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1996 Business Stories

• 12/11/1996: Newspaper Story - Business opposition surfaces to legislative plan for tougher regulation of managed care health plans.
• 12/ 6/1996: Radio Story - In-depth feature on Missouri impact of the Prudential Insurance Company charges and national settlement.
• 12/ 5/1996: Radio Story - Governor to make managed care part of his legislative agenda.
• 11/21/1996: Radio Story - Missouri part of nationwide agreement on auto leasing.
• 11/19/1996: Radio Story - Directors of Health and Labor announced their resignations at the same time.
• 11/19/1996: Radio Story - Head of the Missouri Health Department resigns.
• 11/14/1996: Radio Story - The Missouri Department of Insurance releases a list ranking insurance companies by number of customer complaints.
• 11/14/1996: Radio Story - The Department of Insurance publishes a new consumer complaint index on the state's top 40 insurance companies.
• 10/30/1996: Newspaper Story - HMO representatives argue for gag rules on doctors.
• 10/28/1996: Radio Story - HMO draft regulations unveiled by a legislative committee.
• 10/25/1996: Newspaper Story - Missouri's minimum wage debate echoes Canadian debate
• 10/24/1996: Newspaper Story - Backgrounder on the minimum wage ballot issue.
• 10/24/1996: Radio Story - Missouri's minimum wage debate echoes Canadian debate.
• 10/22/1996: Radio Story - State Labor Department predicts minimum wage proposal will cause confusion.
• 10/21/1996: Radio Story - The cost estimate of an increase in minimum wage is taken off the ballot.
• 10/ 4/1996: Radio Story - Opposing sides approve a court decision to keep ballot language showing the cost of a minimum wage increase to the state.
• 10/ 4/1996: Radio Story - Opponents of a minimum wage increase win a court battle to keep language the same on the November ballot.
• 10/ 4/1996: Radio Story - Supporters of a minimum wage increase lose a lawsuit to change ballot language about finanacial impact.
• 9/20/1996: Radio Story - Proponents of a minimum wage increase file a lawsuit against the state, alleging biased wording on the ballot.
• 9/10/1996: Newspaper Story - State considers appeal of court rejection of Blue Cross profit-making order.
• 9/10/1996: Radio Story - Legislative health committee zeroing in on managed-care regulation.
• 9/10/1996: Radio Story - Missouri's Department of Insurance has not yet decided to appeal the ruling in favor of Blue Cross keeping it's assets.
• 9/ 9/1996: Radio Story - Business plans $1 million campaign against the minimum wage proposal on the November ballot.
• 9/ 6/1996: Newspaper Story - Legislative committee moving toward HMO regulation.
• 9/ 5/1996: Radio Story - Senator Jim Mathewson's Welfare to Work program gets people back to work and makes sure they don't abuse state assistance.
• 9/ 5/1996: Radio Story - Missouri's Welfare to Work program takes 24-hundred people off food stamps and into the work force.
• 8/30/1996: Radio Story - Candidates for attorney general agree that the state shouldn't waste the money on lawsuits.
• 8/30/1996: Newspaper Story - No immediate effect for mid-Missourians from Boatman's Bank merger.
• 8/29/1996: Radio Story - Health Department spokesman favors state suing tobacco industry.
• 8/29/1996: Radio Story - Ballot status for state minimum wage to be announced after Labor Day.
• 8/27/1996: Radio Story - State delays on tobacco lawsuit about health costs.
• 5/18/1996: Lobbyist gift ban dies in Missouri's 1996 legislative session.
• 5/17/1996: The House lifts credit card percentage caps to lure more retail business
• 5/16/1996: The relatives of patients with Alzheimers disease would get more information concerning their loved ones.
• 5/16/1996: The senate votes to strip an anti-lobbyist amendment from a crime bill.
• 5/14/1996: The Missouri Legislature says yes to tighter control of student athletes and their agents on the M.U. campus.
• 5/14/1996: The legislature sends the governor a bill for tighter regulations on athletic agents and their student clients.
• 5/ 9/1996: Bill lets tailgaters into bars on Sunday morning
• 5/ 9/1996: Bill lets wholesalers sell liquor with non-alcoholic products
• 5/ 9/1996: Non-married, same-sex pigs authorized to carry concealed weapons under legislative staffer's suggested bill.
• 5/ 7/1996: The Senate passes a bill making it a crime to sell human remains.
• 5/ 6/1996: House rejects efforts by black legislators to restrict alcohol advertising in minority areas.
• 5/ 6/1996: A Legislator's efforts to ban advertising in black communities got shot down in the House.
• 5/ 1/1996: The long battle over telecommunications is over, and the governor is expected to sign a telecom bill.
• 5/ 1/1996: Governor gets bill to assure hospital stay coverage for women after they deliver.
• 4/30/1996: AARP says bill doesn't make insurance company pay back enough.
• 4/23/1996: Senate approves reinstating a type of local sales tax.
• 4/23/1996: KC Blue Shield Blue Cross's for-profit plan hits Senate opposition.
• 4/23/1996: Senate debate blocks vote on Blue Cross & Blue Shield's for-profit plans.
• 4/23/1996: Committee hears environmental secrecy protection bill on Earth Day.
• 4/19/1996: The death of an all-night convenience store clerk prompts legislation.
• 4/18/1996: Hemp-production resolution passes Senate (newspaper story).
• 4/18/1996: The Senate passes a resolution favoring hemp research and production
• 4/10/1996: Basic rates for phone services could rise under Senate-passed bill.
• 4/10/1996: Senate gives preliminary approval to bill that would raise local phone rates.
• 4/10/1996: Phone regulation bill comes before Senate.
• 4/ 9/1996: Senate debates telecommunication bill for hours, makes no decision.
• 3/20/1996: Both proponents and opponents to a proposed telecommunications bill agree it will raise rates.
• 3/20/1996: Anti-smoking forces charge tobacco industry trying to block local control of tobacco.
• 2/28/1996: Secretary of State charges Lloyd's of London with securites fraud.
• 2/28/1996: Missouri legislators stall on HMO bills, while the medical community and insurance industry continue to bicker.
• 2/22/1996: Senate delays vote on lobbyist gift ban.
• 2/21/1996: Truckers would get fatter pay checks with faster speeds.
• 2/20/1996: In effort to stall regulatory measures on HMOs, Senate President Pro Tem asked colleagues to form a packaged health care plan.
• 2/20/1996: Committee hears bill to give fired employees a reason to find out why.
• 2/13/1996: What's an HMO that's getting so much legislative attention.
• 2/13/1996: Main provisions in the various HMO bills.
• 2/13/1996: Complaints about HMOs prompt legislative action.
• 2/ 9/1996: Rural legislators trying again to impose environmental regulations on large livestock plants.
• 2/ 9/1996: Infobox on livestock plant regulation bills that have been filed.
• 2/ 7/1996: Labor pushing for ban on hiring replacement workers.
• 2/ 7/1996: Blue Cross profit-making plans run into legislative questions.
• 2/ 7/1996: Blue Cross Blue Shield asks legislature to allow it to become profit making.
• 2/ 6/1996: Docs rally to demand HMO regulation.
• 2/ 5/1996: Proposals filed to give corporate polluters a break.
• 1/30/1996: Business Pollution Secrecy Proposed
• 1/23/1996: Comittee hearings proposal to ban CATV apartment charges.
• 1/17/1996: Republicans claim Carnahan is taking credit for their plan
• 1/17/1996: Missouri farmers speak out against hog industry effects on the environment.
• 1/17/1996: Governor leaves health insurance regulation off his agenda.
• 1/17/1996: Experts agree with governor that the state's economy is booming.
• 1/10/1996: Insurance industry questions bill to assure minimum hospital stay for birth.
• 1/ 4/1996: State treasurer has unclaimed property worth millions.