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2016 Bill(s)

HB 1506
Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
Status: H Corrections
Description: Repeal a provision allowing the Parole and Probation Board to charge a fee of up to $60 per month for a person under board supervision.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1507
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H Transportation
    Description: Require same-day service to renew or obtain a driving license.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1508
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Exempt items purchased at a prison canteen from the sales tax.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1509
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Declare May 19 the "El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Observation Day.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1510
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Requiring label identification of genetically modified food products.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1511
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H Small Business
    Description: Establish a grant program to reopen a closed manfacturing factory.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1512
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Prohibit an applicant for welfare, housing assistance or a state job from having to disclose prior nonviolent felony or sex offense convictions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1513
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Create a Malcolm X Day Commission to plan a festival event for the Saturday prior to his birthday.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1514
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Declare May 19 as Malcolm X Observation Day.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1515
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H Ways & Means
    Description: Exempt income tax withholding for one month each year that has been the historically the lowest of withholding collections.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1516
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H Public Safety
    Description: Require police to wear video cameras when on duty. Require five percent of city fines be used to cover the costs of video cameras. Ferguson related.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1517
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Increase the minimum wage to $10.25 per hour.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1518
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H Small Business
    Description: Provide an extra tax deduction and tax credit for smaller businesses with gross income $500,000 or less per year.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1519
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Expand the rights for obtaining expungement of criminal records. Include all non-violent crimes.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1520
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H Public Safety
    Description: Require written agreement before a cop could search a person's car. Require the Public Safety Department to collect and maintain data on traffic stops by law enforcement officers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1521
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H Public Safety
    Description: Require written agreement before a cop could search a person's car.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1522
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H Public Safety
    Description: Require the Public Safety Department to establish a statewide system to track complaints against police officers. Ferguson related.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1523
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H Public Safety
    Description: Impose requirements and restrictions on police use of eyewitness information and lineups.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1524
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Allow expungement of a marijuana conviction if voters approve a consitutional amendment legalizing marijuana.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1525
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H Civil & Criminal Proceedings
    Description: Allow a lawsuit to be filed for damages by a victim of sexual abuse by a relative at any time. Current law imposses ten-year time limit for a lawsuit. Also remove the statute of limitations for prosecution.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1882
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Expand the definition of a store where welfare TANF cards cannot be used to a store where at least 85 percent of the merchandise is liquor. Current law limits it where liquor is sold exclusively or primarily. TANF is Temporary Assistance to Needy Families.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1883
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Add requirements for the Corrections Department to assist an inmate about to be released find a job. Require participation in a federal program that would make all inmates bonded prior to release, subject to appropriation.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1884
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H Children & Families
    Description: Increase from 15 to 60 days after birth the time limit for a father to file a claim of paternity to have a role in an adoption proceeding.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1921
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H Utility Infrastructure
    Description: Restrict how much a utility can charge for reconnecting service that had been disconncted. Prohibit requiring payment of balance owed the utility before restoration of service.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * HB 1961
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H Public Safety
    Description: Require that an appellate court rather than a grand jury determine if an indictment should be issued involving a fatal shooting by a police officer. Ferguson related.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 1982
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H Elementary & Secondary Education
    Description: Require completing a course on world history or passing a test on world history to graduate from a public high school.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 2354
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H Public Safety
    Description: Authorize counties and cities to put a court surcharge for ordinance violations to finance police body cameras. Require the Public Safety Department establish a grant program for body cameras. Make body camera recordings closed records. Ferguson related.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2529
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Require at each voter polling location that there be at least one voting machine for visually impaired persons.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2595
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Let a school district convert a school into a magnet school that accepts students living outside the district. Transfer to the school board some powers now exercised by the superintendent.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2596
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: nclude whether race was a signficant factor in the issues the Supreme Court is required to consider when reviewing a death sentence. Establish separate appeal grounds on the basis of race being a factor in a death sentence.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2675
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Name a bridge of U.S. 169 in Jackson County the 'John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil Memorial Bridge.'
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * HJR 57
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Legalize marijuana for persons at least 21 years old.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HJR 95
    Sponsor: Ellington, Brandon
    Status: H 1st Read
    Description: Require local voter approval before a local government can implement a redevelopment plan (such as a tax increment financing plan that provides tax breaks to developers).
    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.