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.
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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.