by Mike Lear | May 14, 2013 | Health / Medicine, News
The state legislature has approved a bill that would bar the use of telemedicine to administer abortion-inducing drugs. The bill (HB 400) would require that when a woman is using RU-486 or another abortion-inducing drug she must be in the presence of her doctor,...
by Mike Lear | May 9, 2013 | Education, News
For the second time, an attempt by House leadership to pass education reform legislation has failed in a late night vote. Changes were proposed to Senate bill 125 sponsored by Senator Jamilah Nasheed (D-St. Louis City) that would lift the two-year wait before the...
by Mike Lear | Apr 24, 2013 | News
The state House wants to pull the concealed carry permitting system from the Revenue Department and put it in the hands of county sheriffs. It has given initial approval to a bill that changes conceal & carry endorsements that now go on driver’s and...
by Mike Lear | Apr 18, 2013 | Health / Medicine, News
The House has passed a bill to stop so-called “webcam abortions.” It would bar in Missouri the administering of “abortion-inducing” drugs to a woman in one location by a doctor teleconferencing with her from another. It’s sponsor,...
by Mike Lear | Apr 11, 2013 | Education, News
The House has strongly rejected a teacher evaluation bill that was a priority for the Majority Republican leadership. Representative Kevin Elmer (R-Nixa) sponsored the proposal that would have created a teacher evaluation system. “To say that the system is OK is...
