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April 1999 Stories

• 4/30/1999: News summary for the week of April 26, 1999.
• 4/29/1999: Newspaper Story - Intitiative petitions on conservation issues would be tougher to pass under a bill approved by the House on Thursday.
• 4/29/1999: Newspaper Story - While not apologizing for the commutation decision, the governor expressed his disappointment with how the decision had been communicated to relatives of Darrell Mease's victims. "That was due to human error and completely unintentional," Carnahan said.
• 4/29/1999: Newspaper Story - Senators quarreled into the night as abortion-rights supporters tried to stop a bill that backers say will stop partial birth abortion.
• 4/29/1999: Newspaper Story - If a bill passes, a fellow licensed professional must sign an affidavit before a proceeding begins.
• 4/28/1999: Newspaper Story - If Columbia is looking for help in its fight against urban sprawl, it may come from the state legislature.
• 4/28/1999: Radio Story - Representatives from the city of Bridgeton and public officials protested a bill which would pave the way for the proposed expansion of Lambert's runway
• 4/28/1999: Radio Story - Under a bill given final approval by the House, motorcycle riders over 21 won't have to wear helmets.
• 4/28/1999: Newspaper Story - Catching a fish would no longer put you at risk of being a felon, if Gov. Mel Carnahan signs a bill changing last November's cock-fighting ban.
• 4/28/1999: Newspaper Story - House passed a bill to lift helmet requirements for Missouri adults
• 4/28/1999: Newspaper Story - Sen. Ken Jacob kept the floor for two and a half hours debating Sen Ted House's bill.
• 4/27/1999: Newspaper Story - In the wake of shootings in Colorado last week, Gov. Mel Carnahan created a task force to study school violence Tuesday.
• 4/27/1999: Newspaper Story - People who invested in viatical settlements have complained of being cheated by out of state viatical firms
• 4/27/1999: Newspaper Story - The campaign to toughen drunken driving laws scored a major legislative victory in Missouri's Senate.
• 4/27/1999: Radio Story - Gov. Mel Carnahan says the task force on school violence will allow communities to speak out on ways to address this issue.
• 4/27/1999: Newspaper Story - Rep. Tim Harlan's small business health insurance bill is languishing in the Senate
• 4/27/1999: Newspaper Story - The Missouri Senate approved a bill Tuesday that could add about a cent to the price of every cigarette sold by off-brand cigarette companies.
• 4/26/1999: Radio Story - Eighty-four school districts across the state will receive grants that will help lower pre-school tuition costs for parents.
• 4/26/1999: Newspaper Story - One or two of Columbia's schools will start up full-time preschools from the money awarded from a grant.
• 4/26/1999: Newspaper Story - Representatives of anti-methamphetamine task forces from around the state gathered in Jefferson City's Polic Department Monday to celebrate the latest funding grant in the fight against what Gov. Mel Carnahan calls a "chemical killer."
• 4/26/1999: Radio Story - Senator Wayne Goode (D-St. Louis County) proposed a bill that would create a graduated driver's license system.
• 4/23/1999: News summary for the week of April 19, 1999.
• 4/22/1999: Newspaper Story - A new house bill that supports 0.08 BAC level was approved by the full house. The sponsor, however, is concern about the little chance of the plan to be approved now by the Senate.
• 4/22/1999: Newspaper Story - Republican leaders criticized "inappropriate plane use" at Thursday press conference
• 4/22/1999: Newspaper Story - Rep. Tim Harlan's nursing home bill given initial approval
• 4/22/1999: Newspaper Story - Massive crime bill passes the House with a vote of 103 to 52. Now it goes to the Senate where it will likely be modified. Includes provisions to increase hold-time, exempt the mentally retarded from the death penalty, and creates new crimes such as identity theft.
• 4/20/1999: Newspaper Story - At times the atmosphere inside Missouri's Capitol Tuesday seemed more like that of Faurot Field than of a place of government business.
• 4/20/1999: Newspaper Story - Rep. Wayne Crump's bill to restrict federal land purchases passes the House.
• 4/20/1999: Newspaper Story - Nearly 300 students joined on Missouri's statehouse to rally legislators to lower the blood alcohol content from 0.1 percent to 0.08 percent.
• 4/20/1999: Radio Story - St. Louis county Senator Franc Flotron called for a meeting between Mayor Conrad Bowers of Bridgeton and Mayor Clarence Harmon of St. Louis to discuss Lambert Airport expansion plans.
• 4/20/1999: Radio Story - Debbie Lundstrom lost her daughter to a driver with a .08 blood alcohol limit. But, critics worry a .08 limit targets social drinkers.
• 4/20/1999: Newspaper Story - Senate passed a bill requireing local law enforcement agencies to report the amounts of criminal forfeitures going to the federal government instead of the state courts.
• 4/19/1999: Radio Story - The Senate Committe on Finance held a hearing on HB 971 which would strip the city of Bridgeton of its zoning rights.
• 4/19/1999: Newspaper Story - The House approved a bill that would require factors other than one's credit rating be used when denying automobile insurance to Missourians.
• 4/19/1999: Newspaper Story - A judge would have the power to require children to attend counseling when parents file for divorce.
• 4/19/1999: Radio Story - The Senate has voted to ban all funding to abortion clinics.
• 4/19/1999: Newspaper Story - An amendment to a House helath-care appropriations bill dangled for more than four hours in the Senate before passing Monday night as legislators debated the fine points of language that will narrow a woman's access to abortion services in Missouri.
• 4/16/1999: News summary for the week of April 12, 1999.
• 4/15/1999: Radio Story - Senator Sarah Steelman introduced an amendement that she says would have stopped state's $12 million payments to expand the Transworld Dome.
• 4/15/1999: Newspaper Story - Rep. Tim Harlan's bill for tax cuts, insurance controls passes House - without opposition
• 4/15/1999: Newspaper Story - The Senate moved one step closer Tuesday to toughening the punishment for hate crimes against gays and the disabled.
• 4/14/1999: Newspaper Story - Appeals against the state's tobacco settlement have caused another snag in the state's efforts to get its $6.7 billion pay out from the tobacco industry.
• 4/14/1999: Newspaper Story - Not two weeks after voters rejected concealed weapons, a bill was introduced that would prohibit cities and counties from suing the gun industry.
• 4/14/1999: Radio Story - Missouri's lawmakers amended Rep. Don Kollers bill that focused on registration of automobiles to reduce the blood alcohol level to .08.
• 4/14/1999: Radio Story - The off-track betting bill was approved by the Senate with a vote of 18 to 16 and some Senators are concerned with how this could negatively affect the state and its citizens.
• 4/14/1999: Radio Story - The fate of Missouri's state fruit now lies in the hands of the Senate.
• 4/13/1999: Radio Story - The legislature will consider asking voters to decide whether term limits should continue.
• 4/13/1999: Newspaper Story - Rep. Sam Gaskill, R-Washburn, has proposal a bill to allow "physical force" in preventing flag desecration
• 4/13/1999: Newspaper Story - Thirteen bills were combined into one including measures to exempt the mentally retarded from the death penalty and make identity theft a crime.
• 4/13/1999: Radio Story - A bill, perfected in the House, would place tougher restrictions on telemarketing companies.
• 4/13/1999: Radio Story - The Missouri Senate moved one step closer to passing a bill Tuesday that would give harsher sentences to criminals who use hate as a motivation for choosing their victims.
• 4/13/1999: Radio Story - Senator Wayne Goode's bill passed the Senate that allows motorists to register and inspect their cars every two years instead of every year.
• 4/12/1999: Newspaper Story - As part of Tom Bass' induction into the Hall of Famous Missourians, a procession of horseback riders crossed the Missouri River Bridge, stopping traffic for 30 minutes.
• 4/12/1999: Radio Story - A calvary of horses travelling on the Missouri bridge on it's way to the state capitol stopped traffic, in honor of Tom Bass who was being inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians.
• 4/12/1999: Newspaper Story - Amendments to a crime bill debated in the House showed a different side of gun control in Missouri than that expressed by Missouri voters in Tuesday's election.
• 4/12/1999: Newspaper Story - Missouri's six statewide officeholders may soon go another mile down the information superhighway if the House approves legislation that passed the House Elections Committee on Monday.
• 4/ 9/1999: News summary for the week of April 5, 1999.
• 4/ 8/1999: Newspaper Story - Rep. Quincy Troupe, D-St. Louis, has been an outspoken champion of issues that many of his colleagues have swept under the rug.
• 4/ 8/1999: Newspaper Story - Although the bill that tries to lower the Blood Alcohol Content to 0.08 percent was killed by a senate committee, MADD will gather a students meeting in the capitol to fight for the 0.08 initiative.
• 4/ 8/1999: Newspaper Story - The Senate Public Health Comittee reversed itself and sent to the full Senate a House-passed bill to ban partial-birth abortions.
• 4/ 7/1999: Newspaper Story - A joint resolution passed the House Elections Committee that would repeal voter-approved term limits.
• 4/ 7/1999: Radio Story - A measure that would give voters a chance to repeal term limits is based on voters' confusion.
• 4/ 7/1999: Radio Story - The main issue in this debate is what to include in sex education programs.
• 4/ 7/1999: Newspaper Story - Lawmakers say Proposition B's defeat will not improve changes for gun-control legislation.
• 4/ 7/1999: Radio Story - With the failing of Proposition B, lawmakers express conflicting views about the chances of passing stricter gun control laws.
• 4/ 7/1999: Newspaper Story - Although gay marriage is not legal in the state of Missouri, many gay couples exchange vows anyway. This is the story of two men and their commitment to each other.
• 4/ 7/1999: Newspaper Story - A bill sponsored by Ted House bases higher education funding to enrollment figures.
• 4/ 7/1999: Newspaper Story - Convicted sex offenders - now released - could be re-incarcerated under a bill sponsored by House Speaker Steve Gaw, D-Moberly.
• 4/ 6/1999: Newspaper Story - Various proposals before the General Assembly would establish a program to provide grants to schools for enhanced reading programs and give schools more control over student promotion.
• 4/ 6/1999: Radio Story - The NRA loses its massive campaign to win the right to carry concealed weapons in the state of Missouri.
• 4/ 6/1999: Newspaper Story - Senator Caskey has killed the proposal to lower the current blood alcohol content from 0.1 percent to 0.8 percent.
• 4/ 5/1999: Radio Story - The Secretary of State says 1 in 4 is a high proportion for an April election.
• 4/ 5/1999: Radio Story - Missourians decide whether cell-phone users will pay an extra fifty cents per month for better 911 emergency service.
• 4/ 4/1999: Newspaper Story - At a special meeting of the Senate Judicial Committee, representatives of the attorney general's office cleared up some issues surrounding the $6.7 billion tobacco settlement's attorneys fees, its final settlement date and the purpose of off-brand tobacco legislation.
• 4/ 2/1999: News summary for the week of Mar. 29, 1999.
• 4/ 1/1999: Newspaper Story - Some Missourians don't think dignity gowns are enough - and want universal coverage.
• 4/ 1/1999: Newspaper Story - Any handgun, defined as having a barrel under 16 inches, could be concealed and carried under proposition B. This includes semiautomatic weapons such as the uzi pistol.
• 2/ 4/1999: Newspaper Story - While John and Joan can happily marry in Missouri, state lawmakers were urged Wednesday not to extend the same opportunities to the state's John and Johns -- or Joan and Joans.