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2014 Bill(s)

* HCS SB 507
Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
Status: H 3rd Read
Description: Limit powers of the governor to fill vacancies. Require the governor to call an election for a legislative vacancy within 30 days. Require an election within four months after a vacancy in the lieutenant governor's office. Require vacancies in other statewide offices to be filled by the next general election. Limit how long an acting department director can hold office to 120 days.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SS SB 575
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
    Description: Repeal several expired statutes creating various special legislative committees. The governor's veto message complained the bill also would eliminate the Medicaid oversight committee and a requirement for a cost study of proposed health insurance benefit mandates.
    See: 
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 583
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Impose higher standards for a jury to award non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * CCS SB 584
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
    Description: Restrict where sales taxes are required for various amusement, entertainment and recreational facilities. The final CCS contained a number of other sales tax exemptions including power companies and data storage centers. Legislative staff estimate the cost to the state could exceed $172 million per year in the first full year. In his veto letter, the governor wrote this was one of several bills providing special interest tax breaks that would cost state and local government $776 million per year.
    See: 
  • House roll call - CCS SB 584 (05/16/2014): 3rd reading and final passage of a sales tax bill that is one of eight bills the governor charged would provide tax breaks to special interests that were passed on the legislature's last day.
  • Senate roll call - CCS SB 584 (05/16/2014): 3rd reading of the final CCS of a bill to provide various business sales tax breaks.
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 605
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: H 3rd Read (IN BUDGET)
    Description: Technical corrections to higher education laws, changing references to specific statute numbers that changed.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 606
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Repeal a requirement that a person selling prepaid legal services be licensed as insurance agents.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 607
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: Back to S
    Description: Change the language of a ballot measure in Springfield that is submitted every five years for a public safety sales tax. Currently, the language is to repeal the tax (thus a majority of votes is required for the measure to kill it). The bill would change language to continue the tax, thus requiring a majority to vote for the measure to continue it.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 614
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: Conference
    Description: Repeal language referring to state Supreme Court and appeals court commissioners (a position that has not been filled since 1972). Correct a section indicating the number of judges in the three appeals courts. Remove reference to a "janitor-messenger" for the St. Louis City circuit court.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 615
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
    Description: Repeal a law authorizing the Supreme Court to appoint a panel of associate circuit judges to maintain a schedule of fees for various offenses. The amended house version began an omnibus legal bill dealing with a number of different issues. The governor's veto letter indicated it included a provision closing public access to some records of the lieutenant governor's office.
    See: 
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 621
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Require the Judicial Commission meet only once every two years rather than annually. Remove commissioners from the commission. There has not been a Supreme Court or appeals court commissioner for decades. The House amended version became an omnibus bill on a number of unrelated issues.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 789
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Governmental Accountability
    Description: Expand the power of the state auditor to inspect property and equipment purchased from a grant. Further restrict the auditor's authority to disclose tax information obtained during an audit.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 790
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Repeal mandatory life-sentences for first degree murder for persons under age 18. Establish provisions by which life without parole can be considered, but is not mandatory for minors. The U.S. Supreme Court held in June 2013 that mandatory life without parole for minors is unconstitutional.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 793
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Various criminal prosecution provisions. Prohibit motions to exclude evidence in preliminary hearings. Prohibit a special prosecutor appointed to replace the local prosecutor from being employed by anyone except the state in criminal cases. Let the same judge preside over the preliminary and trial if the defendant agrees.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 802
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Seniors & Families
    Description: Extend from 30 days to 45 days the deadline for the Children's Services Division to complete child abuse or neglect investigation. Also change the deadline after the report to make a final determination.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 823
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Prohibit persons found guilty of various categories of felony crimes from receiving state or local government retirement benefits.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SCS SB 824
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: H 3rd Read (IN BUDGET)
    Description: Establish provisions by which two or more adjoining counties can merge their county prosecutors' offices.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 844
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Various changes in Unemployment Compensation provisions governing part-time workers who share a full-time job. Lower the minimum number of hours and raise the maximum number of hours for a worker can work part time and still get benefits. Basically changes the provisions of the shared-work plan that an employer submits to the state.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 915
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Allow a $10 fee for cases brought in Greene County's circuit court to help pay for maintaining the county or city court facilities.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 946
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Expand what is covered in a law providing local government preference in awarding contracts to minority businesses to include non-profit organizations with minority staff. Impose a limit on the number of preference points that can be gained.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 947
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Education
    Description: Let Greene County or any city in the county impose a sales tax to fund early childhood education programs upon voter approval.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 952
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Remove the two-year time limit for starting action by the state for Medicaid fraud.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 994
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Require the Technology Corporation to provide grants to non-profit organizations that make grants to assist in development of new technology businesses.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SJR 30
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S 3rd Read (IN BUDGET)
    Description: Impose a 90 day deadline to fill vacancies subject to Senate confirmation including department directors. Give the lieutenant governor power to fill the vacancy if the governor does not fill it within 90 days.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SJR 37
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Repeal antiquated references to Supreme Court commissioners serving on legislative reapportionment commissions. The position of court commissioner no longer exists.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SJR 39
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Extend the state's open meetings and public records law to cover state legislative redistricting commissions. Require a redistricting commission to hold a public hearing prior to adoption of a plan. Extend the ban on how long a commission member can run for a district drawn by the commission from four to ten years. Require a written explanation if a district does not contain any portion of a prior district.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SJR 56
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Authorize the legislature to float up to $950 million in bonds for building construction.
    See: 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.