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The Senate’s tentative schedule for the special session is to hear the bills on Aug. 27, put the bills through committee Aug. 28, and finish with a third reading on Aug. 29.
The special session will also address the Safe and Sound Bridge Improvement Program that would allow contractors to access the bonds needed for bridge improvement and replacement projects. Blunt’s office said it has been working on the program for the last year, but it is particularly timely after the recent Minnesota bridge collapse. Creating new jobs Rep. Ron Richard, R-Joplin, sponsored the first Quality Jobs Act in 2005, which Gov. Matt Blunt has credited with helping create more than 90,000 jobs in the state. Joplin-area companies such as EaglePicher, LaBarge and Prairie Pride have qualified for tax breaks under that legislation. Richard estimated that more than 7,000 Missouri jobs paying above-average wages currently hang in the balance waiting for the program’s approval in the special session. 
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