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2002 Bill(s)

* SCS SB 660
Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
Status: S Perf
Description: Ban open liquor containers in cars.
See: 
  • Senate roll call - SA 2 SCS SB 660 (01/30/2002): An amendment limiting a bill to ban open liquor containers in cars. The amendment would limit any penalty to drivers with .08 percent blood alcohol content or higher.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 661
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: S Education
    Description: Total rewrite of the formula for funding local schools. Also establishes minimum teacher salaries.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SCS SB 662
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Let police seize stolen property held by a pawnbroker.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 719
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: S Education
    Description: State funds to help teach English to non-English speaking students in public schools.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 720
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Set a cap on the bond that can be required for deputies & assistants of county treasurers & collectors.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 721
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: H Transportation
    Description: Require cars yield right of way to emergency vehicles & try to avoid lane adjacent to stationary vehicle.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SA 7 SCS SB 721 (03/12/2002): An amendment to a transportation bill to impose a 65 mile-per-hour maximum speed limit for trucks.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 755
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: S Education
    Description: Exempt inventory donations to schools from the sales tax.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 756
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: H Education
    Description: Let FFA, 4-H and FHA activities count as class attendance in the school-funding program.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 757
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: IN SCS SB 721
    Description: Extra fine for speeding to fund a program for head injury rehabilitation.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 797
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: S Local Govt
    Description: Let towns in Dallas, Polk & Green counties condemn property for natural gas lines.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 798
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Allow two rather than one set of Congressional license plates and change the wording on the plates.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 799
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: S Financial & Governmental Organization
    Description: Expand the merit system to the Revenue, Agriculture & Economic Development departments.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 818
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: IN SCS SB 721
    Description: Various traffic law changes. Provisions for double turning lanes. Repeal ban on using accident reports in trials.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 851
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Raise fees for billboards. Various other billboard changes.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * CCS SB 915
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: VOTER DEFEATED
    Description: Sales tax increase 3/8 cent for transportation along with other tax increases.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SCS SB 915 (04/24/2002): 3rd reading of legislation to submit to Missouri voters a gasoline and sales tax increase for transportation.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 968
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: IN SCS SB 970
    Description: Repeal sunset on allocation of jet fuel sales tax to the Aviation Trust Fund.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * CCS SB 969
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Increase penalty for forcible rape & sodomy. Make it a class A felony.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HS SS SB 970
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: Conference
    Description: Repeal the April 2008 expiration of the 6 cent gas tax hike. The HS has sales tax & gas tax increase for transportation.
    See: 
  • House roll call - HS SS SB 970 (05/08/2002): 3rd reading of legislation to submit to Missouri voters a gasoline and sales tax increase for transportation.
  • Senate roll call - SS SB 970 (03/20/2002): 3rd reading of legislation to repeal the April 2008 expiration of a six-cent gasoline tax.
  • Senate roll call - Part 2 SA 4 SS SB 970 (02/27/2002): Add a truck registration fee increase to a broad highway construction finance bill.
  • Senate roll call - Part 1 SA 4 SS SB 970 (02/27/2002): Add a diesel fuel tax increase for trucks onto a broad highway construction finance bill.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 981
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: S Insurance
    Description: Ban insurance companies from denying coverage on the basis of a credit report.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1018
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: S Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence
    Description: Allow recouping extra costs in getting a ticket in reselling the ticket without being guilty of scalping.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SCS SB 1060
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Establish a tax maintenance fund for county collectors from a fee collected on back taxes.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 1102
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Let local prosecutors prosecute charges against HIV infection likely sites, like gay baths.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1103
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Make the Fox Trotting Horse the official Missouri horse.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1189
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: IN SCS SB 1241
    Description: Special auto license plates for Kingdom of Calontir contributors.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • CCS SB 1202
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Implements the governor's executive order transferring various programs to the Transportation Department.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1214
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: S Agriculture
    Description: Repeal a requirement that the Health Dept. agree with the Agriculture Dept. for a milk-inspection exemption.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1267
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: S Financial & Governmental Organization
    Description: Require multiple municipality contracts to be filed with the Secretary of State if located in 3 or more counties.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1268
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Make filing a false statement with the Revenue Dept. for motor vehicle licensing a misdemeanor crime.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SJR 40
    Sponsor: Westfall, Morris
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Additional 5-cent gasoline tax increase and other funding boosts for highways.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • Note: The descriptions of bills, amendments and roll-call votes are written by MDN journalists. MDN's database may not include committee assignments of bills made on the last day of the session since it is too late for the committee to act on the bill and, thus, the delayed assignment has no practical effect.