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1997 Children Stories

• 12/ 9/1997: Radio Story - The Jefferson City High School Choir sings Christmas music in sixty year tradition.
• 12/ 9/1997: Radio Story - After four months, the state Social Services Department is starting its program to force parents to pay child support or face stiff penalties including suspending drivers licenses and taking bank accounts.
• 11/18/1997: Radio Story - The number of uninsured new mothers recieving medicaid has increased more than 10 percent since 1990.
• 11/18/1997: Radio Story - Under the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, 4,000 of Missouri's children are being denied disability benefits.
• 11/13/1997: Newspaper Story - The governor offers supportive words for a legislative plan to give the St. Louis mayor more power over the city school system.
• 11/ 6/1997: Newspaper Story - Lawmakers search for a way to get the federal courts out of St. Louis and Kansas City schools.
• 11/ 6/1997: Newspaper Story - St. Louis city lawmakers call for abolishing their city's school board.
• 9/ 9/1997: Newspaper Story - Enforcement of the deadbeat parent law is delayed by the state Social Services Department.
• 9/ 2/1997: Radio Story - The state's child support enforcement agency delays new dead-beat parent penalties
• 5/17/1997: Newspaper Story - Legislative session ends passing a tax cut but failing on a number of other major issues.
• 5/15/1997: Radio Story - Three of the year's major issues - tax cuts, child support enforcement and welfare reform - are still before legislators hours away from the end of the session.
• 5/15/1997: Radio Story - If Missouri's legislators fail to enact federally mandated child support enforcement rules Friday, it could cost the state millions of dollars.
• 5/13/1997: Newspaper Story - The Senate passed a bill that establishes a non-profit to provide more health insurance access to kids with an amendment to expand Medicaid eligibility.
• 5/13/1997: Radio Story - Missouri's Senate passed bill that would provide affordable health insurance for children.
• 5/13/1997: Newspaper Story - House leaders scrambled Tuesday to find a way to bring welfare reform to the House floor after Monday's night rejection of the bill by the House Budget Committee.
• 5/13/1997: Newspaper Story - The proposal of Missouri's governor to improve safety of children who ride school buses cleared the Missouri House Wedenesday. Measure to require crossing-control arms on school buses.
• 4/29/1997: Newspaper Story - House Republicans say they're apprehensive about bringing universal care into the state through the proposed children's health insurance bill that passed the House Monday.
• 4/28/1997: Radio Story - Missouri Senators voted to require schools to teach abstinence as best choice for teenagers.
• 4/28/1997: Radio Story - The House passed a measure that would provide health care for needy kids.
• 4/23/1997: Newspaper Story - Tougher child support laws are designed to lower welfare costs.
• 4/23/1997: Newspaper Story - Some divorced parents say child support legislation misses some key points.
• 4/23/1997: Newspaper Story - Child support enforcement bills will make more difficult for deadbeat parents skip their support
• 4/22/1997: Radio Story - Lawmakers hear legislation to toughen penalities for improperly storing a firearm that injures or kills a child.
• 4/21/1997: Radio Story - The House voted to keep the issue of home schooling out of divorce proceedings.
• 4/16/1997: Newspaper Story - Legislation designed to continue school desegregation funds for St. Louis and Kansas City continues to encounter problems in the Senate.
• 4/15/1997: Radio Story - Opposition threw another punch on the senate floor in the ongoing debate as to how desegregation savings will be distributed.
• 4/14/1997: Radio Story - The House began debates over a measure to implement an organization to provide children's health insurance.
• 4/ 8/1997: Newspaper Story - The Senate started debate on the distribution of desegregation savings.
• 4/ 8/1997: Radio Story - The House defeats bill to prohibit children riding in the back of pickup trucks.
• 4/ 8/1997: Radio Story - Bill requiring crossing arms passes out of House Education committee.
• 4/ 7/1997: Newspaper Story - An unusual coalition of liberal, conservative, male and female lawmakers say deadbeat parent legislation has gone too far.
• 4/ 3/1997: Radio Story - The house gave first round approval to a bill that will make it illegal for children under the age of eighteen to ride in the back of pick-up trucks and rewuire seatbelt use in most small trucks.
• 4/ 2/1997: Newspaper Story - Children raised their voices in song at the Capital Wednesday to remind lawmakers their decisions on welfare affect some of Missouri's children.
• 3/27/1997: Radio Story - Missouri law makers voted NO to making parents submit a written approval for their child to take sex education classes.
• 3/26/1997: Newspaper Story - Missouri's Senate passes legislation to overhaul the state's welfare system.
• 3/26/1997: Radio Story - Missouri's Senate passes implementation of welfare reform that will put a time limit on welfare recipients.
• 3/25/1997: Radio Story - The Missouri Senate gave first round approval to a measure allowing courts to revoke licenses of deadbeat parents.
• 3/25/1997: Newspaper Story - The Senate passed a bill that would allow revocation of driver's or professional licenses only if a court determined the ability to pay.
• 3/20/1997: Newspaper Story - The performance of partial birth abortions would be a second degree murder under legislation in the House.
• 3/18/1997: Radio Story - With a proposed bill, the state could suspend a parent's professional or driver's license for not paying child support.
• 3/18/1997: Newspaper Story - Deadbeat parents would face the wrath of the state under legislation approved by the House.
• 3/17/1997: Newspaper Story - Bill that requires parental consent for tattoo or body piercing of a child
• 3/17/1997: Radio Story - People spoke out against a house bill to make English the official state language.
• 3/ 4/1997: Radio Story - After much debate, Missouri senators voted that abstinence be stressed in sex ed classes.
• 3/ 4/1997: Newspaper Story - The Senate debated a section of SB 168 that requires schools to emphasize abstinence in sex education courses. Sen. Ken Jacob tried to remove the sex education section of the bill.
• 3/ 4/1997: A bill that will terminate parental rights of convicted rapists has pro-life implications.
• 3/ 4/1997: Radio Story - A bill, passed out of the House Civil Committee, will terminate parental rights of a convicted rapist.
• 3/ 3/1997: Radio Story - Some 4-H students think Missouri needs a state fish as well as a state mammal and a state aquatic animal.
• 2/26/1997: Newspaper Story - Background feature on legislation to terminate parental rights of rapists.
• 2/26/1997: Radio Story - A Senate bill would punish under age riverboat casino gamblers.
• 2/25/1997: Radio Story - Some Missouri legislators want to give high school students the opportunities to exercise free speech.
• 2/20/1997: A House committee approves tougher enforcement of child support.
• 2/19/1997: Newspaper Story - Adoptees urge lawmakers to give them more access to records about their natural parents.
• 2/12/1997: Newspaper Story - Critics charge bill to crackdown on deadbeat dads treats men as "sperm donors with checkbooks."
• 2/ 4/1997: Radio Story - Lawmaker proposes task force to help children with parents in prison.
• 2/ 4/1997: Radio Story - Lawmakers consider letting teens on court juries.
• 1/30/1997: Radio Story - Legislative committee hears bill to give business tax breaks for day care services.
• 1/30/1997: Radio Story - A bill is proposed to stress abstinence in public school sexual education classes.
• 1/29/1997: Radio Story - Massive crackdown on dead-beat dads proposed to a House committee.
• 1/27/1997: Newspaper Story - Catholic Church argues it should be exempt from lawsuits involving sexual abuse by priests.
• 1/13/1997: Radio Story - Carnahan meets with students immediately after his innauguration.
• 1/13/1997: Radio Story - Gov. Carnahan's inaugural address makes educating Missouri's youth his top priority.
• 1/13/1997: Newspaper Story - The governor's inauguration speech and reaction
• 1/13/1997: Newspaper Story - Carnahan meets with students as his first act of his second term as governor.
• 1/10/1997: Newspaper Story - Governor proposes school-bus safety measure.
• 1/ 7/1997: Radio Story - Legislative committee proposes using driver's licenses to keep kids in school.