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2015 Bill(s)
HB 243 Sponsor:Butler, Michael Status: H Local Government Description: Create a state fund to provide grants for local governments to establish neighborhood watch programs, subject to appropriation. Would let separate wards in St. Louis City also apply.
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HB 244 Sponsor:Butler, Michael Status: H 2nd Read Description: Provide a tax break for an employer that provides funds for the education of a student working for the employer or to an educational institution.
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HB 245 Sponsor:Butler, Michael Status: H Local Government Description: Establish minimum levels of services for St. Louis County such as having a balanced budget, maintaining parks and other public facilities. Require liability insurance for police.
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HB 357 Sponsor:Butler, Michael Status: H 2nd Read Description: Raise the state minimum wage from the curent $7.65 to $10.00 per hour, with annual increases based on the Consumer Price Index.
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HB 559 Sponsor:Butler, Michael Status: H Local Government Description: Expand a provision requiring that some unpaid municipal court fines be included in the property tax bill of the person owing the payment.
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HB 560 Sponsor:Butler, Michael Status: H Workforce Standards & Development Description: Restrict when a business can inquire about a job applicants criminal history. Impose time restrictions that would prohibit inquiring about a misdemeanor after five years or after ten years if imprisoned. Not assigned to a committee until March 31.
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HB 880 Sponsor:Butler, Michael Status: H Public Safety Description: Require written agreement before a cop could search a person's car. Require the Public Safety Department to collect and maintain data on traffic stops by law enforcement officers.
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HB 881 Sponsor:Butler, Michael Status: H Public Safety Description: Require law enforcement agencies to report annually to the Public Safety Department complains against police and civil actions taken against police.
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HB 943 Sponsor:Butler, Michael Status: H 2nd Read Description: Require the state to establish a program by which non-custodial parents can pay off court-ordered child support debts through participation a a progam that encourages non-custodial parents to take financial responsibility for their children.
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HB 1065 Sponsor:Butler, Michael Status: H 2nd Read Description: Exclude higher education insitutions from a law restricting smoking at public schools. Expand the law to include any outdoor grounds or facilities of a public school.
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HB 1314 Sponsor:Butler, Michael Status: H Ways & Means Description: Include bed and breakfast inns with four or fewer rooms to rent under the classification of property as residential property for property tax purposes. Include such inns in a law allowing a local sales tax on hotel and motel room rentals.
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HJR 20 Sponsor:Butler, Michael Status: H Select Com. on General Laws Description: Extend legislative term limits from eight years to a maximum of 12 years in a chamber.
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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