COUNTIES

Missouri House of Representatives
94th General Assembly, 1st Regular Session (2007)
Bills Indexed by Subject
COUNTIES

: Requires state agencies, public schools and colleges, and political subdivisions to use the traditional names of holidays

: Specifies that in Pulaski County, for the purpose of collecting a transient guest tax, the term "transient guest" means a person who occupies a hotel room for 90 days or less during a calendar quarter

: Allows rural empowerment zones to exist in any county with 16,000 or fewer residents

: Authorizes a procedure by which the existing boundaries of library subdistricts may be expanded and the existing subdistrict tax rate imposed

: Establishes additional tax increment financing guidelines

: Revises the salary schedules of certain county officials

: Authorizes an exemption from sales tax for purchases and leases of tangible personal property by local governments for industrial development

: Authorizes the Board of Fund Commissioners, in addition to amounts authorized prior to August 28, 2008, to issue $20 million in bonds for grants and loans for storm water control in certain areas

: Establishes the Children's Services Protection Act requiring that community children's services funds be reimbursed for the sales tax revenue diverted to certain tax increment financing projects

: Changes the laws regarding sales and transient guest taxes; the expiration date of theTourism Supplemental Revenue Fund; and the establishment of theater, cultural arts, and entertainment districts

: Allows counties of the third classification to completely prohibit or limit the possession of pit bull dogs

: Provides a new method for disbursing funds among affected taxing districts in industrial development projects in Boone County

: Allows any county to retroactively apply planning and zoning regulations to certain subdivisions of land

: Authorizes county boards regulating emergency services to impose up to a 50-cent surcharge on cellular phones, upon voter approval

: Allows noncharter counties to adopt noise ordinances

: Requires a vote of two-thirds or more of all the members of the county salary commission to decrease the salary of any county official

: Exempts public works projects with a total cost of $750,000 or less from the prevailing hourly rate in any county of the third classification if approved by a majority vote of the governing body

: Allows the governing body of any municipality or county to authorize its employees or agents to stand in a road to solicit charitable contributions

: Requires counties to allow for the quarterly payment of personal property taxes

: Defines "utility vehicle" and enacts provisions regulating the use of utility vehicles

: Establishes the Missouri County Planning Act

: Requires counties and certain cities to provide taxpayers the option of paying half of their property taxes owed by June 30 of each year

: Allows Franklin County to levy a transient guest tax in the Sullivan C-II School District which is partially located in both the City of Sullivan and Franklin County to be used for tourism

: Removes the county assessor from a county board of equalization and requires the county commission to appoint two additional members to the board

: Changes the standard for violation of the Open Meetings Law, commonly known as the Sunshine Law, by a governmental body from knowingly to negligently

: Authorizes counties to preserve electronic images of original cancelled checks instead of the actual check

: Requires the Missouri Public Service Commission to consider existing planning and zoning plans and building codes and hold a public hearing before approving the location of a proposed electric plant

: Requires all state agencies and political subdivisions to fly the United States and Missouri flags at half-staff the day after notice that a Missouri resident has been killed while on active duty

: Authorizes the City of Hollister to impose a transient guest tax for the promotion of tourism

: Changes the prior service credit for the Prosecuting Attorneys and Circuit Attorneys' Retirement Fund

: Changes the procedures for detachment of territory from a public water supply district

: Changes the laws regarding sales and transient guest taxes; theater, cultural arts, and entertainment districts; municipal code violations in Kansas City; and certain directors of public water supply districts

: Requires residential and commercial septage removal companies to register with the Department of Natural Resources

: Prohibits certain elected officials and employees of a county commission from serving on the board of trustees that supervises a county law enforcement restitution fund

: Allows disbursements from a defined contribution account upon a member's separation from service when the account balance is $1,000 or less

: Changes the election procedure for hospital district directors in Iron County

: Allows either the county commission or the county health center boards to establish health rules and the fees to implement the rules

: Requires the city or county public administrator to deposit money or property found upon deceased persons to the credit of the entity and changes the deadline for bids and the selection of county depositaries

: Changes the laws regarding liquor control

: Changes the laws regarding political subdivisions

: Authorizes a transient guest tax for tourism in counties of the second, third, and fourth classification upon voter approval

: Prohibits a public body from entering into a public works contract with a company that has been found guilty of conducting discriminatory employment practices

: Allows Missouri counties to enter into a Regional Investment District Compact if the Kansas legislature fails to enact the Kansas and Missouri Regional Investment District Compact by August 28, 2007

: Authorizes certain public entities to enter into agreements to modify payment terms for bonds in certain situations based on changes in the purchase price of commodities

: Prohibits cities, towns, villages, and other political subdivisions from providing Internet access services unless the services are in operation on or before September 1, 2007

: Waives the prevailing wage requirement for counties declared a disaster area by the federal government

: Requires the allocation of funds from a county's senior citizens' services tax fund to be used on operational and capital needs expenditures of senior centers

: Prohibits political subdivisions and the Missouri Public Service Commission from regulating interconnected voice over Internet protocol service providers

: Limits the power of political subdivisions to regulate the open carrying or discharge of firearms within a jurisdiction unless the ordinance is in conformity with state law

: Changes the taxation laws regarding nexus determination, sales tax, income tax, and tax credits

: Authorizes counties to impose a sales tax to fund purchases of easements for farmland or natural land preservation

: Changes the laws regarding emergency services

: Authorizes the consolidation of the governments of the City of St. Joseph and Buchanan County

: Prohibits any governing authority, board, commission, or personnel of a political subdivision from preventing the display of religious documents in public buildings or on public lands

: Allows certain charter county residents to petition for vacating certain roads

: Prohibits counties from enacting public health ordinances addressing farming acitivities and exempts farms and farming activities from suits of trespass in certain circumstances

: Allows certain cemetery operators in counties declared disaster areas by the federal government to withdraw funds from the endowed care fund for cemetery clean up due to acts of God and weather events

: Prohibits county commissioner salary increases or decreases in Clay County from taking effect until after two elections for county commissioner have occurred

: Requires all counties and fire protection districts to adopt and enforce the 2003 federal ICC International Fire Code

: Allows counties and municipalities to contract with private attorneys or professional collection agencies for the collection of delinquent taxes

: Changes the laws regarding emergency services

: Requires reimbursement to St. Charles County for election costs relating to transit authority sales tax increases

: Proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting political subdivisions from imposing taxes on the gross receipts of telecommunication providers at rates higher than business license tax

: Proposes a constitutional amendment allowing constitutionally chartered cities or counties to impose liens on nuisance property

SB 20 --- Sponsor: Griesheimer, John E.
: Modifies the laws relating to tax increment financing

SB 22 --- Sponsor: Griesheimer, John E.
: Modifies laws relating to political subdivisions

SB 44 --- Sponsor: Mayer, Robert
: Modifies provisions relating to county law enforcement restitution funds

SB 53 --- Sponsor: Koster, Chris
: Uses money from the state General Revenue Fund to supplement the expense of law enforcement activities of county sheriffs' departments

SB 83 --- Sponsor: Griesheimer, John E.
: Establishes a county municipal court in Franklin County and alters the foundation formula to compensate Franklin County School Districts for any loss of revenue from the establisment of the new mu

SB 176 --- Sponsor: Green, Timothy P.
: Modifies the Missouri tax increment financing law

SB 193 --- Sponsor: Griesheimer, John E.
: Creates the "Missouri County Planning Act"

SB 225 --- Sponsor: Stouffer, Bill
: Designates 100-year flood plains as "Hunting Heritage Protection Areas" where hunting shall not be prohibited

SB 233 --- Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
: Authorizes a sales tax to fund certain services

SB 288 --- Sponsor: Engler, Kevin
: Authorizes the Governor to convey certain state properties

SB 300 --- Sponsor: Bartle, Matt
: Modifies the laws regulating sexually oriented businesses

SB 323 --- Sponsor: Graham, Chuck
: Modifies provisions relating to the Community Children's Services Fund

SB 330 --- Sponsor: Engler, Kevin
: Requires each county to have at least one full-time deputy circuit clerk

SB 345 --- Sponsor: Shoemyer, Wes
: Allows counties to impose a property tax to fund cemetery maintenance

SB 364 --- Sponsor: Koster, Chris
: Prohibits counties from enacting public health ordinances addressing farming activities and exempts farms and farming activities from suits of trespass in certain circumstances

SB 456 --- Sponsor: Koster, Chris
: Grants additional payment to school districts in certain situations

SB 487 --- Sponsor: Stouffer, Bill
: Changes the number of voters who must sign a petition for the county to order an election to disincorporate a town or village

SB 497 --- Sponsor: Scott, Delbert
: Modifies provisions relating to administration of county funds

SB 535 --- Sponsor: Goodman, Jack
: Removes first and second degrees of criminal disposition of demolition or solid waste and increases certain penalties for violations of solid waste laws

SB 562 --- Sponsor: Rupp, Scott T.
: Removes requirement that counties receive prior permission from a municipality in order to implement tax increment finance projects within such municipality

SB 576 --- Sponsor: Bray, Joan
: Implements the provisions of the streamlined sales and use tax agreement

SB 582 --- Sponsor: Shoemyer, Wes
: Modifies provisions of law relating to sales tax

SB 619 --- Sponsor: Rupp, Scott T.
: Allows political corporations to enter into certain financial agreements

SB 681 --- Sponsor: Koster, Chris
: Requires certain municipalities to receive prior county approval for TIF projects or create a certain form of TIF commission

SB 682 --- Sponsor: Koster, Chris
: Prohibits TIF projects which would result in predominately residential use development

SB 684 --- Sponsor: Koster, Chris
: Requires a two-thirds majority vote for TIF approval in certain situations

SJR 16 --- Sponsor: Shoemyer, Wes
: Authorizes political subdivisions to submit ballot measures increasing or decreasing revenue without further statutory authorization

SJR 18 --- Sponsor: Shoemyer, Wes
: Allows counties and St. Louis City to adopt regulations affecting public health and welfare that are more restrictive than state law

SJR 22 --- Sponsor: Koster, Chris
: Allows for tax relief for the purpose of promoting local economic development

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated October 23, 2007 at 9:15 am