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2016 Bill(s)

* SCS SB 591
Sponsor: Parson, Mike
Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
Description: Impose restrictions on who can testify as an expert witness in a trial. Prohibit an expert witness in a criminal trial from stating an opinion as to whether the defendant had the mental capacity to be held responsible for the crime. No motion was made in the legislature's veto session to override the governor's veto.
See: 
  • Senate roll call - SB 591 (01/19/2016): Perfection of a bill to impose limits on the testimoney of expert witnesses in lawsuits including liability lawsuits against business.
  • House roll call - SCS SB 591 (04/27/2016): 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to impose restrictions on use of eye witness testimoney in court hearings.
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 592
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Education
    Description: Repeal the option that allows a school district to start school earlier than the legal prohibition of opening school ten days before the first Monday in September.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 593
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Governmental Accountability
    Description: Prohibit any federal regulation not authorized by federal law from taking effect in Missouri without legislative approval.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 664
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Exempt family farm corporations from a reporting and registration requirement for corporations owning farm land if there has been no change in the articles since the original incorporation.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 665
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Restrict the fee the AgriMissouri Commission can charge for using the commission's trademark to no more than the costs of administering the program. Impose other restrictions on commission fees.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 666
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Rules
    Description: Seeks to prohibit a legislator offering an amendment that duplicates a bill already introduced ino the legislature if it has not yet been heard by a committee.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 708
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Exempt from the local sales tax required for titling a car that is at least 10 years old at the time of titling.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 709
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't
    Description: Expand the tax credit for wine production costs to include purchase of used equipment. Currently it's limited to new equipment. Impose a $1 million annual cap on the total credits that can be authorized.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 710
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Require a criminal background check for navigator license applicants. The governor vetoed a similar bill, SB 508, in 2014. Navigators are a component of the federal Affordable Care Act to help persons pick a health insurance plan.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 736
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Provide that a defendant in a liability lawsuit is responsible for the defendant's percentage of fault. Require consideration of the fault of a party not included in the lawsuit.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 737
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections
    Description: Establish a board to hear appeals of of decisions of government agencies after all other administrative remedies and appeals have been exhausted.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HCS SB 738
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Repeal the August 2017 expiration date of a income tax refund checkoff for donations to the organ donor program.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 790
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Expand two crimes of stealing to include property owned or under the custody of a financial institution.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 791
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Increase the maximum fee that can be charged by the Public Safety Department for a corporate security advisor license from $200 to $250.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 844
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED: OVERRIDDEN
    Description: Require a finding of negligence by the owner of livestock for damages caused by loose livestock.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SB 844 (09/14/2016): Adoption of the motion to override the governor's veto of a bill to limit when a livestock owner is liable for damages caused by loose livestock.
  • House roll call - SB 844 (09/14/2016): Passage of the motion overriding the governor's veto of a bill to limit when a livestock owner is liable for damages caused by loose livestock.
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 845
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Veterans' Affairs & Health
    Description: Establish additional requirements for granting approval for expansion or creation of a long-term care facility under the certificate of need law that regulates medical facility expansion. Require consideration of persons older than age 74 who live within 15 miles of the proposed site.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 846
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't
    Description: Add to persons appointed by the prosecuting attorney to the board that oversees a county law enforcement restitution fund.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 899
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Name a portion of U.S. Highway 50 in Pettis County the LeRoy Van Dyke Highway.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 945
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Agriculture, Food & Outdoor Resources
    Description: Provide grants to producers of methane-based fuel from various types of waste including agricultural and bio-waste materials.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 947
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Require that companies like Uber that compete with taxi cabs have insurance for their drivers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 948
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't
    Description: Establish a tax credit for making a contribution to an organization that funds various unmet health, hunger and hygiene needs for children in school.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 984
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't
    Description: Include Cedar County in a law authorizing a sales tax for a library district, upon voter approval.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1021
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't
    Description: Add ambulance districts to a law imposing requirements on where various government facilities must deposit their funds.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 1022
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections
    Description: Regulate and reqquire licensing of roofing contractors.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1023
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Impose requirements on information a health insurance plan provides in response to a pre-authorization inquiry by a health care provider.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1024
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Agriculture, Food & Outdoor Resources
    Description: prohibit local government from requiring that a pet shop sell only dogs and cats that came from an animal shelter or a kennel holding abandoned and impounded animals.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 1076
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Prohibit expansion of various types of residential care or nursing facility until the average occupance rate is at least 90 percent.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1077
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Renact a law to 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 original 2014 law was thrown out by a circuit court because the legislature added onto the bill a long list of provisions unrelated to the original bill.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 1078
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: A technical fix to a bill that clarifies that reference of "the director" in a law on commercial driver licenses referred to the Revenue Department director.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SJR 36
    Sponsor: Parson, Mike
    Status: S Rules
    Description: Limit legislative sessions in even-numbered years to considering only appropriations and emergency legislation.
    See: 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.