By AP/KWMU
Jefferson City, Mo. – State legislators began filing legislation today for next year's session - and a wide variety of issue were addressed.
Monday was the first day that legislators could prefile legislation.
The bills ranged from the rights of mobile home residents to cigarette taxes and human cloning.
Senator Maida Coleman of St. Louis offered legislation that she said would protect mobile home residents from being wrongly evicted, among other things.
That was one of about 135 bills filed in the Senate, and about 25 in the House, by mid-afternoon today.
Senator Wayne Goode of St. Louis proposed increasing the cigarette tax to help balance the state's budget.
Several constitutional amendments also were proposed. One would establish residents' rights to hunt and fish, while another would ban human cloning. Another says marriage must be between a man and a woman.