State Rep. Jim Murphy, R-St. Louis County, who wrote the 2021 law allowing safe haven baby boxes in Missouri, believes every hospital should have one. He told Missourinet that so far, it’s firehouses that have stepped up to install them. “I’m pressuring the...
A new Missouri will help to pay for more so-called “baby boxes” to be installed at fire stations. HB 121 will create a $250,000 fund that will be used to match private donations to buy and install more baby incubators. It was sponsored by State Rep. Jim Murphy, R-St....
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe’s bill signing pen may run out of ink by next Monday. He’s scheduled to sign nearly 40 bills into law by the 14th, the final day he’s required to take action on bills passed earlier this year. On Wednesday at the State Capitol, he’s scheduled...
Missouri is on the verge of adding more drop-off incubators for parents to anonymously give up their newborns. The state legislature has passed a bill that would create a state matching fund to put more of these temperature-controlled cradles at designated drop-off...
Missouri is working to step up its efforts on placing additional drop-off boxes for parents to anonymously surrender their newborns. The state House of Representatives has unanimously passed a bill that would help to fund the installation of these climate-controlled...
