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2015 Bill(s)
SB 220 Sponsor:Kehoe, Mike Status: S Perfection Description: Shorten the number of weeks for which a person can collect unemployment compensation if the state's unemployment rate drops below nine percent. Make the number of weeks of eligibility a sliding scale based on the unemployment rate to as low as 13 weeks. The governor vetoed a similar bill, SB 673, in 2014. The override vote passed the Senate but failed in the House.
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HCS SB 231 Sponsor:Kehoe, Mike Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Reduce from two to one B1 fire extinguisher if on some types of motorboats if the motorboat has a fixed fire extinguishing system. Current law requires either two B1 extinguishers or one B1 type on class 2 motorboats.
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* SCS SB 232 Sponsor:Kehoe, Mike Status: S Perfection Description: Require law enforcement agencies to provide a rotation list for selecting companies to tow vehicles. Restrict police using towing companies located outside Missouri. Prohibit a towing a car at an accident by a truck not called by a patrol officer or the driver.
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SCS SB 233 Sponsor:Kehoe, Mike Status: S Perfection Description: Impose restrictions on who can testify as an expert witness in a trial. Prohibit an expert witness in a criminal trial from stating an opinion as to whether the defendant had the mental capacity to be held responsible for the crime.
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SB 234 Sponsor:Kehoe, Mike Status: S Judiciary Description: Require local law enforcement be included in a law requiring a report be filed with the state Health Department of sexual abuse of a elderly patient in a long-term care facility.
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HCS SB 283 Sponsor:Kehoe, Mike Status: Conference Description: Let the statewide retirement plan for local government workers take responsibility for operation a local government worker's retirement coverage if the worker had a plan similar to the local government retirement system's plan.
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SB 285 Sponsor:Kehoe, Mike Status: S Commerce, Consumer & Energy Description: Exempt waters under federal jurisdiction from the state's hazardous cleanup and Clean Water laws.
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SB 358 Sponsor:Kehoe, Mike Status: S Perfection Description: Require the Clean Water Commission to achieve water pollution controls "by all practical and economically feasible methods."
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SB 359 Sponsor:Kehoe, Mike Status: S Commerce, Consumer & Energy Description: Various changes in requirements and restrictions of construction management services that oversee contracts awarded to other companies for construction. Repeal a provision that prohibits a construction mangement firm from bidding for or actually doing construction.
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SB 403 Sponsor:Kehoe, Mike Status: S Commerce, Consumer & Energy Description: Expand from three to five years the length of time after a rate case that the PSC can authorize a gas utility to charge customers an infrastructure system replacement surcharge. Other changes expanding infrastructure system replacement surcharges.
The governor vetoed a similar bill in 2013, SB 240.
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SB 404 Sponsor:Kehoe, Mike Status: S Small Business Description: Include termination and severance pay under the definition of wages that are covered by the unemployment compensation program.
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SB 455 Sponsor:Kehoe, Mike Status: S Perfection Description: Prohibit local government from requiring a business to provide employees with a higher salary or other employment benefit that exceeds federal or state requirements.
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HCS SCS SB 456 Sponsor:Kehoe, Mike Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Various changes in auto licensing. Extend the validity of license plates transferred to another vehicle from 30 days to 60 days. Numerous other changes.
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* HCS SS SB 476 Sponsor:Kehoe, Mike Status: H 3rd Read (IN BUDGET) Description: Several proceedural changes involving oil and gas regulation by the Natural Resources Department. Put the state geologist o the Oil and Gas Council. Create a remedial fund for closing wells. The amended SS contains several provisions expediting the regulatory process of various environmental permits including fracking.
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SCS SB 520 Sponsor:Kehoe, Mike Status: S Perfection Description: Increase the per-barrel maximum fee that can be charged by the state for inspection of various petroleum products.
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SB 521 Sponsor:Kehoe, Mike Status: S Commerce, Consumer & Energy Description: Give the Public Service Commission power to regulate the relationship between water and energy utilities involving potential energy savings.
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SB 522 Sponsor:Kehoe, Mike Status: S Commerce, Consumer & Energy Description: Restrict awards that can be granted to a property owner in a lawsuit against a rural elective cooperative for improper use of use of an easement.
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.
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