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2016 Bill(s)

* HCS SCS SB 588
Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
Description: Various provisions expanding rights to seek expungement of criminal records. Raise the fee from $100 to $500, but let a judge waive the fee if the person is unable to pay. Expand offenses eligible for expungement, but exclude some serious felonies. Shorten the time after conviction before an expungement petitition can be filed. Allow only one felony expungement in a lifetime.
See: 
  • Senate roll call - SCS SB 588 (05/03/2016): 3rd reading of a bill to expand rights to expunge a criminal conviction.
  • House roll call - HCS SCS SB 588 (05/11/2016): 3rd reading of a bill to expand rights to expunge a criminal conviction.
  • Senate roll call - HCS SCS SB 588 (05/11/2016): 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to expand rights to expunge a criminal record.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 589
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Repeal the prohibition on carrying a concealed weapon on a college campus.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SS SB 590
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    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 2012 that mandatory life without parole for minors is unconstitutional.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SA 4 SS SB 590 (04/06/2016): An amendment on a crime bill to impose requirements on collection of information from eye witnesses.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SCS SB 661
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Restrict when a police officer can use deadly force. Currently deadly force can be used against a person who committed or attempted a felony. Ferguson related. Not reported out of committe to the full House until the evening of May 11 -- with two days left in the legislative session.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SCS SB 661 (04/14/2016): 3rd reading of a bill to add restrictions as to when police officer can use deadly force.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 662
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Have Missouri enter a compact with other states calling for a constituitional convention to adopt a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The compact seeks to restrict the convention to a balanced budget amendment.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SS SB 663
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: Back to S
    Description: A large number of changes and fixes to the massive criminal code passed in 2015, SB 112. The motion to pass the House-amended bill in the Senate was dropped by Democratic objections to a stand-your-ground amendment authorizing use of force to stop an intruder.
    See: 
  • House roll call - HA 4 HCS SCS SB 663 (05/12/2016): An amendment to the criminal code revision bill to allow use of force against an intruder on property occupied with approval of the property owner.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 705
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Extend from 2018 to 2021 the deadline for the Public Defender System to implement a plan for district offices in each judicial circuit. Restrict the current ability of the public system director to delegate legal representation for any person to an attorney. Clarify that legal representation is provided only to a person eligible for Public Defender System representation.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 706
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Exempt from the sales tax membership, training or class fees at gyms, fitness facilities and dance studios.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 707
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Let two contiguous counties employ a single prosecuting attorney for the two counties.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 733
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Automatically add a circuit judge when the annual performance review indicates for three years in a row that one is needed. Remove reference to a "janitor-messenger" for the St. Louis City circuit court.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 734
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Require the receiving county cover overtime, worker's comp. and other costs for a sheriff or deputy from another county who responds to the receiving county's request for assistance. Deem the staff who go to the county to be employees of the receiving county.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 735
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Repeal a provision requiring annual reports to the legislature by the Commission on Judicial Resources on office space used by public defenders.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 753
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Let Greene County or any city in the county impose a sales tax to fund early childhood education programs upon voter approval.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 754
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: WITHDRAWN
    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: Official legislative description and status

    SB 903
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Change when the state must reimburse local government for the costs of housing a prisoner. Restrict it to felonies. Include electronic monitoring costs.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 929
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Essentially nullify a 2014 state Supreme Court decision that over-turned a criminal confiction because the judge did not instruct the jury it could find the defendant guilty of a lesser included offense. The bill would impose a restriction of "a rational basis" as to when a judge is required to instruct the jury of the possibility of a lesser included offense.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 941
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Exempt schools that teach yoga trainers from state regulation of proprietary, private schools.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 971
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Seniors, Families & Public Health
    Description: Prohibit disclosure of audio, video or photographs of a minor who was a victim of kidnapping or illegal restraint, with some exceptions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1012
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Extend to all circuit courts a law that current lets te 31st judicial circuit court to impose a surcharge to help pay for court facilities.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1013
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Various changes in criminal case procedures. Restrict dispositions in misdemeanor cases to good cause shown. Specific the specific grounds required for a change of venue in a felony case.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1014
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Overturn a couple of Supreme Court cases overturning DWI convictions because the breath analyzer had been calibrated with just one method.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1060
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Veterans' Affairs & Health
    Description: Various changes in the designation of centers that provide emergency treatment for strokes. Establish three levels of stroke centers.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 1061
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Various restrictions in the public records act. Close video from police body cams. Allow a government agency to include the time spent searching for records in the cost.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 1096
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Expand a law requiring payment to the state by tobacco companies that are not part of the national settlement with states against tobacco companies. Missouri has lost a case filed by the tobacco companies in the settlement charging Missouri violated the agreement by not fully collecting fees from non-settlement companies.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1097
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Various changes in various commercial code provisions. Legislative staff describe the changes as bringing the state into conformity with the current version of the national Uniform Commercial Code.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1098
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Increase the fine for a county officer failing to return copies of state statutes after leaving office from $5 to $400.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1099
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Governmental Accountability
    Description: Various changes in the functions of the Joint Committee on Legislative Research. Limit the responsibility for drafting bills to revision bills only.
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  • 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.