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April 2002 Stories

• 4/30/2002: Newspaper Story - Sen. John Russell, R-Lebanon, said he chose to cancel a scheduled conference committee meeting Tuesday night because House Speaker Jim Kreider refused to appoint negotiators for the bulk of the budget's 12 appropriation bills.
• 4/30/2002: Newspaper Story - The Senate's top budget leaders proposed a plan Tuesday to tap $120 million from the state's Budget Reserve Fund to cover a projected shortfall in tax collections.
• 4/30/2002: Radio Story - The House adopted an amendment that says the gaming commission can't operate keno games.
• 4/30/2002: Newspaper Story - Supporters of the stadium bill fought off killer amendments in the Senate.
• 4/29/2002: Newspaper Story - Gov. Holden is meeting with House and Senate leaders about how to bridge a projected $250 million budget gap, while the Office of Administration denies that a decision has been made to withhold money for Higher Education
• 4/29/2002: Newspaper Story - As the Spanish, Missourians have made of visiting wineries a social event. With 41 wineries statewide, Missourians can enjoy some spectacular views and a few good wines.
• 4/29/2002: Newspaper Story - The bill that provides funding for the St. Louis Cardinals baseball stadium will likely be presented this week on the Senate floor for the first time.
• 4/29/2002: Newspaper Story - Two bills aimed at getting rid of exemptions that allow businesses to call people on the no call list have not gone far.
• 4/29/2002: Radio Story - Kinder's bill would allow Savvis Center to recoup sales tax money it generates--but only if an NBA team moves in and the Kiel Opera House is renovated.
• 4/26/2002: News summary for the week of April 22, 2002
• 4/26/2002: Newspaper Story - The budget, a concealed weapons bill and a two transportation plans move ahead. The stadium issue is put on hold until next week.
• 4/25/2002: Newspaper Story - After nearly nine hours of debate and the announcement of $250 million in additional 2002 budget shortfalls, the Senate approved a $18.8 billion budget Thursday night.
• 4/25/2002: Radio Story - Senate Passes Balanced Budget
• 4/25/2002: Newspaper Story - The state's financial picture is worse than expected Gov. Bob Holden announced Thursday, saying he would have to find an extra $250 million on top of earlier withholdings to keep this year's budget out of the red.
• 4/24/2002: Radio Story - The senate gave final approval to a tax increase package that would generate new revenue for road repair and mass transit.
• 4/24/2002: Radio Story - The house voted to extend the minimum sentence for rape by 5 years.
• 4/24/2002: Newspaper Story - The Missouri legislature is looking at a bill which would toughen requirements on the payday loan industry.
• 4/24/2002: Newspaper Story - The budget which came out of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday reserves a total of $568 million for the Corrections Department, only a $3 million difference from the governor's original recommendation.
• 4/24/2002: Newspaper Story - The Senate gave preliminary approval to two bills on the first day of floor debate on the budget. One sells part of the tobacco settlement, the other changes some tax regulations.
• 4/23/2002: Newspaper Story - Some Christian groups are opposed to liberalizing gambling laws.
• 4/23/2002: Newspaper Story - A review of major program funding with four weeks left in the legislative session
• 4/23/2002: Radio Story - Sen. John Loudon submitted a resolution denouncing the "Beat me in St. Louis" Convention.
• 4/22/2002: Radio Story - The suicide prevention bill would require the Department of Health and Senior Services to implement a state suicide prevention plan.
• 4/22/2002: Newspaper Story - Senate committee hears a House bill to remove limit on the amount of simulcasts a horse racing track can have
• 4/22/2002: Radio Story - A Senate committee heard a request from Louis Cella, whose family wants to build a track in St. Peters, to pass legislation that would allow unlimited simulcasting at horse race tracks
• 4/22/2002: Radio Story - Members bypassed another vote by the people like Proposition B in 1999. Instead, this bill will only need the signature of the Governor but he promises to veto it.
• 4/22/2002: Newspaper Story - Missouri's House gives first round approval to allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons.
• 4/22/2002: Radio Story - The Senate Appropriation Committee cut Bright Flight Scholarships by 10 percent.
• 4/19/2002: News summary for the week of April 15, 2002
• 4/19/2002: Newspaper Story - The budget and a transportation plan move ahead. The Senate stadium proposal stays put.
• 4/19/2002: Newspaper Story - Funding for the new Cardinals' stadium is finding little support this year.
• 4/18/2002: Newspaper Story - Mortgaging Missouri's tobacco settlement has emerged as a solution to the state's budget crisis
• 4/18/2002: Radio Story - The House begins debate on the concealed weapons bill.
• 4/18/2002: Newspaper Story - Funding to continue twice daily Amtrak service between St. Louis and Kansas City is still up in the air
• 4/18/2002: Newspaper Story - The Senate Appropriations Committee slashed the K-12 education funding recommendations of both the governor and the House by nearly $150 million Thursday.
• 4/17/2002: Newspaper Story - The Senate gave first round approval to a transportation plan that is expected to raise $500 million in revenue.
• 4/17/2002: Radio Story - The Missouri Senate gives first-round approval to a $1/2 billion tax package for transportation.
• 4/17/2002: Newspaper Story - The House's $720,000 message to the University of Missouri fell on deaf ears in the Senate Appropriations Committee Wednesday night.
• 4/17/2002: Radio Story - The House rejected an amendment that would ban corporal punishment in schools.
• 4/17/2002: Radio Story - The House has allotted twenty-five percent of the public broadcasting budget for radio, while the Senate is currently not giving radio any money.
• 4/17/2002: Radio Story - Missouri voters would vote on a $1/2 billion transportation tax package under a measure approved by Missouri's Senate.
• 4/17/2002: Newspaper Story - The House approved a request by MU to lease land in order to gain money to build a performing arts center.
• 4/17/2002: Newspaper Story - Hispanics call for Gov. Holden to bring state government closer to Hispanic Missourians.
• 4/17/2002: Newspaper Story - Members of the General Assembly say debate and votes on conceal and carry legislation could come as soon as next week; advocates of hte legislation were at the Capitol Wednesday
• 4/17/2002: Radio Story - The house gave primary approval to a bill meant to stop bullies.
• 4/17/2002: Newspaper Story - The House approved legislation Wednesday that would require school districts to establish policies prohibiting bullying.
• 4/17/2002: Radio Story - House is scheduled to vote on a bill allowing the St. Louis City School District to raise their compulsory school age from 16 to 17.
• 4/17/2002: Newspaper Story - The Senate Education Committee heard testimony on the proposed change of Southwest Missouri State University's name to Missouri State University
• 4/16/2002: Radio Story - A tearful budget plea is made on Missouri's Senate floor.
• 4/16/2002: Radio Story - Bill would allow voters to recall unruly Kansas City Board Members
• 4/16/2002: Newspaper Story - About 40 members of Missouri's growing Hispanic community responded Tuesday to a call from Gov. Holden to bring the state government closer to the Hispanic community in Missouri.
• 4/16/2002: Radio Story - Henry Rizzo of Kansas City proposes that illegal immigrants receive drivers licenses without presenting a Social Secruity Number.
• 4/16/2002: Radio Story - The House gave preliminary approval to a bill that allows the student on the UM board of curators to vote.
• 4/16/2002: Radio Story - Senators are debating over the benefits of increasing the amount of time resorts in several Lake of the Ozark counties can sell alcohol.
• 4/15/2002: Newspaper Story - Anti-death penalty legislators try again for a moratorium.
• 4/15/2002: Radio Story - Female legislators wore hats on the House floor to celebrate the end of tax season.
• 4/15/2002: Radio Story - Burning houses of worship would be labaled a hate crime under Representative Haywood's bill.
• 4/15/2002: Radio Story - The Senate discussed a bill today that would allow adopted children age fifty and older access to their birth records.
• 4/12/2002: News summary for the week of April 8, 2002
• 4/12/2002: Newspaper Story - This describes what the legislature did this week and what is expected next week with bills on the budget, transportation and stadiums.
• 4/11/2002: Radio Story - Both the speaker and the Republican leader say the Senate's tobacco borrowing plan is a bad idea.
• 4/11/2002: Radio Story - Kreider says until the Senate passes its version of the Cardinals stadium deal, the House version won't be placed on the calendar.
• 4/10/2002: Radio Story - Republicans stalled a final vote on a transportation tax increase affecting the sales and gasoline taxes.
• 4/10/2002: Radio Story - Republican Senator Morris Westfall's bill could be heard again as early as next week.
• 4/10/2002: Newspaper Story - A proposed increase in the sales and fuel taxes received opposition from Senate Republicans who slowed debate and delayed a vote on Wednesday
• 4/10/2002: Newspaper Story - The House on Wednesday debated a bill to strengthen nursing home regulations and rejected amendments limiting access to consumer complaints against the institutions.
• 4/ 9/2002: Radio Story - The Cardinals face more restrictions, but the Blues will get more money.
• 4/ 9/2002: Newspaper Story - Lawmakers defeated Gov. Bob Holden's proposal to tap into the state's Rainy Day Fund, with the plan falling short of the support it needed to pass the House Tuesday.
• 4/ 9/2002: Radio Story - The Senate has given initial approval to limits on interest rates and renewals of payday loans.
• 4/ 9/2002: Radio Story - The Missouri House gave first-round approval to a bill allowing police officers to live where they choose, even if it is outside city, town, or county limits.
• 4/ 9/2002: Radio Story - St. Louis City Senators stalled voting on a bill that would change Lambert Airport control from the city to surrounding counties.
• 4/ 8/2002: Radio Story - An era comes to an end--Senator Morris Westfall will leave office at the end of session due to term limits.
• 4/ 8/2002: Radio Story - A quick vote spilts almost perfectly along party lines and moves foward legislation to use the state's emergency funds to balance the budget.
• 4/ 8/2002: Radio Story - The Senate shelved legislation to expand requirements for child safety seats in autos.
• 4/ 8/2002: Radio Story - House bill 1877 isn't getting a lot of support from the Senate.
• 4/ 8/2002: Radio Story - As the Senate review's the budget, the Rainy Day Fund could determine the outcome.
• 4/ 8/2002: Newspaper Story - The House gave preliminary approval to use of the rainy day fund but the vote fell short of the 2/3 majority needed for final approval
• 4/ 8/2002: Newspaper Story - Several members of the Senate Appropriations Committee agreed the school foundation formula would not be fully funded next year.
• 4/ 5/2002: News summary for the week of April 1, 2002
• 4/ 5/2002: Newspaper Story - Missouri's House Budget Committee reduced the proposed cut to the Mental Health Department from 20 percent to three percent.
• 4/ 5/2002: Newspaper Story - Sen. John Russell said the school foundation program probably won't be fully funded at the expense of other programs.
• 4/ 5/2002: Newspaper Story - Rep. Farnen offered a humorous amendment in the House Thursday.
• 4/ 4/2002: Radio Story - The House decided to hold debate on the controversial Rainy Day Fund proposal until Monday, and work on bills with a Friday deadline instead.
• 4/ 4/2002: Newspaper Story - The Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee voiced concerns over $500,000 cut to the University of Missouri's budget over a patriotic ribbon policy at KOMU-TV
• 4/ 4/2002: Newspaper Story - The foundation formula is something that the governor and most lawmakers want to fully fund, but many are not even able to explain.
• 4/ 4/2002: Radio Story - Steelman says unless Major League Baseball implements economic reforms, the state shouldn't be giving out money for new stadiums.
• 4/ 4/2002: Newspaper Story - House leaders delayed a vote to tap the state's Budget Reserve Fund late Thursday after giving preliminary approval to most of the state's budget.
• 4/ 3/2002: Radio Story - The house passed an amendment that cuts an amount equal to the salary of a University of Missouri-St. Louis Lobbyist
• 4/ 3/2002: Newspaper Story - The Senate amended a bill that establishes sales tax holiday and requires retailers to return sales tax refunds to those paying the tax
• 4/ 3/2002: Newspaper Story - The Senate on Wednesday amended a bill that establishes sales tax holiday and requires retailers to return sales tax refunds to those paying the tax.
• 4/ 3/2002: Newspaper Story - The House took $15 million from supplemental funds and put them into special education
• 4/ 3/2002: Radio Story - The House adopted amendments cutting University funding as a message to the University.
• 4/ 3/2002: Newspaper Story - The Missouri House on Wednesday adopted amendments which would reduce the University of Missouri's budget by $720,000 in retaliation against criticized policies.
• 4/ 3/2002: Radio Story - The Missouri House cuts UM's budget in response to lawmakers' anger at three members of university's faculty and staff
• 4/ 2/2002: Radio Story - Missourians 65 years or older not receiving Medicaid Coverage can now sign up for prescription assistance from the State. Single Residents must make less than $17,000 a year while married couples must make less than $23,000 a year to be eligible.
• 4/ 2/2002: Radio Story - The long awaited property tax bill for Missouri finally found its way to the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon.
• 4/ 2/2002: Radio Story - The move is a bipartisan effort to ensure that a balanced budget gets to the governor.
• 4/ 2/2002: Newspaper Story - Missouri's budget got off to a smooth start on the House floor Tuesday, with lawmakers approving the ground rules for debate with support from both sides of the aisle.
• 4/ 2/2002: Radio Story - The Missouri House passed a resolution that could help prevent some budget problems.
• 4/ 1/2002: Radio Story - Holden says he will consider it a successful legislative session if a balanced budget is passed.