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2018 Bill(s)
* SB 599 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: S Perfection Description: Repeal various laws requiring prevailing wage rates for workers of companies working on local government contracts. The prevailing wage law requires contractors pay their workers a minimum wage.
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SS SB 600 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: H Rules - Legislative Oversight Description: Require registration and a fee of employer organizations that hire workers to provide work for other companies under a professional employer agreement. Impose various requirements.
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SB 601 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: S Small Business & Industry Description: Repeal a limit on some Workers' Compensation coverage payments to health care providers. Repeal a provision that the fees be the same as provided to a private person or health insurance carrier.
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SCS SB 663 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: S Perfection Description: Give the state administration power to appropriate funds for land clearance for projects involving tourism infrastructure facilities in St. Louis city. including sports facilities and convention sites.
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SB 664 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: S Government Reform Description: Allow a company operating multiple locations selling liquor to designate a central warehouse.
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SB 665 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: S Local Gov't & Elections 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.
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CCS SB 707 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Various provisions dealing with motor vehicle dealers. Raise from six to 24 the number of vehicle sales to get a license. Raise the bond requirement. Require a license application where the applicant can be reached during business hours.
The House added amendments to set standards for school bus inspection stations and repealing various exemptions to the auto exhaust inspection requirements.
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SB 708 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Increase the minimum auto liability insurance required from $10,000 to $25,000 for injury or property damage caused in one accident.
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SCS SB 709 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: S Perfection Description: Expand rights for reassignment to another school district to resolve transportation hardships for public school students. Extend a transfer right to a student's sibling.
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* SCS SB 734 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: S Perfection Description: Increase the gasoline tax from $0.17 per gallon to $0.27.
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SB 735 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: S Small Business & Industry Description: Prohibit the Insurance Department from approving a Workers' Compensation policy for a business if it provides that premiums paid by the business includes county employee bonuses or employee contributions to employee individual retirement accounts. Workers' Compensation covers medical and disability costs for workers injured on the job.
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SB 736 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: S Government Reform Description: Prohibit a government agency make a decision for a contract with a private businesss to be based on the business's insurance loss history --- called "experience modification factor."
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SB 750 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Create a crime of filing a false document with the secretary of state, county recorder of deeds or any other state or local government office involving various types of documents.
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SB 751 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.
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SCS SB 752 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: H 3rd Read 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. if the vehicle was originally manufactured without adequate railings or guards. The governor vetoed a similar bill, SB 65, in 2017.
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* SB 757 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 several unrelated provisions including searchable financial databases on their websites, expanding the attorney general's powers to handle public records violations and local government lobbying restrictions.
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SB 758 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: S Commerce, Consumer, Energy & Env. Description: Let liquor sellers advertise the price of their products and offer coupons, rebates, prizes and other things of value as an inducement to purchase the product.
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* SB 759 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: S Education Description: Prohibit a public university from increasing the tuition of a student for four years after the student's initial enrollment. Require an institution return five persent of its appropriations if it violates the restriction.
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SB 761 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. The bill defines the additional fine as "restitution."
See: Official legislative description and status* SB 762 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety Description: Establish a statewide system to monitor drug prescriptions of controlled narcotics. Create a statewide database of the prescriptions. Require the Health Department to to review the records and notify law enforcement if it believes there has been a violation of the law.
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SB 763 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.
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SB 764 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: S Education Description: Prohibit a public education institution from requiring a student complete an application for free federal student aid.
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SB 815 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.
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SB 816 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.
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* SB 823 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: S Agriculture, Food & Outdoor Resources Description: Restrict various provisions in a water polution law. Make it a violation only if an action actually causes water pollution. Current law makes it unlawful to be "reasonably certain" that an action would cause pollution. Exclude agricultural storm water and return flows from agriculture irrigation from provisions dealing with a water contaminant source.
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SCS SB 862 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Prohibit local government from requiring an electrical contractor from having a local business license that imposes requirements if the contractor has a state license. Require proof of insurance to get a state license based on having a local license.
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* SB 872 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety Description: Declare it is legislative intent to prohibit discriminating in motor vehicle dealer licensing based on the method of vehicle retailing. Declare that the legislative intent of the franchise license law is to create a fair licensing system and regulatory framework...without discrimination among different and emerging forms of motor vehicle retailing."
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SB 929 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety Description: Require the Highway Patrol to contract with one or more private businesses to provide a system for bypassing truck weight stations for trucks with weigh-in-motion systems. Impose various requirements on Patrol operation of the systems.
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SCS SB 998 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: S Perfection Description: Let the Agriculture Department director wave standard requirements for various oil based fuels during periods of a fuel supply problem caused by pipline or refinery equipment failure, an amergency or natural disaster.
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HCS SCS SB 1050 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: H 3rd Read Description: Various unrelated transportation issues involving local transportation bond funds, requiring the Transportation Department to provide utility corridors, naming a portionof a highway, autocycle registration and flashing lights on highway mainteance trucks Also would allow trucks to tailgate if using a system that coordinates breaking between the trucks. The governor vetoed a similar bill in 2016, HB 1733.
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SB 1084 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety Description: Change a provision for meeting a motor vehicle registration proof of financial responsibility with a reciprocity agreement from requirements stet by the Motor Carrier and Railroad Safety Division to the Transportation Department.
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SCS SJR 36 Sponsor:Schatz, Dave Status: S Perfection Description: Impose a 0.4 percent sales tax for funding law enforcement on state highways.
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