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2016 Bill(s)
HCS SB 640
Sponsor:
Schatz, Dave
Status:
Conference
Description:
Various changes in motor vehicle trailer registration. Expand to any semitrailers that can get permanent registration. The House added some unrelated issues including regulating alterative tax services like Uber.
See:
The Fiscal Note(s)
Official legislative description and status
SB 641
Sponsor:
Schatz, Dave
Status:
GOVERNOR VETOED: OVERRIDDEN
Description:
Provide an income tax deduction for payments recieved from various government programs covering agricultural losses from a disaster or emergency going back to 2014. Legislative staff estimate the bill could cost up to 18 million in lost taxes in the 2017 fiscal year. The administration's Budget Office estimated a $51.5 million loss for the prior years covered by the bill.
See:
Senate roll call - SB 641 (09/14/2016)
: Adoption of a motion to override the governor's veto of a bill to provide an income tax deduction for government payments for agricultural losses in past and future years.
House roll call - SB 641 (09/14/2016)
: Passage of the motion overriding the governor's veto of a bill to provide an income tax deduction for government payments for agricultural losses in past and future years.
Get the veto letter
The Fiscal Note(s)
Official legislative description and status
SB 642
Sponsor:
Schatz, Dave
Status:
S Ways & Means
Description:
Expand the right of taxpayers to sue when local government violates legal restrictions on taxes. Repeal a provision allowing adjustments in some tax levies to reflect inflation.
See:
Official legislative description and status
CCS SB 700
Sponsor:
Schatz, Dave
Status:
BECAME LAW
Description:
Change when the premimum charged to a business for workers' compensation can be changed. Premimums are based on claim losses. The program provides health care coverage for workers injured on the job. Became law when the governor did not sign the bill -- which, unlike the federal system, is treated as a signature rather than a veto.
See:
The Fiscal Note(s)
Official legislative description and status
SB 701
Sponsor:
Schatz, Dave
Status:
S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections
Description:
Require Senate confirmation for a gubernatorial selection to fill a vacancy in a county commisioner position if there is s one year or more remaining in the term.
See:
The Fiscal Note(s)
Official legislative description and status
HCS SCS SB 781
Sponsor:
Schatz, Dave
Status:
H 3rd Read
Description:
Let any city award design-build contracts for sewage systems in which both the design and actual construction are in one contract.
See:
The Fiscal Note(s)
Official legislative description and status
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SS SB 788
Sponsor:
Schatz, Dave
Status:
S 3rd Read
(IN BUDGET)
Description:
Change the allocation among St. Louis County cities of county sales taxes.
See:
The Fiscal Note(s)
Official legislative description and status
SCS SB 818
Sponsor:
Schatz, Dave
Status:
H 3rd Read
Description:
Designate a "German Heritage Corridor" among the various counties along the Missouri River that were settled by Germans.
See:
The Fiscal Note(s)
Official legislative description and status
SB 824
Sponsor:
Schatz, Dave
Status:
S Commerce, Consumer & Energy
Description:
Impose restrictions on a utility for building a new power plant. Require electric utilities file plans every three years on evaluation of supply-side production of power. Add provisions to encourage outside generating power sources.
See:
The Fiscal Note(s)
Official legislative description and status
SB 876
Sponsor:
Schatz, Dave
Status:
S Small Business
Description:
Limit a current ban on an employer punishing a worker for exercising rights under the workers' compensation program. Impose the ban only if the exercise of those rights is the "exclusive cause" of the discharge or discrimination.
See:
The Fiscal Note(s)
Official legislative description and status
SB 877
Sponsor:
Schatz, Dave
Status:
S Small Business
Description:
Impose regulations and require regulation for employer organizations that hire workers to provide work for other companies under a professional employer agreement.
See:
The Fiscal Note(s)
Official legislative description and status
SB 943
Sponsor:
Schatz, Dave
Status:
S Commerce, Consumer & Energy
Description:
Raise the maximum penalty that can be assessed for a safety standard violation of federally mandated natural gas safety standards.
See:
Official legislative description and status
SB 944
Sponsor:
Schatz, Dave
Status:
S Commerce, Consumer & Energy
Description:
Raise the maximum penalty that can be assessed for a safety standard violation of the underground safety laws or willful damage to an underground facility, from $10,000 to a $50,000 fine.
See:
Official legislative description and status
SCS SB 1026
Sponsor:
Schatz, Dave
Status:
S Perfection
Description:
Establish a life-time concealed-weapons permit. Currently the license must be renewed every five years.
See:
The Fiscal Note(s)
Official legislative description and status
SB 1027
Sponsor:
Schatz, Dave
Status:
S Small Business
Description:
Impose restrictions on how long Workers' Compensation coverage is provided for disability. Cease payments after the medical condition has stabilized and can no longer reasonably improve. Workers Compensation provides coverage for workers injured on the job.
See:
The Fiscal Note(s)
Official legislative description and status
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SB 1041
Sponsor:
Schatz, Dave
Status:
S Judiciary
Description:
Have the state agree to a national compact designed to provide for popular election of president. Each state would agree to appoint electors who support the candidate who got the most votes nationally. It would apply only if enough states join the compact that constitute a majority of the electoral college votes.
See:
The Fiscal Note(s)
Official legislative description and status
SB 1148
Sponsor:
Schatz, Dave
Status:
S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't
Description:
Technical correction in a law dealing with the county treasurer and sales taxes deleting a repeated term "county" in referring to the office.
See:
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.