Senate Journal: Page 179: Tuesday, February 5, 2002
House File 2139, a bill for an act to increase the maximum
amount of a vocational-technical tuition grant.
Read first time and referred to committee on Education.
House File 2151, a bill for an act adding certain information
concerning school security or emergency preparedness to the list of
public records kept confidential.
Read first time and referred to committee on Education.
SPECIAL GUESTS
Senator Iverson introduced to the Senate chamber Nobel Peace
Prize Laureate Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, "Father of the Green
Revolution." Accompanying Dr. Borlaug were: Ambassador Kenneth
Quinn, President of the World Food Prize Foundation; members of
the World Food Prize Council of Advisors; and eight Iowa high school
students who served as World Food Prize international interns at
agricultural resource centers in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
The Senate rose and expressed its welcome.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE
Leave of absence was granted as follows:
Senator McCoy, until he arrives, on request of Senator Sexton.
CONSIDERATION OF BILLS
(Regular Calendar)
Senator Iverson asked and received unanimous consent to take up
for consideration Senate Files 2051 and 2052.
Senate File 2051
On motion of Senator Houser, Senate File 2051, a bill for an act
relating to the creation of a state interagency Missouri river authority
and specifying its powers and duties, with report of committee
recommending passage, was taken up for consideration.
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