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2017 Bill(s)
SB 69 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Small Business & Industry Description: Provide benefits for a worker to take time off work with pay to care for an ill family member. Put the issue on the statewide ballot rather than being subject to approval or veto by the governor.
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* SB 70 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Health & Pensions Description: Expand Medicaid coverage to adults with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level. Missouri law currently disregards the first 5 percent of income so the actual limit would be 138 percent. Medicaid provides health care coverage for the lower income.
See: Official legislative description and status* SB 71 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Seniors, Families & Children Description: Repeal a couple of abortion restriction provisions including the 72-hour waiting period and requiring an abortion facility have a physician with clinical privleges at a nearby hospital. Remove abortion facilities from regulation as an abulatory surgical center.
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* SCS SB 115 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Perfection Description: Give the Health Department power to immediately close an illegally operating child care facility. Require every child care facility to disclose to a parent the licensing status of the facility. Increase the fines for child care facility licensing violations.
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SB 116 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Economic Development Description: Provide a tax credit for the costsof installing an emergency generator by a nursing home or intermediate care facility.
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SCS SB 117 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Perfection Description: Require all staff and volunteers at health facilities have annual flu vaccinations.
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* SB 150 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Small Business & Industry Description: Phase in an increase in the minimum wage to ultimately $15.00 in 2023. With annual cost-of-living adjustments, the curren minimum wage in January 2016 was $7.65.
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SB 151 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Insurance & Banking Description: Impose additional limits on payday loans and consumer credit loans and other restrictions. Subject the proposal to the voters rather than the governor for final approval.
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* SB 152 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety Description: Require a 24-hour waiting period before a firearms dealer can deliver a firearm to a purchaser.
See: Official legislative description and status* SB 165 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety Description: Expand the law against persons under age 21 using a cell phone while driving to include adults. Add an exemption for hands-free texting.
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SB 268 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Seniors, Families & Children Description: Require an employer provide unpaid leave to a worker who has been a victim of domestic violence or has a relative who is a victim.
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SB 338 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Include sexual orientation and gender identity in the state's law prohibiting discrimination.
See: Official legislative description and status* SB 339 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Rules Description: Require 501(c)(4) organizations like Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS that made campaign expenditures in Missouri to disclose their own contributors that provided more than $1,000 to the organization.
See: Official legislative description and status* SB 340 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: IN SCS SB 314 Description: Establish a statewide system to monitor drug prescription of narcotics. Create a statewide database of controlled-drug prescriptions. Authorize the Health Department to provide information from the database to police if there is a suspicion a law is being broken.
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SB 412 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Commerce, Consumer, Energy & Env. Description: Require larger electric customer participate in generation of electricity from waste heat in order to participate in a program that provides rate discounts.
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SB 467 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Small Business & Industry Description: Establish a new class of corporation called a benefit corporation that serves a public benefit.
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SB 490 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: H 3rd Read Description: Require various health care professionals to complete two hours of suicide training for license issuance and renewal.
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SB 541 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Commerce, Consumer, Energy & Env. Description: Expand a provision for St. Louis County water systems to impose a surcharge for infrastructure improvements to include replacement of pipes with lead. Prohibit the Public Service Commission from approving a surcharge unless at least 30 percent of the surcharge costs are used for lead replacement, unless the there are no pipes with lead owned by the corporation.
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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.