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: Creates policemen and sheriffs' deputies trust fund in order to fund a minimum salary for such officers.

: Permits the imposition of a regional jail district sales tax.

: Allows certain counties to enact ordinance in unincorporated areas for dog control.

: Tightens rollbacks of property tax levy.

: Establishes recall election procedures in counties of the third classification.

: Allows building codes in counties of the third classification that have the assessed valuation necessary to be a county of the first or second classification.

: Revises foster care reimbursement rate and child abuse reporting, authorizes counties to establish children's services councils, and establishes Court-appointed Special Advocates Fund.

: Allows counties of the third classification to adopt building codes in certain areas, subject to voter approval.

: Allows additional counties to establish homeless programs and increases fees on recorded instruments to five dollars.

: Allows for separate township zoning ordinances.

: Requires originating county to pay costs of jury in change of venue cases.

: Makes various changes to the laws regarding sheltered workshops.

: Makes various changes regarding sheltered workshops.

: Mandates ethanol phase-in in certain metropolitan areas and allows other areas to adopt ethanol phase-in if they so choose.

: Creates the County Technology Fund.

: Creates the farmland preservation enabling act.

: Imposes additional user fee on recorded instruments for housing rehabilitation.

: Changes county committee district structure in Jackson County.

: Allows the state auditor to bring a civil action when local governments do not comply with audit findings regarding possible criminal activity.

: Establishes county boards to utilize the tobacco settlement moneys received by the state.

: Enacts the Missouri Law Enforcement District Act.

: Changes required format and fees for items handled by the Recorder of Deeds.

: Removes requirement that contracts of political subdivisions be filed in office of the recorder of deeds.

: Changes the composition of, and imposes term limits on, the members of the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority.

: Gives additional powers to park rangers in certain counties.

: Requires local governments to provide municipal services to taxpaying residents of condominiums and other private communities and cooperatives who have separate services.

: Changes method of bail bonding in certain counties.

: Directs the Missouri Department of Revenue to contract for an outside study regarding contributions to the state road fund.

: Proposes constitutional amendment to repeal the personal property tax and to substitute a state sales tax to compensate political subdivisions for lost revenue.

: Creates law enforcement districts.

: Adds one associate circuit court judge in St. Francois County.

: Creates grants for diversification of communities with economies dependent on tobacco production.

: Provides a homestead exemption from property taxes for totally disabled veterans.

: Allows cities and counties to enact homestead exemption for certain senior citizens.

: Increases authorization for county law enforcement sales tax from one-half of one percent to one percent.

: Revises local government employee retirement provisions.

: Revises requirements and bonded indebtedness for neighborhood improvement districts.

: Allows additional counties to establish homeless programs and increases fees on recorded instruments to $5.

: Changes process for separting recorders and circuit clerks and process to make circuit clerk appointed.

: Relating to ad valorem property tax collections.

: Allows state to withhold moneys due to political subdivisions for audits if they fail to pay the State Auditor.

: Any proposed county building code shall be submitted only to voters in the area governed by the code.

: Authorizes a sales tax to fund jail districts.

: Revises criteria used to evaluate redevelopment projects funded by tax increment financing.

: Prohibits certain retirement benefits from certain claims.

: Revises governance of countywide sewer districts.

: Requires the state to pay counties for health care costs of state prisoners.

: Allows cities and counties to enact homestead exemption for certain senior citizens.

: Creates the separate office of Recorder of Deeds in third class counties.

: Exempts food local sales tax and reduces federal income tax deduction, subject to referendum.

: Revises peace officer training and certification laws.

: Exempts subdivisions with lots of 5 acres or more in unincorporated areas from subdivision regulations.

: Changes required format and fees for items handled by the Recorder of Deeds.

: Declares the public policy of proprietary functions and property conditions regarding sovereign immunity.

: Creates a grant program for cultural tourism.

: Creates "County Technology Fund" for purchase of computer hardware and software.

: Mandates ethanol phase-in in certain metropolitan areas and allows other areas to adopt ethanol phase-in programs.

: Invalidates Missouri Supreme Court administrative rules that conflict with statutes; voids Rule 6.05.

: Protects geographic information systems created by certain cities and counties.

: Expands the number of counties who may dissolve a road district by popular vote.

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Last Updated September 11, 2000 at 2:52 pm