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2018 Bill(s)

* SB 561
Sponsor: Sater, David
Status: S Perfection
Description: Require Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program recipients to have a job or meet other work-related requirments.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 562
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Seniors, Families & Children
    Description: Require the Social Services Department to seek a waiver of various federal Medicaid requirements/restrictions including imposing work requirements, co-payments, health savings accounts, etc.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HCS SB 563
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: H Rules - Legislative Oversight
    Description: Expand a program that provides prescription drug cost assistance for lower income elderly. Current law requires a recipient be lower income and be eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare. This bill would require eligibility for only one of the two federal programs. Legislative staff estimate the bill would cost more than $10 million in state funds.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SB 563 (02/01/2018): 3rd reading of a bill to expand coverage of a program providing financial support for lower income Missourians to purchase prescription drugs.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 638
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Health & Pensions
    Description: Extend the expiration date of federal reimbursement allowance taxes from September 2018 to 2020. FRA is a mechanism by which the state imposes a tax on health care providers to get a higher Medicaid federal payment which then is returned back to the providers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 639
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Insurance & Banking
    Description: Lower the minimum number of members an association or trust must have to purchase group health insurance. Lower the minimum from 50 to 25 members.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 640
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Require public schools to allow students to apply sunscreen without a parental or physician's authorization.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 687
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Lower the percentage of school district funds that must be allocated for teacher professional development if state funds for transportation of students is less than 25 percent of allowable costs for providing transportation.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 688
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: Exempt maintenance work that involves replacement from the prevailing wage rate law for government construction projects so long as the replacement does not exceed the original cost of the facility.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 689
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp.
    Description: Prohibit a registered sex offender residing within 1,000 feet of the victim.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 722
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: H Economic Development
    Description: Require the Health Department conduct a study on the possibility of the state importing prescription drugs from other companies for Missourians.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 723
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Health & Pensions
    Description: Require hospitals to adopt policies for early recognition and treatment of patients with sepsis or septic shock.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 724
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Seniors, Families & Children
    Description: Prohibit performing an abortion if the physician is aware the woman is seeking the abortion because of the sex or race of the fetus or because of the fetus has or has the potential for Down Syndrome.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 743
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Reduce from two to one surety bond that seven-director school district treasurers must have before starting to discharge his/her duties. The CCS contains number of unrelated education issues basing school funding on hours rather than days, including adding a teacher to the Board of Education, charter schools, school librarians, gifted education, braille instruction, school transportation, sheltered workshops and more.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 744
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Seniors, Families & Children
    Description: Require health plans to provide incentives for using lower-cost non-emergency medical services.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 745
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Professional Registration
    Description: Increase the limit on the number of full-time advanced-practice nurses with whom a physician can have a collaborative practice agreement from three to five. Repeal a 28-day limit in a calendar year that the geographic proximity requirement can be the nurse can waived for the nurse to practice in a rural clinic.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 756
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Local Gov't & Elections
    Description: Establish provisions by which the Revenue Department can increase fees collected if the County Recorders' Fund collections are insufficient to meet obligations.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 776
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Seniors, Families & Children
    Description: Various changes involving vaccinations. Exempt flu vaccine administration from rules jointly adopted by the Health Arts Board and the Board of Pharmacy. Change an age reference for vaccines to persons 12 years of age or older to ages recommended by the CDC.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 825
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Seniors, Families & Children
    Description: Limit to seven days the initial prescription of an opioid for acute pain, unless the medical provider documents the reasons. Exempt some circumstances such as cancer and hospice care.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 826
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Let medical providers accept unused controlled substances under a federal program for returned drugs. Require the Health Department develop a program to educate the public on drug disposal. The House added other unreleated health provisions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 827
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Local Gov't & Elections
    Description: Prohibit charging for a birth, death or marriage certificate requested by the Children's Services Division on behalf of a child under the juvenile court jurisdiction.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 876
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Local Gov't & Elections
    Description: Allow more cities to not hold an election if the number of candidates who filed for a local nonpartisan position is the same or less than the positions to be filled. Current law allows he election cancellation for cities with a population of 1,000 or fewer. This bill would allow cancellation if the population is 2,000 or fewer.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 893
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Various changes in initiative and referendum petitions. Impose a $500 fee along with $10 for each page. Restrict language describing the issue such as declaring it would invalidate a federal law or constitutional provision.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 910
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Health & Pensions
    Description: Exclude someone from blind pension fund benefits if the person has a driving license or fails to submit vision test results. Impose other restrictions on visual disability that qualifies for coverage. Limit coverage to lower income. A Cole County circuit court held in the fall of 2017 that Missouri owes the blind pension fund more than $26 million because of under payments to recipients.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 932
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Appropriations
    Description: Extend the expiration date of federal reimbursement allowance taxes from September 2018 to 2020. FRA is a mechanism by which the state imposes a tax on health care providers to get a higher Medicaid federal payment which then is returned back to the providers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 948
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Seniors, Families & Children
    Description: Impose work, education or community service participation to receive Medicaid health care coverage for persons between ages 19 to 64.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SCS SB 953
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Add various chemicals under the list of controlled substances. Terminate an emergency rule by the Health Department adding a substance to the list upon conclusion of the next regular session of the legislature.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 969
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Appropriations
    Description: Impose various provisions for personal care assistance coverage under Medicaid. Require that provider monitoring of personal care appointments must be unscheduled and occur at a time the personal care attendant actually is scheduled to be present.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 992
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: H Rules - Administrative Oversight
    Description: Expand who can a petitition to a juvenile court can be filed regarding termination of parental rights or adoption consent including a court-appointed guardian for a child or a private attorney who has filed a petition for adoption. Repeal a provision that such a petitition does not become effective until the child is at least 48 hours old.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 995
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Seniors, Families & Children
    Description: Establish in the Medicaid agency an advisory council on rare diseases and personalized Medicine.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1012
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Local Gov't & Elections
    Description: Include Lawrence County from counties where 991 emergency-service boards are not considered a government body, unless the county commission reclassifies the board as a political subdivision of the state.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1047
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Education
    Description: Let private colleges and universities appoint police officers and enforce traffic regulations.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 1068
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Professional Registration
    Description: Expand functions that a pharmacy technicican can perform.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1098
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Insurance & Banking
    Description: Prohibit health insurance imposing various limitations in mental health coverage unless comparable to other medical coverage limits. Include prescripipton drugs and out-of-network coverage.
    See: 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.