Progress: Chamber 1: Filed
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HB68 - Rep. Matthew Overcast (R) - Modifies the statute of limitations for personal injury claims from five years to two years
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Currently, actions for personal injury or bodily injury, including those relating to uninsured motorist coverage or underinsured motorist coverage, must be brought within five years from the date the injury occurred. This bill reduces the time frame to two years from when the injury occurred, for injuries occurring after August 28, 2025.
This bill is similar to HB 1964 (2024) and HB 272 (2023). |
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HB123 - Rep. Rudy Veit (R) - Modifies provisions related to workers' compensation administrative law judges
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HB 123 -- WORKERS' COMPENSATION ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES
SPONSOR: Veit Currently, a retention vote is required to be taken by the Administrative Law Judge Review Committee with respect to each Workers' Compensation Administrative Law Judge (ALJ). Additionally, the Committee is required to conduct performance audits periodically and make recommendations of confidence or no confidence with respect to each ALJ. This bill repeals these requirements and instead creates new provisions for filing complaints against and removing ALJs. Prior to filing a complaint, the Director must notify the ALJ in writing of the reasons for the complaint. Special provisions are included if the reason for the complaint is willful neglect of duty or incompetency. Upon a finding by the Administrative Hearing Commission (AHC) that the grounds for disciplinary action are met, the Director may, singly or in combination, issue the disciplinary actions against the ALJ, as specified in the bill, including removal or suspension from office. If there are no grounds for disciplinary action, the ALJ will immediately resume duties and will receive any attorneys' fees due under current law. The bill repeals a requirement that the Committee members not have any direct or indirect employment or financial connection with a workers' compensation insurance company, claims adjustment company, health care provider nor be a practicing Workers' Compensation attorney. The bill additionally repeals a requirement that all members of the Committee have a working knowledge of Workers' Compensation. The bill provides that the compensation for Administrative Law Judges and chief administrative law judges will be determined solely by the rate outlined in law and will not increase when pay raises for executive employees are appropriated. The bill furthermore repeals reference to the position of Chief Legal Counsel. The bill repeals a prohibition on the payment of any retirement benefits under Workers' Compensation law to any Administrative Law Judge who has been removed from office by impeachment or for misconduct, or to any person who has been disbarred from the practice of law, or to the beneficiary of any such persons. This bill is similar to SCS HCS HB 2064 (2024). |
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HB142 - Rep. Bill Falkner (R) - Modifies the term "purchase" as it relates to political subdivisions purchasing liability insurance for tort claims
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As it relates to political subdivisions purchasing liability insurance for tort claims made against the political subdivision, this bill defines the term "purchase" to refer only to the direct acquisition of insurance coverage by a governing body and not any indirect action by contract or otherwise.
This bill is the same as SB 1346 (2024). |
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Chamber 1: Filed |
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HB72 - Rep. Tim Taylor (R) - Modifies provisions relating to workers' compensation temporary total disability (TTD) rate for certain first responders
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For the purposes of computing the average weekly wage that serves as the basis for determining the compensation rate for a volunteer firefighter or a volunteer emergency services responder, the benefit will be based on the average weekly wage in the volunteer's regular employment, only to the extent that the injury prevents the volunteer from performing the job duties of regular employment. The bill also specifies a method for calculating compensation when the average weekly wage has not been fixed or cannot be ascertained.
This bill is the same as HB 2641 (2024) and similar to HB 1910 (2024) and HB 1290 (2023). |
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Chamber 1: Filed |
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SB240 - Sen. Jamie Burger (R) - Modifies provisions relating to state funds for regional planning commissions
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SB 240 - Under current law, state funds for the East-West Gateway Coordinating Council and for the Mid-America Regional Council are not to exceed $65,000 and state funds for other regional planning commissions shall not exceed $25,000. This act changes the sums to $130,000 and $50,000. Additionally, this act removes the regional planning commissions of Show-Me, Missouri Valley, Ozark Gateway, ABCD, and Lakes County and adds Harry S. Truman, MO-Kan, Pioneer Trails, and Southwest Mo. Finally, this act provides that beginning July 1, 2026, the maximum grant amount for each regional planning commission shall be adjusted with the consumer price index. This act is identical to HB 2151 (2024) and substantially similar to SB 939 (2024), SB 1112 (2024), SB 634 (2023), and to a provision in SCS/HCS/HB 1564 (2024) and HCS/SB 155 (2023). JOSH NORBERG
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Chamber 1: Filed |
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SB477 - Sen. Justin Brown (R) - Modifies provisions relating to state funds for regional planning commissions
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SB 477 - Under current law, state funds for the East-West Gateway Coordinating Council and for the Mid-America Regional Council are not to exceed $65,000 and state funds for other regional planning commissions shall not exceed $25,000. This act changes the sums to $130,000 and $50,000. Additionally, this act removes the regional planning commissions of Show-Me, Missouri Valley, Ozark Gateway, ABCD, and Lakes County and adds Harry S. Truman, MO-Kan, Pioneer Trails, and Southwest Mo. Finally, this act provides that beginning July 1, 2026, the maximum grant amount for each regional planning commission shall be adjusted with the consumer price index. This act is identical to SB 939 (2024), SB 1112 (2024), SB 634 (2023), to a provision in SCS/HCS/HB 1564 (2024) and HCS/SB 155 (2023) and substantially similar to SB 240 (2025). JOSH NORBERG
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Chamber 1: Filed |
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HB497 - Rep. Brad Christ (R) - Modifies provisions relating to workers' compensation
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Under current law, an injury is compensable if the accident was the prevailing factor in causing both the resulting medical condition and disability. This bill now provides that the injury is compensable if the accident was the prevailing factor in causing the injury, the resulting medical condition, the disability, and the need for treatment. The bill modifies the definition of injury due to an occupational disease; injury due to repetitive motion; and to the "prevailing factor" test definition.
In addition, for an employee to receive medical treatment, the accident or occupational disease must be the prevailing factor in causing the injury, the resulting medical condition and the need for treatment.
The bill requires consideration of any savings or insurance of the injured employee from governmental or private sources, benefits derived from the employer's insurance, and any savings or insurance procured or sponsored by the employer, when determining compensation as specified in the bill.
Administrative law judges (ALJ) or the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (LIRC) have authority to order employers to make payments only to the medical provider or providers to whom bills are due in cases where they determine the employer is responsible for disputed medical bills.
This bill authorizes an employer to file a motion to dismiss a claim for compensation within 180 days of filing a claim, if the Division of Workers' Compensation has not already set the matter for a hearing. The employer may file a motion to dismiss the claim raising one or more grounds provided in the bill. The bill outlines the evidence to be submitted by the parties relating to the issues to be determined at the evidentiary hearing and the time line for an ALJ to issue an order which is subject to review by the LIRC.
Under current law, a temporary or partial award of compensation may be modified and kept open until a final award can be issued and if the temporary or partial award is not complied with, the compensation amount awarded and unpaid may be doubled in the final award. This bill repeals this penalty language and specifies that the temporary or partial award is subject to review and appeal after the date of the final award. |
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SB505 - Sen. Nick Schroer (R) - Creates new process for dismissal of workers' compensation claims
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SB 505 - This act creates a new provision of workers' compensation law providing for the dismissal of claims by an employer. Specifically, within 90 days of the filing of a workers' compensation claim, if the matter has not already been set for a hearing, the employer may file a motion to dismiss the matter. The employer may file the motion to dismiss to specifically raise one or more of the following arguments: • That the employee did not notify the employer or file the claim in a timely manner; • That the employee was not employed by or acting within the scope of their employment for the employer at the time when the alleged accident occurred; or • That the employer is not liable due to the employee's intoxication from use of alcohol or controlled substances. Following the filing of a motion to dismiss, the Division of Workers' Compensation shall set a date for a hearing, but no later than six months following the filing of the motion to dismiss, which shall be held as soon as practicable, and shall notify the interested parties of the time and place of the hearing. If the Division determines that, by a preponderance of the evidence, the employer has established that the matter should be dismissed for one or more of the arguments made in its motion to dismiss, the Division shall issue an order within 30 days dismissing the claim. Such dismissal shall be subject to review and appeal. If the motion to dismiss is denied, the issues raised in the motion to dismiss and ruled upon in the order following the hearing shall be conclusively adjudicated and shall not be relitigated at a subsequent temporary, partial, hardship or final hearing. SCOTT SVAGERA
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SB559 - Sen. Jamie Burger (R) - Provides sovereign immunity for private contractors acting within the scope of a government contract
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SB 559 - This act provides that private contractors when acting within the scope of a government contract shall have the same sovereign or governmental tort immunity as a public entity. This act is identical to a provision in SB 117 (2023), HB 101 (2023), SB 832 (2022), and HB 2598 (2022). KATIE O'BRIEN
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Chamber 1: Filed |
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HB1067 - Rep. Cameron Parker (R) - Provides sovereign immunity for private contractors acting within the scope of a government contract
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Chamber 1: Filed |
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