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Bill: SCS HCS HB 19 Sponsor:Stream, Rick Description: Appropriations for capitol improvements including authorization to spend bond issue monies, if the pending bond issue before the legislature is approved by the voters. HA 2 provides $50 million to repair the state Capitol and $38 million for a new state office building.
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Bill: HB 278 Sponsor:Brattin, Rick Description: Prohibit the state or local government from banning celebration of any federal holiday at a public place, school or other government locations.
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Bill: SCS HB 329 Sponsor:Dugger, Tony Description: Repeal a provision requiring financial institutions that are not licensed or supervised by the state to file reports with the state on real estate loans made, purchased or foreclosed. The final version passed by the legislature increases the maximum interest that can be charged for payday loans and other types of consumer loans.
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Bill: HB 339 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Description: Prohibit non-economic damage awards against a driver with auto insurance in a lawsuit by an uninsured motorist for damages from a traffic accident.
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Bill: SS HB 650 Sponsor:Ross, Robert Description: Declare the Land Survey Program headquarters building the Robert E. Meyers Building. The SS convers a large number of unrelated environmental and Natural Resources Department issues inlcuding requiring DNR approval to build or replace a sewage point source. The governor's veto message cited a provision that would impose a retrospective limit on damage awards against an abandoned mining operation in southeast Missouri, Doe Run.
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Bill: SCS HCS HB 1035 Sponsor:Kelley, Mike Description: Let a local taxing authority file an amended form for its tax rate filing with the State Auditor. The final version contains a number of other unrelated local government issues. The governor's veto message cited a provision that would allow annexation by a specific city without a public vote of residents in the area to be annexed.
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Bill: CCS SB 9 Sponsor:Pearce, David Description: Allow creation of districts for University of Missouri Extension that could levy property taxes, upon voter approval. The final CCS amends a law banning foreign ownership of farm land to allow up to 1 precent ownership by a non-US interest. The amended HCS contains a number of unrelated issues including various regulations over agriculture.
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Bill: HCS SB 110 Sponsor:Brown, Dan Description: Ban a court from establishing or changing custody or visitation rights of a parent who has been deployed by a military assignment until after the deployment ends. Prohibit making deployment the sole factor for modifying custody or visitation rights.
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Bill: SS SB 129 Sponsor:Sater, David Description: Exempt from state licensing requirements for a health care provider licensed in another state to provide volunteer health services.
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Bill: SB 170 Sponsor:Chappelle-Nadal, Maria Description: Allow votes by members of an elected governmental body to be cast by video conference. Current law requires physical presence to cast a vote except for the legislature and committees established by a governmental body.
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Vetoes Sustained
Bill: SCS HB 110 Sponsor:Smith, Jason Description: Clarify existing law that a special election or the next general election fills a vacancy in a statewide elected office. Let the governor appoint an "acting" position until the election. Prohibit whomever is appointed from running for the office in the next election.
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Bill: SS HB 253 Sponsor:Berry, T. J. Description: Provide a reduction in income taxes on business income based annually on a comparison of individual income tax and corporate income tax collections. The SS has become a large tax bill with cuts in the income taxes, income from business and business taxes. It imposes the state sales tax on Internet sales. Legislative staff estimate it could cost up to $692 million per year in lost state tax revenue.
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Bill: SCS HB 301 Sponsor:Engler, Kevin Description: Include the prosecutor in the list of persons who are to be given a court petition for conditional release of a person committed for being a sexually violent predator. The amended Senate version became an omnibus bill on sex crimes. Alllowing retroactive provisions in some cases, expanding crimes labeled as rape or sodomy, exclude juvenile offenders from the public sex-offender website and more. See:Official legislative description and status
Bill: SCS HCS HB 436 Sponsor:Funderburk, Douglas Description: Declare invalid any federal law or rule that infringes on Second Amendment constitutional rights for firearms. Make it a crime for a federal employee to enforce infringement of those rights. Let school districts designate teachers with special training to carry concealed weapons on school grounds. Make it a crime to publish or otherwise distribute the name of a firearm owner or applicant. Lower the minimum age for a concealed weapons permit rom 21 to 19 years of age.
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Bill: SCS HCS HB 611 Sponsor:Lant, Bill Description: Change the definition of a new hire for the Unemployment Compensation Program to meet a federal requirement. Various other changes involving penalty charges against employers.
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Bill: SS SB 28 Sponsor:Kraus, Will Description: Expand the definition of misconduct that disqualifies a worker from unemployment compensation coverage. Include misconduct outside the workplace or after working hours. The SS requires annual approval from a worker for wage withholdings for union political contributions.
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Bill: SS SB 29 Sponsor:Brown, Dan Description: Prohibit unions for government workers from withholding fees from paychecks. Require government worker approval to use fees or dues for politcal purposes.
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Bill: CCS SB 34 Sponsor:Cunningham, Mike Description: Require the state to maintain a public searchable database of Workers' Compensation claims.
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Bill: CCS SB 43 Sponsor:Munzlinger, Brian Description: Change state law to reflect a new federal limit on allowing trucks with idle technology equipment to exceed weight and size limits. The final CCS contains several unrelated issues including creating a crime of assault on a transit worker, drunken driving and naming a highway. The governor's veto message cited a provision changing the name of a section of I70 in Montgomery County from "Slave Rock" to "Graham's Picnic Rock. See:Official legislative description and status
Bill: CCS SB 51 Sponsor:Munzlinger, Brian Description: Increase license plate fees. The original version was to repeal a law that that exempts some farm vehicles from various requirements including submitting to drug tests and having a medical certificate. The final version also contains a number of other unrelated topics including motorcycle permits, standards for towing companies, farm vehicles, alternative fees and restrictions on information management products. See:Official legislative description and status
Bill: SB 60 Sponsor:Rupp, Scott Description: Change the accreditation requirements for reinsurance companies to comply with a federal law. Nixon vetoed it for being duplicative of the same matter in HB 133, but having conflicting language. See:Official legislative description and status
Bill: HCS SB 73 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Description: Prohibit police road blocks or checkpoints that stop only on the basis of vehicle type, such as motorcycles, except for trucks. The final version includes DWI courts in Jackson county and changes in court transcript fees. Vetoed by the governor on a technicality involving duplicate bills being passed on the same subject. See:Official legislative description and status
Bill: SB 77 Sponsor:Lamping, John Description: Expand an exemption of neighborhood youth development programs from having to meet child care licensing requirements. Include in the exemptions a nationally federated organization providing training in an "all-female environment." Vetoed by the governor. His veto message said the bill would provide an exemption for just one organization, Girls Incorporated of St. Louis. See:Official legislative description and status
Bill: HCS SCS SB 182 Sponsor:Kehoe, Mike Description: Impose a sales tax on a vehicle or boat that is registered with the Revenue Department, regardless where the sale took place. Base the local sales tax on the purchaser's residence. The governor vetoed a similar bill, HB 1329, in 2012 that had been passed in response to a state Supreme Court decision striking down imposing a sales tax at the time of registration on vehicles sold privately or out of state.
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Bill: CCS SB 224 Sponsor:Curls, Kiki Description: Raise the maximum salary for the Kansas City police. Allow court review of Kansas City Police Commission disciplinary actions of of suspension or reduction in rank. Current law prohibits court review. The final version covers St. Louis police retirement, making it a crime to present a false ID on a gambling boat and criminal non-support. The governor's veto message claime the bill would reduced the penalty for a false ID. See:Official legislative description and status
Bill: SCS SB 240 Sponsor:Lager, Brad Description: Let a natural gas company charge customers to recover 90 percent of net write-offs. Increase the size of an infrastructure system replacement surcharge the Public Service Commission can approve for a gas company. The governor's veto letter cited a provision expanding bad-debth collection powers of gas companies and another provision expanding from three to five years how long a gas utility can charge customers an infrastructure system replacement surcharge. See:Official legislative description and status
Bill: SB 265 Sponsor:Nieves, Brian Description: Prohibit state agencies and local governments from implementing any policy that deliberately or inadvertently infringes on private property rights. Ban support of a specific United Nations policy.
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Bill: SS SB 267 Sponsor:Nieves, Brian Description: Prohibit court rulings or contracts based on any foreign law, legal code of system that does not grant the same rights as granted by the U.S. and state constitutions.
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Bill: CCS SB 342 Sponsor:Parson, Mike Description: Let a foreign interest own up to one percent of Missouri farmland, changing a current law banning any ownership interest. The original bill was to just raise from $40,000 to $100,000 the maximum livestock feed or crop seed that the Agriculture and Small Business Development Authority can make. The final CCS includes a number of other unrelated issues including liquified petroleum gas regulations, gas taxes, MU extension taxing districts, an Agriculture Department website, water regulations and more. See:Official legislative description and status
Bill: SB 350 Sponsor:Dempsey, Tom Description: Repeal the property tax credit provided for lower income elderly and disabled renters. Legislative staff estimate it would save the state $57 million per year in tax credits to elderly and disabled.
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