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April 1998 Stories

• 4/30/1998: Newspaper Story - A bill that would classify using drugs to have sex with someone as rape is on its way to Gov. Mel Carnahan.
• 4/30/1998: Newspaper Story - Acupuncturists and massage therapists are two of the many professions seeking licensing before the General Assembly.
• 4/30/1998: Newspaper Story - Debate by House Republicans stall's the governor's child health plan for the second day in a row Thursday.
• 4/30/1998: Radio Story - A bill that would provide health coverage to uninsured Missouri children stalls in the State Legislature.
• 4/29/1998: Newspaper Story - Another attempt to pass a tax deduction for parents who send their children to private high schools failed in the wee hours of Thursday morning.
• 4/29/1998: Newspaper Story - The Clinton administration approved a request by Gov. Mel Carnahan to expand Medicaid coverage to families with incomes up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level.
• 4/29/1998: Newspaper Story - The drive to allow Missourians to carry concealed weapons is plowing ahead in the last weeks of the legislative session.
• 4/29/1998: Radio Story - A senior black legislator announces his opposition to the desegregation bill.
• 4/29/1998: Newspaper Story - House Republicans stalled on the issue of how much a family can earn and still qualify for proposed Medicaid expansion to reach uninsured children.
• 4/28/1998: Radio Story - 40 million dollars was on the line when lawyers for St. Louis City and County citizens asked the Missouri Supreme Court to make the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District give the money back.
• 4/28/1998: Radio Story - A House amendment would impose strict penalties on companies that use illegal aliens to perform highway construction projects.
• 4/28/1998: Radio Story - The bill has already passed through the House, but the Senate Transportation Committee heard opposition Tuesday.
• 4/28/1998: Newspaper Story - Missouri parents with young children have emerged as one of the potential winners in this year's tax-cut contest in the state legislature.
• 4/28/1998: Newspaper Story - Local governments would be able to regulate billboards under an amendment the House of Representatives passed Tuesday.
• 4/28/1998: Radio Story - A bill to reduce the frequency of auto inspections from every year to every two years met opposition in the Senate Transportation Committee.
• 4/24/1998: News summary for the week of April 20, 1998.
• 4/24/1998: Newspaper Story - The governor's plan to provide day care services at public schools in running into legislative trouble.
• 4/23/1998: Newspaper Story - The House approves putting the concealed weapons issue on the state ballot.
• 4/23/1998: Radio Story - Representative Levin vows to re-introduce his health care tax deduction plan next session.
• 4/22/1998: Newspaper Story - The chief sponsor of an $80 million omnibus Senate tax-cut bill said he will not bring it back to the floor until next week.
• 4/22/1998: Newspaper Story - The Senate Judiciary committee sat through hours of testimony on a bill that would outlaw a controversial late-term abortion procedure.
• 4/22/1998: Newspaper Story - Democrats fended off Republican attempts to separate desegregation money for St. Louis and Kansas City in the desegregation bill that passed the House Education Committee.
• 4/22/1998: Radio Story - All statewide colleges and community colleges in Missouri could receive more money for grants, construction projects and so forth if Kelley wins the gambling case.
• 4/22/1998: Newspaper Story - Missourians would vote on the right to carry concealed weapons under legislation moving smoothly through the House.
• 4/22/1998: Radio Story - The Senate Judiciary Committee hear testimony for and against partial-birth abortion.
• 4/22/1998: Newspaper Story - Business groups continued to testify against a bill that would establish an optional health insurance purchasing pool for small businesses.
• 4/21/1998: Newspaper Story - Missourians stationed overseas could use the Internet to vote under a bill resurrected and passed Tuesday by the House of Representatives.
• 4/21/1998: Newspaper Story - Parents would be able to access background checks on potential day care workers with one phone call under a bill that passed the House on Tuesday.
• 4/21/1998: Newspaper Story - A tax-cut plan to let Missourians deduct their health insurance coverage costs from their state tax returns is languishing in the Ways and Means Committee -- despite unanimous committee approval.
• 4/21/1998: Radio Story - Your insurance committee would not be able to use your genetic information against you under a bill passed by the state House Insurance Committee.
• 4/21/1998: Radio Story - The legislature can still satisfy EPA scrutiny by focusing on strict tailpipe testing.
• 4/21/1998: Radio Story - The desegregation bill takes another step forward but the hired gun for the St. Louis City School Board says the bill still needs some work.
• 4/21/1998: Radio Story - Parents would be able to obtain criminal backgrounds checks on day-care workers over a toll-free number under a bill that pass through the House.
• 4/20/1998: Newspaper Story - A Salvation Army caseworker has watched food lines get longer even though the welfare rolls are getting smaller.
• 4/20/1998: Newspaper Story - Tax relief for Missourians might be in jeopardy this year. The debate stems from a proposed deduction for parents who send their children to private high schools.
• 4/20/1998: Newspaper Story - With a 30-3 vote, the Missouri Senate passed legislation to keep state funds away from family planning clinics that perform abortions. A judge found similar laws unconstitutional in 1996 and 1997.
• 4/17/1998: News summary for the week of April 13, 1998.
• 4/16/1998: Radio Story - The House approves a bill requiring tattoo parlors to be licensed.
• 4/16/1998: Newspaper Story - For the third consecutive day, opponents of a tax deduction for parents who send their children to private or parochial high schools stalled debate on a $71 million omnibus Senate tax-cut bill.
• 4/15/1998: Radio Story - State lawmakers spent hours debating whether parents whose children attend private high schools should be given a tax deduction.
• 4/15/1998: Newspaper Story - Opponents of a tax deduction for private school students unsuccessfully tried to remove it from the Senate's major tax-cut bill Wednesday.
• 4/15/1998: Radio Story - The settlement coordinator in the St. Louis school desegregation case testified in support of Senate-passed legislation.
• 4/15/1998: Radio Story - St. Louis City School Board Members came out to defend their reputation at a state House Education Committee hearing of the Senate's desegregation bill.
• 4/15/1998: Newspaper Story - Missouri's students would have two new ways to pay for college under a bill approved by the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday.
• 4/15/1998: Radio Story - Under an amendment to a House economic development bill, tax cuts would be granted only to those retail developers who locate in blighted areas.
• 4/14/1998: Newspaper Story - The Senate continued debate on its major tax-cut bill of the session Tuesday.
• 4/14/1998: Newspaper Story - If Missouri receives funds from a national tobacco settlement or one achieved through the state's lawsuit, legislators have proposals on how to use th emoney, ranging from a rebate to taxpayers to applying it to various health care programs.
• 4/14/1998: Radio Story - The NAACP urges lawmakers to change the bill passed by the Senate to settle the court-ordered school desegregation case.
• 4/14/1998: Newspaper Story - Hancock refund recipients who itemized their taxes must pay a percentage back to the federal government.
• 4/13/1998: Newspaper Story - Men who don't register with the Selective Service wouldn't be eligible for state jobs or scholarships under a bill being considered by legislators.
• 4/10/1998: News summary for the week of April 6, 1998.
• 4/ 9/1998: Newspaper Story - Widespread support has all but drowned out the voice of dissent in the emotionally charged issue of locked sex offenders up indefinitely -- an issue promoted by the governor and apporved by both the House and Senate.
• 4/ 9/1998: Newspaper Story - Impostors hired by students to take their college entrance exams for them could be found guilty of a misdemeanor under an amendment passed Thursday by the Missouri Senate.
• 4/ 8/1998: Radio Story - His amendment would boost deductions for those claiming dependents from $400 to at least $800.
• 4/ 8/1998: Radio Story - A partial-birth abortion bill is passed by the House without the health exception Governor Carnahan supported.
• 4/ 8/1998: Newspaper Story - The Senate Appropriations Committee on Wendesday voted to go with Gov. Carnahan's budget for the university, taking away the $2.6 million increase the House had proposed.
• 4/ 8/1998: Radio Story - The proposal would change the limit from .10 to .08.
• 4/ 8/1998: Newspaper Story - High school enrollment would needed to get a driver's license under legislation before Missouri's General Assembly.
• 4/ 8/1998: Newspaper Story - Insurance firms would been from using your genes to boost your health insurance rates.
• 4/ 8/1998: Radio Story - Missouri voters overwhelmingly approved the amendment that would allow local school districts to seek voter approval for more bonds.
• 4/ 8/1998: Newspaper Story - An amendment-killing amendment eliminated an opportunity for the House lower the legal DWI level.
• 4/ 8/1998: Radio Story - The House rejected an effort to lower the level of drunken driving to the .08 percent pushed by the president.
• 4/ 8/1998: Radio Story - Neglecting or abusing your pets could put you in jail if a Senate bill makes it through the House.
• 4/ 7/1998: Radio Story - Participants in welfare-to-work programs would not be able to take already existing jobs under a House bill.
• 4/ 7/1998: Radio Story - The House gave first-round approval to allow indefinite civil comitment of sex predator criminals.
• 4/ 7/1998: Radio Story - The state House passed a Republican leader's bill supporting married victims of sexual assault.
• 4/ 7/1998: Newspaper Story - A House committee heard an hour of testimony on a Senate-approved bill to require car inspections every three years instead of annually.
• 4/ 7/1998: Radio Story - While the state Senate was passing the desegregation bill, the governor endorsed a provision to give him a bigger voice over St. Louis city schools.
• 4/ 7/1998: Newspaper Story - Missouri voters overwhelmingly approved two constitutional amendments Tuesday that supporters say will improve the quality of public schools.
• 4/ 7/1998: Radio Story - Senate approves a bill that calls for reformulated gasoline and a tougher auto inspections in St. Louis.
• 4/ 6/1998: Radio Story - When a barge crashed into a gambling boat this weekend, it might have provided a new argument for keeping boats in moats.
• 4/ 3/1998: News summary for the week of March 30, 1998.
• 4/ 2/1998: Radio Story - If you drug someone in order to rape them, you would face the highest criminal charge for rape under a bill passed by the state House.
• 4/ 2/1998: Newspaper Story - The House unanimously passed a bill Thursday that would add drugging someone and having sex with that person to the definition of rape.
• 4/ 2/1998: Newspaper Story - The House voted 85-59 on Thursday to reconsider a bill that would allow credit unions to expand and gain new members. The bill is opposed by the banking industry, which says it would allow unfair competition.
• 4/ 2/1998: Radio Story - The Majority House Leader said state Representatives will be getting calls all weekend.
• 4/ 2/1998: Newspaper Story - Constitutional Amendment 3 would allow the Kansas City school board to raise the school levy without a vote of the Kansas City residents.
• 4/ 2/1998: Radio Story - The Sneate defeated a proposal to legalize off-track betting on horse races.
• 4/ 1/1998: Radio Story - The Missouri House gave overwhelming first-round approval to a partial-birth abortion ban almost identical to what the governor vetoed last year.
• 4/ 1/1998: Newspaper Story - The House votes to ban partial-birth abortions.
• 4/ 1/1998: Newspaper Story - Legislation to reduce the size of Missouri's House is declared dead.
• 4/ 1/1998: Radio Story - The House expands and approves tax credits for daycare.
• 4/ 1/1998: Newspaper Story - A House committee probably won't vote on a bill that would protect homosexuals from discrimination.
• 4/ 1/1998: Radio Story - The Senate approved a provision of the desegregation bill that would allow parents living in Kansas City and St. Louis' urban districts to send their children to charter schools.
• 4/ 1/1998: Newspaper Story - A plan to entice a settlement in the St. Louis desegregation case is approved by the Senate.
• 4/ 1/1998: Newspaper Story - Black legislators complain the House leadership does not appoint enough blacks to House management jobs.
• 4/ 1/1998: Radio Story - The Missouri Public Interest Research Group found most ATMs in Missouri charge non-customers fees and they want the legislature to step in.