SB 694: See where sucking up to them gets you?

24 Tuesday Jan 2012

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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General Assembly, media privilege, meta, missouri, SB 694

We saw the following forlorn Twitter post this morning:

@MoNewsTim Tim Sampson

My parking space was stolen by another driver this morning. Now a bill is being introduced to take away all media parking at the capitol. 37 minutes ago

Would that be SB 694?:

SB 694 Relating to the preferential use of the capitol complex by private entities

Sponsor: Nieves

LR Number: 4166S.01I Fiscal Note not available

Last Action: 1/24/2012 – S First Read–SB 694-Nieves

The bill text isn’t available yet.

When we go to Jefferson City we take the train, or we pay to park nearby (when there’s a space available) or we park farther away and walk.

Welcome to the club. Heh.

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Michael Bersin said:

January 25, 2012 at 1:28 am

Text from the bill [pdf]:

[….]
2. No parking space upon the capitol grounds shall be specifically designated or set aside for use by any person or entity that is not an official or employee of the state of Missouri. All parking spaces upon the capitol grounds that are not specifically designated for use by officials or employees of the state of Missouri shall be designated and set aside for use by members of the general public; provided that an appropriate amount of parking spaces may be designated for handicapped parking.
[….]
3. Any person or entity that is not an official or employee of the state of Missouri shall not be allowed an office or reserved space in the State Capitol building; and any person or entity that is not an official or employee of the state maintaining such an office or reserved space shall remove its office or space from the State Capitol building on or before August 28, 2012. For purposes of this subsection, the term “State Capitol building” shall not include the senate and house chambers and any galleries of such chambers.

I think that last paragraph means that the capitol press corps would get to keep their House press gallery and their table on the Senate floor. It reads like they would loose their offices, though.
That’s some serious meta.

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