by Mike Lear | May 20, 2014 | Health / Medicine, Legislature, News
The state legislature has approved bills meant to protect staff at the state’s maximum security mental hospital and staff and patients at its treatment facilities for violent sexual offenders. One proposal, HB 1779, will allow advance practice registered nurses...
by Mike Lear | May 15, 2014 | Legislature, News
Missouri could become the third state in the nation to require a 72-hour wait for a woman wanting to have an abortion, under legislation that has been sent to Governor Jay Nixon (D). The bill, HB 1307, would triple the current 24-hour waiting period in Missouri. The...
by Mike Lear | Apr 24, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
House Republican leaders say they remain committed to seeing the state mental hospital at Fulton replaced this year, no matter what happens with the tax cut proposal they sent to Governor Jay Nixon (D) last week. A gathering of those with an interest in the future of...
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 3, 2013 | Legislature, 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...
