.
Bill History 03-27-08 S Reported to the Senate and first read
04-10-08 S Meeting set for 8:00 AM, SCR 2 Senate-Appropriations

HB 2238 Schad Allows certain persons to hunt wild turkeys without affixing a safety sticker to their shotgun.
Bill History 03-27-08 H Referred to House Committee on House-Conservation and Natural Resources

HJR 42    Davis Proposes a constitutional amendment freezing all real property valuations and tax rates until the sale or transfer of the property or a voter-approved rate increase.
Bill History 01-17-08 H Referred to House Committee on House-Ways and Means
02-07-08 H Public hearing completed

HJR 43    Portwood Proposes a constituional amendment altering the rollback requirement for the Hancock amendment.
Bill History 01-24-08 H Public hearing completed
03-28-08 H Set on the House Calendar
04-03-08 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate-Ways and Means

SB 711 Gibbons Modifies provisions regarding property taxation.
Bill History 03-27-08 H Referred to House Committee on House-Ways and Means
04-03-08 H Public hearing completed

SB 718 Kennedy Modifies provisions of certain tax credit programs administered by the Department of Economic Development.
Bill History 02-25-08 H Read second time

SB 729    Griesheimer Creates the Missouri County Planning Act.
Bill History 01-10-08 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate-Eco.Devo./Tourism/Local Government
03-31-08 S Set on the Senate Calendar
04-14-08 S Set on the Senate Calendar

SB 735    Bartle Requires mandatory review and sunset of certain tax credit programs.
Bill History 01-10-08 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate-Ways and Means

SB 825
HB 1740  
Justus Increases the fee collected by each recorder to be deposited into the Missouri Housing Trust Fund from $3 to $10.
Bill History 01-14-08 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate-Ways and Means

SB 949    Scott Modifies provisions of law relating to rural empowerment zones.
Bill History 01-30-08 S Meeting set for 2:00 PM, Senate Lounge Senate-Eco.Devo./Tourism/Local Gover
02-06-08 S Voted do pass from committee on Senate-Eco.Devo./Tourism/Local Government

SB 1005 Bray Adopts the Uniform Planned Community Act.
Bill History 02-13-08 S Hearing conducted

SB 1203 Rupp Allows political subdivisions to elect to cover certain personnel as members of the Missouri local government employees' retirement system.
Bill History 03-12-08 S Hearing conducted
04-09-08 S Voted do pass from committee on Senate-Pensions, Veterans and General Laws

SB 1204 Goodman Requires the governor to disclose information regarding tax credits and state contracts.
Bill History 03-26-08 S Removed from the Consent Calendar

SB 1206 Goodman Requires local governments to provide 72 hours notice for public meetings.
Bill History 03-26-08 S Hearing conducted

SB 1217 Stouffer Submits to the voters a one-cent sales tax proposal to assist in the reconstruction, rebuilding, construction, and conversion of Interstate 70 and Interstate 44 into an eight-lane interstate system.
Bill History 02-28-08 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate-Transportation

SB 1260 Bartle Requires communities establishing and licensing a geographical information system to provide information regarding costs to license the system.
Bill History 03-12-08 S Not heard in committee Senate-Eco.Devo./Tourism/Local Government

SJR 48 Stouffer Institutes a one percent sales and use tax for the purpose of converting Interstate 70 and Interstate 44 into an eight-lane interstate system.
Bill History 02-28-08 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate-Transportation