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2011 Bill(s)

* SB 109
Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
Status: S General Laws
Description: Right to work legislation. Prohibit an employer from requiring or prohibiting union membership.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 110
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Prohibit the minimum wage from exceeding the federal minimum wage. Effectively reduces the minimum wage approved by Missouri voters a few years earlier. The bill would be subject to voter approval.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 139
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Subject tax credits to appropriations control by the legislature. Tax credits currently cost the state more than $500 million per year.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 140
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Repeal the residential property tax credit that is provided to persons who rent rather than own their homes.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 141
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Prohibit someone getting various tax credits from contributing to a political campaign for two years.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 142
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Remove statewide elected officials from the Missouri Development Finance Board and the Missouri Housing Development Commission.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 143
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Prohibit any new awards of tax breaks under the Missouri Downtown and Rural Economic Stimulus law. The law currently stops any new awards after 2012.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 144
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Impose a one year moratorium on low income housing tax credits issed by the Housing Commission.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 152
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Veterans
    Description: Various changes in the St. Louis police retirement plan. Restrict benefit increases or reductions to what is permitted under federal Treasury regulations.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 168
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: WITHDRAWN
    Description: Remove a requirement that the Cape Girardeau County circuit court maintain offices in both the towns of Jackson and Cape Girardeau.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 169
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: IN SCS SB 7
    Description: Establish a system for providing drug testing of welfare recipients suspected of using illegal drugs. Provide a three-year ban on welfare to a person who tests positive.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 170
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Veterans
    Description: Require government retirement plans to submit quarterly reports to the legislature's joint committee on public retirement systems. Give the committee power to subpoena witnesses and records of any plan that fails to submit a report.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 171
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Allow a judge to use of a private probation service by a court for a class C and D felony.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 172
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Various changes in the State Legal Expense Fund. Exempt covering costs arising from criminal conduct for which an employee is found guilty. Require a fee schedule for outside counsel.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 186
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Repeal a requirement that the Cape Girardeau County circuit court, probate division and clerk's office maintain separate offices in the towns of both Jackson and Cape Girardeau.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 198
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Repeal the law providing tax credits for estate taxes paid to the federal government or other states.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 199
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Expand the state's no-call law on telemarketers to include FAXes and cell phones. Restrict auto-dialing.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 200
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Require approval by the Higher Education Loan Authority for a public university to issue general obligation bonds or revenue bonds or otherwise borrow money.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 201
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Veterans
    Description: Various changes in the deferred compensation plan for state government workers. Provide for automatic enrollment. Make the participant's surviving spouse the primary beneficiary.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SCS SS SB 202
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: Back to S
    Description: Require a state government worker's written permission before union fees or dues can be withheld from the worker's paycheck. Former Gov. Bob Holden signed an order authorizing service fees from state workers. H Rules rejected the original committee substitute and returned it to the H Local Gov't Committee.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 202 (04/07/2011): 3rd reading of a bill to prohibit state government from automatically deducting union dues for fees from a state government worker without the worker's approval.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 232
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Repeal a law letting some cities impose zoning ordinances up to two miles outside the city limits.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 406
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Veterans
    Description: Allow electric utilities to charge ratepayers for the costs of seeking a nuclear plant permit up to a total of $40 million. The rate increase would be allowed only after an early site permit is granted. Also assess charges on utilities to finance the Public Counsel's office that represents consumers in utility rate cases.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 407
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Health
    Description: Repeal some tax credits including low income housing and historic preservation tax credits.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 408
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Extend the sunset to 2014 of the elderly prescription drug program MO RX that provides financial aid for prescriptions for lower income elderly.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 409
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Education
    Description: Include transportation costs to the the School Foundation Formula that is used to divide up state funds to local schools.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 410
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Veterans
    Description: Require transfer of funds between the retirement system for state government workers and the retirement system for Highway Patrol workers when an employee transfers between the two.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 411
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Impose a five-year moratorium on Missouri Development Finance Board and Infrastructure Development Fund Contribution tax credits.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 412
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Veterans
    Description: Remove a requirement that the state auditor audit a couple of state government retirement systems. Make it discretionary.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 413
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Veterans
    Description: Remove a requirement that the state auditor audit the school teacher retirement system. Make it discretionary.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 414
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Veterans
    Description: Give the state auditor discretionary power to audit some local government retirement systems.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 415
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Make it a crime for a person on probation for a felony to possess a firearm.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 416
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: Extend to U.S. attorneys and their assistants the right to carry concealed weapons without having to get permits.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 417
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Phase out the second injury fund that covers workers re-injured on the job and move coverage to the regular Workers' Compensation fund.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

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