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2012 Bill(s)

SB 434
Sponsor: Callahan, Victor
Status: S General Laws
Description: A number of changes in procedures for changing school district boundary lines. Could be a vehicle for merging the Kansas City or St. Louis school district with accredited, outlying county districts.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 435
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: IN SCS SB 553
    Description: Prohibit withholding fees from state government worker paychecks. 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: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 436
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Make all state tax credits subject to voter approval.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 437
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Implement a constitutional amendment to have the governor and lieutenant governor to run as a team, like the U.S. president and vice president.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 438
    Sponsor: Mayer, Rob
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Prohibit a labor contract that requires workers to join a union or pay service fees to the union. Submit the proposal on the statewide ballot to take effect. It's what supporters call "Right to Work."
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 439
    Sponsor: Mayer, Rob
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Suspend for five years the prevaling wage rate requirement for government projects in areas declared natural disaster areas by the governor.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 440
    Sponsor: Engler, Kevin
    Status: S Health
    Description: Repeal a ban on excessive medial malpractice insurance rates. Change several other provisions on medical malpractice insurance companies.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 441
    Sponsor: Engler, Kevin
    Status: IN SCS SB 767
    Description: Establish special auto license plates for contributors to the Missouri Junior Golf Foundation.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 442
    Sponsor: Stouffer, Bill
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Require a photo ID to vote. In 2011, the legislature put on the 2012 ballot a constitutional amendment authorizing a photo ID requirement. The governor vetoed a companion bill to implement the requirement if approved by the voters.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SS SB 443
    Sponsor: Stouffer, Bill
    Status: H Rules
    Description: A number of changes in laws governing drunken driving and truck licenses. Expand the law allowing heavier trucks on the road. Implement a federal requirement imposing restrictions on DWI limited driving permits.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 444
    Sponsor: Stouffer, Bill
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Repeal a law requiring binding arbitration if requested by a plaintiff in a negligence action against the Transportation Department. Let the Transportation Commission delegate some hearings on contested cases.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 445
    Sponsor: Goodman, Jack
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Establish a joint committee on revising Missouri's criminal statutes.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 446
    Sponsor: Goodman, Jack
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Allow a county's law enforcement restitution fund , funded by court fees, to be used for funding drug courts.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 447
    Sponsor: Goodman, Jack
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Include mail to the property that, if stolen, constitutes a felony crime rather than a misdemeanor.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SS SB 448
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: H Rules
    Description: Give the Health Department the power to investigate and shut down an unlicensed child care provider if there are pending criminal charges against the provider. Increase child care license violation penalties. Give the state power to immediately close an illegal, unlicensed facility.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 449
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Require the Mental Health Department to develop a plan for moving residents out of state-funded facilities for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled to other settings.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 450
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Retain the three-year term provision rather than six years for a school district that becomes an urban district because of the 2010 census. Urban district members serve six-year terms. Applies to St. Charles County schools.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 451
    Sponsor: Cunningham, Jane
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Allow school districts to share resources or purchasing with other districts, private schools or other governmental agencies.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 452
    Sponsor: Cunningham, Jane
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: Let a student enroll in an adjoining public school district if it has a district closer to the student's home than the student's district or there is a transportation hardship in getting to the student's district school.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 453
    Sponsor: Cunningham, Jane
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Impose a limit on discrimination lawsuit awards filed against employers.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 454
    Sponsor: Pearce, David
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Establish provisions for distributing funds when the legislature fails to fully fund the School Foundation Formal that provides state funds to local schools. A number of other changes in the School Foundation Formula that allocates funds to local schools.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 455
    Sponsor: Pearce, David
    Status: Conference: CCR to H
    Description: Establish a system for transfering credit among the state's public universities. Require the Higher Education Department to establish a list of at least 25 courses. The HCS prohibits the University of Missouri from operating the Sue Shear Institute for Women in Public Life (not in the CCS). It also contains various tax credits for business and sports contests.
    See: 
  • House roll call - HA 1 HA 7 HCS SB 455 (05/07/2012): An amendment to a higher education bill that would prohibit government operation of the Sue Shear Institute for Women or use of public funds for institute that engages in political activity.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 456
    Sponsor: Pearce, David
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: Establish provisions by which a school district could refuse to accept a student from an unaccredited district. In 2010, the state Supreme Court ruled that a district must accept students from the St. Louis city school system.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SCS SB 457
    Sponsor: Schmitt, Eric
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Require anyone who sees sex abuse of a child report it immediately to the state Children's Division.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 458
    Sponsor: Wright-Jones, Robin
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Create a program to provide loans to homeowners and small businesses for energy efficiency improvement projects. Require utilities to provide mechanism in utility bills to repay the loans.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 459
    Sponsor: Wright-Jones, Robin
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Require the contractor for a government-funded public works project employ only laborers from the locality in which the project is being constructed unless local workers are not available.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 460
    Sponsor: Wright-Jones, Robin
    Status: S Education
    Description: Require kindergarten attendance for a child who has reached the age of five. Let schools admit younger children.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 461
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Give St. Louis city control over its own police department.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 462
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Impose restrictions on pay-day loans, small loans. Add enforcement provisions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 463
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Increase the fine for failing to wear a seat belt from $10 to $50. The original version does not change the requirement that a driver be stopped for some other violation in order to get a ticket for not wearing a seat belt.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SS SB 464
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: VOTER APPROVED
    Description: Prohibit the administration from implementing the federal law on health insurance exchanges. Require authorization for an exchange be established by law. Enactment requires statewide voter approval rather than signature by the governor.
    See: 
  • House roll call - SS SB 464 (05/18/2012): Final passage of a bill to prohibit the administration from implementing without legislative approval a health insurance exchange as part of the federal health care law.
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 464 (02/02/2012): 3rd reading of a bill to prohibit the administration from implementing without legislative approval a health insurance exchange as part of the federal health care law.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 465
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Perf
    Description: The Buchanan County and towns in the country establish a district to impose taxes for teather, cultural arts and entertainment activities.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 466
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Change the allocation of gambling boat taxes for boats licensed after 1998. Increase allocation to the Veterans' Commission.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * HCS SS SB 467
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: Conference
    Description: Require a state agency to post information on its website about federal grants received by the agency. The HCS contains a number of other unrelated provisions involving tax credits and land banks. HA 2 includes requiring the Economic Development Dept. to share with a city adverse information on any company seeking tax incentives from the town. In response to the Moberly Mamtek bankruptcy.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 468
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Expand a law prohibiting government contracts from requiring union membership by workers hired by the firm awarded the contract. Currently the ban applies to a contract involving more than 50% of state funds. This would expand the ban to a contract involving any public funds.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HCS SS SB 469
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Terminate all agency rules after ten years and require agencies to re-adopt rules every ten years.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 470
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Repeal state regulation of rates charged by household movers. Various other changes in regulations governing movers. A similar bill was vetoed by the governor in 2011. The final CCS version contains a number of other, unrelated issuses involving transportation.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 471
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Extend the sunset for a tax credit for a contribution to a child crisis care center or child advocacy center.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 472
    Sponsor: Kraus, Will
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Freeze authorization of various tax credits and terminate others. Redirect any increase in state revenue from the tax credit reductions to a reduction in the corporate income tax rate.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 473
    Sponsor: Kraus, Will
    Status: S Governmental Accountability
    Description: Require the state attorney general to sue the federal government to enforce immigration laws. Make implementation subject to voter approval.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 474
    Sponsor: Kraus, Will
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Require a photo ID to get food stamps, if the federal government grants the state an exemption for the requirement.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 475
    Sponsor: Lamping, John
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Implement a constitutional amendment to have the governor and lieutenant governor to run as a team, like the U.S. president and vice president.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 476
    Sponsor: Lamping, John
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Impose restrictions on pay-day loans, small loans. Add enforcement provisions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 477
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: IN SCS SB 484
    Description: A number of expansions to the no-call law regulating telemarketers. Include cell phones. Ban automated calls.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 478
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Veterans
    Description: Eliminate various government job benefits for legislators and statewide elected officials who first take office in 2013. Eliminate government retirement benefits and health insurance coverage.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 479
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Eliminate various government job benefits for legislators and statewide elected officials who first take office in 2013. Eliminate government retirement benefits and health insurance coverage.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 480
    Sponsor: Stouffer, Bill
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Change the definition of a common carrier in a law providing a sales tax exemption for heavier trucks. The amended House version contains a number of unrelated including off-highway vehicles, trucker licenses, drunken driving, special auto licenses, city street uses and much more.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 481
    Sponsor: Stouffer, Bill
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Provide a tax credit for donations for care of mentally retarded persons or persons with developmental disabilities. Extend the sunset for tax credits for contributions to residential treatment facilities.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 482
    Sponsor: Stouffer, Bill
    Status: H Higher Education
    Description: Increase the maximum award that can be provided by the University of Missouri Board of Curators under an Alzheimer's research program.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 483
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: S Education
    Description: Provide a college scholarship program for students who graduate from high school early. The scholarship would cover both public and private higher education institutions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SCS SB 484
    Sponsor: Rupp, Scott
    Status: H Rules
    Description: Various restrictions on telemarketing. Expand the state's no-call law on telemarketers to include cell phones. Restrict blocking caller IDs and robocalls. Require a political solicitation call to identify the sponsor of the call.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SCS SB 485
    Sponsor: Cunningham, Jane
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Expand a law allowing a lien for repair work done to a vehicle or aircraft. Allow a lien to be filed for work approved by an authorized agent of the owner. Current law restricts it to the actual owner. Extend the deadline for filing a deadline.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 486
    Sponsor: Wright-Jones, Robin
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Require a person seeking more than 49 voter registration applications to dislose the person's name, phone number address and other information. Impose tougher penalties for fraudulent voter registration.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 487
    Sponsor: Wright-Jones, Robin
    Status: S Progress
    Description: Establish a Minority Business Enterprise and Women's Business Enterprise Oversight Review Committee to make recommendations. Require the Office of Administration to implement a plan to increase contracts with businesses owned by certain types of people.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 488
    Sponsor: Wright-Jones, Robin
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Impose energy efficiency standards for newly built state government buildings.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 489
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Exempt persons with prior concealed weapons permits from the expanded training requirements in a law passed in 2011. Also exclude from the unlawful weapons possession crime a weapon possessed as a curio, ornament or keepsake.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 490
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Prohibit nuisance lawsuits for environmental emissions when a permit was granted and there is no violation of the permit rules or statute, except for nuclear waste.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 491
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Require the Agriculture Department compensate counties for revenue lost from Farmland Trust donations. Exempt gas stations from lawsuits for damages caused by the state's ethanol requirement.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SS SB 492
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: H Retirement
    Description: Exempt legislators and statewide elected officials who first take office in 2013 from the changes in retirement benefits formula for state government workers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 493
    Sponsor: Stouffer, Bill
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Let Macon County provide property tax exemptions in blighted areas.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 494
    Sponsor: Wright-Jones, Robin
    Status: S Health
    Description: Impose requirements for reporting to the state when medical accidents, errors, injuries or death have occured.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 495
    Sponsor: Wright-Jones, Robin
    Status: S Health
    Description: Require hospitals to provide information about emergency contraception to rape victims.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 496
    Sponsor: Wright-Jones, Robin
    Status: S Health
    Description: Require sex education courses in school be based on peer review projects. Require hospitals provide information about emergency contraception to rape victims. Require a pharmacy to dispense any prescribed drug. Require sex education courses teach birth control.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 497
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Increase the crime for trespassing and for false impersonation. Make impersonating a public servant a felony.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 498
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Expand a law prohibiting cities from restricting non-profit organizations from selling donated items.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 499
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Add an additional $1 fee to enter a gambling boat with the money going to the Veterans' Commission.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 500
    Sponsor: Wright-Jones, Robin
    Status: S Health
    Description: Require hospitals to establish patient safety committees. Require implementation of safe patient handling policies. Require rules to allow a hospital employee to refuse to patient handling that poses a risk of injury.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 501
    Sponsor: Wright-Jones, Robin
    Status: S Education
    Description: Create a council to study digital technology access alternatives.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 502
    Sponsor: Wright-Jones, Robin
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Give an elected official power to refuse to serve on a jury during the person's term in office.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 503
    Sponsor: Wright-Jones, Robin
    Status: S Education
    Description: Let the state board that runs the St. Louis school district to sponsor a charter school. The board took over the school after it lost state accreditation.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 504
    Sponsor: Wright-Jones, Robin
    Status: H Rules
    Description: Require motor vehicle inspection stations to have liability insurance.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 505
    Sponsor: Wright-Jones, Robin
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Require a health carrier to spend a minimum percentage of its revenues on health care services. Make it 90% for the largest carriers.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 506
    Sponsor: Wright-Jones, Robin
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Create a separate crime of assault against a mass transit employee.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 507
    Sponsor: Wright-Jones, Robin
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Require health insurance cover an ultrasound if a mammogram finds dense breast tissue.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 508
    Sponsor: Wright-Jones, Robin
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Require a person found guilty of cheating on paying a fare for the St. Louis transportation system (Bi-State) to pay the costs of investigating and prosecuting the crime.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 509
    Sponsor: Wright-Jones, Robin
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Let St. Louis city provide property tax reductions or exemptions for improvements in blighted areas.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * HCS SCS SB 510
    Sponsor: Cunningham, Jane
    Status: Conference
    Description: Require property assessment consider the current market conditions including foreclosures and bank sales. The House version contains a number of unrelated issues covering tax breaks for sporting event organizers, fee offices, road districts, improvement taxing districts, local park taxes, emergency medical care, fire districts, radio towers and much more.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 511
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Health
    Description: Require approval by the Joint Committee on MO HealthNet to make any change in Medicaid coverage.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 512
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Health
    Description: Declare void a medical plan contract provision that prohibits a physician from practicing in a particular geographic area.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 513
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Prohibit any new projects under the Downtown Economic Stimulus Act that provides tax breaks for development.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 514
    Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: Prohibit a labor contract that requires workers to join a union or pay service fees to the union. Submit the proposal on the statewide ballot to take effect. It's what supporters call "Right to Work."
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 515
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Health
    Description: Require the state to develop a standard form for filing an group insurance application.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 516
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Prohibit public or consumer members of boards appointed by the governor from having a financial interest in the area regulated by the board.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 517
    Sponsor: Brown, Dan
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Increase the fine for not driving in the right-hand lane except to pass with an additional $1,500 fine.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 518
    Sponsor: Engler, Kevin
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Create a three-year pilot program for mental health assessment of criminal defendants for consideration for treatment rather than criminal penalty, exempting more serious felony crimes.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 519
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Health
    Description: Require an HMO to provide each provider with the carrier's standard fee schedule. Establish provisions requiring HMOs to accept providers agreeing to the HMO terms.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 520
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Require a candidate political committee designate in the filing the office the candidate is seeking.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 521
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Raise the age when child support requirements terminate from 21 to 22 years of age.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 522
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: Allow resumption of eligibility for Food Stamps for somone who lost eligibility because of a drug offense conviction upon various factors including participating in a substance abuse program.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 523
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Prohibit a person under age 18 from selling tobacco products.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 524
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: Add a Kansas City resident and a St. Louis resident to the Housing Development Commission.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 525
    Sponsor: Engler, Kevin
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: Make all circuit and associate circuit court judgships be filled by non-partisan elections.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 526
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Impose a 60 day deadline for a health benefit plan to decide on credentialing a health care professional.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 527
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Education
    Description: Require home school students be treated the same as other students for state financial aid for higher education.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 528
    Sponsor: Wright-Jones, Robin
    Status: IN SCS SB 767
    Description: Provide a special auto license plate for contributors to the Martin Luther King Jr. State Celebration Commission.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 529
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Health
    Description: Prohibit a hospital from requiring a physician to make referrals to the hospital as a condition for receiving medical staff privileges. Prohibit discrimination for being a member of another hospital system or health care facility.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 530
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Repeal the 2015 sunset for allocation of the non-resident entertainers and athletic team tax to agencies such as the Arts Council and Humanities Council.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 531
    Sponsor: Lamping, John
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Impose lower caps on some tax credits including historic preservation and low income housing. Restrict stacking of tax credits.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 532
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Extend the sunset for tax credits for food pantry contributions to 2022.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 533
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Health
    Description: Repeal the requirement for state approval for a new medical facility (Certificate of Need) if the project creates ten or more new jobs.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

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