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House Committee meetings
As of (03/18/2024) at 10:30 PM

Hearing Date Monday, March 25, 2024


Committee:Budget
Chair:Cody Smith (163)
Date:Monday, March 25, 2024 - Upcoming
Time:10:00 A.M.
Location:House Hearing Room 3
Note:Markup of House Committee Substitutes.

Executive Session will be held on the following bills:
HB 2002 - Smith, Cody
Appropriations for the Education Department and public schools.
HB 2003 - Smith, Cody
Appropriations for the Higher Education Department, public higher education institutions and student assistance programs.
HB 2004 - Smith, Cody
Appropriations for the Transportation Department and the Revenue Department including tax refunds.
HB 2005 - Smith, Cody
Appropriations for the departments of Transportation, Conservation and Public Safety.
HB 2006 - Smith, Cody
Appropriations for the deparments of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Conservation.
HB 2007 - Smith, Cody
Appropriations for the departments of Economic Development, Insurance and Labor.
HB 2008 - Smith, Cody
Appropriations for the Department of Public Safety.
HB 2009 - Smith, Cody
Appropriations for the Corrections Department.
HB 2010 - Smith, Cody
Appropriations for the Health and Mental Health departments.
HB 2011 - Smith, Cody
Appropriations for the Social Services Department.
HB 2012 - Smith, Cody
Appropriations for statewide elected officials, legislature and judiciary.
HB 2013 - Smith, Cody
Appropriations for office rent for various state departments.
HB 2015 - Smith, Cody
Transfer and allocation from various funds and federal funds for the 2024 fiscal year that ends June 30, 2024.
HB 2017 - Smith, Cody
Appropriations to appropriate for FY 2025 unexpended balances for capital improvement projects approved for FY 2024.
HB 2018 - Smith, Cody
Appropriations state government building maintenance.
HB 2019 - Smith, Cody
Appropriations for new state buildings, additions or rennovations.
HB 2020 - Smith, Cody
Capital improvement appropriations for state buildings.

Committee:Health and Mental Health Policy
Chair:Mike Stephens (128)
Date:Monday, March 25, 2024 - Upcoming
Time:12:00 P.M.
Location:House Hearing Room 6

Public Hearings will be conducted for the following bills:
HB 2733 - Smith, Travis
Creates provisions relating to health care provider participation in health insurance plans. #
HB 2471 - Buchheit-Courtway, Cyndi
Modifies provisions governing mental health efforts in public schools. #
HB 2824 - Stephens, Mike
Modifies provisions relating to limits on selling or purchasing certain drugs. #
Executive Session will be held on the following bills:
HB 1627 - Wright, Dale
Various requirements on pharmacy benefits managers. Impose requirements on generic prescription substitutions. Restrict reimbursements to pharmacies below a pharmacy's actual costs for a prescription. Prohibit restricting a person's choice of a pharmacy.
HB 2458 - Dinkins, Chris
Add additional requirements including training requirements for an ambulance service licenses.

***Amended***
Committee:Rules - Administrative Oversight
Chair:Rick Francis (145)
Date:Monday, March 25, 2024 - Upcoming
Time:2:00 P.M.
Location:House Hearing Room 4
Note:Removed HB 1617.

Executive Session will be held on the following bills:
HB 1564 - Kelley, Ann
Expand the purposes for which Lamar Heights can seek voter approval for a sales tax from capital improvements to include emergency services and public safety.
HB 1715 - Byrnes, Tricia
Impose various requirements on public school policies on bullying. Prohibit a zero-tolerance discipline policy that requires discipline against the victim.
HCS HB 2314 - Brown, Donnie
Creates provisions for master agreements between the office of administration for architecture, engineering, or land-surveying. #
HB 2571 - McGaugh, Peggy
Modifies provisions relating to financial statements of certain local governments. #
HB 2710 - Brown, Chris
Authorizes a sales tax exemption for certain nuclear facilities. #
HJR 104 - Baker, Ben
Essentially would prohibit ranked voting. Restrict a person from voting for more than one candidate for an office. Require every voting machine produce a paper record.

Committee:Rules - Legislative Oversight
Chair:Jeff Knight (142)
Date:Monday, March 25, 2024 - Upcoming
Time:3:30 P.M.
Location:House Hearing Room 4

Executive Session will be held on the following bills:
HB 1534 - Baringer, Donna
Require a candidate for a St. Louis city office provide the election official tax receipts or no-tax-records.
HCS HB 1906 - Chappell, Darin
Require the assessment of real estate property be equal to the most recent purchase of the property, with exceptions.
HCS HB 2072 - Mayhew, Don
Give the legislature power to appropriate motor fuel taxes set aside for refunds that were not refunded.
HB 2319 - Owen, Bill
Modifies provisions relating to tax credits. #
HB 2464 - Butz, Steve
Modifies provisions governing income exempt from earnings tax. #
HB 2599 - Farnan, Jeff
Modifies provisions relating to the identification requirements to purchase alcohol. #
HB 2657 - McGirl, Mike
Increase state tax deductions involving private pension benefits.
HB 2756 - O'Donnell, Michael
Modifies provisions of the "Property Assessment Clean Energy Act". #

Committee:Fiscal Review
Chair:Dan Houx (54)
Date:Monday, March 25, 2024 - Upcoming
Time:3:45 P.M.
Location:House Hearing Room 4

Executive Session will be held on the following bills:
HB 2274 - Smith, Travis
Phase out the corporate income tax in four-year staged reductions. Legislative staff estimate the measure would reduce General Revenue for state funding $99.5 million in the first fiscal year and up to $884 four years later in full implementation.
HB 2142 - Baker, Ben
Expand a tax break for federal grants to expand broadband access in Missouri. Legislative staff estimate the measure would cut state General Revenue by $4.2 million in the first year of implementation.
HCS HB 1777 - Perkins, Chad
Expand eligibility to drug offenders for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program (SNAP), once known as food stamps, who currently are excluded. Various other corrections provisions including prohibiting restraints on pregnant prisoners in the third trimester.
HCS HB 1948 - Diehl, Dane
Expand where a notice must be published prior to sale of abandoned property in a self-storage facility to "The manner...deemed commercially resonable." Repeal current law that requires the notice to be published in the classified section of a newspaper.

Committee:Conservation and Natural Resources
Chair:Bruce Sassmann (61)
Date:Monday, March 25, 2024 - Upcoming
Time:4:30 PM or upon adjournment (whichever is later)
Location:House Hearing Room 6

Executive Session will be held on the following bills:
HB 1554 - Sassmann, Bruce
Require the Natural Resources Department to allocate at least ten percent of state or federal funds to the Rock Island State Park to be allocated to "adjacent landowner concerns" including safety and security.

Committee:Rules - Regulatory Oversight
Chair:Kurtis Gregory (51)
Date:Monday, March 25, 2024 - Upcoming
Time:4:30 PM or upon adjournment (whichever is later)
Location:House Hearing Room 4

Executive Session will be held on the following bills:
HB 1512 - Murphy, Jim
Prohibit a county library board from overruling the "the disapproval or recommendations" of a county planning commission. Prohibit library property being used in violation of the local government zoning ordinances or regulations.
HCS HB 1813 - Adams, Joe
Establish a council on internet broadband services to develop various recommendations.
HCS HB 1886 - Veit, Rudy
Several unrelated legal issues including expanded provisions for absolishing limited liability companies, legal dispute resolutions, spousal trusts, limits on local moratorium restrictions, child guardianship changes, restrictions on disclosure of judicial officer info. and much more.
HB 1937 - Owen, Bill
Add requirements and restrictions for investment fiduciaries. Prohibit considering non-financial "environmental, social, or governance characteristics."
HCS HB 1961 - Riley, Alex
Prohibit any rule adopted by various government boards and agencies from taking effect until two existing rules are repealed.
HB 1990 - Gallick, Sherri
Add marijuana to a law allowing employers to prohibit drugs in the work place.
HB 2034 - Sassmann, Bruce
Require the Employment Security Division to use a national database to verify unemployment compensation claims.
HB 2141 - Baker, Ben
Prohibit state employees downloading or using on a state-owned device owned by China or any company that shares user data with the Chinese Communist Party.
HB 2348 - Hovis, Barry
Modifies provisions relating to the recreation sales tax for certain counties. #
HCS HB 2489 - Murphy, Jim
Require employers to participate in the federal work requirement law. Establish a state database of qualified foreign workers. Enact additional requirements for employment of foreign workers with criminal penalties for repeat violation. Give the state attorney general enforcement powers.
HCS HB 2576 - Casteel, David
Modifies the offenses of trafficking of drugs in the first and second degree. #
HB 2632 - Hausman, Wendy
Creates provisions relating to health insurance reimbursement of doula services. #
HCS HB 2874 - Seitz, Brian
Establishes the "Protecting Missouri's Small Businesses Act, which changes the law regarding businesses closed because of a shutdown order. #

Committee:Special Committee on Education Reform
Chair:Bishop Davidson (130)
Date:Monday, March 25, 2024 - Upcoming
Time:4:30 PM or upon adjournment (whichever is later)
Location:House Hearing Room 7

Public Hearings will be conducted for the following bills:
HB 2937 - Davidson, Bishop
Modifies provisions governing elementary and secondary education. #
HB 2938 - Davidson, Bishop
Creates "Earned Autonomy Schools Waivers" for school districts and enacts other education reform measures. #

Committee:Special Committee on Small Business
Chair:Chris Brown (16)
Date:Monday, March 25, 2024 - Upcoming
Time:4:30 PM or upon adjournment (whichever is later)
Location:House Hearing Room 5

Public Hearings will be conducted for the following bills:
SS SB 895 --
Sponsor: Trent, Curtis (Sen-20)
Modifies provisions relating to landlord-tenant actions, including eviction proceeding moratoriums and filings for transfers of real property with outstanding collectible judgments

Hearing Date Tuesday, March 26, 2024


Committee:Local Government
Chair:Bill Falkner (10)
Date:Tuesday, March 26, 2024 - Upcoming
Time:8:00 A.M.
Location:House Hearing Room 7

HB 2409 - Falkner, Bill
Modifies provisions governing the "Task Force on the Future of Right-of-Way Management and Taxation". #
HB 2862 - Falkner, Bill
Establishes the "Uniform Easement Relocation Act". #
Executive Session will be held on the following bills:
HB 2531 - Christofanelli, Phil
Creates provisions regarding submetering of utilities. #
HB 1794 - Hinman, Dave
Expand the grounds for a limited driving privilege for a person with a revoked license to include attending a place of worship, traveling to essential businesses like grocery stories and other shopping outlets.

Committee:Pensions
Chair:Barry Hovis (146)
Date:Tuesday, March 26, 2024 - Upcoming
Time:8:30 A.M.
Location:House Hearing Room 5

Public Hearings will be conducted for the following bills:
HB 2846 - Clemens, Doug
Modifies provisions relating to retirement benefits for certain teacher retirement systems. #
HB 2906 - Steinhoff, Kathy
Modifies provisions relating to time and salary limitations on working after retirement for members of the Public School Retirement System and the Public Education Employee Retirement System. #
HB 2585 - Young, Yolanda
Modifies provisions relating to blind pensions. #
Executive Session will be held on the following bills:
HB 1722 - Crossley, Aaron
Change the limit of how many retired teachers a school when a public school district can employ retired teachers when there is a shortage of notcertificated employees. Current law is ten percent of noncertificated staff or five employees. This bill would change the limit to 1 percent of the total of certificated and noncertificated employees. *

Committee:Elections and Elected Officials
Chair:Peggy McGaugh (7)
Date:Tuesday, March 26, 2024 - Upcoming
Time:12:00 PM or upon adjournment (whichever is later)
Location:House Hearing Room 6

Public Hearings will be conducted for the following bills:
HB 1525 - Buchheit-Courtway, Cyndi
Restores Missouri's non-binding presidential primary. The presidental primary was eliminated by legislation signed by the governor in 2022 (HB 1878).
HB 2895 - Gregory, Kurtis
Reinstates the presidential preference primary. #

Committee:Special Committee on Tax Reform
Chair:Ben Baker (160)
Date:Tuesday, March 26, 2024 - Upcoming
Time:12:00 PM or upon adjournment (whichever is later)
Location:House Hearing Room 7

Public Hearings will be conducted for the following bills:
HJR 187 - Davidson, Bishop
Proposes a constitutional amendment to impose an appropriation spending limitation and to establish the "Tax Reform Fund" to be used to fund budgetary shortfalls, subject to an appropriation limitation, and allows for certain taxation changes based on revenue triggers, by general law. #
HJR 188 - Davidson, Bishop
Proposes a constitutional amendment to impose an appropriation spending limitation and to establish the "Tax Reform Fund" to be used to fund budgetary shortfalls, subject to an appropriation limitation, and allows for certain taxation changes based on revenue triggers, by general law. #
Executive Session will be held on the following bills:
HB 2919 - Davidson, Bishop
Modifies provisions relating to taxation. #

Committee:General Laws
Chair:Alex Riley (134)
Date:Tuesday, March 26, 2024 - Upcoming
Time:2:00 P.M.
Location:House Hearing Room 7

Public Hearings will be conducted for the following bills:
HB 2468 - Davidson, Bishop
Modifies provisions relating to trial procedures for murder in the first degree. #
HB 2108 - Christofanelli, Phil
Establishes provisions relating to expungement. #
HB 2555 - Hicks, Justin
Establishes provisions relating to expungement. #

Committee:Special Committee on Tourism
Chair:Brian Seitz (156)
Date:Tuesday, March 26, 2024 - Upcoming
Time:3:00 P.M.
Location:House Hearing Room 6

HB 1816 - Riggs, Louis
Designate a month of the year for various issues.
HB 2171 - Gregory, Kurtis
Designates Waverly, MO as the apple capital of Missouri. #
HB 2172 - Gregory, Kurtis
Designates Concordia, MO as the patriotic mural city of Missouri. #
Executive Session will be held on the following bills:
HB 1619 - Seitz, Brian
Restrict designating a day in honor of a deceased person, the person must have been deceased for three years, except for military or first responders.

Committee:Ethics
Chair:Hannah Kelly (141)
Date:Tuesday, March 26, 2024 - Upcoming
Time:4:00 PM or upon adjournment (whichever is later)
Location:House Hearing Room 4
Note:Portions of the hearing may be closed under Article III, Sections 18 & 20, of the Constitution of Missouri, House Rule 37, House Resolution 85, and Sections 610.021(1), (3), (13) & (14) to discuss House Ethics Complaint 23-01.

Committee:Consent and House Procedure
Chair:Sean Pouche (13)
Date:Tuesday, March 26, 2024 - Upcoming
Time:6:00 PM or upon adjournment (whichever is later)
Location:House Hearing Room 5
Note:Pending bill referral.

Hearing Date Wednesday, March 27, 2024


Committee:Government Efficiency and Downsizing
Chair:Jim Murphy (94)
Date:Wednesday, March 27, 2024 - Upcoming
Time:8:30 A.M.
Location:House Hearing Room 6

Public Hearings will be conducted for the following bills:
HB 2207 - West, Richard
Establishes the "Missouri Statewide Mechanical Contractor Licensing Act". #

Committee:Transportation Infrastructure
Chair:Cyndi Buchheit-Courtway (115)
Date:Wednesday, March 27, 2024 - Upcoming
Time:12:00 PM or upon adjournment (whichever is later)
Location:House Hearing Room 7
Note:Presentation by the Missouri Department of Transportation Director regarding the present and future road projects in the State.

Executive Session will be held on the following bills:
HB 1566 - Kelley, Ann
Designate special names for ten portions of highways.
HB 1662 - Bromley, Bob
Designate special names for ten portions of highways.
HB 1908 - Sassmann, Bruce
Designate a portion of highway 63 in Osage County the "POW/MIA SSG Paul Hasenbeck Memorial Highway."
HB 2162 - Haden, Kent
Designate a bridge in Audrain County the "US Army SPC4 James W Cahall Memorial Bridge."
HB 2176 - Sassmann, Bruce
Designate a portion of Highway 50 in Gasconade County the "Police Chief Mason Griffith Memorial Highway."
HB 2639 - Thompson, Terry
Designates the "SP4 Forrest P Dickey Memorial Highway" in Ray County. #
HB 2662 - Sassmann, Bruce
Designates the "SGT Norbert Overkamp Jr Memorial Highway" in Montgomery County. #
HB 2878 - Copeland, Ron
Designates the "Dillard Family Highway" in Dent County. #
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