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2015 Bill(s)

* CCS SB 24
Sponsor: Sater, David
Status: VETO OVERRIDDEN
Description: The final CCS would impose work-program restrictions on the welfare programs. Expand the requirement for seeking a job for food stamps and impose a 45 month life-time limit for TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families). In his veto letter, Nixon termed it poor tax policy to award a tax break to businesses that wash dirty clothes, but deny the same tax break to manufacturing companies.
See: 
  • House roll call - CCS SB 24 (05/05/2015): Final vote that overrode the governor's veto of a bill to impose restrictions on one of the state's major welfare programs, TANF.
  • Senate roll call - CCS SB 24 (05/04/2015): Vote to override the governor's veto of a bill to impose restrictions on one of the state's major welfare programs, TANF.
  • Senate roll call - CCS SB 24 (04/14/2015): 3rd reading of the final version of a bill to impose restrictions on one of the state's major welfare program -- Temporary Assistance to Needy Famlies.
  • House roll call - HCS SS SB 24 (03/18/2015): 3rd reading of the House version of a Senate bill to impose restrictions on welfare.
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 24 (02/23/2015): Senate 3rd reading of a bill to impose restrictions and a shorter time limit on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 25
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Provide an income tax credit for middle and lower income parents with children.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SS SB 26
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: H Health & Mental Health Policy
    Description: Establish liability lawsuit protections for epinephrine auto-injections if the person has met training requirements. Establish provisions for providing auto injectors.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SCS SB 63
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Establish a central state system for monitoring drug prescriptions.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SCS SB 63 (04/02/2015): 3rd reading of a bill to establish a statewide database reporting system for some types of drug prescriptions such as narcotics.
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 63 (03/30/2015): Perfection of a bill to establish a statewide database of some drug prescriptions.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 107
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Authorize professional licensing boards to issue advisory opinions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 151
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Require Medicaid reimburse health physicians at the same rates as Medicaire, but only if there is an appropriation for the increase. Require the state to hire a private firm to verify eligibility of Medicaid recpients.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 179
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Seniors, Families & Public Health
    Description: Require the Public Safety Department to establish a registry of safe contact points from which various types of digital information can be sent to children.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 208
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Agriculture, Food & Outdoor Resources
    Description: Repeal a provision that exempt state fees on beef producers if a federal referendum is adopted under a federal law.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 209
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Agriculture, Food & Outdoor Resources
    Description: Extend a current law providing protection from lawsuits for injuries for activities involving horses to include activities involving livestock.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 256
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: H Children & Families
    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.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 257
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Veterans' Affairs & Health
    Description: Require the Social Services Department provide an additional payment to Medicaid managed care providers under contract with the department to provide services forlow birth-weight babies. Currently, managed care is used for Medicaid only in the metro areas.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 325
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Veterans' Affairs & Health
    Description: Impose requirements and restrictions on pharmacy benefit manager plans. Impose requirements on setting the coverage provisions and establish appeal rights.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SCS SB 326
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: Conference
    Description: Repeal the July 2016 expiration of a law that authorizes counties to reduce their budgets during the budget year when there is a decline in revenues. The amended House version became an omnibus local government bill involving a number of unrelated issues including expanding counties that can adopt public safety taxes, hotel and motel taxes, add counties that can nuisance abatement ordinances, etc.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SS SB 354
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Require health insurance cover amino acid based formulas for various gastrointestinal disorders.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SS SB 457
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: H 3rd Read (IN BUDGET)
    Description: Require a licensed pharmacist to report to the licensing board action taken against the pharmacist by other licensing boards in other states or by the state or federal government involving Medicaid or Medicare fraud.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 458
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: Back to S
    Description: Prohibit renewing a non-resident pharmacy license if the applicant no longer holds a license in the state in which the non-resident pharmacy is located.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 515
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Veterans' Affairs & Health
    Description: Include emergency medical technicians, firefighters and first responders to the list of persons who are required to report suspected abuse or nelgect by in-home services.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 528
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Require a health carrier and managed care plans to allow alignment of refill dates without any extra charge.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 542
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Seniors, Families & Public Health
    Description: Require all Medicaid recipients be under managed care systems rather than having Medicaid pay on a fee-for-service basis to providers chosen by the recipient.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SJR 10
    Sponsor: Sater, David
    Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections
    Description: Increase the percentage of signatures from registered voters required in two-thirds of the state's congressional districts to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot from eight percent to 15 percent.
    See: 
  • 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.