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2016 Bill(s)

* HB 1397
Sponsor: Newman, Stacey
Status: H 2nd Read
Description: Impose additional restrictions on purchase of a firearm when the purchaser lives more than 120 miles from the dealer. Require a physician evaulate the prospective purchaser for risk factors.
See: Official legislative description and status

* HB 1595
Sponsor: Newman, Stacey
Status: H 2nd Read
Description: Establish grounds by which a person can get a court restraining order prohibiting a person from possessing a firearm based on threatening behavior of the person possessing a firearm.
See: Official legislative description and status

* HB 1596
Sponsor: Newman, Stacey
Status: H 2nd Read
Description: Require every firearm sale be through a licensed firearm dealer who will conduct a background check.
See: Official legislative description and status

* HB 1597
Sponsor: Newman, Stacey
Status: H 2nd Read
Description: Create a separate crime of making a threat to the security of a building or public school to deliberately trigger security procedures such as a lock down. May be prompted by KSD-TV in St. Louis causing a lock down at a school in Kirkwood by refusing to identify a reporter who entered the school in 2013.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1905
    Sponsor: Newman, Stacey
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Require hospitals to provide rape victims about information on emergency contraception. Various changes in the legal requirements for sex education in public schools. Require inclusion of information about vaccines for some sex-related diseases. Repeal a ban on providing abortion information.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1906
    Sponsor: Newman, Stacey
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Impose notice and website information requirements on some health services involving contraception, abortion and adoption services.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1907
    Sponsor: Newman, Stacey
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Require a pharmacy to fill a prescription for a contraceptive without delay.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1908
    Sponsor: Newman, Stacey
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Require hospitals to provide rape victims about information on emergency contraception and other information.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1909
    Sponsor: Newman, Stacey
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Require employers provide accommodations for pregnant workers and workers who have given birth. Prohibit denying employment opportunities for such persons.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * HB 1978
    Sponsor: Newman, Stacey
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Prohibit an employer taking action against a worker based on taking any drug or receiving any medical service related to the worker's reproductive health.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2204
    Sponsor: Newman, Stacey
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Impose various requirements on public and private unversities involving sexual assault. equire public higher education instutitions have memoranda of understandings with poice agencies on sexual assault complaints. Require private and public universities adopt policies for dealing with sexual assault and distribute the polices to students.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2205
    Sponsor: Newman, Stacey
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Impose restrictions on who can purchase firearms including those on the domestic terrorist watch list, who has a document history of aggressive or self-destructive behavior or under a domestic violence or sexual offense protection order. Require firearms safety course completion to purchase a firearm.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2280
    Sponsor: Newman, Stacey
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Establish a provision for automatic voter registration based on driving license records.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2281
    Sponsor: Newman, Stacey
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Establish a system by which a voter can cast a ballot three weeks before the election.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2404
    Sponsor: Newman, Stacey
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Establish a Labor Department commission to study wage disparities among women and minorities.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2500
    Sponsor: Newman, Stacey
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Make it a crime to fail to store a loaded weapon in a locked safe if a child less than 17 years of age is present.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2549
    Sponsor: Newman, Stacey
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Make it a crime to provide firearm ammunition or accessories to a person under the age of 18 years.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2806
    Sponsor: Newman, Stacey
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Impose a tax on businesses to fund a program to provide grants to employees for leave for various family needs.
    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.