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2013 Bill(s)

HCS SB 12
Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
Status: Conference
Description: Provide lawsuit immunity for an attorney appointed by a court to represent an indigent party. The amended House version includes provisions including gravely disabled as a condition justifying committing a person, exclusing juveniles from the sex offender website, child support and more.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 13
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Increase the state fee charged for solid waste management. Change allocation of the funds. Eliminate solid waste management districts.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 72
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Declare May Motorcycle Awareness Month.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SB 73
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
    Description: Prohibit police road blocks or checkpoints that stop only on the basis of vehicle type, such as motorcycles, except for trucks. The final version includes DWI courts in Jackson county and changes in court transcript fees. Vetoed by the governor on a technicality involving duplicate bills being passed on the same subject.
    See: 
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 81
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Allow a court to award attorney fees in a civil action against a state or local government offical.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 82
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Provide for holding an immediate election to fill a vacancy in the lieutenant governor's office.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 97
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S General Laws
    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. There is a case pending filed by the tobacco companies in the settlement charging Missouri violated the agreement by not fully collecting fees from non-settlement companies.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 98
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Agriculture
    Description: Exempt animal shelters from a fee charged on various types of animal kennels and shops. Allow the Agriculture Department refuse a license to any shelter applicant the department thinks unreasonably profits for charges for adoption or sale of animals.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SS SB 121
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Repeal a provision banning brewers, winemakers, distillers and their employees from having a financial interest in retail liquor businesses.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 122
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Expand the public records and public meetings law. Make a public record leases by a government agency to a private company be public records. Expand the meeting notice deadline from 24 to 48 hours. Require minutes of closed meetings include a summary of discussions. Restrict who can attend a closed meeting.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 130
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Increase the penalty for failing to yield to a pedestrian while driving. Require completion of a safety course if the violation leads to death.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 193
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: H Education
    Description: Require the Education Department to designate a staff person in charge of programs for gifted and talented children. Create an advisory council on education of gifted children.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 226
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Include a gravely disabled condition as grounds when a person can be held in a mental health facility against the person's wishes. Expand the definition of being a danger or likely danger to himself or others.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 244
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Let a funeral director file a death certificate in paper form rather than entering it directly into the electronic death registration system.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 255
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Remove the Workers' Compensation Division director from the Administrative Law Judge Review Committee.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 320
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Make one of the members of the University of Missouri a student with the right to vote on any matter.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 462
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Allow an extra $10 fee in garnishment cases for the circuit clerk's office.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 463
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Let Boone County adopt ordinances controling standards for rental residential property.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 464
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Appropriations
    Description: Require legislative approval for the Board of Public Buildings to issue revenue bonds (which do not require voter approval, but put the state in debt).
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 465
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Appropriations
    Description: Provide a one-time amnesty of penalties for persons who owe back state taxes if they are paid by the end of October, 2013.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 466
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: Require receptacles for donation have contact information for the owner and have approval from the owner of the property where the receptacle is placed.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 467
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: Require the legislature to take into consideration youth smoking statistics in appropriating Life Sciences Research Fund money.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 468
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Let a hospital district convert its property tax to a sales tax upon voter approval.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SJR 3
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: S Appropriations
    Description: Authorize a $950 million bond issue for various building construction projects including higher education, parks and state buildings.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SJR 14
    Sponsor: Schaefer, Kurt
    Status: Back to S
    Description: Require the state of Missouri to uphold the right to bear arms. Repeal language that excludes concealed weapons from the state Constitutional right to bear arms.
    See: 
  • House roll call - SJR 14 (05/17/2013): 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to expand Missourians' rights to firearms.
  • Senate roll call - SCS SJR 14 (04/04/2013): 3rd reading of a proposed state constitutional amendment to expand the right of Missourians to bear firearms.
  • 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.