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2008 Bill(s)

* HB 1439
Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
Status: H Workforce Development
Description: Reimpose the exemption of public safety workers (such as fire fighters and police) from over-time pay requirements who got included into the overtime law from the initiative petition passed in 2006 to raise the minimum wage.
See: Official legislative description and status

* HB 1440
Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
Status: H Government Affairs
Description: Require training of elected and appointed officials on requirements of the state's open meetings and public records laws.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1441
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Crime Prevention
    Description: Impose an extra surcharge on criminal and traffic court violations to fund a retirement fund for police. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * HB 1442
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Crime Prevention
    Description: Make motorcycle stunt driving a cirime. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1443
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Crime Prevention
    Description: Expand the chemicals covered by a law making it a crime to inhale fumes of a solvent for the purpose of getting intoxicated. Ban the sale of solvents at entertainment performances.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1444
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Crime Prevention
    Description: Expand the property damage crime to include damages caused by breaking into a car to steal it.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1445
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Crime Prevention
    Description: Make it a crime to falsify or alter various body samples (blood, urine, etc.) for drug or alcohol tests.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1446
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Corrections & Public Institutions
    Description: Impose a surcharge on court cases to fund training for police.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1447
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Local Govt
    Description: Let non-charter counties adopt noise ordinances.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1448
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Local Govt
    Description: Prohibit a city from requiring a fire department worker from living within the city.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1449
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Crime Prevention
    Description: Require removal of emergency lights and sirens before a police or fire vehicle can be sold.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SCS HB 1450
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Extend to 2009 the sunset on establishment of the legislature's joint committee on terrorism.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1451
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Judiciary
    Description: Allow introduction of evidence (trial de novo) when appealing an administrative agency decision to a circuit court. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1452
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Local Govt
    Description: Let a fire or ambulance district employee serve as a member of a district board in another county. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1453
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Local Govt
    Description: Let a county retroactively apply planning and zoning ordinances to a subdivision if more than half the lots have not been developed. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1454
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Judiciary
    Description: Expand a law authorizing medical peer review committees to include emergency medical technicians. Other changes too.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1455
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Local Govt
    Description: Exempt land owned by government, churches or public schools from storm water fees.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * HB 1456
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Local Govt
    Description: Adopt an interstate compact of agreement with other states to award electors to the popular-vote winner for president.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1457
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Crime Prevention
    Description: Require all fire districts to adopt the International Fire Code of the International Code Council. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * HB 1458
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Crime Prevention
    Description: Provide grants to local police departments to purchase tracking devices for cars to avoid high-speed chases.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1672
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Crime Prevention
    Description: Impose a higher tax on illegal drugs and alcohol. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1819
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Transportation
    Description: Prohibit the state imposing special restrictions on property along scenic byways.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1820
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Judiciary
    Description: Let a government worker seek a circuit court hearing on an employment lawsuit rather than being required to first submit the case to an administrative hearing commission evidence hearing. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2119
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Crime Prevention
    Description: Extend the crime of involuntary manslaughter to include giving the person an illegal drug that caused the person's death.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 2120
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Crime Prevention
    Description: Add various nitrate chemicals to the list of controlled substances.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2121
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Education
    Description: Prohibit a school from giving a day off within five days of Veteran's Day unless the school gives a day off on Veteran's Day.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * HB 2122
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Crime Prevention
    Description: Include in the eligible expenses from the Crime Vicitim's Fund to include academic tutoring to make up for school days lost by a person who is kidnapped. The bill is named after Shawn Hornbeck.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * HB 2270
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Crime Prevention
    Description: Impose restrictions on issuing a ticket for a red-light violation based on a photo enforcement system. Require a cop to actually view the video and identify the car. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2271
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Workforce Development
    Description: Require the employer to pay the health care coverage of a child for various public safety employees killed or severely injured on the job. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2336
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Transportation
    Description: Name a portion of I55 in Jefferson County the Jeff McBride Memorial Highway. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2368
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Create a crime of intoxiation-related traffic homicide. Clarify that suspended drunken driving offenses count as prior offenses.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2369
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H Small Business
    Description: Impose requirements and higher fees for planning approval of large retail stores. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2386
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Require ambulances and stretcher vans to have automated defibrillators.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2387
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Require that any worker at a government-funded construction project take a federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) course.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2388
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Allow primary enforcement of the law requiring seat belts be used in autos. Extend the law to include Post Service vehicles, back seat passengers and trucks.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2389
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Allow a county to impose a fee on civil lawsuits to finance a neutral site where parents can transfer of custody of children.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2390
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Require the Health Department to establish sites for collection of umbilical cord blood.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2391
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Require juvenile courts to publish the schedule and location of juvenile proceedings.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 2392
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Require the University of Missouri geographic resources center to indentify sex offenders who violate a law that prohibits living near a school or child care facility.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2490
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Require that a purchaser of property in a neighborhood improvement district put into the mortgage loan escrow account the amount of the property assessment.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2502
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Prohibit tax credits to any athletic team that does not impose a one year ban on any player who tested positive for steroids.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2503
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Prohibit hunting of an animal that has been tied up or caged.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2504
    Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Make pseudoephedrine a prescription drug. It is used in some cold pills and also is used for making meth.
    See: 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.