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2016 Bill(s)
SCS SB 620 Sponsor:Romine, Gary Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Require the Education Department establish minimum standards for a career and technical education certificate. Increase the number of membes of the Career and Technical Education Advisory Council. Have the Education Department commissioner appoint the members rather than the governor.
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HCS SB 621 Sponsor:Romine, Gary Status: Conference (IN BUDGET) Description: Expand provisions for Medicaid coverage of services provided through telehealth. Also add additional requirements. The House amended HCS includes provisions dealing with health-care designated decision maker and other unrelated health and child-care issues.
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SCS SB 622 Sponsor:Romine, Gary Status: S Perfection Description: Make confidential any information provided to an asessor for assessing mining or quarry property. Require that quarries and mining property be assessed as agricultural property.
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* SB 687 Sponsor:Romine, Gary Status: S Commerce, Consumer & Energy Description: Require electric companies calculate the cost to comply with federal carbon emission requirements and include that cost in the utility customer bills.
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HCS SCS SB 688 Sponsor:Romine, Gary Status: Back to S Description: Expand the existing joint committee on Medicaid to be a joint legislative committee on public assistance.
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SB 689 Sponsor:Romine, Gary Status: S Judiciary Description: Ban two-way communication devices from prisons and jails, except those possessed by law enforcement or jail employees.
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SB 721 Sponsor:Romine, Gary Status: S Judiciary Description: Remove the requirement that for the owner of an animal to be charged with not maintaining control, the absence of control be for 12 hours or longer. Retain the 12-hour lack of control requirement if the animal is livestock.
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SB 722 Sponsor:Romine, Gary Status: S Governmental Accountability Description: Expand various utility easements that can be granted by the state without requiring legislative authorization.
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SB 723 Sponsor:Romine, Gary Status: S Commerce, Consumer & Energy Description: Various changes in dealing with natural resource damage payments covered by the state. Restrict transfer of damage assessments.
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SB 745 Sponsor:Romine, Gary Status: S Small Business Description: Impose a limit on awards in a discrimination lawsuit by an employee against an employer.
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SB 746 Sponsor:Romine, Gary Status: S Small Business Description: Require that an arbiter make the initial decisions in a dispute between an employer and at-will employee unless the agreement expressly delegated arbitration to the court. Declare contracts that warrant new homes from defects are not insurance contracts under arbitration provisions.
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* SB 796 Sponsor:Romine, Gary Status: S Commerce, Consumer & Energy Description: Require the Natural Resources Department submit to the Environmental Protection Agency before June 30, 2016, an initial plan to comply with federal carbon emission restriction requirements along with a two-year delay in submitting a completed plan.
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SCS SB 857 Sponsor:Romine, Gary Status: S 3rd Read (IN BUDGET) Description: Require the Higher Education Department develop a policy for dual credit course fee reimbursement. in the Access Missouri scholarship program.
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* SCS SB 858 Sponsor:Romine, Gary Status: S Perfection Description: Require the Natural Resources Department to file a two-year delay with the federal government to submit a plan for complying with federal regulations on carbon emissions by power plants.
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SB 882 Sponsor:Romine, Gary Status: S Progress & Development Description: Establish requirements and consumer protections in a contract with a lawyer in a consumer lawsuit. Require state registration of consumer lawsuit funding services.
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SCS SB 998 Sponsor:Romine, Gary Status: S 3rd Read (IN BUDGET) Description: Require the Education Department pay the examination fee for the first time a person takes the high school equivalency degree test, subject to appropriations.
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SB 1034 Sponsor:Romine, Gary Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't Description: Change the allocation of local property taxes that are paid under protest. Currently, only the amount paid that is not protested is disbursed for government spending. This would change that to the amount euqal to the last agreed upon assessment rate.
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SB 1035 Sponsor:Romine, Gary Status: S Governmental Accountability Description: Create a commission to oversee restoration of areas affected by lead mining in southeast Missouri. Fund the restoration from the settlement money the Natural Resources Dept. has obtained from the sale of land in Oregon County.
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SB 1070 Sponsor:Romine, Gary Status: S Commerce, Consumer & Energy Description: Change the provisions to allow the Revenue Department to issue a salavage certificate for a motor vehicle with a certificate in another state if the state changed its law for the certificate.
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SB 1093 Sponsor:Romine, Gary Status: S Commerce, Consumer & Energy Description: Include water conservation and pollution control for sewer and drinking water facilities under a law allowing local energy development boards that issue bonds. Extend the maximum pieriod of a special property tax assessment to cover a project from 20 years to 25.
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SB 1143 Sponsor:Romine, Gary Status: S Commerce, Consumer & Energy Description: Allow special, lower electric utility rates for an aluminum smelting facility like Noranda.
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