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2015 Bill(s)
* SCS SB 1 Sponsor:Pearce, David Status: S 3rd Read (IN BUDGET) Description: Restrict rights of students to transfer out of accredited schools. Base accreditation upon attendance centers rather than the entire district. Enact provisions designed to assist unaccredited districts. Allow payment of tuition for unaccredited district students to attend private schools. The governor vetoed a similar bill in 2014.
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* SB 2 Sponsor:Pearce, David Status: S Rules Description: Reimpose voter-approved limits on campaign contributions to state candidates.
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* SB 3 Sponsor:Pearce, David Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety Description: Extend to adults a ban on texting while driving.
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* SCS SB 145 Sponsor:Pearce, David Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Require health insurance cover eating disorders.
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HCS SCS SB 146 Sponsor:Pearce, David Status: H 3rd Read (IN BUDGET) Description: Various changes in licensing of audiologists and speech-language pathologists. Allow restricting or limiting a license for an indefinite period.
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SB 207 Sponsor:Pearce, David Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't Description: Let a business retain income tax withholdings for up to five years of any woker who graduated in technology, science or math from school designated as an "innovation campus."
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HCS SB 214 Sponsor:Pearce, David Status: H 3rd Read Description: Raise the maximum amount of labor or materials provided to an owner below which the labor or materials laborer can have a lien for payment from $25 or less to $500 or less.
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SCS SB 268 Sponsor:Pearce, David Status: S Perfection Description: Provide tax credits hiring as an intern a college student majoring in science, technology, math or engineering education.
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SB 299 Sponsor:Pearce, David Status: S Perfection Description: Expand the Bright Flight scholarsahip program to include forgivable loans with payments foregivable each year the student completes course work for a year and the student has agreed to work in Missouri for a period of time.
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SCS SB 340 Sponsor:Pearce, David Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Fix the section referenced concerning time limits in a law on inheritance.
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SB 368 Sponsor:Pearce, David Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections Description: Allow a doctoral degree program accredited by the Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation System to meet the degree requirements to get a license as a psychologist.
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HCS SB 369 Sponsor:Pearce, David Status: H 3rd Read Description: Authorize the sale or transfer of various properties owned by the state including the Nevada Rehabilitation Center. The House version contains a number of unrelated issues including design-build single contracts, requiring legislative approval for agencies to accept gifts of land, authorizing local taxes for early childhood education, requiring purchase of local agriculture products by government agencies.
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SB 424 Sponsor:Pearce, David Status: S Perfection Description: Deleay until July 2017 a provision authorizing the Education Department to adjust funding levels among school districts if the legislature fails to fully fund the School Foundation Program. Also delay a provision exempting those reductions being applied to hold-harmless districts that are protected from cuts in the per-student calculated figure.
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SB 541 Sponsor:Pearce, David Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't Description: Various changes in tax breaks for production of films in Missouri. Require a statement or logo that the film was produced in Missouri. Exclude coverage for the costs of a "highly compensated individual" and wages to Missouri residents for the tax breaks.
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SB 556 Sponsor:Pearce, David Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety Description: Require at least a four-foot clearance for a motor vehicle to pass a pedestrian or a person on a bicycle. Require changing the lane if possible.
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