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Votes Overview

MDN's unique database of legislative roll calls covers the significant legislative votes going back to 1995 -- further back than any other online record of significant Missouri legislative votes, as best I (Phill Brooks) know.

The role calls cover only significant, news worthy votes for which there is a clear issue. Excluded are votes on amendments or substitutes which contain a laundry-list of topics making it impossible to discern the issue upon which legislators actually were voting and also making it impossible to write a simple description on what the vote was about.

Unfortunately, the legislature has begun routinely passing these omnibus, multi-subject amendments and substitutes that are in clear violation of the state Supreme Court's decisions affirming a constitutional provisions restricting bills to a single subject and prohibiting changing the original purpose of a bill.

The descriptions of the votes are written by MDN's director, Phill Brooks, who has covered the legislature for one-half century, making him dean of the statehouse press corps.

Vote List

At the top of the vote list are three buttons you can click to adjust the order of the votes, the date the role call was taken, the bill form/number and description.

The first click will display the list in descending order of the category. A second click of the same button will display the list in ascending order. When you first load VOTES.HTM or call up a new year, the vote list wil be in descending order by date, with the latest vote for that year at the top.

The sort-order of the column you selected is identified by the arrow in the button. ↓ indicates a descending order while ↑ indicates an ascending order.

The Date button sorts the list in numerical order, putting the latest vote at the top in descending order.

The Chamber: Description button sorts the list in alphabetical order. So in descending order, House chamber votes will be at the top of the list, followed by Senate chamber votes.

The Bill sort is a bit complicated. There are two components to the sort, the bill type (in alphabetical order) followed by the bill number in numerical order (asending or descending order). So, in descending order, HBs would be at the top of the list followed by HJRs, followed by SBs followed SJRs.

One exception are votes such as resolutions, member compaints and confirmation These votes always will be placed at the bottom of the list, regardless whether the selection is in ascending or descending order.

The default order when the VOTES.HTM is loaded in descending order of roll-call dates. So, the latest vote will be at the top.

To see details of a vote including how individual legislators voted along with links to the bill, simply double click the vote in which you are interested.

At the bottom is a selection box to select a different year for the votes display. There also is a selection box to limit the display to the votes taken in a specific chamber. Switching the year or chamber automatically with update the vote list to your selection.

The View simply displays the details of a vote for which you made just one rather than a double click. The vote you selected will be displayed in red.

Vote View

The display of a specific roll call is divided into three panels.

  • Summary Panel: The top panel will contain the total results of the the vote, a link to the bill or joint resolution involved involved in the vote and a summary of what was the central issue of the vote written by MDN's director. Resolutions and other votes that did not involve actual bill or joint resolution will not have a link.

    Note: The NV (not voting) covers those who missed the vote and those who voted present (P). Obviously, someone who voted present did vote, but it simplifies the table and the chart to include those votes in the not-voting figure since voting present essentially is an abstention.

    The summary panel does not include vacant seats, although there will be an indication as to the number of vacancies at the time of the vote.

    Vacant seats will be identified in the list of member votes.

  • Member Vote List Panel: The next panel displays a list of how each member voted.

    At the top of the list scrollable list are four labels you can click to change the order of the display by the vote cast, legislator names, party or legislative district.

    The first click of a label will sort list in ascending order. A second click will resort the list in descending order.

    For example, the first click on Vote label would desplay the list in the over of N, P, Y. A second click would display the list in order of Y, P, N. A ? indicates a vacancy for the designated district.

  • Chart Panel: This is a graphical representation of the role call.

    Like the summary panel, both absent and present votes are included in the NV category.

    The percentages are based on the actual number of members, not all the districts. So, vacant districts are not used to calculate percentages.

    Unlike the summary panel, however, the chart does not include the occasional independent. Since there's never been 1 independent for a few years (in the House) for the period covered by MDN's role call database, the vote bar for the independent would be too small to even appear in the chart.

At the bottom of the panel are one or two buttons:

  • Vote List: This button simply returns you to the list of all the votes for the year you selected.

  • Print: Use this button rather than your browser's print command to print a clean copy of the roll-call information.

    The reason is that your browser's print function will just print what's displayed by the brower. So the votes of members that are not visible in the member vote panel will not get printed.

    With the print button, the summary panel and the full list of the member votes will be printed (in the order you selected -- but not the graphical chart.

    Bill Display

    This is the same as the display for a bill or joint resolution that you can get from /FORMS/BILLS.HTM.

    1. Bill: This line will begin with an asterisk (*) if the bill has been designated by MDN's director as a major bill. Next is the bill bill form followed by the bill number.

      The form will begin with any substitutes approved by a chamber or by a committee (HCS, SCS, HS or SS) -- in recent years House rules have prohibited subsitutes offered during chamber debate (HS). Next will be the bill type (HB, SB, HJR or SJR).

      Note, MDN's database does not include chamber resolutions or General Assembly concurrent resolutions (HR, SR, HCR, SCR). Except in rare occasions, these resolutions have no real legal effect. Instead they just seek to express legislative opinion on a subject.

      There are an occasional worthy of news coverage, but the time time it would take to read hundreds of resolutions to find a rare gem is not work the effort.

    2. Sponsor: Only the primary sponsor is listed, with a link to that member's MDN page. Bills can have a long list of co-sponsors or co-signers, but they have no control over the bill.

      When a bill clears a chamber, the sponsor will pick a bill handler to handle his/her bill in the second chamber. But this is not a particularly formally position.

    3. Status: This is current status of a bill such as the committee to which a bill has been assigned, calendar placement, passage to the governor, placement on the ballot, etc.

      Prior to third reading (a chamber's final vote on a particular version of the bill), the bill must clear the chamber's budget oversight committee that reviews the financial costs or benefits to government from the bill.

      If the bill is on the third-reading calendar, but has not cleared the chamber's budget control committee, the status field for the bill will include (In Budget)

      See below for a detailed flow-chart of the path of a bill or joint resolution to clear the legislature.

      Note, MDN will not identify assignment of a bill to a committee of the chamber of introduction if the assignment is too late for passage -- the fate of many bills in the House. Because committee assignment effectively is meaningless, the status will remain H 2nd Read.

    4. Description: This is a short description of the bill written by MDN's director, Phill Brooks (who has covered the Missouri General Assembly for one-half century). Bills are NOT entered into MDN's database until Phill has had the opportunity to read the bill.

      The description focuses on the most significant and/or news worthy aspect of the bill. Amendments added to a bill that include unrelated subjects may not be included in the description unless the bill clears the legislature.

      Because of the recent trend of the legislature to attach completely unrelated aspects to a bill, it is impossible to provide a description of every component that may have been attached. Do a search of 2019 bills for the word unrelated to understand how frequent this trend has become.

      Many of these amendments are in clear violation of a clearly worded state Supreme Court decision that bills had to be limited to a single topic.

    5. The will include links to more information about the bill in the following order:
      1. Roll Calls: A list of any chamber roll calls that were taken on the bill. MDN's roll call database is limited to significant or news worthy votes. Clicking a roll-call vote will return you to the Vote View page displaying information about the roll call you had selected.

      2. The Fiscal Note(s): A link to fiscal notes written by staff of a joint legislative committee (Legislative Oversight) that deals with state financial issues. A fiscal note reflects the estimate of that staff as to the financial impact to state and local government.

        Besides the financial impact, a fiscal note can provide a far more detailed description about the bill independent of the description written by the staff of the chamber of the bill's introduction.

        Note, however, that not every bill will have a fiscal note written. In recent years, a bill that has little or no change of advancing out of the original chamber's committee will have a fiscal note.

      3. Official legislative description and status: The official legislative page for the bill. This will include links to fiscal notes, House/Senate staff descriptions of the bill and links to journal entries on bill actions.

        Note, however, the General Assembly did not have online website information about legislation prior to 1995. So, for the first ten years of MDN's legislation database (going back to 1985), there are no links to legislative pages for a measure (because they did not exist).

      See:Bill Links below for more information about bill links.

      At the bottom of Bill Display panel will be buttons to return you to the main Vote List page or the Vote Page for the specific roll call you are exploring.

      Outside links deserves a brief explanation. Technically, these links are displayed in an iframe to avoid cluttering your computer with unnecessary pages.

      But there is a problem for printing these pages. Most web browsers prevent changing information from an iframe external link to protect hackers from altering the information that is displayed.

      The problem is that that access restriction prevents the calling page (such as VOTES.HTM) from accessing the infomation to generate a print function.

      Compounding the problem is the House page about a bill or joint resolution. It includes its own seperate iframe to displaying a list of the action taken on the legislation.

      The problem is that a javascript function to print the House page could trigger the prinout before that House iframe of actions had fully loaded.

      There are programming techniques to get around these iframe problems, but I have not implemented that approach because I am not not sure if they would work on every type of browser.

      So, to print one of MDN's iframe-link pages, you will need to right click the page to print the displayed iframe. In FireFox, the print function can be accessed from the "This Frame" option in the menu that will be displayed when you click the right mouse button when the pointer is in the frame.

      The bottom of MDN's link page will include buttons to return to the main vote list, the specific vote page you had been viewing or the bill page from which you called up the link.

      Legislative Steps

      While there eight types of measures before the legislature, this description will use the generic term bill (although some are resolutions).

      Except for single chamber resolutions (HR or SR) the other forms bills (HB or SB), joint resolutions (HJR or SJR) and concurrent resolutions (HCR or SCR) must follow the steps listed below:

      Missouri's Constitution requires that the short "title" of a bill be read on three seperate days in each chamber. That imposes a minimum five day limit for a bill, since after third reading in the chamber or origin, the second chamber can first read the bill on the same day (if it's in session and the first chamber delivered the bill to the second chamber).

      First and second reading are formalities, but third reading is when the chamber votes on the bill to send it to (or back to) the other chamber.

      So, here is a list of the most complicated process a bill can take:

      • 1st Reading: This is just a formality when the bill is introduced in a chamber. Just the title is read in a full-chamber session.

      • 2nd Reading: Like 1st reading, this is a formality in which just the title of the bill is read in a full-chamber session.

      • Committee Assignment: In the Senate, a bill immediately is assigned to committee after 2nd reading, but in the House some bills will not get assigned to committee until the final days of the session.

      • Committee Hearing and Vote: It's up to the committee chair to determine when, if ever, the committee holds a public hearing and then a vote on the bill. Usually, a committee will not vote on a bill on the same day as the hearing.

        In addition, it's also up to the chair to decide when, if ever, a bill approved by the committee is reported to the full chamber for further action.

        It's extremely rare, but a committee chair can kill a bill approved by the committee. Sometimes it's because the chair does not support the bill, but more often it's because of pressure from the leadership because the bill would be too divisive for chamber debate or the leadership doesn't like the bill.

        A committee can vote "do not pass," but that triggers a more complicated process this flow chart will not address since it rarely happens. If the committee wants to kill the bill, the chair simply won't bring the bill up for a vote.

      • Perfection: When a bill is reported out of committee, it's put at the bottom of what's called a perfection calendar.

        Perfection is a fancy title to indicate it's the process to "prefect" the bill with amendments or substitutes (although House rules no prohibit substitutes being offered during chamber perfection.

        Perfection requires just a simple majority (50 percent plus one of the members voting) and often is done with just a voice vote.

      • 3rd Reading: Third reading is the final vote a chamber takes on a bill before sending it to the other chamber. Third reading requires what's termed a "consitutional majority" of more than half of the legislative seats (meaning 82 votes in the House or 18 in the Senate).

        Prior to an actual third reading vote, the bill must be cleared by a budget control committee that evaluates the cost of the bill to government. In recent years, approval has been almost routine, but occasionally a bill will get blocked by a House or Senate budget-controll commmitee

        The constitution actually requires a majority of elected members, suggesting a smaller vote might be required depending on vacancies. But for decades legislative leaders have determined a "constitutional majority" requires a majority of the seats, not members.

      • Other Chamber: After a bill clears the chamber of origin, it faces the same initial steps as in the chamber of origin -- first reading, second reading and then committee assignment, hearing and vote.

        In the second chamber, there is no perfection stage, a bill that clears the second chamber committee goes immediately to a third reading calendar for bills bills from the other chamber.

      • Second Chamber Third Reading: 3rd reading in the second chamber is a compressed process of perfection and 3rd reading in the first chamber.

        Amendments and subsitutes (in the Senate only) can be offered before the final third reading vote that requires a constitutional majority.

        If the second chamber has made not even one-letter change to the original chamber's version, the measure clears the legislature.

      • Back to the Original Chamber: Here the process becomes more complicated and avoids the tedious process of first and second readings. Instead, the measure can clear the legislature with a motion unrestricted by a calendar placement.

        One option is for the original chamber to simply accept the second chamber's version, which requires a 3rd reading vote to clear the legislature.

        A second option is to send the measure to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the difference between the two chambers. That conference committee substitute will require a constitutional majority vote of both chambers to clear the legislature.

        The third option is a gridlock. Occasionally a chamber will refuse to accept a motion to put the issue before a conference committee, a chamber will reject a conference committee compromise or the conference committee cannot reach an agreement.

        In those cases, passage requires one of the chambers to accept and third read (with a constitutional majority) the version passed by the other chamber.

      • What's Next: What happens next to a bill that has cleared legislature depends on a couple of factors.

        If it is a joint resolution that amends the constitution, it requires statewide voter approval to become part of the constitution. The only power a governor has over a constitutional amendment is to select the ballot upon which it will appear.

        Normally a bill requires approval by the governor. But that can be avoided with a provision in the bill to submit the measure to the voters. In that case, like a joint resolution, the only power a governor has the ballot upon which the measure will appear.

      • Governor's Veto or Signing of a bill: Like the federal system, if a governor signs bill, it becomes law.

        If he vetoes the bill, that bill will be subject to an over-ride by the legislature, which requires a two-thirds vote of each chamber. Unless the bill was vetoed early in the legislative session, it will come before a short session in the fall to deal with gubernatorial vetoes.

        But Missouri differs from the federal system if the governor refuses to sign or veto a bill. Under the federal system, failure to sign is called a "pocket veto" -- meaning failure to sign has the same effect as a veto.

        But in Missouri, you could call it a "pocket signature." If a governor refuses to act on a bill, it automatically becomes law. That's happened less than two dozen times in more than three decades.

        Phill Brooks

    • 2014 Legislative Votes
    ↓Date Bill Chamber:  Description
    09/10/2014 CCS HB 2008 House: First override vote of the legislature's veto session. It involves a budget veto of a $1.45 million for forensic exams of abused children.
    09/10/2014 CCS HB 2008 House: Vote to override the governor's budget veto of $1 million for a pilot education program for troubled youth to be operated by a non-profit organization. It was the first override motion to clear bot
    09/10/2014 CCS HB 2008 Senate: First veto overridden by the legislature's veto session. Overridden was the governor's budget veto of $1 million for a pilot education program for troubled youth to be operated by a non-profit org
    09/10/2014 SCS HCS HB 1307 House: Motion to override the governor's veto of a bill to impose a 72 hour waiting period after contacting a doctor to have an abortion.
    09/10/2014 SCS HB 1307 Senate: Override of the governor's veto of a bill to expand the waiting period for an abortion to 72 hours. The Senate vote puts the bill into law.
    09/10/2014 CCS SB 656 Senate: Passage of a motion to override the governor's veto of the firearms bills that includes letting schools authorize some teachers to carry weapons on school grounds.
    09/10/2014 CCS SB 656 House: Passage of a motion to override the governor's veto of the firearms bills that includes letting schools authorize some teachers to carry weapons on school grounds.
    09/10/2014 CCS SB 860 House: Defeat of a motion to override the governor's veto of a bill providing a number of tax changes for business and a sales tax exemption for used manufactured homes.
    09/10/2014 CCS SB 860 Senate: Adoption of a motion to override the governor's veto of a bill providing a number of tax changes for business and a sales tax exemption for used manufactured homes.
    09/10/2014 SS SB 673 Senate: Adoption of a motion to override the governor's veto of a bill to shorten the number of weeks for unemployment compensation when the state's unemployment rate drops.
    09/10/2014 CCS SB 662 Senate: Adoption of a motion to override the governor's veto of a bill to require the Revenue Department to provide advance notice of sales tax collection requirement changes.
    09/10/2014 SCS SB 829 House: Adoption of a motion to override the governor's veto of a bill to expand the burden of proof requirement on the Revenue Department in some business tax disputes.
    09/10/2014 SCS SB 829 Senate: Adoption of a motion to override the governor's veto of a bill to expand the burden of proof requirement on the Revenue Department in some business tax disputes.
    09/10/2014 SCS SB 731 House: Adoption of a motion to override the governor's veto of a bill to expand when a lawsuit could be filed against the owner of property claimed to be a nuisance.
    09/10/2014 SCS SB 731 Senate: Adoption of a motion to override the governor's veto of a bill to expand when a lawsuit could be filed against the owner of property claimed to be a nuisance.
    09/10/2014 HCS SB 727 House: Adoption of a motion to override the governor's veto of a bill to provide a tax exemption for products sold at farmers' markets.
    09/10/2014 HCS SB 727 Senate: Adoption of a motion to override the governor's veto of a bill to provide a tax exemption for products sold at farmers' markets.
    09/10/2014 SCS HB 1307 Senate: Adoption of a motion to shut off debate and force a vote on the governor's veto of a bill to extend the waiting period for an abortion.
    05/16/2014 SS HB 1865 House: 3rd reading and final passage of tax breaks for various commercial activities that were attacked by the governor after the session adjourned.
    05/16/2014 SCS HCS HB 1689 House: 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to establish a program for state funding for early childhood programs in public schools.
    05/16/2014 SCS HCS HB 1296 House: 3rd reading of sales tax breaks for business. One of eight tax bills passed on the legislature's last day the governor charges would cost the state $425 million in lost revenue.
    05/16/2014 SCS SJR 27 House: 3rd reading and final passage of a constitutional amendment to include digital data under provisions restricting government searches.
    05/16/2014 CCS SB 662 House: 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 passed on the legislature's last day.
    05/16/2014 CCS SB 656 House: 3rd reading and final passage of a bill that includes a provision to let public schools authorize teachers to carry concealed weapons on school grounds.
    05/16/2014 CCS SB 860 House: 3rd reading of a bill providing several sales tax exemptions. One of 8 bills the governor charged lawmakers passed on the last day to provide $425 million in special interest tax breaks.
    05/16/2014 CCS SB 584 House: 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.
    05/16/2014 CCS HB 1439 House: 3rd reading of a CCS of the bill to declare some federal gun laws null in Missouri and subject federal workers to lawsuits for enforcing laws declared nullified.
    05/16/2014 CCS SB 584 Senate: 3rd reading of the final CCS of a bill to provide various business sales tax breaks.
    05/16/2014 CCS SB 860 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill providing several sales tax exemptions. One of 8 bills the governor charged lawmakers passed on the last day to provide $425 million in special interest tax breaks.
    05/16/2014 HCS SB 727 Senate: 3rd reading of a farmers market sales tax exemption that is one of 8 bills the governor charged lawmakers passed on the last day of the session providing $425 million in special interest tax breaks.
    05/16/2014 HJR 72 Senate: 3rd reading and final passage of a constitutional amendment to give the legislature power to reject budget spending restrictions imposed by the governor.
    05/16/2014 CCS SB 612 House: 3rd reading of the CCS that added various tax reduction changes, one of 8 bills the governor charged lawmakers passed in the last day of the session providng $425 million in tax breaks to special in
    05/16/2014 CCS SB 693 House: 3rd reading of a final CCS that includes several tax breaks. One of 8 bills the governor chargespassed in the session's final day to provde $425 million in special interest tax breaks.
    05/16/2014 SCS HCS HB 1296 Senate: 3rd reading of sales tax breaks for business. One of eight tax bills passed on the legislature's last day the governor charges would cost the state $425 million in lost revenue.
    05/15/2014 CCS SB 493 House: 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.
    05/15/2014 CCS HB 1490 House: 3rd reading of the final conference committee version to ban implementation of the national Common Core standards for public schools.
    05/15/2014 SCS HCS HB 1689 Senate: 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.
    05/15/2014 HCS SB 508 Senate: 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to impose state requirements on federal healthc care insurance navigators.
    05/15/2014 CCS SB 656 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill that includes a provision to let public schools authorize teachers to carry concealed weapons on school grounds.
    05/14/2014 SS HJR 68 House: Third reading and final passage of a constitutional amendment for a ten-year sales tax increase for transportation.
    05/14/2014 SCS HCS HB 1307 House: 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to extend the waiting period for an abortion from 24 hours to 72 hours.
    05/14/2014 CCS SB 493 Senate: 3rd reading of the final conference report restricting transfer rights of students in unaccredited districts, but opening up an option for private school funding.
    05/14/2014 SS HCS HJR 90 House: 3rd reading and final passage of a constitutional amendment to put an alternative early-voting measure on the ballot that would have fewer days than an initiative petition proposal.
    05/14/2014 HCS SB 508 House: 3rd reading of a Senate bill to impose state requirements on federal healthc care insurance navigators.
    05/14/2014 HCS SB 660 House: 3rd reading of a bill to essentially restrict Planned Parenthood from geting state family planning funds.
    05/14/2014 HCS SB 727 House: 3rd reading of a farmers market sales tax exemption that is one of 8 bills the governor charged lawmakers passed on the last day of the session providing $425 million in special interest tax breaks.
    05/14/2014 CCS SB 693 Senate: 3rd reading of a final CCS that includes several tax breaks. One of 8 bills the governor chargespassed in the session's final day to provde $425 million in special interest tax breaks.
    05/14/2014 SS HB 1865 Senate: 3rd reading of tax breaks for various commercial activities that were attacked by the governor after the session adjourned.
    05/13/2014 HCS SCS SB 723 House: 3rd reading of a bill to increase the amount of bonding debt the state can authorize for various government building projects and rennovations.
    05/13/2014 CCS HB 1439 House: 3rd reading of the final conference committee version of the bill to declare some federal gun rules and laws invalid in Missouri and allow lawsuits against federal workers for enforcing those federa
    05/13/2014 CCS SB 662 Senate: 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 passed on the legislature's last day.
    05/12/2014 SS SB 841 House: 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to ban the sale of tobacco vapor products to minors.
    05/12/2014 SS HB 1411 House: 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to require parental permission for a minor to use a tanning facility's services.
    05/12/2014 SCS HCS HB 1307 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to expand the waiting period for an abortion from 24 hours to 72 hours after contacting a physican.
    05/12/2014 SS HCS HJR 90 Senate: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to put an alternative early-voting measure on the ballot that would have fewer days than an initiative petition proposal.
    05/07/2014 HCS HJR 75 House: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to impose a cap on the growth of state appropriations.
    05/07/2014 HA 1 HA 12 HCS SB 693 House: Adoption of an amendment to create the "Tax-Me-More Voluntary Fund" for contributions from Missourians who think they are under taxed.
    05/07/2014 SS HB 1411 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to require parental permission for a minor to use a tanning facility's services.
    05/06/2014 SS SB 509 House: Adoption of the motion to override the governor's veto of the tax-cut bill. Adoption require 109 votes.
    05/06/2014 SCSSJR 36 House: 3rd reading of a constititonal amendment to require state government enforce the constitutional right to bear arms.
    05/06/2014 SA 1 SA 1 SCS HCS HB 1307 Senate: Defeat of an amendment to exclude pregnancies caused by incest from a bill extending the waiting period before an abortion can be performed.
    05/06/2014 SA 1 SCS HCS HB 1307 Senate: Defeat of an amendment to exclude pregnancies caused by rape from a bill extending the waiting period before an abortion can be performed.
    05/05/2014 SS SB 509 Senate: Adoption of a motion to override the governor's veto of the tax-cut bill. Adoption required 23 votes.
    05/04/2014 CCS SB 612 Senate: 3rd reading of the CCS that added various tax reduction changes, one of 8 bills the governor charged lawmakers passed in the last day of the session providng $425 million in tax breaks to special in
    05/01/2014 SS HB 1490 Senate: 3rd reading of the Senate's version of a bill to ban the Education Department from implementing the national "Common Core Standards" for schools.
    04/30/2014 SS SB 673 House: 3rd reading and final passage of a bill that would reduce the number of weeks of unemployment compensation when unemployment numbers are less.
    04/30/2014 HCS SCS SB 493 House: 3rd reading of a bill to impose restrictions on students transferring out of unaccredited schools, but provide private-school funding options.
    04/30/2014 SS HCS HB 2011 House: A motion on the Social Services budget to leave open the option in conference committee to include federal funds for Medicaid expansion.
    04/30/2014 SS HCS HB 1439 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill declaring some federal gun laws, regulation and taxes null and penalizing federal employees who try to enforce them.
    04/29/2014 SS SB 510 House: 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to expand conditions under which unemployment compensation can be denied including behavior off the job.
    04/29/2014 SCS SB 526 House: 3rd reading of a bill to establish a searchable database of health care coverage claims under Workers' Compensation.
    04/29/2014 SS HJR 68 Senate: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment for a 0.75 cent per dollar increase for transportation, subject to voter approval.
    04/24/2014 HB 2126 House: 3rd reading of a bill to expand the "Castle Doctrine" to expand the right to use deadly force against an intruder to include renters of property being intruded upon.
    04/24/2014 HCS HB 2238 House: 3rd reading of a bill to legalize use of hemp oil for medical treatment.
    04/24/2014 HCS HB 1655 House: 3rd reading of a bill to allow an audult to ride or drive a motorcycle without a helmet.
    04/22/2014 HB 2126 House: Perfection of a bill to expand the right to use deadly force against an intruder to include a rental property resident.
    04/17/2014 HCS HB 1690 House: 3rd reading of a bill to ban the sale of tobacco vapor products to minors.
    04/17/2014 SS SB 841 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to prohibit sale of tobacco vapor products to minors.
    04/16/2014 SS SB 509 House: 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.
    04/16/2014 HB 1591 House: 3rd reading of a bill that includes a provision giving students rights to have toy guns, vocalize imaginary weapons and draw images of weapons in school.
    04/14/2014 HA 1 HB 1591 House: Adoption of an amendment to expand the "Castle Doctrine" authorizing force to protect against intrusion on private property to include a person authorized by the property owner to occupy the propert
    04/10/2014 HB 1490 House: 3rd reading of a bill to prohibit the state Education Department from implementing the federal Common Core Standards for education.
    04/10/2014 SCS SB 892 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to move the presidential primary from early February to early March.
    04/09/2014 HB 1170 House: Perfection of a bill to prohibit "closed shops" that require payment of union dues or fees for a worker to get or keep a job.
    04/09/2014 HB 1770 House: Perfection of a bill to prohibit requiring union membership to get or keep a job. Fell short of the 82 votes needed for 3rd reading and never was brought up again in the House.
    04/08/2014 HCS HB 1303 House: 3rd reading of a bill to establish prayer rights for students in public schools.
    04/03/2014 HB 1617 House: 3rd reading of a bill to require annual approval for union dues being deducted from a government worker's pay check.
    04/03/2014 HCS HB 1439 House: 3rd reading of a bill to declare "null" federal laws and rules limiting 2nd Amendment gun rights and allow lawsuits against government workers who violate that limit.
    04/03/2014 SCS SB 723 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to increase the amount of bonding debt the state can authorize for various government building projects and rennovations.
    04/03/2014 SB 673 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to limit the number of weeks for unemployment compensation under some circumstances.
    04/03/2014 SCS SJR 27 Senate: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to include digital data under provisions restricting government searches.
    04/02/2014 HCS HB 1303 House: Perfection of a bill to allow students to organize prayers and prayer organizations in public schools.
    04/01/2014 HCS HB 1439 House: Perfection of the gun-rights bill that declares null any federal rule or law that infringes on Second Amendment rights and allow lawsuits against gov't workers who try to enforce such rules.
    04/01/2014 SS SB 509 Senate: 3rd reading of a package of income tax cuts that legislative staff estimate would cost more than $600 million per year when fully implemented.
    03/31/2004 HCS HB 1447 House: 3rd reading of a bill to prohibit the Revenue Department from having to show documents proving identity for a driving license renewal if they had been produced before.
    03/31/2004 HCS HB 1861 House: 3rd reading of a bill to restrict extended out-of-state use of electronic benefit cards for the welfare program Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
    03/31/2004 HB 1617 House: Perfection of the "pay check protection bill" to impose requirements before worker pay can be automatically deducted for a union.
    03/27/2014 SB 660 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to essentially restrict Planned Parenthood from geting state family planning funds.
    03/25/2014 HA 3 HCS HB 2002 House: 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.
    03/25/2014 HA 2 HCS HB 2011 House: 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.
    03/24/2014 HB 1204 House: 3rd reading of a bill to impose restrictions on drones.
    03/13/2014 HCS HJR 56 House: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to restrict government from interfering with home schooling, private schools or parental rights over children.
    03/13/2014 HB 1388 House: 3rd reading of a bill to require a search warrant for government access to various types of electronic information.
    03/13/2014 HB 1573 House: 3rd reading of a bill to impose a tax on pre-paid cell phones to fund 911 emergency services and to allow county votes on imposing a monthly fee on cell phones.
    03/13/2014 HB 1411 House: 3rd reading of a bill to require parental consent for a minor to use a tanning facility.
    03/13/2014 HB 1132 House: 3rd reading of a bill to expand the limit on tax credits for contributions to pregnancy resource centers.
    03/13/2014 HCS HB 1557 House: 3rd reading of a bill to remove a legal obstacle to use of automatic red-light photo enforcement systems.
    03/13/2014 SS SB 510 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to expand the definition of job misconduct that can disqualify a worker from unemployment compensation.
    03/13/2014 SB 667 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to restrict how long the governor can delay filling a vacant department director position.
    03/11/2014 HCS HB 1307 House: 3rd reading of a bill to extend the waiting period before an abortion can be performed.
    03/11/2014 HCS HB 1192 House: 3rd reading of a bill to require advance notice be provided to the parents of a minor before an abortion can be performed on the minor.
    03/10/2014 HCS HB 1192 House: Perfection of a bill to require five days advance notice to the parent of a minor before an abortion could be performed on the minor.
    03/07/2014 HCS HB 1501 House: 3rd reading of a bill to provide expand tax breaks for acquiring land in St. Louis city for development.
    03/06/2014 HCS HB 1310 House: 3rd reading for a bill to provide tax breaks for development of some types of digital businesess.
    03/05/2014 HB 1173 House: 3rd reading of a bill to reinstate limits on pain and suffering awards in medical malpractice lawsuits.
    03/05/2014 SB 649 House: 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to restrict local government from prohibiting wireless communication equipment on government poles or structures.
    03/05/2014 HCS HB 1307 House: Perfection of a bill to extend the waiting period after consulting a doctor before an abortion could be performed from 24 hours to 72 hours.
    02/27/2014 HCS HJR 47 House: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to require a government-issued photo ID to vote.
    02/27/2014 HB 1073 House: 3rd reading of a bill to require a government-issued photo ID to vote.
    02/27/2014 SCS SB 493 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to restrict students from being able to transfer out of unaccredited schools.
    02/25/2014 HCS HJR 47 House: Perfection of a constitutional amendment that would authorize the legislature to require a photo ID to vote.
    02/25/2014 HB 1073 House: Perfection of a bill to require a government-issued photo ID to vote.
    02/20/2014 SS SB 694 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to remove the limit on payday loans, but impose restrictions on renewals and add other consumer protections.
    02/20/2014 SCS SB 613 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to declare some federal gun laws invalid in Missouri and make it a crime for federal government workers to enforce those laws.
    02/20/2014 SCS SJR 36 Senate: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to require Missouri state government to uphold the right to bear arms.
    02/20/2014 HCS HB 1295 House: 3rd reading of a bill to phase in an income tax cut.
    02/20/2014 HCS HB 1253 House: 3rd reading of a bill to cut business taxes and personal income taxes on income from businesses.
    02/20/2014 HJR 72 House: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to give the legislature power to overturn spending restrictions by the governor.
    02/19/2014 HCS HB 1295 House: Perfection of a bill to phase in a cut in the state income tax rates.
    02/19/2014 HCS HB 1253 House: Perfection of a bill to cut business taxes and personal income taxes on income from business.
    02/17/2014 SA 5 SCS SB 613 Senate: Reconsideration of the adoption of an amendment that would require a person to report a firearm theft within 72 hours. Adoption of the motion removed that provision from the bill.
    02/13/2014 SS SB 498 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to require navigators under the federal health care law to be bonded and allow lawsuits against navigators.
    02/13/2014 SB 508 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to impose additional requirements of "navigators" working with the federal health insurance law.
    02/13/2014 SCS SB 526 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to establish a statewide database of workers of have filed Workers Compensation claims, searchable by potential employers.
    02/13/2014 HB 113 House: 3rd reading of a bill to establish a statewide registry to record the individual drug prescriptions.
    02/13/2014 HB 1430 House: Third reading of a bill to let a licensed medical professional refuse to participate in a process that violates the person's conscience.
    02/12/2014 HB 1430 House: Perfection of a bill to let a licensed medical professional refuse to participate in a process that violates the person's conscience.
    02/11/2014 SS SB 498 Senate: 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.
    02/06/2014 SB 649 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to restrict local government from prohibiting wireless communication equipment on government poles or structures.
    02/05/2014 SA 1 SCS SB 518 Senate: An amendment to expand Medicaid coverage for adults to 138 percent of the federal poverty level.
    02/ 6/2014 HJR 30 Senate: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment that would give the lieutenant governor power to fill some vacancies if the governor delayed.
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