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2016 Bill(s)
* HB 1624 Sponsor:Cookson, Steve Status: H 2nd Read Description: Require schools to designate restrooms be restricted to male or female students only based on chromosomes and anatomy. Prohibit access by student of one biological gender to enter a restroom, locker room or shower of the other gender. Require alternative locations for those who assert a different gender identity.
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HB 1625 Sponsor:Cookson, Steve Status: H Emerging Issues Description: Provide a 10 percent funding increase for school districts with assessed property valuation per students that was withing the lowest ten percent of districts in the 2004-2005 school year.
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HB 1626 Sponsor:Cookson, Steve Status: H Emerging Issues Description: Raise the minimum salary for public schol teachers, subject to appropriation.
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HB 1627 Sponsor:Cookson, Steve Status: H Emerging Issues Description: Limit the salary for a school's top administrator to four times what is paid for an entry level teacher. Require the district to publish in the local newspaper the salary of every employee.
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HCS HB 1628 Sponsor:Cookson, Steve Status: H Perfection Description: Declare that individual board members have no legal authority to act on their own behalf in the name of the board. Declare valid only board actions that are voted at a meeting by a majority vote.
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* HB 1629 Sponsor:Cookson, Steve Status: H Civil & Criminal Proceedings Description: Prohibit sale or possession of powdered alcohol. Increase from a misdemeanor to a felony the penalty for a non-parent to knowingly allow a minor under age 21 to possess or drink alcohol.
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HB 1683 Sponsor:Cookson, Steve Status: H Elementary & Secondary Education Description: Repeal the option that allows a school district to start school earlier than the legal prohibition of opening school ten days before the first Monday in September.
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HB 1871 Sponsor:Cookson, Steve Status: H Perfection Description: Require a school district audit separate disclosure about the costs of extracurricular activities including travel expenses, building rent, costs associated with game officials, etc.
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HB 1872 Sponsor:Cookson, Steve Status: H Perfection Description: Name a portion of Highway 50 in Pettis County the LeRoy Van Dyke Highway.
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HB 2136 Sponsor:Cookson, Steve Status: H Perfection Description: Designate a portion of Highway 50 in Pettis County the Scott Joplin Memorial Highway.
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HB 2185 Sponsor:Cookson, Steve Status: H Select Com. on Education Description: Create an interim House committee on the High School Activities Association.
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HB 2447 Sponsor:Cookson, Steve Status: H Select Com. on State & Local Gov't Description: Include Ripley County in a law authorizing a sales tax by a rural fire protection district, upon voter approval.
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