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2015 Bill(s)

HCS SB 221
Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
Status: Conference
Description: Exempt some voluntary annexations from review by the boundary commission in St. Louis County. The HCS reallocates sales tax collections amoung towns in St. Louis County.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 222
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Commerce, Consumer & Energy
    Description: Prohibit local government from ordering removal or relocation of a communication service provider's infrastructure without compensation.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 223
    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: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SS SB 278
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: Conference
    Description: Various changes in motor vehicle junking certificates. The House version has several other unrelated provisions including stronger interlock requirements for convicted drunken drunken drivers, Purple Heart license plates, boating safety, hanicapped licenses, passenger car taxis like Uber and more.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 288
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Expand information an employer can offer to calculate the premium rates for workers' compensation that provides health care coverage for workers injured on the job. Change when adjustments in premiums can be made.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 289
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections
    Description: Require an election to fill vacancy in a non-charter county commisioner position if the remaining term of office is one year or more.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 374
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Provide an income tax deduction for payments recieved from various government programs covering agricultural losses from a disaster, emergency or decline in market prices.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 375
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Commerce, Consumer & Energy
    Description: Include improvements and replacement of sewer and drinking water facilities under a law on local energy development boards that have property tax authority.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 376
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Commerce, Consumer & Energy
    Description: Require electric utilities to solicit bids for various electric production upgrades and expansions.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 377
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: H Select Com. on Finances & Taxes
    Description: Exempt from the sales tax the sale of an aircraft to a person or company located in another state.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 378
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Expand exemptions to the sales tax for titling motor vehicles and boats to include non-profit organizations and schools.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 379
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't
    Description: Increase the percentage of sales taxes collected in St. Louis County that go to municipalities that had a voter approved sales tax imposed. Require that such a city get at least 50 percent of the local sales taxes collected in the city.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 398
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Commerce, Consumer & Energy
    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

    • SB 443
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Allow temporary motor vehicle permit sales to be recorded eletronically rather than in the monthly sales report.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SB 443 (04/27/2015): 3rd reading of a bill for Missouri to enter into a compact with other states to call for a U.S. constitutional convention.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 491
    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 law, such as natural gas pipelines.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 492
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Limit a current ban on an employer punishing a worker for exercising rights uner 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

    • 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.