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Taxation and Revenue-Property

SB 0537 - Russell - Authorizes the creation of law enforcement districts
SB 0550 - Flotron - Revises burden of proof requirements in state tax cases
SB 0586 - Sims - Provides a homestead exemption from property taxes for totally disabled veterans
SB 0605 - Banks - Allows cities and counties to enact homestead exemption for certain senior citizens
SB 0619 - Rohrbach - Revises requirements and bonded indebtedness for Neighborhood Improvement Districts
SB 0635 - Yeckel - Freezes residential property valuation for senior citizens
SB 0712 - DePasco - Changes the current two-year cycle of reassessment to a four-year cycle
SB 0733 - Maxwell - Increases property tax withholdings for collection costs; reduces state aid deduction for school tax
SB 0762 - Russell - Creates property tax exemption for makers of stamp and die cast products and clarifies liens in such products
SB 0764 - Kenney - Limits or freezes assessed valuation of residential property for certain senior citizens
SB 0785 - Stoll - Makes "recalculated levy" for school districts permanent and revises Line 14 categorical
SB 0802 - Goode - Revises criteria used to evaluate redevelopment projects funded by tax increment financing
SB 0803 - Goode - Revises various utility taxes and authorizes replacement taxes
SB 0842 - Flotron - Numerous provisions relating to public safety
SB 0847 - House - Allows a credit of up to $200 against income tax liability for property taxes paid
SB 0893 - Quick - Payment of real estate taxes are first to be applied to back taxes; escrow accounts are exempt
SB 0894 - Quick - Numerous provisions relating to economic development, taxation and land use law
SB 0896 - Klarich - Modifies law regarding LLC's, LLP's, corporations, financial institutions and other financial arrangements
SB 0898 - Bland - Allows cities and counties to enact homestead exemption for certain senior citizens
SB 0965 - Childers - Creates "County Technology Fund" for purchase of computer hardware and software
SB 0989 - Westfall - Revises state school aid formula, reduces minimum levy to $1.25, increases income tax and sales tax
SB 1040 - Caskey - Revises state school aid formula
SJR 033 - Banks - Exempts property owned by senior citizens from property tax
SJR 046 - Goode - Authorizes replacement taxes for various utility taxes
HB 1088 - Scheve - Changes the assessment of real property to every four years
HB 1156 - Boucher - Freezes assessed value of real property owned by persons 65 years of age and older and used as a principal residence
HB 1159 - Boucher - Makes numerous changes to the income taxes
HB 1174 - Gross - Creates a $150 state income tax credit for property taxes
HB 1175 - Gross - Tightens rollbacks of property tax levy
HB 1176 - Gross - Freezes assessed value of real property used as a residence by person 65 years of age and older
HB 1205 - Bartle - Amends the manner in which assessed valuation is treated in the school foundation formula
HB 1214 - Chrismer - Changes the reassessment cycle for real property to every five years beginning in 2001
HB 1231 - Long - Freezes the assessed value of real property used as a primary residence by persons 65 years of age and older
HB 1238 - Hoppe - Numerous changes concerning urban affairs, taxation and economic programs
HB 1360 - Froelker - Increases the time limit for correcting erroneous property tax assessments to three years
HB 1380 - Pouche - Requires assessment of motor vehicles at seventy percent of trade-in value and a physical inspection of tangible
HB 1423 - Dougherty - Allows municipalities and counties to enact ordinances to allow for abatement of real property taxes on certain
HB 1453 - Luetkenhaus - Changes the reassessment of real property to every fifth year, beginning January 1, 2001
HB 1565 - Hartzler - Creates a homestead exemption for disabled veterans and their surviving spouses
HB 1666 - Wilson - Removes words "real property" from the annual personal property tax statement
HB 1752 - Ballard - Changes school financing
HB 1760 - Summers - Allows counties to assume jurisdiction of pioneer cemeteries and to levy a tax for cemetery maintenance
HB 1803 - Wiggins - Creates the County Technology Fund
HB 1832 - Levin - Eliminates the existing means test and creates new income caps for the circuit breaker
HB 1864 - McClelland - Creates an income tax credit in the amount of ten percent of all real property taxes paid
HB 1870 - Hendrickson - Creates the Missouri Homestead Preservation Act
HB 1990 - Barnett - Allows two citizen members to be voluntarily added by county commissions to county boards of equalization
HB 2011 - Overschmidt - Calculation of real property tax rates in all counties
HB 2015 - Patek - Revises the procedure for approval of proposed agricultural and horticultural productive land values
HB 2059 - Williams (121) - Increases county collectors' fees and funds the tax maintenance fund to be used for administration and
HB 2061 - Lakin - Amends statutes pertaining to the collecting of delinquent real property taxes
HB 2133 - Dougherty - Allows the City of St. Louis to establish a band fund
HB 2149 - Evans - Phases out property tax on motor vehicles
HJR 048 - Chrismer - Proposes constitutional amendment to exempt from property tax all used noncommercial motor vehicles
HJR 049 - Chrismer - Proposes constitutional amendment to require reassessment of residential real property only when title is transferred
HJR 050 - Wright - Proposes constitutional amendment to repeal the personal property tax and to substitute a state sales tax to
HJR 053 - Mays (050) - Proposes a constitutional amendment to replace existing utilty taxes with a replacement tax

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Taxation and Revenue-Sales and Use

SB 0596 - Steelman - Allows tourism tax for New Madrid, New Madrid Co., Stoddard Co., Bloomfield, Caruthersville and St. James
SB 0609 - Staples - Increases authorization for county law enforcement sales tax from one-half of one percent to one percent
SB 0620 - Rohrbach - Repeals boat sales tax exemption and creates Water Safety Fund
SB 0637 - Bland - Authorizes a two-year tax free zone in Kansas City
SB 0644 - Wiggins - Exempts from sales/use tax sales of coffins, caskets, burial cases and burial vaults
SB 0651 - Goode - Specifies that article used in trade-in to offset sales tax must have had tax paid or been exempted from tax
SB 0674 - Childers - Classifies llamas as livestock
SB 0710 - DePasco - Exempts from sales and use tax sales of coffins, caskets, burial cases and burial vaults
SB 0716 - Bentley - Establishes penalty for failure to report video sales tax revenue
SB 0719 - Wiggins - Changes the Kansas and Missouri Metropolitan Culture Dist. to allow funding of sports activities and facilities
SB 0720 - Caskey - Prohibits "grey market" cigarettes
SB 0724 - Rohrbach - Changes several county-level tourism taxes
SB 0783 - Sims - Creating additional enforcement mechanisms for the Director of Revenue to quantify and collect the video rental tax
SB 0789 - Mathewson - Authorizes a sales tax to fund Jail Districts
SB 0801 - Mathewson - Revises several tax credit and economic development programs
SB 0803 - Goode - Revises various utility taxes and authorizes replacement taxes
SB 0827 - Scott - Creates Downtown Revitalization Act for St. Louis
SB 0842 - Flotron - Numerous provisions relating to public safety
SB 0843 - DePasco - Allows local governments to eliminate the sales tax on food
SB 0865 - Goode - Creates the "Community Comeback Act" for eradication of blight and neighborhood revitalization in St. Louis County
SB 0894 - Quick - Numerous provisions relating to economic development, taxation and land use law
SB 0909 - Bland - Exempts food local sales tax and reduces federal income tax deduction, subject to referendum
SB 0913 - Ehlmann - Regulates resale of tickets to certain sporting events and concerts
SB 0924 - Maxwell - Authorizes Kirksville to impose a sales tax for economic development to fund a transportation corporation
SB 0956 - Flotron - Classifies a department or agency of Missouri as an exempt entity for sales tax purposes
SB 0989 - Westfall - Revises state school aid formula, reduces minimum levy to $1.25, increases income tax and sales tax
SB 1007 - Scott - Removes the sunset clause on the transportation sales tax in St. Louis City and the County of St. Louis
SB 1014 - Stoll - Exempts from sales/use tax sales of coke, coke breeze and reagents which become ingredients of steel and lead products
SB 1016 - Jacob - Exempts clothing purchased between August 12, 2000 through August 20, 2000 from state and local sales and use taxation
SB 1026 - Wiggins - Revises placement of Proposition C sales tax revenue from motor vehicles
SB 1040 - Caskey - Revises state school aid formula
SB 1042 - Flotron - Exempts bullion and investment coins from state and local use tax
SB 1061 - DePasco - Repeals tax exemption on jet fuel and creates tax exemption for certain airlines
SB 1065 - Goode - Directs Department of Revenue to work with other states to streamline tax collection and administration
SB 1076 - Ehlmann - Makes numerous changes in laws affecting the City of St. Louis
SCR 029 - Goode - Establishes a study of sales and use taxes to simplify collection
SJR 039 - Childers - Requires General Assembly to revise state school aid revenues and distribution
SJR 046 - Goode - Authorizes replacement taxes for various utility taxes
HB 1290 - Auer - Removes termination date from statute authorizing transportation sales tax for Kansas City, St. Louis and St.
HB 1295 - Gunn - Creates a sales and use tax exemption for sales of clothing with a retail value of less than one thousand dollars
HB 1305 - Rizzo - Numerous changes to local government, economic development, cemetery, waste-handling and housing law
HB 1328 - Kreider - Authorizes certain cities to adopt a sales tax for fire protection or law enforcement
HB 1329 - Auer - Upon voter approval, exempts retail sales of food from local sales tax and replaces the loss of local revenue by
HB 1333 - Abel - Exempts the first five thousand dollars of the purchase price of a new or used motor vehicle from sales and use tax
HB 1340 - Klindt - Allows a hotel and motel tourism tax for the city of Bethany
HB 1357 - Bonner - Allows for appropriation of Truman Sports Complex sales tax revenue to renovation and refurbishment of the Complex
HB 1394 - Murray - Creates a sales and use tax holiday for clothing valued at less than one hundred dollars that is purchased between
HB 1437 - Hickey - Excludes mandatory grauities charged on the sale of food and drink from sales tax
HB 1443 - Koller - Creates several new exemptions; a tax holiday and a Revenue Department Oversight Board
HB 1448 - Froelker - Creates a sales tax holiday for clothing valued at fifty dollars or less which is purchased during the month of
HB 1454 - Hoppe - Redefines an existing sales tax credit for certain food processors
HB 1491 - Shields - Creates a sales and use tax exemption for tangible personal property donated to the state within one year of purchase
HB 1498 - Hendrickson - Creates a sales tax exemption for sales of merchandise used for the disposition of and in connection with the
HB 1567 - Bray - Amends provisions relating to penalties for income and sales tax deficiencies
HB 1606 - Bray - Creates the Community Comeback Act
HB 1652 - Hoppe - Regulates sale of tobacco products
HB 1659 - Summers - Authorizes sales and tourism taxes for certain cities and counties
HB 1684 - Murray - Expands existing fire protection sales tax to all fire protection districts
HB 1690 - Hickey - Reduces the sales and use tax on motor vehicles to two percent
HB 1727 - Hosmer - Allows all fire protection districts to enact a sales tax subject to voter approval
HB 1728 - Backer - Revises how Office of Administration makes purchases and requires agencies to provide services via the Internet
HB 1730 - Patek - Adds llamas to the definition of livestock
HB 1752 - Ballard - Changes school financing
HB 1755 - Froelker - Revises the department of revenue's procedures for income and sales tax refunds and credits
HB 1766 - Williams (159) - Allows all fire protection districts in counties of the third classification to enact a one percent sales tax
HB 1834 - Levin - Exempts from sales and use tax all sales of over-the-counter drugs
HB 1861 - Froelker - Exempts from sales and use tax sales of certain motor vehicles manufactured at least seven years prior to the
HB 1886 - Scheve - Requires one cent of the total sales tax on motor vehicles to go to the school district trust fund
HB 1901 - Gibbons - Extends the statute of limitations for local use tax and other tax refunds
HB 1905 - Abel - Exempts the first five thouand dollars of the sale price of motor vehicles from sales and use tax and replaces lost
HB 1915 - May (108) - Creates the Downtown Revitalization Act
HB 1956 - Gibbons - Requires interest to be paid to taxpayers on both sales and income tax refunds and credits
HB 1960 - Lakin - Creates a sales and use tax exemption for services, materials and supplies used in the production of printed
HB 1963 - Fitzwater - Exempts from sales and use tax all sales for diabetic equipment and supplies
HB 1965 - Berkstresser - Creates penalties for failure to collect the Branson tourism tax
HB 1974 - Selby - Exempts diabetic medical supplies and equipment from sales and use tax
HB 1983 - Evans - Creates a sales and use tax exemption for bullion and investment coins
HB 2026 - Gross - Exempts all sales to companies classified as Sic 152, 153 and 171 to 179 from sales and use tax
HB 2052 - Koller - Allows the general assembly to provide the state highways and transportation commission funding for public transit
HB 2064 - Skaggs - Creates a sales and use tax exemption for aviation jet fuel sales to airlines headquartered in this state which operate
HB 2151 - Griesheimer - Increases the state sales tax by one cent to be used for school purposes and requires a roll-back of property taxes
HCR 011 - Bennett - Requests the state treasurer and the department of revenue to deposit sales tax revenue derived from the rate of one
HJR 053 - Mays (050) - Proposes a constitutional amendment to replace existing utilty taxes with a replacement tax
HJR 066 - Kreider - Proposes a constitutional amendment to increase from fifty to seventy-five the percentage of state sales tax on motor

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Teachers

SB 0562 - Johnson - Includes charter school student performance in school district review
SB 0584 - Bentley - Makes numerous changes to education law and creates several new programs.
SB 0627 - Maxwell - Modifies the retirement annuity of certain Public School Retirement System members
SB 0659 - Childers - Requires state-sponsored professional development events to occur on scheduled days
SB 0690 - Bland - School districts may create after-school and summer educational programs for at-risk youth
SB 0698 - Bland - Requires charter schools to meet all accreditation standards and requirements
SB 0726 - Clay - Establishes good faith employee negotiations for public school employees
SB 0729 - House - Revises laws regarding charter schools, teachers and school boards
SB 0748 - Johnson - Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers
SB 0755 - Stoll - Modification to the Public School Retirement System
SB 0766 - Sims - Revises alternative school laws
SB 0777 - Steelman - Creates MO Engineering and Science Academy and summer program for science teachers
SB 0796 - Jacob - Establishes faculty representatives to governing boards of state colleges and universities
SB 0816 - Stoll - Raises Maximum Benefit in Public School Retirement System
SB 0825 - Jacob - Governing boards of state colleges and universities: Revises non-voting representative and confidentiality provisions
SB 0855 - Kinder - Adds additional eligible sponsors for charter schools
SB 0911 - Stoll - Establishes The Professional Educators' Standards and Practices Board
SB 0919 - House - Revises obsolete education provisions
SB 0933 - Sims - Establishes State Public Charter School Board
SB 0944 - Caskey - Revises prohibitions on drugs and weapons on school premises
SB 0948 - Howard - Requires National Guard to establish pilot public school program to teach military discipline
SB 0961 - Stoll - Revises National Guard Scholarship Program, recognition of veterans
SB 0975 - DePasco - Modifies the Kansas City Public School Retirement System
SB 0987 - Ehlmann - Revises school operations
SB 0989 - Westfall - Revises state school aid formula, reduces minimum levy to $1.25, increases income tax and sales tax
SB 1040 - Caskey - Revises state school aid formula
SB 1062 - Howard - Revises PSRS and NTRS disability benefits for Social Security purposes
HB 1073 - Relford - Changes notice and resolution of teacher certification disciplinary actions
HB 1076 - Relford - Raises minimum teacher salaries, creates a grant program, modifies school testing, affects school financing
HB 1190 - Linton - Allows school boards to permit posting of certain historical documents in schools, regardless of religious
HB 1203 - Dougherty - Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules
HB 1224 - Schilling - Increases minimum teacher salaries
HB 1265 - Clayton - Allows an increase in the retirement allowance for certain retired members of the public school retirement system
HB 1327 - Dougherty - Requires student anger management, conflict resolution and peer mediation training for all undergraduate students in
HB 1408 - Scheve - Establishes reciprocal certification for teachers in adjacent states
HB 1426 - Shields - Establishes the Kansas City education renewal commission
HB 1463 - Franklin - Increases certain retirement benefits for nonteacher school employees
HB 1475 - Hosmer - Establishes a nonvoting faculty member representative for various boards of state colleges and universities
HB 1478 - Fraser - Eliminates the limit on the school year start date
HB 1492 - Shields - Allows for "teacher shortage districts", which could employ up to twenty five percent noncertificated instructional
HB 1523 - Patek - Creates a state income tax credit of up to one hundred dollars for teacher expenditures for instructional
HB 1533 - Patek - Expands the causes for mandatory suspension or expulsion of students
HB 1536 - Patek - Clarifies that teachers are immune from civil liability when reporting violent acts at school
HB 1563 - Patek - Establishes reciprocal inclusion in career ladder plans for teachers from other states
HB 1578 - Shelton (057) - Expands minority teaching scholarships from one hundred to two hundred per year
HB 1599 - Riley - Establishes the Seniors Teaching Students Program Act
HB 1621 - Patek - Establishes reciprocal certification for teachers from other states
HB 1644 - Hagan-Harrell - Revises Public School Retirement System and Non-Teachers Retirement System
HB 1660 - Summers - Authorizes optional retirement program for employees of regional colleges and universities
HB 1686 - Shelton (057) - Establishes a national teacher certification bonus program and fund
HB 1687 - Shelton (057) - Creates an income tax credit of up to two hundred dollars for teacher's purchases of instructional materials for the
HB 1694 - Froelker - Raises minimum teacher salaries to twenty-two thousand dollars; establishes a fund to make up the difference
HB 1709 - McClelland - Establishes a national teacher certification bonus program
HB 1756 - Froelker - Equalizes the tax treatment of individuals receiving Public School Retirement System benefits in lieu of social
HB 1761 - Summers - Changes substitute teacher certification
HB 1784 - Auer - Establishes a teacher cadet program
HB 1792 - Davis - Allows teachers certified in certain life saving areas to obtain additional certification in certain circumstances
HB 1815 - Patek - Allows certain surviving spouses who have remarried to receive retirement benefits
HB 1852 - Auer - Creates grants for public school teachers seeking to purchase homes in the districts in which they teach
HB 1888 - Wilson - Creates a student loan repayment assistance program for teachers
HB 1893 - Barry - Establishes procedures encouraging English proficiency in college professors
HB 1923 - Ransdall - Revises National Guard Scholarship Program, creates tax holiday
HB 1958 - Hampton - Enacts optional minimum teacher salary requirements
HB 1964 - Bray - Enacts the "public Employee Due Process Act"
HB 1996 - Backer - Allows retired teachers to work in school districts with teacher shortages without losing retirement benefits
HB 1997 - Smith (011) - Amends various school safety provisions
HB 1999 - Gambaro - Creates a collaborative action team pilot program in the department of elementary and secondary education
HB 2081 - Hohulin - Permits termination of teacher or school employee contracts if the teacher or employee admits to illegal possession or
HB 2082 - Fraser - Creates a new teacher recruitment and mentoring grant program in the department of elementary and secondary
HB 2113 - Foster - Clarifies that certain school retirees on disability are considered as receiving normal retirement allowances
HCR 035 - Boucher - Urges the Ethiopian government to investigate the imprisonment of Umc graduate Dr. Taye Woldesemayat

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Telecommunications

SB 0583 - Kenney - Regulates Internet access for minors in public libraries and schools
SB 0618 - Rohrbach - Revises contracting for telephone service for inmates
SB 0693 - Maxwell - Regulates telemarketing practices
SB 0721 - Caskey - Establishes and revises several programs for disabled persons
SB 0735 - Singleton - Regulates unsolicited telephone sales calls
SB 0757 - Maxwell - Revises various child protection laws
SB 0758 - Maxwell - Revises laws relating to computer crimes
SB 0763 - Howard - Regulates unsolicited telephone sales calls
SB 0963 - Kenney - Restrictions on telemarketing and establishes a data base for individuals who object to telephone solicitation
SB 1066 - Bland - State colleges and universities to establish telecommunity centers
HB 1172 - Davis - Regulates unsolicited telephone sales calls and electronic mail messages
HB 1177 - Alter - Regulates e-mail and fax merchandising practices
HB 1184 - Campbell - Prohibits operating a cellular telephone in a motor vehicle
HB 1215 - Smith (011) - Changes in statutory provisions dealing with computer crimes
HB 1281 - Boucher - Mandates that Public Service Commission provide telecommunications equipment and access for the hearing and
HB 1366 - Kissell - Creates regulations and penalties for unlawful telemarketing practices
HB 1430 - Schwab - Enacts the consumer telephone privacy act, to be enforced by the attorney general
HB 1440 - Crump - Regulates telemarketing practices
HB 1501 - Gaw - Regulates telemarketing and establishes a no-call telemarketing database in the Office of the Secretary of
HB 1508 - Summers - Increases the penalty for interstate harassment
HB 1633 - Kissell - Establishes a no-call telemarketing database within the office of the attorney general
HB 1634 - Kissell - Regulates unlawful telemarketing practices

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Television

SB 0569 - Clay - Prohibits non-compete clauses in employment contracts within the broadcast industry
SB 1025 - Clay - Prohibits non-compete clauses in employment contracts within the broadcast industry

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Tobacco Products

SB 0548 - Goode - Establishes Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund
SB 0549 - Quick - Establishes Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund
SB 0561 - Johnson - Creates grants for communities with economies dependent on tobacco production
SB 0594 - Bland - Establishes the Tobacco Settlement Fund Commission
SB 0720 - Caskey - Prohibits "grey market" cigarettes
SB 0839 - Jacob - Creates commission to invest tobacco money for health and education
SJR 036 - Flotron - Voters to decide to include tobacco payments in total state revenue or to create trust fund
SJR 047 - Quick - Tobacco settlement funds are not total state revenues; designates uses
SJR 049 - Jacob - Tobacco proceeds deposited into permanent trust or refunded to people
SJR 051 - Flotron - Creates Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund and Alternatives to Abortion Fund
HB 1196 - Hosmer - Allows local governments to increase taxes on cigarettes and tobacco
HB 1215 - Smith (011) - Changes in statutory provisions dealing with computer crimes
HB 1372 - Hosmer - Restricts the affixing of tax stamps to cigarette packages and provides penalties for persons selling or holding for
HB 1433 - Hollingsworth - Prohibits minors from possessing tobacco products
HB 1506 - Van Zandt - Establishes the Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund
HB 1652 - Hoppe - Regulates sale of tobacco products
HB 1699 - Hosmer - Requires retailers who erroneously collect an excessive amount of cigarette tax to refund the overpayment to person
HB 2099 - Gaskill - Prohibits persons less than eighteen years of age from possessing tobacco products
HJR 052 - Hanaway - Proposes constitutional amendment to establish a Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund and to specify uses of moneys in the
HJR 061 - Van Zandt - Tobacco settlement funds are not total state revenues; designates uses
HRM 002 - Evans - Remonstrance on the tobacco settlement

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Tourism

SB 0596 - Steelman - Allows tourism tax for New Madrid, New Madrid Co., Stoddard Co., Bloomfield, Caruthersville and St. James
SB 0636 - Bland - Preserves Walt Disney film studio as historic site
SB 0724 - Rohrbach - Changes several county-level tourism taxes
SB 0936 - Childers - Significant changes to tax, economic development and community development law
SB 0954 - Bentley - Creates a grant program for cultural tourism
SB 1078 - Graves - Establishes the Hardin C. Cox Missouri Information Center
SCR 035 - Graves - Designates the tourist information center on I-29 as the "Hardin C. Cox Missouri Information Center"
HB 1659 - Summers - Authorizes sales and tourism taxes for certain cities and counties
HB 1965 - Berkstresser - Creates penalties for failure to collect the Branson tourism tax
HB 2143 - Levin - Allows areas zoned commercial and industrial to be designated as scenic byways
HCR 009 - May (108) - A concurrent resolution in which the General Assembly finds no justification for further statutory changes relating to

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Transportation

SB 0544 - Staples - Creates a commission to study highway projects and economic development
SB 0624 - Ehlmann - Changes operational control of the St. Louis International Airport
SB 0792 - Sims - Reduces speed limit from 70 mph to 65 mph on rural interstates and freeways
SB 0835 - Staples - Permits police officers to enforce seatbelt law if the violation is clearly visible to the officer
SB 0841 - Jacob - Restricts trucks to 65 mph on rural interstates and freeways and restricts trucks to the right hand lane
SB 0881 - Wiggins - Allows funding for motor pool operations by the Public Mass Transportation Fund in K.C.; reconstitutes K.C. Trans Auth.
SB 0924 - Maxwell - Authorizes Kirksville to impose a sales tax for economic development to fund a transportation corporation
SB 1007 - Scott - Removes the sunset clause on the transportation sales tax in St. Louis City and the County of St. Louis
SB 1017 - Mathewson - Authorizes the issuance of $2 billion in bonds to finance highway construction and maintenance
SB 1061 - DePasco - Repeals tax exemption on jet fuel and creates tax exemption for certain airlines
SB 1073 - Wiggins - Revises method in which the commissioners of the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority are appointed
SB 1079 - Graves - Mandates that commercial motor vehicles be equipped with brakes which do not create excessive noise when in use
SB 1080 - Graves - Repeals the biennial inspection of motor vehicles
SCR 023 - Klarich - Directs Natural Resources Department to assess MBTE contamination of ground & surface water in St. Louis
SJR 037 - Johnson - Suspends Hancock refunds and transfers to the Department of Transportation for highways or the 15-year plan
HB 1096 - Seigfreid - Adopts legislation authorizing toll roads, provided accompanying constitutional change is passed
HB 1285 - Marble - Changes requirements for licenses of motor vehicles
HB 1288 - Scott - Requires the Department of Transportation or the Highways and Transportation Commission, when acquiring land by
HB 1290 - Auer - Removes termination date from statute authorizing transportation sales tax for Kansas City, St. Louis and St.
HB 1339 - Gratz - Adds four members to highway commission, two appointed by speaker and two by president pro tem, to be evenly
HB 1400 - Fitzwater - Creates Transportation Volunteer Insurance Fund
HB 1441 - Koller - Revises the division of motor carrier and railroad safety law
HB 1442 - Koller - Defines dromedary for motor vehicle length restrictions
HB 1447 - Ford - Exempts highway permit for heavy machinery within twenty-five miles
HB 1510 - Champion - Changes the detail base review procedures for state departments
HB 1577 - Patek - Requires the State Highways and Transportation Commission to study the viability of establishing designated truck
HB 1659 - Summers - Authorizes sales and tourism taxes for certain cities and counties
HB 1721 - Ostmann - Eliminates the ten-mile parcel bidding requirement in highway contracts
HB 1742 - Gaw/Koller - Authorizes the issuance of $2 billion in bonds to finance road and bridge construction
HB 1898 - Koller - Requires drug and alcohol testing for motor carriers
HB 1900 - Green - Requires backup devices for certain trucks
HB 1948 - Gratz - Changes law regarding permits for concrete pump trucks, length limits for dromedary units and auto insurance
HB 1989 - Gaw - Designates the portion of Highway 63 located in Randolph County as the "world War Ii Pearl Harbor Survivors Memorial
HB 2018 - Merideth III - Enacts the Missouri Airport Protection Act
HB 2023 - Gibbons - Creates crime of trespass on a school bus and requires phone in bumper stickers for school buses
HB 2024 - Kreider - Authorizes municipalities to regulate speed limits in areas designated as school zones without the consent of the state
HB 2052 - Koller - Allows the general assembly to provide the state highways and transportation commission funding for public transit
HB 2114 - Hoppe - Changes the composition of, and imposes term limits on, the members of the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority
HCR 029 - Graham - Denounces the U.S. Department of Energy's decision to route nuclear waste through Missouri on I-70
HCR 031 - Hollingsworth - Directs the Missouri Department of Revenue to contract for an outside study regarding contributions to the state road
HJR 041 - Seigfreid - Proposes constitutional amendment to allow for toll roads and facilities
HJR 059 - Gratz - Submits to the voters a constitutional amendment to require all would-be Hancock refunds to be used for highway and
HJR 060 - Pryor - Replaces the Highways and Transportation Commission with a Secretary of Transportation

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Transportation Dept.

SB 0544 - Staples - Creates a commission to study highway projects and economic development
SB 0631 - Kenney - Requires those who engage in profession of housemoving to become licensed and obtain permits for moves
SB 0683 - Childers - Imposes an additional fine for speeding in a construction or work zone
SB 0708 - DePasco - Increases penalty for littering
SB 0723 - Goode - Creates Invasive Species Council
SB 0725 - Graves - Allows the Department of Transportation to contract with private individuals to mow the rights-of-way
SB 0876 - Clay - Names a portion of Interstate Highway 55 located in St. Louis County the "Rosa Parks Highway"
SB 1017 - Mathewson - Authorizes the issuance of $2 billion in bonds to finance highway construction and maintenance
SB 1020 - Bentley - Designates a portion of Interstate 44 as the "Payne Stewart Highway"
SB 1036 - Johnson - Authorizes governor and MO Western State College to transfer land to St. Joseph and the Department of Transportation
SB 1076 - Ehlmann - Makes numerous changes in laws affecting the City of St. Louis
SCR 022 - Staples - Names a section of Route 32 in St. Francois County in honor of former State Representative Bob Ward
SCR 025 - DePasco - Relating to littering signs along the highways of the state
SCR 028 - Westfall - Relating to the outdoor advertising industry
SCR 030 - Ehlmann - Relating to highway and transportation bonds
SCR 031 - Clay - Renames a portion of I-55 as the "Rosa Parks Highway"
SCR 034 - Bland - Renames a portion of I-70 as the "Derrick Thomas Memorial Highway"
SJR 037 - Johnson - Suspends Hancock refunds and transfers to the Department of Transportation for highways or the 15-year plan
HB 1104 - Franklin - Appropriations for the Departments of Revenue and Transportation
HB 1142 - Ransdall - Removes fee for a special permit to move oversized loads and requires the repurchasing of certain farm equipment
HB 1252 - Kissell - Increases penalty for speeding in a construction zone
HB 1288 - Scott - Requires the Department of Transportation or the Highways and Transportation Commission, when acquiring land by
HB 1586 - Pryor - Creates the Emergency Bridge Repair and Replacement Fund
HB 1588 - Ostmann - Limits the amount of reimbursement that state agencies and departments can receive from the motor fuel tax fund
HB 1604 - Graham - Authorizes the conveyance of certain state property
HB 1623 - Koller - Revises the division of motor carrier and railroad safety law
HB 1639 - Hollingsworth - Amends the composition of the highways and transportation commission
HB 1645 - Luetkenhaus - Changes traffic regulations for large trucks
HB 1691 - Hickey - Authorizes a Lambert-St. Louis Airport noise study and a Lambert Airport noise buyout fund
HB 1714 - Howerton - Specifies that the department of transportation, in consultation with the highway patol and the division of
HB 1721 - Ostmann - Eliminates the ten-mile parcel bidding requirement in highway contracts
HB 1742 - Gaw/Koller - Authorizes the issuance of $2 billion in bonds to finance road and bridge construction
HB 1841 - Kreider - Designates kudzu, cut-leaved teasel and common teasel as noxious weeds
HB 1881 - Auer - Includes all principal arterial roads in the City of St. Louis in the state road system for maintenance purposes
HB 1898 - Koller - Requires drug and alcohol testing for motor carriers
HB 1922 - Koller - Designates the portion of interstate highway 64 which is located in St. Louis as the "kurt Warner Rams Road"
HB 1948 - Gratz - Changes law regarding permits for concrete pump trucks, length limits for dromedary units and auto insurance
HB 1951 - Crawford - Exempts certain transportation of farm products from oversize load permits
HB 2018 - Merideth III - Enacts the Missouri Airport Protection Act
HB 2024 - Kreider - Authorizes municipalities to regulate speed limits in areas designated as school zones without the consent of the state
HB 2069 - O'Toole - Creates a deferred retirement option program for certain state retirement systems
HB 2101 - Chrismer - Designates the Page Avenue Bridge as the Veterans' Memorial Bridge
HB 2132 - Chrismer - Renames the Page Ave. bridge the Veterans' Memorial Bridge
HB 2143 - Levin - Allows areas zoned commercial and industrial to be designated as scenic byways
HB 2159 - Froelker - Clarifies the definition of "medical insurance plan" by including Hmos
HCR 017 - Riley - Renames a Kansas City stretch of I-70 from the Blue Ridge Cut Off to Hwy. 291 the "Derrick Thomas Memorial Highway"
HCR 025 - Bennett - Limits the total dollar amount of highway bonds issued for highway construction and repair to one billion dollars
HCR 031 - Hollingsworth - Directs the Missouri Department of Revenue to contract for an outside study regarding contributions to the state road
HJR 055 - Graham - Proposes a constitutional amendment to submit to the voters the issue of whether to deposit excess revenues to the
HJR 066 - Kreider - Proposes a constitutional amendment to increase from fifty to seventy-five the percentage of state sales tax on motor
HJR 068 - Gratz - Proposes a constitutional amendment changing the composition of the Highways and Transportation Commission

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Treasurer, State

SB 0540 - Mathewson - Creates the State Fair Fee Fund
SB 0548 - Goode - Establishes Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund
SB 0549 - Quick - Establishes Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund
SB 0567 - Clay - Creates right of compensation for wrongful imprisonment
SB 0687 - Bland - Establishes the General Assembly Scholarship Program funded by a nonresident earnings tax
SB 0784 - Sims - Requires the state auditor to review the deposit and disbursement of state funds
SB 0787 - Childers - Establishes an ambulance district fund and revises the current funding mechanism for the fire education fund
SB 0839 - Jacob - Creates commission to invest tobacco money for health and education
SB 0925 - Caskey - Creates the Missouri Production Agricultural Advocates Office and the Missouri Multicultural Center and Program
SJR 030 - Schneider - Revises the composition and duties of the Missouri Citizens' Commission on the Compensation for Elected Officials
SJR 036 - Flotron - Voters to decide to include tobacco payments in total state revenue or to create trust fund
SJR 049 - Jacob - Tobacco proceeds deposited into permanent trust or refunded to people
SJR 051 - Flotron - Creates Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund and Alternatives to Abortion Fund
HB 1411 - Stokan - Establishes the Assistive Technology Loan Program and creates a revolving fund to provide loans for the purchase
HB 1428 - Hickey - Establishes a memorial on the Capitol grounds for workers killed or injured on the job in the state
HB 1506 - Van Zandt - Establishes the Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund
HB 1875 - Franklin - Allows state to withhold moneys from political subdivisions until costs of an audit are paid
HJR 061 - Van Zandt - Tobacco settlement funds are not total state revenues; designates uses

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Unemployment Compensation

SB 0670 - Ehlmann - Creates the Community Partnership Program Pilot Project to address poverty issues and promote local volunteerism
SB 0751 - Clay - Birth and adoption Unemployment Compensation Program
SB 1075 - Jacob - Denies benefits to anyone unemployed due to a listing on a state disqualification registry
HB 1461 - Hegeman - Prevents substitute teachers who have withdrawn from a district's substitute list from drawing unemployment

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Uniform Laws

SB 0604 - Wiggins - Substantially revises Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code concerning secured transactions
HB 1352 - Auer - Codifies the valuation of life insurance policies model regulation

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Urban Redevelopment

SB 1037 - Bentley - Authorizes removal of property from the Springfield Community Improvement District
HB 1706 - Gambaro - Expands allowable costs under the Brownfield program and provides for a demolition tax credit

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Utilities

SB 0612 - Goode - Requires sellers of energy services to certify with the Public Service Commission to collect and remit taxes
SB 0618 - Rohrbach - Revises contracting for telephone service for inmates
SB 0693 - Maxwell - Regulates telemarketing practices
SB 0721 - Caskey - Establishes and revises several programs for disabled persons
SB 0727 - Goode - Revises sunset on closure of certain municipal utility records
SB 0735 - Singleton - Regulates unsolicited telephone sales calls
SB 0745 - Goode - Increases penalties for violations of utility laws
SB 0763 - Howard - Regulates unsolicited telephone sales calls
SB 0781 - Goode - Establishes retail electric customer choice
SB 0803 - Goode - Revises various utility taxes and authorizes replacement taxes
SB 0819 - Maxwell - Establishes retail electric customer choice
SB 0848 - Stoll - Enacts Missouri Retail Customer and Worker Protection Act
SB 0868 - Stoll - Allows Board of Trustees to be responsible for certain county sewer districts
SB 0882 - Flotron - Establishes retail electric consumer choice
SB 1035 - Westfall - Authorizes a municipality to use condemnation to acquire natural gas service
SB 1049 - Caskey - Prohibits water companies from charging one service area for plant costs in another area
SJR 046 - Goode - Authorizes replacement taxes for various utility taxes
HB 1172 - Davis - Regulates unsolicited telephone sales calls and electronic mail messages
HB 1326 - Mays (050) - Increases penalties for violations of utility laws
HB 1414 - O'Toole - Establishes a mandatory one-call notification system for excavations
HB 1415 - Mays (050) - Replaces existing taxes on electricity and natural gas with a tax based on consumption
HB 1778 - Mays (050) - Enacts the "electric Utility Restructuring Act"
HB 1842 - Burton - Establishes a framework for restructuring and deregulating electric utilities
HB 1878 - Burton - Establishes a two-year rate review process for water corporations providing private fire service
HB 1895 - Mays (050) - Establishes a framework for restructuring and deregulating utilities
HJR 053 - Mays (050) - Proposes a constitutional amendment to replace existing utilty taxes with a replacement tax

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Veterans

SB 0586 - Sims - Provides a homestead exemption from property taxes for totally disabled veterans
SB 0647 - Russell - Exempts retired members of the armed services from paying personalized license plate fee
SB 0692 - Kinder - Requires veterans' homes to ensure that the spiritual needs of veterans are met
SB 0731 - Bentley - Allows Purple Heart recipients to receive free registration and specialized license plates
SB 0765 - Kenney - Allows individuals to obtain POW/MIA specialized license plates
SB 0832 - Childers - Allows owners of different classes of motor vehicles to apply for Korean War Veteran license plates
SB 0890 - Howard - Provides a one-time tax credit to eligible veterans of World War II
SB 0902 - Mathewson - Changes certain licensing and enforcement procedures for excursion gambling boats
SB 0903 - Flotron - Establishes the "Missouri Veterans' Business Council" within the Department of Economic Development
SB 0961 - Stoll - Revises National Guard Scholarship Program, recognition of veterans
SB 0985 - Maxwell - Authorizes the conveyance of a small part of the property of the Mexico Veterans home
SR 1106 - Flotron - Relating to contributing funds to help build the National World War II Memorial
HB 1139 - Ward - Establishes Veterans' Service Bonus Fund for World War Ii veterans, to be funded from gaming commission fund
HB 1157 - Boucher - Provides a bonus for World War Ii veterans
HB 1185 - Gratz - Authorizes conveyance of certain Lincoln University property to Jefferson City and part of Mexico Veterans Home property
HB 1209 - Patek - Creates the World War Ii Memorial Trust Fund and allows five million dollars in tax credits for qualified
HB 1271 - Chrismer - Authorizes a bonus for military veterans
HB 1272 - Chrismer - Exempts military pensions from state income tax
HB 1273 - Chrismer - Requires the General Assembly to appropriate funds for the World War Ii Memorial in Washington, D.c
HB 1274 - Chrismer - Exempts income received for active or reserve military service from income tax
HB 1275 - Chrismer - Extends the requirement to display the United States and Pow/mia flags to all state buildings
HB 1313 - Luetkemeyer - Establishes mandatory observance of Veterans' Day in state schools
HB 1389 - Blunt - Exempts military pensions from state income tax
HB 1429 - Schwab - Requires veteran's homes to ensure that the spiritual needs of veterans are met
HB 1445 - Gratz - Appropriates one dollar for every Missourian who served in the military during World War Ii to the National World War
HB 1565 - Hartzler - Creates a homestead exemption for disabled veterans and their surviving spouses
HB 1604 - Graham - Authorizes the conveyance of certain state property
HB 1750 - Patek - Requires all gambling boats to be located at least five miles from the nearest veteran's cemetery
HB 1823 - Scott - Waives renewal fees for military medal and prisoner of war special license plates
HB 1863 - Black - Creates an American Legion special license plate
HB 1908 - Sallee - Provides a four hundred dollar bonus for Missouri veterans of World War Ii
HB 2132 - Chrismer - Renames the Page Ave. bridge the Veterans' Memorial Bridge
HCR 027 - Ross - Urges the United States Congress to provide lifetime health insurance benefits to military retirees over the age of

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Veterinarians

SB 0756 - Caskey - Revises certain fees and provisions of the Animal Care Facilities Act
HB 2105 - Van Zandt - Creates the animal shelter grant fund
HB 2112 - Hegeman - Creates the large animal veterinary medicine loan repayment program

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Victims of Crime

SB 0632 - Childers - Provides civil immunity to certain crime victims for injuries to perpetrator
SB 1068 - Singleton - Courts may fine public employee up to $5000 for failure to enforce rights of crime victims
HB 1243 - Wright - Requires Governor to notify victim's family when death sentence is commuted
HB 1276 - Thompson - Provides a restitutionary cause of action for wrongful imprisonment
HB 1289 - Auer - Gives local street departments right to copies of law enforcement accident and incident reports
HB 1353 - Farnen - Opens coroner's reports to any person involved in a fatal accident
HB 1452 - Foley - Payments to Holocaust survivors exempted from tax and from determination of eligibility for public assistance
HB 1582 - Froelker - Provides for the distribution of the tort victims' compensation fund
HB 1794 - Britt - Allows donations to a county law enforcement fund as a condition of probation
HB 2126 - Kelly (027) - Amends the victims' compensation fund to increase compensation for loss of earnings and to exclude life

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Vital Statistics

SB 1034 - Steelman - Allows the release of birth and death records after a certain length of time
HB 1919 - Tudor - Allows birth parents to request that the birth records of their child be kept confidential
HB 2050 - Pouche - Requires the department to provide the State Archives with microfilms of vital statistic records more than seventy-two

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Waste-Hazardous

SB 0577 - Maxwell - Revises hazardous waste laws
SB 1064 - Maxwell - Revises fees on hazardous waste, solid waste and commercial vehicles

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Waste-Solid

SB 0983 - Goode - Establishes a fee structure for fees collected for waste water treatment
SB 1003 - Wiggins - Requires regulation of on-site sewage treatment systems
SB 1064 - Maxwell - Revises fees on hazardous waste, solid waste and commercial vehicles
HB 1305 - Rizzo - Numerous changes to local government, economic development, cemetery, waste-handling and housing law

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Water Patrol

SB 0711 - DePasco - Prohibits the recreational use of two-stroke carbureted marine engines upon Missouri waters

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Water Resources and Water Districts

SB 0741 - Maxwell - Revises water resource laws
SB 0983 - Goode - Establishes a fee structure for fees collected for waste water treatment
SB 1049 - Caskey - Prohibits water companies from charging one service area for plant costs in another area
HB 1074 - Relford - Authorizes bonds for water pollution and stormwater control; sewer line fees
HB 1927 - Wiggins - Revises water pollution permit requirements and permit fees
HB 1930 - Hoppe - Requires municipalities with municipally-owned water companies to come to service agreements with any
HB 1931 - Hoppe - States that all debt of a water district shall be included as an existing obligation of such district for all purposes

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Weapons

SB 0532 - Wiggins - Bans assault weapons
SB 0657 - Childers - Modifies provisions relating to the hunting or release of wildlife
SB 0704 - Kinder - Prohibits political subdivisions from suing firearms manufacturers for sale or marketing to public
SB 0737 - House - Requires that 100% time served for any felony committed with the aid of a weapon
SB 0773 - Caskey - Allows certain individuals to carry concealed weapons
SB 0944 - Caskey - Revises prohibitions on drugs and weapons on school premises
SB 1067 - Bland - Requires manufacturers to install trigger locking device on certain firearms

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Weights and Measures

SB 0705 - Maxwell - Eliminates fees for inspection of certain measuring devices
HB 1601 - Leake - Requires sellers of motor fuel to label oxygenate additives
HB 1701 - Seigfreid - Eliminates fees for inspection of certain measuring devices

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Workers Compensation

SB 0641 - Schneider - Modifies certain provisions of the Second Injury Fund
SB 0666 - Russell - Allows non-attorneys to represent themselves before certain state agencies
SB 0714 - Schneider - Changes interest calculations for workers' compensation payments
SB 0734 - Stoll - Revises child labor laws regarding youth sporting events
SB 0840 - Jacob - Allows insurers to take a tax credit on the taxes they pay on net premiums under the workers' compensation statute
SB 0878 - Schneider - Modifies certain provisions of the Second Injury Fund and interest payments in workers' claims
HB 1259 - Ridgeway - Redefines "owner" in workers' compensation statutes
HB 1280 - Clayton - Provides for the distribution of the tort victims' compensation fund
HB 1582 - Froelker - Provides for the distribution of the tort victims' compensation fund
HB 1933 - Harlan - Allows insurance carriers to apply tax credits received under the Neighborhood Assistance against their liability
HB 2138 - Secrest - Enacts various changes to worker's compensation laws
HB 2139 - Secrest - Revises certain employment laws
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