SB 512 |
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Sponsored by Senator Lamping ( R ) District 24 12/1/2013: Prefiled August 28, 2014: Effective Date Committee: Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions, and Ethics Last Action: 1/9/2014 – Second Read and Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee, 3/4/2014 - Hearing Cancelled S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee, 3/11/2014 - Hearing Scheduled S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee |
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Modifies the Law Relating to Campaign Finance, Lobbying, and Public Official Conflicts of Interest
This act modifies numerous provisions relating to ethics. The act imposes a one year cooling off period before members of the General Assembly may act as paid political consultants and a 3 year cooling off period before they may become lobbyists. Members are also barred from lobbying local government officials while serving in the General Assembly. Members may lobby for religious and charitable associations immediately upon leaving office, but only without compensation. The act imposes a one year cooling off period before paid, full-time employees of General Assembly members may act as lobbyists. The Governor is required to submit a list of political contributions that any potential appointee has made to the Governor to the Senate within 10 days of submitting a commission letter to the Secretary of State for the appointment of the person. All expenditures, with the exception of commemorative items, plaques, and awards, made by lobbyists on behalf of members of the General Assembly shall be reimbursed by the member within 30 days from the day the expenditure is reported by the lobbyist. Members shall file a reimbursement report with the Ethics Commission within 10 days of the reimbursement. Lobbyists are required to report reimbursements in their monthly expenditure reports. Paid political consultants are required to register annually with the Ethics Commission. Consultants shall divulge employees, client lists, and whether such clients are lobbyists and update the filing when any changes are made. Paid political consultants are barred from lobbying while acting as consultants and for 6 months after ceasing to consult. Similarly, lobbyists are barred from acting as a paid political consultant while acting as lobbyists and for 6 months after ceasing to lobby. Currently, individuals are not required to register as lobbyists if influencing legislation is not the primary purpose of their employment or if they lobby on an occasional basis. The act removes these exceptions so that all individuals who act in the ordinary course of their employment to influence legislation on behalf of or for the benefit of their employer are required to register. The act removes a provision from current law that allows lobbyists to report an entire group for the purposes of expenditures. Paid, full-time employees of statewide elected officials who work to develop or influence the passage or defeat of legislation and paid, full-time employees of General Assembly members are required to file financial interest statements. Under current law, elected officials in political subdivisions with an annual operating budget in excess of one million dollars or in political subdivisions where ordinances have been passed requiring alternative disclosures are exempt from filing financial interest statements. The act removes these exceptions and requires all elected officials in all political subdivisions to file the same financial interest statement as legislative and statewide elected officials. Filers are required to disclose the name, address and general nature of the business conducted of each limited liability company in which the person has an interest on their financial interest statements. Members of the General Assembly; statewide elected officials; paid, full-time employees of statewide elected officials who work to develop or influence the passage or defeat of legislation and paid; and full-time employees of General Assembly members are required to disclose income received by or payments made to such employee in connection with any political campaign and from any business entity or organization outside of employment that pays $1,000 or more each year. The act changes the filing deadline for financial interest statements from May 1 to January 31 and requires an extra filing of a financial interest statement for legislators, statewide elected officials and their employees that are required to file, to be filed by June 30, covering January 1 to May 31. Members of the General Assembly who vacate their office for an appointment on a board or commission, shall not receive compensation until their term expires. Gubernatorial appointees are barred from making political contributions to the Governor. Persons are prohibited from charging interest on loans made to political committees at a rate higher than the 90 day treasury bill rate. The act requires a detailed description and nature of in-kind contributions to be included in campaign finance disclosure reports. |
SB 486 |
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Sponsored by Senator Rupp ( R ) District 2 12/1/2013: Prefiled August 28, 2014: Effective Date Committee: Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Last Action: 1/9/2014 – Second Read and Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee |
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Modifies the Law Relating to Campaign Finance
This act modifies the law relating to campaign finance. Political party committees are redefined to only allow one state party committee per political party for the purposes of campaign finance. Persons acting as a treasurer or deputy treasurer of a committee shall not act as such for another committee at the same time. Committees shall have only one address and shall not have the same address as any other committee. Post office boxes are not acceptable committee addresses. Committees shall not make contributions to other committees. The act imposes contribution limits for individuals and committees in support of candidates running for public office. Surcharges will be imposed upon committees that accept or give contributions exceeding the limits. The limits are as follows for contributions made by or accepted from any person other than the candidate and all committees: • $25,000 for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, or Attorney General; • $10,000 for Senators; • $2,500 for Representatives; • $2,500 for any other public office. The amount of aggregate contributions made by a single contributor to a political party committee in a calendar year shall not exceed $50,000. State senators and representatives and candidates for those offices shall report contributions received during the legislative session exceeding $500 within 48 hours of receiving the contribution. The same 48 hour reporting requirement is imposed for contributions given to the Governor, all statewide elected officials, and candidates for those offices during the legislative session and any time when legislation from the regular legislative session awaits gubernatorial action. This act is similar to HB 633 (2009), HB 687 (2009), SB 389 (2009), SB 270 (2009), CCS#3/HCS#2/SB 844 (2010), SB 648 (2010),SB 546 (2012), SB 825 (2012), SB 92 (2013), SB 298 (2013), SB 227 (2013), and identical to SB 385 (2013). |
SB 487 |
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Sponsored by Senator Rupp ( R ) District 2 Effective Date: Upon Voter Approval Committee: Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Last Action: 1/9/2014 – Second Read and Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee, 3/4/2014 - Hearing Cancelled S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee |
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Modifies the Law Relating to Campaign Finance Upon voter approval, this act modifies the law relating to campaign finance. Political party committees are redefined to only allow one state party committee per political party for the purposes of campaign finance. Persons acting as a treasurer or deputy treasurer of a committee shall not act as such for another committee at the same time. Committees shall have only one address and shall not have the same address as any other committee. Post office boxes are not acceptable committee addresses. Committees shall not make contributions to other committees. The act imposes contribution limits for individuals and committees in support of candidates running for public office. Surcharges will be imposed upon committees that accept or give contributions exceeding the limits. The limits are as follows for contributions made by or accepted from any person other than the candidate and all committees: • $25,000 for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, or Attorney General; • $10,000 for Senators; • $2,500 for Representatives; • $2,500 for any other public office. The amount of aggregate contributions made by a single contributor to a political party committee in a calendar year shall not exceed $50,000. State senators and representatives and candidates for those offices shall report contributions received during the legislative session exceeding $500 within 48 hours of receiving the contribution. The same 48 hour reporting requirement is imposed for contributions given to the Governor, all statewide elected officials, and candidates for those offices during the legislative session and any time when legislation from the regular legislative session awaits gubernatorial action. This act is similar to HB 633 (2009), HB 687 (2009), SB 389 (2009), SB 270 (2009), CCS#3/HCS#2/SB 844 (2010), SB 648 (2010),SB 546 (2012), SB 825 (2012), SB 92 (2013), SB 298 (2013), SB 227 (2013), SB 385 (2013), and identical to SB 470 (2013). |
SB 555 |
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Sponsored by Senator Nasheed (D) District 5 12/1/2013: Prefiled August 28, 2014: Effective Date Last Action: 1/8/2014 – S First Read, 1/15/2014 - Second Read and Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions, and Ethics Committee, 2/25 - Hearing Conducted |
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Imposes Campaign Contribution Limits and Bans Certain Lobbyist Gifts
This act bars General Assembly members and their staff and family from accepting travel and tickets for sporting events and concerts from lobbyists and bars lobbyists from delivering such items to such individuals. This act imposes contribution limits of $2,600 for any candidate in any election. The limits shall be increased in each odd-numbered year based upon fluctuations in the Consumer Price Index. Contributions from persons under 14 years old shall be considered to be made by his or her parents or guardians. Committees that accept or give contributions in violation of the limits shall be subject to a surcharge of $1,000 plus an amount equal to the contribution per non-allowable contribution. This act is similar to HB 633 (2009), HB 687 (2009), SB 389 (2009), SB 270 (2009), SB 648 (2010),SB 546 (2012), SB 825 (2012), SB 227 (2013), SB 181 (2013), and SB 92 (2013). |
SB 488 |
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Sponsored by Senator Lager ( R ) District 12 12/1/2013: Prefiled August 28, 2014: Effective Date Committee: Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Last Action: 1/9/2014 – Second Read and Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee, 2/11/2014 - Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee, 2/18/2014 - Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee |
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Bars Members of the General Assembly from Acting as Paid Political Consultants and Imposes a Two Year Cooling-Off Period Before Members May Become Lobbyists
This act bars members of the General Assembly and candidates for such office to act as paid political consultants for a candidate for state representative or state senator, or the candidate committee of such candidate or officeholder. The act also imposes a two year cooling off period for members of the General Assembly before they may become lobbyists. This act is identical to SB 4 (2013). |
SB 536 |
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Sponsored by Senator Sifton (D) District 1 12/1/2013: Prefiled August 28, 2014: Effective Date Last Action: 1/8/2014 – S First Read, 1/15/2014 - Second Read and Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, and Ethics Committee |
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Institutes a Lobbyist Gift Ban for the Members of the General Assembly and Their Candidate Committees
This act bars members of the General Assembly and their family, employees, and staff from receiving any tangible or intangible item, service, or thing of value from a lobbyist and bars lobbyists from delivering such items to such individuals. Lobbyists shall not make contributions in the form of food, entertainment, lodging, or travel to general assembly member candidate committees and such committees shall not receive such items. This act is similar to HB 1080 (2012), and identical to SB 38 (2013). |
SB 627 |
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Sponsored by Senator LeVota (D) District 11 Last Action: 1/8/2014 - S First Read, 1/23/2014 - Second Read and Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee, 2/25/2014 - Hearing Cancelled Effective Date: August 28, 2014 |
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Establishes Campaign Contribution Limits This act imposes contribution limits for individuals and committees in support of candidates running for public office. Surcharges will be imposed upon committees that accept or give contributions exceeding the limits. The limits are as follows for contributions made by or accepted from any person other than the candidate and all committees: • $10,000 for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, or Attorney General. • $5,000 for Senators. • $2,000 for Representatives. • $2,000 for any other office, including judicial office. This act is similar to HB 633 (2009), HB 687 (2009), SB 389 (2009), SB 270 (2009), SB 648 (2010), SB 546 (2012), SB 825 (2012), SB 92 (2013), and SB 227 (2013). |
SB 629 |
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Sponsored by Senator Kraus ( R ) District 8 Last Action: 1/8/2014 – S First Read, 1/23/2014 - Second Read and Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee Effective Date: August 28, 2014 |
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This act modifies and enacts numerous provisions relating to ethics. The act bars political fund-raising activities from being held in buildings owned by the state or political subdivisions. Statewide elected officials and legislators shall not act as a paid political consultant for another statewide elected official or legislator or for a campaign committee, candidate committee, continuing committee, or political party committee. Statewide elected officials and legislators and their staff, employees, and family shall not receive any lobbyist gifts with a value of over $50. Under current law, no contribution or expenditure of public funds shall be made by officers or employees of a political subdivision to advocate, support, or oppose any ballot measure or candidate. This act adds officers and employees of school districts and public institutions of higher education to the prohibition. Legislators shall not lobby until 2 years after leaving office. Appointees to boards and commissions are required to disclose 10 years of political contributions made be them, their spouses, and any business entity in which the appointee or the appointee's spouse has an interest. Those who offer anything of value to any elected or appointed public official or employee of the state in exchange for an action affecting legislation or rulemaking and those who accept such value in such instances are guilty of a class D felony. The act establishes campaign contribution limits for individuals and political party committees. The limits are as follows for contributions made by or accepted from any person other than the candidate in an election: • $10,000 for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, or Attorney General. • $2,500 for Senators. • $1,000 for Representatives. • $600 any other office, including judicial office, if the population of the area is under 100,000. • $1,000 any other office, including judicial office, if the population of the area is between 100,000 and 250,000. • $2,000 any other office, including judicial office, if the population of the area is over 250,000. The limits are as follows for contributions made by or accepted from a political party committee in an election: • 10,,000 for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, or Attorney General. • $2,500 for Senators. • $1,000 for Representatives. • 10 times the allowable contribution limit for any other office. This act is similar to HB 633 (2009), HB 687 (2009), SB 389 (2009), SB 270 (2009), HCS/SS#2/SCS/SB 577 (2010), SB 800 (2010), HCS#2/SB 844 (2010), SB 648 (2010), HB 1322 (2010), HB 1326 (2010), HB 1337 (2010), HB 1727 (2010), HB 1846 (2010), HB 2039 (2010), HCS/HB 2300 (2010), SB 75 (2011), HB 139 (2013),SB 526 (2012), SB 825 (2012), HB 1080 (2012), HB 1320 (2012), HB 1756 (2012), HB 1939 (2012), SB 92 (2013), and SB 181 (2013). |
HB 1150 |
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Sponsored by Representative Morgan (D) District 24 Last action: 1/9/2014 – Read Second Time, 1/16/2014 - Referred, Administration and Accounts, 3/5/2014 - Hearing Completed, Administration and Accounts Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2014 |
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Requires members of the General Assembly to report whether proposed legislation is model legislation and requires disclosure of additional lobbying activities This bill requires any legislation that is filed in Missouri and previously adopted as or substantially similar to model legislation by an organization to identify the organization that formally adopted the model legislation in the fiscal note. A State Senator or State Representative must provide the information to the Oversight Division of the Committee on Legislative Research for the identification required by these provisions. If the legislation is not identified as model legislation, a third party may request that disclosure of the source of the model legislation be added to the fiscal note by submitting a request with documentation of the model legislation to the chair of the committee to which the bill is assigned. The chair has 10 days to rule on the request. The decision of the committee chair can be appealed to the Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee in the Senate or to the Rules Committee in the House. The bill requires an organization that adopts and distributes model legislation to any State Senator or State Representative to register as a lobbyist, unless the organization is made up solely of individuals elected or appointed to a position in state government or the organization has a lobbyist registered with Missouri. Any lobbyist representing an organization under these provisions must report to the Missouri Ethics Commission: a) The name of each State Senator or State Representative serving as a member, staff member, or in the leadership of the organization; b) The name of each State Senator or State Representative attending any conference, meeting, or event where the model legislation was distributed; c) The amount of compensation, scholarship funds, money, or other financial support paid to or on behalf of any State Senator or State Representative for attendance at the functions; d) The name of any entity or individual that contributed to the compensation, scholarship fund, money, or other financial support of any State Senator or State Representative; e) A copy of the program for the function where the model legislation was distributed and a copy of the model legislation; and f) A financial interest statement of any person or entity that voted to adopt the model legislation. Any State Senator or State Representative who receives compensation for attending a function under these provisions must report the compensation as a gift or honorarium. |
HB 1260 |
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Sponsored by Representative Jones ( R ) District 50 Last Action: 1/9/2014 – Read second time, 1/16/2014 - Referred, General Laws, 2/25/2014 - Public Hearing Completed Proposed Effective Date: August 28, 2014 Changes the law regarding ethics and lobbying |
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Changes the law regarding ethics and lobbying
This bill makes changes to the laws relating to the Ethics Commission. In its main provisions, the bill: (1) States that incidental fees of $9.00 or less spent in any single occurrence on a single calendar day for any one elected official do not need to be reported to the Ethics Commission; (2) Requires the Ethics Commission to respond to requests for opinions within 10 business days. If the law is not clear, the commission may request clarification before issuing an opinion; (3) Prohibits each single lobbyist from spending more than $900 per calendar year on food and beverages for any one elected official. A cap of $900 per calendar year is also placed on each single lobbyist for gifts to any one elected official; and (4) Limits the amount a lobbyist is allowed to spend on any one elected official for traveling expenses to the per diem of the state to which the elected official is traveling |
HB 1340 |
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Sponsored by Representative McManus (D) District 36 Last Action: 1/22/2014 - Referred, General Laws, 2/25/2014 - Public Hearing Completed Proposed Effective Date: 1/1/2015 |
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Changes provisions relating to ethics, conflicts of interest, lobbying, and campaign finance |
