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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

    • 2022 Legislative Votes
    ↓Date Bill Chamber:  Description
    10/04/2022 HCS HB 3 Senate: 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to 2028 various agriculture production tax credits.
    09/29/2022 SS SB 3 House: 3rd reading and final passage of a bill that would cut income tax rates that legislative staff estimate ultimately could cut state revenue by nearly $2 billion per year.
    09/21/2022 HCS HB 3 House: 3rd reading of a bill to extend the expiration date of various agriculture tax credits.
    09/21/2022 SCS SB 3 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill that would cut income tax rates.
    09/21/2022 SS SB 8 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to extend the expiration date of varous agriculture tax credits.
    05/13/2022 SS SJR 38 House: 3rd reading and final approval of proposed constitutional amendment to give the legislature power to set minimum salaries for local police.
    05/13/2022 SS HCS HB 2116 House: 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to require a medical facility allow up to two persons to visit a patient, with exceptions.
    05/13/2022 CCS SB 820 House: 3rd reading and final passage of a bill that includes a provision to restrict electric utilities for high-power lines.
    05/13/2022 SS SB 683 House: 3rd reading and final passage of a bill that includes a provision creating a nursery program for woman who give birth in a state prison and let her keep the child with her for up to 18 months.
    05/13/2022 SS SB 672 House: 3rd reading and final approval of a bill that would expand a program that provides grants to mid-career adults to attend college.
    05/11/2022 HCS HB 2909 Senate: 3rd reading of the House version of the congressional redistrict map that likely preserves the current party lineup that was opposed by Senate Republicans.
    05/10/2022 SA 2 SS HCS HB 2116 Senate: Defeat of an amendment to a hospitalization visitation measure to prohibit requring a vaccine to visit.
    05/10/2022 SS HCS HB 2116 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to require a medical facility allow up to two persons to visit a patient, with exceptions.
    05/10/2022 SCR 25 House: Adoption and final passage of a resolution calling for a U.S. constitutional convention limited to imposing term limits on members of Congress.
    05/10/2022 HA 2 SB 652 House: Adoption of an amendment adding a bunch of business tax breaks to a bill that originally was limited to a world cup soccer tournment.
    05/10/2022 SB 652 House: Adoption of a bill for a tax incentive for a world cup soccer tournment in Missouri to which the House added a number of business tax breaks.
    05/10/2022 CCS SB 820 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill that includes a provision restricting electric utilities from condemning land for high-power lines that do not provide power to Missourians.
    05/09/2022 SS HB 1878 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to require a photo ID to vote.
    05/09/2022 SA 2 SS HB 2697 Senate: Defeat of an amendment to require Kansas City police officers live in Missouri.
    05/09/2022 SA 3 SS HB 2697 Senate: Defeat of an amendment to prohibit firearm possession of a person convicted of various violence charges or subject of a protection order.
    05/09/2022 HCS HB 2909 House: 3rd reading of a congressional redistricting bill.
    05/09/2022 HCS HJR 110 House: Defeat of perfection of a proposed constitutional amendment tstablish a constitutional right for parents to direct education of their children.
    05/06/2022 SCS HB 2090 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill that contains a one-time $500 income tax credit.
    05/06/2022 SCS HB 2090 House: 3rd reading and final passage of a bill that contains a one-time $500 income tax credit.
    05/06/2022 SS HB 2400 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill that includes a provision to prohibit state or local government requiring 501(c) PACs to disclose the names of donors or members.
    05/05/2022 SS HCS HB 1606 Senate: 3rd reading of a substitute bill into which a sales tax on firearms and ammunition and a ban requiring public employees have COVID-19 vaccinations.
    05/04/2022 HA 16 HCS SB 710 House: Adoption of an amendment to prohibit a public employee from being required by the employer to have a COVID-19 vaccination.
    04/28/2022 SS SB 812 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to prohibit a court from changing the ballot description of a constitutional amendment or statute placed on the ballot by the legislature.
    04/28/2022 HB 2140 House: 3rd reading of a bill that includes a provision authorizing school district voters to prohibit a person born as a male from being on a public school sports team designated for women only.
    04/28/2022 HB 1973 House: 3rd reading of a bill that includes a proision prohibiting any male from participating in a public school athletic team limited to females.
    04/27/2022 HA1 HA3 SB 820 House: Defeat of an amendment to repeal the motor fuel tax increase the legislature passed in 2021.
    04/27/2022 SA 3 HB 1606 Senate: Adoption of an amendment to a county budget bill to prohibit election authorities accepting in-kind contributions for conducting an election unless state appropriations are insufficient.
    04/27/2022 HA 11 HCS SB 820 House: An amendment to a solar panel bill to repeal a law passed by Mo. voters in 1976 banning an electric utility increasing rates to pay for construction work in progess before the plant is operating.
    04/27/2022 HCS SB 820 House: 3rd reading of a bill that includes repealing a 1976 voter-approved ban on an electric utility charging for the costs of constructing a new facility before the facility actually is producing power.
    04/26/2022 SA 1 SCS HCS HB 3012 Senate: Defeat of an amendment to restore $500,000 to the salary budget for the attorney general's office that the Senate Appropriations Committee cut from the House-approved budget for te office.
    04/25/2022 HA 1 HA 3 HB 1973 House: Defeat of an amendment that would prohibit public school discrimination of an employee based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
    04/25/2022 HA 3 HB 1973 House: Passage of amendment to a school tranportation bill to restrict participation in a sports team limited to one sex to students with the same biological sex on their birth certificates.
    04/25/2022 HB 1859 House: 3rd reading of a bill that includes provisions to phase out touch screen voting machines and prohibit outside drop boxes to submit absentee ballots.
    04/25/2022 HB 1692 House: 3rd reading of a bill to allow a damage lawsuit by an employee for damages resulting from the employer's requirement to get an immunization vaccine.
    04/25/2022 HB 1973 House: Perfection of a bill that includes a provision prohibiting on a public school sports team for women only a male student who transgendered to female.
    04/21/2022 HCS HB 3021 House: 3rd reading of a a bill to appropriate $1 million for up to a $500 tax cut to persons who filed income tax returns.
    04/20/2022 HB 1692 House: Perfection of a bill to make an employer liable for any injury or damage from a vacinee the employer required the employee to take.
    04/20/2022 HA 1 HCS HB 3021 House: Defeat of an amendment appropriating $1 billion for a one-time income tax credit to limit the credit to those earning $100,000 or less $200,000 for married couples.
    04/20/2022 SS HCS HB 1552 Senate: 3rd reading of a substitute to a bill to provide additional funding for charter schools.
    04/20/2022 SJR 39 Senate: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to give the legislature power to limit property tax assessments.
    04/20/2022 SS SJR 41 Senate: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to allow local government to place on the ballot exempting those 65 years of age or older from property tax increases.
    04/20/2022 SS SB 683 Senate: 3rd reading of a measure that includes a provision creating a nursery program for women who give birth in a state prison and allow the mother to keep the child with her for up to 18 months.
    04/19/2022 HCS HB 1709 House: 3rd reading of a bill to essentially prohibit requiring an employee receive medicine or a vaccination not fully authorized by the FDA.
    04/19/2022 HCS HB 1858 House: 3rd reading of a bill imposing various restrictions on what can be taught in public schools including a ban on requiring teachers to discuss current public policy issues.
    04/14/2022 HB 1860 House: 3rd reading of a bill to reduce weeks of unemployment coverage during periods of lower unemployment rates.
    04/14/2022 SCR 25 Senate: Adoption of a resolution calling for a U.S. constitutional convention limited to imposing term limits on members of Congress.
    04/13/2022 HA 1 HA 4 HB 1629 House: Passage of an amendment to designate a Rush Limbaugh Day in Missouri to a omnibus honorary designation bill.
    04/13/2022 HA2 HB 2140 House: Adoption of an amendment to a bill on voting to authorize public school district voters to ban student born as a male to participate in an athletic team designated exclusively for women.
    04/12/2022 HA 8 HCS HB 1858 House: Adoption of an amendment to an education bill that would restrict various issues that could be discussed in public schools involving race and "public policy issues of the day."
    04/12/2022 SS HB 2149 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill that includes prohibiting medical licensing board action for administering or prescribing the anti-malaria drug promoted by Donald Trump to treat COVID-19 (hydroxychloroquine).
    04/11/2022 HB 1637 House: 3rd reading of an omnibus crime bill that defines new crimes and/or enhanced penalties. The bill began as a measure to make stealing from a mail box or delivery package a crime.
    04/07/2022 SS SB 690 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill to allow operation of a hypodermic needle exchange program.
    04/06/2022 HCS HB 2120 House: 3rd reading of a bill to prohibit any government agency from requiring a 501(c) (politcal PAC) from disclosing donors or supporters.
    04/06/2022 HCS HB 2012 House: 3rd reading of a bill to make it a crime to provide a drug that induces an abortion and ban public funding of abortion facilities or affiliates of abortion facilities, presumably Planned Parenthood.
    04/06/2022 HCS HJR 131 House: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to impose restrictions on voting. Effectively prohibit ranked voting and require paper ballots.
    04/06/2022 HB 2697 House: 3rd reading of a bill to create a separate crime of theft from retail outlets.
    04/06/2022 HB 1954 House: 3rd reading of a bill to require a person convicted of DWI whose accident killed the parent of a child provide financial support for the child.
    04/06/2022 HB 1684 House: 3rd reading of a bill to repeal a 1976 voter-approved ban on a utility company from increasing rates to cover construction or financial costs of a facility that has not begun producing power.
    04/04/2022 HCS HB 2127 House: 3rd reading of a bill to impose tougher penalties for vandalizing or stealing from an ATM.
    04/04/2022 SA 1 SA 1 SS SB 758 Senate: Defeat of an amendment to a government contracting bill to require a business to get a government contract to promise not impose a COVID-19 vaccination requirement on employees.
    03/31/2022 SS HCS HB 2117 House: Defeat of a motion to adopt the SS for congressional redistricting that adds Republican voters to the St. Louis 2nd Cong. district my expanding the district into rural SE Missouri.
    03/31/2022 SS SB 807 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill that provides various business tax cuts including for medical marijuana companies.
    03/29/2022 SS HCS HB 2117 House: House rejection of the Senate-passed congressional redistricting bill, asking the Senate for a conference commitee to resolve the differences.
    03/29/2022 HS 1 HCS HB 2012 House: Adoption of an amended to a bill restricting use of aborted fetus tissue to ban use and trafficking of abortion-inducing drugs.
    03/28/2022 HCS HB 2005 House: 3rd reading of a bill to restrict condemnation powers by an electric utility for an electric transmission line that does not serve Missouri customers.
    03/28/2022 HCS HB 1656 House: 3rd reading of a bill to restrict local government from requiring a government employee from being a resident of the local government.
    03/24/2022 HB 2502 House: 3rd reading of a bill to legalize gambling on sports games.
    03/23/2022 SS HCS HB 2117 Senate: 3rd reading of the congressional redistricting bill which likely retains the current party lineup of six Republican and two Democratic districts.
    03/21/2022 SS SJR 38 Senate: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to set mandatory minimum salaries for local police.
    03/10/2022 HCS HJR 91 House: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment requiring legislative approval for an initative constitutional amendment petition signed by enough voters get legislative approval to be on the ballot.
    03/10/2022 HJR 94 House: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to require a photo ID to vote.
    03/10/2022 HCS HB 1897 House: 3rd reading of a bill that would allow a child born to a female inmate to remain with the mother and provide in-prison nursey services.
    03/10/2022 HB 1724 House: 3rd reading of a bill to restrict discrimination by public higher education institutions discriminating against student religious organizations.
    03/09/2022 HCS HB 2116 House: 3rd reading of a bill to require a medical facility allow up to two persons to visit a patient, with exceptions.
    03/09/2022 HCS HB 1552 House: 3rd reading of a bill to provide a charter school with a additional funds for a student from a school district.
    03/09/2022 HCS HB 1814 House: 3rd reading of a bill to establish a system by which a public school student could transfer to a public school in another district.
    03/09/2022 HB 1861 House: 3rd reading of a bill prohibit consideration of a COVID-19 vaccination status for an organ donor or recipient.
    03/09/2022 HCS HB 1462 House: 3rd reading of a bill to allow concealed permit holders to carry concealed weapons on some forms of publicly funded transportation vehicles.
    03/08/2022 HA 1 HA 2 HCS HB 2116 House: Defeat of an amendment that would have limited to one person, with exceptions, to a bill that would require medical facilities to allow up to two visitors at the same time.
    03/07/2022 HCS HB 1814 House: Perfection of a bill to establish provisions for a student to transfer to transfer to another school district.
    03/07/2022 HCS HB 1552 House: Perfection of a bill to provide additional funds to a charter school with students from a school district.
    02/24/2022 HA 2 HCS HJR 91 House: Defeat of an amendment to an initiative petititon proposal to require the secretary of state accept electronic signatures on initiative petitions.
    02/24/2022 HCS HJR 117 House: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to give the legislature power to stop voter-approved Medicaid expansion.
    02/24/2022 SS SJR 33 Senate: 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment that would impose a 3.5 percent cap on the income tax rate.
    02/24/2022 SS SB 672 Senate: 3rd reading of a bill that would expand a program that provides grants to mid-career adults to attend college.
    02/23/2022 SA SS HCS HB 3014 Senate: Defeat of an amendment to the FY 2022 supplemental budget to remove language banning appropriations to Planned Parenthood and abortion facilities.
    02/22/2022 HCS HB 1686 House: 3rd reading of a bill to prohibit state and local government from requiring a COVID-19 vaccination. Provide rights for business employees to refuse a COVID-19 vaccination.
    02/22/2022 HCS HB 2358 House: 3rd reading of a bill to require employers to recognize and accommodate employee religious or other belief-based objection to a COVID-19 vaccination.
    02/15/2022 HA 3 HCS HJR 117 House: Defeat of an amendment on proposed Medicaid restrictions to limit a ban on coverage for non-Missouri residents to those over the age of 18.
    02/10/2022 HCS HJR 79 House: 3rd reading of a proposed constitutional amendment imposing tougher requirements to get constitutional amendents on the ballot by petition.
    02/07/2022 HA 2 HCS HJR 79 House: Defeat of an amendment that would require a two-thirds vote to adopt a proposed constitutional amendment that would impose a two-thirds voter approval for future constitutional amendments.
    02/07/2022 SA 1 HCS HB 2117 Senate: Defeat of an amendment to the congressional redistricting bill that supporters argue would flip the Kansas City district of Democrat Emanuel Cleaver to a Republican district.
    01/27/2022 HCS HB 1720 House: 3rd reading of tax cuts for agriculture and ethanol producers that legislative staff estimate could cost the state $39 million in lost tax revenues per year when full implemented.
    01/19/2022 HCS HB 2117 House: 3rd reading of the congressional redistricting bill.
    01/19/2022 HCS HB 2117 House: Defeat of the congressional redistricting emergency clause that would have allowed it to go into effect before the Feb. 22 start of filing for office. The emergency clause requires a two-thirds vote
    01/18/2022 HCS HB 2117 House: Perfection of the congressional redistricting bill that likely will retain the party divide of 6 Republican and 2 Democratic districts.
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