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2016 Bill(s)

* SB 569
Sponsor: Pearce, David
Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
Description: Extend the ban on texting while driving to include adults.
See: Official legislative description and status

* SB 570
Sponsor: Pearce, David
Status: S Rules
Description: Re-establish the voter-approved limits on campaign contributions. Require 501(c)(4) organizations like Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS that made campaign expenditures in Missouri to disclose their own contributors that provided more than $1,000 to the organization.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 571
    Sponsor: Pearce, David
    Status: S Education
    Description: Restrict rights of students to transfer out of accredited schools. Base accreditation upon attendance centers rather than the entire district. The governor vetoed bills in 2014 and 2015 dealing with unaccredited school districts.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * CCS SB 572
    Sponsor: Schmitt, Eric
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Include non-traffic municipal ordinance violations in a law passed last year that limits how much of a city's budget can be financed by traffic violations. Lower the maximum fine for a minor traffic offense.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 572 (01/28/2016): 3rd reading of a bill to impose additional restrictions on municipal court fines and revenue generated from the fines.
  • House roll call - HCS SS SB 572 (04/28/2016): 3rd reading of a bill to impose additional restrictions on municipal court fines and revenue generated from the fines.
  • Senate roll call - CCS SB 572 (05/10/2016): 3rd reading of the final CCS to expand the limits on how much of a city's budget can be financed by municipal court fines.
  • House roll call - CCS SB 572 (05/12/2016): 3rd reading and final passage of the conference version of a bill to lower the limit of how much of a city's budget that can be financed by municipal court fines.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SB 573
    Sponsor: Schmitt, Eric
    Status: Back to S
    Description: Prohibit state or local government from investing with companies doing business with countries listed by the federal government as sponsors of terrorists. Put the issue on the statewide ballot.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SB 573 (02/25/2016): 3rd reading of a bill to prohibit state and local governments from investing in companies that do business with countries listed by the federal government as terrorism sponsors.
  • House roll call - HCS SB 573 (05/11/2016): 3rd reading of a bill to prohibit government from investing in companies that do business with countries listed by the federal government as terrorism sponsor.s
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 574
    Sponsor: Schmitt, Eric
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Increase the rate of the phase in for income tax cuts and the ultimate cut for both the personal and business income tax in the tax-cut bill passed in 2014. The 2014 bill ultimately cut the highest personal income tax rate to 5.5%. This bill would cut it to 5%. The ultimate cut in business income tax would be cut from 25% to 50% when fully phased in.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 575
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Repeal the right of Kansas City and St. Louis to impose an earnings tax.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 576
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Various changes in provisions dealing with granting power to someone to exercise estate property rights.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 577
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Various changes involving attorneys for trusts. Expand provisions making the attorney liable for misconduct or acting in disregard of the purposes of the trust.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 578
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Establish several standards and powers for court-appointed receivers involving commercial bankruptcy. Establish obligations upon receivers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 579
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Expand the law requiring hospitals to report infections. Require hospitals to develop policies involving use of antibiotics.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 580
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Require legislative or voter approval for the state administration to extend the St. Louis stadium bonds to pay for a new football stadium. The House Buget Committee refused to allow a vote on a similar measure in 2015, SB 330.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 581
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: H Health & Mental Health Policy
    Description: Prohibit health insurance from restricting a health care provider from disclosing the actual payment being provided.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 582
    Sponsor: Libla, Doug
    Status: IN SCS SB 620
    Description: Increase the number of membes of the Career and Technical Education Advisory Council. Have the Education Department commissioner appoint the members rather than the governor.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 583
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Education
    Description: Impose a minimum teaching load for faculty at the university of Missouri of a minimum of 12 credit hours without a waiver.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 584
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Agriculture, Food & Outdoor Resources
    Description: Legalize industrial hemp that contains no more than three-tenths of one percent of THC (the ingredient in marijuana).
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 585
    Sponsor: Wasson, Jay
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Split the judicial circuit for Taney and Christian counties into two separate circuits.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 586
    Sponsor: Wasson, Jay
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED: OVERRIDDEN
    Description: Lower the legal minimum for legislative appropriations to local public schools that the legislature has failed to meet for several years.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SCS SB 586 (03/03/2016): 3rd reading of a bill to lower the legislative goals for increases in funding for local public schools.
  • House roll call - SCS SB 586 (04/19/2016): 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to lower the legislative goals for increases in funding for local public schools.
  • Senate roll call - SCS SB 586 (05/04/2016): Adoption of a motion to overrride the governor's veto of a bill to lower the target for state funding to local public schools.
  • House roll call - SCS SB 586 (05/05/2016): Adoption of a motion overriding the governor's veto of a bill to lower the state funding target for local public schools.
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 587
    Sponsor: Wasson, Jay
    Status: S Rules
    Description: Have Missouri enter a compact with other states calling for a constituitional convention to adopt a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Seeks to prohibit the convention from proposing an amendment on any other issue.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SCS SB 588
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Various provisions expanding rights to seek expungement of criminal records. Raise the fee from $100 to $500, but let a judge waive the fee if the person is unable to pay. Expand offenses eligible for expungement, but exclude some serious felonies. Shorten the time after conviction before an expungement petitition can be filed. Allow only one felony expungement in a lifetime.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SCS SB 588 (05/03/2016): 3rd reading of a bill to expand rights to expunge a criminal conviction.
  • House roll call - HCS SCS SB 588 (05/11/2016): 3rd reading of a bill to expand rights to expunge a criminal conviction.
  • Senate roll call - HCS SCS SB 588 (05/11/2016): 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to expand rights to expunge a criminal record.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 589
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Repeal the prohibition on carrying a concealed weapon on a college campus.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SS SB 590
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Repeal mandatory life-sentences for first degree murder for persons under age 18. Establish provisions by which life without parole can be considered, but is not mandatory for minors. The U.S. Supreme Court held in June 2012 that mandatory life without parole for minors is unconstitutional.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SA 4 SS SB 590 (04/06/2016): An amendment on a crime bill to impose requirements on collection of information from eye witnesses.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 591
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
    Description: Impose restrictions on who can testify as an expert witness in a trial. Prohibit an expert witness in a criminal trial from stating an opinion as to whether the defendant had the mental capacity to be held responsible for the crime. No motion was made in the legislature's veto session to override the governor's veto.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SB 591 (01/19/2016): Perfection of a bill to impose limits on the testimoney of expert witnesses in lawsuits including liability lawsuits against business.
  • House roll call - SCS SB 591 (04/27/2016): 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to impose restrictions on use of eye witness testimoney in court hearings.
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 592
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Education
    Description: Repeal the option that allows a school district to start school earlier than the legal prohibition of opening school ten days before the first Monday in September.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 593
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Governmental Accountability
    Description: Prohibit any federal regulation not authorized by federal law from taking effect in Missouri without legislative approval.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 594
    Sponsor: Kraus, Will
    Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections
    Description: Require a photo ID to vote. Would require voter approval of a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to require a photo ID to vote. The state Supreme Court struck down the old law requiring a photo ID to vote, finding that the legislature did not have constitutional authority to require it.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 595
    Sponsor: Kraus, Will
    Status: IN SCS SB 789
    Description: Various changes in requirements and restrictions of construction management services that oversee contracts awarded to other companies for construction.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 596
    Sponsor: Kraus, Will
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Expand what is covered by classification of agricultural property for a vinyard to include processing plants. Agriculture property is assessed for property taxes at a lower rate.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 597
    Sponsor: Brown, Dan
    Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections
    Description: Require a primary to select the party nominees to fill a vacancy in a special election rather than have the nominees picked by their political parties.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 598
    Sponsor: Brown, Dan
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Repeal all state laws on prevailing wages that require government contracts to provide a prevailing wage rate for workers. The measure would be submitted to state voters for final approval, rather than to the governor, if it clears the legislature.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 599
    Sponsor: Brown, Dan
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Prohibit government from withholding from government worker paychecks money for union dues or fees without annual signed approval by the worker. Require government worker approval to use fees or dues for politcal purposes. The governor vetoed a similar bill in 2013, SB 29. This bill would be submitted to the statewide voters, rather than the governor, if it clears the legislature.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 600
    Sponsor: Chappelle-Nadal, Maria
    Status: S Commerce, Consumer & Energy
    Description: Establish a program by which homeowners within 3 miles of the potentially radioactive West Lake Landfill in St. Louis County could sell their homes to the state Natural Resources Department.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 601
    Sponsor: Chappelle-Nadal, Maria
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Declare a rebuttable presumption that any post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by a firefighter is work related for coverage under the Workers' Compensation program that provides coverage for workers have injured on the job.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 602
    Sponsor: Chappelle-Nadal, Maria
    Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't
    Description: Provide a tax credit for adopting a dog or cat from an animal shelter or kennel.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 603
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: IN SCS SB 588
    Description: Expand crimes that a convicted person can petition to have the criminal records expunged and shorten the time after conviction before expungement can be approved. Include municipal offenses.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 604
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Require the Corrections Department to increase the number of inmates who can earn a GED education degree while in prison. The bill does not indicate a specific number of additional inmates to be in the program.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 605
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't
    Description: Expand the right of a neighborhood organization to bring a nuisance lawsuit in Kansas City.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 606
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Exempt in non-charter counties maintenance work that involves replacement from the prevailing wage rate law for government construction projects so long as the replacement does not exceed the original cost of the facility.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * CCS SB 607
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: BECAME LAW
    Description: Require the Social Services Department to contract with a private firm to determine eligibility for various welfare programs. Became law when the governor did not sign the bill -- which, unlike the federal system, is treated as a signature rather than a veto.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * CCS SB 608
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED: OVERRIDDEN
    Description: Require Medicaid to charge a $8 copay fee for a hospital emergency room visit that did not involve a medical emergency. Authorize other provider fees. Allow a provider to impose a fee for a missed appointment. The final legislative version includes issues not involving Medicaid including pallative care, physical therapy, vaccinations, hospital construction, nurse licensing and requirements for hospitals to provide an estimate of treatment costs to a patient upon request.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 608 (02/18/2016): 3rd reading of a bill to authorize fines on Medicaid recipients for missing appointments or unneeded use of emergency rooms.
  • House roll call - HCS SS SB 608 (04/27/2016): 3rd reading of a bill to impose a charge for unneeded emergency room visits by Medicaid recipients.
  • House roll call - CCS SB 608 (05/13/2016): 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to require a copay for inappropriate use of emergency room services by a Medicaid patient.
  • Senate roll call - CCS SB 608 (05/12/2016): 3rd reading of the final conference committee version of a bill to require a copay for inappropriate use of emergency room services by a Medicaid patient.
  • Senate roll call - CCS SB 608 (09/14/2016): Adoption of a motion to override the governor's veto of a bill authorizing financial penalties on Medicaid recipients for missing doctor appointments or emergency room use for non emergencies.
  • House roll call - CCS SB 608 (09/14/2016): Passage of the motion overriding the governor's veto of a bill authorizing financial penalties on Medicaid recipients for missing doctor appointments or emergency room use for non emergencies.
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 609
    Sponsor: Emery, Ed
    Status: S Education
    Description: Provide tax credits for contributions to an assocation that funds the private educational costs of a student who is disabled or under juvenile court jurisdiction and had attended public schools or is eligible for kindergarten.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 610
    Sponsor: Emery, Ed
    Status: S Education
    Description: Repeal a provision establishing provisions and teacher rights when a school district has to cut the number of teachers because of budget problems or decrease in the number of students.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 611
    Sponsor: Emery, Ed
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Change a Supreme Court rule on sanctions against a lawyer to include that it compensate the party injured by the conduct and reasonable expenses including the fee of the attorney of the injured party.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SS SB 612
    Sponsor: Cunningham, Mike
    Status: H Select Com. on General Laws
    Description: Make it a felony for an illegal foreigner removed from the country reentering and found in Missouri.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 612 (04/21/2016): 3rd reading of a bill to make it a crime for a deported foreigner to be caught in Missouri.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 613
    Sponsor: Cunningham, Mike
    Status: BECAME LAW
    Description: Provide grants, subject to appropriations, for paying Workers' Compensation premiums for volunteer firefighter associations. Wokers' Comp. provides coverage for workers injured on the job. Became law when the governor did not sign the bill -- which, unlike the federal system, is treated as a signature rather than a veto.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 614
    Sponsor: Cunningham, Mike
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Raise from a misdemeanor to a felony the penalty for a person to allow minor to consume or possess alcohol under the age of 21.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 615
    Sponsor: Silvey, Ryan
    Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't
    Description: Impose a cap on the maximum amount of tax credits that can be authorized. Initially set it to $575 million with a three percent reduction for the next five fiscal years.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 616
    Sponsor: Silvey, Ryan
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Expand the law requiring children to wear life vests on a boat. Raise the maximum age from seven to 12 years of age and expand from boats to include wading or swimming in public waters, unless supervised by a lifeguard.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 617
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: S Agriculture, Food & Outdoor Resources
    Description: Add additional penalties for releasing a feral hog to include loss of hunting and fishing permits as well as a fine. Require written permission from a landowner to take a feral hog from the landowner's property.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 618
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: H 3rd Read
    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.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SS SB 619
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Require the Health Department provide an alleged perpetrator of elderly abuse with written material as to the perpetrator's rights when investigating a case of elder abuse. Require the alleged perpetrator be given time to read the material before the visit begins. Reported out of th House Select Com. on Socal Services on May 12, when there was only one day remaining in the session.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 620
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Require the Education Department establish minimum standards for a career and technical education certificate. Increase the number of membes of the Career and Technical Education Advisory Council. Have the Education Department commissioner appoint the members rather than the governor.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 621
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: Conference (IN BUDGET)
    Description: Expand provisions for Medicaid coverage of services provided through telehealth. Also add additional requirements. The House amended HCS includes provisions dealing with health-care designated decision maker and other unrelated health and child-care issues.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 622
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Make confidential any information provided to an asessor for assessing mining or quarry property. Require that quarries and mining property be assessed as agricultural property.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SS SB 623
    Sponsor: Libla, Doug
    Status: H 3rd Read (IN BUDGET)
    Description: Increase the tax motor fuel (gasoline and diesel) by 1.5 cents per gallon - from 17 to 18.5 cents per gallon. The SS would raise the gasoline tax by 5.9 cents per gallon -- raising $125 million more per year for state highways.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 623 (04/06/2016): 3rd reading of a bill to place a motor fuel tax increase on the statewide election ballot.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 624
    Sponsor: Libla, Doug
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Make it a misdemeanor crime to possess a fraudulently obtained credit card. Current law makes it a crime only to commit fraud to obtain a credit card.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 625
    Sponsor: Walsh, Gina
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Designate a portion of Highway 367 in St. Louis County the Sgt. Peggy Vassallow Way.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 626
    Sponsor: Nasheed, Jamilah
    Status: S Education
    Description: Require higher education institutions notify students and staff as to the affirmative consent requirement for sexual activity. Require "annual awareness programming" for all students and employees.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 627
    Sponsor: Nasheed, Jamilah
    Status: Conference
    Description: Require public colleges and universities advise students of suicide prevention programs. The House added some unrelated issues.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 628
    Sponsor: Nasheed, Jamilah
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Require police in cities with populations of at least 100,000 wear body cameras and be activated whenever their is contact with people involving the police officer's duties. Ferguson related.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 629
    Sponsor: Holsman, Jason
    Status: S Commerce, Consumer & Energy
    Description: Increase the maximum generating capacity that a customer-generator can have to be connected to the electrical grid from 100 kilowatts to one megawatt.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 630
    Sponsor: Holsman, Jason
    Status: S Commerce, Consumer & Energy
    Description: Various provisions dealing with community solar panels. Require a utility purchase energy credits from a community solar garden as part of any new power plant addition. Require community solar garden sales be within the garden's electrical district.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 631
    Sponsor: Holsman, Jason
    Status: S Commerce, Consumer & Energy
    Description: Prohibit a home association from banning solar energy systems at homes.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 632
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Rules
    Description: Ban legislators and state officials as well as their staff, spouses and children from accepting gifts or campaign contributions from lobbyists. Ban lobbyists from making campaign contributions to candidates for the legislature or statewide office.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 633
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Education
    Description: Impose restrictions on the ability of students to transfer out of unaccredited school districts. Establish a system for accrediting attendance centers within a district rather than the entire district. Also contains a large number of other school issues. The governor vetoed the school transfer bill in 2014 and 2015 (HB 42).
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 634
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Revive an expired law that provided a tax credit for property tax increases of residences of lower income and disabled elderly that has expired.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 635
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Create a council on palliative care to conduct studies and issue annual reports to the legislature. Require the Health Department to have on its website information about palliative care. The amended HCS has a number of unrelated issues including letting birth control pills be provided without a doctor's prescription.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 636
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections
    Description: Establlish a commission to regulate health information exchange organizations. Impose standards on the exchanges. Prohibit the state from funding single-ventor contracts to health information organizations. Require sharing of information among organizations.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 637
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections
    Description: Changes in special road district commission membership. Allow members from outside the district if the member lives within the county. Cease holding voter elections for commission members if there have not been candidates in the past two elections.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 638
    Sponsor: Riddle, Jeanie
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Require passing a civics test prior to being awarded a high school graduation in public or private schools. Require the state to use the questions similar to the 100 questions given to applicants for U.S. citizenship. The legislature added a number of unrelated issues involving education requirements involving dyslexia, bonding requirements for school district officials, expanding a requirement for the pledge of allegiance in schools, charter school requirements, gifted education and more.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 639
    Sponsor: Riddle, Jeanie
    Status: Conference
    Description: Let the statewide retirement plan for local government workers take responsibility for operation a local government worker's retirement coverage if the worker had a plan similar to the local government retirement system's plan. The House-amended HCS contains several other local gov't retirement provisions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 640
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: Conference
    Description: Various changes in motor vehicle trailer registration. Expand to any semitrailers that can get permanent registration. The House added some unrelated issues including regulating alterative tax services like Uber.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 641
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED: OVERRIDDEN
    Description: Provide an income tax deduction for payments recieved from various government programs covering agricultural losses from a disaster or emergency going back to 2014. Legislative staff estimate the bill could cost up to 18 million in lost taxes in the 2017 fiscal year. The administration's Budget Office estimated a $51.5 million loss for the prior years covered by the bill.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SB 641 (09/14/2016): Adoption of a motion to override the governor's veto of a bill to provide an income tax deduction for government payments for agricultural losses in past and future years.
  • House roll call - SB 641 (09/14/2016): Passage of the motion overriding the governor's veto of a bill to provide an income tax deduction for government payments for agricultural losses in past and future years.
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 642
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Expand the right of taxpayers to sue when local government violates legal restrictions on taxes. Repeal a provision allowing adjustments in some tax levies to reflect inflation.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 643
    Sponsor: Onder, Bob
    Status: S Rules
    Description: Prohibit legislators and statewide elected officials (along with staff and family) from accepting lobbyist gifts. Prohibit a legislator from working as a lobbyist until two years after the term of office expires. Various other ethics provisions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 644
    Sponsor: Onder, Bob
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Prohibit donation of fetal tissue from an abortion. Require that all tissue, not just part, from an abortion be sent to a pathology lab. Expand inspection requirements of abortion facilities.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 645
    Sponsor: Onder, Bob
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Phase in transfer of 0.5 percent of the sales tax on motor vehicles to the road fund.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SCS SB 646
    Sponsor: Schupp, Jill
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Require school districts to adopt policies on suicide awareness and prevention.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 647
    Sponsor: Schupp, Jill
    Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections
    Description: Impose additional limits on payday loans and consumer credit loans and other restrictions. Subject the proposal to the voters rather than the governor for final approval.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 648
    Sponsor: Schupp, Jill
    Status: S Veterans' Affairs & Health
    Description: Expand Medicaid coverage to adults with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level. Missouri law currently disregards the first 5 percent of income so the actual limit would be 138 percent. Medicaid provides health care coverage for the lower income.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 649
    Sponsor: Pearce, David
    Status: S Education
    Description: Expand the Bright Flight scholarsahip program to include forgivable loans with payments foregivable each year the student student works in Missouri.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SCS SB 650
    Sponsor: Pearce, David
    Status: Conference
    Description: Repeal a requirement that a high school graduate attend a higher education institution within three years of graduation to receive a A+ college scholarship, if otherwise eligible. Allow getting the scholarship if college enrollment after three years. The House added several unreleated education issues.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - CCS SB 650 (05/13/2016): 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to expand use of fire and gun rights and allow concealed weapons without permits.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 651
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: IN SCS SB 586
    Description: Impose a cap on any school district state funding increase caused by recalculation of the state's adequacy target. Include charter schools in a provision providing state funds for early childhood programs in districts less than fully accredited.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 652
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: S Governmental Accountability
    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 653
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: S Progress & Development
    Description: Include sexual orientation and gender identity in the state's civil rights laws restricting discrimination.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 654
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Veterans' Affairs & Health
    Description: Impose additional "certificate of need" requirements for long-term care facilities. Require the expansion proposal meets population-based criterion based on persons 80 years or older. The law requires approval by a government committee for major new or expanded medical facilities.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 655
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Establish a board to regulate fertilizer sales.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * CCS SB 656
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED: OVERRIDDEN
    Description: Allowing carrying concealed weapons without a permit or training. Expand the "stand your ground" provisions allowing use of force by a property owner against an intruder to include a person authorized to be on the property. The original bill was limited to prohibiting extra fees for costs involved with a concealed weapons permit such as costs for criminal background checks.
    See: 
  • House roll call - HCS SB 656 (05/05/2016): 3rd reading of a House substitute to a firearms bill that would expand concealed weapons rights on college campuses and public transportation systems.
  • House roll call - CCS SB 656 (05/13/2016): 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to expand use of fire and gun rights and allow concealed weapons without permits.
  • Senate roll call - CCS SB 656 (05/13/2016): 3rd reading of the conference committee version of a bill to eliminate the requirement for training and a license to carry a concealed weapon.
  • Senate roll call - CCS SB 656 (09/14/2016): Passage of the motion to shut off a Democratic filibuster and hold an immediate vote on a motion to override the governor's veto of the concealed-weapons bill.
  • Senate roll call - CCS SB 656 (09/14/2016): Adoption of a motion of the governor's veto of a bill to expand concealed weapons rights and the right to use lethal force.
  • House roll call - CCS SB 656 (09/14/2016): Passage of the motion overriding the governor's veto of a bill to expand concealed weapons rights and the right to use lethal force.
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SS SB 657
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Provide a lawsuit protection for ethanol. Exempt a gasoline distributor or refiner from any damages to a vehicle related to use of ethanol or biodiesel.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 657 (02/04/2016): 3rd reading of a bill to restrict lawsuits against gas stations and distributors for damages caused by ethanol.
  • House roll call - HCS SS SB 657 (04/26/2016): 3rd reading of a bill to restrict lawsuits for damages caused by ethanol.
  • Senate roll call - HCS SS SB 657 (05/05/2016): 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to provide lawsuit protections for ethanol distributors.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 658
    Sponsor: Wasson, Jay
    Status: H Civil & Criminal Proceedings
    Description: Include robbery, stealing and similar crimes under a provision that allows offenses to be prosecuted in the county in which victim resides or conducts business.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SS SB 659
    Sponsor: Wasson, Jay
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Exempt from the requirement to wear a helmet a driver of passenger of a three-wheeled vehicle that is enclosed and has seat belts with shoulder restraints.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 660
    Sponsor: Wasson, Jay
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Set a specific amount of $2,500 that must be paid as a guaranty of good faith in bid to a county government to handle deposits. Current law bases the amount of the county's general revenue.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SCS SB 661
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Restrict when a police officer can use deadly force. Currently deadly force can be used against a person who committed or attempted a felony. Ferguson related. Not reported out of committe to the full House until the evening of May 11 -- with two days left in the legislative session.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SCS SB 661 (04/14/2016): 3rd reading of a bill to add restrictions as to when police officer can use deadly force.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 662
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Have Missouri enter a compact with other states calling for a constituitional convention to adopt a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The compact seeks to restrict the convention to a balanced budget amendment.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SS SB 663
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: Back to S
    Description: A large number of changes and fixes to the massive criminal code passed in 2015, SB 112. The motion to pass the House-amended bill in the Senate was dropped by Democratic objections to a stand-your-ground amendment authorizing use of force to stop an intruder.
    See: 
  • House roll call - HA 4 HCS SCS SB 663 (05/12/2016): An amendment to the criminal code revision bill to allow use of force against an intruder on property occupied with approval of the property owner.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 664
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Exempt family farm corporations from a reporting and registration requirement for corporations owning farm land if there has been no change in the articles since the original incorporation.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 665
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Restrict the fee the AgriMissouri Commission can charge for using the commission's trademark to no more than the costs of administering the program. Impose other restrictions on commission fees.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 666
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Rules
    Description: Seeks to prohibit a legislator offering an amendment that duplicates a bill already introduced ino the legislature if it has not yet been heard by a committee.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 667
    Sponsor: Brown, Dan
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Right to Work legislation that would prohibit requiring a worker join a union or pay union fees to keep or get a job.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 668
    Sponsor: Brown, Dan
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Require a vote of some government workers every two years to decide which, if any, union should represent them. The bill, as introduced, would require statewide voter approval to take effect.
    See: Official legislative description and status

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