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2009 Bill(s)
* SB 17 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Progress Description: Repeal the death penalty, capital punishment.
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SB 19 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Ways & Means Description: A large number of changes in sales tax collection and definition provisions to bring local sales tax provisions into conformity with the state sales tax
See: Official legislative description and status* SB 50 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Progress Description: Require equal pay for equal work.
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SB 51 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Education Description: Require a charter school be classified as unaccredited for a low performance review.
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* SB 52 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Judiciary Description: Expand the domestic violence law to cover unmarried partners living together.
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* SB 68 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Progress Description: Create a crime of negligent storage of a firearm, but only in cases that a minor gets access to a loaded or unloaded firearm.
See: Official legislative description and status* SB 69 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Small Business Description: Impose several consumer protections on property insurance. Require notice before cancellation. Prohibit refusing to renew a policy on the basis of a past weather-damage claim.
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SB 70 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Financial Description: Change the requirement that a newly formed political party include the names of its candidates for all the presidential elector slots if the party is registering to have a spot on the presidential ballot.
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SB 115 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Financial Description: Prohibit paying someone to collect initiative and referendum petitions. Prohibit persons convicted of forgery from circulating petitions.
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SB 116 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Education Description: Establish a program for grants to schools to encourage school graduation.
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SB 120 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Health Description: Expand the health care system for state government workers to small business employees.
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* SB 124 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Transportation Description: Prohibit billboards from using projections, digital, changeable copy or tri-vision technology.
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SB 125 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Transportation Description: Require the Transportation Department to adopt "context sensitive design and solutions" in its planning.
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SB 185 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Commerce Description: Repeal a law passed a few years ago that allows utilities to get automatic rate increases based on some types of higher operating costs.
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* SB 186 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Agriculture Description: Impose requirements on pet dealers to assure the health of pets. Impose requirements on the sale of animals.
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SB 229 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Health Description: Require licensed hospitals to post each day in each of its units the nurse staffing levels.
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SB 230 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S General Laws Description: A large number of provisions regulating and dealing with planned communities, condominiums and other developments with group-owned areas or services. Uses language of a national uniform law.
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SB 240 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Transportation Description: Impose various safety requirements on carriers that transport railroad employees including imposing a limit on the number of continuous hours for a driver.
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SB 241 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Ways & Means Description: Impose various tax increases on business.
See: Official legislative description and status* SB 270 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S General Laws Description: Reimpose limits on campaign contributions that were repealed in 2008.
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SB 271 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Ways & Means Description: Allow an elderly person to defer property tax payments on residential property.
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SB 281 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Agriculture Description: Impose limits on outdoor lights at night.
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* SB 282 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Commerce Description: Impose consumer protections on various mortgage credit, home equity loan practices. Require a three-year warranty on the sale of a dwelling. Require a warranty on home repair.
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SB 300 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Ways & Means Description: Increase the state income tax rates, subject to statewide voter approval.
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SB 308 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Health Description: Require the Health Department to publish on the Web a report card on the quality of care provided by hospitals on the state based on various information hospitals are required to report.
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SB 309 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Health Description: Impose a statewide ban on smoking in or near public places or any government buildings. Repeal the current smoking-ban exemptions such as bars and bowling alleys.
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SB 328 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Commerce Description: Create a task force on electric stun guns.
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SB 329 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Education Description: Require sex education courses include information on the health benefits and side effects of contraceptives and barriers.
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SB 340 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Commerce Description: Restrict using non-degradeable plastic bags at larger supermarkets and pharmacies. Require the they use only recyclable, reusable or compostable bags.
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SB 341 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Financial Description: Require the governor to ensure race and gender equity in making appointments to various government boards.
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SB 352 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Jobs Description: Create a commission to study the various separate health care plans for state government workers.
See: Official legislative description and status* SB 370 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Financial Description: Impose a one year moratorium on mortgage foreclosures. Require mediation by the state before a foreclosure.
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SB 371 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Commerce Description: Prohibit any type of expiration date or service fee on a gift certificate or a post-purchase fee.
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SB 389 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Governmental Accountability Description: Impose a two year ban on lobbying after a public official leaves office. Bar legislators from taking gifts from lobbyists.
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SB 433 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Commerce Description: Provide a broader exemption on a ban selling some appliances that fail to meet certain energy efficiency standard requirements.
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SB 473 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S General Laws Description: Give government workers collective bargaining rights including binding arbitration. Remove a ban on police, teachers and faculty joining unions.
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SB 508 Sponsor:Bray, Joan Status: S Jobs Description: Let the St. Louis area zoo and museum district charge a fee on non-residents of the district. Establish a means voters outside the district can have their county join the district.
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.