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2010 Bill(s)

* HCS SS SB 577
Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
Status: H Taken from Committee
Description: Expand the definition of lobbyists. Create an independent Ethics Commission investigator. Ban lobbyist contributions to legislators and the governor during legislative sessions. Discharged from committee by petition and put on a calendar of Senate Bills Taken from Committee. The SS is liimited to campaign finance issues. The HCS imposes limits on lobbyist gifts to legislators, imposes a waiting period for an ex-legislator to become a lobbyist. On April 26 H Rules refused to allow House debate on the Ethics Committee substitute, sending the bill back to committee.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 578
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Allow creation of port improvement districts with taxing authority, upon voter approval.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 579
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Repeal a law prohibiting Kansas City police from political activities.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 644
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Expand the purposes for the St. Joseph and Buchanan County hotel tax to include capital expenditures besides tourism and convention promotion. The House version grants various other local governments additional taxing powers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 645
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Eliminate several governmental boards and commissions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 805
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: S Health
    Description: Let a Childern's Division investigator request a juvenile officer to take a child into protective custody.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * CCS SB 844
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Let any statewide elected official request the Office of Administration seek bids for a contract. The HCS contains several unrelated issues involving campaign finance and lobbyists. Would impose campaign finance restrictions, except on the legislature. Restrict lawmakers working as lobbyists. The CCS strips most of the lobbyist restrictions out.
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  • House roll call - CCS SB 844 (05/14/2010): 3rd reading and final passage of the scaled-back ethics bill that restricts fund transfers between committees but imposes no limits on lobbyist gifts to legislators.
  • Senate roll call - CCS SB 844 (05/13/2010): 3rd reading and final passage of the scaled-back ethics bill that restricts fund transfers between committees.
  • House roll call - HCS SB 844 (05/06/2010): 3rd reading of a House version of a bill that would impose campaign contribution limits, but exempt legislative candidates from the limits, and impose limits on gifts from lobbyists.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 868
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Provide a sales tax exemption for data storage center facilities.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 896
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Require new hires by state government to make a contribution to their retirement plans.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SS SB 943
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Require the legislature's Joint Committee on Education to conduct a study on education financing in the fall of 2010. The SS changes the allocation of state funds to local schools and remove additional funding for summer school.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 944
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: S 3rd Read (IN BUDGET)
    Description: Exempt tips, whether mandatory or voluntary, from the sales tax.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SS SB 1057
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: S 3rd Read (IN BUDGET)
    Description: Require the Office of Administration to conduct a study on programs that could be eliminated. Require a report to the legislature by the end of the year 2010. The SS combines the Water Patrol and the Highway Patrol. It also includes studying merging the departments of Health, Mental Health and Social Services. The patrol merger is part of the budget-savings package of the administration that would save about $2 million.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1058
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: H Job Creation
    Description: Impose time limits on neighborhood improvement district bonds. The House speaker delayed assigning the bill to committee until the last day of the session when it constitutionally was too late to take any further action on the measure.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1059
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: S Health
    Description: Let the Mental Health Department enter into cooperative agreements with the Missouri Mental Health Foundation.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1067
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: Create a joint legislative committee to develop long term plans for state government in various categories including budget forecasting.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SJR 44
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: H Higher Education
    Description: Eliminate the requirement for various separate departments, giving the legislature power to consolidate the separate state departments.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SJR 44 (04/22/2010): 3rd reading of a constitutional to merge the departments of Education and Higher Education.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SS SJR 45
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: H Higher Education
    Description: Merge the Education and Higher Education departments and define the new governing board.
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  • Senate roll call - SS SJR 45 (04/27/2010): 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to implement another constitutional amendment (SJR 44) to combine the two education departments.
  • 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.