The Missouri Senate’s top two outgoing leaders are sounding a tone of unity amidst repeated friction in the upper chamber this year. The attitude follows the completion of the state legislature’s 2024 regular session. Senate Minority Leader John Rizzo,...
It took about 50 hours for a Missouri Senate gridlock to come to an end. The Senate has voted to send the hotly debated initiative petition proposal to a bipartisan group of negotiating lawmakers. Democrats held up Senate work since Monday afternoon over legislation...
Lawmakers in the Missouri Senate want to get to routine legislation that would help to cover a significant share of the state’s Medicaid costs. The federal reimbursement allowance bill, also known as the FRA, taxes Missouri hospitals to help with those expenses. About...
The Missouri Senate could debate this week whether to make it tougher to approve a vote of the people. The Missouri Freedom Caucus, a small faction of Republican lawmakers, spent the first month of the legislative session holding up business until their priorities...
A controversial transgender bill that recently became law is returning to the Missouri Legislature. The Missouri Save Adolescents from Experimentation, or SAFE Act law bans doctors from prescribing or giving cross-sex hormones or puberty-blocking drugs to any person...
