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1997 Social Services Stories

• 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.
• 10/22/1997: Radio Story - The governor denies clemency for convicted killer Alan Bannister.
• 9/25/1997: Newspaper Story - Democrats help build houses for the low income.
• 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
• 5/16/1997: Radio Story - Missouri's legislators failed to pass welfare reforms that would extend federal benefit limits.
• 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.
• 5/14/1997: Newspaper Story - Like a body that keeps twitching after its dead, efforts to soften federal welfare reform remained a possibiity in Missouri's legislature Wednesday.
• 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/ 9/1997: Radio Story - State lawmakers failed to pass the budget, even after pushing the 6PM deadline by nearly two hours.
• 5/ 7/1997: Newspaper Story - Coalition of Republicans and black Democrats defeat welfare reform in committee.
• 5/ 1/1997: Radio Story - Republicans charge the legislature's welfare bill does not go far enough.
• 4/30/1997: Newspaper Story - Republicans unanimously voted against the House version of welfare reform when it passed out of committee Wednesday night.
• 4/30/1997: Radio Story - The House Welfare Committee votes to provide state welfare funds to legal immigrants who have been cut off from federal-funded welfare.
• 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: Newspaper Story - A standing-room only crowd packed a House hearing room to hear testimoney on the welfare reform bill.
• 4/14/1997: Radio Story - The House began debates over a measure to implement an organization to provide children's health insurance.
• 4/14/1997: Newspaper Story - Missouri's welfare agency says it is not sure it wants to test welfare recipients for drugs, as the Senate proposed in its version of welfare reform.
• 4/ 7/1997: Newspaper Story - An unusual coalition of liberal, conservative, male and female lawmakers say deadbeat parent legislation has gone too far.
• 4/ 7/1997: Radio Story - A Senate committee rejected a House plan to limit family planning funding to goverment agencies.
• 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.
• 3/26/1997: 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.
• 3/19/1997: Radio Story - A proposed bill may increase the time limit to receive welfare benefits.
• 3/19/1997: Newspaper Story - A new version of the welfare reform bill making its way through the Senate limtis the amount of money the state can spend, regardless of how many people seek assistance.
• 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/ 4/1997: Newspaper Story - The sponsor of the Senate wefare bill said he plans to meet with the Senate Minority Leader after next week's recess.
• 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/ 4/1997: Radio Story - A House committee discussed a bill to pay to move welfare recipients to places where there are jobs.
• 2/24/1997: Radio Story - The House passes legislatin to allow nursing homes to care for mentally ill patients.
• 2/20/1997: A House committee approves tougher enforcement of child support.
• 2/18/1997: Welfare reform implementation sent to the full Senate.
• 2/13/1997: Radio Story - A proposed bill will require welfare recipients to be finger printed in order to receive aid.
• 2/12/1997: Newspaper Story - Critics charge bill to crackdown on deadbeat dads treats men as "sperm donors with checkbooks."
• 2/ 6/1997: Newspaper Story - The Senate's special welfare committee chair calls for going slow on welfare reform implementation.
• 2/ 4/1997: Radio Story - Last year's federal welfare reform act has given Missouri new powers to shape public aid in the state.
• 2/ 3/1997: Newspaper Story - The legislature and the Social Services department are gearing up to control the welfare reform proposlas in the state.
• 2/ 3/1997: Newspaper Story - The changes in the food stamp programs are already being felt in some parts of Missouri.
• 1/30/1997: Radio Story - Legislative committee hears bill to give business tax breaks for day care services.
• 1/29/1997: Radio Story - Massive crackdown on dead-beat dads proposed to a House committee. ~~~