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2017 Bill(s)
SB 13 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Perfection 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. The compact seeks to restrict the convention to a balanced budget amendment.
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SB 14 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Ways & Means Description: Change various section references in the sales tax law. Legislative staff report they are corrections.
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SB 15 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Economic Development Description: Exclude from the tax credit for contributions to pregnancy resource centers that provice sevices for women who bring their pregnancy to term. Prohibit the tax credits for centers that perform or refer abortions. Extend the termination date of the tax credit from 2019 to 2025.
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SB 81 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Perfection Description: Repeal a prohibition on a municipal court charging court costs for use of community service alternative for a sentence.
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SCS SB 82 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: H 3rd Read Description: Various changes in the functions of the Joint Committee on Legislative Research. Eliminate providing free copies of the Revised Statutes of Missouri to legislators, courts, prosecuting attorneys and sheriffs.
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SB 83 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Perfection Description: Extend to all circuit courts in non-charter counties a law that current lets te 31st judicial circuit court to impose a surcharge to help pay for court facilities. Also extend the surcharge to cover both civil and criminal cases.
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SB 127 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Local Gov't & Elections Description: Let Greene County or any city in the county impose a sales tax to fund early childhood education programs upon voter approval.
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CCS SB 128 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: GOVERNOR VETOED Description: Repeal requirements establishing the locations for the circuit court divisions in Jackson County. Current law splits the locations between Kansas City and Independence. The House added several unrelated provisions including powers of the state auditor, conservation agent arrest powers, digital assets access rights, creating crimes of filing a false document, drunken driving and much more.
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SCS SB 129 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Perfection Description: Establish a system by which a fiduciary or trustee can access assets digitally and, if authorized, exercise full control over the assets.
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SCS SB 157 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Perfection Description: Essentially nullify a 2014 state Supreme Court decision that over-turned a criminal confiction because the judge did not instruct the jury it could find the defendant guilty of a lesser included offense. The bill would impose a restriction of "a rational basis" as to when a judge is required to instruct the jury of the possibility of a lesser included offense.
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* SB 158 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Perfection Description: Effectively overturn a Missouri Supreme Court decision that invalidated breath-test results for equipment that did not comply with a new state regulation requiring three separate calibration tests of the testing equipment rather than one. The regulation requiring three calibrations rather than one was adopted in 2012 but dropped in 2014.
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SB 159 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Allow web-based notification rather than newspaper advertising notice prior to the foreclosure sale of real estate.
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SCS SB 169 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Perfection Description: Remove a per-page set fee requirement payment for a court reporter for preparing appeal transcripts circuit court proceedings, but retain the $3.50 per page fee for appeal transcripts of testimoney. Repeal a provision defining the cost of preparing court transcipts that are paid by the party requesting the production.
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SB 170 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Various changes in spousal trusts. Restrict immunity from credits for the assets except for claims against both trust owners. to both parties remaining married.
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SCS SB 171 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Perfection Description: Various changes involving trusts. Expand provisions authorizing a person to exercise designated powers over the trust without being a trustee. Expand when a trustee is exempt from liability for following the instructions of the trust advisor/protectee.
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* SB 176 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Perfection Description: Various changes on laws dealing with governmental misconduct. Increase the penalty to a felony in some cases. Expand the definition of criminal misconduct to include using the office to gain financial benefit for the office holder or another person. Allow orders for restitution upon conviction.
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SCS SB 177 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Perfection Description: Exclude from early-release provisions a convict who has unpaid court costs or restitution orders.
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* SB 178 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Perfection Description: Prohibit release from prison of someone convicted of being a predatory sex offender. Establish provisions to include prior predatory sex offender offenses that were not initially charged.
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SCS SB 252 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Perfection Description: Expand an exemption in the state's civil rights law that exempts religious or sectarian "groups" to "organizations."
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SB 264 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Perfection Description: Let Greene County or any city in the county impose a sales tax to fund early childhood education programs upon voter approval.
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SB 393 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Local Gov't & Elections Description: Include Springfiled in a law giving a neighborhood organization or property owners to file a nuisance complaint against a near by property failing to maintain the property, violating local code, etc.
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SB 500 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Appropriations Description: Essentially require schools to allow home-schooled students to participate in high school athletic teams and other extracurricular activities.
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SB 509 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Imposea 14-day limit for the state paying counties for jailing persons charged with some non-violent crimes.
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* SB 510 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety Description: Repeal the prohibition on persons under age 22 using a mobile device while driving. Provide that using a mobile device, GPS, playing an electronic game, eating or grooming can be a violation of the law requiring that a vehicle be driving in a careful and prudent manner.
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SB 511 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob 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 512 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Various criminal law changes. Let Conservation Department agencies enforce littering laws. Expand a court surcharge on drug charges. Impose an extra fee for class E felonies. Change various crime penalties.
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SB 513 Sponsor:Dixon, Bob Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Various changes in witness testimoney in criminal cases. Expand restrictions on vulnerable persons, such as children, to include persons under care of the Mental Health Department. Restrict legal counsel for a criminal defendant from providing various personal information provided by prosecution about potential witnesses to the defendant or any other person.
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