TRANSPORTATION

Bills Assigned to Committee
TRANSPORTATION
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: Adopts legislation authorizing toll roads, provided accompanying constitutional change is passed.

: Allows person over twenty-five years of age to operate or ride motorcycles without helmets on certain highways.

: Increases penalty for speeding in a construction zone.

: Requires only persons under twenty-one years of age to wear motorcycle helmets.

: Requires the Department of Transportation or the Highways and Transportation Commission, when acquiring land by condemnation to convert highways to freeways, to grant a crossing easement.

: Changes law regarding the careless operation of motor vehicles.

: Adds four members to highway commission, two appointed by speaker and two by president pro tem, to be evenly distributed between urban and rural areas.

: Enacts the Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Compact and repeals the Interstate High Speed Intercity Rail Passenger Network Compact.

: Removes the prohibition against designating areas zoned as commercial or industrial as scenic byways.

: Defines "dromedary" for motor vehicle length restrictions.

: Exempts highway permit for heavy machinery within twenty-five miles.

: Limits the amount of reimbursement that state agencies and departments can receive from the motor fuel tax fund.

: Revises the Division of Motor Carrier and Railroad Safety Law.

: Amends the composition of the Highways and Transportation Commission.

: Changes speed limit for certain trucks on certain highways; allows certain rules establishing lanes for truck travel; expands commercial zones; creates penalties for weigh station avoidance.

: Requires the Department of Transportation to consult with the Highway Patrol and the Division of Motor Vehicles when preparing the road laws for distribution to all counties.

: Eliminates the ten-mile parcel bidding requirement in highway contracts.

: Authorizes the Highways and Transportation Commission to issue $2.25 billion in bonds for highway construction upon review of construction plans by the General Assembly.

: Lower highest speed limit to sixty-five miles per hour and increases fine for speeding more than seventy miles per hour to one hundred dollars per mile per hour.

: Regulates truck traffic.

: Includes all principal arterial roads in the City of St. Louis in the state road system.

: Requires drug and alcohol testing for motor carriers.

: Designates the portion of interstate highway 64 which is located in St. Louis as the "Kurt Warner Rams Road".

: Allows the issuance of special moving permits for concrete pump trucks and well-drilling equipment and regulates use of "dromedaries."

: Exempts certain transportation of farm products from oversize load permits.

: Changes bridge weight restrictions.

: Creates the Rosa Parks Highway.

: Designates the portion of Highway 63 located in Randolph County as the "World War II Pearl Harbor Survivors Memorial Highway."

: Enacts the Missouri Airport Protection Act.

: Authorizes municipalities to regulate speed limits in areas designated as school zones without the consent of the state Highways and Transportation Commission if follows school board's recommendation

: Designates the Page Avenue Bridge as the Veterans' Memorial Bridge.

: Changes law regarding motor vehicle record dissemination.

: Renames the Page Ave. bridge the Veterans' Memorial Bridge.

: Allows areas zoned commercial and industrial to be designated as scenic byways.

: Removes the requirement of motorcycle helmets for those twenty-one years of age or older.

: Renames a Kansas City stretch of I-70 from the Blue Ridge Cut Off to Highway 291 as the "Derrick Thomas Memorial Highway".

: Urges Congress and the United States Secretary of Transportation to waive the CDL requirement for persons who volunteer to drive for charitable or religious organizations.

: Limits the total dollar amount of highway bonds issued for highway construction and repair to one billion dollars.

: Proposes constitutional amendment to allow for toll roads and facilities.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to require a vote when there is an excess of state revenue on whether to refund the excess or put it in the Highways Fund.

: Submits to the voters a constitutional amendment to require all would-be Hancock refunds to be used for highway and bridge maintenance and construction for fiscal years 2002 to 2006.

: Replaces the Highways and Transportation Commission with a Secretary of Transportation.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to increase from fifty to seventy-five the percentage of state sales tax on motor vehicles dedicated to highways and transportation use.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to change the composition of the Highways and Transportation Commission.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment changing the composition of the Highways and Transportation Commission.

: Requires personal information in motor vehicle records to be closed with certain exceptions.

: Allows school bus exhaust tailpipes to extend two inches beyond the perimeter of the body or bumper.

: This act requires that all persons under 21 wear motorcycle helmets.

: This bill exempts truck-tractors equipped with short freight compartments from certain length restrictions.

: Imposes an additional $250 fine on a driver who speeds in a construction or work zone.

: Relating to roadside maintenance.

: Suspends a person's driver's license who has been convicted of stealing gas from a gas station a second or subsequent time.

: Revises law on Kansas City and St. Louis transportation sales tax.

: Authorizes the issuance of $2 billion in bonds to finance highway construction and maintenance.

: Designates a portion of Interstate 44 as the "Payne Stewart Highway".

: Robert Ward.

: Prevention of littering.

: Honored Hardin C. Cox, by designating the tourist information center located on interstate highway 29 in Atchison County as the Hardin C. Cox Missouri Information Center.

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