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2018 Bill(s)
* SB 587 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Education Description: Various changes public school changes and provisions dealing with unaccredited schools. Provide early childhood program financial support from programs under contract with a public school. Establish a minimum kindergarten addendance requirement. Let a school contract with a city for school transportation.
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* SB 588 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Rules Description: Ban lobbyist gifts or contributions to legislators and statewide elected officials, their families and staffers. Prohibit campaign contributions by lobbyists to candidates for legislative or statewide offices. Require 501(c)(4) organizations like Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS that made campaign expenditures in Missouri to annually disclose their persons who contributed more than $1,000.
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SB 589 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Increase the penalty for distributing any substance with a detectable amount of heroin.
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SB 654 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Expand a law requiring a person for certain felonies to submit a sample for DNA profiling to cover arrests for any felony.
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CCS SB 655 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Remove the statute of limitations for prosecution of child abuse or neglect. It's now at 3 years. Also remove the the 30-year statute of limitations for sex offenses a minor, beginning with offenses after August 28, 2018. The House added other sex-offender provisions and raising the minimum age to marry from 16 to 18.
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SB 656 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety Description: Include in those prohibited from possessing a firearm a person convicted of domestic violence, an illegal foreigner or under various court orders such as harassment or stalking.
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SS SB 699 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S 3rd Read (IN BUDGET) Description: Expand eligibility for the "Ticket to Work" program that allows some persons to buy into Medicaid health care coverage in order to get a job.
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SB 700 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Small Business & Industry Description: Expand provisions against gender discrimination in pay.
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SB 701 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Economic Development Description: Adjust the maximum tax credits that can be awarded for historic building preservation on the basis of the increase in the Consumer Price Index.
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SB 731 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Seniors, Families & Children Description: Expand Medicaid coverage to adults with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level. Missouri law currently disregards the first 5 percent of income so the actual limit would be 138 percent. Medicaid provides health care coverage for the lower income.
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SB 732 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Government Reform Description: Exempt from bankruptcy attachment a bodily injury payment of the debtor or a person for whom the debtor is a dependent.
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SB 733 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Professional Registration Description: Adopt a mutli-state compact for recognizing psychologist licenses from other states in the compact for telemedicine.
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SB 976 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Authorize the prosecuting attorney to appoint a panel to investigate homicides involving domestic violence and issue a report.
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SB 991 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Seniors, Families & Children Description: Require a hospital or surgical center to provide a patient (or patient guardian) the opportunity to designate a caregiver who can make decisions and get medical information about the patient.. Require contacting the caregiver prior to discharge.
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SB 1005 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Allow an associate circuit court in St. Louis County assign to a county traffic court a petition appealling driving license revocation by the Revenue Department for failing to submit to drug/alcohol test.
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SB 1060 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Rules Description: Require businesses or persons with government contracts to disclose contributions to political organizations that are not required to disclose their contributors.
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SB 1097 Sponsor:Sifton, Scott Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Establish provisions to include prior predatory sex offender offenses that were not initially charged.
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