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22nd District Representative Brandon Ellington heads up the Black Caucus in the Missouri House. He is in to talk with Host Jeff Humfeld and YOU about this year’s legislative session, the bills he is sponsoring and the issues that the House Black Caucus is addressing. Brandon is proposing a number of bills that address criminal justice and law enforcement issues.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
REPRESENTATIVE BRANDON ELLINGTON, Democrat
represents District 22
Legislative Assistant: Tracey Wright
Phone: 573-751-3129
Email: [email protected]
Or go to: Web: http://www.house.mo.gov/
Bills Sponsored by Representative Ellington
HB73 Ellington, Brandon 1/20/2015 Referred: Workforce Standards and Development 0580L.01I – Increases the state minimum wage to $10.25 per hour
HB74 Ellington, Brandon 1/8/2015 Read Second Time (H) 0581L.01I – Requires the Department of Corrections to perform specified actions to improve the ability of working inmates to obtain employment upon release from incarceration
HB75 Ellington, Brandon 1/20/2015 Referred: Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness 0578L.01I – Requires uniformed law enforcement officers to wear a video camera while on duty to record any interaction between a law enforcement officer and a member of the public and to preserve the recordings for 30 days
HB76 Ellington, Brandon 1/20/2015 Referred: Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness 0577L.01I – Requires uniformed law enforcement officers to wear a video camera while on duty to record any interaction between a law enforcement officer and a member of the public and to preserve the recordings for 30 days
HB77 Ellington, Brandon 1/8/2015 Read Second Time (H) 0579L.01I – Allows certain small businesses to be eligible to claim any state tax credit, deduction, and other exemption from tax that specified corporations are allowed to claim
HB166 Ellington, Brandon 1/8/2015 Read Second Time (H) 0688L.01I – Allows marijuana convictions to be expunged for certain persons contingent upon the passage of a constitutional amendment or other statutory enactment legalizing marijuana
HB167 Ellington, Brandon 1/8/2015 Read Second Time (H) 0683L.01I – Removes the statute of limitation for certain actions to recover damages regarding child abuse and sexual offenses committed against a child and allows prosecutions for child abuse to be commenced at any time
HB168 Ellington, Brandon 1/8/2015 Read Second Time (H) 0680L.01I – Requires all food and food products sold in Missouri that are or contain genetically modified products to be labeled indicating that the food is or contains genetically modified products
HB169 Ellington, Brandon 1/8/2015 Read Second Time (H) 0682L.01I – Establishes the Economic Development Grant Program to be used to reopen a closed manufacturing factory
HB170 Ellington, Brandon 1/8/2015 Read Second Time (H) 0686L.01I – Specifies that a person applying for state employment, public assistance, or state housing assistance cannot be required to disclose any prior nonviolent felony plea or conviction with certain exceptions
HB171 Ellington, Brandon 1/8/2015 Read Second Time (H) 0679L.01I – Increases, from 15 days to 60 days, the time after a child’s birth that the father has to file an action to establish paternity prior to an adoption or to file a notice with the Putative Father Registry
HB173 Ellington, Brandon 1/8/2015 Read Second Time (H) 0685L.01I – Designates May 19 as “Malcolm X Observation Day” in Missouri
HB174 Ellington, Brandon 1/8/2015 Read Second Time (H) 0681L.01I – Establishes the Missouri Supporting Families Income Tax Holiday Act which allows an exemption from state withholding taxes for state employees in a specified month determined by the Department of Revenue
HJR15 Ellington, Brandon 1/8/2015 Read Second Time (H) 0689L.01I – Proposes a constitutional amendment legalizing marijuana use for persons 21 years of age or older
HJR17 Ellington, Brandon 1/27/2015 Referred: Civil and Criminal Proceedings 0819L.01I – Proposes a constitutional amendment repealing the authorization for convening of grand juries
Bills Co-Sponsored by Representative Ellington
HB33 Walker, Nate / Ellington, Brandon 1/21/2015 Referred: Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness 0385H.01I – Adds emergency medical technicians to the list of public safety officers eligible for survivor’s and disabled employee’s educational grant program
HB36 Walker, Nate / Ellington, Brandon 1/20/2015 Referred: Transportation 0384H.01I – Allows owners of vehicles to only have a rear license plate if the mounting of a front license plate poses an undue hardship to the owner or destruction to the vehicle
HB38 Pace, Sharon / Ellington, Brandon 2/2/2015 Public Hearing Completed (H) 0036L.01I – Requires a peace officer to attend a training course in diversity and sensitivity and a course that teaches tactics and techniques during situations of unrest and peaceful demonstrations
HB39 Pace, Sharon / Ellington, Brandon 1/20/2015 Referred: Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness 0037L.01I – Requires video cameras to be worn by uniformed police officers while interacting with the public and in police vehicles primarily used for traffic stops
HB40 Pace, Sharon / Ellington, Brandon 1/8/2015 Read Second Time (H) 0039L.01I – Requires peace officers to undergo a psychological evaluation every three years
HB44 Webber, Stephen / Ellington, Brandon 1/8/2015 Read Second Time (H) 0496L.02I – Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to create best practice guidelines in gender pay equality for state and local government and private businesses
HB49 Kirkton, Jeanne / Ellington, Brandon 1/8/2015 Read Second Time (H) 0032L.01I – Adds board certified psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioners or clinical nurse specialists to the list of medical professionals from whom treatment costs may be compensated
HB51 Walton Gray, Rochelle / Ellington, Brandon 2/5/2015 Referred: Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
HB55 Walton Gray, Rochelle / Ellington, Brandon 1/8/2015 Read Second Time (H) 0271L.01I – Requires St. Louis County, St. Louis City, and Kansas City to post on its internet website how to set up a civilian review board along with other pertinent information
HB56 Walton Gray, Rochelle / Ellington, Brandon 2/5/2015 Referred: Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness 0282L.01I – Requires peace officers to complete a module to determine if they are culturally competent
HB57 Walton Gray, Rochelle / Ellington, Brandon 1/20/2015 Referred: Civil and Criminal Proceedings 0123L.01I – Prohibits additional penalties if a person fails to appear once in a 12-month period in municipal court for a traffic or ordinance violation and prohibits an arrest warrant for two or more failures to appear
HB59 Walton Gray, Rochelle / Ellington, Brandon 2/5/2015 Referred: Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness 0263L.01I – Requires certain disclosures by a person applying for a position as a peace officer
HB62 Walton Gray, Rochelle / Ellington, Brandon 1/20/2015 Referred: Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness 0080L.02I – Requires any officer-involved deaths to be investigated by a law enforcement agency that does not employ a law enforcement officer involved in the death being investigated
HB78 Higdon, Galen / Ellington, Brandon 1/21/2015 Withdrawn (H) 0614H.01I – Creates the Alcohol and Tobacco Control Trust Fund consisting of specified fees collected by the Director of Revenue to be used for the administration and regulation of the liquor control and tobacco laws
HB82 Mims, Bonnaye / Ellington, Brandon 1/8/2015 Read Second Time (H) 0617L.01I – Requires public institutions of higher education to adopt policies on student favoritism
HB83 Curtman, Paul / Ellington, Brandon 1/21/2015 Referred: Utility Infrastructure 0099L.01I – Requires a utility to offer to residential customers on a fixed income the opportunity to pay their utility bill on a reasonable schedule that is adjusted for their periodic receipt of income
HB84 Mims, Bonnaye / Ellington, Brandon 1/22/2015 Withdrawn (H) 0618L.01I – Exempts rental security deposits from attachment and execution in a bankruptcy proceeding
HB86 Walton Gray, Rochelle / Ellington, Brandon 1/20/2015 Referred: Health and Mental Health Policy 0186L.01I – Establishes the Sickle Cell Standing Committee to study and make recommendations regarding the impact of sickle cell disease on urban communities
HB106 Pace, Sharon Ellington, Brandon 1/28/2015 Public Hearing Completed (H) 0406L.01I – Allows misdemeanor offenses for stealing to be expunged
HB154 Gardner, Kimberly / Ellington, Brandon 1/8/2015 Read Second Time (H) 0207L.01I – Establishes the Missouri Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program to provide low-income seniors with fresh Missouri-grown produce
HB157 Gardner, Kimberly / Ellington, Brandon 1/8/2015 Read Second Time (H) 0202L.01I – Prohibits requiring peace officers to issue a specific number of citations within a designated period of time
HB308 Gardner, Kimberly / Ellington, Brandon 1/27/2015 Referred: Civil and Criminal Proceedings 0200L.02I – Requires political subdivisions receiving more than 15% of their annual general operating revenues from traffic fines to send revenues in excess of the threshold to the state school system
HB309 Hubbard, Penny / Ellington, Brandon 1/27/2015 Referred: Civil and Criminal Proceedings 0561H.01I – Designates provisions requiring peace officers’ employment records to be available to hiring law enforcement agencies as the “Tyrone L. Thompson Law”
HB312 McNeil, Margo / Ellington, Brandon 1/8/2015 Read Second Time (H) 0954L.01I – Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to establish a grant program to extend instructional time in underperforming school districts
HB332 Barnes, Jay / Ellington, Brandon 1/29/2015 Referred: Civil and Criminal Proceeding 0713H.01I – Reduces the threshold for the general operating revenue coming from traffic fines for cities, towns, villages, or counties from 30% to 10%
HB708 Hicks, Ron / Ellington, Brandon 1/28/2015 Read Second Time (H) 1589L.02I – Prohibits juveniles certified as adults to stand trial to be detained in an adult jail prior to sentencing or disposition of the case
HJR14 Gardner, Kimberly / Ellington, Brandon 1/8/2015 Read Second Time (H) 0210L.01I – Proposes a constitutional amendment authorizing appropriations from the Lottery Proceeds Fund to be used for early childhood programs
CALENDAR February 9,2015
The Greater Kansas City Reentry Team quarterly meeting will be held Thursday, February 19th 9-11AM at the MCC Pioneer Campus Auditorium, 2700 E 18th St., KCMO. This meeting will include a Reentry Simulation Exercise facilitated by Kori Thiessen, Reentry Affairs Coordinator, at the US Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas. Experience the hidden obstacles and barriers of reentry.
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The Center for Conflict Resolution is hosting an Open House, Thursday February 12th 3-6 PM at their new location, 1734 E 63rd Street, Suite 305, KCMO. For more information check them out on the web at http://ccrkc.org/ or call them at 816-461-8255. CCR was formerly know as the Community Mediation Center.
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Mothers of Incarcerated Sons and Daughters will have their monthly meeting Saturday, February 14th from noon to 2pm, they will not be able to meet at the Library but, please join them on a conference call for their monthly meeting –
DIAL-In Number: (712)432-0265 Access Code: 359452
Feel free to contact Bev Livingston prior the conference call for any announcements or matters of concern prior meeting at 816.337.5876. If you have a loved one that is incarcerated and need advice and support, MISD have members that may be able to help.
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The KCMO Branch NAACP Black History Program scheduled for this Sunday, February 15th has been postponed.
Plan to attend the general membership meeting this Tuesday, February 17th at 6:30 pm at Brush Creek Community Center, Cleveland & Emanuel Cleaver II Blvd, KCMO.
For more Information contact:
Mary Ann, Branch Secretary, 816-421-1191
