This week, the Senate started a day later than normal after winter weather cancelled our Monday session. This time of year, it’s always better to be safe than sorry when the weather turns bad. I would also like to remind everyone to be thankful for the road crews, law enforcement officials and emergency responders who are keeping us safe. On Tuesday, the Senate voted 28-4 to send one of my sponsored bills, Senate Bill 149, over to the House. The measure, if approved by lawmakers and signed into law by the governor, would offer sales and use tax exemptions to data storage centers looking to establish, expand or relocate to the Show-Me State. Through this incentive, Missouri will be able to attract data storage centers as the industry attempts to meet the large demand.
Also this week, the Senate debated Senate Bill 205 would make sure insurance companies meet the financial obligations they have promised to their policy holders. With today’s corporate structure of mergers, acquisitions and globalization, many insurance companies are no longer stand alone businesses, but rather just one piece of a much larger holding company’s system. If approved, this bill would allow the Department of Insurance to regulate risky business practices and ultimately save consumers and insurance provider’s money and time.
It was another busy week of visitors here at the State Capitol. This week I met with several retired teachers, bankers, nurses, public administrators, and many other groups who traveled to Jefferson City to meet and lobby with their lawmakers. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, or if you would like to find out what’s going on in your State Capitol, feel free to contact my office.
Public Administrators-Barbara Davolt, Carol Johnson, Charlie Ackerman, Senator Parson, Nancy Wingate, Debbie Gwin, & Rhonda Noe visiting our office.
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