LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. – Sen. Will Kraus will travel from Lee’s Summit to St. Louis next weekend to hold two enactment ceremonies for a bill he sponsored that will stop instructional classes from needing to attach sales class to their lessons.
The General Assembly overrode Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of SB 1025 during veto session, and Kraus wants to hold the ceremonies as a way to inform people the bill will go into effect on Oct. 14.
“We’re receiving several calls and emails from small business owners wanting to know when the bill takes effect,” Kraus said.
The senator aggressively pushed for this bill to become law second only to his work on the photo voter ID bill. He said it was important to him “to protect small business owners and to push back against government overreach into the taxpayers’ pockets.”
Nixon vetoed the bill because of the unspecified financial cost and for creating “an exemption to established law.”
Kraus will be in his hometown of Lee’s Summit Thursday, Oct. 13 at Extreme Gymnastics and travel across the state to be in South St. Louis County Saturday, Oct. 15 at Barron Gymnastics. The two owners of those gyms were actively involved in getting the bill passed.
Diane Barron, the owner of the latter, says that previous attempts to make instructional classes at martial arts dojos, dance studios, and gymnastics gyms, had failed after the bills became bogged down with other matters. She credited Kraus for his work in making sure no unnecessary language was added.
“Sen. Kraus was able to keep it simple, keep it clean and keep it directed at those instructional classes,” she said.
She also said Kraus kept her informed of the process and that the veto override restored some of her faith that the government listened to its constituents.
“At a time when people aren’t sure if the government is listening to us… it showed that the Senate and the House listened to the people that support them,” she said.
Kraus said he will have copies of the bill on hand stamped with the term “veto” on the front, and a stamp of his own that has “overridden” on it.
