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April 1997 Stories

• 4/30/1997: Newspaper Story - Republicans unanimously voted against the House version of welfare reform when it passed out of committee Wednesday night.
• 4/30/1997: Radio Story - The House Welfare Committee votes to provide state welfare funds to legal immigrants who have been cut off from federal-funded welfare.
• 4/29/1997: Radio Story - The Senate continues to stall on a bill that would reduce the sales tax Missourians pay on groceries.
• 4/29/1997: Newspaper Story - Hours after Mark Richardson resigned as Minority Floor Leader, the campaing for his seat began.
• 4/29/1997: Radio Story - The House GOP leader resigns and pleads guilty to drunken driving.
• 4/29/1997: Newspaper Story - House Budget Committee approves two new prisons after lobbying by the governor.
• 4/29/1997: Radio Story - Missouri lawmakers and education lobbyists reached a compromise. A bill that would build two new maximum security prisons and give money to University of Missouri systems for renovations passed in the House Budget committee.
• 4/29/1997: Newspaper Story - House Republicans say they're apprehensive about bringing universal care into the state through the proposed children's health insurance bill that passed the House Monday.
• 4/29/1997: Radio Story - The House rejected a measure that would have funded a program to consolidate car emissions inspections in the St. Louis area.
• 4/29/1997: Radio Story - The GOP's only black House member announces for party floor leader.
• 4/28/1997: Radio Story - Missouri Senators voted to require schools to teach abstinence as best choice for teenagers.
• 4/28/1997: Newspaper Story - After spending over an hour and a half behind closed doors, House Republicans have come to no decision on the Mark Richardson issue.
• 4/28/1997: Radio Story - After the republican caucus meeting, Mark Richardson is still the republican house minority leader
• 4/28/1997: Radio Story - Missouri's Repbulican representatives continue to debate the future of their leader after his drunk driving arrest this weekend.
• 4/28/1997: Radio Story - The House passed a measure that would provide health care for needy kids.
• 4/28/1997: Newspaper Story - Vice President of Nigerian environmental and human rights organization (MOSOP) in state capitol for Environmental Lobby Day
• 4/25/1997: News summary for the week of April 21, 1997.
• 4/24/1997: Newspaper Story - Background on why Missouri does not have horse race tracks more than 10 years after voters approved horse-race bettings.
• 4/24/1997: Radio Story - Senator Marvin Singleton, a physician, wondered why it took so long for Attorney General Jay Nixon to file suit against several tobacco companies.
• 4/24/1997: Radio Story - As river waters rise, so too does the debt of the nation's flood insurance program.
• 4/24/1997: Newspaper Story - After an eight-hour filibuster, the Senate killed desegregation legislation.
• 4/23/1997: Newspaper Story - After refusing to discuss the issue last week, Attorney General Jay Nixon announced Tuesday he is joining the tobacco lawsuits.
• 4/23/1997: Newspaper Story - The Senate floor leader laughed when he heard the House voted for the legislature to take over the entire Capitol.
• 4/23/1997: Newspaper Story - Tougher child support laws are designed to lower welfare costs.
• 4/23/1997: Newspaper Story - Some divorced parents say child support legislation misses some key points.
• 4/23/1997: Newspaper Story - Child support enforcement bills will make more difficult for deadbeat parents skip their support
• 4/23/1997: Newspaper Story - Nigerian environmentalists attend Missouri's Environmental Lobby Day.
• 4/22/1997: Radio Story - A bill before the Misosuri Senate proposes tougher regulation on handicap parking.
• 4/22/1997: Newspaper Story - The Senate Transportation Committee passed a bill that would be tougher on people who abuse handicapped parking privileges.
• 4/22/1997: Newspaper Story - A standing-room only crowd packed a House hearing room to hear testimoney on the welfare reform bill.
• 4/22/1997: Radio Story - Lawmakers hear legislation to toughen penalities for improperly storing a firearm that injures or kills a child.
• 4/22/1997: Radio Story - The House-Senate budget conference committee agrees to continue funding for the St. Louis auto exhaust inspection program.
• 4/21/1997: Newspaper Story - A House and Senate conference committee approved an additional $1.4 million for the U.M. system
• 4/21/1997: Radio Story - The House voted to keep the issue of home schooling out of divorce proceedings.
• 4/21/1997: Radio Story - Prompted by the pending sale of St. Louis' Deaconess Hospital, Missouri legislators move another step closer to new guidelines for selling a not-for-profit hospital.
• 4/21/1997: Radio Story - Senate delays action another day on school-desegregation legislation.
• 4/18/1997: News summary for the week of April 14, 1997.
• 4/18/1997: Newspaper Story - Conservative lawmakers form the legislative caucus COWS for women.
• 4/17/1997: Newspaper Story - The state attorney general refuses to discuss what position he will take on the tobacco industry negotiations.
• 4/17/1997: Radio Story - Missouri's attorney general refuses to discuss the state position on a settlement that will strip smokers of right to sue cigarette companies.
• 4/17/1997: Newspaper Story - Gov. Mel Carnahan and legislators split on whether to build one or two new prisons. The U.M. system wants some building money also.
• 4/17/1997: Newspaper Story - The Senate Aging committee passee the HMO regulation bill and added a "community rating" provision.
• 4/17/1997: Radio Story - Fred Goldman joins Attorney General Jay Nixon in support of victims rights
• 4/17/1997: Radio Story - House Republicans and Democrats have welcomed the only independent representative with open arms. But will the hospitality pay off for either party.
• 4/17/1997: Radio Story - The House rejects legislation to restrict fees at ATMs
• 4/16/1997: Radio Story - Senate votes to require voter approval to spend public funds on any sports stadium project in the St. Louis area.
• 4/16/1997: Newspaper Story - Gov. Mel Carnahan might be packing up and moving out of the state Capitol under a resolution passed by the House Budget Committee.
• 4/16/1997: Radio Story - The Missouri state capital building is not completely assessible to persons with disabilities.
• 4/16/1997: Newspaper Story - Legislation designed to continue school desegregation funds for St. Louis and Kansas City continues to encounter problems in the Senate.
• 4/15/1997: Radio Story - The legislature would take over the governor's office under a resolution approved by the House Budget Committee.
• 4/15/1997: Radio Story - The House passed a bill increaseing the penalties for improperly using handicapped parking permits or spaces.
• 4/15/1997: Newspaper Story - Packed-pistols supporter declares the concealed weapons issue finished for this year.
• 4/15/1997: Radio Story - Retired cops and judges could carry "packed pistols" under a measure approved by the Senate.
• 4/15/1997: Radio Story - A lawmaker urges creating a new state program to teach youth the pledge of allegiance.
• 4/15/1997: Radio Story - Now, there's one independent in the Missouri House of Representatives.
• 4/15/1997: Radio Story - Missouri lawmakers are working to prohibit the use of state funds in human cloning research.
• 4/15/1997: Radio Story - Opposition threw another punch on the senate floor in the ongoing debate as to how desegregation savings will be distributed.
• 4/15/1997: Radio Story - The Missouri House gave preliminary approval to a measure that would require insurance companies to pay for breast reconstruction following a mastectomy.
• 4/14/1997: Newspaper Story - Crime victims met at the Capitol for the first act of the Crime Victim's Rights Week.
• 4/14/1997: Radio Story - The House began debates over a measure to implement an organization to provide children's health insurance.
• 4/14/1997: Newspaper Story - Missouri's welfare agency says it is not sure it wants to test welfare recipients for drugs, as the Senate proposed in its version of welfare reform.
• 4/14/1997: Newspaper Story - The governor's plan to reduce the general sales tax on food picks up two additional tax cut proposals.
• 4/12/1997: Radio Story - The House approved an amendment that would provide more safe places for battered women in Missouri.
• 4/12/1997: Radio Story - The House threw out a provision that would have set up a sales tax to fund indigent health care in St Louis.
• 4/11/1997: News summary for the week of April 7, 1997.
• 4/10/1997: Radio Story - Feature on lawmakers who have a personal stake in the managed health care issue before the state legislature.
• 4/10/1997: Radio Story - The Missouri Senate voted, Thursday, to let you use or purchase a slot machine... as long as it's not for gambling.
• 4/ 9/1997: Newspaper Story - Missourians would have more access to issues concerning to MU system under a bill that would require open sessions for certain counceling committees.
• 4/ 9/1997: Newspaper Story - Local companies may be required to provide callers with live operators
• 4/ 9/1997: Newspaper Story - Experts beginning to predict extensive flooding in Missouri this spring.
• 4/ 8/1997: Newspaper Story - The Senate started debate on the distribution of desegregation savings.
• 4/ 8/1997: Radio Story - The House defeats bill to prohibit children riding in the back of pickup trucks.
• 4/ 8/1997: Radio Story - House election committee reviewed bill that would establish presidential primary system in Missouri.
• 4/ 8/1997: Radio Story - In a move that would impact a pending St. Louis deal, the Senate approved a bill that would give the Attorney General and Department of Health review of who purchases a not-for-profit hospital.
• 4/ 8/1997: Newspaper Story - House clears the HMO regulation bill, after staff estimate the measure will cost the state $37 million.
• 4/ 8/1997: Radio Story - A Louisians resident urged Missouri lawmakers to keep money from the gambling industry out of campaigns and elections.
• 4/ 8/1997: Radio Story - Plans for what to do after the courts drop their desegregation orders for urban schools hit Senate opposition.
• 4/ 8/1997: Radio Story - The 28 year old Missouri law for car inspections is under inspection itself.
• 4/ 8/1997: Radio Story - Bill requiring crossing arms passes out of House Education committee.
• 4/ 7/1997: Newspaper Story - The Senate gave preliminary approval to legislation outlawing partial birth abortions.
• 4/ 7/1997: Newspaper Story - An unusual coalition of liberal, conservative, male and female lawmakers say deadbeat parent legislation has gone too far.
• 4/ 7/1997: Radio Story - A Senate committee heard a bill that would require HMOs to accept any doctor who is willing to practice in medically underserved areas
• 4/ 7/1997: Radio Story - Lawmakers want to ban state funding of human cloning research.
• 4/ 7/1997: Radio Story - A bill cracking down on credit card fraud met defeat for a second time in the House.
• 4/ 7/1997: Radio Story - The House passed a measure simplifying campaign finance reporting and making lobbyist spending records easier to access.
• 4/ 7/1997: Radio Story - The Critical Issues Committee hears bill to allow government funding of abortions.
• 4/ 7/1997: Radio Story - A Senate committee rejected a House plan to limit family planning funding to goverment agencies.
• 4/ 7/1997: Radio Story - Missouri Senate voted to ban partial birth abortion Monday.
• 4/ 4/1997: News summary for the week of March 31, 1997.
• 4/ 3/1997: Radio Story - Missouri's Senate begins debate on banning partial-birth abortions.
• 4/ 3/1997: Radio Story - The house gave first round approval to a bill that will make it illegal for children under the age of eighteen to ride in the back of pick-up trucks and rewuire seatbelt use in most small trucks.
• 4/ 3/1997: Newspaper Story - Lobbyists opposing HMO regulation have intensified their efforts while they focus on the Senate.
• 4/ 3/1997: Newspaper Story - Three General Assembly members have professions that directly link them to the manged care debate.
• 4/ 3/1997: Newspaper Story - The House votes to put a faculty member on MU's Board of Curators.
• 4/ 3/1997: Radio Story - Should legislators vote on an issue if they have a conflicting interest?
• 4/ 2/1997: Newspaper Story - Legislators have offered support for tolls on a private bridge, but tolls for state bridges and highways are another matter.
• 4/ 2/1997: Radio Story - An amendment for police officers to ticket drivers and front seat passengers not wearing seat belts was voted down in the House.
• 4/ 2/1997: Newspaper Story - Children raised their voices in song at the Capital Wednesday to remind lawmakers their decisions on welfare affect some of Missouri's children.
• 4/ 1/1997: Radio Story - The Missouri Republican Party has brought out the big guns in a full fledged attack against alleged Democrat scandals, targeting St. Louis Senator, "Jet" Banks as the biggest offender.
• 4/ 1/1997: Radio Story - Missouri's major business organization renews its opposition to managed are regulation.