by Mike Lear | May 1, 2014 | Education, Legislature, News
The state House has approved a plan to change a 21-year-old law that lets students transfer out of failing schools into better ones. House Republicans pared back significantly a provision that would make private schools one of the places those students could go....
by Mike Lear | Apr 2, 2014 | Education, News
The House has given broad bipartisan first-round approval to a bill that, its sponsor says, is necessary to make clear for school districts what the law in Missouri says about students’ religious liberties. The bill (HB 1303) is offered by Representative Elijah...
by Mike Lear | Mar 27, 2014 | Legislature, News
The state House has approved a $26.6-billion budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. The House’s proposal now goes to the Senate. Because legislative budget makers disagreed with Governor Jay Nixon (D) on an estimate of how much revenue Missouri will...
by Mike Lear | Mar 4, 2014 | News
A day after Governor Jay Nixon (D) urged U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to support the Keystone XL Pipeline project, the Republican-controlled Missouri House has lended its voice to that discussion. The House has approved a resolution urging President Barack Obama...
by Mike Lear | Feb 21, 2014 | News
The state House has passed two proposals for cutting taxes along very similar party-line votes. The bill sponsored by Representative T.J. Berry (R-Kearney) would cut corporate income taxes in half and allow half of business income reported on personal taxes to be...
