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2016 Bill(s)

* HB 1572
Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
Status: H Government Oversight
Description: Prohibit state and local elected officials, along with their staff and family, from accepting anything of value from a lobbyist. Prohibit lobbyists from offering gifts to them.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HB 1573
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Government Oversight
    Description: Prohibit a legislator or statewide elected official from being a lobbyist until one year after leaving office.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * HB 1574
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Government Oversight
    Description: Require a person who becomes a lobbyist to dissolve any candidate committees for the lobbyist.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HB 1575
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: S 3rd Read
    Description: Impose a 30 day deadline on reporting travel and lodging expenses paid by another party that are required to be disclosed under the financial disclosure law for public officials.
    See: 
  • House roll call - HB 1575 (01/14/2016): 3rd reading of a bill shorten the deadline for a public official to report when out-of-state travel was financed by a third party.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS HB 1698
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Provide a program to award grants to organizations that agree to hold conventions or similar events in Missouri.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 1925
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Government Efficiency
    Description: Require a state agency to post on the state's website when a contract greater than $2,500 has been awarded for legal services by a private law firm.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 1926
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Ways & Means
    Description: Require Revenue Department to pay the attorney fees in a tax dispute if the taxpayer won the case before the Administrative Hearing Commission or a court.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * CCS HB 1979
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Prohibit a statewide elected official, legislator or Senate-confirmed official from registering as a Missouri lobbyist for six months until the term of office had expired.
    See: 
  • House roll call - HB 1979 (01/14/2016): 3rd reading of a bill to require a cooling off period before a state official could become a lobbyist.
  • House roll call - CCS HB 1979 (04/14/2016): 3rd reading of the confernce version of the bill to require a six-month delay after the term expires for a state elected official or legislator to register as a lobbyist.
  • House roll call - CCS HB 1979 (04/14/2016): 3rd reading of the final conference committee version to prohibit a statewide elected official or legislator from registering as a lobbyist until six months after the office term has expired.
  • Senate roll call - CCS HB 1979 (04/21/2016): 3rd reading and final passage of the final conference committee version to prohibit a statewide elected official or legislator from registering as a lobbyist until six months after the office term.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 2033
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Select Com. on Commerce
    Description: Authorize the Small Business Regulatory Fairness Board to issue tax credits to a business for the cost of regulatory compliance.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 2139
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Local Government
    Description: Let a county hospital invest in mutual funds some of its funds (up to 15 percent of funds not needed for immediate disbursment).
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HB 2165
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Government Oversight
    Description: Require a public official who becomes a registered lobbyist to dissolve any candidate committee over which the lobbyist has control. Limit to where the lobbyist can distribute the campaign funds.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 2237
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
    Description: Let University of Missouri county extension councils borrow money, but provide it does not constitute a debt of the university. No motion was made in the legislature's veto session to override the governor's veto.
    See: 
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 2282
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Select Com. on General Laws
    Description: Allow the sale of alcohol through orders placed through mobile digital devices at entertainment facilities, arenas and stadiums.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 2302
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Select Com. on Commerce
    Description: Provide tax breaks for investing in some types of technology businesses.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 2321
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Select Com. on Commerce
    Description: Establish a program to provide grants to various types of companies in advanced manufacturing, sciences, information technology, etc.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 2322
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Perfection
    Description: Extend a tax increment financing provision to include land near Lambert Airport in St. Louis. TIFs provide tax breaks for developers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 2442
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Public Safety
    Description: Let any local government establish an advisory board to hear disciplinary case appeals against police officers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 2443
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Public Safety
    Description: Establish rights for a law enforcement officer facing removal from office.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 2444
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Ways & Means
    Description: Exempt from the state income tax a member of the military for time when the person was stationed outside of the state.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2455
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Economic Development
    Description: Provide tax credits for dealers who sell gasoline that is between 15 percent to 50 percent ethanol.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 2466
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Public Safety
    Description: Establish a program to provide grants to local police departments in a specific city to reduce crime, subject to legislative appropriations. The city must be in a first-class county with a non-charter form of government and meet a certain population requirement.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 2601
    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 2715
    Sponsor: Rowden, Caleb
    Status: H Select Com. on General Laws
    Description: Require a signed agreement by the purchaser of a live event or sporting event ticket that imposes any limit on resale of the ticket. Prohibit sale of tickets in electronic form that cannot be transferred.
    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.