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2014 Bill(s)

CCS HB 1231
Sponsor: Cox, Stanley
Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
Description: Repeal a provision declaring moot an expired protection order only if there are significant consequences to the expired protection order. Instead, declare the public interest exception to the mootness doctrine applies to any expired protection order.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SS HCS HB 1371
    Sponsor: Cox, Stanley
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Lower the penalty for some non-violent offenses. Numerous other changes in the state criminal code. The revised version fixes a number of mistakes Gov. Nixon discovered the criminal code bill SB 491 that Nixon allowed to become law.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HB 1372
    Sponsor: Cox, Stanley
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Establish a crime of an unlawful funeral protest that involves any action that disrupts or is undertaken to disrupt a funeral or burial service. The legislature's previous law in 2006 to address anti-gay protests by the Westboro Baptist Church at military funerals was struck down by a federal appeals court in 2013.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HB 1373
    Sponsor: Cox, Stanley
    Status: H Judiciary
    Description: Establish a crime of an unlawful funeral protest that involves any action that disrupts or is undertaken to disrupt a funeral or burial service. The legislature's previous law in 2006 to address anti-gay protests by the Westboro Baptist Church at military funerals was struck down by a federal appeals court in 2013.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS HCS HB 1374
    Sponsor: Cox, Stanley
    Status: S 3rd Read
    Description: Various provisions on patent infringement lawsuits in which there is a claim the lawsuit was filed in bad faith. Allow a bond to be required in such cases if the court determines a reasonable likelihood of bad faith. Give the attorney general investigate and seek financial rewards for bad-faith lawsuits.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 1375
    Sponsor: Cox, Stanley
    Status: H Health Care Policy
    Description: Require a family planing facility performing abortion make annual reports to the state on any federal family planning funds that had been received.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS HB 1376
    Sponsor: Cox, Stanley
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Various technical changes in the uniform commercial code involving secured transactions such as allowing a non-driver's license as identification and changing the definition of electronic chattel paper.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS HB 1447
    Sponsor: Cox, Stanley
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Prohibit the Revenue Department from requiring a person renewing a driving license from having to produce the same source documents proving identification if they had been provided before.
    See: 
  • House roll call - HCS HB 1447 (03/31/2004): 3rd reading of a bill to prohibit the Revenue Department from having to show documents proving identity for a driving license renewal if they had been produced before.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS HB 1448
    Sponsor: Cox, Stanley
    Status: H Perf
    Description: Prohibit motions to exclude evidence in preliminary hearings. Require the state pay the costs when a person is acquitted or not indicted. Various other changes in the criminal legal process.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 1513
    Sponsor: Cox, Stanley
    Status: H Local Government
    Description: Regulate and license electrical contractors.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS HB 1560
    Sponsor: Cox, Stanley
    Status: H Rules
    Description: Establish a two-stage hearing process by which a person under the age of 18 can be sentenced to life in prison without parole. Put into the law a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court decision exempting persons under age 18 from the death penalty.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 1787
    Sponsor: Cox, Stanley
    Status: H Judiciary
    Description: Lower the amount of cold medicine containing ingredients for methamphetamine above which possession is a felony crime.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 1788
    Sponsor: Cox, Stanley
    Status: H Judiciary
    Description: Restrict child adoption advertising to a licensed attorney or licensed child placement agency. Change various deadlines for child adoption provisions. Remove some requirements in the hearing if the adopted child is under six months of age.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS HB 1846
    Sponsor: Cox, Stanley
    Status: H Perf
    Description: Various abortion restrictions, Prohibit an abortion facility advising a woman to go to a location outside Missouri for an abortion without signing a form. Require annual inspections of abortion facilities. Require consent forms have unique identification numbers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS HB 2118
    Sponsor: Cox, Stanley
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Regulate and license electrical contractors.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS HJR 47
    Sponsor: Cox, Stanley
    Status: S 3rd Read
    Description: Allow the legislature to require a photo ID to vote. Died in a Senate agreement to not bring it up to avoid a filibuster. An extended lawsuit blocked a similar provision approved by the legislature in 2011 from being placed on the ballot, SJR 2.
    See: 
  • House roll call - HCS HJR 47 (02/25/2014): Perfection of a constitutional amendment that would authorize the legislature to require a photo ID to vote.
  • House roll call - HCS HJR 47 (02/27/2014): 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to require a government-issued photo ID to vote.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • 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.