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2015 Bill(s)

* SS SB 15
Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
Status: Back to S
Description: Create a commission to review the state's tax system. The Amended House version became a package of various unrelated state and local tax issues including sales tax exemptions for various entertainment ticket purchases and tax breaks for utilities.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 16
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections
    Description: Limit to 60 days how long a person nominated by the governor can serve after the person's term has expired. After 60 days, declare the office vacant.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 17
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: A couple of technical corrections in references in a bill dealing with court fines and surcharges.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 57
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Provide tax breaks for new large-data storage centers. The governor vetoed a bill with a similar tax break in 2014 -- SB 584.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SS SB 58
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Repeal several expired statutes creating various special legislative committees.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 59
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Limit the powers of the governor to fill vacancies. Require the governor to call an election for a legislative vacancy within 30 days. Require vacancies in statewide offices to be filled by the next general election.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 79
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Let counties abolish the county prosecutor's office and enter a statewide district attorney system.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 80
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Establish provisions by which two or more adjoining counties can merge their county prosecutors' offices.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 81
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Automatically add a circuit judge when the annual performance review indicates for three years in a row that one is needed. Remove reference to a "janitor-messenger" for the St. Louis City circuit court.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 91
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Extend from 2018 to 2021 the deadline for the Public Defender System to implement a plan for district offices in each judicial circuit. Repeal a provision requiring annual reports to the legislature on office space used by public defenders.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 112
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Various provisions changing criminal sentences to reflect the extra criminal felony class established in the massive rewrite of the criminal code passed in 2014.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 113
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: H 3rd Read (IN BUDGET)
    Description: Update various statutes dealing with higher education, mostly changing references to section numbers that have been changed.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SS SB 199
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: Back to S
    Description: Impose restrictions in the law that allows police to use deadly force against an unarmed person who has committed or attempted to commit a felony. Ferguson related.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 199 (04/29/2015): 3rd reading of a bill to add restrictions as to when a police officer can use lethal force.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 200
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Repeal mandatory life-sentences for first degree murder for persons under age 18. Establish provisions by which life without parole can be considered, but is not mandatory for minors. The U.S. Supreme Court held in June 2013 that mandatory life without parole for minors is unconstitutional.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 201
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S 3rd Read (IN BUDGET)
    Description: Allow the state or county to seek reimbursement for the costs of imprisonment in a county jail of a person convicted of an offense. Change provisions of how much the state must reimburse a county for jail costs prior to conviction.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 202
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Expand a provision allowing a sheriff or deputy to render assistance with police and arrest powers to another county from just to adjoining counties to any county in the state. Require the employing county of a sheriff's office worker cover overtime and workers compensation insurance when the worker was rendering assistance in another county.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 203
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S 3rd Read (IN BUDGET)
    Description: Expand the power of the state auditor to inspect property and equipment purchased from a grant. Further restrict the auditor's authority to disclose tax information obtained during an audit. The amended Senate version includes a requirement for the state auditor to do a report on the costs of the death penalty for ten selected death row inmates along with a study on the costs of life without parole.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 235
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Repeal a law allowing an attorney to submit a non-electronic filing to a court requiring electronic filing if the filing does not exceed one page and was sent by FAX or mail.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 242
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Let Greene County or any city in the county impose a sales tax to fund early childhood education programs upon voter approval.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SCS SB 315
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Update language in the law dealing with school boards in Springfield.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 347
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Governmental Accountability
    Description: Various changes in the powers of department directors and how agencies can be transfered between departments.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 381
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Repeal a provision that requires a panel of three arbiters to arbitrate a negligence suit against the Transportation Department if requested by the plantiff.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 382
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Various changes in criminal case proceedures. Restrict dispositions in misdemeanor cases to good cause shown. Specific the specific grounds required for a change of venue in a felony case.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 421
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Change the language of a ballot measure in Springfield that is submitted every five years for a public safety sales tax. Currently, the language is to repeal the tax (thus a majority of votes is required for the measure to kill it). The bill would change language to continue the tax, thus requiring a majority to vote for the measure to continue it.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 433
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Have Missouri enter a compact with other states calling for a constituitional convention to adopt a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Name the governor, House speaker and Senate president pro to be Missouri's delegates to the convention. The Senate-passed measure provides for minority party representation among the delegates. Companion to SCR 21.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 451
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Various changes in criminal record expungement. Raise the fee from $100 to $500, but let a judge waive the fee if the person is unable to pay. Limit the number of expungement a person can seek in a lifetime. Exclude some serious felonies from the expungement law.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 463
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Extend the sunset for a couple of programs providing tax credits for contributions for health treatment of a child or disabled person.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 464
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Restrict providing recordings or photographs of a child abuse victim. Require a hearing before a court can order copying of photographs or recording.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 550
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Exempt from the public records law any recording captured by a camera worn by a police officer. Prohibit the state from requiring police to wear cameras.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SJR 2
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections
    Description: Include the legislative redistricting commissions under the state's open meetings law. Impose requirements on eliminating a sitting member's district number. Require districts be contiguous.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SJR 14
    Sponsor: Dixon, Bob
    Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections
    Description: Give the legislature power to determine who runs a department when there is not a director confirmed by the Senate holding the position. Extend from 30 to 45 days the deadline for Senate confirmatio of an appointment requiring confirmation that was made when the legislature is not in session.
    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.