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2014 Bill(s)
* SB 534 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: IN SCS SB 493 Description: Require the state Education Board to determine accreditation for separate buildings in a district that is unaccredited. Enact a provision excluding a school from having to accept students from an unaccredited district if the school does not have adequate facilities for more students. Establish a system to coordinate transfers in St. Louis County and City.
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SB 535 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Education Description: Require the Education Department to designate one accredited district for which an unaccredited district must provide transportation for students.
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SB 558 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Ways & Means Description: Revive an expired law that provided a tax credit for property tax increases of residences of the elderly that has expired
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SB 559 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Small Business Description: Prohibit a waiting period for coverage of a health insurance plan. Require it be immediately upon the effective date.
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SB 560 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Education Description: Expand the law against school bullying. Require schools to issue statements prohibiting bullying and develop a process for discussing anti-bullying policy.
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SB 566 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Perf Description: Require the Education Department to note if a school report published by the depeartment includes children in a home for negliected or delinquent children.
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SB 578 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Perf Description: Reauthorize an expired program providing tax credits for lower income elderly homeowners to extend to the end of 2018.
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SB 647 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: IN SCS SB 638 Description: Expand the maximum amount of tax credits allowed for contributions to food pantries from $1.25 million to $2 million.
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SB 708 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: H 3rd Read Description: Expand absentee ballot voting to include emergency workers engaged in an emergency reponse. Allow voting materials to be provided by FAX, mail or email.
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SB 728 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Financial Description: Increase the penalty for voter registration crimes. Prohibit suspended sentence impositions.
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SB 759 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Seniors & Families Description: Require public schools to operate parent/teacher involvement programs.
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* SB 817 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Veterans & Health Description: Establish a statewide database of persons who have gotten immunizations. Require immunization providers to report vaccination records to the Health Department for the registry.
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SB 837 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Commerce Description: Require that the newspaper notice that a storage facility must post to be able to sell abandoned property include the actual name of the occupant's name.
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SB 879 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Judiciary Description: Expand a law requiring a person older than 16 years who is arrested for certain felonies to submit a smalple for DNA profiling. Expand the requirement to every felony arrest.
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SB 880 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Governmental Accountability Description: Allow the state to enter into an agreement with the federal government to offset payments and debts. Let the state request the feds to withhold payments to vendors who owe the state taxes.
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SB 881 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Ways & Means Description: Add provisions for garnishment for payment of back taxes owed the state.
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SB 904 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Jobs Description: Impose special notification requirements in St. Louis County for zoning hearings. Require certified mail notification.
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SB 984 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Education Description: Require the Education Department to develop a resource guide on dyslexia for public schools and hire a dyslexia specialist.
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SB 985 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Education Description: Add both an associate circuit judge and a circuit judge in St. Louis County and in the 38th judicial circuit in Christian County in lieu of a new asociate circuit judge if one is awarded under a law based on workload.
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SB 986 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Financial Description: Reduce the size of the Human Rights Commission from eleven to nine members.
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SB 995 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Governmental Accountability Description: A few changes in the abandoned property law. Shorten the period after which payroll checks are deemed abandoned from five to three years. Exempt from being deemed abandoned remittances between a customer and a business if there is an ongoing business relationship.
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