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2015 Bill(s)
* HB 188 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H 2nd Read Description: Various ethics provisions. Prohibit a legislator working as a lobbyist for two yearsafter leaving office. Prohibit lobbyist gifts to individual legislators. Expand disclosure requirements for national political organizations.
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* HB 221 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H Government Oversight Description: Re-enact an existing law requiring prompt reporting of campaign contributions made during a legislative session or that exceed $5,000.
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* HB 222 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H Government Oversight Description: Require any corporation that spends more than 25 percent of its budget for campaign or election purposes to disclose its contributors -- whether the corporation is in Missouri or not.
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* HB 223 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H Government Oversight Description: Require a candidate to disclose in an advertisement if it was financed by government funds.
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* HB 224 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H Government Oversight Description: Require funds paid as a settlement with state government be deposited with the statement, except for payments to victims or to charity.
See: Official legislative description and status* HB 225 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H Perfection Description: Require a nominee by the governor requiring Senate confirmation to disclose within 30 days of the nomination all political contributions within the past four years. The bill was approved by the H. Gov't Accountability Cmmittee on Jan. 9, but the bill was not assigned to a select committee nor does it appear on the perfection calendar.
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* HB 464 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H Perfection Description: Prohibit a University of Missouri member of the Board of Curators from voting on hiring the governor who appointed him. Likely would rule Jay Nixon out as a University of Missouri president.
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HB 548 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H Health Insurance Description: Prohibit a health isurance plan from charging a co-pay for treatment by an occupational therapist that is higher than what is charged for a physician. Current law prohibits higher copays for a physical therapist.
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HB 675 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: S 3rd Read Description: Extend into Boone County a commerical zone in Columbia for higher truck weight and size limits. The Columbia commercial zone law was passed by the legislature in 2014, HB 2163.
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HB 676 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H Perfection Description: Provide a tax break to a business that uses vacant property owned by a public higher education institution, under some circumstances.
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HB 677 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H Small Business Description: Provide a tax credit for a small business approved by the Small Business Regulatory Fairness Board.
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HB 678 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H Government Oversight Description: Require live audio and video streaming on Internet of sessions of the legislature and legislative committees.
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HB 815 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H Economic Development Description: Provide a tax break for investment in a Missouri business with ten or fewer employees.
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HB 855 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H Economic Development Description: Expand from nine to 12 the number of the Tax Increment Financing Commission in Boone County. TIFs provide tax breaks for developers.
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HB 865 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H Select Com. on Commerce Description: Prohibit local government from requiring a business to provide employees with a higher salary or other employment benefit that exceeds federal or state requirements.
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HCS HB 884 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't Description: Let a Boone County hospital invest up to 15 percent of its funds in mututual funds.
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HB 981 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H Perfection Description: Declare it is not a conflict of interest for a county commissioner serving on another governmental body to vote on a budget request submitted to the commission by the other governmental body.
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HB 982 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: S 3rd Read Description: Let University of Missouri county extension councils borrow money, but provide it does not constitute a debt of the university.
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HB 1011 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H 2nd Read Description: Require one voting member of the University of Missouri Board of Curators be a student.
See: Official legislative description and status* HB 1139 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H Ways & Means Description: Provide a tax deduction for federal penalties assessed against a person for not having health insurance as required by the federal Affordable Care Act -- Obamacare.
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HB 1146 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H Economic Development Description: Change the reference in a tax credit for business program from the "new jobs training program" to the "Missouri works job training."
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HB 1215 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H 2nd Read Description: Require legislative approval before the Board of Public Building can authorize a bond issue.
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HB 1261 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H Select Com. on Education Description: Establish a grant program for military advocacy organizations that also advcate economic development and job retention in areas around military bases.
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HB 1305 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: S 3rd Read (IN BUDGET) Description: Create a commission of mostly legislators to review state regulations and recommend which should be repealed or changed.
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HCS HB 1312 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't Description: Require the Economic Development Department to provide a report to the legislature on whether each of the state's various tax credits are providing a director indirect benefit to the state.
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HB 1313 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H Perfection Description: Provide a program to award grants to organizations that agree to hold conventions or similar major events in Missouri.
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HB 1324 Sponsor:Rowden, Caleb Status: H Perfection Description: Create a commission in the Social Services to study various welfare issues and federal programs including whether the "Pay for Success" federal program would be beneficial to the state and whether "social impact bonds" wuld be a beneficial tool.
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.
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