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2017 Bill(s)

* SS SB 43
Sponsor: Romine, Gary
Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
Description: Impose various restrictions on discrimination lawsuits by an employees against employers. Require discrimination be a motivating factor. Exclude from the discrimination lawsuit law some smaller businesses, private clubs and religious organizations. Also abrogates several court decisions going back to 1973 involving discrimination lawsuits.
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  • House roll call - HA 6 SS SB 43 (05/08/2017): An an amendment to a workplace discrimination bill to make discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation as an unlawful employment practice.
  • House roll call - SS SB 43 (05/08/2017): 3rd reading and final passage of a measure to impose restrictions on discrimination lawsuits against employers.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 44
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Require the Education Department to establish a system by which a high school student can get credit toward graduation for a course in career and technical education.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 45
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Require that an arbiter make the initial decisions in a dispute between an employer and at-will employee unless the agreement expressly delegated arbitration to the court.
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  • Senate roll call - SA4 SB 45 (02/15/2017): An amendment to a bill to require non-court arbitration in an employee discrimination lawsuit to exclude sexual harassment or assault from direct access for a complaint to court.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 106
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Education
    Description: Establish a program for paying dual-enrollment course credit fees offered by public or private institutions starting at seventh grade. Establish tax credits for contributions to a program funding the dual-enrollment course credit scholarships.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 107
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Education
    Description: Require the Education Department t cover the fees for persons taking the high school equivalency degree test for the first time.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 108
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Extend a law establishing reemployment rights to a National Guard member called into active service to include a Missouri employee called up to active duty from another state and is a member of that other state's national guard.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 146
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: H Rules - Administrative Oversight
    Description: Change the legal description of a county that is exempted from a law requiring a portion of the county special road and bridge tax be spent within cities in the county. Legislative staff describe the bill as correcting the description of St. Francois County.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 147
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Shorten the time a person must be a member of an organization to work at the organization's bingo games from two years to six months, subject to voter approval of a companion constitutional amendment.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 148
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Government Reform
    Description: Authorize state agencies to grant various utility easements on state property without requiring legislative approval such as phone, internet, and electrical services.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 162
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Government Reform
    Description: Establish requirements and consumer protections in a contract with a lawyer in a consumer lawsuit. Require state registration of consumer lawsuit funding services.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 163
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Ban two-way communication devices from prisons and jails, except those possessed by law enforcement or jail employees.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 164
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Agriculture, Food & Outdoor Resources
    Description: Remove a provision for violation of failing to maintain animal control that there be at least 24 hours that the animal was under control, but retain the 12-hour lack of control requirement for an offense if the animal is livestock.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 172
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Change the provisions to allow the Revenue Department to issue a salavage or junking certificate for a motor vehicle with a certificate in another state if the state changed its law for the certificate. Current law prohibits issuing such a certificate if the owner got a similar certificate in another state.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SS SB 293
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Increase the maximum fee for explosives from $2 per ton to as much $7.50, but prohibit the fee being higher than the cost of administering the explosive-use law.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 294
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Local Gov't & Elections
    Description: Rename the state park named after former Gov. Jay Nixon shortly after leaving office the "Proffitt Moutain State Park.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 327
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Require a school district to allow a student to enroll in two virtual courses with costs paid by the school district.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 328
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Let junior/community colleges offer BA degrees, if authorized by the Higher Education Coordinating Board.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * CCS SB 355
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: Conference
    Description: Extend a law authorizing highway signs for educational institutions and various nearby attractions to include two-year colleges and technical and professional schools. The House added several unrelated provisions including requiring Higher Education Department approval for two-year colleges to offer bachelor degrees, repealing restrictions on Missouri State University & dentist licensing requirements. The Senate did not take up the CCS.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 356
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp.
    Description: Add provisions in which a non-contest clause in a trust is not enforceable to include motions involving breach of the trust, removal of a trustee and cliam for relief concerning any term of a trust instrument.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 394
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: Back to S
    Description: Allow restoration of full teacher retirement benefits for a retired teacher who becomes divorced who had elected to take reduced benefits in return for extending benefits to the spouse. The House added an unrelated provision involving county delinquent tax penalty fees.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 398
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp.
    Description: Establish various restrictions and requirements for homeowner associations in a planned community. Require a majority vote of owners for various changes. Establish provisions that must be in the association's bylaws.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HCS SCS SB 399
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Allow "stinger-steered combination automobile transporters" up to 80 feet long on Interstates and other highways approved by the Highways Commission.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SJR 8
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Veterans & Military Affairs
    Description: Exempt disabled veterans from the real and personal property tax.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SCS SJR 9
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Shorten the time a person must be a member of an organization to work at the organization's bingo games from two years to six months.
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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.