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2015 Bill(s)

SB 181
Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
Status: S Judiciary
Description: Expand the time required for prior notice of foreclosure on real estate from ten business days to 90 days.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 182
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Require a landlord pay twice the amount of a security deposit found to be unlawfully withheld. Current law allows an award to up to twice the amount.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 183
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Require all foreclosure proceedings be handled by the courts.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 186
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: S Veterans' Affairs & Health
    Description: Raise eligibility of Medicaid to 133 percent of federal poverity -- actually 138 percent because Missouri law ignores the first five percent of income in determining eligibility.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 187
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections
    Description: Impose restrictions on pay-day loans, small loans. Add enforcement provisions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 188
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Require the Corrections Department to increase the number of inmates who can earn a GED education degree while in prison. The bill does not indicate a specific number of additional inmates to be in the program.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 189
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Make first-offender felons eligible for parole after serving 15 years with some exceptions. Require the Parole Board to review every sentence of first-time offenders who have served 15 years or more.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HCS SCS SB 190
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Extend from 2015 to 2020 the expiration of the voter approved sales tax for transportation in Kansas City.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 191
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't
    Description: Establish a fund to finance a center on urban planing at the University of Missouri Kansas City campus.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 228
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Let an owner or creditor holding a lien on a building enter the property if it is suspected of being abandoned for specific purposes such as removing trash, mowing or removing graffiti.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 229
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't
    Description: Expand the right of a neighborhood organization to bring a nuisance lawsuit in Kansas City.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 307
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: IN SCS SB 451
    Description: Expand crimes that a convicted person can petition to have the criminal records expunged and shorten the time after conviction before expungement can be approved. Include municipal offenses.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 308
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't
    Description: Let Kansas City impose a registration fee on vacant structures.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 309
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Require a landlord pay twice the amount of a security deposit found to be unlawfully withheld. Current law allows an award to up to twice the amount. Require a landlord to put security deposits in an insurance bank or credit union account.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 390
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't
    Description: Create a tax credit for purchase of a home in a blighted area.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 391
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections
    Description: Various changes in resident property receivership. Give a reciever the right to take possession and sell the property. Repeal requiring a receiver to be bonded. Require quarterly reports. Expand right of entry by interested parties.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 428
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: S Rules
    Description: Prohibit the Ethics Commission from imposing a civil penalty if the person was criminally convicted of the same violation for some ethics law provisions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 430
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: H Local Government
    Description: Require any annization that includes a state highway cover an area at least one mile from each side of the highway.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SJR 6
    Sponsor: Curls, Kiki
    Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't
    Description: Let the legislature establish tax-free or tax-reduced geographic areas to promote economic development.
    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.