BUSINESS AND COMMERCE

Missouri House of Representatives
92nd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2004)
Bills Indexed by Subject
BUSINESS AND COMMERCE

: Regulates rock climbing walls over 10 feet tall.

: Reauthorizes the Task Force on Trade and Investment.

: Requires certification that minority- and women-owned businesses have the ability, equipment, and facilities to provide the services they offer.

: Limits the services that certain providers in the Substance Abuse Traffic Offender Program may provide and requires providers to file certain information with the Department of Mental Health.

: Establishes the Missouri Minority Business Advocacy Commission.

: Repeals the Uniform Commercial Code statutes relating to bulk transfers.

: Prohibits locating sexually explicit billboards within one mile of any state highway.

: Revises the statutes relating to distressed communities tax credit programs.

: Regulates the disclosure of environmental audit reports.

: Establishes the Higher Education Deposit Program, revises other statutes relating to banking, and revises the crime of identity theft.

: Revises the statutes relating to payday loans.

: Revises the definition of "motor vehicle" as it relates to motor vehicle time sales.

: Establishes guidelines for corporate income tax on intangible property.

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

: Establishes the Adult Entertainment Tax Act.

: Authorizes customer-specific pricing for DS-1 related retail telecommunications services.

: Clarifies sales and use tax exemption eligibility for manufacturing and material recovery plants.

: Revises various statutes relating to motor vehicles, driver's licenses, emergency vehicles, child restraints, manufactured homes, failure to stop at weigh stations, and rail passenger cars.

: Requires the use of various child safety restraints in a motor vehicle based on the age, weight, and height of a child.

: Establishes valuation schedules for depreciable tangible personal property owned by businesses.

: Establishes marine franchise dealer standards.

: Authorizes temporary and special licenses for caterers to serve or sell liquor.

: Prohibits locating billboards for adult cabarets or sexually oriented businesses within one mile of any state highway and prohibits persons under 21 years of age from installing them.

: Revises the statutes regarding the licensing of bail bondsmen and surety recovery agents.

: Clarifies the definition of "net income" for insurance holding companies and revises restrictions on the issuance of extraordindary dividends by holding companies for property and casualty insurers.

: Prevents private employers that receive state funds from using those funds to assist, promote, or deter union organizations.

: Removes the term "commercial" from sections dealing with interior designers.

: Modifies the requirements for issuance of certificates of guaranty for loans under the Agriculture Business Development Loan Program.

: Expands the telemarketing no-call list provisions to include fax transmissions to residential subscribers.

: Revises various statutes relating to insurance.

: Changes the 50% food sales requirement to 30% for establishments to be authorized to sell alcohol on Sundays.

: Provides additional regulation of tobacco product manufacturers.

: Revises the statutes relating to car rental insurance.

: Establishes marine franchise dealer standards.

: Revises the statutes relating to manufacturer's contractual agreements.

: Regulates travel and vacation clubs.

: Modifies the provisions of the Tobacco Model Act regarding allocations under the Master Settlement Agreement.

: Revises the statutes relating to property that is exempt from attachment and execution.

: Expands the telemarketing no-call list to include the phone numbers of business subscribers and cell phone numbers of both business and residential subscribers who request their numbers be put on the list.

: Requires that all residences and commercial businesses display their address so that it is clearly visible and easily readable, day or night, from any adjoining roadway.

: Revises various statutes on fireworks regulation.

: Provides for the cash redemption of gift certificates and promotional premiums, coupons, or agreements.

: Establishes a business use incentives program for small business development.

: Requires the state to permit a bid for a vocational enterprises program from a Missouri business if it can provide the services.

: Establishes the Business Use Incentives for Small Businesses Program.

: Establishes regulations and penalties for mail-order cigarettes.

: Authorizes directional or on-premises signs for businesses near state highways.

: Removes certain exemptions in the telemarketing no-call list.

: Authorizes rural empowerment zones.

: Requires auto-dealer franchisors to give notice to same line dealers one year before moving into the area.

: Increases the maximum amount a small village may impose in business license taxes.

: Revises the statutes relating to special business districts.

: Revises registration procedures for business entities that must register with the Secretary of State.

: Provides that college-owned book stores may not provide credit or financial aid for books at official stores without providing for the use of credit or financial aid at non-affiliated book stores.

: Requires fire protection service rates to be rationally related to the cost of providing water and hydrants.

: Establishes the Competitive Government Act.

: Establishes a depreciation schedule for tangible personal property.

: Establishes the Small Business Employee Training Program and the Missouri Small Business Employee Training Fund.

: Modifies the Missouri Small Business Health Reinsurance Program.

: Establishes the Manufactured Home Installation Act.

: Establishes the Office of Minority Affairs, the Council for Historically Underutilized Businesses, and the Small and Minority Business Mentor-Protegee Program.

: Encourages the Governor to utilize the services of management consultants or efficiency experts to review and make recommendations on all existing governmental operations.

: Designates the first Thursday in February as "African American Business Enterprise Day."

: Urges the members of the Missouri Congressional Delegation to support funding for Kansas City SmartPort, Inc.

: Urges the Governor, the President of the United States, and the United Congress to oppose any effort to allow trucks to enter Missouri without first being inspected at the border of the United States.

: Encourages the United States Congress to amend the federal laws and regulations regarding outdoor advertising controls to allow businesses to erect and maintain directional and on-premises signs.

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

: Establishes a small business health insurance tax credit program to offset costs associated with employee health insurance premiums.

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

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

: Modifies various provisions of the workers' compensation law.

: Prohibits locating sexually-oriented billboards within one mile of a state highway.

: Creates a cause of action for wrongful discharge of employment.

: Makes various modifications to employee wage laws.

: Establishment of a General Assembly Scholarship Program funded by a nonresident earnings tax.

: Re-enacts legislation repealed by a prior unconstitutional bill.

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

: Extends the sunset on the waste tire fee to 2011.

: Establishes a electrical contractors license.

: Prohibits use of posted inquiries in calculating credit risk scores.

: Creating compensation agreements between franchisors and franchisees.

: Modifies various statutes relating to telecommunications companies.

: Modifies various statutes relating to telecommunications companies.

: Modifies various statutes relating to telecommunications companies.

: Modifies various statutes relating to telecommunications companies.

: Modifies various statutes relating to telecommunications companies.

: Modifies various laws relating to agriculture programs.

: Creates the "Commonsense Food Consumption Act".

: Extends the laws on dry cleaning facilities.

: Modifies the motor fuel tax.

: Modifies release of escrow funds of non-participating tobacco manufacturers.

: Removes "commercial" from description of registered interior designers.

: Creates additional regulation for tobacco manufacturers.

: Expands the preference given by state purchasing entities to Missouri businesses.

: Modifies the Missouri motor fuel marketing act.

: Revises various provision of the Workers' Compensation Law.

: Creates a 5 percent tax credit for new revenue of a new or expanded business.

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Last Updated October 7, 2004 at 11:10 am