The state House has completed the legislature’s vote to ask Missourians whether they want to increase the sales tax by three-quarters of a percent to support transportation. Because the proposal has already cleared the Senate, it will go on the ballot in...
The House sponsor of a proposed sales tax increase to support transportation says he plans to take up the three-fourths-of-a-cent tax proposal passed by the Senate, and try to get it passed in the House. If the House approves that proposal without any changes, it...
An opponent of asking voters to support transportation with a one-cent sales tax for ten years says it’s “illogical” coming from lawmakers who also want to cut taxes. Legislative budget estimates are that the proposed ten-year tax would generate...
Whose version of criminal code legislation will advance could depend on how each might impact federal transportation money. House and Senate lawmakers who have spent years working on an update of Missouri’s system of criminal laws and punishments must now decide...
Those for and against asking voters for a temporary increase in the state sales tax to support transportation have made their cases to a House Committee. Even those who oppose a one-percent increase in the state sales tax to support transportation told a House...
