BUSINESS AND COMMERCE

Missouri House of Representatives
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BUSINESS AND COMMERCE
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: Regulates unsolicited electronic mail messages.

: Allows property owners to designate representatives of their property in drainage districts.

: Requires tanning facilities to be licensed.

: Revises law on overtime for amusement and recreation employees.

: Requires owners of certain interests in public utilities and suppliers of public utilities to notify the Public Service Commission.

: Establishes minimum qualifications for bids for state construction contracts.

: Excludes mandatory gratuities from the definition of gross receipts for tax purposes.

: Revises law on transportation funding and billboards.

: Permits refund of overcollected sales taxes only if they are returned to the original purchasers.

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

: Revises the Telemarketing No-Call Law.

: Requires registration of kegs of intoxicating liquor.

: Reduces retailers license fee to zero and dealers fee for 1-25 cases of eggs to zero.

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

: Creates continuing education requirement for used motor vehicle dealers.

: Creates a temporary exemption from sales tax for retail sales of clothing before the start of the school year.

: Regulates check cashing businesses.

: Establishes an environmental audit privilege.

: Extends commercial zone on south side of Kansas City to Harrisonville along highways 71 and 291.

: Requires certain public buildings to provide family restrooms.

: Provides additional guidelines for recipients of economic incentives.

: Prohibits price gouging during emergencies.

: Requires farmers who plant patented seed and retain seed from the harvest for planting the following planting season to pay fee which will be deposited in the Genetically Engineerered Seed Fund.

: Provides for the franchising of personal watercraft.

: Authorizes a tax credit for investments in certain eligible new generation cooperatives.

: Relating to regulations for the check-cashing business.

: Revises law on commercial casualty insurance.

: Updates the law for self-service storage facilities.

: Modifies the purchasing preference for Missouri products.

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

: Sets restrictions for payday loans.

: Requires cemetery service funds to be deposited in segregated accounts.

: Revises various provisions relating to outdoor advertising along state highways and interstates.

: Prohibits non-competition agreements in employment contracts.

: Allows Supervisor of Liquor Control to assess civil penalties for certain violations.

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

: Includes separately managed accounts within scope of corporate income allocation provisions.

: Sets limits on the types of investments an insurance company can participate in.

: Requires sellers to accept in good faith any sales tax exemption letter or certificate.

: Adds a new category of motor vehicle dealer and revises the application for licensure process for motor vehicle manufacturers, dealers, and auctions.

: Creates crime of contamination of food or drink.

: Permits a federal cause of action for price discrimination in state courts.

: Enacts the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.

: Creates the Missouri Motor Vehicle Board.

: Revises professional registration statutes.

: Extends liquor sales by the drink at a convention trade area to include Miller, Morgan, and Camden counties.

: Creates tax credits for donations by business firms to schools.

: Expands state tax credit for contributions to authorized dropout abatement pilot programs.

: Makes changes to Article 9 (Secured Transactions) of the Uniform Commercial Code.

: Establishes a sales tax holiday for clothing and school supplies.

: Declares a moratorium on new outdoor advertising until January 1, 2008.

: Prohibits sale or storage of any gasoline within this state which contains more than one-half of one percent by volume of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE).

: Creates a small business regulatory fairness board.

: Revises criminal laws.

: Enacts the Simplified Sales and Use Tax Act.

: Sets requirements for insurance companies that use credit reports for underwriting decisions.

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

: Revises licensing procedures for motor vehicle and watercraft dealers.

: Revises reporting requirements for motor vehicle and boat dealers.

: Removes laundry and linen services from services offered by the Vocational Enterprises Program.

: Requires the Public Service Commission to establish rules for expedited dispute resolution procedures.

: Prohibits state agencies from offering electronic commerce services that are similar to those offered by the private sector.

: Establishes the State Board of Auctioneers to license auctioneers.

: Grants investment agents a temporary license if they transfer to another broker-dealer that is licensed by the state.

: Specifies which inventory qualifies for repurchase from the retailer and which does not qualify.

: Enacts the Poultry Producer Protection Act.

: 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.

: Revises the penalties for misrepresentation of age by a minor to obtain liquor.

: Regulates adult establishments.

: Adds a new category of motor vehicle dealer. Revises law on repurchase of power equipment.

: Requires a store owner to refund a customer's money if the customer is improperly detained due to a failure to remove or deactivate a security strip.

: Creates continuing education requirement for used motor vehicle dealers.

: Creates a statutory lien for production contracts involving production of commodities.

: Establishes a permitting process for the construction or modification of chip mills.

: Creates an additional charge for the privilege of selling wine.

: Prohibits unsolicited electronic mail messages.

: Prohibits certain businesses from advertising on billboards within two miles of any state highway.

: Uses the term "lodging establishment" in chapter 419 instead of the terms "hotel" or "inn".

: Alters the laws controlling limited liability corporations and corporations.

: Modifies the provisions regarding sanitation in and inspection of food establishments.

: Prohibits use of personal or motor vehicle information for bulk distribution for surveys, marketing, and solicitations.

: Removes Vocational Enterprises Program from favored status in purchasing by state agencies.

: Specifies which inventory qualifies for repurchase from the retailer and which does not qualify.

: Specifies how to ascertain the value of certain stolen property.

: Provides guidelines for elevator safety and inspection.

: Changes certain reporting and governance requirements for limited liability companies and corporations.

: Permits the Director of the Department of Agriculture to participate in the reimportation of genetically enhanced seed.

: 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.

: Restricts provision of cable service by a political subdivision.

: Establishes the Missouri Minority Business Advocacy Commission.

: Requires lessors to notify lessees of any proposed rental increase over a certain amount.

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

: Supports the assembly of the Task Force on the Ford-Hazelwood Retention to develop a strategic plan to continue operation of the Ford plant in Hazelwood.

: Urges Congress to enact federal legislation to protect employee retirement savings programs following the collapse of Enron.

: Urges Congress to pass legislation imposing price controls on the sale of prescription drugs in the United States.

: Opposes the merger of EchoStar and Hughes Electronics.

: Revises state school aid formula.

: Various modifications to tax laws affecting commercial airlines.

: Revises dram shop liability.

: Limits non-competition clauses in employment contracts of certain broadcast employees.

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

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

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

: Extends the commercial zone around Kansas City from twelve to fifteen miles.

: Prohibits certain predatory lending practices with respect to home loans.

: Revises the regulation of unsolicited telephone sales calls.

: Establishes sales tax holiday and requires retailers to return sales tax refunds to those paying the tax.

: Amends securities and banking laws.

: Terminates the corporation franchise tax law.

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

: Revises numerous provisions relating to the sale of motor vehicles and vessels.

: Restricts charges for payday loans.

: Allows owners of business property to appoint representative in matters involving drainage district.

: Allows cigarette retailers to participate in cigarette merchandising, advertising, display, or promotion programs.

: Expands the Kansas City commercial zone to include the City of Harrisonville.

: Adopts the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.

: Broadens the definition of "ticket price", to allow the seller to recoup additional charges assessed without being guilty of scalping.

: Alters the chapter controlling arbitration.

: Prohibits the state from engaging in electronic commerce services which duplicate or compete with private sector services.

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

: Limits a successor of asbestos-related liabilities of a domestic business corporation to the fair market value of the total assets of the transferor at the time of merger or consolidation.

: Authorizes Pawnshop Database for Law Enforcement Purposes.

: Makes changes to economic development programs regarding distressed communities and small business investment tax credits.

: Clarifies provisions in the air emissions banking and trading program.

: Makes the Robinson-Patman Price Discrimination Act enforceable in state courts.

: Allows consumers with at least fifty employees to file a rate complaint with the Public Service Commission.

: Creates the Small Business Regulatory Fairness Board to serve as liaison between agencies and small businesses.

: Limits insurers' use of credit in their underwriting process and establishes restrictions on termination of insurance.

: Changes term "innkeeper" to "lodging establishment" and changes posting of notice requirements for lodging establishments.

: Eliminates lienholder possession on certificates of title.

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Last Updated October 11, 2002 at 9:08 am