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2014 Bill(s)

* SB 485
Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
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. Establish a system to coordinate transfers in St. Louis County and City.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 486
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: S Rules
    Description: Reimpose campaign contribution limits -- how much a source can contribute to a political candidate.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 487
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: S Rules
    Description: Reimpose campaign contribution limits -- how much a source can contribute to a political candidate. Unlike SB 486, this bill would put the issue on the statewide ballot for Missouri voters to make the final decision.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 488
    Sponsor: Lager, Brad
    Status: S Rules
    Description: Prohibit a legislator from being a lobbyist for two years after leaving office. Prohibit a legislator or legislative candidate from being a paid political consultant for another legislator. Rod Jetton was a paid consultant for legislators while he was speaker of the House.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 489
    Sponsor: Lager, Brad
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Prohibit a non-partisan appointed judge from hearing a case in which one of the parties or lawyers in the case had been a member of the commission that nominated the judge.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 490
    Sponsor: Lager, Brad
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Impose a limit on awards in a discrimination lawsuit by an employee against an employer. Exempt small employers. The governor vetoed similar bills HB 1219 in 2012 and SB 188 in 2011. The measure also establishes legal rights for whistleblowers against employers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SS SB 491
    Sponsor: Justus, Jolie
    Status: BECAME LAW
    Description: Lower the penalty for some non-violent offenses. Numerous other changes in the state criminal code. Nixon did not sign or veto the bill by the May 13 deadline, allowing the bill to become law without his signature.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 492
    Sponsor: Pearce, David
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Require university budget recommendations by the Higher Education Department be based on a performance formula.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * CCS SB 493
    Sponsor: Pearce, David
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
    Description: Restrict the right of students in unaccredited schools to transfer to other school districts. Require the state Education Board to determine accreditation for separate buildings in a district that is unaccredited. The SCS also requires the schools to pay some of the tuition costs for students to attend private schools in some cases. The HCS requires district voter approval before districting funding for transfers to private schools. The House did not take up the Senate-approved override motion.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SCS SB 493 (02/27/2014): 3rd reading of a bill to restrict students from being able to transfer out of unaccredited schools.
  • House roll call - HCS SCS SB 493 (04/30/2014): 3rd reading of a bill to impose restrictions on students transferring out of unaccredited schools, but provide private-school funding options.
  • Senate roll call - CCS SB 493 (05/14/2014): 3rd reading of the final conference report restricting transfer rights of students in unaccredited districts, but opening up an option for private school funding.
  • House roll call - CCS SB 493 (05/15/2014): 3rd reading and final passage of the bill restricting transfer rights of students in unaccredited districts, but opening up an option for private school funding.
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 494
    Sponsor: Pearce, David
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Require the legislature's Joint Committee on Education conduct a study of the state's college student scholarship programs. Require a report by November 2014.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * 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

    • * HCS SS SB 498
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: H 3rd Read (IN BUDGET)
    Description: Require federal health care navigators to be bonded. Allow a private lawsuit for damages against a navigator for release of personal information other than to government agencies. The HCS contains other unrelated health coverage issues including creation of a new Medicaid program for children and requirements on optometrist coverage in health insurance.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 498 (02/13/2014): 3rd reading of a bill to require navigators under the federal health care law to be bonded and allow lawsuits against navigators.
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 498 (02/11/2014): Perfection of a bill to allow damage lawsuits against navigators, a position created by the federal health law to assist persons in selecting health insurance policies.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 499
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: H Rules
    Description: Expand what qualifies as a spousal trust.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 500
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Various changes in non-contest clauses in trusts. Allow a court petition to be filed in some cases.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 501
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Provide attorney-client rights when a trustee has hired an attorney for any purpose.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 502
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Veterans & Health
    Description: Let a mother breast feed in public. Prohibit any local ordnance from restricting that right. Exempt it from charged with sexual misconduct or public indecency.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 503
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Exempt from the requirement to wear a helmet for a three-wheeled vehicle that is enclosed and has seat belts with shoulder restraints.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 504
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Require a state agency to post a proposed rule on the agency website on the same day the rule is published in the Missouri Register.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 505
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Change the allocation of state funds from gambling boat fees. Allocate all of the fees to the Veteran's Commission Capitol Improvement Trust fund after the National Guard trust fund and the neighborhood assistance fund caps are met. Currently, once those two caps are met, the money is subject to appropriation.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SB 506
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
    Description: Restrict fees charged under the Livestock Marketing Law to no more than is required by the Agriculture Department to administer the law. The final version strips the Conservation Department of authority to regulate deer and other captive cervids and turns that authority over to the Agriculture Department. The veto override motion passed the Senate, but failed in the House.
    See: 
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SB 507
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Limit powers of the governor to fill vacancies. Require the governor to call an election for a legislative vacancy within 30 days. Require an election within four months after a vacancy in the lieutenant governor's office. Require vacancies in other statewide offices to be filled by the next general election. Limit how long an acting department director can hold office to 120 days.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SB 508
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
    Description: Require a person pass an Insurance Department test to be licensed as a navigator that assists persons seeking health insurance under the federal health care law. Require a criminal background check for navigator license applicants.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SB 508 (02/13/2014): 3rd reading of a bill to impose additional requirements of "navigators" working with the federal health insurance law.
  • House roll call - HCS SB 508 (05/14/2014): 3rd reading of a Senate bill to impose state requirements on federal healthc care insurance navigators.
  • Senate roll call - HCS SB 508 (05/15/2014): 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to impose state requirements on federal healthc care insurance navigators.
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SS SB 509
    Sponsor: Kraus, Will
    Status: VETO OVERRIDDEN
    Description: Phase in an income tax rate cut each year that state General Revenue tax collections grew by at least $100 million in any one of the prior three years -- eventually lowering the highest rate from 6 percent to 5 percent. The SS phases in a cut to 5.5 percent. Exempt business income from the personal income tax. Legislative staff estimate the proposal ultimately could cost the state more than $600 million in lost revenue per year. The governor vetoed a similar bill, HB 253, in 2013.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 509 (04/01/2014): 3rd reading of a package of income tax cuts that legislative staff estimate would cost more than $600 million per year when fully implemented.
  • House roll call - SS SB 509 (04/16/2014): 3rd reading and final passage of an income tax cut that legislative staff estimate ultimately would cut taxes by more than $600 million per year.
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 509 (05/05/2014): Adoption of a motion to override the governor's veto of the tax-cut bill. Adoption required 23 votes.
  • House roll call - SS SB 509 (05/06/2014): Adoption of the motion to override the governor's veto of the tax-cut bill. Adoption require 109 votes.
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 510
    Sponsor: Kraus, Will
    Status: BECAME LAW
    Description: Expand the definition of misconduct that disqualifies a worker from unemployment compensation coverage. Include misconduct outside the workplace or after working hours. Nixon did not sign or veto the bill by the May 13 deadline, allowing the bill to become law without his signature. The governor vetoed a similar bill, SB 28, in 2013.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 510 (03/13/2014): 3rd reading of a bill to expand the definition of job misconduct that can disqualify a worker from unemployment compensation.
  • House roll call - SS SB 510 (04/29/2014): 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to expand conditions under which unemployment compensation can be denied including behavior off the job.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 511
    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

    • * SB 512
    Sponsor: Lamping, John
    Status: S Rules
    Description: Effectively prohibit legislators from taking gifts or other things of value from lobbyists (require a legislator reimburse the lobbyist within 30 days). Prohibit a legislator from serving as a lobbyist for three years after leaving office. Prohibit working as a paid political consultant for one year after leaving office. Require the governor to identify political contributions made by a person nominated to a state position.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 513
    Sponsor: Lamping, John
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Provide an income tax credit for middle and lower income parents with children.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 514
    Sponsor: Lamping, John
    Status: IN SCS SB 798
    Description: Prohibit the Education Department and school districts from implementing anything similar to the Common Core Standards.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 515
    Sponsor: Chappelle-Nadal, Maria
    Status: S Education
    Description: Give the Senate power to oust the state Education Commissioner with a two-thirds vote.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 516
    Sponsor: Chappelle-Nadal, Maria
    Status: IN SCS SB 493
    Description: Require the state Education Board to determine accreditation for separate buildings in a district that is unaccredited. Require passage of tests to be promoted from fifth and eighth grades. Establish rights of schools to limit acceptance of unaccredited district transfers. Require the State Education Board to implement a new curriculum in districts with more than 65% of the schools unaccredited and give it power to fire teachers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 517
    Sponsor: Chappelle-Nadal, Maria
    Status: S Education
    Description: Require the sponsor of a charter school to cover any expenditures arising from closing the school.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 518
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Require all Medicaid recipients be under managed care systems rather than having Medicaid pay on a fee-for-service basis to providers chosen by the recipient.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SA 1 SCS SB 518 (02/05/2014): An amendment to expand Medicaid coverage for adults to 138 percent of the federal poverty level.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 519
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Increase the waiting period for an abortion from 24 to 72 hours after the patient has given consent for the abortion.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 520
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: H Children, Families & Disabilities
    Description: Expand a law providing leave time for state government workers placement of a child being adopted to also cover foster children. Establish a program by which government workers can donate unused leave time and overtime for parents of adopted or foster children.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 521
    Sponsor: Emery, Ed
    Status: S Education
    Description: Repeal tenure for teachers hired after August 27, 2014. Require performance-based salaries for teachers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 522
    Sponsor: Emery, Ed
    Status: S Education
    Description: Let a student enroll in a district in which the student does not reside in order to take virtual courses.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 523
    Sponsor: Emery, Ed
    Status: VETO OVERRIDDEN
    Description: Prohibit a school district from requiring a student use a radio frequency identification device.
    See: 
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SCS SB 524
    Sponsor: Cunningham, Mike
    Status: H Rules
    Description: Restrict a current law that requires a county that provides health care coverage for elected officials must cover all elected officials. Restrict it to all elected officials that are compensated by the country. The HCS expands Medicaid to 138 percent of federal poverty. Passed when most of the Health Insurance Committee Republicans were not present.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SS SB 525
    Sponsor: Cunningham, Mike
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Allow preparation of food in a private home for distribution by a charity. Require serving locations have a sign indicating the food is not subject to government regulation or inspection.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 526
    Sponsor: Cunningham, Mike
    Status: Back to S
    Description: Require the state to maintain a public searchable database of Workers' Compensation claims. The governor vetoed a similar bill in 2013, SB 34.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SCS SB 526 (02/13/2014): 3rd reading of a bill to establish a statewide database of workers of have filed Workers Compensation claims, searchable by potential employers.
  • House roll call - SCS SB 526 (04/29/2014): 3rd reading of a bill to establish a searchable database of health care coverage claims under Workers' Compensation.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 527
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Declare March 27 Medical Radiation Safety Awareness Day.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 528
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: H Rules
    Description: Repeal requiring a Social Security number to renew a professional license if the Social Security number if a previous license application had the number.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 529
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Expand a law dealing with prompt payment of contracts by local government to include engineers, surveyors and architects.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SCS SB 530
    Sponsor: Libla, Doug
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Add drug abuse by a parent or pregnant mother as grounds for finding a parent unfit to care for a child.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 531
    Sponsor: Nasheed, Jamilah
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Increase the minimum wage from $6.50 to $10 per hour, increased annually by the cost of living. The bill submits the proposal to a statewide vote for approval rather than signature by the governor.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SS SB 532
    Sponsor: Nasheed, Jamilah
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Allow a relative who is a care-giver for a child living with the care-giver to give consent for a medical procedure if consent cannot be obtained from either parent.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 533
    Sponsor: Nasheed, Jamilah
    Status: S Agriculture
    Description: Require labeling if a meat or fish product has been genetically modified.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 534
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    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. Establish a system to coordinate transfers in St. Louis County and City.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 535
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Education
    Description: Require the Education Department to designate one accredited district for which an unaccredited district must provide transportation for students.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 536
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Rules
    Description: Ban legislators, their staff, spouse or children from accepting gifts or campaign contributions from lobbyists. Ban lobbyists from making campaign contributions to legislative candidates.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SS SB 537
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: H Rules
    Description: Expand the regulatory power of the Insurance Department over insurance holding comapnies. Increase the maximum percentage a holding company can invest in subsidiaries.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 538
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: S 3rd Read (IN BUDGET)
    Description: Provide state education funding for school districts that provide pre-kindergarten services to children between ages three and five years who are of lower income families.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 539
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: S Education
    Description: Provide state education funding for school districts that provide pre-kindergarten services to children between ages three and five years who are of lower income families.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 540
    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 541
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Eliminate new renters from the property tax credit provided to lower-income elderly home owners and renters, the circuit breaker. Renters who made a claim prioer to 2014 would still be eligible for the tax break.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 542
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Establish requirements by which a consumer can use as the guarantee for a loan the expected awards from a legal claim. Expand information that must be provided to a potential consumer loan contractor.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 543
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Impose a 5% limit on the increase of property values on agriculture land for property taxation. Freeze assessments in areas declared natural disaster areas in the past two years. Freeze assessments if there as been a decrease in global agricultural product prices.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 544
    Sponsor: Lamping, John
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Phase in transfer a portion of state sales to fund for state highways to eventually reach 0.5% of all sales tax collected -- about $10 million.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 545
    Sponsor: Lamping, John
    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.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 546
    Sponsor: Lamping, John
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Prohibit state government workers from assisting federal efforts to collect penalities for failing to have health insurance. Declare a state right for people to choose to have or not have health insurance.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 547
    Sponsor: Chappelle-Nadal, Maria
    Status: S Education
    Description: Require a charter school sponsored by a school district used the current year's average daily attendance in the formula that allocates state funds to public schools. Prohibit using prior year numbers.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 548
    Sponsor: Chappelle-Nadal, Maria
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Make it a crime for a parent or guardian to fail to stop illegal possession of a firearm by a minor. Create a crime of negligent storage of a firearm.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 549
    Sponsor: Chappelle-Nadal, Maria
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Make it a crime for a parent or guardian to fail to stop illegal possession of a firearm by a minor. Create a crime of negligent storage of a firearm.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SCS SB 550
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Prohibit persons found guilty of various categories of felony crimes from receiving state or local government retirement benefits.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 551
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Make it a crime for a convicted sex offender to have Internet communication with a minor, if there is a judicial order prohibiting such communication.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 552
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Seniors & Families
    Description: Allow an alimony or maintenance or court order in a divorce case to be terminated if the former spouse is cohabitating with another person "in a relationship of a romatic nature."
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 553
    Sponsor: Emery, Ed
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Provide an exemption to a law requiring personal-care vendors to have a telephone tracking system to verify services were delivered if the vendor provides administrative services for fewer than six personal care attendants.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 554
    Sponsor: Cunningham, Mike
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: Require government agencies and schools to use traditional names for holidays including Christmas.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 555
    Sponsor: Nasheed, Jamilah
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Reinstate limits on campaign contributions. Ban lobbyists from giving legislators or their staff of immediate family tickets or travel to sporting events or musical performances.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 556
    Sponsor: Nasheed, Jamilah
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: Require a firearm owner to report the theft of a firearm within 24 hours. Establish a pilot program to provide gift certificates to persons who turn in firearms. Expand crimes covered by a law allowing a criminal record to be expunged.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 557
    Sponsor: Nasheed, Jamilah
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Extend from Green County to statewide authority for a community improvement district to impose a business license tax, upon voter approval. Prohibit issuing a business license until community improvement taxes have been paid.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 558
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Revive an expired law that provided a tax credit for property tax increases of residences of the elderly that has expired
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 559
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Prohibit a waiting period for coverage of a health insurance plan. Require it be immediately upon the effective date.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 560
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Education
    Description: Expand the law against school bullying. Require schools to issue statements prohibiting bullying and develop a process for discussing anti-bullying policy.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 561
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Give the fire marshal power to issue permits for the manufacturing of fireworks, but exempt hobby manufacturers who do not distribute or sell to other persons.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 562
    Sponsor: Chappelle-Nadal, Maria
    Status: S Education
    Description: Let school districts teach about domestic violence. Impose conent requirements if the school chooses to teach about domestic violence.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 563
    Sponsor: Chappelle-Nadal, Maria
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Prohibit an employer from disclosing an employee's work schedule, address or phone number.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SCS SB 564
    Sponsor: Chappelle-Nadal, Maria
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Require the Health Department to encourage nursing homes and long-term care facilities to involve famlies.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 565
    Sponsor: Nasheed, Jamilah
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: Require a firearm owner to report the theft of a firearm within 24 hours.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 566
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Require the Education Department to note if a school report published by the depeartment includes children in a home for negliected or delinquent children.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SCS SB 567
    Sponsor: Chappelle-Nadal, Maria
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Require the Health Department to establish a program to establish uniformity across the state with adult day care programs. Require care reimbursement by the state be a rates comparable with programs licensed by the Mental Health Department.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 568
    Sponsor: Chappelle-Nadal, Maria
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Require a workforce development agency to allow bids by any entity with which it has a contract.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 569
    Sponsor: Chappelle-Nadal, Maria
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Regulate and license clinical laboratory technicians.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 570
    Sponsor: Chappelle-Nadal, Maria
    Status: S Seniors & Families
    Description: Repeal various provisions passed in 2008 regarding foreigners. Repeal the requirement that driving tests be in English. Repeal various criminal provisions for hiring or harboring illegal foreigners.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 571
    Sponsor: Chappelle-Nadal, Maria
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Impose charges on electronics manufacturers to fund a recycling program for devices such as TVs and computers. Prohibit dumping electronic devices into trash dumps.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 572
    Sponsor: Chappelle-Nadal, Maria
    Status: S Veterans & Health
    Description: Expand the ban on smoking to include bars and restaurants and other facilities. Prohibit smoking near the entrance to a public place or meeting.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SCS SB 573
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Add Shelby and Monroe counties that can impose a road rock fund tax upon voter approval.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 574
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Provide a tax credit for electric recharging station and renew a tax credit for alternative refueling stations.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SS SB 575
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
    Description: Repeal several expired statutes creating various special legislative committees. The governor's veto message complained the bill also would eliminate the Medicaid oversight committee and a requirement for a cost study of proposed health insurance benefit mandates.
    See: 
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 576
    Sponsor: Kraus, Will
    Status: WITHDRAWN
    Description: Impose limits on campaign contributions, Impose a limit on how much a lobbyist can give a legislator or a legislator's family to $50 or less. Prohibit legislators and statewide officials from working as paid political consultants for other legislators or statewide elected officials. Prohibit a legislator from lobbying for two years after leaving office.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 577
    Sponsor: Kraus, Will
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Terminate some tax credits. Impose lower caps on tax credits for low income housing projects and historic preservation. Extend the sunsets of some other tax credits.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 578
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Reauthorize an expired program providing tax credits for lower income elderly homeowners to extend to the end of 2018.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 579
    Sponsor: Holsman, Jason
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Prohibit a home association from banning solar energy systems at homes.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 580
    Sponsor: Kraus, Will
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Allow a representative of a physically disabled candidate or a candidate on active military duty to stand in line for filing when the order of filing affects the placement of names on the ballot.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 581
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Expand powers of a water service company to impose a fee of up to $50 for repair for lateral sewer service lines in some cases upon voter approval.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 582
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: S Veterans & Health
    Description: Raise the asset limits for qualifying for Medicaid from less than $1,000 to less than $5,000 for a single person (or double those figures for a married couple).
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 583
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Impose higher standards for a jury to award non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * CCS SB 584
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
    Description: Restrict where sales taxes are required for various amusement, entertainment and recreational facilities. The final CCS contained a number of other sales tax exemptions including power companies and data storage centers. Legislative staff estimate the cost to the state could exceed $172 million per year in the first full year. In his veto letter, the governor wrote this was one of several bills providing special interest tax breaks that would cost state and local government $776 million per year.
    See: 
  • House roll call - CCS SB 584 (05/16/2014): 3rd reading and final passage of a sales tax bill that is one of eight bills the governor charged would provide tax breaks to special interests that were passed on the legislature's last day.
  • Senate roll call - CCS SB 584 (05/16/2014): 3rd reading of the final CCS of a bill to provide various business sales tax breaks.
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

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