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Taxation and Revenue-Property

SB 0040 - Klarich - Limits or freezes assessed valuation of real property under specified conditions
SB 0079 - Goode - Revises criteria used to evaluate redevelopment projects funded by tax increment financing in certain areas
SB 0080 - Goode - Revises various utility taxes
SB 0173 - Bland - Allows cities and counties to enact a homestead exemption for certain senior citizens
SB 0175 - Bland - Requires posting of notice of tax sale to include information concerning debt secured by property being sold
SB 0176 - Bland - Revises procedures for payment of delinquent property taxes
SB 0204 - House - Exempts residential property owned by the elderly from certain increases in assessed valuation
SB 0208 - Sims - Provides property tax relief for disabled veterans
SB 0224 - Russell - Authorizes the creation of law enforcement districts in Camden County funded with property tax
SB 0249 - Wiggins - New baseball stadium in St. Louis; funding for several stadiums in Kansas City & St. Louis
SB 0281 - Yeckel - Freezes residential property valuation for senior citizens
SB 0307 - Jacob - Modifies the delinquent date for property and personal taxes
SB 0347 - Caskey - Sets aside a portion of property taxes for GIS systems & re- quires counties to pay PILOTS for county-purchased property
SB 0376 - Childers - Funds programs within Division of Fire Safety, allows fire district sales tax and property tax reduction
SB 0408 - Dougherty - Allows partial abatement of real property taxes for certain purposes
SB 0430 - Dougherty - Allows St. Louis City to levy property tax for musical services
SB 0463 - Westfall - Revises state school aid formula
SB 0487 - Yeckel - Counties will make payments in lieu of taxes for certain real property acquired by the county
SB 0494 - Stoll - Increases property tax withholdings for collection costs; reduces state aid deduction for school tax
SB 0523 - Scott - Expands power of sports authority to construct and finance a new major league baseball stadium in St. Louis
SB 0534 - Childers - Allows ambulance and fire protection districts to impose sales tax and subsequent property tax rate decrease
SB 0562 - Gibbons - Allows a tax credit for county vehicle property taxes paid
SB 0582 - Yeckel - Allows counties to give discounts for pre-payment of property taxes
SB 0584 - Yeckel - Freezes residential property valuation for senior citizens at local option
SB 0610 - Westfall - Modifies law relating to county collectors and the county commission of Clay County
SJR 008 - Steelman - Presents dual questions regarding tobacco settlement funds
HB 0040 - Gaskill - Prohibits the department of revenue from conditioning the property and pharmaceutical tax credits on the filing of a
HB 0075 - Scheve - Freezes the assessed value of certain real property owned by persons 65 years of age and older which is used as a
HB 0103 - Bearden - Creates an income tax credit for certain amounts paid by individual residents for property taxes
HB 0127 - Bearden - Freezes the assessed value of certain real property owned by persons 65 years of age and older which is used as a
HB 0137 - Hosmer - Requires counties to allow elderly, disabled and low income persons to pay current real and personal property taxes
HB 0170 - Froelker - Increases the state of limitations for contesting erroneously paid state taxes from one to three years, and
HB 0232 - Dougherty - Allows the City of St. Louis to establish a band fund
HB 0233 - Dougherty - Creates an income tax credit for owners of real estate which contains a child-occupied facility or dwelling which
HB 0290 - Troupe - Requires a biennial audit of the St. Louis City School District
HB 0307 - Wiggins - Modifies the delinquent date for property and personal taxes
HB 0344 - Graham - Creates a state income tax credit for all personal property taxes paid by active duty military personnel
HB 0389 - Portwood - Phases out the personal property tax on motor vehicles if funding is appropriated from the tobacco settlement trust
HB 0390 - Portwood - Creates the Missouri Homestead Act
HB 0448 - Luetkenhaus - Changes the reassessment cycle for real property taxation from every two to every four years
HB 0450 - Myers - Requires the payment of all delinquent property taxes on real estate in order to obtain title by adverse possession
HB 0482 - Luetkenhaus - Freezes the assessed value of certain real property owned by persons 65 years of age and older which is used as a
HB 0494 - Levin - Increases the maximum property tax credit for the elderly to two thousand dollars and increases eligibility for the
HB 0553 - Barnett - Gives county commissioners the option to appoint two additional members to a county's board of equalization. The
HB 0556 - Hendrickson - Creates "the Missouri Homestead Preservation Act."
HB 0611 - Wiggins - A portion of property tax collections shall be used for a geographic information system (gis)
HB 0649 - Shields - Authorizes school districts to adopt a voter-approved supplemental income tax for the purpose of reducing
HB 0655 - Marble - Allows second class counties to collect a fee of one-fourth of one percent on current taxes collected
HB 0676 - Mays (050) - Regulates the transfer of utility generation assets; amends utility taxation and rate laws
HB 0689 - Hoppe - Authorizes fire protection districts to impose a voter-approved sales tax which shall result in a property
HB 0855 - Willoughby - Modifies costs due upon purchase or redemption of tax-deliquent property
HB 0884 - Kelly (036) - Requires proof city property tax (where applicable) has been paid before registration of motor vehicle
HB 0982 - Selby - Creates property tax abatement program for volunteer firefighters
HB 1021 - Murphy - Requires a certificate of value to be filed with certain transfers of real property

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Taxation and Revenue-Sales and Use

SB 0014 - Mathewson - Authorizes a sales tax to fund jail districts
SB 0061 - Steelman - Authorizes countywide education sales taxes
SB 0076 - Wiggins - Extends the termination date on the Kansas City public transportation sales tax from 2001 to 2003
SB 0080 - Goode - Revises various utility taxes
SB 0103 - Bland - Exempts local food sales tax and reduces federal income tax deduction, subject to referendum
SB 0140 - Goode - Specifies that article used in trade-in to offset sales tax must have had tax paid or been exempted from tax
SB 0141 - Childers - Designates llamas as livestock
SB 0147 - Wiggins - Exempts the sale of coffins, caskets, burial cases and burial vaults from sales/use tax
SB 0195 - Schneider - Requires retailers to return sales tax refunds to those paying the tax
SB 0198 - Staples - Authorizes Ripley, Oregon and Shannon counties to impose a law enforcement sales tax of up to one percent
SB 0203 - Scott - Exempts food from the sales tax imposed by the metropolitan park and recreation system
SB 0218 - Russell - Sales and use tax exemptions for railroads
SB 0221 - Westfall - Exempts retailers from sales tax for inventory donated to private or public education entities
SB 0228 - Jacob - Exempts clothing purchased in early August, 2001 from state and local sales and use taxation
SB 0230 - Childers - Authorizes Taney, Stone, Barry and Ozark counties to impose a sales tax for economic development programs
SB 0231 - Gross - Allows local governments to eliminate the local sales tax on food
SB 0234 - Wiggins - Exempts certain interstate telecommunications services from sales taxes
SB 0238 - Staples - Revises the Tourism Supplemental Revenue Fund
SB 0249 - Wiggins - New baseball stadium in St. Louis; funding for several stadiums in Kansas City & St. Louis
SB 0277 - Sims - Modifies distribution of local excursion gambling boat taxes within St. Louis County
SB 0286 - Mathewson - Increases sales tax to fund transportation projects and requires director to be elected rather than appointed
SB 0323 - Childers - Authorizes certain political subdivisions to enact a sales tax, upon voter approval, for specific purposes
SB 0334 - Kinder - Establishes sales tax holiday and requires retailers to return sales tax refunds to those paying the tax
SB 0352 - Johnson - Defines terms relating to the capital improvements sales tax in certain municipalities
SB 0376 - Childers - Funds programs within Division of Fire Safety, allows fire district sales tax and property tax reduction
SB 0386 - Singleton - Adds a tax on the sale of certain tobacco products to fund the Missouri Pharmaceutical Assistance Program
SB 0460 - Klarich - Technical clarifications to sales and use tax exemption for bullion and investment coins
SB 0463 - Westfall - Revises state school aid formula
SB 0523 - Scott - Expands power of sports authority to construct and finance a new major league baseball stadium in St. Louis
SB 0524 - Cauthorn - Creates a sales tax exemption for materials used in the construction of agricultural fencing
SB 0534 - Childers - Allows ambulance and fire protection districts to impose sales tax and subsequent property tax rate decrease
SB 0545 - Johnson - Authorizes a museum and festivals sales tax in Buchanan County
SB 0566 - Gibbons - Exempts state departments from sales tax for purposes of facilities construction, repair and remodeling
SB 0567 - Gross - Exempts movie tickets from state and local sales taxes
SB 0604 - Jacob - Provides funding for fire safety programs and removes liability for donated fire equipment
SB 0620 - Gibbons - Allows participation in multistate cooperative agreement for sales & use tax administration
SJR 005 - Childers - Requires General Assembly to revise state school aid revenues and distribution
SJR 015 - Westfall - Amends the Constitution so that 100% of the sales tax on motor vehicles is used for transportation purposes
HB 0041 - Bonner - Enacts various laws regarding sports authorities in certain counties
HB 0047 - Relford - Authorizes a sales tax for regional jail and court facilities
HB 0080 - Ross - Authorizes multijurisdictional antifraud enforcement groups; makes various other changes in law enforcement and crimes
HB 0114 - Hickey - Excludes charges of mandatory gratuities incident to the serving of food and drink from the definition of gross
HB 0116 - Hickey - Reduces the sales tax rate on sales and leases of motor vehicles from four percent to two percent
HB 0131 - Holand - Authorizes school districts to impose a surcharge on their residents' income
HB 0140 - Hosmer - Authorizes the governing body of any fire protection district or municipal fire department, upon voter approval,
HB 0172 - Froelker - Creates a sales and use tax holiday for all retail sales of clothing with a taxable value of twenty dollars or less
HB 0186 - Troupe - Creates a sales and use tax holiday for clothing purchased before the start of the 2001-2002 school year
HB 0189 - Bonner - Allows the state sales tax revenue generated at the Truman Sports Complex to be allocated toward the renovation of the
HB 0240 - Smith (011) - Creates a sales and use tax exemption for all sales of materials purchased for use in the construction of fencing
HB 0242 - Smith (011) - Authorizes several cities and counties to impose tourism taxes
HB 0286 - Smith (011) - Requires that incorrectly collected asles and use taxes ultimately be refunded to the consumer or remain in general
HB 0287 - Williams (121) - Regulates private jails
HB 0321 - Skaggs - Extends the termination date on the Kansas City public transportation sales tax from 2001 to 2003
HB 0480 - Thompson - Eliminates the local sales and use tax on food and replaces lost local revenue by reducing the state income tax
HB 0488 - Koller - Authorizes a variety of local sales taxes for tourism and economic development purposes
HB 0522 - Koller - Creates a sales and use tax exemption for sales of feed and equipment used to produce pheasants, partridges and quail,
HB 0550 - Van Zandt - Creates a local sales and use tax exemption for services, materials and supplies used in the production of printed
HB 0576 - Willoughby - Authorizes the general assembly, for 2001, to make a one-time transfer of up to five million dollars to the
HB 0578 - Luetkenhaus - Authorizes ambulance districts to impose a sales tax of up to 1/4 of 1 percent
HB 0594 - Kennedy - Expands the sales tax exemption for telecommunication services
HB 0615 - Koller - Increases the maximum allowable local sales tax for law enforcement from one-half of one percent to one percent
HB 0628 - Hendrickson - Creates a sales and use tax exemption for merchandise purchased for use in connection with a funeral, burial or
HB 0642 - Relford - Authorizes a sales tax to fund jail districts; state to pay medical costs of state prisoners in county jails
HB 0689 - Hoppe - Authorizes fire protection districts to impose a voter-approved sales tax which shall result in a property
HB 0694 - Berkstresser - Authorizes Taney, Stone, Barry and Ozark counties to enact a sales tax to fund county economic development programs
HB 0706 - Bonner - Authorizes cities imposing a storm water, capitol improvement or transportation sales tax to impose a sales
HB 0717 - Burton - Creates a sales and use tax exemption for sales of natural gas to industrial and commercial customers for the months
HB 0719 - Bray - Amends provisions of law governing income and sales tax deficiencies
HB 0726 - Selby - Funds the fire education fund with state revenues derived from the state portion of sales tax levied on fireworks
HB 0734 - Ostmann - Eliminates transfers from state highways and transportation department fund over a three year period
HB 0803 - Bray - Implements simplified sales and use tax administration act
HB 0816 - Kennedy - Replaces oath requirement with signature requirement for making claim for certain tax refunds
HB 0818 - Kennedy - Exempts coffins, caskets, and urns from the state sales tax
HB 0825 - Kennedy - Exempts bullion and investment coin from local sales taxes
HB 0837 - Foley - Expands the powers of the Greater St. Louis Sports Authority
HB 0844 - Liese - Authorizes bed tax in certain cities and counties for purposes of supporting a convention, visitor and tourist
HB 0886 - Kelly (144) - Exempts the sale of coffins, caskets, burial cases, burial vaults and clothing used for burial from sales/use tax
HB 0933 - Reid - Clarifies that sales tax applies to sale and lease of motor vehicles and motorcycles
HB 0957 - Harding - Allows city of Parkville to impose a transient guest tax
HB 0994 - Berkstresser - Creates sales tax exemption for railway excursions
HB 1022 - Kennedy - Exempts movie tickets from state and local sales taxes
HB 1025 - Kreider - Creates tax holiday each August between 2001 and 2003
HJR 016 - Reid - Constitutional amendment to reallocate the state sales tax on motor vehicles, excluding the dedicated to conservation

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Teachers

SB 0023 - Singleton - Allows voter approval of charter schools in a school district
SB 0053 - Bland - Requires charter schools to meet all accreditation standards and requirements
SB 0056 - Stoll - Renames A+ Schools Program as "Mel Carnahan A+ Schools Program"
SB 0061 - Steelman - Authorizes countywide education sales taxes
SB 0084 - Singleton - Allows public school choice within a school district
SB 0101 - Childers - Requires state-sponsored professional development events for teachers to occur on scheduled days
SB 0108 - Steelman - Creates MO Engineering and Science Academy and summer program for science teachers
SB 0133 - Steelman - University of Missouri-Rolla may sponsor charter schools
SB 0153 - Bland - School districts may create after-school and summer educational programs for at-risk youth
SB 0262 - Stoll - Establishes reciprocity for required courses in American history and institutions
SB 0263 - Stoll - Establishes excess benefit plan in school retirement systems
SB 0316 - Stoll - Requires school retirement systems to promulgate joint rules
SB 0332 - Westfall - Allows student participation in events of certain organizations during school hours
SB 0364 - Jacob - Establishes faculty representatives to governing boards of state colleges and universities
SB 0413 - Scott - Revises St. Louis Public School Retirement System laws
SB 0438 - Bentley - Revises teacher compensation
SB 0463 - Westfall - Revises state school aid formula
SB 0466 - Dougherty - Adopts a national teacher certification incentive reward program and fund
SB 0480 - Foster - Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers
SB 0483 - Dougherty - Salary schedule credit for public schools
SB 0510 - Kenney - Revises charter school laws
SB 0512 - House - Revises Charter School Laws
SB 0607 - Johnson - Establishes an alternative teacher certification program
SB 0614 - Gross - Allows A+ Schools reimbursement for students attending four year institutions
SB 0616 - Steelman - Requires school districts to provide phonics instruction
HB 0029 - Wilson - Provides bonuses for teachers who either receive national certification or act as mentors in approved teacher
HB 0081 - Relford - Restricts the ability of persons with criminal histories from obtaining or maintaining teacher certificates
HB 0164 - Troupe - Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules
HB 0174 - Froelker - Allows certain surviving spouses of Public School Retirement System members to receive remaining benefits
HB 0226 - Gaskill - Creates a state income tax credit of up to one hundred dollars for teachers who purchase materials for their
HB 0264 - Linton - Allows the posting of American historical documents regardless of religious content
HB 0271 - Fraser - Allows grants for new teacher mentoring programs
HB 0300 - Ostmann - Creates incentives for national teacher certification
HB 0351 - Hosmer - Promotes higher education community service learning programs
HB 0352 - Hosmer - Promotes elementary and secondary community service learning programs
HB 0377 - Fraser - Increases from 60 to 75 the number of days a retired teacher may work for the school system on a part-time or
HB 0385 - Franklin - Makes several changes to public school retirement systems
HB 0386 - Franklin - Authorizes the Public School Retirement System to establish certain benefit plans
HB 0413 - Hegeman - Prevents substitute teachers who have withdrawn from a district's substitute list from drawing unemployment
HB 0427 - Hampton - Adopts a new voluntary five-level minimum teacher salary plan
HB 0429 - Kelly (036) - Allows retired teachers to work in school districts with teacher shortages without losing retirement benefits
HB 0475 - Froelker - Increases minimum teachers' salaries
HB 0505 - Johnson - Adopts a national teacher certification incentive program and fund
HB 0519 - Froelker - Increases the multiplier for Public School Retirement System benefits for members with over 30 years creditable
HB 0535 - Bowman - Requires foreign language instruction in every elementary school
HB 0536 - Bowman - Requires personal finance instruction prior to graduation for every public high school student
HB 0598 - Shelton (057) - Creates incentives for special education teachers
HB 0625 - Treadway - Adopts national certification bonuses for teachers, speech language pathologists and audiologists
HB 0658 - Hagan-Harrell - Allows for optional year-round school calendars
HB 0660 - Hagan-Harrell - Makes various changes in the Public School Retirement System
HB 0665 - Shields - Immunizes teachers in public schools from tort liability for reporting violent acts of students
HB 0667 - Shields - Creates an income tax credit for up to two hundred and fifty dollars of a public school teacher's out-of-pocket
HB 0668 - Shields - Increases minimum teachers' salaries
HB 0751 - Kennedy - Creates state income tax credits for expenditures of teachers for instructional materials for the classroom
HB 0754 - Franklin - Establishes teacher salary supplements for national board teacher certification
HB 0769 - Harlan - Makes personally-identifiable Higher Education Savings Program records confidential
HB 0775 - Bray - Defines rights and liabilities surrounding student publications sponsored by public schools
HB 0795 - Copenhaver - Establishes The Professional Educators' Standards and Practices Board
HB 0814 - Shields - Provides for reciprocal interstate teacher certification and fast-track teacher certification
HB 0859 - Hilgemann - Establishes housing grant program for new public school teachers
HB 0872 - Naeger - Transportation of certain nonpublic school students
HB 0925 - Walton - Creates an After School Retreat Grant Program and Fund
HB 0934 - Graham - Changes the public school retirement benefits for divorced members
HB 0940 - Ballard - Prohibits scheduling of certain teacher activities during the regular school day
HB 0981 - Willoughby - Grants immunity for teachers; waives sovereign immunity for workers' comp, family leave
HCR 023 - Holand - Urges Congress to rescind the Windfall Elimination Provision of the Social Security Act

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Telecommunications

SB 0042 - Kenney - Regulates Internet access for minors; creates summer academy at UMR; and modifies child care program safety requirements
SB 0070 - Loudon - Prohibits certain fraudulent use of the Internet
SB 0154 - Bland - State colleges and universities to establish telecommunity centers
SB 0187 - Schneider - Appeals of Public Service Commission orders shall go directly to the Court of Appeals
SB 0189 - Russell - Requires disclosure of identity of persons making political phone calls
SB 0190 - Russell - Revises documentation required for telecommunications companies to charge for Internet service
SB 0234 - Wiggins - Exempts certain interstate telecommunications services from sales taxes
SB 0283 - Steelman - Requires Missouri television stations to provide captioning of news, sports and weather
SB 0331 - DePasco - Revises the operation and participation of the one call notification center for excavators
SB 0548 - House - Revises the regulation of unsolicited telephone sales calls
HB 0294 - Smith (011) - Enacts consumer protections for long distance services
HB 0330 - Ostmann - Modifies the law concerning invasion of privacy
HB 0443 - Gratz - Allows entities to disseminate the telemarketing no-call database to their employees or contractors
HB 0511 - Johnson - Changes telemarketing definitions to further protect consumers
HB 0515 - Foley - Allows St. Louis County to form an emergency communications system district
HB 0594 - Kennedy - Expands the sales tax exemption for telecommunication services
HB 0670 - Campbell - Regulates the use of portable telecommunications devices while operating a motor vehicle
HB 0826 - Mays (050) - Authorizes counties to impose a fee on wireless telephone customers to fund enhanced 911 service
HCR 005 - Mays (050) - Extends the Joint Interim Committee on Telecommunications and Energy to the Ninety-first General Assembly

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Television

SB 0283 - Steelman - Requires Missouri television stations to provide captioning of news, sports and weather
SB 0555 - House - Prohibits non-compete clauses in employment contracts within the broadcast industry
HB 0343 - Graham - Requires all local news, weather and sports broadcasts by television stations to have real-time captioning
HB 0634 - Scheve - Prohibits certain noncompetition contracts in the broadcasting industry

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Tobacco Products

SB 0105 - Bland - Establishes the Tobacco Settlement Fund Commission
SB 0119 - Goode - Establishes the Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund
SB 0222 - Caskey - Creates felony for sale or distribution of gray market cigarettes
SB 0299 - Quick - Establishes the Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund
SB 0362 - House - Creates Missouri Tobacco Settlement Fund and allocates a portion to education
SB 0386 - Singleton - Adds a tax on the sale of certain tobacco products to fund the Missouri Pharmaceutical Assistance Program
SB 0399 - Sims - Establishes purposes for Missouri Healthy Families Trust Fund
SB 0454 - Kinder - Establishes the Missouri Tobacco Settlement Attorney Compensation Act
SB 0504 - Loudon - Healthy Families Trust Fund to pay for certain health insurance costs
SB 0541 - Klindt - Creates Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund and Tobacco Moneys Board
SB 0577 - Stoll - Directs refunds of overcharged or overcollected cigarette taxes to consumers
SB 0598 - Singleton - Prohibits possession of tobacco products by minors
SCR 011 - Caskey - Approves Master Settlement Agreement fee payment agreement for tobacco attorneys
SJR 008 - Steelman - Presents dual questions regarding tobacco settlement funds
SJR 013 - Sims - Establishes Missouri Healthy Families Trust Fund
SJR 016 - Gross - Voters to determine whether tobacco proceeds are included in or excluded from total state revenues
HB 0037 - Gaskill - Prohibits persons less than eighteen years of age from possessing tobacco products
HB 0135 - Hosmer - Authorizes Greene County to levy a tax on cigarettes and tobacco products which is equal to the tax authorized for
HB 0138 - Hosmer - Requires sales tax which is illegally or erroneously imposed on cigarette tax to be refunded to the consumer or
HB 0268 - Legan - Prohibits sale of tobacco products to persons under 25 without checking Id
HB 0380 - Hoppe - Amends the statutory provisions relating to the sale of tobacco products
HB 0381 - Hoppe - Creates felony for sale or distribution of gray market ciga- rettes & enforcement provisions to prohibit sales to minors
HB 0487 - Davis - Establishes Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund; dedicates at least twenty-five percent of fund proceeds to
HB 0555 - Foley - Creates a life sciences research program and distributes tobacco settlement proceeds
HB 0584 - Bartle - Establishes the Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund in the state treasury
HB 0888 - Scheve - Establishes the Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund in the state treasury
HB 0916 - Lawson - Establishes the Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund, the Tobacco Moneys Board and the Tobacco Moneys Review Board
HB 0942 - Hanaway - Enacts enabling legislation for the appropriation of tobacco settlement moneys
HB 0943 - Kreider - Establishes an endowment and trust fund for the tobacco settlement moneys, with a referendum clause
HB 0992 - Boucher - Allocates a portion of any tobacco settlement moneys for a grant program to increase the availability of ventilators
HB 1002 - Dempsey - Enacts the Missouri Tobacco Settlement Attorney Compensation Act
HB 1018 - Cooper - Establishes the County Health and Safety Fund and the Healthy Missouri Trust Fund for expenditure of any tobacco
HJR 014 - Kelly (027) - Proposes a constitutional amendment to dedicate tobacco settlement money to the Children's Investment Fund
HJR 017 - Scheve - Proposes a constitutional amendment which creates the Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund and an endowment

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Tourism

SB 0132 - Bland - Preserves Walt Disney Film Studio as an historic site
SB 0238 - Staples - Revises the Tourism Supplemental Revenue Fund
SB 0250 - Bentley - Creates a grant and loan program to promote cultural tourism
SB 0323 - Childers - Authorizes certain political subdivisions to enact a sales tax, upon voter approval, for specific purposes
SB 0365 - Steelman - Authorizes certain political subdivisions to impose a sales tax for specific purposes
SB 0545 - Johnson - Authorizes a museum and festivals sales tax in Buchanan County
SB 0564 - Rohrbach - Allows amusement ride owners to self-inspect in the absence of an available inspector
HB 0242 - Smith (011) - Authorizes several cities and counties to impose tourism taxes
HB 0292 - Overschmidt - Revises the tourism supplemental revenue fund
HB 0463 - Overschmidt - Amends the tourism supplemental revenue fund
HB 0488 - Koller - Authorizes a variety of local sales taxes for tourism and economic development purposes
HB 0844 - Liese - Authorizes bed tax in certain cities and counties for purposes of supporting a convention, visitor and tourist

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Transportation

SB 0031 - DePasco - Extends the commercial zone around Kansas City from 12 to 15 miles
SB 0076 - Wiggins - Extends the termination date on the Kansas City public transportation sales tax from 2001 to 2003
SB 0199 - Sims - Authorizes automated traffic enforcement programs
SB 0244 - Staples - Suspends driver's license of those who steal gas, penalizes speeders in work zones, and revises other vehicle laws
SB 0280 - Yeckel - Allows a tax credit for persons who contribute to unplanned pregnancy resource centers
SB 0286 - Mathewson - Increases sales tax to fund transportation projects and requires director to be elected rather than appointed
SB 0305 - Jacob - Restricts big trucks to 65 mph and raises diesel fuel and registration fees for trucks
SB 0324 - Childers - Requires Transportation Commission to issue permits in order to erect structures which might impede airplane safety
SB 0396 - Schneider - Raises gas tax by 5 cents and raises registration fees and CDL's to consumer price index level
SB 0450 - Goode - Phases in a six-cent gas tax over six years; raises the sales tax by 1/2 cent and increases registration fees
SB 0459 - Westfall - Removes sunset on aviation fuel, reduces the amount other agencies get from the transportation fund and other changes
SB 0469 - Gross - Changes operational control of the St. Louis International Airport
SB 0611 - Loudon - Removes funding to other state agencies from highway revenues and transfers motor vehicle sales tax to road fund
SB 0612 - Loudon - Allows the Transportation Commission to construct toll roads
SJR 014 - Gibbons - Abolishes the Transportation Commission and replaces it with an appointed director in the Missouri Constitution
SJR 015 - Westfall - Amends the Constitution so that 100% of the sales tax on motor vehicles is used for transportation purposes
SJR 019 - Loudon - Amends the Constitution to allow the Commission to develop and operate toll facilities
SJR 020 - Loudon - Eliminates funding to state agencies from highway revenues and places all motor vehicle sales tax in road fund
HB 0126 - Long - Requires use of motor vehicle headlights whenever atmospheric conditions require the use of windshield wipers
HB 0159 - Schwab - Exempts parade participants from motorcycle helmet requirement
HB 0196 - Villa - Expands state road system to include all principal arterial roads in the City of St Louis
HB 0202 - Rizzo - Modifies provisions relating to transportation development districts
HB 0310 - Ostmann - Creates alternative method of obtaining temporary driving permit
HB 0320 - Williams (121) - Revises watercraft safety and operating standards
HB 0321 - Skaggs - Extends the termination date on the Kansas City public transportation sales tax from 2001 to 2003
HB 0436 - Merideth III - Enacts Missouri Airport Protection Act to provide new airport safety regulation
HB 0458 - Lawson - Permits the use of flashing signals by church buses
HB 0523 - Koller - Revises regulation of roadside billboard advertising
HB 0557 - Kennedy - Creates a regional taxicab commission in the City of St Louis and St Louis County
HB 0614 - Rizzo - Changes definition of "taxicab."
HB 0629 - Boucher - Authorizes placement of motor vehicle registration renewal tabs on windshield
HB 0647 - Hickey - Provides for disposition of certain property acquired by the public for airport purposes
HB 0685 - Bray - Substantially revises transportation laws
HB 0709 - O'Connor - Revises motor carrier law
HB 0714 - Koller - Authorizes design-build method of contracting for state highway construction
HB 0729 - Green - Revises motor vehicle licensing
HB 0734 - Ostmann - Eliminates transfers from state highways and transportation department fund over a three year period
HB 0743 - Townley - Prohibits trains from blocking public roads for more than ten minutes except as provided
HB 0756 - Seigfreid - Enacts the "motor Carrier Fuel Tax Act", increases the state sales tax by 1/2 cent, creates the "state Sales Tax
HB 0765 - Mays (050) - Prohibits camera surveillance of public roadways except for purposes of monitoring traffic flow and community planning
HB 0768 - Hosmer - Clarifies that owner-operators of motor vehicles are not employees for workers compensation purposes
HB 0770 - Hickey - Authorizes study of airport noise in St Louis area
HB 0917 - Gaskill - Creates "veterans Memorial Bridge" in St. Louis
HB 0924 - Wiggins - Provides new funding for transportation and revises highway bidding and building procedures
HJR 013 - Shields - Proposes a constitutional amendment specifying appointment of Highways and Transportation Commission members
HJR 015 - Crawford - Replaces the Highways and Transportation Commission with a Secretary of Transportation

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Transportation Dept.

SB 0017 - Staples - Removes State Auditor from the Joint Committee on Transportation Oversight
SB 0020 - Goode - Creates the Non-native Species Council
SB 0031 - DePasco - Extends the commercial zone around Kansas City from 12 to 15 miles
SB 0052 - Childers - Modifies traffic regulations relating to construction zones, bridge weight limits and emergency vehicles
SB 0095 - Kenney - Requires those who engage in the profession of housemoving to become licensed and obtain permits for moves
SB 0244 - Staples - Suspends driver's license of those who steal gas, penalizes speeders in work zones, and revises other vehicle laws
SB 0247 - Westfall - Prohibits new construction of billboards along certain highways and the cutting of trees along the highways
SB 0286 - Mathewson - Increases sales tax to fund transportation projects and requires director to be elected rather than appointed
SB 0324 - Childers - Requires Transportation Commission to issue permits in order to erect structures which might impede airplane safety
SB 0330 - Jacob - Prohibits new construction of billboards along certain highways and the cutting of trees along the highways
SB 0450 - Goode - Phases in a six-cent gas tax over six years; raises the sales tax by 1/2 cent and increases registration fees
SB 0459 - Westfall - Removes sunset on aviation fuel, reduces the amount other agencies get from the transportation fund and other changes
SB 0503 - DePasco - Allows cities and 1st class counties to establish an automatic traffic light signal violation monitoring system
SB 0565 - Staples - Prohibits Department of Transportation from contracting with truck stops, gas stations or convenience stores
SB 0611 - Loudon - Removes funding to other state agencies from highway revenues and transfers motor vehicle sales tax to road fund
SB 0612 - Loudon - Allows the Transportation Commission to construct toll roads
SJR 014 - Gibbons - Abolishes the Transportation Commission and replaces it with an appointed director in the Missouri Constitution
SJR 015 - Westfall - Amends the Constitution so that 100% of the sales tax on motor vehicles is used for transportation purposes
SJR 019 - Loudon - Amends the Constitution to allow the Commission to develop and operate toll facilities
SJR 020 - Loudon - Eliminates funding to state agencies from highway revenues and places all motor vehicle sales tax in road fund
HB 0004 - Green - Appropriations for the departments of Revenue and Transportation
HB 0005 - Green - Appropriations for the Office of Administration, Department of Transportation and Chief Executive's Office
HB 0257 - Wagner - Increases multiplier rate for state retirees
HB 0436 - Merideth III - Enacts Missouri Airport Protection Act to provide new airport safety regulation
HB 0458 - Lawson - Permits the use of flashing signals by church buses
HB 0485 - Crowell - Authorizes road signs directing travels to state vo-tech schools
HB 0514 - Skaggs - Makes various changes to Mosers and the Transportation Dept. Employees' and Highway Patrol Retirement System
HB 0523 - Koller - Revises regulation of roadside billboard advertising
HB 0623 - Kreider - Requires that the underwriting of transportation bonds first be solicited from companies incorporated and having a
HB 0685 - Bray - Substantially revises transportation laws
HB 0709 - O'Connor - Revises motor carrier law
HB 0714 - Koller - Authorizes design-build method of contracting for state highway construction
HB 0734 - Ostmann - Eliminates transfers from state highways and transportation department fund over a three year period
HB 0756 - Seigfreid - Enacts the "motor Carrier Fuel Tax Act", increases the state sales tax by 1/2 cent, creates the "state Sales Tax
HB 0770 - Hickey - Authorizes study of airport noise in St Louis area
HB 0885 - Kelly (036) - Loosens restrictions on certain outdoor advertising by non-profit entities
HB 0917 - Gaskill - Creates "veterans Memorial Bridge" in St. Louis
HB 0924 - Wiggins - Provides new funding for transportation and revises highway bidding and building procedures
HB 0980 - Kreider - Requires department of transportation to approve contractors to bid within thirty days of application
HJR 013 - Shields - Proposes a constitutional amendment specifying appointment of Highways and Transportation Commission members
HJR 015 - Crawford - Replaces the Highways and Transportation Commission with a Secretary of Transportation

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Treasurer, State

SB 0119 - Goode - Establishes the Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund
SB 0155 - Bland - Establishes the General Assembly Scholarship Program funded by a nonresident earnings tax
SB 0299 - Quick - Establishes the Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund
SB 0361 - Bentley - Creates CASA fund for court-appointed special advocates for children
SB 0362 - House - Creates Missouri Tobacco Settlement Fund and allocates a portion to education
SB 0411 - Dougherty - Creates CASA fund for court-appointed special advocates for for children
SJR 018 - Singleton - Revises term limits for elected officials
HB 0130 - Van Zandt - Creates the animal shelter grant fund
HB 0287 - Williams (121) - Regulates private jails
HB 0463 - Overschmidt - Amends the tourism supplemental revenue fund
HB 0559 - Van Zandt - Creates the classroom technology trust fund program and commission; uses funds otherwise reverting to general
HB 0621 - Gratz - Creates Missouri State Penitentiary Redevelopment Commission
HB 0888 - Scheve - Establishes the Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund in the state treasury
HB 0916 - Lawson - Establishes the Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund, the Tobacco Moneys Board and the Tobacco Moneys Review Board
HJR 006 - Hosmer - Changes distribution of forfeiture proceeds

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Unemployment Compensation

SB 0174 - Bland - Requires the Division of Family Services to provide an annual report on the status of welfare reform in Missouri
SB 0338 - House - Allows unemployment benefits for workers enrolled in an approved, unpaid full-time training program
SB 0380 - House - Makes technical changes in industrial classification system for employer unemployment contributions

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Uniform Laws

SB 0075 - Wiggins - Enacts the Revised Uniform Arbitration Act
SB 0116 - Wiggins - Substantially revises Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code concerning secured transactions
SB 0220 - Kinder - Adopts the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act
SB 0288 - Klarich - Revises provisions relating to recorders of deeds, corporations and matters regulated by the Secretary of State
HB 0677 - Monaco - Revises Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, concerning secured transactions
HB 0898 - Hilgemann - Enacts the Uniform Planned Community Act

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Utilities

SB 0019 - Goode - Revises the standard of proof and other aspects of the Sunshine Law
SB 0080 - Goode - Revises various utility taxes
SB 0150 - Goode - Increases penalties imposed by Public Service Commission for safety related violations of Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act
SB 0157 - Goode - Revises the sunset on disclosure of certain municipal utility records
SB 0187 - Schneider - Appeals of Public Service Commission orders shall go directly to the Court of Appeals
SB 0190 - Russell - Revises documentation required for telecommunications companies to charge for Internet service
SB 0234 - Wiggins - Exempts certain interstate telecommunications services from sales taxes
SB 0278 - Westfall - Allows a municipality to use condemnation in order to construct or acquire natural gas service
SB 0326 - Bland - Dedicated additional revenue to the energy assistance program
SB 0331 - DePasco - Revises the operation and participation of the one call notification center for excavators
SB 0369 - Steelman - Allows political subdivisions to require permits for public utility right-of-way use
SB 0375 - Steelman - Revises the Sunshine Law
SB 0387 - Goode - Allows electric utilities to recover certain costs impacted by fuel or purchased power price increases
SB 0431 - Goode - Authorizes the Governor to convey the rights to certain water held in Mark Twain Lake
SB 0432 - Stoll - Enacts Missouri Retail Customer and Worker Protection Act
SB 0455 - Kinder - Revises laws relating to electric utilities
SB 0499 - Mathewson - Establishes retail electric customer choice
SB 0501 - Goode - Allows transfer of electric generating plant to wholesale affiliate and allows limited retail electric choice
SB 0548 - House - Revises the regulation of unsolicited telephone sales calls
SCR 018 - Goode - Establishes a joint legislative committee on Telecommunications and Energy
HB 0216 - Farnen - Allows the public service commission to phase in any large increases to a water corporation's rates
HB 0289 - Farnen - Allows the public service commission to phase in any large increases to a water corporation's rates
HB 0356 - Clayton - Prohibits utilities from charging consumers for underbilling mistakes made by the utility if a correction
HB 0361 - Shoemyer - Authorizes the Governor to convey the rights to certain water held in Mark Twain Lake
HB 0403 - Hosmer - Extends open records exception for municipal electric utilities preparing for deregulation until December 31,
HB 0425 - O'Toole - Revises the operation and participation of the one call notification center for excavators
HB 0472 - Burton - Allows political subdivisions to establish permit procedures for public utility right-of-way users; allows
HB 0521 - Burton - Instructs the public service commission to develop expedited dispute resolution procedures for utility
HB 0576 - Willoughby - Authorizes the general assembly, for 2001, to make a one-time transfer of up to five million dollars to the
HB 0676 - Mays (050) - Regulates the transfer of utility generation assets; amends utility taxation and rate laws
HB 0723 - Mays (050) - Allows electric utilities to recover certain costs impacted by natural gas prices
HB 0728 - Hoppe - Redefines who may form joint municipal utility commissions; regulates public water supply district purchases of, and
HB 0766 - Bray - Requires electrical and gas providers to increase use of renewable energy resources
HB 0778 - Boucher - Requires natural gas companies to submit a mitigation strategy for natural gas pricing to the Psc for approval
HB 0823 - Hegeman - Grants preferences in certain instances to rural water supply districts
HB 0911 - Carnahan - Enacts the Missouri Retail Customer and Worker Protection Act
HB 1003 - Burton - Allows a tax credit for coal-generated plants built with pollution control devices
HCR 005 - Mays (050) - Extends the Joint Interim Committee on Telecommunications and Energy to the Ninety-first General Assembly
HCR 009 - Bonner - Declares certain members of the Public Service Commission to be in violation of state law and further declares their
HCR 011 - Haywood - Directs the Psc to freeze all utility rates at their current levels until the utility cost crises is over
HCR 012 - Haywood - Urges Congress to establish federal energy policy delegating emergency power to individual states

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Veterans

SB 0011 - Russell - Exempts retired members of the military from paying registration fees on one motor vehicle
SB 0013 - Russell - Exempts retired members of the military from paying the additional fee for retired military plates
SB 0026 - Johnson - Allows the State Board of Education or school boards to award high school diplomas to World War I or II veterans
SB 0096 - Bentley - Allows Purple Heart recipients to receive free motor vehicle registration and specialized license plates
SB 0126 - Bentley - Allows the State Board of Education or school boards to award high school diplomas to World War II veterans
SB 0142 - Childers - Allows owners of different classes of motor vehicles to apply for Korean War Veteran license plates
SB 0188 - Russell - Exempts military retirement benefits from state income tax
SB 0208 - Sims - Provides property tax relief for disabled veterans
SB 0212 - Gross - Exempts military income, including retirement income, from state income tax
SB 0339 - Stoll - Allocates funds from the Veterans' Commission Capital Improvements Trust Fund for veterans' service programs
SB 0340 - Stoll - Establishes the "Missouri Veterans' Business Council" within the Department of Economic Development
SB 0613 - Gibbons - Allows state surplus property to be distributed to organizations that assist veterans
SCR 015 - Yeckel - Asks Congress to declare the November general election day a a national holiday
HB 0051 - Relford - Substantial revision to motor vehicle license plate laws
HB 0094 - Shields - Provides honorary high school diplomas to Wwii veterans who left high school before graduation to serve in the United
HB 0171 - Froelker - Exempts social security benefits and military retirement benefits which are included in federal adjusted gross
HB 0207 - Ross - Allows vehicles to be donated for veterans, and provides matching grants for veterans' service officers
HB 0225 - Boucher - Creates a three hundred dollar income tax credit for certain World War Ii veterans or their surviving spouses
HB 0244 - Treadway - Provides honorary high school diplomas to Wwii veterans who left high school before graduation to serve in the United
HB 0441 - Holt - Allows World War I, World War II and Korean War veterans to receive a high school diploma
HB 0866 - Boucher - Revise certain provisions related to excursion boat gaming, and increases funding for Bright Flight scholarships
HCR 034 - Boucher - Establishes a Joint Interim Committee to study the allocation of excursion gambling boat admission fees

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Veterinarians

SB 0532 - Foster - Creates the Large Animal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program
HB 0336 - Townley - Expands the classes of persons entitled to be excused from jury duty to include persons licensed to practice
HB 0411 - Hegeman - Creates the large animal veterinary medicine loan repayment program
HB 0601 - Reid - Establishes a Cwd certification program in the department of agriculture for the eradication of chronic wasting
HB 0858 - Selby - Amends various provisions regarding animal care facilities

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Victims of Crime

SB 0100 - Childers - Provides civil immunity to certain crime victims and Good Samaritans for injuries to perpetrators
SB 0585 - Carter - Creates state agency to promote crime victims' rights
HB 0080 - Ross - Authorizes multijurisdictional antifraud enforcement groups; makes various other changes in law enforcement and crimes
HB 0222 - Kelly (027) - Amends the victims' compensation fund to increase compensation for loss of earnings and to exclude life
HB 0831 - Carnahan - Creates office for victims of crime, funded by an increase in certain court filing fees

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Vital Statistics

SB 0477 - Gross - Details information to be included in physician abortion reports
HB 0157 - Hosmer - Changes date for return of marriage licenses to the issuing official; prohibits same sex marriage

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Waste-Solid

SB 0345 - House - Relating to property maintenance codes

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Water Patrol

SB 0443 - Staples - Removes the requirement that water patrol officers be bonded in the same manner as sheriffs
SB 0444 - Staples - Revises various sections regarding watercraft law from floatation devices to powers of the Water Patrol officers
HB 0303 - Hoppe - Allows certain liquor licensees in Camden, Miller and Morgan counties to apply for a 3:00 a.m. liquor permit
HB 0320 - Williams (121) - Revises watercraft safety and operating standards
HB 0732 - Hosmer - Makes technical revisions to water patrol law and deletes the bonding requirement for water patrol officers

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Water Resources and Water Districts

SB 0009 - Caskey - Revises Ag. Products Marketing Fund, creates Farmland Protection Act and MO Agricultural Adovcate's Office
SB 0015 - Mathewson - Revises membership of Clean Water Commission
SB 0127 - Childers - Revises permit approval process for certain wastewater treatment facilities
SB 0312 - Caskey - Allows appeal of water pollution permit decisions by affected third parties
SB 0368 - Childers - Creates a program to promote sustainable forestry
SB 0431 - Goode - Authorizes the Governor to convey the rights to certain water held in Mark Twain Lake
SB 0462 - Westfall - Revises numerous provisions relating to agriculture
SB 0506 - Cauthorn - Creates the Farmland Protection Act
SB 0587 - Foster - Revises operation of soil and water conservation subdistricts
SCR 009 - Loudon - Requests the Governor to opt out of reformulated gas program for St. Louis
SCR 013 - Foster - Urges reconsideration of the federal plan to change Missouri River levels
HB 0124 - Long - Prohibits the possession or use of glass containers within 50 feet of any navigable waterway in the state of Missouri
HB 0205 - Relford - Modifies various provisions relating to conservation
HB 0296 - Kennedy - Allows the department of natural resources to contract for the provision of technical assistance services to public
HB 0307 - Wiggins - Modifies the delinquent date for property and personal taxes
HB 0361 - Shoemyer - Authorizes the Governor to convey the rights to certain water held in Mark Twain Lake
HB 0501 - Bowman - Increases the authorization for water pollution bonds; changes sewer district provisions for certain districts
HB 0581 - Kreider - Revises numerous provisions relating to agriculture
HB 0694 - Berkstresser - Authorizes Taney, Stone, Barry and Ozark counties to enact a sales tax to fund county economic development programs
HB 0701 - Berkowitz - Allows interested parties to appeal a permit denial for a water containment or point source
HB 0706 - Bonner - Authorizes cities imposing a storm water, capitol improvement or transportation sales tax to impose a sales
HB 0727 - Hoppe - Regulates the voting rights of persons in public water supply districts
HB 0728 - Hoppe - Redefines who may form joint municipal utility commissions; regulates public water supply district purchases of, and
HB 0823 - Hegeman - Grants preferences in certain instances to rural water supply districts
HB 0923 - Wiggins - Amends various public water supply district proceedings laws
HB 0936 - Mays (050) - Allows a business owner of property in a drainage district to delegate individual to represent the owner
HCR 006 - Myers - Urges reconsideration of the federal plan to change Missouri River water levels

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Weapons

SB 0439 - Gibbons - Increases firearm crime penalties; creates Project Exile

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Weights and Measures

HB 0597 - Lawson - Requires various gasoline specifications

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Workers Compensation

SB 0039 - Klarich - Creates procedures for disbursements from the Tort Victim's Compensation Fund
SB 0077 - Russell - Allows non-attorneys to represent themselves before certain state agencies
SB 0183 - Schneider - Modifies certain provisions of the Second Injury Fund
SB 0346 - Caskey - Expands persons who qualify for Division of Workers' Compensation Administrative Law Judge Retirement System
SB 0417 - Schneider - Modifies certain provisions of the Second Injury Fund and interest payments in workers' claims
SB 0496 - Schneider - Modifies Second Injury Fund provisions
SB 0505 - Loudon - Expands meaning of "owner-operator" of a vehicle for hire for purposes of workers' compensation
SB 0521 - Mathewson - Clarifies duty of workers' compensation insurance carriers
SB 0579 - Loudon - Modifies certain provisions of the Second Injury Fund
SB 0580 - Loudon - Modifies some workers' compensation provisions
HB 0107 - Clayton - Creates procedures for disbursements from the Tort Victim's Compensation Fund
HB 0579 - Luetkemeyer - Allows certain corporate officers to opt out of worker compensation
HB 0768 - Hosmer - Clarifies that owner-operators of motor vehicles are not employees for workers compensation purposes
HB 0839 - Secrest - Requires impartial, rather than liberal, interpretation of workers' compensation law
HB 0840 - Secrest - Makes evidence of intoxication conclusively presumed proximate cause of workers' compensation injuries
HB 0841 - Secrest - Revises workers' compensation law
HB 0842 - Secrest - Modifies workers' compensation law to determine relative contributions to injury by multiple employers, and gives
HB 0970 - Naeger - For purposes of worker compensation law, makes positive tests for drug use proximate cause of injuries resulting to
HB 0971 - Secrest - Revises provisions related to dismissal of workers' compensation cases
HB 0997 - Byrd - Waives sovereign immunity for purposes of worker compensation and prohibits the state from retaliatory
HB 1014 - Secrest - Revises worker's compensation law
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