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May 1996 Stories

• 5/18/1996: Latest statehouse news summary headlines as of May 17
• 5/18/1996: Spanish reporters give their thoughts on Missouri's legislative session.
• 5/18/1996: Lobbyist gift ban dies in Missouri's 1996 legislative session.
• 5/18/1996: Democrats and Republicans blaim each other for death of tax cuts in legislature.
• 5/18/1996: House and Senate GOP leaders take different approaches to the end of the legislative session.
• 5/18/1996: Environmentalists scored major victories in the 1996 session.
• 5/18/1996: Overview of education issues before the 1996 legislative session.
• 5/17/1996: The House lifts credit card percentage caps to lure more retail business
• 5/17/1996: A technicality could keep Clinton off Missouri's November ballot.
• 5/17/1996: Legislative sends governor limited abortion-regulation bill.
• 5/16/1996: Legislature enters its last day with tax cuts still unresolved.
• 5/16/1996: The relatives of patients with Alzheimers disease would get more information concerning their loved ones.
• 5/16/1996: There is only one day left for legislators to hammer out a compromise on tax refunds.
• 5/16/1996: The House passed the Safe Schools Bill to crack down on violent and disruptive students.
• 5/16/1996: Infobox on changes in mental health commitment approved by lawmakers.
• 5/16/1996: Major reorganization of mental health commitment laws clears legislature.
• 5/16/1996: A bill that would make it easier to commit someone for psychiatric care is one step away from becoming law.
• 5/16/1996: The senate votes to strip an anti-lobbyist amendment from a crime bill.
• 5/16/1996: Both the Senate and the House passed a bill regulating large hog farm operations.
• 5/16/1996: History of mental health commitment problems.
• 5/16/1996: Senate passes limited abortion-regulation bill.
• 5/15/1996: Lobbyists pay $1,000 each to eat with a few dozen legislators (newspaper wrap of Wednesday's legislative developments).
• 5/15/1996: Senate rejects compromise on abortion sponsored by all the Senate's women members (newspaper story).
• 5/15/1996: The House approves changes in involuntary commitment for the mentally ill.
• 5/15/1996: The House unanimously approves policy changes in the commitment and release of the mentally ill.
• 5/15/1996: Senate Devotes Precious Time to Cockfighting
• 5/15/1996: Senators defeat amendment to make raising gamecocks illegal
• 5/15/1996: Women senators see their version of the abortion bill defeated
• 5/15/1996: Three women senators draft their own version of the abortion bill
• 5/14/1996: The Missouri Legislature says yes to tighter control of student athletes and their agents on the M.U. campus.
• 5/14/1996: Senate debates killer roosters while other major issues sit on the sidelines.
• 5/14/1996: The House Judiciary Committee considers a bill that bans same sex marriages in Missouri.
• 5/14/1996: Columbia's retiring senator, Joe Moseley, talks about his experiences at the Senate.
• 5/14/1996: The senate has once again failed to act on proposed tax cuts, with only three days left in the session.
• 5/14/1996: The legislature sends the governor a bill for tighter regulations on athletic agents and their student clients.
• 5/14/1996: A welfare bill to terminate welfare is declared officially dead.
• 5/13/1996: Predatory sex offenders would face life-time state supervision under bill sent to the governor.
• 5/13/1996: Legislature has passed a sexual offender bill to warn people when a child molester enters their community.
• 5/10/1996: Latest statehouse news summary headlines as of May 10
• 5/10/1996: Tax cuts and abortion will be the top issues for the last week of Missouri's legislature.
• 5/ 9/1996: Senate committee approves tax-cut plan.
• 5/ 9/1996: Sales tax cut replaced with income tax cut by Senate committee.
• 5/ 9/1996: Bill sent to governor would appoint governing council for St. Louis special school district
• 5/ 9/1996: The Senate approves an appeals board for school districts accused of paying teachers too little.
• 5/ 9/1996: Senate adds teacher-assault crime to safe schools bill.
• 5/ 9/1996: Bill lets tailgaters into bars on Sunday morning
• 5/ 9/1996: Bill lets wholesalers sell liquor with non-alcoholic products
• 5/ 9/1996: Non-married, same-sex pigs authorized to carry concealed weapons under legislative staffer's suggested bill.
• 5/ 9/1996: House reverses itself and rejects stronger regulation of flood-plain development.
• 5/ 9/1996: Abortion dispute stalls budget in House
• 5/ 8/1996: Governor's Safe Schools bill swamped with Senate Amendments.
• 5/ 8/1996: Senate votes to prohibit same-sex marriages (newspaper story).
• 5/ 8/1996: Senators relied on Judeo-Christian arguments to deny homosexuals the right to marry.
• 5/ 8/1996: Senators voted to to prohibit same-sex marriages.
• 5/ 8/1996: Tax-cut inaction, budget passage, bill veto & expanded liquor merchandizing rights top Tuesday's legislative actions.
• 5/ 7/1996: The Senate passes a bill making it a crime to sell human remains.
• 5/ 7/1996: Senate leadership split on whether to deal with HMO regulation in 1996.
• 5/ 7/1996: The sales tax cut on groceries approved in the house finds itself in Senate limbo.
• 5/ 7/1996: Representatives vote to reject a health budget until six words are added to the legislation.
• 5/ 7/1996: A Democratic candidate for governor says a second Carnahan term violates the state constitution.
• 5/ 7/1996: There is precedent to two interpretations of the state constitution regarding term limits for governors.
• 5/ 7/1996: A Democratic attorney says the constitution allows Carnahan to run again.
• 5/ 7/1996: A constitutional challenge to Carnahan's re-election bid is not being taken seriously by Democrats or Republicans.
• 5/ 7/1996: As the Missouri River nears its banks, the House debated creating an office of flood plain management (newspaper story).
• 5/ 7/1996: The House votes to toughen state control over development of flood plains.
• 5/ 7/1996: The torture or mutilation of animals could lead to jail time under bill before governor.
• 5/ 7/1996: House rejects efforts by black legislators to restrict alcohol advertising in minority areas.
• 5/ 6/1996: A Legislator's efforts to ban advertising in black communities got shot down in the House.
• 5/ 6/1996: Rains of recent weeks aren't worrying state officials about serious flooding.
• 5/ 3/1996: Latest statehouse news summary headlines as of May 3
• 5/ 2/1996: Senate committee passes abortion bill, despite governor's veto threat.
• 5/ 2/1996: House passes and sends to Senate a tax cut on groceries.
• 5/ 2/1996: Governor Carnahan will sign a bill that mandates free immunizations for the insured.
• 5/ 2/1996: The House passed a bill that would eliminate the age limit for school bus drivers.
• 5/ 2/1996: The Senate passed a bill that will give minorities scolastic scholarships based on race.
• 5/ 1/1996: Senate votes to end all major welfare programs in the next few years.
• 5/ 1/1996: The long battle over telecommunications is over, and the governor is expected to sign a telecom bill.
• 5/ 1/1996: Governor gets bill to assure hospital stay coverage for women after they deliver.
• 5/ 1/1996: The governor says he will veto legislation to restrict abortion.
• 5/ 1/1996: The governor says he is opposed to an attempt to add caregivers to Tel-Link.