With three weeks left in the Missouri Legislature’s regular session, the state Senate is primed to pass its version of a roughly $48 billion state budget this week. The Senate Appropriations Committee changes include fully funding the formula used to bankroll K-12...
One bill down for the Missouri Legislature – and it’s a big one. Lawmakers have passed and Gov. Mike Parson has signed into law today a $4.6 billion spending bill with $2 billion in federal funds for Missouri’s K-12 schools, state worker pay raises, and additional...
Missouri could add more than 350 state employees to its workforce. Gov. Mike Parson’s $47 billion state budget proposal for the next fiscal year includes that request. Missouri has about 54,000 state workers. The Missouri Legislature is getting to work on Parson’s...
The Missouri Senate has passed a $34 billion state budget proposal without funding an expansion of Medicaid. The upper chamber sided with the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Missouri House of Representatives by rejecting attempts to put expansion funding into...
A Missouri Senate committee with a say in the state’s piggy bank has sifted through Gov. Mike Parson’s request for $5.8 billion in extra cash during the current state budget year. Members of the Senate Appropriations Committee did the work while some of them donned...
