"Whew! The most positive aspect of the session is the legislation that didn’t happen" (Missouri)

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Sen. Jane Cunningham of St. Louis couldn’t get colleagues to go along with her plan to abolish the state’s child labor laws.

Nixon vetoed a harsh bill that would have made it much harder to seek legal redress for harassment and discrimination in the workplace, or to be protected as a whistleblower. As of now, the legislature appears to lack the necessary votes to override the veto.

The Senate bottled up a House bill that would require driver’s tests to be given only in English.

A sop to the payday loan industry, masquerading as “reform,” was stopped in the Senate.

The legislature refrained from crippling unions in the private sector by banning mandatory union dues.

And though lawmakers toyed with the national craze to solve a problem that doesn’t exist by forbidding Missouri judges to apply Islamic law, they didn’t find time to seal the deal.

But bad ideas seldom die in Jefferson City. They simply rest, like perennials in the garden, ready to spring forth in another year.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/05/14/2875065/the-stars-editorial-missouri-wrangling.html#ixzz1MQxs7Fy2

[ananda]

1. Interesting.

Texas actually jumped the shark this time, several times in several ways.

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2. I can only imagine, what did they do?