Missouri Legislature Passes Anti-Adult Bill

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In a flurry of late-night deal making, the majority of the anti-adult business provisions of House Bill (HB) 353 were written into HB 972, "Intoxication-Related Traffic Offenses," by the state Senate, which it then passed just before midnight Thursday. Then the revised bill was sent back to the House, which passed that amended bill just after noon today. (see the previous story abut HB 353 here)

"We got so screwed by so many people that made promises that didn't keep them," reported Nellie Symm-Gruender, a Missouri retailer and part of the adult industry lobbying team that was tracking the legislation, which first saw life as Senate Bill 32.

"They stripped it off of 353 because all the prosecutors were very nervous about having this on a crime bill because of something we have in Missouri called the Hammerschmidt decision," Symm-Gruender continued, "and Hammerschmidt basically says, if an amendment is not germane to the subject of the bill, it can be overturned. So what happened last night, he attached it to a DUI bill."

attach junk to bills to get them passed. The national ID regs were attached to a bill increasing spending for Iraq.

It would be nice to see this practice challenged.