HB 388 Sponsor:Cooper, Robert Status: H Professional Registration Description: Expand the requirements for a professional counselor license to include doing a diagnosis of various disorders. Impose additional licensing requirements on those doing diagnosis work.
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HB 389 Sponsor:Cooper, Robert Status: H Ways & Means Description: Classify as residental property rather than the higher-assessed personal property boats that are used as a residence.
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HB 425 Sponsor:Cooper, Robert Status: H Professional Registration Description: Impose additional licensing provisions and safety requirements on tattooing, body piercing and making other permanent body markings for a charge.
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HB 512 Sponsor:Cooper, Robert Status: H 2nd Read Description: Expand the state's legal defense fund that covers a person for lawsuits to include various medical services provided to government health care specialist services providing Medicaid coverage and a physician's company providing free care for a local government.
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HB 616 Sponsor:Cooper, Robert Status: H Health Care Policy Description: Require health insurance plans to cover prosthetic devices, services and supplies.
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HB 656 Sponsor:Cooper, Robert Status: H 2nd Read Description: Give teachers the right to teach evolution how they want.
See: Official legislative description and status* HCS HB 657 Sponsor:Cooper, Robert Status: S Agriculture Description: Prohibit expanded polystyrene or glass containers near streams. Require a 911 address on boat docks.
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HB 694 Sponsor:Cooper, Robert Status: H Judiciary Description: Add a circuit judge for the 26th circuit of Camden, Laclede, Miller, Moniteau and Morgan counties.
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HB 697 Sponsor:Cooper, Robert Status: H Rules Description: Expand a protection from lawsuits for volunteers dispensing medication during an emergency to include government workers. Approved by the original House committee with just more than 5 weeks left in the legislative session -- leaving little chance there would be enough time left for the bill to have any chance of passage.
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HCS HB 819 Sponsor:Cooper, Robert Status: H Perf Description: Repeal a restriction on liability lawsuit protection for using a an external debibrillator to any person that current extends the protection to trained persons. This bill would prohibit a liability award regardless whether the person using the device was trained to use it. Approved by the original House committee with just five weeks left in the legislative session -- leaving little chance there would be enough time left for the bill to have any chance of passage.
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HB 821 Sponsor:Cooper, Robert Status: H Judiciary Description: Let 1st class counties establish a county court to hear cases involving violations of county ordinances.
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HB 1123 Sponsor:Cooper, Robert Status: H 2nd Read Description: Require the Health Department to establish a system for monitoring drug prescriptions in the state including patient names, adddresses and ages.
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HJR 34 Sponsor:Cooper, Robert Status: WITHDRAWN Description: Allow the legislature to require a photo ID to vote. Establish a right to vote on a paper ballot.
See: Official legislative description and status
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