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2017 Bill(s)

SB 7
Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
Status: S Consent: REMOVED
Description: Provide a tax deduction for transferring agricultural property to a beginning farmer.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • CCS SB 8
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Expand a law allowing the use flashing lights on vehicles owned by the Transportation Department or their contractors to include vehicles leased by the department or contractors. Repeal a restriction on when the lights can be used. Current law limits use to the vehicle being stationary in a work zone. The House added a number of unrelated provisions including propane motor fuel taxes, log trucks, agricultural equipment on roads and more.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 9
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Agriculture, Food & Outdoor Resources
    Description: Legalize industrial hemp that contains no more than three-tenths of one percent of THC (the ingredient in marijuana).
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 75
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Local Gov't & Elections
    Description: Require the county commission in a non-charter county fill a vacancy in any county office until the governor fills the vacancy. If the commission has just two members and cannot agree on a appointee, have the presiding commissioner make the appointment. The bill would exempt prosecuting attorney or circuit attorney's from the provisions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 76
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Prohibit a nuisance lawsuit against a "permittee" if the property was being used in compliance with a state or federal permit, excluding radioactive waste or a landfill permit.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 77
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Agriculture, Food & Outdoor Resources
    Description: Prohibit local government from regulating the labeling, cultivation or other use of fertilizers, seeds or soil conditioners.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 121
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Economic Development
    Description: Let a business retain income tax withholdings for several years for new jobs created by expansion of some types of manufacturing.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SCS SB 122
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Require the legislature and state agencues to post on the state's website when a contract greater than $2,500 has been awarded for legal services by a private law firm.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 123
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Authorize the sale of captive cervids (like deer) and their meat. Classify captive cervids as livestock, effectively removing them from regulation by the Conservation Dept. The governor vetoed a similar bill in 2014, SB 506.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SCS SB 156
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Require that any law enforcement training of officers in animal care or abuse be administered by the state veterinarian and the Animal Health Division of the the Agriculture Department.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SCS SB 188
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Allow students in virtual schools to get financial aid assistance from the Access Missouri Program.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 258
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Restrict when parties can be joined in a product liabiliy case. If parties are dis-joined, dismiss a party's lawsuit if there is no Missouri county in which venue exists. Repeal a provision that retains a court's venue for the case even if the party for whom the venue was determined is dismissed. And also repeal a provision that a dismissed party remains a party to the case for venue purposes.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 259
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Amend a state Supreme Court rule to prohibit a person from intervening into a legal suit if the person cannot establish jurisdiction and venue.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 260
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Amend a state Supreme Court rule to prohibit establishing jurisdiction or venue over a claim if jurisdiction and venue cannot independently be established.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 261
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Amend a state Supreme Court rule to restrict when a court can join two lawsuits. Restrict joining two lawsuits if one of the plantiffs was injured outside of Missouri.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 262
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Amend a state Supreme Court rule to require a plantiff's case be dropped if the plaintiff is removed from a joint lawsuit and there is no county in Missouri with venue for the disjoined plaintiff's lawsuit.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 307
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Change the definition of livestock under a couple of laws regulating livestock. The bill just adds the word "buffalo" for "bison." The bill's sponsor said the term buffalo actually means just water buffalo.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 330
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Exempt employers for providing compensation to injured workers for cases before 2014 under a law making the employer responsible if there is no Workers' Compensation coverage.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 364
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Restrict the Tax Commission from raising the productivity estimate of agricultural property upon which property taxes are based.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 370
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Cut in half the non-resident fee for a hunting, fishing or trapping license if the non-resident owns at least 80 acres in Missouri.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 391
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Exempt from being declared a nuisance a commercial motor vehicle using municipal designated route for such vehicles.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 413
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Raise the amount the state pays counties for housing prisoners held on state charges from $37.50 per day, subject to appropriation, to not less than 50 percent of the reimbursement rate paid to the state Corrections Department.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 502
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Insurance & Banking
    Description: Repeal a provision exempting insurance holding companies from reporting and examination requirements involving agricultural operations in some circumstances.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • CCS SB 503
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Require the state 911 Service Oversight Committee to designate a coordinator to oversee statewide 911 operations. The CCS includes provisions added by the House involving emergency medical services, 911 service boards and powers of the auditor to audit 911 service agencies.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 515
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Extend from August 2018 to August 2025 a fee charged on transportation and delivery of petroleum products for chemical emergency services.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 516
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Health & Pensions
    Description: Various changes in the definitions of controlled substances. Legislative staff describe it as a "technical change."
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SJR 16
    Sponsor: Munzlinger, Brian
    Status: S Agriculture, Food & Outdoor Resources
    Description: Require the sales tax for the Conservation Department be re-approved by Missouri voters every ten years.
    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.