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Initiative petition reform still in limbo with one day left in legislative session
Lawmakers have less two working days left to get their final priorities across the finish line before the end of the legislative session.
Continue ReadingLawmakers have less two working days left to get their final priorities across the finish line before the end of the legislative session.
Continue ReadingThe Missouri Senate passed 50 hours of filibuster Wednesday afternoon, after already breaking the record for the longest filibuster earlier in the day.
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers have approved a more than $4 billion hospital tax program essential to the state’s Medicaid budget. The GOP-led House on Wednesday renewed the program, which for months has been used by a Republican faction as a bargaining tool. The heart of the program
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A filibuster from Missouri Democrats past the 41-hour mark on Wednesday morning, as they continued to block Republicans in the Missouri Senate from passing legislation that would make it harder for voters to amend the state constitution. Currently, initiative petitions only need a simple majority of more than 50% to pass. However,
Continue ReadingThe Missouri legislatures passed a $51 billion fiscal 2025 state budget Friday, including funding to implement firearm detection software in schools.
Continue ReadingMissouri House lawmakers began discussing and debating the state budget Friday with just hours to get it on the governor’s desk.
Continue ReadingMissouri Gov. Mike Parson made known his feelings Thursday about the misinformation spread on social media about a Kansas man after a deadly shooting at the end of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade.
Continue ReadingThe Missouri Senate started debating the Missouri state budget Thursday morning with just over 24 hours left before the budget is due on the governor’s desk.
Continue ReadingMoney from Missouri’s Medicaid program, MoHealthNet, can no longer go to abortion providers or their affiliates.
Continue ReadingGov. Mike Parson said Monday that a man falsely accused by politicians on social media of being a shooter at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade was an innocent man who was unfairly targeted.
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Parson has signed a bill to once again try to kick Planned Parenthood out of the state’s Medicaid program. Parson signed the legislation Thursday in his Jefferson City Capitol office. According to Planned Parenthood, only Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas have successfully
Continue ReadingAnother legislative session, another down-to-the-wire budget process.
Continue ReadingEditor’s note: Time elements of this story have been updated. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) About $50 billion hangs in the balance as lawmakers are approaching the deadline to get the state budget on the governor’s desk. Approval of the more-than $50 million budget needs to be approved by 6 p.m. Friday Even though lawmakers started
Continue ReadingGov. Mike Parson signed a bill Tuesday that includes allowing charter schools in Boone County and raising public school teacher salaries among its provisions.
Continue ReadingMissouri Gov. Mike Parson’s office said Monday that he will make a trip to the Texas-Mexico border this week.
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A state examination of the office that handles criminal prosecutions in St. Louis is being delayed because auditors can’t find former Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner. Missouri Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick said Monday in a news release that auditors have tried for several months to contact Gardner, including
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Superintendents from Boone County schools and neighboring districts signed a letter on Friday that asks Gov. Mike Parson to veto a bill that would allow charter schools to operate in Boone County. SB727 passed the Missouri House last month. The bill mentions that school districts in Boone County would be added to the
Continue ReadingMissouri petitioners will be turning in signatures to the Secretary of State’s office Thursday afternoon in an effort to get sports betting on the November ballot.
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) At 3:30 a.m. Thursday morning the 41 hour filibuster that was lead by a small group of republicans has ended, breaking the previous record held in 2016. The end of this filibuster will allow first round approval for a bill to fund medicaid. Five members of the Missouri Freedom Caucus was
Continue ReadingThe campaign to get mandatory paid leave and a higher minimum wage in Missouri took a step forward Wednesday.
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