BUSINESS AND COMMERCE

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: Changes mandatory time-and-a-half compensation for amusement and entertainment workers from fifty-two hours to forty hours.

: Regulates and licenses tanning bed operators.

: Regulates small business franchises.

: Requires certain buildings to provide family restrooms.

: Creates crime of theft of transportation of property service.

: Allows school districts to have truant officers and creates a penalty for allowing truants to loiter on business premises.

: Creates a sales and use tax holiday for clothing purchased before the start of the 2001-2002 school year.

: Regulates stretcher van services.

: Creates a state income tax credit for certain small employers who provide health insurance for eligible employees.

: Authorizes Kansas City, upon voter approval, to impose a license tax on the rental of passenger motor vehicles.

: Changes certain provisions of the controlled substances law.

: Reallocates tax credits and amends various other provisions pertaining to distressed communities. Repeals the Missouri Individual Training Account Program.

: Prohibits sale of tobacco products to persons under 25 without checking identification.

: Regulates the refund of incorrectly collected sales and use tax, disallows certain state income tax deductions for pensions, and declares a sales tax holiday for certain clothing purchases.

: Provides guidelines for operation of private prisons.

: Enacts the Agricultural Producer Protection Act.

: Amends the section authorizing tax credits for investments in new generation cooperatives.

: Regulates the sale of certain funeral merchandise.

: Revises liquor laws.

: Regulates check-cashing businesses.

: Prohibits utilities from charging consumers for underbilling mistakes made by the utility if a correction is not made within ninety days.

: Restricts fees allowed to be charged for check-cashing services and prohibits charging an interest rate in excess of thirty percent annual percentage rate on a small loan.

: Revises laws on crime.

: Prohibits the buying and selling of stolen pets and creates the missing and stolen pet registry.

: Amends statutory provisions relating to the sale of tobacco products.

: Revises law on sale, distribution, and possession of tobacco products.

: Requires licensing of termite inspectors who perform inspections for real estate transactions.

: Requires late fees on self-storage facility contracts to be in writing; sets optional ceiling for such fees.

: Amends egg dealers' and retailers' licensing fees.

: Requires facilities licensed by the Division of Aging to employ a food services director and requires long-term care facilities to employ a registered dietician.

: Provides that consumption, not sale or provision, of intoxicating beverages is the proximate cause of injuries resulting from intoxication.

: Amends the law regarding underground facility safety and damage prevention.

: Amends the law regulating mortgage brokers and mortgages.

: Allows entities to disseminate the telemarketing no-call database to their employees or contractors.

: Revises the industrial classification system for determination of unemployment contributions.

: Creates Advisory Committee for Electronic Commerce.

: Expands eligible beneficiaries of Vocational Enterprises Program of the Department of Corrections.

: Revises law on surface mining, air emissions, and Petroleum Storage Tank Insurance Fund.

: Exempts used manufactured homes and certain used modular units from complying with manufactured housing codes.

: Creates state income tax credits for donations of high technology equipment to school districts and for donations to school district libraries.

: Creates state income tax credits for employers who contribute to school dropout abatement programs.

: Creates a state income tax credit of up to five thousand dollars per year for any employer who grants its employees paid leave to volunteer at public schools during school hours.

: Changes telemarketing definitions to further protect consumers.

: Creates continuing education requirement for used motor vehicle dealers.

: Revises regulation of roadside billboard advertising.

: Creates a local sales and use tax exemption for services, materials and supplies used in the production of printed materials.

: Revises Motor Vehicle Franchise Practices Law and adds provisions for recreational vehicles.

: Authorizes the General Assembly, for 2001, to make a one-time transfer of up to five million dollars to the Utilicare Stabilization Fund.

: Removes from the banking statute the common law presumption that real and personal marital property is titled as tenancy by the entirety.

: Places administration of tax credits for Americans with Disabilities Act compliance by small businesses under joint administration of the directors of Revenue and Economic Development.

: Changes definition of "taxicab.".

: Revises Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, concerning secured transactions.

: Allows notices of hearings on special business districts to be sent by regular mail.

: Requires placement of warning signs in establishments licensed to sell or serve alcoholic beverages.

: Revises banking law.

: Prohibits the Department of Transportation from contracting with private vendors to operate truck stops, fueling stations, convenience stores or restaurants on or near interstate public rest areas.

: Establishes an environmental audit privilege.

: Repeals certain provisions relating to motorcycle franchise practices.

: Creates a simplified sales and use tax administration act.

: Defines proper venue for credit card and checking account fraud.

: Requires reporting of certain utility acquisitions to the Public Service Commission.

: Increases the penalty for fraudulent use of another person's credit or debit card and personal identifying information.

: Revises laws on crime.

: Amends various provisions regarding animal care facilities.

: Makes various changes regarding sanitation in and inspection of food establishments.

: Establishes procedures for the licensure of auctioneers.

: Extends the period in which a wood energy producer can claim a tax credit from 5 years to 10 years.

: Allows a business owner of property in a drainage district to delegate individual to represent the owner.

: Expands the motor vehicle "Lemon Law".

: Requires notice to Department of Economic Development of intent by certain companies to discontinue operations.

: Authorizes extra unemployment compensation benefits for persons laid off from certain employers.

: Enacts the Tax Credit Responsibility Act of 2001.

: Urges Congress to consent to the Southern Dairy Compact.

: Requests the President of the United States to impose an embargo on the importation of steel products from certain countries that have violated the spirit or letter of international trade agreements.

: Urges Congress to quickly enact a tax cut package before July 1, 2001.

: Extends the commercial zone around Kansas City from 12 to 15 miles.

: Authorized countywide education sales taxes.

: Terminates the corporation franchise tax law.

: Enacts the Revised Uniform Arbitration Act.

: Revises various utility taxes.

: Substantially revises Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code concerning secured transactions.

: Establishes the General Assembly Scholarship Program funded by a nonresident earnings tax.

: Modifies alcohol licensing and reporting procedures through the Department of Public Safety.

: Authorizes a two-year tax free zone in Kansas City.

: Authorizes state income tax credit for purchase of goods or services from qualified minority business enterprise.

: Enacts the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.

: Exempts retailers from sales tax for inventory donated to private or public education entities.

: Requires insurers to provide annual claim reports to group policyholders.

: Creates Advisory Committee for Electronic Commerce.

: Allows self-service storage facilities to collect late fees.

: Prohibits release of financial information by financial institutions.

: Establishes two one week clothing sales tax holidays.

: Establishes audit privilege for voluntary internal environmental audits.

: Allows abatement and prospective application of taxes in certain situations.

: Changes tax credits for investment in small businesses and distressed communities.

: Establishes a program of air pollution emissions banking and trading.

: Revises the industrial classification system for determination of unemployment contributions.

: Prohibits release of nonpublic information by financial institutions.

: Allows electric utilities to recover certain costs affected by natural gas prices.

: Broadens the class of employees which count toward tax credit calculations for a certain new business facility.

: Revises motor vehicle franchise practices.

: Enacts Missouri Retail Customer and Worker Protection Act.

: Allows transfer of electric generating plant to wholesale affiliate and limited retail electronic choice.

: Revises inspection provisions for beverage manufacturers and distributors.

: Revises state school aid formula.

: Prohibits insurance companies' examination fee deductions from exceeding annual tax liability.

: Establishes retail electric customer choice.

: Revises certain job training programs.

: Allows transfer of electric generating plant to wholesale affiliate and limited retail electric choice.

: Allows waiver of portion of appeal bonds for certain defendants.

: Requires sellers of motor fuel to notify buyers at the pump of the amount and type of oxygenate blended in the motor fuel.

: Changes tax credits for CAPCO investments.

: Revises the regulation of unsolicited telephone sales calls.

: Allows amusement ride owners to self-inspect in the absence of a qualified reasonably available inspector.

: Establishes Joint Legislative Interim Committee on Wireless Telecommunication's Coverage.

: Establishes Joint Interim Committee on Energy Resources.

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