 Elected to 13th District of the Missouri House of Representatives in 1996, 1998, 2000, he served three terms and was elected to the Second District of the Missouri Senate in 2002 representing West St. Charles and Lincoln County.He served as the Majority Caucus Chairman and was Chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee where he led the effort to improve the safety and accountability of Missouri’s statewide transportation system.Dolan was involved in a variety of issues such as highway safety and reform initiatives, veteran’s affairs, health care, criminal law and debate and passage of the Missouri Military Funeral Honors program (1998), the Nursing Home Reform Act (2003) and a resolution supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003).