Transportation Legislation - Missouri

SB 1265 - This act applies to contract carriers that transport railroad employees under the terms of a contractual agreement with a railroad corporation on a road or highway of this state in a vehicle designed to carry 8 or fewer passengers, including the driver. Under the act, a contract carrier that transports railroad employees shall: (1) Require each driver who transports railroad employees to have a valid chauffeur's license; (2) Provide drug and alcohol screening for each driver who transports railroad employees; (3) Conduct a background investigation of each person who transports railroad employees; (4) Require an application for employment from each prospective driver; (5) Conduct an annual review of the driving record of each driver who transports a railroad employee; and (6) Maintain a personnel file that includes a driving record for each driver who transports railroad employees.A contract carrier shall limit the hours of service by a driver who transports [...]

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SB 1217 - Under this act, the sales and use tax is increased by an additional one percent. The provision of law authorizing the sales and use tax increase expires on December 31, 2018. The revenue derived from the one percent increase shall be used for the purposes of assisting in the reconstruction, rebuilding, construction, and conversion of Interstate 70 and Interstate 44 into an eight-lane interstate system. The act provides that the one percent sales tax shall be reduced in political subdivisions where a TDD sales tax has been imposed to finance highway projects that are intended to be merged into the state highway system. The sales tax in those areas shall be the difference between the one percent sales tax and the amount of the TDD sales tax. The act establishes a fund known as the "State Transportation Interstate Fund" into which the proceeds of the sales and use tax will be deposited. The state transportation interstate fund shall, upon appropriation, be used for the construction,[...]

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SB 1201 - This act modifies several provisions relating to transportation development districts. This act makes it explicit that transportation development districts shall provide an annual budget (Section 67.010). This act makes it explicit that the board of directors of a transportation development district must prepare an annual financial report that is required by other governing boards of political subdivisions (Section 105.145). This act redefines the term "project" as used in the Missouri Transportation Development District Act. Under this act, the term "project" shall not include terrace walls, berms, landscaping, parking lots, parking lot lights, awnings, canopies, marquees, building facades, storefront improvements, or other types of internal development improvements which inure to the benefit of a private commercial developer or group of developers rather than promoting the general transportation infrastructure improvements related to the interests of the public at [...]

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