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2018 Bill(s)
SB 605 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Small Business & Industry Description: Various changes in the anti-discrimination law. Create a seperate section dealing with housing discrimination with expanded coverage.
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SB 606 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Economic Development Description: Provide a tax credit for the costs of installing an emergency generator by a nursing home or intermediate care facility.
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SB 607 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Small Business & Industry Description: Provide benefits for a worker to take time off work to care for an ill family member. Impose a fee on businesses to create a fund to cover the lost wages for workers who take the family leave. Put the issue on the statewide ballot rather than being subject to approval or veto by the governor.
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SB 669 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.
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SB 670 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Seniors, Families & Children Description: Require pregnancy services that receive state funds to provide medically accepted information on "relevant reproductive health options."
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SB 671 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Seniors, Families & Children Description: Repeal the 72-hour waiting period before an abortion.
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SB 711 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.
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SB 712 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Education 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 713 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Seniors, Families & Children 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 737 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety Description: Establish a statewide system to monitor drug prescription of narcotics. Create a statewide database of controlled-drug prescriptions. Require the Health Department to provide information from the database to police if there is a suspicion a law is being broken.
See: Official legislative description and status* SB 738 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Insurance & Banking Description: Impose additional limits on payday loans and consumer credit loans and other restrictions. Limit the total interest, fees and charges for a payday loan to no more than 36 percent per year. Subject the proposal to the voters rather than the governor for final approval.
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SB 739 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 753 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Include sexual orientation and gender identity in the state's law prohibiting discrimination.
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SB 754 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 755 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety Description: Expand the law against persons under age 21 using a cell phone or similar devices like PDAs while driving to include adults. Expand the ban to include voice conversation. Add an exemption for hands-free texting.
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SB 760 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Seniors, Families & Children Description: Require all staff and volunteers at health facilities have annual flu vaccinations.
See: Official legislative description and status* SB 786 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: H Rules - Legislative Oversight Description: Expand laws providing protection for state and local government employee whistle-blowers.
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HCS SCS SB 846 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: H Rules - Administrative Oversight Description: Require various health care professionals complete two hours of suicide training for license issuance and renewal.
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SB 873 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Education Description: Require Education Department create a work group to consider schools to offer a course to ninth graders on career and educational opportunities.
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SB 1004 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Seniors, Families & Children Description: Establish a board to enter into a public-private partnership to develop training involving children suffering from trauma.
See: Official legislative description and status* SB 1014 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Make it a felony crime to distribute images of a person in a sexual act or exposing private parts without the person's consent -- called "revenge porn."
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SB 1057 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Insurance & Banking Description: Impose requirements for health insurance to directly pay providers for emergency care services by out-of-network care.
See: Official legislative description and status* SB 1058 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Prohibit firearm possession by a person subject to a full order of protection or convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence. Make violation a felony.
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SB 1101 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Make posession of a firearm bump-stock a felony crime. Establish a new type of protection order involving significant danger because of possession of a firearm.
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SJR 29 Sponsor:Schupp, Jill Status: S Rules Description: Extend the term limit for serving in a state legislative chamber from eight years to 16 years, but retain the 16-year limit for service in the General Assembly.
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