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2010 Bill(s)

SB 702
Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
Status: WITHDRAWN
Description: Freeze the per diem rate for legislators for two years. Currently, the per diem rate is tied to a per diem rate set by the IRS for Jefferson City.
See: Official legislative description and status

* SB 730
Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
Status: S Financial
Description: Freeze the per diem reimbursement allowance for legislators for two years. Currently, the per diem rate is tied to a per diem rate set by the IRS for Jefferson City. This bill is co-sponsored by the Senate's Republican and Democratic floor leaders.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 784
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Remove the higher financial assistance provided to private university students in the Access Missouri Financial Assistance Program. Raise the maximum assistance for public university students.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 785
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Require some phone companies to eliminate their intrastate line charge, under some circumstances. Extend a fee on phones to include VOIP Internet phone services.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 827
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Allow a county to extend a temporary tax authorized by law that the law requires to terminate, upon voter approval.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 828
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Health
    Description: Provide a pay raise for the Boone County conselor for mental health facility activities.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SCS SB 829
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: Conference
    Description: Add tires and storm water runoff that damage buildings in the list of items that that Boone and Cole Counties can regulate by nuisance abatement ordinances. The HCS contains a large number of other unrelated topics covering the judiciary, jury expense funds, creation of a sentence review commission, motor vehicle certificates, sales tax exemption for kosher food, and more.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 831
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Let first class counties impose curfews on persons under the age of 17.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 840
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Governmental Accountability
    Description: Provide tax credits for various costs for various sports games.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 841
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: H Transportation
    Description: Name a portion of I44 in St. Louis County the Police Officer Ernest M. Brockman Sr. Memorial Highway. The SCS has a couple of other highway name bills - SB 657 & SB 751. It also would rename the portion of I70 in St. Louis from the Mark McGwire Highway to the Mark Twain Highway.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 842
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Various changes involving authority to collect Medicaid reimbursement from third-party payers. The HCS imposes an FRA (federal reimbursement tax) on Medicaid health care providers. Part of the administration's package to balance the state budget.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 855
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: H Children
    Description: Allow the state to sell "heritage" birth and marriage certificates that are suitable for display at $50 per copy -- but only to individuals born or married in Missouri.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 856
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Add a crime that is covered by the persistent misdemeanor offender law that allows extended sentences.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 857
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Add various crimes to the definition of dangerous felony for which at least 85% of a sentence must be served. Include various sex offenses.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 858
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Expand the crime of failure to return to confinement a prisoner under custody of a sheriff being transported to a state facility.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 859
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Increase the penalty for a repeat violation of some forms of assault.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 870
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Agriculture
    Description: Establish a provision to allow government agencies and non-profit organizations to hold a conservation easement to protect land from development.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 871
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Raise the amount of a contract below which bids are not required by a county.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 879
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Provide sentence credit for completion of a substance abuse treatment program for some criminal offenders,
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SCS SB 880
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Impose a $100 surcharge on drunken driving for drunken driving convictions to finance a program for DWI court dockets. The SCS is a combination of various bills to toughen penalties and enforcement for drunken driving. The SCS inludes SB 780 & SB 836.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SS SB 884
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Require registration of tobacco manufacturers and other provisions to assure payment into the settlement agreement. Require firms not part of the agreement to report their sales in the state.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 885
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Authorize a training program for underground storage tank operators. Other changes in the underground storage tank regulation.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 886
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Require every county to adopt a plumbing code.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SCS SB 887
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: H Rules
    Description: Outlaw the fake pot drug know as spice or K2. The SCS merges the Highway Patrol and Water Patrol that is part of the governor's package for reducing state spending. It also has a number of other unrelated issues including county classification, expanded rights for counties to set curfews, charge taxes, etc
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SCS SB 887 (03/18/2010): 3rd reading of a bill to make it a crime to possess the fake-pot bill K2 or spice.
  • Senate roll call - SA 1 SCS SB 887 (03/16/2010): An amendment to a drug-regulation bill that would have legalized marijuana for medical uses.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 917
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Impose requirements on health insurance firms that evaluate efficiencies of health care providers. Require the insurance firm hire an independent organization to conduct a review.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 918
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Impose restrictions on pharmacy benefits plans. Require a health insurance plan include any financial incentives offered to the doctor for switching a prescription as well as other information. Expand the right of a doctor to override a prescription restriction.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 962
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Education
    Description: Provide additional state funds to schools for gifted education programs.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 975
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Health
    Description: Require death records be filed in an electronic system once it is established.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 998
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Authorize premarital legal agreements.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 999
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Authorize tax credits for new business facilities in an industrial zone, under certain circumstances.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1004
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Increase the penalty to a felony for shaking a child under age 5 when it endangers the child.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1005
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Expand the right to kill law providing a right to use force against an intruder to cover entering unlawfully either a building or property. Current law covers only buildings.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 1006
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Various water pollution changes prompted by the Lake of the Ozarks pollution situation in the summer of 2009. Require plumbing codes in counties with a lake that has a state or national parks. Add requirements for the Natural Resources Department to publicize pollution information.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1040
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Extend the sunset of a tax on dry cleaning facilities for the Environmental Trust Fund.
    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.