CITIES, TOWNS, AND VILLAGES

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

: Allows common carriers of household goods to request rate adjustments from the Highways and Transportation Commission and repeals the exemption for household carriers under Chapter 390, RSMo

: Allows villages to cancel an election if there will be no competition between candidates because the number of candidates who file for the position is equivalent to the number of persons who may serve

: 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

: Establishes additional tax increment financing guidelines

: Reduces the amount of excess revenues generated by fines for moving traffic violations that municipalities must send to the Department of Revenue

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

: Establishes the 2007 Municipal Telecommunications Business License Tax Simplification Act

: Requires write-in candidates to meet state and municipal tax requirements and filing deadlines in order to file a declaration of intent

: Allows Franklin County to establish a county municipal court

: Requires the cities of Rogersville and Springfield to abide by the terms of the November 15, 2005, settlement agreement relating to involuntary annexation of certain real property

: 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

: Requires a railroad stop in the City of Pacific

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

: Allows certain third class cities to levy separate and differing tax rates for real and personal property

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

: Establishes the Missouri Urban Pursuit Reduction Grant to provide monetary assistance in the amount of a 50% match to urban police departments which purchase real-time pursuit management systems

: Requires compensation to county officers from municipalities to be paid directly to the county

: Changes the laws regarding fire department boundaries and the manufacturing, storage, and sale of fireworks

: Changes the laws regarding the distribution of the St. Louis County sales tax

: Requires cities to pay the difference between the amount of the salary and workers' compensation benefits to certain public safety officers who suffer a traumatic job-related injury

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

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

: Requires land transfers by entities within a county to be filed with the county assessor

: Lowers the minimum age requirement for mayors in third class cities from 30 to 25 years of age

: Prohibits a municipality from requiring an owner of a premises to pay delinquent utility bills for his or her occupants

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

: Adds not-for-profit organizations that provide or contract for ambulance services under the authority of a municipality to the definition of "public entity" for purposes of sovereign immunity

: Allows municipalities to use automated traffic control systems to enforce traffic laws under certain conditions

: 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 laws regarding the Linked Deposit Program, tax increment financing, biodiesel incentives, regional economic development districts, and the Missouri Rice Certification Act

: Ensures that joint municipal utility commissions will be exempt from state property taxes

: 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

: Prohibits home rule cities from requiring property owners to convey to the city the right to file a petition for annexation if the city provides public utility services to the owner's property

: Allows third and fourth class cities, towns, and villages to cancel an election if the number of candidates is equivalent to the number of positions

: Changes the laws regarding political subdivisions

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

: 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

: 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

: Allows yard waste to be disposed of in a municipal solid waste disposal area if the disposal area operates as a bioreactor and its landfill gas is used to produce electricity

: Requires a municipality wishing to implement a tax increment financing project within the boundaries of another taxing district to obtain the approval of the governing body of each sales taxing entity

: Exempts wildlife preserves from any criminal liability or a public or private nuisance or trespass action arising out of the sound emission resulting from the normal use of the preserve

: Authorizes the City of Independence to impose, upon voter approval, a sales tax for funding police services provided by the municipal police department

: Authorizes the regulation of quarries in fourth class cities for sanitary purposes

: Prohibits third class cities from imposing storm water usage fees on churches, public schools, nonprofit organizations, or political subdivisions

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

: Changes the laws regarding neighborhood and community improvement districts

: 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

: Eliminates the ability to form a neighborhood improvement district by petition and requires the measure to pass by a two-thirds vote

: Prohibits municipal elections from being held during Passover and specifies that the election will be postponed until the first Tuesday following the last day of Passover

: Changes the laws regarding tax increment financing

: Revises the definition of "public record" by excluding an individual's personal information collected by municipalities

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

: 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 43 --- Sponsor: Purgason, Chuck
: Modifies provisions within the Missouri Local Government Employees' Retirement System

SB 81 --- Sponsor: Griesheimer, John E.
: Allows the city of Sullivan and the portion of the Sullivan C-2 School District located in Franklin County to levy a transient guest tax

SB 129 --- Sponsor: Stouffer, Bill
: Modifies how local governments can regulate outdoor advertising

SB 152 --- Sponsor: Engler, Kevin
: Authorizes the Governor to convey certain state properties

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

SB 192 --- Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
: Allows municipalities to use automated traffic control systems to enforce traffic laws under certain conditions

SB 209 --- Sponsor: Griesheimer, John E.
: Modifies provisions of the Municipal Telecommunications Business License Tax Simplification Act

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

SB 231 --- Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
: Modifies local zoning authorities' control over billboards and allows the Highways and Transportation Commission to void billboard permits under certain conditions

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

SB 360 --- Sponsor: Goodman, Jack
: Removes the requirement that city managers of third-class cities must be city residents

SB 365 --- Sponsor: Koster, Chris
: Allows cities to impose a property tax to fund the construction, operation and maintenance of a community health center

SB 407 --- Sponsor: Shoemyer, Wes
: Allows public water supply districts to enter into contracts with other water districts and municipalities to supply water

SB 478 --- Sponsor: Shoemyer, Wes
: Limits amount of expenditures of revenue from gaming boat admission fees

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 502 --- Sponsor: Koster, Chris
: Authorizes the Governor to convey an easement over property in Johnson County to the city of Warrensburg

SB 519 --- Sponsor: Shoemyer, Wes
: Specifies the power of joint municipal utility commissions to tax

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

SB 624 --- Sponsor: Coleman, Maida
: Allows the city of St. Louis to impose a sales tax for public safety purposes

SB 638 --- Sponsor: Bray, Joan
: Changes the amount of time for which the board of aldermen of a fourth-class city can lengthen the term of the mayor by ordinance

SB 678 --- Sponsor: Goodman, Jack
: Authorizes a transient guest tax to promote tourism for the city of Kimberling City

SB 679 --- Sponsor: Goodman, Jack
: Authorizes a transient guest tax to promote tourism for the city of Hollister

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 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