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2009 Bill(s)

* SB 17
Sponsor: Bray, Joan
Status: S Progress
Description: Repeal the death penalty, capital punishment.
See: Official legislative description and status

* SCS SB 18
Sponsor: Bray, Joan
Status: S Perf
Description: Establish a universal health care program. No full-funding source provided.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 19
    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 50
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Progress
    Description: Require equal pay for equal work.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 51
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Education
    Description: Require a charter school be classified as unaccredited for a low performance review.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 52
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Expand the domestic violence law to cover unmarried partners living together.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 68
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Progress
    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: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 69
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Impose several consumer protections on property insurance. Require notice before cancellation. Prohibit refusing to renew a policy on the basis of a past weather-damage claim.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 70
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Change the requirement that a newly formed political party 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 115
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Prohibit paying someone to collect initiative and referendum petitions. Prohibit persons convicted of forgery from circulating petitions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 116
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Education
    Description: Establish a program for grants to schools to encourage school graduation.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 120
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Health
    Description: Expand the health care system for state government workers to small business employees.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 124
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Prohibit billboards from using projections, digital, changeable copy or tri-vision technology.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 125
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Require the Transportation Department to adopt "context sensitive design and solutions" in its planning.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 185
    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 186
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Agriculture
    Description: Impose requirements on pet dealers to assure the health of pets. Impose requirements on the sale of animals.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 229
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Health
    Description: Require licensed hospitals to post each day in each of its units the nurse staffing levels.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 230
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: A large number of provisions regulating and dealing with planned communities, condominiums and other developments with group-owned areas or services. Uses language of a national uniform law.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 240
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Impose various safety requirements on carriers that transport railroad employees including imposing a limit on the number of continuous hours for a driver.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 241
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Impose various tax increases on business.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 270
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: Reimpose limits on campaign contributions that were repealed in 2008.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 271
    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 281
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Agriculture
    Description: Impose limits on outdoor lights at night.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 282
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Impose consumer protections on various mortgage credit, home equity loan practices. Require a three-year warranty on the sale of a dwelling. Require a warranty on home repair.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 300
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Increase the state income tax rates, subject to statewide voter approval.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 308
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Health
    Description: Require the Health Department to publish on the Web a report card on the quality of care provided by hospitals on the state based on various information hospitals are required to report.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 309
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Health
    Description: Impose a statewide ban on smoking in or near public places or any government buildings. Repeal the current smoking-ban exemptions such as bars and bowling alleys.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 328
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Create a task force on electric stun guns.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 329
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Education
    Description: Require sex education courses include information on the health benefits and side effects of contraceptives and barriers.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 340
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Restrict using non-degradeable plastic bags at larger supermarkets and pharmacies. Require the they use only recyclable, reusable or compostable bags.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 341
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Require the governor to ensure race and gender equity in making appointments to various government boards.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 352
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Create a commission to study the various separate health care plans for state government workers.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 370
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Impose a one year moratorium on mortgage foreclosures. Require mediation by the state before a foreclosure.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 371
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Prohibit any type of expiration date or service fee on a gift certificate or a post-purchase fee.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 389
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Governmental Accountability
    Description: Impose a two year ban on lobbying after a public official leaves office. Bar legislators from taking gifts from lobbyists.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 433
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Provide a broader exemption on a ban selling some appliances that fail to meet certain energy efficiency standard requirements.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 473
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S General Laws
    Description: Give government workers collective bargaining rights including binding arbitration. Remove a ban on police, teachers and faculty joining unions.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 508
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Let the St. Louis area zoo and museum district charge a fee on non-residents of the district. Establish a means voters outside the district can have their county join the district.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 532
    Sponsor: Bray, Joan
    Status: S Financial
    Description: Require electronic voting machines to produce paper ballots.
    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.