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Votes Overview

MDN's unique database of legislative roll calls covers the significant legislative votes going back to 1995 -- further back than any other online record of significant Missouri legislative votes, as best I (Phill Brooks) know.

The role calls cover only significant, news worthy votes for which there is a clear issue. Excluded are votes on amendments or substitutes which contain a laundry-list of topics making it impossible to discern the issue upon which legislators actually were voting and also making it impossible to write a simple description on what the vote was about.

Unfortunately, the legislature has begun routinely passing these omnibus, multi-subject amendments and substitutes that are in clear violation of the state Supreme Court's decisions affirming a constitutional provisions restricting bills to a single subject and prohibiting changing the original purpose of a bill.

The descriptions of the votes are written by MDN's director, Phill Brooks, who has covered the legislature for one-half century, making him dean of the statehouse press corps.

Vote List

At the top of the vote list are three buttons you can click to adjust the order of the votes, the date the role call was taken, the bill form/number and description.

The first click will display the list in descending order of the category. A second click of the same button will display the list in ascending order. When you first load VOTES.HTM or call up a new year, the vote list wil be in descending order by date, with the latest vote for that year at the top.

The sort-order of the column you selected is identified by the arrow in the button. ↓ indicates a descending order while ↑ indicates an ascending order.

The Date button sorts the list in numerical order, putting the latest vote at the top in descending order.

The Chamber: Description button sorts the list in alphabetical order. So in descending order, House chamber votes will be at the top of the list, followed by Senate chamber votes.

The Bill sort is a bit complicated. There are two components to the sort, the bill type (in alphabetical order) followed by the bill number in numerical order (asending or descending order). So, in descending order, HBs would be at the top of the list followed by HJRs, followed by SBs followed SJRs.

One exception are votes such as resolutions, member compaints and confirmation These votes always will be placed at the bottom of the list, regardless whether the selection is in ascending or descending order.

The default order when the VOTES.HTM is loaded in descending order of roll-call dates. So, the latest vote will be at the top.

To see details of a vote including how individual legislators voted along with links to the bill, simply double click the vote in which you are interested.

At the bottom is a selection box to select a different year for the votes display. There also is a selection box to limit the display to the votes taken in a specific chamber. Switching the year or chamber automatically with update the vote list to your selection.

The View simply displays the details of a vote for which you made just one rather than a double click. The vote you selected will be displayed in red.

Vote View

The display of a specific roll call is divided into three panels.

  • Summary Panel: The top panel will contain the total results of the the vote, a link to the bill or joint resolution involved involved in the vote and a summary of what was the central issue of the vote written by MDN's director. Resolutions and other votes that did not involve actual bill or joint resolution will not have a link.

    Note: The NV (not voting) covers those who missed the vote and those who voted present (P). Obviously, someone who voted present did vote, but it simplifies the table and the chart to include those votes in the not-voting figure since voting present essentially is an abstention.

    The summary panel does not include vacant seats, although there will be an indication as to the number of vacancies at the time of the vote.

    Vacant seats will be identified in the list of member votes.

  • Member Vote List Panel: The next panel displays a list of how each member voted.

    At the top of the list scrollable list are four labels you can click to change the order of the display by the vote cast, legislator names, party or legislative district.

    The first click of a label will sort list in ascending order. A second click will resort the list in descending order.

    For example, the first click on Vote label would desplay the list in the over of N, P, Y. A second click would display the list in order of Y, P, N. A ? indicates a vacancy for the designated district.

  • Chart Panel: This is a graphical representation of the role call.

    Like the summary panel, both absent and present votes are included in the NV category.

    The percentages are based on the actual number of members, not all the districts. So, vacant districts are not used to calculate percentages.

    Unlike the summary panel, however, the chart does not include the occasional independent. Since there's never been 1 independent for a few years (in the House) for the period covered by MDN's role call database, the vote bar for the independent would be too small to even appear in the chart.

At the bottom of the panel are one or two buttons:

  • Vote List: This button simply returns you to the list of all the votes for the year you selected.

  • Print: Use this button rather than your browser's print command to print a clean copy of the roll-call information.

    The reason is that your browser's print function will just print what's displayed by the brower. So the votes of members that are not visible in the member vote panel will not get printed.

    With the print button, the summary panel and the full list of the member votes will be printed (in the order you selected -- but not the graphical chart.

    Bill Display

    This is the same as the display for a bill or joint resolution that you can get from /FORMS/BILLS.HTM.

    1. Bill: This line will begin with an asterisk (*) if the bill has been designated by MDN's director as a major bill. Next is the bill bill form followed by the bill number.

      The form will begin with any substitutes approved by a chamber or by a committee (HCS, SCS, HS or SS) -- in recent years House rules have prohibited subsitutes offered during chamber debate (HS). Next will be the bill type (HB, SB, HJR or SJR).

      Note, MDN's database does not include chamber resolutions or General Assembly concurrent resolutions (HR, SR, HCR, SCR). Except in rare occasions, these resolutions have no real legal effect. Instead they just seek to express legislative opinion on a subject.

      There are an occasional worthy of news coverage, but the time time it would take to read hundreds of resolutions to find a rare gem is not work the effort.

    2. Sponsor: Only the primary sponsor is listed, with a link to that member's MDN page. Bills can have a long list of co-sponsors or co-signers, but they have no control over the bill.

      When a bill clears a chamber, the sponsor will pick a bill handler to handle his/her bill in the second chamber. But this is not a particularly formally position.

    3. Status: This is current status of a bill such as the committee to which a bill has been assigned, calendar placement, passage to the governor, placement on the ballot, etc.

      Prior to third reading (a chamber's final vote on a particular version of the bill), the bill must clear the chamber's budget oversight committee that reviews the financial costs or benefits to government from the bill.

      If the bill is on the third-reading calendar, but has not cleared the chamber's budget control committee, the status field for the bill will include (In Budget)

      See below for a detailed flow-chart of the path of a bill or joint resolution to clear the legislature.

      Note, MDN will not identify assignment of a bill to a committee of the chamber of introduction if the assignment is too late for passage -- the fate of many bills in the House. Because committee assignment effectively is meaningless, the status will remain H 2nd Read.

    4. Description: This is a short description of the bill written by MDN's director, Phill Brooks (who has covered the Missouri General Assembly for one-half century). Bills are NOT entered into MDN's database until Phill has had the opportunity to read the bill.

      The description focuses on the most significant and/or news worthy aspect of the bill. Amendments added to a bill that include unrelated subjects may not be included in the description unless the bill clears the legislature.

      Because of the recent trend of the legislature to attach completely unrelated aspects to a bill, it is impossible to provide a description of every component that may have been attached. Do a search of 2019 bills for the word unrelated to understand how frequent this trend has become.

      Many of these amendments are in clear violation of a clearly worded state Supreme Court decision that bills had to be limited to a single topic.

    5. The will include links to more information about the bill in the following order:
      1. Roll Calls: A list of any chamber roll calls that were taken on the bill. MDN's roll call database is limited to significant or news worthy votes. Clicking a roll-call vote will return you to the Vote View page displaying information about the roll call you had selected.

      2. The Fiscal Note(s): A link to fiscal notes written by staff of a joint legislative committee (Legislative Oversight) that deals with state financial issues. A fiscal note reflects the estimate of that staff as to the financial impact to state and local government.

        Besides the financial impact, a fiscal note can provide a far more detailed description about the bill independent of the description written by the staff of the chamber of the bill's introduction.

        Note, however, that not every bill will have a fiscal note written. In recent years, a bill that has little or no change of advancing out of the original chamber's committee will have a fiscal note.

      3. Official legislative description and status: The official legislative page for the bill. This will include links to fiscal notes, House/Senate staff descriptions of the bill and links to journal entries on bill actions.

        Note, however, the General Assembly did not have online website information about legislation prior to 1995. So, for the first ten years of MDN's legislation database (going back to 1985), there are no links to legislative pages for a measure (because they did not exist).

      See:Bill Links below for more information about bill links.

      At the bottom of Bill Display panel will be buttons to return you to the main Vote List page or the Vote Page for the specific roll call you are exploring.

      Outside links deserves a brief explanation. Technically, these links are displayed in an iframe to avoid cluttering your computer with unnecessary pages.

      But there is a problem for printing these pages. Most web browsers prevent changing information from an iframe external link to protect hackers from altering the information that is displayed.

      The problem is that that access restriction prevents the calling page (such as VOTES.HTM) from accessing the infomation to generate a print function.

      Compounding the problem is the House page about a bill or joint resolution. It includes its own seperate iframe to displaying a list of the action taken on the legislation.

      The problem is that a javascript function to print the House page could trigger the prinout before that House iframe of actions had fully loaded.

      There are programming techniques to get around these iframe problems, but I have not implemented that approach because I am not not sure if they would work on every type of browser.

      So, to print one of MDN's iframe-link pages, you will need to right click the page to print the displayed iframe. In FireFox, the print function can be accessed from the "This Frame" option in the menu that will be displayed when you click the right mouse button when the pointer is in the frame.

      The bottom of MDN's link page will include buttons to return to the main vote list, the specific vote page you had been viewing or the bill page from which you called up the link.

      Legislative Steps

      While there eight types of measures before the legislature, this description will use the generic term bill (although some are resolutions).

      Except for single chamber resolutions (HR or SR) the other forms bills (HB or SB), joint resolutions (HJR or SJR) and concurrent resolutions (HCR or SCR) must follow the steps listed below:

      Missouri's Constitution requires that the short "title" of a bill be read on three seperate days in each chamber. That imposes a minimum five day limit for a bill, since after third reading in the chamber or origin, the second chamber can first read the bill on the same day (if it's in session and the first chamber delivered the bill to the second chamber).

      First and second reading are formalities, but third reading is when the chamber votes on the bill to send it to (or back to) the other chamber.

      So, here is a list of the most complicated process a bill can take:

      • 1st Reading: This is just a formality when the bill is introduced in a chamber. Just the title is read in a full-chamber session.

      • 2nd Reading: Like 1st reading, this is a formality in which just the title of the bill is read in a full-chamber session.

      • Committee Assignment: In the Senate, a bill immediately is assigned to committee after 2nd reading, but in the House some bills will not get assigned to committee until the final days of the session.

      • Committee Hearing and Vote: It's up to the committee chair to determine when, if ever, the committee holds a public hearing and then a vote on the bill. Usually, a committee will not vote on a bill on the same day as the hearing.

        In addition, it's also up to the chair to decide when, if ever, a bill approved by the committee is reported to the full chamber for further action.

        It's extremely rare, but a committee chair can kill a bill approved by the committee. Sometimes it's because the chair does not support the bill, but more often it's because of pressure from the leadership because the bill would be too divisive for chamber debate or the leadership doesn't like the bill.

        A committee can vote "do not pass," but that triggers a more complicated process this flow chart will not address since it rarely happens. If the committee wants to kill the bill, the chair simply won't bring the bill up for a vote.

      • Perfection: When a bill is reported out of committee, it's put at the bottom of what's called a perfection calendar.

        Perfection is a fancy title to indicate it's the process to "prefect" the bill with amendments or substitutes (although House rules no prohibit substitutes being offered during chamber perfection.

        Perfection requires just a simple majority (50 percent plus one of the members voting) and often is done with just a voice vote.

      • 3rd Reading: Third reading is the final vote a chamber takes on a bill before sending it to the other chamber. Third reading requires what's termed a "consitutional majority" of more than half of the legislative seats (meaning 82 votes in the House or 18 in the Senate).

        Prior to an actual third reading vote, the bill must be cleared by a budget control committee that evaluates the cost of the bill to government. In recent years, approval has been almost routine, but occasionally a bill will get blocked by a House or Senate budget-controll commmitee

        The constitution actually requires a majority of elected members, suggesting a smaller vote might be required depending on vacancies. But for decades legislative leaders have determined a "constitutional majority" requires a majority of the seats, not members.

      • Other Chamber: After a bill clears the chamber of origin, it faces the same initial steps as in the chamber of origin -- first reading, second reading and then committee assignment, hearing and vote.

        In the second chamber, there is no perfection stage, a bill that clears the second chamber committee goes immediately to a third reading calendar for bills bills from the other chamber.

      • Second Chamber Third Reading: 3rd reading in the second chamber is a compressed process of perfection and 3rd reading in the first chamber.

        Amendments and subsitutes (in the Senate only) can be offered before the final third reading vote that requires a constitutional majority.

        If the second chamber has made not even one-letter change to the original chamber's version, the measure clears the legislature.

      • Back to the Original Chamber: Here the process becomes more complicated and avoids the tedious process of first and second readings. Instead, the measure can clear the legislature with a motion unrestricted by a calendar placement.

        One option is for the original chamber to simply accept the second chamber's version, which requires a 3rd reading vote to clear the legislature.

        A second option is to send the measure to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the difference between the two chambers. That conference committee substitute will require a constitutional majority vote of both chambers to clear the legislature.

        The third option is a gridlock. Occasionally a chamber will refuse to accept a motion to put the issue before a conference committee, a chamber will reject a conference committee compromise or the conference committee cannot reach an agreement.

        In those cases, passage requires one of the chambers to accept and third read (with a constitutional majority) the version passed by the other chamber.

      • What's Next: What happens next to a bill that has cleared legislature depends on a couple of factors.

        If it is a joint resolution that amends the constitution, it requires statewide voter approval to become part of the constitution. The only power a governor has over a constitutional amendment is to select the ballot upon which it will appear.

        Normally a bill requires approval by the governor. But that can be avoided with a provision in the bill to submit the measure to the voters. In that case, like a joint resolution, the only power a governor has the ballot upon which the measure will appear.

      • Governor's Veto or Signing of a bill: Like the federal system, if a governor signs bill, it becomes law.

        If he vetoes the bill, that bill will be subject to an over-ride by the legislature, which requires a two-thirds vote of each chamber. Unless the bill was vetoed early in the legislative session, it will come before a short session in the fall to deal with gubernatorial vetoes.

        But Missouri differs from the federal system if the governor refuses to sign or veto a bill. Under the federal system, failure to sign is called a "pocket veto" -- meaning failure to sign has the same effect as a veto.

        But in Missouri, you could call it a "pocket signature." If a governor refuses to act on a bill, it automatically becomes law. That's happened less than two dozen times in more than three decades.

        Phill Brooks

    • 2011 Legislative Votes
    ↓Date Bill Chamber:  Description
    10/17/2011 SS HCS HB 3 Senate: Adoption of a Senate substitute to the presidential primary bill that would cancel the presidential primary for 2012 but keep it for future years.
    10/06/2011 HA 4 HCS SS SB 8 House: An amendment to the China hub bill to lower the corporate income tax rate from 6.25 percent to 5.5 percent.
    10/06/2011 HA 1 HCS SS SB 8 House: An amendment to the China hub bill to impose sunsets on a couple of major tax credit programs for real estate developers.
    10/06/2011 HCS SS SB 8 House: 3rd reading of the House version of the China-hub bill that includes tax breaks for corporations.
    09/9/2011 HB 1 House: Third reading of a bill to give St. Louis city control over it's own police department.
    09/14/2011 SS SB 8 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to provide tax breaks for a St. Louis air transport hub in China and reductions in other tax credits.
    09/09/2011 HB 6 House: 3rd reading of a bill to appropriate funds from the state's emergency fund to cover costs of natural disaster relief for Joplin and flooded farms, despite the governor's refusal to include the issue
    05/13/2011 SS HB 294 House: 3rd reading of the final version of a bill to expand concealed weapons rights, lowering the minimum age for a concealed weapons permit and letting legislators and staff carry concealed weapons in th
    05/12/2011 SS HCS HB213 Senate: 3rd reading of the final version of one of two bills to impose additional requirements on abortion of a viable fetus.
    05/12/2011 SS HB 213 House: 3rd reading of the final version of one of two bills to impose additional requirements on abortion of a viable fetus.
    05/12/2011 SS SB 65 House: 3rd reading of the final version of one of two bills to impose additional requirements on abortion of a viable fetus.
    05/11/2011 SS HB 294 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to expand concealed weapons rights, lowering the minimum age for a concealed weapons permit and letting legislators and staff carry concealed weapons in the Capitol building.
    05/10/2011 SA 13 SS HCS HB 430 Senate: An amendment to an omnibus transportation bill to ban automated photo systems to catch persons running red lights.
    05/10/2011 SA 6 SS HCS HB 430 Senate: An amendment to an omnibus transportation bill to require that city traffic moving violations assess points, including red-light violations caught by cameras.
    05/10/2011 HCS SB 3 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to implement a proposed constitutional amendment to require a photo ID to vote and to implement advanced voting.
    05/10/2011 HJR 2 Senate: 3rd reading an final passage of a constitutional amendment to establish a right to pray in government buildings including schools.
    05/09/2011 SS HCS HB 73 House: 3rd reading of a bill to require drug testing of welfare recipients and impose a three-year ban on benefits for failing the test.
    05/09/2011 HCS SJR 2 Senate: 3rd reading and final passage of a constitutional amendment to give the legislature authority to require a photo ID to vote.
    05/09/2011 HB 658 House: 3rd reading of a bill to require a doctor's prescription to purchase cold medications like Sudafed that contain an ingredient used to produce methamphetamine.
    05/05/2011 HCS SB 187 House: 3rd reading of the House version of a bill that would restrict lawsuits against agricultural sites or other properties unless the person suing as an interest in the property affected.
    05/05/2011 HCS SB 61 House: 3rd reading of a condemnation bill that was amended to include giving St. Louis city control over its own police department.
    05/05/2011 HA 8 HCS SB 207 House: An amendment to an energy bill to revise the renewable energy requirements approved by Missouri voters. Require electric utilities provide payments to customers for generating renewable energy.
    05/05/2011 HA 9 HCS SB 207 House: An amendment to an unrelated bill to authorize raising utility rates to pay up to $45 million for the costs of getting an early site nuclear power plant permit by an electric utility.
    05/04/2011 CCS HB 193 Senate: A motion to override the governor's veto of congressional redistricting. Requires a 2/3rds vote of 23 Senate members.
    05/04/2011 CCS HB 193 House: A motion to override the governor's veto of congressional redistricting. Requires a 2/3rds vote of 109 House members.
    05/04/2011 HCS SB 3 House: 3rd reading of a bill to implement a proposed constitutional amendment to require a photo ID to vote.
    05/03/2011 HB 658 House: Perfection of a bill to require a doctor's prescription to purchase cold medications like Sudafed that contain an ingredient used to produce methamphetamine.
    05/02/2011 SS HCS HB 116 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to provide up to $356 million in tax breaks to business for a transport hub in St. Louis with China and to impose cuts in various other tax credits.
    05/02/2011 HCS SJR 2 House: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to let the legislature require a government-issued photo ID to vote.
    04/28/2011 HCS SCS SB 68 House: 3rd reading of a bill to expand the subpoena powers of legislative leaders.
    04/28/2011 SS HCS HB 73 Senate: 3rd Reading of a measure that would require drug testing of adult recipients of the welfare program Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
    04/28/2011 HJR 27 House: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to establish a right to possess, manufacture and use ammunition and fire arms parts.
    04/27/2011 HB 423 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to approve a multi-state compact to supersede federal regulation over health care.
    04/27/2011 HCS SB 161 Senate: 3rd reading of the governor's version of the proposal to alter various various provisions of the dog breeding law passed by voters in November.
    04/27/2011 SS HCS HB45 House: 3rd reading of a bill to require legislative approval for an agency to implement a federal mandate and also provide tax deductions for small businesses create new jobs.
    04/27/2011 HCS SB 161 House: 3rd reading of the governor's version of the proposal to alter various various provisions of the dog breeding law passed by voters in November.
    04/27/2011 HB473 House: 3rd reading of a bill to authorize charter schools anywhere in the state and expand who can sponsor charter schools.
    04/27/2011 CCS HB 193 Senate: 3rd reading of the final congressional district map eliminating one of Missouri's congressional districts.
    04/27/2011 CCS HB 193 House: 3rd reading of the final congressional district map eliminating one of Missouri's congressional districts.
    04/26/2011 HJR 27 House: Perfection reading of a constitutional amendment to establish a right to possess, manufacture and use ammunition and fire arms parts.
    04/26/2011 HCS HB 366 House: 3rd reading of a bill to provide tax breaks for large-data storage centers and business ventures.
    04/21/2011 SJR10 Senate: 3rd reading of a proposed constitutional amendment to reduce the size of Missouri House from 163 to 103 members.
    04/20/2011 HB 708 House: 3rd reading of a bill to invalidate contracts based on foreign law and prohibit Missouri courts from basing decisions on foreign law.
    04/19/2011 HB 708 House: Perfection of a bill to invalidate contracts based on foreign law and prohibit Missouri courts from basing decisions on foreign law.
    04/18/2011 HB 15 Senate: 3rd reading of a budget bill providing $190 million of federal funds to public schools that a group of fiscal conservative senators had been blocking for two months.
    04/14/2011 SS HB 209 House: 3rd reading of a bill to restrict nuisance lawsuits against use of a property unless the person bringing the suit has an ownership interest in the property being affect. Limit damages to the actual
    04/14/2011 HB257 House: Abolish the Sentencing Advisory Commission that reviews sentences by courts, makes sentence recommendations and alternatives.
    04/13/2011 SS HCS HB 193 Senate: 3rd reading of Senate version the congressional redistricting bill that reduces Missouri from nine to eight congressional districts. The bill eliminates one of the two bills in St. Louis city.
    04/13/2011 SS SB 188 House: 3rd reading of a bill to impose restrictions in the employment discrimination law and lawsuits filed under the law.
    04/13/2011 SS SB 113 House: 3rd reading of a bill to repeal the voter-approved limit on 50 breeding dogs by a single dog-breeding operation and change other provisions approved in November.
    04/13/2011 HB 656 House: Perfection of a bill that would impose interest-rate limits and other restrictions on small loans called payday loans. Demcrats argue the bill is not strong enough.
    04/12/2011 SS HB 209 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to impose restrictions and limits on lawsuits by workers against their employers and impose award limits.
    04/12/2011 SS HCS HB 163 House: 3rd reading of a bill to authorize expending federal funds for an extra 20 weeks of unemployment compensation for long-term unemployed.
    04/12/2011 HA 1 HB 305 House: Amendment to a government retirement bill that would repeal retirement benefits for future legislators.
    04/11/2011 SS HCS HB 163 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to authorize expending federal funds for an extra 20 weeks of unemployment compensation for long-term unemployed.
    04/11/2011 HCS HB 840 House: 3rd reading of a bill to provide up to $480 million in tax breaks to businesses for development of an airplane transport hub with China in St. Louis.
    04/07/2011 SS SB 202 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to prohibit state government from automatically deducting union dues for fees from a state government worker without the worker's approval.
    04/07/2011 SS SB 65 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to impose various restrictions and requirements on abortion of a viable fetus.
    04/07/2011 HCS HB 411 House: 3rd reading of a bill to require the Mental Health Department to develop a plan for moving residents out of state-funded institutional facilities.
    04/07/2011 HCS HB 28 House: 3rd reading of a bill to allow pharmacies to refuse to sell "morning after" pills like RU486 and Plan B to avoid pregnancy.
    04/07/2011 HCS HB 366 House: 3rd reading of a bill to provide a tax credit for some types of sports organizations to hold sporting events in the state.
    04/07/2011 HCS HB 641 House: 3rd reading of a bill to require a prescription for drugs under the category of bath salts.
    04/07/2011 HCS HB 28 House: 3rd reading of a bill to allow a pharmacist to refuse to provide emergency contraception prescriptions.
    04/06/2011 HCS HB 193 House: 3rd reading of the congressional redistricting bill that reduces Missouri from nine to eight congressional districts. The bill eliminates one of the two bills in St. Louis city.
    04/06/2011 SCS SB 19 House: Phase out the corporate franchise tax.
    04/06/2011 HA 3 HCS HB 193 House: Adoption of an amendment to retain two congressional districts in St. Louis city as part of the congressional restricting bill.
    04/05/2011 HCS HB 28 House: Perfection of a bill to allow a pharmacist to refuse to provide emergency contraception prescriptions.
    03/31/2011 HB 423 House: 3rd reading of a bill for Missouri to enter into a multi-state compact for states to regulate health care rather than the federal government if Congress agrees.
    03/29/2011 HB 6 HCS HB 12 House: An amendment to the budget to eliminate $185,000 requested by the state auditor to finance a special audit of state agencies.
    03/29/2011 HA 4 HB 12 House: An amendment to cut $500,000 from the House Budget Committee's recommendation for the governor's budget to cover travel costs.
    03/17/2011 HB 731 House: 3rd reading of a bill to require the Highway Patrol to report to the federal government any illegal foreigner on the sex offender registration list.
    03/17/2011 HB 252 House: 3rd read of a bill to establish a right for a worker to have a firearm in a vehicle on the employer's property and to limit lawsuits against businesses for crimes committed on their property.
    03/17/2011 HCS HB 294 House: 3rd reading of a package of bills to lower the minimum age for concealed weapons permits and to allow state government officials and their staff to carry concealed weapons in the Capitol building.
    03/17/2011 HCS HB 213 House: 3rd reading of a bill to impose restrictions on late-term abortions.
    03/17/2011 HJR 6 House: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to establish a right for a secret ballot including union votes.
    03/16/2011 SA 2 SB 282 Senate: An amendment to a bill changing the presidential primary date to hold it seven days after the New Hampshire presidential primary.
    03/14/2011 HJR 6 House: Perfection of a constitutional amendment to establish a right for a secret ballot including union votes.
    03/10/2011 SS SB 113 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to repeal the voter-approved limit on 50 breeding dogs by a single dog-breeding operation and change other provisions approved in November.
    03/10/2011 SCS SB 188 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to impose restrictions on employment discrimination lawsuits and limit damages against employers.
    03/10/2011 HJR 2 House: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to establish right to pray in government buildings and public schools.
    03/10/2011 HB 167 House: 3rd reading of a bill that would limit driving license exams to English only.
    03/08/2011 HJR 2 House: Perfection of a proposed state constitutional amendment to establish a constitutional right to pray in government buildings including schools.
    03/07/2011 HA 1 HCS HB 174 House: An amendment to the MU curators bill to make the student member a voting member of the University of Missouri Board of Curators.
    03/07/2011 HCS HB 108 House: 3rd reading of a bill to let campaign committees accept money from all types of business political action committees. Currently, only PACs of certain types of companies can make contributions.
    03/03/2011 HCS HB 61 House: 3rd reading of a bill to impose a cap on the state minimum wage to prevent it from being higher than the federal minimum wage.
    03/03/2011 HCS HB 276 House: 3rd reading of a bill to impose restrictions on protests near funerals.
    03/03/2011 HCS HB 76 House: 3rd reading of a bill to phase out the corporate franchise tax.
    03/01/2011 HCS HB 61 House: Adoption of the substitute to a bill to limit increases to the state minimum wage approved by Missouri voters to no higher than the federal minimum wage.
    02/28/2011 SB 187 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill that would restrict nuisance lawsuits against agricultural sites or other property unless the person suing has an interest in the property being affected.
    02/28/2011 HCR 3 House: A resolution calling on Congress to submit a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
    02/24/2011 SJR 2 Senate: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to require a photo ID to vote.
    02/24/2011 HCS HB 205 House: 3rd reading of a bill to impose restrictions and limits on lawsuits by workers against their employers and impose award limits.
    02/24/2011 HB107 House: 3rd reading of a bill that would have vacancies in statewide elected offices, except filled by a special election rather than appointment by the governor.
    02/24/2011 HB 209 House: 3rd reading of a bill that would restrict nuisance lawsuits against agricultural sites or other property unless the person suing has an interest in the property being affected.
    02/24/2011 HB 139 House: 3rd reading of a bill that contains a provision to require the governor to disclose details of all of his travel on the state's Accountability Portal on the Web.
    02/23/2011 HA 1 HB 139 House: An amendment to require the governor to disclose details of all of his travel on the state's Accountability Portal on the Web.
    02/22/2011 HB 71 House: 3rd reading of a bill to transfer control of the St. Louis Police Department from a state board to the city.
    02/17/2011 SB 3 Senate: 3rd read of a bill to implement a companion proposed constitutional amendment (SJR 2) to require a government-issued photo ID to vote.
    02/17/2011 HB 71 House: Perfection of a bill to transfer control of the St. Louis Police Department from a state board to the city.
    02/17/2011 HA 1 HA 1 HB 71 House: An amendment to the St. Louis police bill that would prohibit city police from lobbying legilsators or wearing a uniform or stating one's rank to legislators.
    02/15/2011 SCS SB 19 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to phase out the corporate franchise tax.
    02/10/2011 HB 162 House: 3rd reading of a bill to expand Workers' Compensation Coverage to include occupational diseases and, thus restrict a worker from filing suit for damages against an employer for an occupational disea
    02/08/2011 HA 2 HB 162 House: An amendment to exclude mesothelioma from Wokers' Compensation coverage. Exclusion would assure that victims could bring private civil lawsuits against their employers.
    02/07/2011 SCS SB 19 Senate: Perfection of a bill to phase out the corporate franchise tax.
    01/31/2011 SCS SB 68 Senate: 3rd Reading of a bill to expand the subpoena powers of legislative leaders to compel documents from private citizens or the administration.
    01/31/2011 HCS HB 73 House: 3rd Reading of a measure that would require drug testing of adult recipients of the welfare program Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
    01/26/2011 HCS HB 73 House: Perfection of a measure that would require drug testing of some welfare recipients.
    01/20/2011 HCS HB 45 House: 3rd reading of a bill that would require legislative approval for the state to comply with a federal mandate and to provide tax breaks to new businesses creating jobs.
    01/19/2011 HCS HB 45 House: Perfection of a bill that would require legislative approval for the state to comply with a federal mandate and to provide tax breaks to new businesses creating jobs.
    01/11/2011 HR 39 House: A House resolution calling on the governor and attorney general to join a lawsuit challenging the new federal health care law.
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