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2015 Bill(s)

* HB 26
Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
Status: H Select Com. on Finances & Taxes
Description: Establish requirements and consumer protections in a contract with a laywer in a consumer lawsuit in which some of the potential awards are assigned to the attorney.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 29
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: S Agriculture, Food & Outdoor Resources
    Description: Provide an exemption in a ban on foreign ownership of farm land that exempts divestment or invalidation of a security interest for violation of the land.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 30
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections
    Description: Require a photo ID to vote.
    See: 
  • House roll call - HB 30 (02/19/2015): 3rd reading of a bill to require a government-issued phto ID to vote, if Missouri voters approve a constitutional amendment allowing a photo ID requirement.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SS HCS HB 63
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: VETO OVERRIDDEN
    Description: Exempt some local governments from a state law imposing requirements on primaries. The SS prohibits a fomer school district superintendent from running for the district's school board. Nixon wrote in his veto letter that the law should encourage rather than prohibit those who aspire to serve in public office.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SS HCS HB 63 (04/08/2015): Senate approval to override the governor's veto of a bill that would prohibit former school superintendents from running for the school board of the same district in which they served.
  • House roll call - SS HCS HB 63 (04/08/2015): House approval to override the governor's veto of a bill that would prohibit former school superintendents from running for the school board of the same district in which they served.
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HB 64
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: S 3rd Read
    Description: Raise from $75 to $100 the maximum fee that can be charged for open-end credit.
    See: 
  • House roll call - HB 64 (02/20/2015): 3rd reading of a bill to raise the maxium charges that can be assessed for open-end credit.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HB 65
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: H Elections
    Description: Impose a deadline for a court to issue a decision within 56 days before the election for any lawsuit challenging a statewide ballot issue.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 66
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: H Elections
    Description: Remove a provision allowing a current utility bill or bank statement to be used by a voter to prove identity and residence at the polling place.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS HB 67
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: H Perfection
    Description: Allow an election authority to operate a voting machine to process absentee voting. The revised House version includes a number of other election issues.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 85
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: WITHDRAWN
    Description: Require filing of campaign finance reports for all local offices to be the Missouri Ethics Commission. Require the commission to have an electronic reporting system for those offices by 2016.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HCS HB 256
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: H Select Com. on Finances & Taxes
    Description: Exempt various types of financial institutions from laws defining various types illegal marketing practices for which lawsuits can be filed.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 257
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: H Perfection
    Description: Let a school district in a non-charter county exempt itself from the prevailing wage rate that imposes minimum wage levels for workers hired by firms that have contracted with the district.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 341
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: S 3rd Read
    Description: Require financial disclosure reports to the Ethics Commission by public officials be filed in electronic format. Require local officials file with the Ethics Commission rather than with the local government.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 524
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Allow the Revenue Department to implement a system to electronically release a lien on a motor vehicle, but only if the the vehicle's lien had been filed electronically with the department.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 533
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: S 3rd Read
    Description: Block until an extended filing period any further candidates from filing for an office if a candidate withdraws within two days of the filing deadline. Current law provides a short extended period for filing after the deadline if a candidate withdraws within two days of the normal filing deadline.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 573
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: H Elections
    Description: Allow some cities to stagger terms of aldermen so that only have of the board is elected every other year.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HCS HB 587
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: Back to H
    Description: Various licensing fee increases for some financial activities such as issuing checks, crediting financing, credit service and unsecured loans.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS HB 752
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Limit a current law that causes the forfeiture of government retirement benefits for certain crimes. Require there be an actual conviction, which does not happen if there is a suspension of the imposition of sentence.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 966
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: H Select Com. on Finances & Taxes
    Description: Repeal a requirement for the Division of Finance to establish rules classifying records kept by banks and how long they must be kept.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 979
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: S Consent
    Description: Lower the bonding requirement of a seven-director school district treasurer to require that the bond have at least one surety rather than two.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 1039
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: S 3rd Read
    Description: Raise the maximum filing fee a political party can charge for filing of a presidential preference primary candidate from up to $1,000 to up to $10,000.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 1041
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: H Select Com. on State & Local Gov't
    Description: Change a number of election dates. Move the statewide primary date from August to June.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 1152
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: H Select Com. on Finances & Taxes
    Description: Specifically include "retirement benefit" under a law providing income tax deductions for annuities and pensions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HJR 1
    Sponsor: Dugger, Tony
    Status: S 3rd Read
    Description: Allow the legislature to require a photo ID to vote. An earlier proposal passed by the legislature was blocked by a Cole County circuit judge from getting on the ballot.
    See: 
  • House roll call - HJR 1 (02/19/2015): 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to give the legislature power to require a photo ID to vote.
  • 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.