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2015 Bill(s)

SB 6
Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
Status: S Education
Description: Impose a cap on any school district state funding increase caused by recalculation of the state's adequacy target. Provide for continuing early childhood education for a school district regardless of accreditation status.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 7
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: S Education
    Description: Repeal a separate provision in allocating state funds to education for school districts with less than 351 students. Effects what is call the "hold harmless" provision of the formul.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 216
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Establish several standards and powers for court-appointed receivers involving commercial bankruptcy. Establish obligations upon receivers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 236
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Increase from $10 to $50 the maximum fine that can be charged for not wearing a seat belt.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 237
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: S Progress & Development
    Description: Include sexual orientation and gender identity in the state's civil rights laws restricting discrimination. All nine Senate Democrats sponsored the bill.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 240
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: S Governmental Accountability
    Description: Require the state auditor to audit the costs of administering the death penalty.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 241
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: S Progress & Development
    Description: Ban spanking or corporal punishment in public schools.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 280
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: S Judiciary
    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. Establish a method to seek a resentencing for a juvenile already sentence. 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 303
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Impose requirements and restrictions on police use of eyewitness information and lineups.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 304
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Expand the requirement that police interrogations be recorded. Let a jury consider whether police complied with the requirement. Require police demonstrate good faith effort to comply with the recording requirement.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 372
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Automatically re-enroll into the state government deferred compensation plan rehired workers. Let state government workers increase the amount of contributed to the deferred compensation plan. Give workers more authority over automatic increases.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 385
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't
    Description: Repeal a law letting he sheriff of St. Louis City to employ a lawyer.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SS SB 386
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Expand the medical conditions for which hemp extract can be prescribed including cancer, various neurological diseases, inflammatory bowel disease and other diseases. Currenly, only epilepsy is covered by the hemp law.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 386 (04/23/2015): 3rd reading of a bill to expand the diseases for which hemp extract can be prescribed.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 527
    Sponsor: Keaveny, Joseph
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Have the St. Louis city sheriff be appointed by the circuit and associate circuit judges in the city rather than by election by city voters.
    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.