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April 2008 Stories

• 4/30/2008: Newspaper Story - Missouri House spends hours perfecting a tax bill
• 4/30/2008: Radio Story - Keep your gas receipts and you may be reimbursed after Summer's end.
• 4/30/2008: Radio Story - A proposed Medicaid amendment came from an unexpected source in the Missouri House.
• 4/30/2008: Radio Story - Legislators agree action must be taken to prevent sexual abuse in Missouri Schools
• 4/29/2008: Radio Story - Gun rights advocates at a rally in the Capitol Tuesday urged support of a bill that would create criminal immunity for owners and users of gun ranges. Rebecca Layne has more from Jefferson City.
• 4/29/2008: Newspaper Story - Members of the Senate say they accidentally passed a bill that would make the chemical abortion illegal
• 4/29/2008: Radio Story - Missouri budget negotiators continues to support two Amtrak passenger trains running back and forth across the state.
• 4/29/2008: Radio Story - The House Crime Prevention Committee heard a constitutional amendment that would allow the retrospective application of sex offender registration laws.
• 4/28/2008: Newspaper Story - U.S. Supreme Court upholds voter ID law, but Missouri lawmakers say it won't affect the state
• 4/28/2008: Radio Story - One bill passed through the House will require state government buildings to fly the state and national flags half-staff for a day when a Missouri resident is killed in combat
• 4/28/2008: Newspaper Story - Three House Republicans have been asked by Democrats to recuse themselves from an important campaign finance vote.
• 4/28/2008: Radio Story - The State House Minority Leader asked three Republican members not to vote in an upcoming bill.
• 4/28/2008: Radio Story - The Supreme Court ruling allowing a photo I.D. requirement for Indiana voters won't impact Missourians
• 4/28/2008: Radio Story - An effort to provide partial deregulation of phone rates ranto a rural fillibuster over dead birds.
• 4/27/2008: News summary for the week of April 21, 2008
• 4/24/2008: Radio Story - The midwifery bill is held over as senators debate liability.
• 4/24/2008: Newspaper Story - Senate debates bill that would legalize midwifery
• 4/23/2008: Newspaper Story - Though lawmakers say sale of MOHELA's assets had no effect on state budget, public institutions might feel effects from loan agency's money crunch
• 4/23/2008: Radio Story - Missouri legislators began debate over a new Insure Missouri program under the Missouri Health Transformation Act, sponsored by Republican Senator Tom Dempsey.
• 4/23/2008: Newspaper Story - Missouri House endorsed a bill that makes an unapproved Kansas City power plant legal
• 4/23/2008: Radio Story - A KMOX investigation has found that a legislator with a major voice in gaming legislation received money to stay at the Ameristar Casino.
• 4/23/2008: Radio Story - Alcohol related offenders could be required to use a breathalizer.
• 4/23/2008: Radio Story - The Missouri Senate granted first round approval to a bill that will establish harsher penalties for air and water pollution.
• 4/22/2008: Radio Story - The House Crime Prevention Committee passed a measure that would consider cyber-bullying a harassment crime.
• 4/22/2008: Radio Story - The Senate debated a measure that supporters say would give health care coverage to more than 200,000 people, but some Senate Democrats say it doesn't go far enough. Rebecca Layne has more from Jefferson City.
• 4/22/2008: Newspaper Story - Insure Missouri remains in the Senate as legislators debate amendments.
• 4/21/2008: Radio Story - Missouri's illegal immigration debate rages on.
• 4/21/2008: Newspaper Story - The Missouri House voted to extend laws against coercion of abortions.
• 4/21/2008: Newspaper Story - Missouri Corn Merchandising Council paid for study that suggests ethanol saves Missourians almost 10 cents per gallon.
• 4/21/2008: Radio Story - A senate bill making the Death Penalty possible for Child Rapists unexpectedly picked up Speed Monday in Jefferson City.
• 4/21/2008: Radio Story - The Missouri House passed a bill that would make getting an abortion even more difficult.
• 4/21/2008: Radio Story - A bill that would create a Children's Bill of Rights in court faced controversy from the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman.
• 4/21/2008: Radio Story - Missouri Corn Merchandising Council funded a study saying Ethanol will save Missourians nearly 10 cents a gallon at the pump.
• 4/20/2008: News summary for the week of April 14, 2008
• 4/17/2008: Newspaper Story - Legislation seeks to address obesity.
• 4/16/2008: Radio Story - Legislation banning illegal foreigners from public universities would save illegal students time and money
• 4/16/2008: Radio Story - Governor Blunt calls on Missouri courts to issue execution dates for pending delath penalty cases
• 4/16/2008: Newspaper Story - UM System will see 4.8 percent increase in funding under budget approved by state Senate
• 4/16/2008: Newspaper Story - Gov. Blunt and Jay Nixon have called upon the state to resume executions after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled lethal injection constitutional.
• 4/16/2008: Radio Story - The Missouri House of Representatives approved a tax free week for energy efficient merchandise.
• 4/16/2008: Radio Story - Missouri Republicans agree that polygamous relationships are wrong but how the state deals with children in those cases is a delicate matter.
• 4/16/2008: Radio Story - The sexual affairs between a teacher and his 13-year-old student prompted legislation that made its way from the House to the Senate.
• 4/16/2008: Radio Story - A bill that would protect student from sexual misconduct passed the Missouri House in a 139 to six landslide and made its way to the Senate Education Committee.
• 4/15/2008: Radio Story - A bill that passed through from the House on Tuesday would block politicians and their relatives from benefiting from tax credits of large-scale projects. Rebecca Layne has more from Jefferson City.
• 4/15/2008: Radio Story - Missouri voters would have the opportunity to raise sales tax to support veterans under a bill passed by the House.
• 4/15/2008: Radio Story - The House Health Care Policy Committee heard a bi-partisan plea for autism insurance coverage.
• 4/14/2008: Radio Story - The State Water Patrol looks to keep its commissioner a permanent part of its family.
• 4/14/2008: Newspaper Story - House gives initial approval to a bill that would put more non-lawyers on nominating board
• 4/13/2008: News summary for the week of April 7, 2008
• 4/ 9/2008: Newspaper Story - Missouri House perfected its omnibus immigration bill after opposition from St. Louis and Kansas City representatives
• 4/ 9/2008: Radio Story - While the Missouri Senate talked about administration proposals and tax breaks for foreign companies, the House passed a bill to crack down on illegal foreigners.
• 4/ 8/2008: Radio Story - The House committee on energy and environment heard a bill that would prohibit St Louis county's attempt to establish trash monopoly program
• 4/ 8/2008: Radio Story - St. Louis will finally get control of its own police department if a last-second change doesn't hold the bill back. Rebecca Layne has more from Jefferson City.
• 4/ 8/2008: Radio Story - The death of a legislator's child prompted a bill that would provide a tax deduction for funeral expenses.
• 4/ 8/2008: Radio Story - A bill that proponents say would reduce the risk of future adverse incidents in hospitals faced no opposition at the Senate Health Committee Hearing.
• 4/ 8/2008: Newspaper Story - The Senate Health Committee approves a major expansion of government-funded health care.
• 4/ 7/2008: Radio Story - A bill that would put tougher restrictions on petitioners passes the Senate Finance Committee
• 4/ 7/2008: Newspaper Story - Sen. Joan Bray requested an increase to the UM System budget
• 4/ 7/2008: Radio Story - A Senate Bill that would make the death penalty possible for those convicted of child rape faced opposition at a Monday Judiciary Hearing.
• 4/ 7/2008: Radio Story - Missourians will celebrate the life of President Ronald Reagan with a day named in his honor.
• 4/ 6/2008: News summary for the week of March 31, 2008
• 4/ 3/2008: Radio Story - The leading members of the House Budget committee clashed over state funding of public schools on this week's edition of the public television program Jeff City Journal. Rebecca Layne has more from Jefferson City.
• 4/ 2/2008: Newspaper Story - Senate approved amendment despite party politics and opposition from majority floor leader
• 4/ 2/2008: Radio Story - Missouri House members are not taking a gamble on new casino liscensing.
• 4/ 1/2008: Radio Story - The Missouri House passed a proposed constitutional amendment with an overwhelming majority that would limit local property tax increases.
• 4/ 1/2008: Radio Story - Bare headed bikers get the okay from the Missouri House
• 4/ 1/2008: Radio Story - With only six weeks remaining in the legislature, a bill that seeks a moratorium of the death penalty in Missouri may have arrived too late. Rebecca Layne has more from Jefferson City.
• 4/ 1/2008: Newspaper Story - House bill to create a death penalty commission and empose a moratorium until January 2011.
• 4/ 1/2008: Radio Story - After months of delay, Missouri legislators finally got around to hearing the governor's plan for expanding health care.