The first column indicates the bill number; HB stands for a House Bill; SB stands for a Senate Bill. The second column is the last name of the chief bill sponsor, and the final column is a brief description of the subject matter of the bill. To learn more about the status of a bill, click on the bill number; to learn more about the person sponsoring the bill, click on the legislator's name.
| HB 1372 |
Parson |
Would provide an automatic COLR waiver to ILECs in cases in which a developer of a "greenfield" property entered into an exclusive service contract with an alternative provider. |
| HB 1442 |
Jones |
Changes the laws regarding certain city sales taxes and authorizes certain cities and Montgomery County to impose, upon voter approval, transient guest taxes |
| HB 1599 |
Sanders |
Would tax prepaid wireless service to fund 911 operations and would also change several definitions in existing law in regard to current 911 taxes and extend the tax to VoIP calls or other methods used to access 911. |
| HB 1513 |
Flook |
Would exempt eligible centers from several state and local taxes including tax on utility and telecommunications service used at the facility. MTIA is part of a business group known as the Missouri Coalition for Data Centers that supports the bill as an economic development tool. |
| HB 1574 |
Walsh |
Would prohibit telecommunications carriers from billing a customer for "miscellaneous product or service charges" without the customer's authorization. The provisions of the bill would apply only to the extent not preempted by federal law. |
| HB 1633 |
Pollock |
Would require telecommunications carriers to provide caller location information to law enforcement agencies in emergencies. Also grants carriers legal protection from suit when complying with law enforcement requests. |
| HB 1372 |
Parson |
Would provide an automatic COLR waiver to ILECs in cases in which a developer of a "greenfield" property entered into an exclusive service contract with an alternative provider. |
| HB 1750 |
Jones |
Would would require large ILECs to reduce their composite intrastate access rates ten percent each year over the next five years. Small rate-of-return ILECs would not be affected. |
| HB 2048 |
Sutherland |
Would nullify a recent DOR policy resulting from two decisions handed down in late 2009 by the Missouri Supreme Court. The new tax policy impacts many types of sales, but would in part apply sales tax to certain sales of Internet service. |
| HB 2408 |
Scholottach |
Telecommunications providers, electric and natural gas companies and other utilities would be assessed annually to fund the consumer advocate in much the same way that the PSC is now financed. |
| SB 674 |
Wright-Jones |
Would prohibit public utilities from requiring a deposit from certain delinquent customers. Conflicts with current PSC regulations allowing carriers to require deposits in certain cases.
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| SB 698 |
Griesheimer |
Would would reduce the intrastate rate of large ILECS by fifty percent in five years and also provide limited carrier-of-last-resort relief.
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| SB 785 |
Schaefer |
Would reduce the intrastate access rates of large ILECs and authorize the PSC to implement a high-cost support mechanism. The bill would eliminate the CCL portion of the intrastate rate for ILECs with more than 25,000 lines, direct the Commission to establish a benchmark rate for local service and implement the universal service fund authorized in existing state law. The rates of small ILECs would not be impacted. |
| SB 823 |
Ridgeway |
Exempts utilities, machinery, and equipment used in data storage from state and local sales and use tax.
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| SB 868 |
Shields |
Creates state and local sales and use tax exemptions for data storage centers and server farm facilities
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| SB 928 |
Lager |
Would nullify a recent DOR policy resulting from two decisions handed down in late 2009 by the Missouri Supreme Court.
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