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2015 Bill(s)
HB 441 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H 2nd Read Description: Require a food stamp recipient participate in a work program to get food stamps known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Require the Social Services Department to allow expiration of a federal waiver granted the state that exempts food stamp recipients from work requirements. Also require Food Stamp benefit cards have a photo one year after the state is granted such a waiver.
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HB 442 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H 2nd Read Description: Prohibit the food stamps from covering energy drinks with high amounts of caffeine -- the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
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HB 443 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H 2nd Read Description: Allow limited driving privileges in some circumstances for a person whose driving license was suspended for failure to make child support payments.
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HCS HB 444 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: S 3rd Read (IN BUDGET) Description: Provide income tax deductions for completing a firefighter training program.
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HB 445 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H 2nd Read Description: Lower from two-thirds to a majority vote of the redevelopment commission for a plan change in St. Louis, St. Charles and Jefferson counties.
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HB 446 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H Ways & Means Description: Eliminate the sales tax on the sale of used motor vehicles. Assigned to committee on April 14.
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HB 447 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H Ways & Means Description: Eliminate the sales tax on the sale of used motor vehicles, boats, trailers and outboard motors.
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HB 448 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H Elementary & Secondary Education Description: Let a school district have up to two minutes of silence at the start of the school day. Assigned to committee on April 14.
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HB 449 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H 2nd Read Description: Authorize advanced voting three weeks before the primary or general election.
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HB 450 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H Select Com. on State & Local Gov't Description: Expand to adults the ban on texting while driving. Current law applies the ban to persons under the age of 22 years. Assigned to committee on April 14.
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HB 451 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H Higher Education Description: Expand the A+ college scholarship for high-achieving high school students to include private schools. Expand the requirements including mentoring, "maintain a record of good citizenship" and avoid unlawful use of drugs and alcohol.
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HB 452 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H Select Com. on Judiciary Description: Require a sign be posted at any traffic light that has an automated traffic enforcement system.
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HB 453 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H Select Com. on Judiciary Description: Require that the photo from automated red-light enforcement include a frontal picture of the driver to levy a fine.
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HB 454 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H Elections Description: Require that at least one voting machine be available in every polling location for visually impaired persons.
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HB 455 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H Transportation Description: Repeal the requirement for safety inspection of a motor vehicle for the vehicle to be licensed. Assigned to committee on April 14.
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HB 456 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H 2nd Read Description: Require 1 percent of the cost estimate for building or renovating a charter county building be given to transferred to a county public art fund.
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HB 490 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H Emerging Issues Description: Establish a pilot program for the medical use of marijuana.
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HB 491 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H Civil & Criminal Proceedings Description: Lower the minimum percentage of a sentence that must be served for a first-time dangerous felon from 85 percent to 50 percent. Lower it to 40 percent if the offender is at least 70 years old.
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HB 495 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H 2nd Read Description: Give school districts power to discipline students for cyberbullying that occurs off the school grounds under some circumstances.
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HB 496 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H 2nd Read Description: Require an indication on a driving license if the person is an illegal foreigner or cannot prove lawful presence.
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HB 588 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H 2nd Read Description: Require random drug testing of recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, once known as food stamps), upon federal approval.
See: Official legislative description and status* HB 930 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H Emerging Issues Description: Legalize marijuana for medical use for various diseases including cancer, glaucoma and several other diseases.
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* HB 933 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H Public Safety Description: Impose requirements on local police when there has been a police officer individual. Require an outside review. Require the police officer involved submit a blood sample. Establish a statewide board for review of officer-involved deaths. Ferguson related.
See: Official legislative description and status* HB 995 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H Transportation Description: Increase the gasoline tax from 17 cents to 19 cents per gallon. Not assigned to a committee until March 31.
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HB 1015 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H Select Com. on Finances & Taxes Description: Require the Revenue Department director to reduce the sales tax rate by 0.1 percent when net revenue has increated by $75 million in the past three years until the sales tax rate has dropped by 0.5 percentage points. Not assigned to a committee until March 31.
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HB 1016 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H Select Com. on State & Local Gov't Description: Expand when a political party challenger can be present at a polity place to include until all equipment is closed and taken down and other required procedures are completed.
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HB 1050 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H Elementary & Secondary Education Description: Require passing a civics test prior to being awarded a high school graduation in public or private schools or being granted a high school equivalency certificate. Reuire the state use the same 100 questions given to applicants for U.S. citizenship.
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HB 1143 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H Local Government Description: Require a fire district account for funds it got from a city that had annexed property covered by the district.
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HB 1144 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H 2nd Read Description: Repeal a provision that allows a purchaser to offset the motor vehicle sales tax with grain or livestock produced by the purchaser.
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HB 1145 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H 2nd Read Description: Repeal the sales tax exemptions for some agricultural purchases such as feed additives, livestock medication, grain bins, herbicides and pesticides.
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HB 1213 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H Professional Registration Description: Regulate and licensed martial arts contests of amateur unarmed combat.
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HB 1214 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: H 2nd Read Description: Require the Professional Registration Division to publish a list of local governments that have electrical contractor licensing standards that meet or exceed requirements in St. Louis County. Current law provides that any local government electrical contract license that is equal to St. Louis County's is valid throughout the state.
See: Official legislative description and status* HCS HB 1243 Sponsor:English, Keith Status: S Small Business Description: Require a criminal background check and passing a state test for navigator license applicants. The amended HCS requires navigators be bonded. The governor vetoed a similar bill, SB 508, in 2014. Navigators are a component of Ibanacare - the federal Affordable Care Act to help persons pick a health insurance plan.
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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.
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