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2014 Bill(s)

* HCS SS SB 498
Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
Status: H 3rd Read (IN BUDGET)
Description: Require federal health care navigators to be bonded. Allow a private lawsuit for damages against a navigator for release of personal information other than to government agencies. The HCS contains other unrelated health coverage issues including creation of a new Medicaid program for children and requirements on optometrist coverage in health insurance.
See: 
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 498 (02/13/2014): 3rd reading of a bill to require navigators under the federal health care law to be bonded and allow lawsuits against navigators.
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 498 (02/11/2014): Perfection of a bill to allow damage lawsuits against navigators, a position created by the federal health law to assist persons in selecting health insurance policies.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HCS SB 696
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: Back to S
    Description: Increase the penalty for failing to yield to a pedestrian while driving. Require completion of a safety course if the violation leads to death.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 697
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Appropriations
    Description: Authorize the Revenue Department to disclose to the public the number of cigarettes sold each year by a tobacco manufacturer.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 733
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Phase in a cut in the state income tax and the corporate tax.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 756
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Education
    Description: Provide a school-funding formula boost to schools for gifted education programs.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SCS SB 762
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Prohibit installation of a motor vehicle device that records information such as speed or braking without the owner's permission.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 763
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Let the county hospitals in Boone and Cooper counties enter into partnerships to provide health care services.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 820
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Expand a law requiring payment to the state by tobacco companies that are not part of the national settlement with states against tobacco companies. Missouri settled this year a lawsuit filed by the tobacco companies in the settlement charging Missouri violated the agreement by not fully collecting fees from non-settlement companies.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 821
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Impose an extra $5 registration fee for motorcycles to fund a motorcycle safety trust fund.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 843
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Various open meetings law requirement changes. Impose a 45-day delay limit for a legal opinion on a record request. Require minutes of closed meetings include the subjects covered. Make public records of finalists for top administrative jobs. Restrict who can be in a closed meeting. Restrict what can be included in charges for producing a public record.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 855
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Let a fire district meet without advance notice to disburse funds for deployment in various state, local or federal mutual aid in emergency and rescue operations involving Task Force One or an urban search and rescue task force.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 861
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Add motorcycles to the "Lemon Law" that provides consumer protections for warranties with the purchase of motor vehicles including getting a replacement or refund if a defect is not fixed.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 886
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Repeal landlord-tenant lawsuits from the requirement to seek a new trial after the original trail rather than appealing the decision.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 887
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Require public universities and colleges to provide a report as part of its budget as to the percentage of its budget that is spent on administrative costs.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 898
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Give the Corrections Department authority to choose the method of execution of an inmate facing the death penalty, rather than limiting execution to legal injection or the gas chamber.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 908
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Education
    Description: Require one of the University of Missouri Board of Curators be a student with the right to vote on any matter before the board except hiring or firing of faculty or staff.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 936
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Let Boone County adopt ordinances controling standards for rental residential property.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 937
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Veterans & Health
    Description: Provide a pay raise for the Boone County counselor for mental health facility activities.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 979
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Expand Workers' Compensation program coverage for the spouse or dependent of public safety worker killed in the line of duty.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 980
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Seniors & Families
    Description: Let a rehired state government worker continue to receive work credit if the worker reimburses for any retirement benefits received when retired.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 981
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Governmental Accountability
    Description: Require state government to notify its employees of solicitation for bids on state contracts for services. Require state governments acountability portal website to include every contract for purchases by the state.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 982
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Provisions for enhancing the penalty for various sex offenses under some circumstances. Establish a separate crime of "aggravated sexual offense" that inclues using a deadly weapon, there is more than one victim or causes serious injury to the victim.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SCS SJR 36
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: VOTER APPROVED
    Description: Require the state of Missouri to uphold the right to bear arms. Repeal language that excludes concealed weapons from the state Constitutional right to bear arms.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SCS SJR 36 (02/20/2014): 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to require Missouri state government to uphold the right to bear arms.
  • House roll call - SCSSJR 36 (05/06/2014): 3rd reading of a constititonal amendment to require state government enforce the constitutional right to bear arms.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SJR 44
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Refund to income tax payers any state revenues that are not appropriated in a fiscal year.
    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.