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2014 Bill(s)

* HB 1363
Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
Status: H Professional Registration
Description: Regulate and license midwives. The legislature completely de-regulated it in 2007 when deregulation was stuck into a broad health bill, HB 818.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS HB 1364
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: H Perf
    Description: Ban a real estate restrictive covenant or a property owners' association from prohibiting political yard signs on an owner's property.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 1365
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: WITHDRAWN
    Description: Restrict counties or cities in the St. Louis area from approving tax increment financing projects in the St. Louis area that provide tax breaks to developers. Impose additional requirements unless approved by the county's TIF board.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * HB 1366
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: H Ways & Means
    Description: Exempt business income and farm income from personal income taxes.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 1367
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: H Crime Prevention
    Description: Exclude Revenue Department investigators from various laws on police officers when concuding various tax investigations.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 1368
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: H Downsizing State Government
    Description: Prohibit using GPS system for tracking a motor vehicle for the basis of imposing a tax on the mileage traveled.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 1487
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: H Higher Education
    Description: Provide a reimbursement for remedial course tuition for courses required to prepare the student for a first-college level in the subject at a public university.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS HB 1488
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: H Perf
    Description: Declare the right of parents in upbringing a child a fundamental right. Prohibit any past law or local ordinance from infringing on that right.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HB 1489
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: H Government Oversight
    Description: Give the legislature power to remove any government employee. Let 16 House members trigger an investigation of an employee. Give the lieutenant governor power to fill any position subject to confirmation that has not been filed for six months.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SS HB 1490
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Prohibit the Education Department from implementing the Common Core Standards Commission recommendations. The final SS prohibits the state Education Department from mandating curriculum, textbooks or other instructional materials for local schools.
    See: 
  • House roll call - HB 1490 (04/10/2014): 3rd reading of a bill to prohibit the state Education Department from implementing the federal Common Core Standards for education.
  • Senate roll call - SS HB 1490 (05/01/2014): 3rd reading of the Senate's version of a bill to ban the Education Department from implementing the national "Common Core Standards" for schools.
  • House roll call - CCS HB 1490 (05/15/2014): 3rd reading of the final conference committee version to ban implementation of the national Common Core standards for public schools.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 1518
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: H Economic Development
    Description: Require a two-thirds voter approval for approval for a city in the St. Louis area to adopt a tax increment financing project rejected by the regional TIF commission. A TIF provides tax breaks for developers.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1546
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: WITHDRAWN
    Description: Ban cities from restricting a mother from breast-feeding or expressing milk in public.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1570
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: H Children, Families & Disabilities
    Description: Restrict cities from prohibiting a mother from breast-feeding or expressing milk in public.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 1642
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Establish provisions by which the Labor Department can reclassify a person from an independent contractor an an employee and establish appeal rights governing various labor provisions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HB 1708
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: H Education
    Description: Prohibit the state Education Board, local schools and charter schools from implementing anything related the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1709
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: H Economic Development
    Description: Expand statewide a ban on tax increment finance tax breaks in flood plains. TIFS provide tax breaks for developers. Current law imposes the restriction only on St. Charles County.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 1767
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: H Education
    Description: Establish requirements for schools to have an early graduation policy that allows graduation prior to completing the senior year.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1785
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: H Government Oversight
    Description: Require the Social Services Department to apply for a federal waiver to allow Medicaid coverage for structured family care giving.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS HB 1898
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: S 1st Read
    Description: Require the Health Department to develop standards for perinatal care.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 1905
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: H Education
    Description: Prohibit a school superintendent from having a contract providing a salary higher than the state education commissioner.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1920
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: H Education
    Description: Phase out the hold-harmless clause of the school funding forumla that restricts cuts in state funding to schools that otherwise would get less state funds in any one year
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 2113
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: H Education
    Description: Prohibit the Education Department from requiring administration of any statewide assessment by electronic means for the next three school years. Assigned to committee April 23.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS HJR 62
    Sponsor: Bahr, Kurt
    Status: H Perf
    Description: Prohibit any government agency or official from requiring a person to have health insurance or impose a penalty for failing to have health insurance.
    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.