ROADS AND HIGHWAYS

Missouri House of Representatives
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ROADS AND HIGHWAYS
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: Adopts legislation authorizing toll roads, provided accompanying constitutional change is passed.

: Imposes additional fines on certain commercial vehicles exceeding the speed limit.

: 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.

: Expands the list of interested persons for distribution of accident reports.

: Allows the city of St. Charles to voluntarily annex the family arena from the county of St. Charles.

: Exempts certain farm wagons from licensing requirements.

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

: Requires drivers to change lanes when an emergency vehicle is stopped.

: Creates the Emergency Bridge Repair and Replacement Fund.

: Prohibits crossing the median on interstate highways.

: 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.

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

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

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

: 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."

: Allows the General Assembly to provide the state Highways and Transportation Commission funding for public transit purposes with up to fifteen million dollars of the sales tax on motor vehicles.

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

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

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

: Urges the Sierra Club and the Missouri Coalition for the Environment to drop their lawsuit against the EPA.

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

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

: The act creates the Highway and Transportation Development Commission.

: Revises laws regarding intoxication-related traffic offenses.

: Relating to roadside maintenance.

: Limits sound amplification in motor vehicles.

: Reduces speed limits from 70 mph to 65 mph on rural interstates and freeways.

: Names a portion of Interstate Highway 55 located in St. Louis County the "Rosa Parks Highway".

: 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".

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

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

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