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Major Laws in 2014

[Note: While most of these laws took effect August 28, 2014, some have delayed effective dates, such as the criminal code revision and the income tax cut.]

HCS HB 1085McCaherty, John
Allow awarding damages, including punitive damages, for a library or a company fulfilling a contract with a library from disclosing records concerning use of library material. Expand material to include E-books and digital material.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
HCS HB 1303Haahr, Elijah
Let students in public schools organize prayers and prayer groups during school. Give students the right to express religious views in course work.
See: 
  • House roll call - HCS HB 1303 (04/08/2014): 3rd reading of a bill to establish prayer rights for students in public schools.
  • House roll call - HCS HB 1303 (04/02/2014): Perfection of a bill to allow students to organize prayers and prayer organizations in public schools.
  • Official legislative description and status
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    HB 1372Cox, Stanley
    Establish a crime of an unlawful funeral protest that involves any action that disrupts or is undertaken to disrupt a funeral or burial service. The legislature's previous law in 2006 to address anti-gay protests by the Westboro Baptist Church at military funerals was struck down by a federal appeals court in 2013.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS HB 1389Thomson, Mike
    Let the Higher Education Department enter into interstate agreements for offering higher education distance education that would allow non-Missouri institutions offer online courses for fees and give the department power to provide consumer protections for students.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SS HB 1411Cross, Gary
    Require written parental consent for a minor under the age 17 to use a tanning facililty.
    See: 
  • House roll call - SS HB 1411 (05/12/2014): 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to require parental permission for a minor to use a tanning facility's services.
  • Senate roll call - SS HB 1411 (05/07/2014): 3rd reading of a bill to require parental permission for a minor to use a tanning facility's services.
  • Official legislative description and status
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    SS HB 1490Bahr, Kurt
    Prohibit the Education Department from implementing the Common Core Standards Commission recommendations. The final SS prohibits the state Education Department from mandating curriculum, textbooks or other instructional materials for local schools.
    See: 
  • House roll call - CCS HB 1490 (05/15/2014): 3rd reading of the final conference committee version to ban implementation of the national Common Core standards for public schools.
  • House roll call - HB 1490 (04/10/2014): 3rd reading of a bill to prohibit the state Education Department from implementing the federal Common Core Standards for education.
  • Senate roll call - SS HB 1490 (05/01/2014): 3rd reading of the Senate's version of a bill to ban the Education Department from implementing the national "Common Core Standards" for schools.
  • Official legislative description and status
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    SCS HCS HB 1614Burlison, Eric
    Expand a law requiring services by school districts to special needs children to include dyslexia.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS HCS HB 1631Richardson, Todd
    Impose restrictions on Air Conservation Commission standards. Require the commission to base its standards and compliance schedules on a unit-by-unit analysis.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    CCS HB 1665Jones, Caleb
    Prohibit charging a person to remove a booking photo from a website.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS HCS HB 1689Swan, Kathryn
    Include in state funding for local schools coverage for children age three and four from lower income families who are in a school kindergarten program.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SCS HCS HB 1689 (05/15/2014): 3rd reading of a bill to establish a program for state funding for early childhood eduction for children between the agee of three and four and are from lower income families.
  • Official legislative description and status
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    HB 2077Stream, Rick
    Require transfer of any revenue above $16.834 billion in the current or next fiscal year be transferred to a surplus revenue fund. Require tax refunds owed in those two fiscal years be paid before June 30, 2015. This is where money higher than the legislature's revenue estimate would be placed. The 2015 budget appropriates the money to education as proposed by the governor. Passage of this bill to create the fund is required for that appropriation.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS HCS HB 2238Jones, Caleb
    Authorize th use of hemp extract by adults diagnosed with epilepsy.
    See: 
  • House roll call - HCS HB 2238 (04/24/2014): 3rd reading of a bill to legalize use of hemp oil for medical treatment.
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    HCS SS SB 491Justus, Jolie
    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: Official legislative description and status
      
    SS SB 509Kraus, Will
    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 original provisions ultimately could cost the state nearly $1 billion in lost revenue -- about 10 percent of the state's total General Revenue budget. The governor's veto of this bill was overridden in the legislature's regular session. The governor vetoed a similar bill, HB 253, in 2013.
    See: 
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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    SCS SB 510Kraus, Will
    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: 
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Official legislative description and status
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    HCS SCS SB 530Libla, Doug
    Add drug abuse by a parent or pregnant mother as grounds for finding a parent unfit to care for a child.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS SCS SB 567Chappelle-Nadal, Maria
    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: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS SB 635Silvey, Ryan
    Prohibit awarding various business tax breaks for creating new jobs for a business that simply relocates from Kansas counties in the Kansas City area to the Missouri side in the Kansas City area. Both the governor and the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce have called for this restriction.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SB 649Lager, Brad
    Expand a provision banning local government from requiring public access to a right-of-way granted to a utility. Currently, the ban applies only to grants authorized prior to August 2001. The bill could cover all grants to utilities. Also contains a couple of technical corrections in the laws on right-of-way provisions by local government.
    See: 
  • House roll call - SB 649 (03/05/2014): 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to restrict local government from prohibiting wireless communication equipment on government poles or structures.
  • Senate roll call - SB 649 (02/06/2014): 3rd reading of a bill to restrict local government from prohibiting wireless communication equipment on government poles or structures.
  • Official legislative description and status
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    SS SB 668Silvey, Ryan
    Prohibit health insurance from charging a higher co-pay or other charge for orally administered cancer medication than charged for intravenously administered medication.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS SCS SB 680Curls, Kiki
    Allow resumption of eligibility for Food Stamps for somone who lost eligibility because of a drug offense conviction upon various factors including participating in a substance abuse program. The amended House version requires Medicaid to cover donated human breast milk if medically needed.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS SB 691Wasson, Jay
    The original version required home insurance policies to offer sinkhole coverage. The final version just allows it to be offered, but does not require it, and adds notification requirements for insurance cancellation.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS SCS SB 723Parson, Mike
    The original bill would authorize the Board of Public Buildings to issue additional bonds for repair of existing buildings. Increase the cap on bonds the board can issue from $775 million to $1.275 million, but prohibiting use of the extra $500 million for new building construction. The SCS raises the cap $600 and allows funds to be used to build new facilities at the Fulton Mental Health facility and with $200 million of the increase for higher education.
    See: 
  • House roll call - HCS SCS SB 723 (05/13/2014): 3rd reading of a bill to increase the amount of bonding debt the state can authorize for various government building projects and rennovations.
  • Senate roll call - SCS SB 723 (04/03/2014): 3rd reading of a bill to increase the amount of bonding debt the state can authorize for various government building projects and rennovations.
  • Official legislative description and status
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    SS SB 741Rupp, Scott
    Allow gambling boats to enter into loan agreements with customers. Nixon did not sign or veto the bill by the May 13 deadline, allowing the bill to become law without his signature.
    See: 
  • Official legislative description and status
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    SS SB 782Romine, Gary
    Expand the teaching rights of a person certified by the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence to include a license to teach in elementary education. Makes it easier for a professional no licensed as a teacher to teach.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS SB 842Parson, Mike
    Restrict when the Revenue Department can inspect the color of diesel fuel to determine if it is or was exempt from taxation for agriculture use. Restrict inspections to sales locations, inspection sites or rest stops and require there be a reasonable suspicion of violation.
    See: Official legislative description and status