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Latest Action: 04/07/2008 - Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee Bill Text
HB 1310 - ELECTIONS FOR INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES - Hoskins, Theodore
Requires independent candidates to file declarations of candidacy and petitions for nomination by the same deadlines established for other candidates
Latest Action: 05/29/2008 - Signed by House Speaker Bill Text
HB 1311 - WRITE-IN CANDIDATES - Hoskins, Theodore
Prohibits any person who is in arrears for any unpaid city taxes or municipal-user fees from filing a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate for election to any municipal office
Latest Action: 04/08/2008 - Executive Session Completed (H) Bill Text
HB 1317 - VOTER REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS - Davis, Cynthia L.
Requires election authorities to verify United States citizenship of all voter registration applicants
Latest Action: 01/10/2008 - Read Second Time (H) Bill Text
HB 1324 - ELECTIONS - Sater, David
Allows a village to cancel an election if the number of candidates who file for a position is equivalent to the number of persons who may serve
Latest Action: 01/29/2008 - Executive Session Completed (H) Bill Text
HB 1407 - PETITION CIRCULATORS - Deeken, Bill
Requires all petition circulators to be registered voters, residents of Missouri, and citizens of the United States and prohibits payment of petition circulators on a per-signature basis
Latest Action: 01/10/2008 - Read Second Time (H) Bill Text
HB 1456 - STATE COMPACT TO ELECT PRESIDENT - Roorda, Jeff
Authorizes Missouri to enter into the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote Act
Latest Action: 01/29/2008 - Public Hearing Completed (H) Bill Text
HJR 39 - INITIATIVE PETITIONS - Kuessner, J. C.
Proposes a constitutional amendment increasing the percentage of required voter signatures in each of two-thirds of the Congressional districts before a petition can be placed on the ballot
Latest Action: 01/29/2008 - Executive Session Completed (H) Bill Text
HJR 40 - CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS - Kuessner, J. C.
Proposes a constitutional amendment requiring at least 60% of voters to approve amendments to the Missouri Constitution instead of the current simple majority requirement
Latest Action: 05/16/2008 - S Formal Calendar H Bills for Third Reading--HCS for HJR 48 (Scott) Bill Text
HJR 48 - VOTER IDENTIFICATION - Cox, Stanley
Proposes a constitutional amendment authorizing the General Assembly to require photo identification to vote in elections
Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee Bill TextSB 757 - This act provides that beginning January 1, 2010, all circuit, associate circuit, and appellate judgeships in this state shall be nonpartisan offices, and no such judge shall be identified by political party. Currently, except in jurisdictions that have adopted the provisions of Sections 25(a) to (g) Article V of the Constitution of Missouri, elections for circuit and associate circuit judges are held on the general election date. This act provides that beginning January 1, 2010, elections for such judges shall be held on the primary election date. The names of each judicial candidate shall be included on all ballots in said election, including each political party's primary ballots, but shall be designated as "nonpartisan." In any primary election at which no judicial candidate receives a majority vote, the two candidates receiving the highest and next highest number of votes shall be certified to a runoff election, which shall be held at the next general election. Such [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Public Hearing Completed (H) Bill Text
HB 2592 - POLITICAL ACTIVITIES - Portwood, Dr. Charles R.
Prohibits political subdivisions from preventing emergency personnel from seeking an elected office in any political subdivision that does not have jurisdiction over the person's place of residence
Latest Action: 05/16/2008 - Referred: Elections (H) Bill Text
HB 2541 - VOTER CAGING PROHIBITION ACT OF 2008 - Hughes, Leonard
Establishes the Voter Caging Prohibition Act of 2008
Latest Action: 04/03/2008 - Referred: Elections (H) Bill Text
HB 2497 - BALLOTS REQUIRED AT POLLING PLACES - Hoskins, Theodore
Allows election authorities to reduce the number of required paper ballots provided based on the number of touch screen voting devices deployed
Latest Action: 04/03/2008 - Referred: Elections (H) Bill Text
HB 2425 - FILING PERIOD FOR CERTAIN CANDIDATES - Holsman, Jason R.
Requires certain candidates to file a written declaration of candidacy during the 10 business days in January immediately preceding the primary election in order to be placed on the official primary ballot
Latest Action: 05/16/2008 - Referred: Elementary and Secondary Education (H) Bill Text
HB 2403 - SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS - Kraus, Will
Imposes term limits on certain school board members when the school district becomes provisionally accredited or unaccredited
Latest Action: 05/16/2008 - S Formal Calendar H Bills for Third Reading--HCS for HB 2321, with SCS (Crowell) Bill Text
HB 2321 - VOTER REGISTRATION - Dixon, Bob
Requires the local offices and resident hunting and fishing permit vendors of the Department of Conservation to make a voter registration application form available to all resident permit applicants
Latest Action: 05/16/2008 - Referred: Elections (H) Bill Text
HB 2312 - FUNDING OF ELECTION CAMPAIGNS - Holsman, Jason R.
Establishes a process for funding elections that allows candidates to voluntarily agree to campaign finance limitations in exchange for public funding
Latest Action: 05/16/2008 - In Conference--SB 1288-Shields, with HCS, as amended Bill TextHCS/SB 1288 - This act bars executive branch employees from accepting gifts from lobbyists. Employees who unknowingly accept gifts may return the gift, pay market value for the gift, or donate the gift to charity. Currently, lobbyists must report expenditures on occasions when members of a standing committee of either the house of representatives or the senate are invited in writing. This act extends this requirement to expenditures for occasions where members of any committee of the house or senate are invited. Currently, lobbyists or their agents are required to provide a general description of the proposed legislation or action by the executive or judicial branch which they supported or opposed, to the Ethics Commission. This act removes that provision. Committees that cannot return nonallowable contributions because the contributor cannot be located, returns the contribution, or is a committee which is terminated, may deposit the contribution in the general revenue or donate [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee Bill TextSB 1267 - This act bars the use of direct-recording electronic voting systems except in polling places that do not have alternative systems that comply with a provision of the Help America Vote Act ensuring independence and privacy for individuals with disabilities. In those polling places, one direct-recording electronic voting machine shall be available and accessible to persons with disabilities upon request. CHRIS HOGERTY
Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee Bill TextSB 1252 - This act extends the distance restriction for exit polling, surveying, sampling, electioneering, distributing election literature and signage, from twenty-five to one hundred feet from the polling place. CHRIS HOGERTY
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