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2008 Bill(s)
* HB 1439 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Workforce Development Description: Reimpose the exemption of public safety workers (such as fire fighters and police) from over-time pay requirements who got included into the overtime law from the initiative petition passed in 2006 to raise the minimum wage.
See: Official legislative description and status* HB 1440 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Government Affairs Description: Require training of elected and appointed officials on requirements of the state's open meetings and public records laws.
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HB 1441 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Crime Prevention Description: Impose an extra surcharge on criminal and traffic court violations to fund a retirement fund for police. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
See: Official legislative description and status* HB 1442 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Crime Prevention Description: Make motorcycle stunt driving a cirime. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
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HB 1443 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Crime Prevention Description: Expand the chemicals covered by a law making it a crime to inhale fumes of a solvent for the purpose of getting intoxicated. Ban the sale of solvents at entertainment performances.
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HB 1444 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Crime Prevention Description: Expand the property damage crime to include damages caused by breaking into a car to steal it.
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HB 1445 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Crime Prevention Description: Make it a crime to falsify or alter various body samples (blood, urine, etc.) for drug or alcohol tests.
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HB 1446 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Corrections & Public Institutions Description: Impose a surcharge on court cases to fund training for police.
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HB 1447 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Local Govt Description: Let non-charter counties adopt noise ordinances.
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HB 1448 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Local Govt Description: Prohibit a city from requiring a fire department worker from living within the city.
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HB 1449 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Crime Prevention Description: Require removal of emergency lights and sirens before a police or fire vehicle can be sold.
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SCS HB 1450 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Extend to 2009 the sunset on establishment of the legislature's joint committee on terrorism.
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HB 1451 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Judiciary Description: Allow introduction of evidence (trial de novo) when appealing an administrative agency decision to a circuit court. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
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HB 1452 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Local Govt Description: Let a fire or ambulance district employee serve as a member of a district board in another county. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
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HB 1453 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Local Govt Description: Let a county retroactively apply planning and zoning ordinances to a subdivision if more than half the lots have not been developed. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
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HB 1454 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Judiciary Description: Expand a law authorizing medical peer review committees to include emergency medical technicians. Other changes too.
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HB 1455 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Local Govt Description: Exempt land owned by government, churches or public schools from storm water fees.
See: Official legislative description and status* HB 1456 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Local Govt Description: Adopt an interstate compact of agreement with other states to award electors to the popular-vote winner for president.
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HB 1457 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Crime Prevention Description: Require all fire districts to adopt the International Fire Code of the International Code Council. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
See: Official legislative description and status* HB 1458 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Crime Prevention Description: Provide grants to local police departments to purchase tracking devices for cars to avoid high-speed chases.
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HB 1672 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Crime Prevention Description: Impose a higher tax on illegal drugs and alcohol. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
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HB 1819 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Transportation Description: Prohibit the state imposing special restrictions on property along scenic byways.
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HB 1820 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Judiciary Description: Let a government worker seek a circuit court hearing on an employment lawsuit rather than being required to first submit the case to an administrative hearing commission evidence hearing. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
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HB 2119 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Crime Prevention Description: Extend the crime of involuntary manslaughter to include giving the person an illegal drug that caused the person's death.
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HB 2120 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Crime Prevention Description: Add various nitrate chemicals to the list of controlled substances.
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HB 2121 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Education Description: Prohibit a school from giving a day off within five days of Veteran's Day unless the school gives a day off on Veteran's Day.
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* HB 2122 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Crime Prevention Description: Include in the eligible expenses from the Crime Vicitim's Fund to include academic tutoring to make up for school days lost by a person who is kidnapped. The bill is named after Shawn Hornbeck.
See: Official legislative description and status* HB 2270 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Crime Prevention Description: Impose restrictions on issuing a ticket for a red-light violation based on a photo enforcement system. Require a cop to actually view the video and identify the car. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
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HB 2271 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Workforce Development Description: Require the employer to pay the health care coverage of a child for various public safety employees killed or severely injured on the job. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
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HB 2336 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Transportation Description: Name a portion of I55 in Jefferson County the Jeff McBride Memorial Highway. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
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HB 2368 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H 2nd Read Description: Create a crime of intoxiation-related traffic homicide. Clarify that suspended drunken driving offenses count as prior offenses.
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HB 2369 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H Small Business Description: Impose requirements and higher fees for planning approval of large retail stores. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
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HB 2386 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H 2nd Read Description: Require ambulances and stretcher vans to have automated defibrillators.
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HB 2387 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H 2nd Read Description: Require that any worker at a government-funded construction project take a federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) course.
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HB 2388 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H 2nd Read Description: Allow primary enforcement of the law requiring seat belts be used in autos. Extend the law to include Post Service vehicles, back seat passengers and trucks.
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HB 2389 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H 2nd Read Description: Allow a county to impose a fee on civil lawsuits to finance a neutral site where parents can transfer of custody of children.
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HB 2390 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H 2nd Read Description: Require the Health Department to establish sites for collection of umbilical cord blood.
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HB 2391 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H 2nd Read Description: Require juvenile courts to publish the schedule and location of juvenile proceedings.
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HB 2392 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H 2nd Read Description: Require the University of Missouri geographic resources center to indentify sex offenders who violate a law that prohibits living near a school or child care facility.
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HB 2490 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H 2nd Read Description: Require that a purchaser of property in a neighborhood improvement district put into the mortgage loan escrow account the amount of the property assessment.
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HB 2502 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H 2nd Read Description: Prohibit tax credits to any athletic team that does not impose a one year ban on any player who tested positive for steroids.
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HB 2503 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H 2nd Read Description: Prohibit hunting of an animal that has been tied up or caged.
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HB 2504 Sponsor:Roorda, Jeff Status: H 2nd Read Description: Make pseudoephedrine a prescription drug. It is used in some cold pills and also is used for making meth.
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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.