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2013 Bill(s)

* CCS SB 1
Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
Description: The CCS restricts employee lawsuits for occupational diseases by including it under Workers' Compensation Coverage that restrcits suing an employer. Establish a seperate fund for some occupational disease victims. The Second Injury fund provides health and rehab. coverage for injured workers with pre-existing medical conditions. Various other changes to deal with funding Second Injury Fund that has run out of money.
See: 
  • House roll call - CCS SB 1 (05/16/2013): 3rd reading and final passage of the final conference version of a bill to restrict workers with occupational diseases from suing their employers.
  • Senate roll call - CCS SB 1 (05/14/2013): 3rd reading of the final conference version of a bill to restrict workers with occupational diseases from suing their employers.
  • House roll call - HCS SS SB 1 (05/02/2013): 3rd reading of the House version of the plan to fix the Second Injury Fund problems, but prohibit lawsuits against employers for occupational diseases and restrict 2nd Injury Fund payments.
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 1 (02/14/2013): 3rd reading of a compromise plan to fix the under-funded Second Injury Fund for injured workers and exclude some occupational disease lawsuits by workers, but increase Workers' Compensation coverage
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 2
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: H Rules
    Description: Require the Secretary of State to post the full text of initiative and referendum petitions within two days of receipt.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 3
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Create a college scholarship for students who graduate from high school early, subject to appropriations.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 4
    Sponsor: Lager, Brad
    Status: S Rules
    Description: Prohibit a legislator from serving as a political consultant for legislator's campaign. Former House Speaker Rod Jetton served as a consultant for legislators while also serving as speaker. Former House Speaker Steve Tilley
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 5
    Sponsor: Lager, Brad
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Phase out the corporate income tax. Eliminate several tax credits. Lower the cap on historic preservation tax credts from $140 million to $50 million. Impose restrictions on low-income housing tax credits.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 6
    Sponsor: Lager, Brad
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Give various types of communications the right to attach lines, smart grid technologies and broadband communications equipment to rural electric cooperative utility poles without approval of the pole owner. But set a fee that must be paid.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 7
    Sponsor: Pearce, David
    Status: H Education
    Description: Eliminate the two year delay before a school district losing accreditation is taken over by a state board. Give the state Education Board more power to decide what actions to take, including conditions for continuing the local board's control. Prompted by the loss of accreditation for the Kansas City School District.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 8
    Sponsor: Pearce, David
    Status: S Education
    Description: A few technical corrections in various laws on higher education.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * CCS SB 9
    Sponsor: Pearce, David
    Status: VETO OVERRIDDEN
    Description: Allow creation of districts for University of Missouri Extension that could levy property taxes, upon voter approval. The final CCS amends a law banning foreign ownership of farm land to allow up to 1 precent ownership by a non-US interest. The amended HCS contains a number of unrelated issues including various regulations over agriculture.
    See: 
  • House roll call - CCS SB 9 (09/11/2013): Approval a motion to override the governor's veto of a bill that would allow a foreigner to hold up to one percent interest in a company owning farm land in Missouri.
  • Senate roll call - CCS SB 9 (09/11/2013): Approval a motion to override the governor's veto of a bill that would allow a foreigner to hold up to one percent interest in a company owning farm land in Missouri.
  • Senate roll call - SCS SB 9 (02/18/2013): 3rd reading of a bill to allow creation of districts that could seek voter approval for tax increases for University of Missouri Extension programs.
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 10
    Sponsor: Schmitt, Eric
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Provide tax breaks for the expenses of amateur sporting events in the state.
    See: 
  • House roll call - SCS SB 10 (03/13/2013): 3rd reading of a bill to provide tax breaks to organizers and promoters of amateur sporting events.
  • Senate roll call - SCS SB 10 (01/31/2013): 3rd reading of a bill to provide tax breaks for organizers and promoters of amateur sporting events.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 11
    Sponsor: Schmitt, Eric
    Status: IN SCS SB 26
    Description: Cut the corporate income tax. Provide an income tax deduction for business income.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 12
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: Conference
    Description: Provide lawsuit immunity for an attorney appointed by a court to represent an indigent party. The amended House version includes provisions including gravely disabled as a condition justifying committing a person, exclusing juveniles from the sex offender website, child support and more.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 13
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Increase the state fee charged for solid waste management. Change allocation of the funds. Eliminate solid waste management districts.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 14
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Veterans & Health
    Description: Change Medicaid allocation. Lower eligibility income limits for pregnant women and children. Raise the level for aged, blind and disabled.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 15
    Sponsor: Richard, Ron
    Status: IN SCS SB 20
    Description: Extend the termination date for various tax credits for non-profit services by benevolent organizations including child advocacy centers, pregnancy resource centers, food pantries. Could be a vehicle for restricting other tax credits to developers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 16
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Exempt children doing farm work from some legal restrictions on child labor.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * CCS SB 17
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Create a state board to oversee career and technical education. The CCS allows religious books to be used in some elective school classes. The final CCS also includes a number of other unrelated education issues including materials for parents of kids with autism, creating a council on gifted children, teacher certification, teacher retirement
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 18
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Require a state agency to post information on its website about federal grants received by the agency. Remove the state auditor from the Board of Fund Commissioners.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 19
    Sponsor: Wasson, Jay
    Status: IN SCS SB 20
    Description: Extend the sunset for tax credits to be awarded to make a home accessible for a disabled resident.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SS SB 20
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Extend the termination date for various tax credits for non-profit services including child advocacy centers, home remodeling for disabled and pregnancy resource centers.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 20 (01/31/2013): 3rd reading of a bill to extend the termination date for various tax credits for non-profit services and groups.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 21
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Give the state Supreme Court power to transfer circuit and associate circuit judge positions to different circuits.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 22
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Let the state Supreme Court redraw circuit court boundaries every ten years.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 23
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Let Pettis County spend it's hotel/motel tax revenue on salaries. The amended House version became an omnibus bill of tax breaks for business, home purchasers and more.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 24
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: Conference
    Description: Let all counties adopt building codes if approved by county voters. Exempt agriculture buildings from the codes. The amended H version includes a sales tax break for storm shelters, letting hospital districts switch from a property tax to a sales tax, motel taxes, allowing gambling boats to make loans, authorizing various local government taxes and other unrelated items involving local government.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 25
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: IN SCS SB 10
    Description: Provide tax breaks for the costs of attracting sporting events to the state.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SS SB 26
    Sponsor: Kraus, Will
    Status: Back to S
    Description: Impose a flat 5 percent rate for the state income tax on all but the lowest income Missourians. Provide an income tax deduction for business income. Cut the corporate income tax rate. Legislative staff estimate that by the 2016 budget year, the bill could cost the state between $243 million and $430 million in lost revenue for the state. Some of the provisions are contained in HB 253 that was passed by the legislature.
    See: 
  • House roll call - HCS SS SB 26 (04/24/2013): 3rd reading of a package of tax cuts that legislative staff estimate could cost the state's budget more than $400 million per year.
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 26 (03/12/2013): 3rd reading of a bill to cut the income and corporate taxes and raise the sales tax at a net loss of state revenue, acorrding to legislative staff, of at least $240 million per year.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 27
    Sponsor: Kraus, Will
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Require a government-issued photo ID to vote.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SS SB 28
    Sponsor: Kraus, Will
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
    Description: Expand the definition of misconduct that disqualifies a worker from unemployment compensation coverage. Include misconduct outside the workplace or after working hours. The SS requires annual approval from a worker for wage withholdings for union political contributions.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 28 (09/11/2013): Approval of a motion to override the governor's veto of a bill that would expand activities by a worker than can disqualify the worker from unemployment compensation coverage if laid off the job.
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SS SB 29
    Sponsor: Brown, Dan
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
    Description: Prohibit unions for government workers from withholding fees from paychecks. Require government worker approval to use fees or dues for politcal purposes.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 29 (09/11/2013): Defeat of a motion to override the governor's veto of a bill to prohibit withholding fees from worker salaries for union political purposes without the worker's approval. An override required 23 vot
  • House roll call - SS SB 29 (05/13/2013): 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to restrict automatic deductions government workers' paychecks for labor unions.
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 29 (03/14/2013): 3rd reading of a bill to restricit withholding from government worker pay checks for union fees and requre worker approval to use fees for political purposes.
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 30
    Sponsor: Brown, Dan
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Repeal all state laws on prevailing wages that require government contracts to provide a prevailing wage rate for workers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 31
    Sponsor: Lamping, John
    Status: IN SCS SB 26
    Description: Increase the tobacco tax from 17 cents to 43 cents per pack. Impose a flat four-percent income tax. Increase the state sales tax to fund construction on I70.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 32
    Sponsor: Lamping, John
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Lower the cap on various tax credits including historic preservation and low income housing. Phase out low income housing tax credits.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * CCS SB 33
    Sponsor: Lamping, John
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Include mental disability in a law providing rights for persons with service dogs. Also include search and rescue dogs. Include mental disability under a law governing public access for the disabled.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 34
    Sponsor: Cunningham, Mike
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
    Description: Require the state to maintain a public searchable database of Workers' Compensation claims.
    See: 
  • House roll call - CCS SB 34 (09/11/2013): Defeat of a motion to override the governor's veto of a bill that would establish a public database of Workers' Compensation claims.
  • Senate roll call - CCS SB 34 (09/11/2013): Adoption of a motion to override the governor's veto of a bill that would establish a public database of Workers' Compensation claims.
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 35
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Establish an income tax refund checkoff (contribution method) for pediatric cancer research.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 36
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Change when juvenile court jurisdiction is removed permanently for a minor charged with an adult crime. Currently, jurisdiction changes upon adult charges. This bill would provide permanent transfer upon conviction. Also require a judge consider having a juvenile convicted to an adult crime to serve time in a juvenile facility.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 37
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: Designate March 27 as "Medical Radiation Safety Awareness Day."
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 38
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Rules
    Description: Ban lobbyists from giving gifts or contributions to legislators or legislative candidates.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 39
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Revive the expired Homestead Preservation Act that provided tax credit for property tax increases of residences of the elderly.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 40
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Prohibit any waiting period after a health insurance policy begins for coverage of maternity benefits. Require coverage begin immediately.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 41
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: Conference
    Description: Restrict nuisance lawsuits for environmental emissions when a permit was granted and there is no violation of the permit rules or statute, except for nuclear waste. The amended House version contains a number of other unrelated provisions involving local governmentm, nuisance suits, water regulations,
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 42
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Establish a system for the state to go after county jail prisoners delinquent in meeting a law requiring a prisoner to pay the costs of board while in jail. Allow a set aside of lottery winnings and income tax refunds.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 43
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
    Description: Change state law to reflect a new federal limit on allowing trucks with idle technology equipment to exceed weight and size limits. The final CCS contains several unrelated issues including creating a crime of assault on a transit worker, drunken driving and naming a highway. The governor's veto message cited a provision changing the name of a section of I70 in Montgomery County from "Slave Rock" to "Graham's Picnic Rock.
    See: 
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 44
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Increase from $15 to $20 that fee some courts can charge cover salaries of family court commissioners. Allow the higher fee by courts that reimburse the state for family court commissioner salaries.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SCS SB 45
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: Conference
    Description: Extend to the 31st judicial circuit an exemption granted the 11th circuit for state reimbursement of family court commissoners.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 46
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Provide tax breaks for large-data storage centers. Let local government enter into financial agreements for technology projects.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 47
    Sponsor: Lamping, John
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Change the definition of a relative in a law relating to foster care placement. Extend the defintion to include a relative in the third degree.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 48
    Sponsor: Lamping, John
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Prohibit consideration of race or ethnicity of a child or the potential parents in making an adoption decision.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 49
    Sponsor: Lamping, John
    Status: S Seniors & Families
    Description: Prohibit ethnic background or minority group membership being the sole factor for determining a special needs adoption tax credit.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 50
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Prohibit local government from restricting alternatives to abortion agencies and religious practices at those agencies. Prohibit any rule, regulation or ordinance that interferes with an abortion-alternative agency.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 51
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
    Description: Increase license plate fees. The original version was to repeal a law that that exempts some farm vehicles from various requirements including submitting to drug tests and having a medical certificate. The final version also contains a number of other unrelated topics including motorcycle permits, standards for towing companies, farm vehicles, alternative fees and restrictions on information management products.
    See: 
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 52
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Expand to traffic violations a $6 fee sheriffs can charge in a criminal case. Earmark the funds for a data exchange system and jails.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 53
    Sponsor: Lamping, John
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Ban state and local government from having contracts with businesses that invest in Iran's energy sector.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 54
    Sponsor: Lamping, John
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Provisions for having the governor and lieutenant governor run on a ticket subject to voter approval of SJR 14.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 55
    Sponsor: Lamping, John
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Impose restrictions on pay-day loans, small loans. Add enforcement provisions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 56
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Agriculture
    Description: Prohibit the Health Department from inspecting a meat processor if it already has been inspected for the same criteria by the state or federal agriculture department.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SB 57
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: Conference
    Description: Let the Farmington marshal issue eliminate nuisances without notification and bill the owner for the costs of abatement. The HCS imposes a limit on lawsuit awards against rock mining and milling sites. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the lawsuit award caps would benefit the company Doe Run involving its lead mine properties in Jefferson County.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 58
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Let Farmington submit a proposed ordinance for voter approval. The House added a couple of other unrelated local government provisions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 59
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Impose a cap on how much the Insurance Guaranty Association will cover for a policy from an insurance firm that has failed. Increase the maximum fee that can be charged insurance companies.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 60
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
    Description: Change the accreditation requirements for reinsurance companies to comply with a federal law. Nixon vetoed it for being duplicative of the same matter in HB 133, but having conflicting language.
    See: 
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 61
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Require the state auditor to audit the costs of administering the death penalty.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 62
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Increase from $10 to $50 the maximum fine that can be charged for not wearing a seat belt.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 63
    Sponsor: Schmitt, Eric
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Place all new tax credit programs under the Tax Credit Accountability Act that requires assigning tax credits to various categories and collecting information about them.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 64
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Impose higher standards for a jury to award non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases. Change the proof from a preponderance of the evidence to clear and convincing evidence. The state Supreme Court struck down a law that had prohibited non-economic damage awards in medical malpractice cases.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 65
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Expand the powers of the state auditor. Expand what he can audit and when. Expand the auditor's access to government records.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 66
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: H Downsizing State Government
    Description: Repeal several expired statutes.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 67
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: H Rules
    Description: Technical corrections to higher education laws, changing references to specific statute numbers that changed.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 68
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Ease prevailing wage requirements in government contracts third class counties.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 69
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Expand the authority of Social Services Department administrative hearing officers to modify or set aside child support court orders. The amended House version includes child custody provisions for military parents.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 70
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Rules
    Description: A number of provisions making procedural changes with the Missouri Ethics Commission. Could be a vehicle for dealing with disclosure requirements that had been thrown out on a technicality by the Missouri Supreme Court.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 71
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Governmental Accountability
    Description: Prohibit unions for government workers from withholding fees from paychecks. Require government worker approval to use fees or dues for politcal purposes.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 72
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Declare May Motorcycle Awareness Month.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SB 73
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
    Description: Prohibit police road blocks or checkpoints that stop only on the basis of vehicle type, such as motorcycles, except for trucks. The final version includes DWI courts in Jackson county and changes in court transcript fees. Vetoed by the governor on a technicality involving duplicate bills being passed on the same subject.
    See: 
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 74
    Sponsor: Richard, Ron
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Authorize tax increment financing tax breaks for development in an area affected by a natural disaster.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SB 75
    Sponsor: Brown, Dan
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: The final bill transfers from the Revenue Dept. to sheriffs authority to issue concealed weapons permits and requires public school staff to annually participate in an active shooter drill. It also lets citizens of other countries get concealed weapons permits if they are permanent residents. The original bill required each school distrcit to teach the NRA's Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program or similar program to first grade students.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SB 75 (02/25/2013): 3rd reading of a bill to require that a public school teacher participate in an active shooter drill.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 76
    Sponsor: Brown, Dan
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: "Right to Work" legislation prohibiting an employer from requiring employees to join a labor organization or pay union fees.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 77
    Sponsor: Lamping, John
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
    Description: Expand an exemption of neighborhood youth development programs from having to meet child care licensing requirements. Include in the exemptions a nationally federated organization providing training in an "all-female environment." Vetoed by the governor. His veto message said the bill would provide an exemption for just one organization, Girls Incorporated of St. Louis.
    See: 
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 78
    Sponsor: Lamping, John
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Impose a two-year ban before a legislator can become a lobbyist.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 79
    Sponsor: Lamping, John
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Move the primary from August to June.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 80
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Remove a requirement that the Nursing Home Administrators use the mail to provide a licensee with a renewal notice, but still require notice of some sort.
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    • SB 81
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Allow a court to award attorney fees in a civil action against a state or local government offical.
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    • * SCS SB 82
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Provide for holding an immediate election to fill a vacancy in the lieutenant governor's office.
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    • HCS SS SB 83
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: DEFEATED H 3rd Read
    Description: A number of procedural provisions dealing with local property tax collections. The House added more than 30 amendments dealing with taxes and other unrelated issues before defeating the entire bill.
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    • * SB 84
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Give medical providers the right to refuse to participate in a procedure that violates the provider's conscience. Provide license protections for refusing.
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    • SB 85
    Sponsor: McKenna, Ryan
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Let the city of Arnold establish a utility board to regulate rates for sewer, water, trash or any other utility service.
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    • HCS SCS SB 86
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: H Rules
    Description: Change restrictions on when a government retirement plan can provide a benefit increase. Allow an increase when the plan is below the required funding ratio if the requirement is required to maintain federal tax deferred status for constributions paid into the plan.
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    • SCS SB 87
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Legalize a mother breast-feeding a child or expressing breast milk in public. Prohibit any local ordnance declaring it indecency or sexual conduct.
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    • HCS SB 88
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Raise the per-page limit on how much a medical provider can charge for copying a patient's record. Impose a total $100 limit if the record is requested in an electronic format of the health provider's choice.
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    • HCS SCS SB 89
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Extend to any third and fourth class county the right of a nursing home district to establish apartments for the elderly. Current law restricts that right to Ralls and Marion counties.
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    • HCS SB 90
    Sponsor: McKenna, Ryan
    Status: Conference
    Description: Let third class cities provide four-year terms for council members, if approved by city voters. The amended House version contains a number of other unrelated issues involving local government.
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    • SB 91
    Sponsor: Justus, Jolie
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Provide tax breaks for knowledged-based business development.
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    • * SB 92
    Sponsor: Justus, Jolie
    Status: S Rules
    Description: Reinstate limits on campaign contributions.
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    • SB 93
    Sponsor: Justus, Jolie
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Provide tax cuts for businesses involved in science and technology. In the 2011 special session, this bill was passed (SB 7), but implementation was contingent upon passage of a bill cutting back tax credits that did not pass. This bill would repeal that contingency.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 94
    Sponsor: Justus, Jolie
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Create an advance voting system to allow voting up to three weeks before the election.
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    • * SB 95
    Sponsor: Justus, Jolie
    Status: S Education
    Description: Require the Education Department to establish a voluntary pre-kindergarten program for children between the ages of three and seven to be run by private providers, subject to appropriations.
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    * SB 96
    Sponsor: Justus, Jolie
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Include sexual orientation in the state's law prohibiting discrimination.
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    • * SB 97
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: Expand a law requiring payment to the state by tobacco companies that are not part of the national settlement with states against tobacco companies. There is a case pending filed by the tobacco companies in the settlement charging Missouri violated the agreement by not fully collecting fees from non-settlement companies.
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    * SB 98
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Agriculture
    Description: Exempt animal shelters from a fee charged on various types of animal kennels and shops. Allow the Agriculture Department refuse a license to any shelter applicant the department thinks unreasonably profits for charges for adoption or sale of animals.
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    • HCS SB 99
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Make the public administrator in St. Louis city an appointed rather than elected position. HA 3 deals with local auto sales taxes. HA 4 deals with the length of terms for city council members. HA 5 allows the Secretary of State to resume printing the official state manual. HA 6 deals with motel taxes.
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    • CCS SB 100
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Exempt health savings accounts from attachment. The final CCS is an omnibus judical bill covering topics that include credit agreements, child custody, mortgages, adoptions, judicial workloads, DWI courts, civil case surcharges, court transcript fees and bankruptcy.
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