PASSED
Bonds: Authorizes the state Board of Public Buildings to issue $600 million in bonds for deferred maintenance projects across the state. (SB723)
School transfers: Modifies the 1993 school transfer law by reducing tuition paid by sending districts and creating a private, nonreligious school transfer option. (SB493)
Transportation tax: Places on the Nov. 4 statewide ballot a constitutional amendment raising the sales tax by three-quarters of a cent per dollar for transportation. (HJR68)
Abortion: Increases the waiting period before an abortion to 72 hours from 24 hours. (HB1307)
Advance voting: Asks voters to amend the constitution to allow no-excuse early voting on six business days before federal and state elections. Weekends are excluded and the early voting period ends on the Wednesday before the election. (HJR90)
Preschool: Grants future state funding for public school districts to provide early childhood education to children in poverty. (HB1689)
Common Core: Requires the state to evaluate and adopt new standards and assessments to track student performance. (HB1490)
Peabody: Bars a St. Louis ballot initiative intended to block Peabody Energy from receiving tax incentives. (SB672)
Higher education: Requires public universities to establish five performance criteria, used to determine the amount of extra money an institution would receive when the state can increase college funding. (SB492)
Exercise tax: Exempts fitness classes and other forms of recreation from sales tax. (SB584)
Right to bear arms: Asks voters to amend constitution to define the right to bear arms as unalienable. Makes keeping ammunition and defending one’s family with a firearm guaranteed constitutional rights. (SJR36)
Gambling loans: Allows casinos to extend lines of credit to patrons, provided that the gambler borrows at least $10,000 and is not intoxicated. (SB741)
Motorcycles: Allows sale of motorcycles on Sundays. (HB1735)
Food stamps: Lifts a ban on receiving food stamps by individuals with drug felonies, if they meet certain conditions. (SB680)
Tanning: Requires tanning bed operators to provide consent and information forms for parents of children under 17. (HB1411)
Unemployment: Links the weeks of state unemployment available to the state’s average unemployment rate, ranging between 20 and 13 weeks. (SB673)
Misconduct: Lowers the standard for what constitutes “misconduct” that fired workers can be denied unemployment benefits for. (SB510)
Hemp oil: Legalizes a cannabis oil extract for individuals with severe epilepsy that has not responded to three other treatments (HB2238)
Payday loans: Requires payday lenders to offer extended payment plans to borrowers, lowers the cap on interest and fees, imposes license fees on Internet lenders operating in the state. (SB694)
Education funding: Increases the $3.1 billion foundation formula, which funds basic state aid to K-12 public schools, by at least $115 million — more if revenue meets governor’s targets. (HB2002)
Fulton State Hospital: Authorizes $14.2 million as first payment on $198 million in bonds to be issued by Missouri Development Finance Board to build a new maximum-security mental hospital in Fulton. (HB2005)
Dental care: Appropriates $48 million in federal and state funds to reinstate dental care for about 300,000 low-income adults on Medicaid. (HB2011)
Capital improvements: Appropriates $220 million from state general revenue and bond proceeds for capital improvements around the state, including college buildings, voting machines and a passenger rail station and business incubator in St. Louis. (HB2021)
Israel office: Creates an economic development office in Israel (SB812)
Jumping jacks: Makes jumping jacks the official state exercise. (HB1603)
E-cigarettes: Bans individuals under 18 from purchasing electronic cigarettes and exempts e-cigarettes from tobacco taxes. (SB841)
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR
Oral cancer: Limits patients’ out-of-pocket costs for oral anti-cancer drugs to $75 per month after they meet their deductible. (SB668)
Breast-feeding: Excuses women from jury duty if they are breast-feeding a child and provide a statement from their doctor. (HB1320)
ENACTED OVER THE GOVERNOR’S VETO
Tax cut: Reduces the state personal income tax to 5.5 percent from 6 percent in five steps and phases in a 25 percent deduction for business income beginning in 2017 if certain conditions are met. (SB509)
ENACTED WITHOUT THE GOVERNOR’S SIGNATURE
Criminal code: Revises criminal statutes for the first time since 1979. (SB491)
DID NOT PASS
Guns: Nullifies all federal gun laws in the state. (SB 613, HB1439)
Ethics: Caps lobbyist gifts and sets two-year cooling-off period for legislators to become lobbyists. (HB1258, SB966)
Campaign contribution limits: Establishes contribution limits ranging from $500 to $2,600 per election, depending on the office sought. (HB1340)
“Right to Work”: Prohibits employers from requiring nonunion members to pay fees for representation and other services. (HB1770)
Medicaid: Expands Medicaid to low-income adults making up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level and enacts various health care reforms. (HB1901)
Tobacco: Eliminates pricing advantages enjoyed by small cigarette makers as 45 other states have done to comply with the national tobacco settlement. (SB820)
Tax credits: Renews the Distressed Area Land Assemblage Tax Credit, lowers caps on historic preservation and low-income housing credits and establishes new incentive programs. (HB1501, SB740)
Voter ID: Requires voters bring photo identification to the polls to vote (HB1073, HJR90)
Conscience rights: Allows medical workers who do not want to participate in abortion, contraception and other procedures to opt out. (HB1430)
Union dues: Bars unions from automatic deduction of dues from member without annual written authorization from workers. (HB1617)
Medical malpractice: Caps damages for noneconomic losses at $350,000 in medical malpractice lawsuits. (HB1173)
Spanking: Prohibits corporal punishment from being used in public and private schools. (SB827)
