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March 2009 Stories

• 3/31/2009: Radio Story - Missouri lawmakers sent a clear message Tuesday on prescription drugs: It's time to give control back to doctors.
• 3/31/2009: Radio Story - A senate bill to prohibit texting while driving was passed and is on its way to the house.
• 3/31/2009: Newspaper Story - A proposed constitutional amendment would force thousands of more Mo. sex offenders register with the state
• 3/31/2009: Newspaper Story - A bill passed by House Infrastructure Committee would fund MU construction projects left behind by the Lewis and Clark Discovery Initiative
• 3/31/2009: Radio Story - A 700 million dollar higher education bonding bill clears the House Infrastructures Committee.
• 3/31/2009: Radio Story - Missouri gun owners would be cleared to openly carry weapons nearly anywhere in the state under a proposed bill.
• 3/31/2009: Newspaper Story - The Senate Commerce Committee voted the retooled bill that would allow AmerenUE to recover financing costs before the plant is finished out of committee.
• 3/31/2009: Newspaper Story - The FBI is investigating Missouri lawmakers, according to anonymous sources cited by two news articles.
• 3/31/2009: Radio Story - A Senate Joint Resolution would put nearly 5,000 Missouri sexual offenders back on the sex offender registry.
• 3/31/2009: Radio Story - An emergency house democratic caucus meeting was held after legislative fingers were pointed at the House Democratic Leader who they say is under an FBI investigation.
• 3/31/2009: Radio Story - The Missouri State Highway Patrol refuses comment on a report that claims third party political supporters are dangerous and violent.
• 3/31/2009: Radio Story - As the Senate Commerce Committee moved forward on a bill that could allow for a second nuclear plant in Missouri, a firestorm erupts over the public relations efforts of some of the bill's opponents.
• 3/30/2009: Newspaper Story - Gov. Nixon announces those appointed to the Automotive Jobs Task Force
• 3/30/2009: Radio Story - House members want to put out the number of house fires caused by cigarettes.
• 3/30/2009: Radio Story - Arguments, a fire alarm, and dozens of questions sidetracked a bill Monday that would let Missourians decide whether workers can still vote by secret ballot.
• 3/30/2009: Radio Story - On the eve of a possible Senate committee vote, opponents voiced opinions against a bill that would raise electric rates for consumers.
• 3/30/2009: Radio Story - Gov. Nixon named eighteen members to his new Automotive Jobs Task Force, which is now in charge of keeping Missouri's automotive industry alive.
• 3/29/2009: News summary for the week of March 23, 2009
• 3/25/2009: Radio Story - Children of sperm or egg donors would be able to find out who their biological parents are if a bill heard in the Health Care Policy Committee makes it onto the legislative calendar.
• 3/22/2009: News summary for the week of March 16, 2009
• 3/17/2009: Radio Story - When you think of a jail, you typically think strict rules and high security, but Missouri has two private jails that don't have any rules at all.
• 3/17/2009: Radio Story - Feeding Missouri families in these troubled economic times is hard enough. But what if you're called into active military duty and your pay is suddenly cut in half? Two bills hope to keep pay rates the same for those Missouri employees serving Uncle Sam.
• 3/17/2009: Radio Story - Transportation and education request funds from federal stimulus grant money.
• 3/17/2009: Radio Story - A bill giving teacher's the right to use force, including spanking has been introduced to Missouri's Senate. Alex Rozier has more from the State Capitol.
• 3/17/2009: Radio Story - The Missouri Supreme Court upheld the termination of a Kansas City police officer for excessive force during a September 2003 arrest.
• 3/17/2009: Radio Story - Private insurance companies would be required to pay up for VA services used by Missouri veterans with service-connected injuries.
• 3/16/2009: Newspaper Story - A feature on a raw milk bill.
• 3/15/2009: News summary for the week of March 9, 2009
• 3/12/2009: Newspaper Story - Bill passed Senate which would allow motorcyclists to run red lights under certain conditions
• 3/12/2009: Radio Story - Veterans may not have to carry around as much change now that a bill giving free metered parking to some veterans has passed the Missouri House.
• 3/12/2009: Newspaper Story - The state Senate passed a bill which would regulate private prisons for the first time
• 3/12/2009: Radio Story - House Democrats blame the Senate's failure to move on an economic development bill on House Republicans.
• 3/12/2009: Newspaper Story - Nixon's job creation bill stalled in Senate as the legislation takes its spring break
• 3/12/2009: Radio Story - One man's tractor parade is another man's comic relief. The Missouri House voted to ease restrictions banning some tractors from parades, but the debate wasn't completely serious.
• 3/11/2009: Radio Story - A House bill that would provide Missouri with more than $300 million in supplemental appropriations provoked little opposition in the Senate but still caused angry accusations on the Senate floor.
• 3/11/2009: Radio Story - Despite Governor Jay Nixon's opposition to anti-abortion legislation, the House passed such a bill to the Senate with over two thirds majority.
• 3/11/2009: Radio Story - There are more Missourians out of work these days than there have been in the last 25 years, according to a report released Wednesday.
• 3/11/2009: Radio Story - House Budget Committee Republicans and Democrats clashed over state budget cuts in a day-long marathon meeting.
• 3/11/2009: Radio Story - Governor Jay Nixon expected to see a tax credit bill on his desk before legislative Spring Break, but with no vote from the Senate, Nixon will just have to wait.
• 3/11/2009: Newspaper Story - House committee passes fiscal year 2010 budget bills
• 3/11/2009: Radio Story - A House bill on appropriations made it through the Senate with a majority vote, but that didn't prevent bickering between two Republican senators.
• 3/10/2009: Newspaper Story - Gov. Nixon makes his pick for one of three vacant UM System Board of Curators' seats
• 3/10/2009: Newspaper Story - Hearing held today for bill introduced by Columbia's state senator which would limit the damages an individual could receive for injury or death incurred by improperly stored carbon dioxide.
• 3/10/2009: Radio Story - An issue sparked by the City Utilities of Springfield, MO lead to a discussion by the state's Senators of the possibility of pumping carbon dioxide into the ground, some witnesses saying it could kill many people.
• 3/10/2009: Radio Story - For the eleventh year in a row, witnesses lined up Tuesday to ask Missouri lawmakers to do something about drivers who refuse to strap on their seat belts.
• 3/10/2009: Radio Story - The House Privacy Committee heard a bill Tuesday that will make it illegal to force someone to have a personal identification chip put under their skin.
• 3/10/2009: Radio Story - A proposal to cap liability for carbon sequestration projects in Missouri raised concerns that it could lead to unsafe methods in this new clean coal technology.
• 3/10/2009: Radio Story - A red light camera limit got the green light Tuesday as a last-minute amendment to a major transportation bill.
• 3/ 9/2009: Radio Story - The Senate Appropriations Committee voted to take control of federal highway dollars away from the Transportation Department, against the objections of MoDOT's director.
• 3/ 9/2009: Radio Story - It's a strange word for a strange practice but members of Noodler's Anonymous say they want to see their sport legalized.
• 3/ 8/2009: News summary for the week of March 2, 2009
• 3/ 5/2009: Radio Story - Young girls are now one step closer to cancer prevention after the Senate approved a bill Wednesday that would increase awareness about the HPV virus.
• 3/ 5/2009: Radio Story - Manufacturers would be required to recycle their TVs with a bill that would take effect in 2012.
• 3/ 5/2009: Radio Story - Boating and beer bonging would not go hand-in-hand with future bill.
• 3/ 5/2009: Radio Story - Top Priorities for lawmakers from southwest Missouri
• 3/ 5/2009: Newspaper Story - Seeking to avoid 'Octo-mom' in Mo., measure filed that would limit how many eggs a doctor could implant in a woman.
• 3/ 5/2009: Newspaper Story - By more than a two-thirds majority, Missouri House perfected a bill making it a crime to coerce an abortion.
• 3/ 5/2009: Radio Story - The House passes a bill to require 24-hour waiting period for Missouri women seeking an abortion
• 3/ 4/2009: Radio Story - A bill that would cut businesses' taxes and cost the state an estimated $100 million in the first year came and went during a Senate committee hearing without debate, not even from businesses.
• 3/ 4/2009: Radio Story - A St. Louis area law-maker urged her colleagues Wednesday to let Motorcyclists run red lights.
• 3/ 4/2009: Radio Story - The Senate already passed a measure which would regulate the pre-need burial industry but a House committee proposed stricter protections for consumers.
• 3/ 4/2009: Radio Story - 39 Million dollars in stimulus funded road construction projects was approved Wednesday.
• 3/ 4/2009: Radio Story - A personal testimony of rape was told to the Senate Education Committee today.
• 3/ 3/2009: Radio Story - The state's most powerful gun lobby urged legislators to allow individuals the right to kill if threatened anywhere on their privately owned property.
• 3/ 3/2009: Radio Story - Law makers heard from Missourians with limb loss about a bill that could help with the cost of their prosthetics.
• 3/ 3/2009: Radio Story - People have the right to pray in school says a Senator who proposed an amendment to Missouri's Constitution.
• 3/ 3/2009: Newspaper Story - Missouri's House Budget chair proposes cutting the governor's proposed budget increase for the University of Missouri
• 3/ 3/2009: Newspaper Story - Missouri residents without health insurance would get coverage under new plan.
• 3/ 3/2009: Newspaper Story - While the governor has voiced opposition to the Callaway II bill, both the House and Senate are moving forward.
• 3/ 3/2009: Radio Story - A bill giving health coverage to uninsured Missouri residents got revived Tuesday in the state Senate.
• 3/ 3/2009: Newspaper Story - A new bill introduced would increase penalties for those caught on camera running a red light to the same as being caught by a police officer
• 3/ 3/2009: Radio Story - Despite the Governor's wishes, AmerenUE is one step closer to increasing its rates to pay for a second Mid-Missouri powerplant.
• 3/ 3/2009: Radio Story - Missouri's Senate Commerce Committee hears a proposal to resubmit a cell-phone tax to Missouri voters.
• 3/ 2/2009: Radio Story - After little opposition in the Senate, the House is now discussing a bill that regulates the pre-need funeral coverage industry, making it harder for just anyone to sell coverage.
• 3/ 2/2009: Newspaper Story - A resolution is introduced that would allow the issuance of bonds to pay for higher education building projects, if an amendment to the Missouri constitution is passed.
• 3/ 2/2009: Radio Story - Hundreds of millions of dollars for higher education building projects would be funded through tax bonds under a House proposal introduced today.
• 3/ 1/2009: News summary for the week of February 23, 2009