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New 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.]

HB 1064Grisamore, Jeff
Replace the terms "mentally retarded" and "mental retardation" in state laws with "intellectually disabled" and "intellectual disability.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
SS HCS HB 1075Miller, Rocky
A few changes in the abandoned property law. Shorten the period after which payroll checks are deemed abandoned from five to three years. Exempt from being deemed abandoned remittances between a customer and a business if there is an ongoing business relationship.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
HB 1079Gosen, Don
Expand the type of insurance companies that can store and deliver insurance documents in electronic format.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
HB 1081McCaherty, John
Require the Revenue Department to develop a plan for paperless reports, returns and records.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
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 1090McCaherty, John
Let Corrections officers take leave time for overtime work only if agreed upon by the supervisor. Give the employee the right to decide whether to take time off or request payment for overtime.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
SCS HB 1092Lant, Bill
Expand the deadline for a child abuse investigation to be completed by the Childrens Services Division from 30 calendar days to 45 days.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
HB 1125Dugger, Tony
Allow a candidate to have a representative participate in the drawing for ballot placement if the candidate is on active military duty or is disabled.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
SCS HB 1136Dugger, Tony
Various changes, mostly technical, in provisions governing ballots at polling places. Repeal the right of the Secretary of State to approve butterfly ballots. Let election authorities require election challengers to attend training sesions. Allow either vertical or horizontal arrangement of candidates on electronic voting systems. Allow paper ballots for writeins.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
HCS HB 1189Wood, David
Let a student meet one credit requirement in communications, math, science or social studies with credit in an agriculture or career and technical education course.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
SCS HB 1190Kelley, Mike
Require the Transporations Department to issue emergency permits for utility companies to provide equipment following a disaster when service has been distrupted.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
SCS HCS HB 1201Engler, Kevin
Expand who must be given notification of a planned surfacing mining application to include nearby property owners as well as owners of property adjacent to the of the mine plan area.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
HB 1206Wilson, Ken
Remove the August 2017 authorization for some public universities to transfer real estate without legislative approval.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
SCS HCS HB 1217Dugger, Tony
Exempt state and local government retirement plans from attachment or garnishment. Prohibit reassigning a plan benefit.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
HCS HB 1218Dugger, Tony
Change the priority of claim for assessment liens on a condominium unit.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
SCS HCS HB 1225Love, Warren
Various changes in notification and other requirements for a storage facility to be able to sell abandoned property. Allow notice to the owner by private delivery or email rather than just Postal Service mail.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
CCS HB 1231Cox, Stanley
Repeal a provision declaring moot an expired protection order only if there are significant consequences to the expired protection order. Instead, declare the public interest exception to the mootness doctrine applies to any expired protection order.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
HCS HB 1237Hoskins, Denny
Extend from 2015 to 2020 the tax charged on the salaries of non-resident athletes and entertainers performing in Missouri. The money goes to a variety of activities including the Arts Council, historic preservation and public broadcast.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
SCS HB 1238Hinson, Dave
Extend the 2014 termination date to 2019 of a law authorizing Franklin County to impose special court fees.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
HB 1245Hampton, Kent
Effectively a revision bill that just repeals multiple versions of the same laws.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
SCS HB 1270Lant, Bill
Impose additional disclosure requirements for companies that provide services to merchants for processing payments made to the merchants by credit cards.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
HB 1298Flanigan, Tom
Repeal expired and obsolete state laws.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
SCS HB 1299Flanigan, Tom
Put into state laws various reorganization orders by the governor that renamed or moved state agencies.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
HCS HB 1300Rowden, Caleb
Let a fire district meet without advance notice to disburse funds for deployment in various state, local or federal mutual aid in emergency and rescue operations.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
HB 1301Neth, Myron
Technical corrections in the Kansas City police retirement system bill that was passed last year in HB 418.
See: Official legislative description and status
  
HCS HB 1302Remole, Tim
Declare a right to heat one's home or business with wood-burning furnaces, stoves, fireplaces and heaters.
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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    SCS HCS HB 1304Gosen, Don
    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: Official legislative description and status
      
    HB 1320Ellinger, Rory
    Provide the right to be exempt from jury duty a woman breast-feeding a child.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    CCS HB 1361Gosen, Don
    Let domestic surplus lines insurer not licensed by Missouri sell insurance in Missouri under some circumstances.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SS HCS HB 1371Cox, Stanley
    Lower the penalty for some non-violent offenses. Numerous other changes in the state criminal code. The revised version fixes a number of mistakes Gov. Nixon discovered the criminal code bill SB 491 that Nixon allowed to become law.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    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 1376Cox, Stanley
    Various technical changes in the uniform commercial code involving secured transactions such as allowing a non-driver's license as identification and changing the definition of electronic chattel paper.
    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
      
    SCS HCS HB 1410Cross, Gary
    Repeal landlord-tenant lawsuits from the requirement to seek a new trial after the original trail rather than appealing the decision.
    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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    HCS HB 1412Phillips, Don
    Make it a crime to file certain types of false documents with the Secretary of State for the purpose of fraud or harassment.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS HB 1426Diehl, John
    Exempt from the public records law personal identification information contained in a government registry established to assist persons in case of a disaster or emergency.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HB 1454Swan, Kathryn
    Require an expedited court process for wireless communication company dispute about access to support structures.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS HB 1459Lauer, Jeanie
    Provide tax credits for a contribution to a parternship program between a local high school and a higher education department involving science, technology, math or engineering education.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    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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    CCS HB 1504Zerr, Anne
    Exempt from tax increment finance sales tax any local sales tax levied for an emergency communications system. TIFs provide tax breaks for developers.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HB 1506Franklin, Diane
    Establish a program for regional development grants for business development, subject to appropriation.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS HB 1523Dugger, Tony
    Expand the definition of a gift in a law dealing with endowment funds.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS HB 1594Davis, Charlie
    Exempt from the prevailing wage law those who volunteer their time for work on a local government publics work project.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HB 1602Engler, Kevin
    Allow the sale or transfer of some state property in St. Francois County to Farmington.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HB 1603Conway, Kathie
    Designate the exercise jumping jacks invented by Gen. John Pershing as the official exercise of Missouri.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    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
      
    HB 1651Fraker, Lyndall
    Let rural electric cooperative members participate in meetings electronically or by mail.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HB 1656Neely, Jim
    Clarify that an anatomical gift unsuitable for transplant can be used for research or education. Current law provides if unsuitable for "transportation" rather than "transplantation."
    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
      
    CCS HB 1685Neely, Jim
    Establish provisions by which a drug not approved by FDA for general use can be used on a patient with terminal illness upon consent, if the drug has completed phase one of a clinical trial.
    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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    SCS HB 1692Korman, Bart
    Require a water district board member have been a resident of the districit for a year. Current law requires either a resident or have received services from the district prior to the election.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HB 1693Barnes, Jay
    Establish separate procedures for U.S. savings bonds that are unclaimed property that allows the state to claim the money after three years.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HB 1710Davis, Charlie
    Authorize designating a portion of a state tax refund to a National Guard Foundation Trust Fund.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HB 1724Davis, Charlie
    Expand the purposes for which the National Guard Military Relief Fund can be used to include "other financial assistance or services." Repeal a provision that it be for families called into active duty as a result of the 9/11/2001 attacks.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SS HB 1735Cierpiot, Mike
    Exempt Jackson and Platt counties from a law that prohibits the sale of motorcycles on Sunday.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS HCS HB 1779Riddle, Jeanie
    Let an advanced practice nurse working in a collaborative practice with a physician order restraint or seclusion of a patient in a mental health facility.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS HB 1791Fitzwater, Paul
    Allow the sale or transfer of various parcels of state property across the state.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    CCS HB 1831Fitzpatrick, Scott
    Include under the day care center exemptions for caring for related children a center incorporated as a limited liability company caring for the officer of the company.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HB 1835Haahr, Elijah
    Exempt from the five-year vision reexamination requirement for Blind Pension Fund benefits a person who has been diagnosed by a doctor with having no usable vision.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS HB 1866Schatz, Dave
    Designate a portion of U.S. 54 in Cole County the Bill Dean Robinett Memorial Highway
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SS HCS HB 1867Schatz, Dave
    Various changes in the laws governing underground facilities. Require all undeground facility owners to be a member of the notification center organization. Various technical changes.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS HB 1882Leara, Mike
    Expand legislative oversight of various government retirement systems. Toughen continuing education requirements for board members.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS HB 1968Gosen, Don
    Various changes in regulation of heath maintenance organizations. Extend examinations from at least every three years to every five years. Subject HMOs to risk-based examinations.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS HB 2001Stream, Rick
    Appropriations for bond issue payments and other debts.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS HCS HB 2002Stream, Rick
    Appropriations for primary and secondary education. The governor line-item vetoed sections of this bill.
    See: 
  • House roll call - HA 3 HCS HB 2002 (03/25/2014): Adoption of an amended to the education budget to prohibit the Education Department from using any grant funds to implement or support Common Core Standards.
  • Official legislative description and status
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    SCS HCS HB 2003Stream, Rick
    Appropriations for higher education. The governor line-item vetoed sections of this bill.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS HCS HB 2004Stream, Rick
    Appropriations for the Revenue Deepartment and tax refunds. The governor line-item vetoed sections of this bill.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS HCS HB 2005Stream, Rick
    Approprations for the departments of Transportation, Conservation and Public Safety as well as other administrative functions. The governor line-item vetoed sections of this bill.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS HCS HB 2006Stream, Rick
    Appropriations for Appropriations for the departments of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Conservation. The governor line-item vetoed sections of this bill.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS HCS HB 2007Stream, Rick
    Appropriations for the departments of Economic Development, Insurance and Labor. The governor line-item vetoed sections of this bill.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS HCS HB 2008Stream, Rick
    Appropriations for the Department of Public Safety. The governor line-item vetoed sections of this bill.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS HCS HB 2009Stream, Rick
    Appropriations for the Corrections Department. The governor line-item vetoed sections of this bill.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS HCS HB 2010Stream, Rick
    Appropriations for the departments of Health and Mental Health. The governor line-item vetoed sections of this bill.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SS HCS HB 2011Stream, Rick
    Appropriations for the Social Services Department. The governor line-item vetoed sections of this bill.
    See: 
  • House roll call - SS HCS HB 2011 (04/30/2014): A motion on the Social Services budget to leave open the option in conference committee to include federal funds for Medicaid expansion.
  • House roll call - HA 2 HCS HB 2011 (03/25/2014): Rejection of an amendment to add to the Social Services Department budget $1.6 billion to expand Medicaid coverage to adults with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level.
  • Official legislative description and status
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    SCS HCS HB 2012Stream, Rick
    Appropriations for statewide elected officials and the legislature. The governor line-item vetoed sections of this bill.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS HCS HB 2013Stream, Rick
    Appropriations for state government building leases and other related expenses. The governor line-item vetoed sections of this bill.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HB 2014Stream, Rick
    The emergency appropriations bill to provide extra funds for various programs for the remainder of the fiscal year that ends June 30, 2014.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS HCS HB 2021Stream, Rick
    Appropriations for constructing new state government buildings or for renovations of existing buildings. The governor line-item vetoed sections of this bill.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HB 2029Cierpiot, Mike
    Remove the expiration date of a sales tax exemption for replacement parts for aircraft.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS HB 2040Lynch, Steve
    Authorize a first responder to administer naloxone to a person suffering an apparent heroin overdose and provide lawsuit liability protections for the first responder.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    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 2141Diehl, John
    Establish a separate, lower tax for compressed natural gas fuel and liquefied natural gas fuel used for motor vehicles.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HB 2163Riddle, Jeanie
    Establish a commerical zone in Columbia for higher truck weight and size limits.
    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.
  • Official legislative description and status
    • 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
      
    CCS SB 492Pearce, David
    Require university budget recommendations by the Higher Education Department be based on a performance formula.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SB 500Keaveny, Joseph
    Various changes in non-contest clauses in trusts. Allow a court petition to be filed in some cases.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS SB 504Munzlinger, Brian
    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: 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 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 required 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.
  • Official legislative description and status
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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. The governor vetoed a similar bill, SB 28, in 2013. In 2014, Nixon did not sign or veto this bill by the May 13 deadline, allowing the bill to become law without his signature.
    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 SS SB 525Cunningham, Mike
    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: Official legislative description and status
      
    SB 527Wallingford, Wayne
    Declare March 27 Medical Radiation Safety Awareness Day.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS SB 529Wallingford, Wayne
    Expand a law dealing with prompt payment of contracts by local government to include engineers, surveyors and architects.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    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
      
    SS SB 532Nasheed, Jamilah
    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: 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
      
    HCS SB 600Sater, David
    Remove the requirement to pay a fee for the relative of a military service member killed while on duty to receive a gold star special auto license plate.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SB 601Holsman, Jason
    Extend the expiration date for an income tax deduction for energy effiency audits and implementation of audit recommendations.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS SB 606Dixon, Bob
    Repeal a requirement that a person selling prepaid legal services be licensed as insurance agents.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SB 609Rupp, Scott
    Expand the type of insurance companies that can store and deliver insurance documents in electronic format.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SB 610Rupp, Scott
    Expand to commerical property a current law providing consumer protections for exterior repair work of a home including roofing.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    CCS SB 621Dixon, Bob
    Require the Judicial Commission meet only once every two years rather than annually. Remove commissioners from the commission. There has not been a Supreme Court or appeals court commissioner for decades. The House amended version became an omnibus bill on a number of unrelated issues.
    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
      
    SCS SB 639Brown, Dan
    Require that a notice be provided after a mammogram providing information about what a dense breast tissue finding could mean.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS SB 642Romine, Gary
    Expand who must be given notification of a planned surfacing mining application to include nearby property owners as well as owners of property adjacent to the of the mine plan area.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS SCS SB 643Rupp, Scott
    Repeal a provision that the Missouri statutes are printed every ten years. Instead, require approval by the legislature to publish a new set of statutes.
    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 650Lager, Brad
    Change how a rate is established if a wireless company cannot reach agreement government authority on the costs for locating a wireless structure on the government's property. Let the wireless applicant select the initial appraiser. If either side disputes the appraiser's decision, require the court expedite the case. Require cases be decided by courts located in Missouri.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SCS SB 651Lager, Brad
    Exempt from liability lawsuit damages against a communications service for loss of service during an emergency. Extend from August 2013 to August 2014 when a telecommunications company can provide phone service through voice over internet protocol (VOIP).
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS SB 653Lager, Brad
    Include wireless communications providers to a law requiring various types of communications utilities be allowed to attach to a municipal utility pole, under some circumstances. Restrict a city or city utility from denying access to its poles.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS SB 655Kraus, Will
    Add a definition of landlord and tenant in a law governing landlord-tenant rights and eviction procedures.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    CCS SB 664Brown, Dan
    Require a study verifying the economic need and environmental need before the Clean Water Commission can authorize a change in water quality standards for a construction or operating permit.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    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
      
    CCS SB 672Parson, Mike
    Let a county seek voter approval to return a full-time prosecutor to a part-time position upon a petition signed by ten percent of the voters, if the position had been made full-time by the voters. The amended HCS became an omnibus bill covering a number of unrelated topics involving local government as well as a farm to school program, lobbyist disclosure and more
    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
      
    SB 689Schmitt, Eric
    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: Official legislative description and status
      
    SB 690Wasson, Jay
    Require unanimous approval of the Green County Commission for the county's 911 emergency services board to be a political subdivision.
    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
      
    SB 701Lager, Brad
    Let two or more school districts have the same person serve as the districts' superintendent.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SS SB 706Cunningham, Mike
    Various provisions on patent infringement lawsuits in which there is a claim the lawsuit was filed in bad faith. Allow a bond to be required in such cases if the court determines a reasonable likelihood of bad faith. Give the attorney general investigate and seek financial rewards for bad-faith lawsuits.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    CCS SB 716Brown, Dan
    Require hospitals to offer flu vaccinations prior to discharge of any patient aged 65 years or older. The HCS has become an omnibus bill dealing with a number of unrelated health issues.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SB 719Kehoe, Mike
    Allow a school board member or employee to sell services or products or lease property if awarded through competitive bidding.
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    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.
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  • 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.
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    SCS SB 729Romine, Gary
    Provide tax credits for a contribution to a parternship program between a local high school and a higher education department involving science, technology, math or engineering education.
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    SB 734Cunningham, Mike
    Allow electric cooperative meeting attendance be by electronic or mail participation.
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    SCS SB 735Brown, Dan
    Establish grounds by which a campground owner can evict a camper including not being registered or does not pay the camping fee, violates law, etc.
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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.
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    SS SB 745Munzlinger, Brian
    Require the Missouri Sheriff Methamphetamine Relief Task force establish a statewide database of persons with concealed weapons permits. Relatively technical changes in the concealed weapons permit law. Require the background check be through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System and through the FBI. Let sheriffs access the permit system.
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    CCS SB 754Sater, David
    Extend the sunset from August 2014 to August 2017 for the program providing assistance for prescription drug costs for lower income elderly. The amended House version became an omnibus bill with provisions on assistant physician licensing, umbilical cord blood donations, requiring health insurance cover eating disorders and more.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SS SB 767Schmitt, Eric
    Let St. Louis County establish a voluntary registry of persons with health aliments to assist in case of a disaster or emergency.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS SB 773Rupp, Scott
    Let police and fire fighters drive ambulances in emergency situations.
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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.
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    SCS SB 785Kehoe, Mike
    Let Missouri residents get a seven-day temporary boating license card to operate a boat that has been rented or being considered for sale. Currently only non-residents can get a temporary license.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS SB 794Chappelle-Nadal, Maria
    Expand the right of banks and trust companies to transfer fiduciary obligations.
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    SB 796Parson, Mike
    Authorize the recorder of deeds to issue a marriage license if one partner is incarcerated and cannot able to appear to sign the application.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS SCS SB 808Wasson, Jay
    Restrict a master social worker from practicing independently a practice reserved for clinical social workers or advanced macro social workers.
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    HCS SCS SB 809Wasson, Jay
    Numerous changes in licensing provisions for architects, engineers, land surveyors and landscape architects.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SB 812Parson, Mike
    Require the Economic Development Department establish a trade office in Israel if the legislature appropriates funds for the office.
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    SB 818Kehoe, Mike
    Add airport business plans and strategic plans to the activities that the Transportation Commission can fund from an airport trust fund. Change fund level requirelments.
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    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.
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    SB 844Dixon, Bob
    Various changes in Unemployment Compensation provisions governing part-time workers who share a full-time job. Lower the minimum number of hours and raise the maximum number of hours for a worker can work part time and still get benefits. Basically changes the provisions of the shared-work plan that an employer submits to the state.
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    CCS SB 852Schmitt, Eric
    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: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS SB 869Schmitt, Eric
    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: Official legislative description and status
      
    HCS SS SB 884Wallingford, Wayne
    Various changes in dental insurance requirements. Restrict transfering the plan to another company unless authorized in the contract. Other restrictions on transfer.
    See: Official legislative description and status
      
    SB 890Kehoe, Mike
    Establish a Missouri court venue for a railroad worker first injured in a foreign country when the company is connected with Missouri.
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    SCS SB 892Kraus, Will
    Move the presidental primary from February to April.
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  • Senate roll call - SCS SB 892 (04/10/2014): 3rd reading of a bill to move the presidential primary from early February to early March.
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    CCS SB 896Wallingford, Wayne
    Let Perry County impose a tax on hotel and motel rooms, upon voter approval. The final CCS contains several other unrelated provisions dealing with other specific local governments.
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    SB 907Richard, Ron
    Let the Carthage school district do a one-time transfer of incidental fund to the capitol projects fund for projects to improve student safety.
    See: Official legislative description and status