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May 2000 Stories

• 5/13/2000: Radio Story - The 2000 legislative session ended with 13 bills passed, a couple of notables were sent to the governor's desk while others were killed.
• 5/13/2000: Newspaper Story - The Missouri legislature closed its most unproductive session in anyone's memory Friday with each party blaming the other for the malaise.
• 5/12/2000: Newspaper Story - Staying in tune with the session's theme, the Missouri General Assembly killed more major bills Friday than it approved.
• 5/11/2000: Newspaper Story - The House finally passed the BAC bill after debating and amending it for hours. The Senate kept up the ways of stagnation by tabling a proposal to give doctors and patients the right to sue an HMO.
• 5/11/2000: Radio Story - St. Louis Senator Wayne Goode successfully deflected opposition from rural senators worried about increased administration costs.
• 5/10/2000: Newspaper Story - The Senate's top Democratic leader drops legislation to allocate tobacco settlement funds after the Senate tacks on a ban on giving the money to abortion providers or referrers.
• 5/10/2000: Radio Story - The House and Senate have now both passed the bill to try and help those people taken advantage of by telemarketers. It would also create a state list people can join that telemarketers would be prevented from calling. If a business calls a person on this list they could be fined up to $5000.
• 5/10/2000: Radio Story - St. Louis Senator Lacy Clay says the proposal will not only provide housing but will also train individuals to build those homes
• 5/10/2000: Radio Story - Anti-abortion forces have rejected the governor's effort for a compromise on the tobacco settlement funds.
• 5/10/2000: Radio Story - St. Charles Senator Ted House says the convention center will not compete with the one in St. Louis.
• 5/10/2000: Radio Story - The proposal is supported by both parties and both anti and pro death penalty legislators. The only problem is the session may end before it can pass.
• 5/ 9/2000: Newspaper Story - In a day that actually brought action to the legislature, the Assembly sent the governor bills creating a crime of domestic violence and spending billions on highways.
• 5/ 8/2000: Newspaper Story - House approval of an open meetings bill highlights legislative action on the first day of its last week for 2000.
• 5/ 8/2000: Radio Story - Representative Bill Boucher proposed the plan. He is concerned, not about the cost, but the fact that 10 000 WWII vets die each year, and wants to recognize those still alive.
• 5/ 8/2000: Radio Story - The Missouri House debated and voted on the state Open Meetings Law Monday. They made several additions to the bill from the Senate
• 5/ 5/2000: News summary for the week of May 1, 2000
• 5/ 4/2000: Radio Story - Petitions are filed to put public funding of political campaigns on Missouri's ballot.
• 5/ 3/2000: Radio Story - National money is being used to promote the state's current 8 year term limits.
• 5/ 3/2000: Radio Story - The Missouri Association of Prosecuting Attorneys supports a bill to stop executions of the mentally retarded. That support seems to be enough to get the bill passed. It is the first time they have supported the bill.
• 5/ 3/2000: Radio Story - In reaction to suspect retirement deals for three Missouri post secondary officials prompted an amendment by Senator Wayne Goode to try and stop "sweet heart deals."
• 5/ 2/2000: Radio Story - The senior Democrat in Missouri's Senate calls the House speaker a "wimp."
• 5/ 2/2000: Newspaper Story - Although those who do not receive welfare might not have heard it, a large clock in the state of Missouri began ticking July 1, 1997.
• 5/ 2/2000: Newspaper Story - The March 2000 Social Services Department statistics about who receives a TANF check.
• 5/ 2/2000: Newspaper Story - The Senate's longest-serving member called House Speaker Steve Gaw a "wimp" Tuesday, after it became clear the House is unlikely to consider scrapping current term limits.
• 5/ 2/2000: Radio Story - Even though the committee passed the bill it may be too late in the session for the bill to ever make it onto the floor of the Senate for debate or a vote.
• 5/ 1/2000: Newspaper Story - The state's General Assembly is on track to using the proposed tougher Sunshine legislation to close some records pertaining to public hospitals.
• 5/ 1/2000: Radio Story - The same committee that approved a harsh drunk driving bill earlier this year reverses itself and approves a weakened version.
• 5/ 1/2000: Radio Story - Partisan debate stalls Senate action on legislation to allocate tobacco settlement funds.