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2017 Bill(s)

CCS SB 64
Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
Description: Designate a bridge in Franklin County the Lyndon Ebker Memorial Bridge. The House added a couple of other road names.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 65
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
    Description: Exempt water jet skis and boats without railing from a law prohibiting a person from riding on various locations on a boat such as decking below the bow, the top of a seat back, etc.
    See: 
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SS SB 66
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    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. The final version also cuts benefits for an injured worker who tested positive for non-prescribed controlled drug within 24 hours of the injury.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 66 (03/09/2017): 3rd reading of a bill to impose restrictions on Workers' Compensation Coverage.
  • House roll call - HCS SS SB 66 (04/20/2017): 3rd reading of a bill to impose restrictions on workers' compensation that covers health care costs for work-related injuries of workers.
  • Senate roll call - HCS SS SB 66 (05/08/2017): 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to impose restrictions on Workers Compensation that provides coverage for health costs of workers injured on the job.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 112
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Expand a consolidated public library district commission to include a member from a city library district joining the consolidated district if the city district's county is not part of the consolidated district. The House added several unrelated provisions dealing with propane taxes, taxes for hybrid vehicle power, circuit court fees, business tax breaks in port authorities, adding another county where a fire protection district can impose a sales tax, public safety city sales tax authority and more.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SS SB 113
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: The SS would provide a mechanisim to reduce workers compensation benefits by 50% if a non-prescribed controlled substance was found in the worker's system within 24 hours of the injury. It would establish a "rebuttable presumption" the drugs were present at the time of the injury. The original will would 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: 
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 113 (02/23/2017): 3rd reading of a bill to restrict workers' compensation coverage.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 114
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: Conference
    Description: Require Senate confirmation for a gubernatorial selection to fill a vacancy in a county commisioner position if there is one year or more remaining in the term. The Senate did not take up the conference report. The House added unrelated local government provisions including when elections can be called off for uncontested races, prevailing wage rates in some port authority districts, tax funding for charter schools, police reports to the state and restrictions on sanctuary cities for illegal foreigners.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 149
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Require a local ballot measure to increase the property tax rate ceiling include language advising if there is a provision that the ceiling is subject to subsequent adjustments if the local government has a decrease in total assessed evaluation.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 223
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Increase the minimum auto liability insurance required from $10,000 to $25,000 for injury or property damage caused in one accident.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 224
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Small Business & Industry
    Description: Let liquor sellers offer coupons, rebates, prizes and other things of value as an inducement to purchase the product.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 225
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Extend the maximum length of a bus from 45 feet to 60 feert if it is an "articulated bus" comprised of two sections joined together by a flexible joint. The House added a number of unrelated issues involving emergency vehicle rights to National Guard vehicles, where wholesaler liquor storage, special license plates for veterans, highway signs for two-year colleges and more.
    See: 
  • House roll call - HA 5 HCS SB 225 (05/10/2017): Defeat of an amendment to an unrelated bill that would have allowed more than one company to provide truck weight inspection bypass systems. Currently only one company has the contract.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 231
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Health & Pensions
    Description: Establish a statewide system to monitor drug prescription of narcotics. Create a statewide database of prescriptions of controlled drugs. Authorize the Health Department to provide information from the database to police if there is a suspicion a law is being broken.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 232
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Let St. Louis County continue it's water service surcharge if the county's population drops below the level cited in the statute that gave the county the surcharge power.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 236
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Small Business & Industry
    Description: Require the state to maintain a public searchable database of Workers' Compensation claims. The governor vetoed a similar bill in 2013, SB 34.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 240
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Regulate and license electrical contractors.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 241
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Agriculture, Food & Outdoor Resources
    Description: Add an additional fine for illegally pursuing, killing or processing of wild turkey, deer, bear or elk.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 265
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Establish an Amber-Alert type public-alert system for issue alerts for the apprehension of a person suspected of killing or wounding a law enforcement system, called a "Blue Alert" system.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 266
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Professional Registration
    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

    • SCS SB 267
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Let the city of Eureka impose a sales tax for public safety, upon voter approval.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 290
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Impose various restrictions on workers' compensation that provides health care coverage for workers injured on the job. Exclude coverage for a positive test of a non-prescribed controlled drug.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 314
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Establish a statewide system to monitor drug prescription of narcotics. Create a statewide database of controlled drug prescriptions. Authorize the Health Department to provide information from the database to police if there is a suspicion a law is being broken.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 379
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Change the definition of an enclosed three-wheeled autocycle for which a helmet is not required. Rather than defining the vehicles in Missouri law, have then defined by whatever is defined by the U.S. Transportation Department.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 410
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Let licensed hospitals employ dentists and other types of oral health providers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 411
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: Conference
    Description: Add Franklin County to the Missouri-Illinois Bi-State Development Agency compact that provides transportation services for the St. Louis area. The House added unrelated provisions involving emergency medical services, alternative motor vehicle fuels taxes, auto light requirements, truck tandems, property tax changes in selected counties and port authorities. The Senate voted to dissolve the conference.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 469
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Give the state administration power to appropriate funds for land clearance for projects involving tourism infrastructure facilities inncluding sports facilities and convention sites.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 474
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Narrow an exemption from complying with an ignition interlock device order after a drunken driving conviction. Current law allows an exemption for driving an employer-owned vehicle unless the person partially owns the vehicle. This bill would further prohibit the exemption if the person controls an entity that owns the employer-owned vehicle.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 475
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Repeal the right of a plaintiff in a negligence suit against the Transportation Department to demand the case be submitted to arbitration.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 476
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Education
    Description: Expand rights for reassignment to another district to resolve transportation hardships for public school students. Extend a transfer right to a student's sibling.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 489
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Commerce, Consumer, Energy & Env.
    Description: Require the Hazardous Waste Commission to adopt rules governing coal combustion residual units to replace federal regulation. The bill also sets requirements and restrictions for the new rules.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 542
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    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: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 543
    Sponsor: Schatz, Dave
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Raise the maximum penalty that can be assessed for a safety standard violation of federally mandated natural gas safety standards.
    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.