TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Missouri House of Representatives
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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: Regulates unsolicited electronic mail messages.

: Regulates advertising for the state lottery.

: Revises the Telemarketing No-Call Law.

: Revises law on technological crimes.

: Requires the release of information regarding Class I standard violations by nursing homes to newspapers, radio stations, and television stations.

: Revises utility laws. Requires schools and libraries to restrict access to Internet pornography.

: Allows a tax credit for qualified contributions to schools.

: Permits charter counties to establish an emergency communications system commission.

: Allows enrollees to waive their right to receive documents and materials from their health insurer.

: Allows telecommunication providers open competition for the business of tenants.

: Modifies the regulation and supervision of physician assistants.

: Makes it a crime to lure a child over the internet for purpose of engaging in sexual activity.

: Removes current exclusion from telemarketing no-call provision for businesses without present connection and candidates for public office.

: Prevents broadcasting industry employers from requiring noncompetition clauses.

: Repeals eight sections of the statutes relating to economy-rate telephone services.

: Requires that contracts for collect call service for correctional institutions be awarded to the lowest and best bidder and that allows renegotiation of any existing contracts to reduce costs.

: Prohibits use of a mobile telephone while operating a motor vehicle, with exceptions.

: Enacts the Anti-terrorism Act.

: Expands the no-call list to include faxes and emails.

: Revises law on electronic reporting system for lobbyist reports.

: Revises laws on pawnshops and on stealing.

: Changes procedures for mobile telecommunications services.

: Establishes the Criminal Records and Justice Information Advisory Committee.

: Creates Missouri Agricultural Products Marketing Development Fund and Citizens' Advisory Commission for Marketing Missouri Agricultural Products. Develops standards and labeling for organic farming.

: Permits the electronic creation and retrieval of birth and death records.

: Requires senders of unsolicited e-mail to remove a person from their mailing list if the person indicates they want to be removed from such a list.

: Prohibits unsolicited electronic mail messages.

: Requires all television stations with three million dollars in gross revenue to provide real time captioning for programs.

: Permits certain counties to impose a county sales tax for emergency services without reorganizing the existing board administering the emergency services.

: Provides additional regulations for collecting taxes imposed for emergency telephone service.

: Declares as an unlawful merchandising practice the use of a Missouri or toll-free telephone number that does not disclose that calls will be transferred out-of-state.

: Allows public institutions of higher education to establish local telecommunity centers.

: Creates as an unlawful merchandising practice sending unsolicited facsimiles unless prior relationship has been established.

: Opposes the merger of EchoStar and Hughes Electronics.

: Regulates Internet access for minors in public libraries and schools.

: Revises documentation required for telecommunications companies to charge for Internet service.

: Codifies Mobile telecommunications Sourcing Act.

: Revises the regulation of unsolicited telephone sales calls.

: Allows political subdivisions to provide telecommunication providers with certain services or facilities.

: Appeals of Public Service Commission orders shall go directly to the Court of Appeals.

: Requires landlords to permit equal access for telecommunications and cable providers in certain circumstances.

: Regulates competition between public and private providers of cable television services.

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Missouri House of Representatives
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