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2016 Bill(s)
* SCS SB 575 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Status: S Perfection Description: Repeal the right of Kansas City and St. Louis to impose an earnings tax.
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* SB 775 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Status: S Perfection Description: Add murder when committed as an act of terrorism as one of the conditions for which the death sentence can be sought.
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* SCS SB 785 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Status: S Perfection Description: Establish requirements and consumer protections in a contract with a lawyer in a lawsuit in which the lawyer gets a portion of any award that results from the lawsuit. Let the consumer cancel within 5 days of signing. Require each page be initialed.
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SB 875 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Expand the right of a pharmacist to switch the prescription by a doctor to include an "interchangeable biological product" as defined by the federal Good and Drug Administration.
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* SB 891 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Status: S Judiciary Description: Require screening of prison volunteers for known or suspected conections or interests in terrorism. Give the attorney general's office responsibility for the program. Require volunteers make social media accounts available for screening.
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SB 915 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Name a portion of Highway 63 in Boone County the U.S. Navy Lieutenant Patrick Kelly Connor Memorial Highway.
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SB 916 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Status: S Perfection Description: Change the wording of an exemption of religious organizations from the state's anti-discrimination law. Exempt any "house of worship or other religious organization." Currently the exemption is for "corporations and associations owned and operated by religious or sectarian groups."
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SB 917 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety Description: Increase the penalty for failing to yield to a pedestrian while driving. Require completion of a safety course if the violation leads to death.
See: Official legislative description and status* SB 931 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Status: S Judiciary Description: Various provisions on sex offenders of children. Prohibit suspended imposition of a sentence for them. Remove sex offenders of children from various provisions that ease criminal penalties including Parole Board waiving life-time parole supervision for elderly criminals and exempting from a defintion of a criminal sentence those given a 120 shock sentence.
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* SB 939 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Status: S Judiciary Description: Define a crime of terrorism with a penalty of life in prison with eligibility for probation or parole.
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SB 1037 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety Description: Extend the "stand your ground law" that establishes a right to use force including deadly force against a home intrude. Extend that right to "any place he or she has a right to be."
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* SB 1045 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Status: S Progress & Development Description: Exclude sports fantasy team games from the law restricting gambling.
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SB 1046 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety Description: Require the the Public Safety Department to establish a training policy to eliminate police stopping a person simply for riding a motorcycle or wearing a motorcycle helmet.
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SB 1054 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Status: S Education Description: Restrict what information a school can obtain on a student without parental approval.
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SB 1080 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Status: S Ways & Means Description: Extend the 2016 sunset for the medical facility reimbursement allowance tax to September 2019. It's a tax the state imposes on health facilities to use to match with federal Medicaid funds. The state tax money then is returned to health facilities.
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SB 1081 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Status: S Education Description: Require one voting member of the University of Missouri Board of Curators be a student.
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SB 1103 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Status: S Education Description: Require public universities and colleges to provide a report as part of its budget as to the percentage of its budget that is spent on administrative costs.
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SB 1104 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Status: S Judiciary Description: Give the attorney general exclusive authority to decide on a settlement of legal claim involving higher education that is covered by the state's Legal Expense Fund.
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SB 1105 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Status: S Judiciary Description: Add "or she" and "or her" to a law on child custody that currently uses the pronouns he and him in referring to the child.
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SB 1106 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Status: S General Laws & Pensions Description: Let a rehired state government worker continue to receive retirement work credit if the worker reimburses for any retirement benefits received when retired.
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SJR 38 Sponsor:Schaefer, Kurt Status: S Seniors, Families & Public Health Description: Declare that every parent has a fundamental right to have control over their minor children. Restrict when government can interfere with parental authority.
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