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Missouri women lawmakers rally in the Capitol Rotunda to discuss women's issues as topics of legislation this session.
The issues range from tax credits for small businesses to mandates that insurance companys cover contraceptives.
While there is a consensus that women and men are not economically equal, how to achieve equality begs disagreements.
See our newspaper story for details.
Missouri's Attorney General plans Thursday to make use of the state's sex predator law that allows the state to lock away a sex offender after the criminal sentence has been served.
Nixon's target is a man convicted of rape 15 years ago. He is scheduled to be released Friday.
The sexual preditor law allows civil commitment of sex offenders judged to be an on-going danger to the community.
Two GOP senators have proposed establising a separate fund for holding the tobacco settlement money until legal questions about the money is resolved.
And one of them argues the money should be used for health programs and anti-smoking efforts.
That is a major departure from many Republican lawmakers who have argued that the money is covered by the Hancock lid that requires refund of the revenue to the state's tax payers.
See our newspaper story and radio story for more information.
The House Interim Committee on Solid Waste has proposed continuing for another three years a $.50 tax on the purchase of tires.
The tax pays for clean up of illegal disposed tires. It is scheduled to expire in the year 2001.
See our newspaper story and our radio story for details.
In his most definitive statement yet about the tobacco settlement money, Gov. Mel Carnahan attacked GOP proposals to let Missourians vote on whether to refund that money to the taxpayers through the Hancock tax lid.
Carnahan said the money is not covered by the Hancock lid and should be used on health and anti-smoking efforts, directed particularly at children.
Besidees, the governor said, proposals to return the money are premature because legal questions about how much the state actually will get, if any, have not been resolved.
A state Supreme Court decision excluding some state revenue for the Hancock tax-limit provision has prompted the state administration to release $129 million in building construction funds that had been held up by the governor.
The funds cover a number of higher education construction projects.
See our newspaper story for details.
Missouri's Highway Safety Division has launched a campaign seeking to get Missouri drivers to sign cards pledging to use their seat belts and to drive safely.
The agency hopes to have two million signatures by the yeear 2000.
See our newspaper story for more information.
After a closed-door caucus, House Democrats dropped a plan that would have stripped Republicans of the power to name their own members of House committees.
Current rules let Republicans name their own members, subject to veto by the House Speaker.
But some Democrats planned to propose Tuesday a change in House rules to give the House Speaker power to name all members of committees -- both Republican and Democratic members.
See our newspaper story for details.
Jackson County Prosecutor Claire McCaskill was sworn in as Missouri's State Auditor Monday.
Her assumption of the office gives Democrats control of all six statewide elected state offices for the first time in 30 years.
In her innaugral address, McCaskill promise to bring more excitement to the office.
Two Missouri lawmakers proposed Monday legislation to impose a mandatory $1000 fine on speeding truckers.
The proposal was endorsed by the superintendent of Missouri's Highway Patrol and the president of the state's trucking association.
See our newspaper story for details.