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2017 Bill(s)
HB 71 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Small Business Description: Declare that continuing authority requirements for a clean water construction or operating permit are satisfied for any company registered in the state.
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* HB 72 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Judiciary Description: Impose restrictions and additional requirements on utility condemnation of land for power lines on some types of property including agricultural land.
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* HB 73 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Rules - Legislative Oversight Description: Exempt from the crime of peace disturbance loud noise or offensive odors created by livestock or growing crops.
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* HB 74 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H General Laws Description: Establish requirements and consumer protections in a contract with a laywer in a consumer lawsuit. Let the consumer cancel within 5 days of signing. Require each page be initialed.
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HB 75 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Judiciary Description: Establish provisions for one prosecuting attorney to serve two or more adjoining counties in the same judicial circuit. Raise the salaries of part-time prosecuting attorneys to a percentage of the salary of an associate circuit judge.
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HCS HB 77 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Rules - Legislative Oversight Description: Allow a small claims court to order a security payment to cover costs of the defendant with the person bringing the suit has filed at least five small-claims lawsuits that failed within a seven year period.
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HCS HB 78 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Rules - Legislative Oversight Description: Let a local government opt out of the prevailing wage rate for publics works project contracts of $750,000 or less.
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HB 79 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Perfection Description: Let a school district in a non-charter county opt out of the prevailing wage rate.
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HB 81 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Rules - Administrative Oversight Description: Remove an exemption of from Workers Compensation coverage construction businesses involved construction, repair or alteration. Workers' Comp provides business-financed coverage for workers injured on the job.
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* HB 95 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: S 3rd Read Description: Expand exclusion of damage payment in a medical malpractice case for costs that were covered by another party, such as insurance. Also change the definition of actual costs of treatment for the malpractice that can be introduced as evidence in determing the award. A similar bill, SB 847, was vetoed by the governor in 2016.
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HB 113 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Rules - Administrative Oversight Description: Repeal authority of county health boards to independently issue regulations dealing with controlling entrance of diseases into the county. Limit power to adopt such regulations to the county commission, but only with concurrence of the county health board.
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HB 114 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Perfection Description: Allow a lawsuit for damages against a person who makes a false statement about a perishable food product.
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* HCS HB 144 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Impose restrictions and requirements on family members making decisions on terminating medical care. Establish a priority list of those who can health care decisions for an incapacitated person. Prohibit withdrawing support from a pregnant patient.
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HCS HB 159 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: S 3rd Read Description: Extend to veterinarians a law requiring a medical malpractice suit be brought within two years.
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HCS HB 351 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Perfection Description: Expand the prohibition of placing a juvenile under age of 17 in an adult jail to include a juvenile certified to be tried as an adult. Impose restrictions on the use of restraints on juveniles and pregnant women.
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HCS HB 415 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Perfection Description: Prohibit release from prison of someone convicted of being a predatory sex offender. Establish provisions to include prior predatory sex offender offenses that were not initially charged.
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* HB 550 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Litigation Reform Description: Impose various restrictions on discrimination lawsuits by an employees against employers. Require discrimination be a motivating factor. Exclude from the discrimination lawsuit law private clubs, smaller businesses and religious organizations. Establish award limits.
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HCS HB 573 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: S Government Reform Description: Impose requirements on a settlement offer in a lawsuit involving personal injury or death. Prohibit a time limit for acceptance less than 90 days. Require various records be provided in a settlement offer.
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HB 594 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H 2nd Read Description: mpose a ten-year deadline to bring a lawsuit for damages caused by a defective or unsafe product.
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HB 595 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Judiciary Description: Exclude from early-release provisions a convict who has unpaid court costs or restitution orders.
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HCS HB 596 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Rules - Legislative Oversight Description: Increase the number of public members of the Board of Embalmers.
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HCS HB 597 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Perfection Description: Repeal a provision defining the cost of preparing court transcipts that are paid by the party requesting the production.
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HB 623 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Judiciary Description: Change from mandatory to discretionary a judge's order to suspend a driving license for a person who failed to make a court appearance or pay a fine for a moving traffic violation. Current law requires the judge to suspend the driving license.
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HCS HB 725 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Rules - Legislative Oversight Description: Restrict the definition of a dependent for providing benefits under the workers' comensation program that provides coverage for workers injured or killed on the job. Legislative staff report the bill would exclude "partial dependents.
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HB 770 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H 2nd Read Description: Require legislative authorizati for any agency to continue a regulation that generates revenue.
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HB 792 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Judiciary Description: Require an administrative rule to include a "fiscal note" of estimated costs. Require the secretary of state to email information to parties who have registered to be notified. Set a three business-day deadline to publish proposed rule information on the secretary of state's website.
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SCS HB 843 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: S 3rd Read Description: Allow a county clerk to transmit a county's budget estimate by "electronic means." Current law requires it be transmitted by registered mail.
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HCS HB 863 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Perfection Description: Exempt state fair board members in a specific county from having to have liability insurance for festivals. Presumably applies to McGaugh's Carroll County.
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HB 875 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Perfection Description: Narrow an exemption from complying with an ignition interlock device order after a drunken driving conviction. Current law allows an exemption for driving an employer-owned vehicle unless the person partially owns the vehicle. This bill would further prohibit the exemption if the person controls an entity that owns the employer-owned vehicle.
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HB 876 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Judiciary Description: Repeal a provision letting the plaintiff in a negligence action against the Transportation Department require the case be handled by an arbitration board.
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HB 919 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: IN HCS HB 551 Description: Require local law enforcement be included in a law requiring a report be filed with the state Health Department of sexual abuse of a elderly patient in a long-term care facility.
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HB 1010 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Judiciary Description: Amend a Supreme Court rule to give lawyers who are legislative staff 15 hours of continuing legal education credit for work during the legislative session. The current rule provides the credit only for members of the legislature.
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HCS HB 1043 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Rules - Administrative Oversight Description: Require a person collecting signatures for an initiative petition be a registered Missouri voter. Require the person wear a badge indicating whether the person is a volunteer or being paid to circulate the petitions.
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HCS HB 1049 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Rules - Legislative Oversight Description: Impose a $1 death certificate fee for a fund for coroner training fund.
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HJR 3 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H 2nd Read Description: Establish provisions under which a court must rule when a person claims the person's constitutional rights have been violated.
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HJR 4 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H 2nd Read Description: Establish a constitutional right to hunt and fish. Limit rules or regulations restricting that right.
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HCS HCB 8 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Perfection (HCBs) Description: Impose a two-year time limit for filing a lawsuit against a veterinarian or the vet's staff for improper treatment of an animal. Require the attorney general to establish a website listing digital contact points used by minors to which various types of information cannot be sent, such as porn or alcohol. Various other unrelated issues involving digital info. and lawsuit restrictions by a "vexatious litigant."
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HCB 9 Sponsor:McGaugh, Joe Don Status: H Perfection (HCBs) Description: Repeal a financial penality for a law enforcement agency violating some crime reporting requirements, change reporting requirements by school officials of crimes by students on school grounds, expand conservation commission agent arrest powers and a number of other unrelated provisions. Other issues include: provide continuous alcohol monitoring as an alternative to an auto-ignition interlock, expand penalties for causing an injury from failing to yield, DNA profiling, reverse a state supreme court decision that struck down a criminal conviction, etc.
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