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2017 Bill(s)
SCS SB 52 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Require public higher education institutions to adopt policies on suicide awareness and prevention. Expand requirements dealing with cyberbulling. Establish a committee to study suicide issues among medical students.
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SB 53 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: S Education Description: Require higher education institutions notify students and staff as to the affirmative consent requirement for sexual activity. Require "annual awareness programming" for all students and employees.
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SB 54 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: S Small Business & Industry Description: Require an employer to provide a worker with time off work to care for a family member with 65 percent of the employee's hourly wage rate.
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SCS SB 180 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: S Perfection Description: Impose restrictions on a court ordering a use of restraints on pregnant defendant.
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SB 181 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety Description: Require a firearm owner to report the theft or loss of a firearm to a law enforcement agency.
See: Official legislative description and status* SCS SB 217 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: Back to S Description: Expand a tax credit for donations to food pantries to include donations to soup kitchens. The House added an amendment to authorize transfer of unspent funds in various agency accounts to fund programs for lower income and disabled elderly.
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SB 218 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: S Seniors, Families & Children Description: Establish a grant program for persons or orgnanizations that assist homeless persons, subject to appropriations.
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SB 219 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: S Education Description: Establish a program to provide funding for schools in St. Louis city purchase washing machines and dryers to wash clothes of students, subject to appropriations.
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SB 253 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety Description: Extend to adults a ban on texting while driving. Also extend the ban to any type of eletronic wireless communications device rather than just a "hand-held mobile telephone."
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SB 254 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: S Small Business & Industry Description: Increase the base minimum wage from $6.50 to $10.00 per hour. With annual cost-of-living adjustments, the minimum wage in January 2016 was $7.65.
See: Official legislative description and status* SB 255 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: S Education Description: Add requirements for changes in unaccredited school districts including rewarding teachers for performance and removing principals. Enact a provision excluding a school from having to accept students from an unaccredited district if the school does not have adequate facilities for more students. Require specialized learning plan for a student performing at a below-grade level in metropolitan school districts. Have the State Education Dept. make accreditation decisions for individual schools rather than entire districts.
See: Official legislative description and status* SB 287 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Establish various provisions on racial profiling by police. Expand requirements for police to report the race and ethnicity of people who are stopped or arrested.
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SB 288 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: S Local Gov't & Elections Description: Increase the fee the circuit court in St. Louis City can charge in cases to pay for a law library from $15 to $20.
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* SB 289 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: S Small Business & Industry Description: Let a tenant terminate a lease without penalty when the tenant has a protection order involving stalking, domestic violence, etc. Let a tenant change the premise locks if the tenant is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking by the landlord.
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SCS SB 341 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: S Perfection Description: Increase the penalty for patronizing a child prostitute 14 years of age or younger. Require registration on the sex offender list if convicted.
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SB 344 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Establish a process for a person convicted of prostitution to have the criminal record expunged in the person was under the influence of an agent (pimp).
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SB 345 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety Description: Authorize counties and cities to put a court surcharge for ordinance violations to finance police body cameras, upon voter approval. Require the Public Safety Department establish a grant program for body cameras.
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SB 451 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: S Perfection Description: Place the St. Louis city sheriff's office under the definition of law enforcement officers eligible for training and licensing by the state.
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SB 496 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Authorize circuit courts to issue a "certificate of exemplary conduct and good moral character" to convicted criminals, those convicted of crimes that require registering on the sex offender registry.
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SB 497 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Restrict a court from accepting a guilty plea until the full consequences of conviction is explained to the defendant.
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SB 498 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: S Perfection Description: Establish a partnership with St. Louis, city schools and police by which an absent student can be taken to a non-profit organization for mentoring.
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SB 507 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: S Local Gov't & Elections Description: Repeal a requirement that the St. Louis city sheriff have approval from a majority of the circuit judges in the city to hire deputies.
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SB 508 Sponsor:Nasheed, Jamilah Status: S Local Gov't & Elections Description: Prohibit the St. Louis Regional Taxicab Commission from regulating medical transportation services.
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