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2016 Bill(s)

HB 1782
Sponsor: Barnes, Jay
Status: H Select Com. on Agriculture
Description: Require the Natural Resources Department to sell any property in Oregon County that was purchased through legal settlement funds of the Natural Resources Department. Prohibit any state department from purchasing any land in the county after August 28, 2016.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 1783
    Sponsor: Barnes, Jay
    Status: H Select Com. on Judiciary
    Description: Impose restrictions on when a judge can order splitting retirement benefits in a divorce case of a county employee or local government employee covered by the local government retirement system.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 1784
    Sponsor: Barnes, Jay
    Status: H Health & Mental Health Policy
    Description: Authorize physicians to prescribe epinephrine auto-injectors for emergency use and provide lawsuit protections for providing the injectors. Let persons use them on others after training.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HB 1922
    Sponsor: Barnes, Jay
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Establish a state database of drug prescriptions of controlled substances of persons convicted of drug offenses or reported by a relative as drug offenders. Prohibit access by law enforcement.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HCS HB 1923
    Sponsor: Barnes, Jay
    Status: S Veterans' Affairs & Health
    Description: Expand Medicaid coverage to include some home "telehealth" services. Various other changes in telehealth provisions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HB 1957
    Sponsor: Barnes, Jay
    Status: H Telecommunications
    Description: Make it a crime to case false information to be reported in the caller ID that is provided to the recipient of a phone call.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 1998
    Sponsor: Barnes, Jay
    Status: H Government Oversight
    Description: Impose requirements on investment of political campaign funds. Require they be invested and be accessible for withdrawal at any time without financial penalty.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS HB 2203
    Sponsor: Barnes, Jay
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Impose requirements on investment of political campaign funds. Require they be invested and be accessible for withdrawal at any time without financial penalty.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SS HB 2203 (03/03/2016): 3rd reading of a House bill with a Senate version that would restrict some candidates using their former campaign funds for personal use.
  • House roll call - CCS HB 2203 (04/19/2016): 3rd reading of the conference version of a bill to impose restrictions on investment and disposal of candidate campaign funds.
  • Senate roll call - CCS HB 2203 (04/20/2016): 3rd reading and final passage of the conference version of a bill to impose restrictions on investment and disposal of candidate campaign funds.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS HB 2209
    Sponsor: Barnes, Jay
    Status: H Perfection
    Description: Prohibit the technical advisory staff of the Public Service Commission from advising the commission on cases involving companies for whom the staffer had once worked.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 2210
    Sponsor: Barnes, Jay
    Status: H Select Com. on Utilities
    Description: Restrict complaints that can be brought before the Public Service Commission. Currently, any law or rul can be the subject of a complaint. The bill would require that it be a law subject to the commission's authority or rule issued by the commission. Also include any tariff as an allowed complaint issue.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HB 2226
    Sponsor: Barnes, Jay
    Status: S 3rd Read
    Description: Expand persons covered by laws imposing lobbying and conflict of interest requirements on public officials. Include any person appointed by an executive branch official to make recommendations involving expenditure of public funds. Essentially would impose conflict of interest restrictions on the task force the governor appointed to put together a plan for a new football stadium in St. Louis.
    See: 
  • House roll call - HB 2226 (01/28/2016): 3rd reading of a bill to expand who is covered by the state's laws on financial disclosure and conficts of interest to include advisors for the executive branch.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HB 2227
    Sponsor: Barnes, Jay
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Repeal the requirement that the public-funded NFL stadium in St. Louis be adjacent to a convention facility. Also repeal a provision restricting refunding of the stadium bonds.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2228
    Sponsor: Barnes, Jay
    Status: H Perfection
    Description: Require a state government worker be granted ten consecutive days of paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HB 2246
    Sponsor: Barnes, Jay
    Status: H Civil & Criminal Proceedings
    Description: Various provisions on sex offenders of children. Prohibit suspended imposition of a sentence for them. Remove sex offenders of children from various provisions that ease criminal penalties including Parole Board waiving life-time parole supervision for elderly criminals and exempting from a defintion of a criminal sentence those given a 120 shock sentence.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * HB 2389
    Sponsor: Barnes, Jay
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Require Medicaid coverage be provided though managed health care organizations, with some exceptions. Provide subsidies for Medicaid recipients who switch to private insurance.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2585
    Sponsor: Barnes, Jay
    Status: H Civil & Criminal Proceedings
    Description: Clarify that a law on compensation for a conviction subsequently overturned by DNA profiling also covers revocation of parole that at the time of the conviction if the Parole Board cites conviction of the crime for which the person was subsequently exonerated as the reason for the revocation.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2586
    Sponsor: Barnes, Jay
    Status: H Elections
    Description: Define the obligations and powers of the attorney general. Impose qualification requirements to be attorney general including trying various types of cases.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2688
    Sponsor: Barnes, Jay
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Establish provisions by which a higher education system can join or leave the health care coverage plan for state government workers.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2693
    Sponsor: Barnes, Jay
    Status: H Select Com. on Education
    Description: Expand the A+ college scholarship program to students in private and parochial schools.
    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.