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2017 Bill(s)

SCS SB 61
Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
Status: S Perfection
Description: Allow another set of colored lights that a vehicle owned by a Transportation Department contractor that motorists are required to try to provide clearance when the vehicle is stopped. Include the option of red and blue lights in addition to amber or amber and white lights, but allow red and blue lights only when the vehicle is parked in a work zone.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • CCS SB 62
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Increase the employee contribution for the public higher education retirement system by outside employees from 1 percent to 5.5 percent. And require two percent contribution to a separate account. Does not cover the University of Missouri. The House added a number of other retirement provisions unrelated to higher education.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 63
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: IN SCS SB 44
    Description: Allow a school district to rely on technical coursework and skill assessments development for industry-recognized certificates in establishing a career education course offering.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • CCS SB 111
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Require as a condition to file as a county public administrator candidate that the person provide a signed affidavit from a surety company that the candidate meets the bond requirements for the office. The House added a number of unrelated local government provisions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 187
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Add public utility vehicles under a law that requires a motorist move as far as possible from a stationary Transportation Department vehicle with flashing lights.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 243
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Allow trucks to tailgate if using a system that coordinates breaking between the trucks. The governor vetoed a similar bill in 2016, HB 1733.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 281
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: S Local Gov't & Elections
    Description: Expand a requirement for a newly elected water district board member to complete six hours of training to impose the requirement every time a board member is elected -- in order to get attendance fees and other compensation.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HCS SB 282
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: H Rules - Legislative Oversight
    Description: Establish a hierarchy of who is eligible for compensation for the death or injury of a law enforcement officer of first responder starting with the victim's child and spouse.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • CCS SB 283
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Changes in special road district commission membership. Allow members from outside the district if the member lives within the county. Cease holding voter elections for commission members if there have not been candidates in the past two elections. The House added several unrelated provisions dealing with county nuisance ordinances, exempting commercial vehicles from nuisance ordinances in some cases, changes in business tax breaks in port authority zones, expanding authority for some counties to impose taxes on tourist attraction tickets.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SCS SB 284
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Let a county commission use investment managers for handling cemetery trust funds.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 306
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: IN SCS SB 300
    Description: Require one rather than two surety bonds by the treasurer of seven-director school districts.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 321
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Allow not wearing a seat belt to be a factor in a lawsuit involving damages caused by a motor vehicle accident. Current law prohibits not wearing a seat belt to be a factor in recovering damages.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 331
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Impose restrictions on sterilizing an impounded animal unless medically necessary. Various other restrictions on impoundment. Require the animal be provided proper care Exempt the owner from paying fees for boarding if the owner is acquitted of violation of an offense that led to the animal being boarded.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HCS SB 332
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: H 3rd Read (IN BUDGET)
    Description: Let the county collector use his/her own judgment about whether a tax payment has been made in time if the postmark is missing or illegible.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 372
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: S Professional Registration
    Description: Abolish several government committees and offices and transfer their responsibilities to other governmental units.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 400
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp.
    Description: Require a parole hearing for some life-sentence inmates 65 years of age or older with no prior felony conviction and who has served at least 30 years.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SCS SB 404
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Allow direct shipment of alcohol to a Missourian without having to purchase the liquor from a liquor store in person.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HCS SB 405
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: H Rules - Administrative Oversight
    Description: Let Clay and Jefferson counties establish a board to oversee central dispatching of emergency services if the county did not imlement a state law establishing such a board as part of a phone service tax to fund emergency phone services.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SCS SB 418
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Various changes in local emergency medical services boards and state license Require autism training for an EMT license.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 441
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: S Health & Pensions
    Description: Various changes in teacher retirement provisions. Expand a provision that cuts retirement if a limit on part-time work by a retired teacher for a school is exceeded.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 442
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Wording changes in various local government provisions. Legislative staff describe the changes as "technical corrections."
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 468
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Expand the information that an agency has to file for an administrative rule. Require an administrative rule to include a "fiscal note" of estimated costs. Require emailing information to interested parties.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 492
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: S Professional Registration
    Description: Various provisions dealing with motor vehicle dealers. Raise the bond requirement. Require a license application include a phone number an email address where the applicant can be reached during business hours.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 493
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: S Insurance & Banking
    Description: Establish a priority list of family members who can make health care decisions for terminating medical care of a terminal relative. Impose requirements and restrictions on the decisions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 528
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Increase from $1,400 to $3,000 per connection the maximum grant the Natural Resources Department can provide to public water and sewer systems.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 529
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: WITHDRAWN
    Description: Give the county commission power to dissolve a planning and zoning commission in the county. Provide a means for county voters to eliminate a planning and zoning commission through a ballot issue submitted by initiative petition.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 530
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: S Local Gov't & Elections
    Description: Nullify any minimum wage requirement adopted by a local covered prior to August 28, 2015. Effectively stops St. Louis minimum wage ordinance that was upheld by the Mo. Supreme Court stuck down the law Feb. 28, 2017, but a prior law continues to block future city minimum wages. Current law, passed in 2015, prohibits cities from imposing a minimum wage higher than state or federal law, but exempted cities that already had passed a minimum wage.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SCS SJR 11
    Sponsor: Hegeman, Dan
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Let a non-partisan court selection panel submit as many names as it wants to the governor for a judicial vacancy. Currently, a nominating panel is limited to submitting three names.
    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.