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2015 Bill(s)

SB 36
Sponsor: Romine, Gary
Status: S Judiciary
Description: Impose a limit on awards in a discrimination lawsuit by an employee against an employer. Exempt small employers. The governor vetoed similar bills HB 1219 in 2012 and SB 188 in 2011. The measure also establishes legal rights for whistleblowers against employers.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 37
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Impose requirements on lawsuit settlement agreements. Impose financial penalties against a party rejecting a settlement who subsequently loses the case, under some circumstances.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SCS SB 38
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: H 3rd Read (IN BUDGET)
    Description: Let the legislature's joint committee on Medicaid hire staff. Give the staff access to Medicaid division records.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 68
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Add St. Francois County to a provision that lets a board member of a city industrial development corporation live outside the city, so long as the member lives within the county.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 108
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: WITHDRAWN
    Description: Provide a fund to make up some of the loss smaller school districts as a result of enrollment changes in some circumstances.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SS SB 142
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: VETO OVERRIDDEN
    Description: Require the Natural Resources Department file with the legsilature a regulatory impact statement at least one month before submitting any implementation plan to federal Environmental Protection Agency. Nixon's veto letter claims the bill contained drafting errors including reference to a federal law that does not actually exist.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 142 (04/23/2015): 3rd reading of a bill to impose restrictions on the Natural Resources Dept. to implement EPA rules.
  • House roll call - SS SB 142 (05/15/2015): 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to impose restrictions on the Natural Resources Dept. to implement EPA rules.
  • House roll call - SS SB 142 (09/16/2015): Passage of a resolution to override the veto of a bill to require the Natural Resources Dept. to submit a report to the legislature before implementing a federal EPA rule.
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 142 (09/16/2015): Passage of a resolution to override the veto of a bill to require the Natural Resources Dept. to submit a report to the legislature before implementing a federal EPA rule.
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 143
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Add a restriction in a law requiring an owner maintain adequate control over an animal for livestock. Require for livestock that adequate control not be maintained for at least 12 hours before a violation occurs.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 171
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Education
    Description: Prohibit a high school equivalency test from discriminating agaisnt a student with a diagnosed learning disability.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SCS SB 172
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: Conference
    Description: Require the state Education Board to establish minimum requirements for a career and technical education high school diploma. The House version includes several other unrelated education issues including civics education, cyer bullying, gifted education funding, suicide awareness training of teachers, dyslexia, virtual education, etc.
    See: 
  • House roll call - HA 8 HCS SCS SB 172 (04/30/2015): Adoption of an amendment to establish standards and state funding provisions for private virtual school courses for public school students.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 173
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Education
    Description: Establish a separate method for calculating the allocation of state funds for a school district in Washington County.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 224
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: VETO OVERRIDDEN
    Description: Restrict the A+ scholarship program for college students to U.S. citizens or permanent residents in the U.S. In his veto letter, Nixon wrote that the bill would penalize students who came to the U.S. through no choice or action of their own.
    See: 
  • House roll call - SCS SB 224 (05/05/2015): 3rd reading and final passage of a bill to limit the A+ college scholarship program to U.S. citizens and permanent residents.
  • Senate roll call - SCS SB 224 (03/16/2015): 3rd reading of a bill to limit the A+ college scholarship program to U.S. citizens and permanent residents.
  • House roll call - SCS SB 224 (09/16/2015): Passage of a resolution to override the governor's veto of a bill that would deny one of the state's major college scholarships to children of parents illegally in the U.S.
  • Senate roll call - SCS SB 224 (09/16/2015): Passage of a resolution to override the governor's veto of a bill that would deny one of the state's major college scholarships to children of parents illegally in the U.S.
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 225
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Various changes in appeals of Natural Resources Department license and permit decisions. Allow the Administrative Hearing Commission to hear past violations by an applicant. Several other changes.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SCS SB 230
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: Back to S
    Description: Various changes in Medicaid, but not the governor's proposed expansion. Expand to statewide a requirement that a recipient be covered by managed care rather than fee-for-service. Allow payment of subsidies for Medicaid recipients who choose a private health insurance plan.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 252
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Add to two-way radios to the list of items prohibited from being possessed in or delivered to a prison or jail, except for law enforcement officials or persons authorized by the facility. Violation of the prohibition is a felony crime.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 253
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Commerce, Consumer & Energy
    Description: Expand various utility easements that can be granted by the state without requiring legislative authorization.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 412
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Require that an arbiter make the initial decisions in a dispute between an employer and at-will employee unless the agreement expressly delegated arbitration to the court. Declare contracts that warrant new homes from defects are not insurance contracts under arbitration provisions.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 413
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Various changes in dealing with natural resource damage payments covered by the state. Restrict transfer of damage assessments. Change provisions dealing with natural resource land donated to the state.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HCS SCS SB 445
    Sponsor: Romine, Gary
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Require electric power plants in Jefferson County to develop a monitoring program for sulfur dioxide around a plant.
    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.