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2015 Bill(s)

* HB 188
Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
Status: H 2nd Read
Description: Various ethics provisions. Prohibit a legislator working as a lobbyist for two yearsafter leaving office. Prohibit lobbyist gifts to individual legislators. Expand disclosure requirements for national political organizations.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * HB 221
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Government Oversight
    Description: Re-enact an existing law requiring prompt reporting of campaign contributions made during a legislative session or that exceed $5,000.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * HB 222
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Government Oversight
    Description: Require any corporation that spends more than 25 percent of its budget for campaign or election purposes to disclose its contributors -- whether the corporation is in Missouri or not.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * HB 223
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Government Oversight
    Description: Require a candidate to disclose in an advertisement if it was financed by government funds.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * HB 224
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Government Oversight
    Description: Require funds paid as a settlement with state government be deposited with the statement, except for payments to victims or to charity.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * HB 225
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Perfection
    Description: Require a nominee by the governor requiring Senate confirmation to disclose within 30 days of the nomination all political contributions within the past four years. The bill was approved by the H. Gov't Accountability Cmmittee on Jan. 9, but the bill was not assigned to a select committee nor does it appear on the perfection calendar.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * HB 464
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Perfection
    Description: Prohibit a University of Missouri member of the Board of Curators from voting on hiring the governor who appointed him. Likely would rule Jay Nixon out as a University of Missouri president.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 548
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Health Insurance
    Description: Prohibit a health isurance plan from charging a co-pay for treatment by an occupational therapist that is higher than what is charged for a physician. Current law prohibits higher copays for a physical therapist.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 675
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: S 3rd Read
    Description: Extend into Boone County a commerical zone in Columbia for higher truck weight and size limits. The Columbia commercial zone law was passed by the legislature in 2014, HB 2163.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 676
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Perfection
    Description: Provide a tax break to a business that uses vacant property owned by a public higher education institution, under some circumstances.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 677
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Small Business
    Description: Provide a tax credit for a small business approved by the Small Business Regulatory Fairness Board.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 678
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Government Oversight
    Description: Require live audio and video streaming on Internet of sessions of the legislature and legislative committees.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 815
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Economic Development
    Description: Provide a tax break for investment in a Missouri business with ten or fewer employees.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 855
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Economic Development
    Description: Expand from nine to 12 the number of the Tax Increment Financing Commission in Boone County. TIFs provide tax breaks for developers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 865
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Select Com. on Commerce
    Description: Prohibit local government from requiring a business to provide employees with a higher salary or other employment benefit that exceeds federal or state requirements.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HCS HB 884
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't
    Description: Let a Boone County hospital invest up to 15 percent of its funds in mututual funds.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 981
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Perfection
    Description: Declare it is not a conflict of interest for a county commissioner serving on another governmental body to vote on a budget request submitted to the commission by the other governmental body.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 982
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: S 3rd Read
    Description: Let University of Missouri county extension councils borrow money, but provide it does not constitute a debt of the university.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1011
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Require one voting member of the University of Missouri Board of Curators be a student.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * HB 1139
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Ways & Means
    Description: Provide a tax deduction for federal penalties assessed against a person for not having health insurance as required by the federal Affordable Care Act -- Obamacare.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1146
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Economic Development
    Description: Change the reference in a tax credit for business program from the "new jobs training program" to the "Missouri works job training."
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1215
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Require legislative approval before the Board of Public Building can authorize a bond issue.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1261
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Select Com. on Education
    Description: Establish a grant program for military advocacy organizations that also advcate economic development and job retention in areas around military bases.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1305
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: S 3rd Read (IN BUDGET)
    Description: Create a commission of mostly legislators to review state regulations and recommend which should be repealed or changed.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HCS HB 1312
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't
    Description: Require the Economic Development Department to provide a report to the legislature on whether each of the state's various tax credits are providing a director indirect benefit to the state.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1313
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Perfection
    Description: Provide a program to award grants to organizations that agree to hold conventions or similar major events in Missouri.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1324
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Perfection
    Description: Create a commission in the Social Services to study various welfare issues and federal programs including whether the "Pay for Success" federal program would be beneficial to the state and whether "social impact bonds" wuld be a beneficial tool.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HJR 45
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H 1st Read
    Description: Authorize up to $10 million in bonds for a state fund to finance maintenance of state government buildings.
    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.