TRANSPORTATION

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

: Changes requirements for licenses of motor vehicles.

: 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.

: Removes termination date from statute authorizing transportation sales tax for Kansas City, St. Louis and St. Louis County.

: 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.

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

: Creates Transportation Volunteer Insurance Fund.

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

: Defines "dromedary" for motor vehicle length restrictions.

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

: Changes the detail base review procedures for state departments.

: Requires the State Highways and Transportation Commission to study the viability of establishing designated truck lanes.

: Authorizes an economic development sales tax in Kirksville, authorizes tourism taxes in several counties and cities, and makes collectors of tourism taxes personally liable.

: 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.

: Requires drug and alcohol testing for motor carriers.

: Requires backup devices for certain trucks.

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

: 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.

: Creates crime of trespass on a school bus and requires phone in bumper stickers for school buses.

: 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

: 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.

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

: Denounces the U.S. Department of Energy's decision to route nuclear waste through Missouri on I-70.

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

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

: 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.

: The act creates the Highway and Transportation Development Commission.

: Changes operational control of the St. Louis International Airport.

: Requires those who engage in profession of house moving to become licensed and obtain permits for moves.

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

: Permits police officers to enforce seatbelt law if the violation is clearly visible to the officer.

: Restricts trucks to 65 mph on the rural interstates and freeways and restricts trucks to the right hand lane.

: Authorizes an economic development sales tax for funding a transportation corporation in Kirksville.

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

: Repeals tax exemption on jet fuel and creates tax exemption for certain airlines.

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

: Suspends Hancock refunds and transfers to the Department of Transportation for highways on the 15 year plan.

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Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated September 11, 2000 at 2:53 pm