by Mike Lear | May 10, 2013 | News
Democrats in the state House have defended Governor Jay Nixon’s stance that the budget the legislature has sent him must results in cuts and layoffs, because it doesn’t fully fund the Division of Motor Vehicles. That budget includes only enough funding for...
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 | May 3, 2013 | News
The state House has approved a supplemental budget bill that would use higher-than-expected state revenue to pay for some state facilities’ needs. The state budget director says revenue collections are up 11.2 percent compared to this time last year and 27.4...
by Mike Lear | May 2, 2013 | News
The sponsor of a Medicaid reform proposal in the House says it wouldn’t get past the Senate this year, but what he calls his “mini-Medicaid” bill has reached the Senate. Representative Jay Barnes (R-Jefferson City) brought up his Medicaid...
by Mike Lear | Apr 30, 2013 | News
House Democrats have made another attempt to get federal money for Medicaid built into the state budget. Representative Jeff Roorda (D-Barnhart) offered a motion that would have allowed the House-Senate budget conference committee to consider adopting Medicaid...
