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2014 Bill(s)

* SB 495
Sponsor: Schmitt, Eric
Status: IN SCS SB 493
Description: Require the state Education Board to determine accreditation for separate buildings in a district that is unaccredited. Enact a provision excluding a school from having to accept students from an unaccredited district if the school does not have adequate facilities for more students. Allow more types of organizations to sponsor charter schools in unaccredited districts.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 496
    Sponsor: Schmitt, Eric
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Cut in half the income taxes for business income. Phase in the deductions. In 2013, the Revenue Department estimated eventually would cost $351 million per year in lost taxes. Legislative staff put the loss at $135 million per year.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 497
    Sponsor: Schmitt, Eric
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Cut the state income tax rate by one-half a percentage point at the top income level. Also make further income tax rate cuts if there has been at least a $100 million increase in General Revenue in any one of the three prior years. Restrict the cuts to lowering the upper-income tax rate to four percent. Currently it is six percent. The governor vetoed a similar bill in 2013, SB 253.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 666
    Sponsor: Schmitt, Eric
    Status: S 3rd Read (IN BUDGET)
    Description: Provide a tax credit of 0.75% of the assessed value of a taxpayer's residential real estate assessed value.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 667
    Sponsor: Schmitt, Eric
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Limit how long how long an acting department director can hold office for a position requiring Senate confirmation to 30 days after the Senate is in session. Prohibit reappointing the person.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SB 667 (03/13/2014): 3rd reading of a bill to restrict how long the governor can delay filling a vacant department director position.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 689
    Sponsor: Schmitt, Eric
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Let a store with a permit to sell packaged malt liquor to sell single bottles. Currently the law covers three or more bottles or cans.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 742
    Sponsor: Schmitt, Eric
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Provide tax credits for companies that forward international freight shipments. It is a revision of what was called the China Hub bill in the 2011 special legislative session.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 743
    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

    • SS SB 767
    Sponsor: Schmitt, Eric
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Let St. Louis County establish a voluntary registry of persons with health aliments to assist in case of a disaster or emergency.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 786
    Sponsor: Schmitt, Eric
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Allow sale at events of home-produced beer exempt from licensing if the person who brewed the beer gets none of the proceeds.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 852
    Sponsor: Schmitt, Eric
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Tansfer power to regulate and license corporate security advisors from the local police department to the state Public Safety Department. Require corporate security officers be licensed.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 869
    Sponsor: Schmitt, Eric
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Give the Family Services Division power to suspend adoption subsidies to a family if the child has been removed from the family. The amended House version includes several other unrelated issues dealing with children.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 977
    Sponsor: Schmitt, Eric
    Status: S Veterans & Health
    Description: Allow managed care health organizations offer incentives for preventive or primary care services, but prohibit gambling, alcohol or tobacco as incentives.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 978
    Sponsor: Schmitt, Eric
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Exempt from a simplified dissolution provision the right for a corporation owned by just two shareholders to disolve if the stockholders had agreed to waive the rights for simplified dissolution.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SJR 42
    Sponsor: Schmitt, Eric
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Establish in the state Constitution the power of the legislature to reject proposed administrative rules by a 60 percent majority.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • Note: The descriptions of bills, amendments and roll-call votes are written by MDN journalists. MDN's database may not include committee assignments of bills made on the last day of the session since it is too late for the committee to act on the bill and, thus, the delayed assignment has no practical effect.