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February 1999 Stories

• 2/26/1999: News summary for the week of Feb. 22, 1999.
• 2/26/1999: Newspaper Story - A day after Missouri conducted its latest execution, a legislative committee was urged to make the punishment a relic of the past.
• 2/25/1999: Newspaper Story - If the bill becomes a law, drivers under 18 only could get an "intermediate" driving license, with some restrictions. For example, they would not be allowed to drive between 1 and 5 a.m.
• 2/25/1999: Newspaper Story - A new measure would cut tax credits to persons who employs illegal aliens. the sponsor said this bill would help to reduce the illegals crime
• 2/24/1999: Newspaper Story - Victims chosen because of their sexual orientation, gender or disability would receive stronger penalties if a proposed bill passes.
• 2/24/1999: Newspaper Story - Department of Conservation is looking into bringing elk back to Missouri.
• 2/23/1999: Radio Story - A second tax-cut bill has stalled in Missouri's Senate.
• 2/23/1999: Newspaper Story - Bill to prohibit employment and insurance discrimination on the basis of genetic information.
• 2/23/1999: Radio Story - Rep. Sam Gaskill proposed a bill that would require hospitals to offer dignity gowns to patients.
• 2/23/1999: Radio Story - Sen. Wayne Goode proposed a bill that would require parents to supervise drivers under 18 for at least 10 hours before they can get a license.
• 2/23/1999: Newspaper Story - Missouri's Senate passes a ban on same-sex marriages.
• 2/23/1999: Newspaper Story - Rep. Tim Harlan, D-Columbia, has sponsored a bill lifting a ban on nursing home expansion in some areas
• 2/23/1999: Newspaper Story - Under Sen. Ted House's bill, porn victims would be able to bring civil action against porn manufactures, producers, and wholesale distributors
• 2/23/1999: Newspaper Story - Rep. Emmy McClelland, R-St. Louis County, is sponsoring a bill that would require the Education Department to promote service learning.
• 2/23/1999: Newspaper Story - Extended debate blocked Senate approval of a bill to require abstinence be stressed in sex education.
• 2/22/1999: Radio Story - With the 15-year plan in pieces, the Highway Department is looking to the state legislature to help them get more money.
• 2/22/1999: Newspaper Story - Ken Rothman, Missouri's Lieutenant Governor from 1980-1984 and former speaker of the Missouri House has confirmed that he will file a law suit through several undisclosed legislators to seek the repealing of term limits.
• 2/22/1999: Newspaper Story - In a news release issued by the Missouri Catholic Conference, a stay of all executions was requested. James Rodden, who is scheduled to die on Wednesday, is the first individual set to be executed since Gov Mel Carnahan commuted the death sentence of convicted murderer Darrell Mease at the request of the Pope
• 2/22/1999: Radio Story - The Missouri Catholic Conference is hoping Governor Carnahan will commute the sentence of another death row inmate.
• 2/19/1999: News summary for the week of Feb. 15, 1999.
• 2/18/1999: Radio Story - Rep. Mary Hagan-Harrell introduced legislation that would increase monthly retirement benefits for lawmakers while reducing the eligibility requirements.
• 2/18/1999: Newspaper Story - Small business health insurance, a major aspect of Rep. Tim Harlan's agenda, draws criticism from members
• 2/18/1999: Newspaper Story - The House Criminal Law Cimmittee approved Thursday a ban on partial-birth abortion similar to what the governor vetoed two years ago.
• 2/17/1999: Newspaper Story - 29 year senate veteran, John Schneider, has presented a joint senate resolution that would repeal term limits and would then place term limits on the positions of speaker of the house and senate pro tem.
• 2/17/1999: Radio Story - Marcia Richardson, a spokeswoman for ACLU, says that posting information about sex ofenders on the Internet is an invasion of privacy.
• 2/17/1999: Newspaper Story - Anti-abortion legislators asked a state attorney to request the U.S. Court of Appeals to require Planned Parenthood to return family planning funds.
• 2/17/1999: Newspaper Story - A bill that would create a faculty representative to the Board of Curators and allow the faculty and student curators to attend closed meetings will see the General Assembly.
• 2/16/1999: Newspaper Story - Partisan bickering Tuesday blocked a Senate Democratic leadership plan to advance the governor's nearly $200-million tax-cut package. The Senate's Fat Tuesday debate on how to trim the fat lasted well into the evening for the first time this year.
• 2/16/1999: Newspaper Story - A Senate committee has voted to force off-brand tobacco companies to pay into a special escrow account to sell their products in Missouri.
• 2/16/1999: Radio Story - A new proposal would stop the Department of Revenue from sharing public driving records. The Senate Transportation committee voted to move the bill to the Senate floor for debate.
• 2/16/1999: Newspaper Story - The Senate Transport Committee approved a bill that prohibit the state to release personal information from the drivers license records. Missouri Press Assosiation was the only opposition to the bill during the hearing.
• 2/16/1999: Newspaper Story - A bill sponsored by Vicky Riback-Wilson will bring anonymous testing to Mid-Missouri
• 2/16/1999: Radio Story - Tobacco companies that are not part of the tobacco settlement may have to pay money to go into an escrow fund.
• 2/16/1999: Newspaper Story - A few Missouri lawmakers are rallying around a bill to require dignity gowns for hospital patients
• 2/16/1999: Radio Story - Rep. Marsha Campbell (D-Kansas City) is making her third attempt at requiring bounty hunters to be licensed.
• 2/12/1999: News summary for the week of Feb. 8, 1999. ~~
• 2/11/1999: Newspaper Story - Gov. Carnahan has issued an executive order to state agencies to increase pork consumption in a effort help hog farmers, who have fallen on tough economic times.
• 2/11/1999: Newspaper Story - Brief spat over hearing incident embarrasses state GOP spokesman
• 2/11/1999: Newspaper Story - House leaders want to change the referendum procedure as it realtes to conservation issues to a 2/3 majority rather than a simple one.
• 2/10/1999: Radio Story - Representatives Marsha Campbell and Gracia Backer presented a bill that would allow the General Assembly to approve each school's budget in a campus-by-campus manner.
• 2/10/1999: Radio Story - In light of recent economic prosperity, the Missouri senate works to give the people of Missouri a tax break.
• 2/10/1999: Newspaper Story - Proposed legislation would specifically put the UM system under the sunshine law.
• 2/10/1999: Newspaper Story - Proposed legislation would require separate budgets for the four UM campuses.
• 2/10/1999: Newspaper Story - There's a new name for this year's partial birth abortion bill
• 2/ 9/1999: Radio Story - A Senate committee debated what to do with the windfall once it starts coming in next year.
• 2/ 9/1999: Newspaper Story - If a St. Louis lawmaker is successful, drivers with 10 or more parking tickets in the same city would have their driver's license revoked until they pay all their fines.
• 2/ 9/1999: Newspaper Story - Last year 40,000 people were victims of identity theft, one of the fastest growing crimes in the nation. Missouri Legislators have proposed four new bills in response to victims' lobbying.
• 2/ 9/1999: Radio Story - Hundreds of home schooled students arrived in Jefferson City to protest Representative Bill Skaggs' bill that would require testing for home schooled students.
• 2/ 9/1999: Newspaper Story - Senate Retirement committee pushes bill to the legislature that will establish a fund to hold the tobacco settlement money while it decides what to do with it.
• 2/ 9/1999: Radio Story - Missouri State Senator Steve Stoll introduces a bill that would require any student to read at his or her grade level.
• 2/ 9/1999: Radio Story - The crowd of home-schooled students didn't need permission slips to skip class today. Their parents were right there with them, all on hand to protest one bill offered by a Kansas City lawmaker.
• 2/ 9/1999: Newspaper Story - Hundreds of home-school families took a field trip to the Capitol on Tuesday. But they didn't come just to learn about state politics.
• 2/ 9/1999: Radio Story - Sen. Betty Sims presented a bill that would allow cities to install a system that would photograph license plates of cars that run a red light.
• 2/ 8/1999: Radio Story - At least one state lawmaker expressed disapproval of flying American flags at half-staff in honor of Jordan's late King Hussein.
• 2/ 8/1999: Newspaper Story - Rep. Brian May, D-St. Louis, has presented legislation that would clarify current bribery statutes and would redefine the term public servant, thus making it illegal for all public officials, paid or not, to be subject to state bribery laws.
• 2/ 6/1999: Radio Story - Hundreds of people rallied in front of the Governor's Mansion and the State Capital to send a message of peace to Missouri politicans.
• 2/ 5/1999: News summary for the week of Feb. 1, 1999. ~~
• 2/ 4/1999: Newspaper Story - A slew of health insurance mandates are coming through the legislature this year
• 2/ 4/1999: Newspaper Story - Stay-at-home moms would receive a $400 tax break if Rep. Kreider passes a bill in the General Assembly this term.
• 2/ 3/1999: Radio Story - Brad Ketcher, the governor's Chief of Staff, said that Gov. Mel Carnahan supports requiring juvenile sex offenders to register.
• 2/ 3/1999: Newspaper Story - Sen. Russell proposed two bills to require children to attend school. One would eliminate public assistance, and the other would require students under 18 to be in school in order to receive a driver's license.
• 2/ 3/1999: Radio Story - Republican Senator David Klarich of St. Louis County presented legislation to the senate civil justice committee that would not recognize same sex marriages in Missouri. The bill would prevent gay couples from receiving the same benefits as heterosexual couples.
• 2/ 3/1999: Newspaper Story - The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out Planned Parenthood's lawsuit to receive a portion of state family planning funds.
• 2/ 2/1999: Newspaper Story - Missouri's two major teachers unions split over collective bargaining
• 2/ 2/1999: Newspaper Story - Rep. Quincy Troupe, D-St. Louis, is sponsoring a bill that would require employers to give former welfare recipients the same rights as existing workers.
• 2/ 2/1999: Radio Story - Motorcycle drivers and riders over 21 would not have to wear a helmet if a new bill passes in the Senate.
• 2/ 2/1999: Radio Story - One of the state's main teacher organizations urges lawmakers to reject collective bargaining rights for government workers.
• 2/ 1/1999: Radio Story - The Governor says it was the personal request from the Pope which prompted him to take Mease off death row.
• 2/ 1/1999: Newspaper Story - Columbia Representative, Chuck Graham, has proposed legislation that would repeal the presidential primary in the state of Missouri. The primary, in its current state, is a waste of money and accomplishes nothing, according to Graham.
• 2/ 1/1999: Newspaper Story - In his first appearance in front of Missouri statehouse reporters, Gov. Mel Carnahan explained his reasons for commuting the death sentence of Darrell Mease, a convicted murder of three.
• 2/ 1/1999: Radio Story - Rep. Hollingsworth proposed a database for care providers to help families make a decision.
• 2/ 1/1999: Newspaper Story - Two Columbia parents spoke in favor of a bill to provide a toll-free phone line to access background checks for elderly and child care providers.