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2008 Bill(s)

SB 741
Sponsor: Bray, Joan
Status: S Health
Description: Make the health care plan for state government workers available to small employers.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 742
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Require equal pay for equal work, regardless of gender. Establish a commission to study wage discrimination.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 743
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Impose various tax increases on business.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 796
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Require employers to grant a day off on election day, without pay, to election officers, poll watchers or campaign workers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HCS SB 797
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: Back to S
    Description: Require a newly formed political party to include the names of its candidates for all the presidential elector slots if the party is registering to have a spot on the presidential ballot.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 798
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Make it a felony crime to sign a false name on an initiative or referendum petition.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 835
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Repeal the death penalty.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 836
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Create a crime of negligent storage of a firearm, but only in cases that a minor gets access to a loaded or unloaded firearm.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 837
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Establish employment rights for various government employees, restricting when and how they can be fired.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 871
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Education
    Description: Repeal a provision that seeks to prohibit appropriating MoHELA asset sale funds to a university that employs a teacher who is a registered sex offender.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 913
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Impose requirements and consumer protections for home improvement contract sales.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 914
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Agriculture
    Description: Impose requirements on pet sellers. Require a pet to be examine by a vet before sale.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 1003
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: IN SCS SB 909
    Description: Prohibit paying petition circulators on the basis of signatures gathered. Require circulators be state residents.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 1004
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Education
    Description: Designate a charger school as unaccredited for a poor annual performance review.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 1005
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Economic Development
    Description: A large number of provisions regulating and dealing with planned communities, condominiums and other developments with group-owned areas or services.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 1019
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 1020
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: A large number of changes in sales tax collection and definition provisions to bring local sales tax provisions into conformity with the state sales tax.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 1079
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Pensions
    Description: Extend the state smoking ban to include all government offices, public buildings and arenas. Remove the right of a restaurant to have a designated smoking area.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 1080
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Repeal a law passed a few years ago that allows utilities to get automatic rate increases based on some types of higher operating costs.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 1090
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Impose various restrictions and requirements on home insurance policies. Prohibit refusing to renew a policy based on weather-related claims.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 1096
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Pensions
    Description: Let a state worker donate unused leave time to a spouse.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 1098
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Impose additional standards and requirements on medical malpractice insurance associations.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 1100
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: IN SCS SB 1181
    Description: Impose energy efficiency and environmental requirements for state government buildings.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 1101
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Create a universal health care program funded by Medicaid and other federal funds, if available.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 1102
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Prohibit legislators from accepting gifts, meals and drinks from lobbyists. Prohibit various public officials from lobbying for two years after leaving office.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 1113
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Health
    Description: Require hospitals to post every day a list of the numbers of various nurses on duty.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 1114
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Prohibit a business from using a fictitious name in the phone book. Restrict transferring a call to another location.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 1115
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Establish collective bargaining rights for government workers and unions. Allow employees to be required to pay a service fee to unions.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 1128
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Education
    Description: Establish a grant program for drop-out prevention in urban schools.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SCS SB 1183
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Establish eligibility requirements for the Missouri Housing Development Commission. Require the commission to adopt a code of conduct.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 1184
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Give police power to remove a firearm from the residence in responding to a domestic violence call. Extend the domestic violence law to include those with a continuing romatic relationship.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 1200
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Require registration of ammunition sales.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 1213
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Allow an elderly person to defer property tax payments on residential property.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 1214
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Require racial and gender equity on state boards, commissions and gubernatorial appointments.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 1215
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Require hospitals provide information about emergency contraception to rape victims. Require a pharmacy to dispense any prescribed drug. Require sex education courses teach birth control.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 1216
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Health
    Description: Require the Health Department to provide on its Web site quality reports on hospitals.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HCS SCS SB 1261
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: H Rules
    Description: Require cooperation and planning among state agencies to secure federal grants on renewable energy. Require an annual report to the legislature.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 1262
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: IN SCS SB 1181
    Description: Provide tax credits for purchase of renewable energy systems.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 1263
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: IN SCS SB 1181
    Description: Provide $500 rebates for installation of residential energy efficiency improvements.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 1264
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Health
    Description: Require hospitals to report incidents of various events that could adversely affect patient health.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 1265
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Impose various safety requirements on carriers that transport railroad employees including drug testing and limiting hours.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 1266
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Exempt the 2008 federal tax deduction from state taxation.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 1267
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Limit the use of direct-recording electronic recording systems.
    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.