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2018 Bill(s)

* SB 552
Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
Status: H 2nd Read
Description: Various changes on laws dealing with governmental misconduct. Increase the penalty to a felony in some cases. Expand the definition of criminal misconduct to include using the office to gain financial benefit for the office holder or another person. Allow orders for restitution upon conviction.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 553
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: DEFEATED: H 3rd Read
    Description: Various municipal court changes. Repeal a ban on jailing minor traffic defendants for failure to appear, in some cases. Repeal a prohibition on a municipal court charging court costs for use of community service alternative for a sentence. Change the definition of minor traffic violations covered by a law limiting how much of fines can go to a city budget. Repeal a restriction that a lawyer can serve as a municipal judge for no more than five municipalities.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 553 (04/26/2018): Perfection of a bill to ease some of the restrictions on municipal courts and court fines that were passed in response to the Ferguson protests.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 554
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Local Gov't & Elections
    Description: Include Springfiled in a law giving a neighborhood organization or property owners to file a nuisance complaint against a near by property failing to maintain the property, violating local code, etc.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SCS SB 632
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Extend the sunset of tax credit for contributions to pregnancy resource centers that assist women to carry pregnancies to term.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 633
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Government Reform
    Description: Various changes in the functions of the Joint Committee on Legislative Research. Eliminate providing free copies of the Revised Statutes of Missouri to legislators, courts, prosecuting attorneys and sheriffs.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 634
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Local Gov't & Elections
    Description: Let Greene County or any city in the county impose a sales tax to fund early childhood education programs upon voter approval.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 726
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Education
    Description: Essentially require schools to allow home-schooled students to participate in high school athletic teams and other extracurricular activities. Technically, it prohibits a public school from being a member of a statewide activities association if the association refuses to allow home-schooled students participate in activities over which the association has authority.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 903
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Effectively extent the ban on texting while driving to adults. The bill would replace the ban on minors to a law covering all drivers that driving while using devices such as cell phone, PDA, laptop or GPS that diverts attention is a violation of the requirement to exercise care while driving.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 909
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: H Rules - Legislative Oversight
    Description: Establish a system by which a fiduciary or trustee can access assets digitally and, if authorized, exercise full control over the assets.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SCS SB 946
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Change the language that auhorizes the surviving spouse to recover a gift made in fraud of the marital rights. Clarify that the spouse had been married to the decedent at the time of death.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 947
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: IN SCS SB 946
    Description: Various changes involving trusts. Expand provisions authorizing a person to exercise designated powers over the trust without being a trustee. Expand when a trustee is exempt from liability for following the instructions of the trust advisor/protectee.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 974
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp.
    Description: Restrict when a judge must instruct a jury about lesser included offenses in a criminal case. Restrict judicial review of a conviction on the basis that the defense did not request lesser included offenses instructions. Relates to Keith Meiners v. Mo. in which the state Supreme Court rejected overturning a murder conviction because the defendant's attorney did not request the judge for instructions on a lessor-included offense possibility (manslaughter rather than 2nd degree murder).
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 975
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Repeal a large number of expired, ineffective and obsolete statutes.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 983
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp.
    Description: Various criminal law changes. Increase penalties for some intoxication-related traffic offenses. Expand privacy invasion to view partially nude images of a person without consent. Various other penalty changes involving drunken boating, drug trafficking, etc.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 1021
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Exempt from the judicial retirement plan passed in 2010 a judge who filed as a candidate in 2010. The 2010 plan reduces retirement benefits and requires a contrbution from the judge.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1022
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Small Business & Industry
    Description: Add various provisions prohibiting state or local government from imposing penalties or requirements based on religious belief. Let clergy refuse to solumnize marriages. Add sexual orientation and gender identity to the state's anti-discrimination law.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SS SB 1023
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: H Judiciary
    Description: Various changes in the law governing public notaries. Add provisions for eletronic records.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1024
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: IN SCS SB 975
    Description: Repeal a number of of laws declared unconstititonal. Correct incorrect statutory references in other laws.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1025
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp.
    Description: Various changes in spousal trusts. Restrict immunity from credits for the assets except for claims against both trust owners. to both parties remaining married.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 1038
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Local Gov't & Elections
    Description: Provide a vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor or attorney general at the next general election. For the other statewide elected officies, except for the governor, have the vacancy filled by statewide election rather than by the governor. Impose a 30 day deadline for the governor to issue a write of election to fill a legislative vacancy.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • 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.