by Mike Lear | Mar 21, 2012 | News
Legislation to put $4 million towards helping some of the state’s blind transition off of a supplemental program eliminated in the House budget proposal has advanced out of Committee. The bill is sponsored by Budget Committee Chairman Ryan Silvey (R-Kansas...
by Mike Lear | Mar 21, 2012 | Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
If funding is to be restored to a supplemental pension program for more than 2,800 blind in Missouri, it will likely have to happen in the Senate. The House spent more than five hours debating the 13 bills that make up the $24 billion Fiscal Year 2013 budget on...
by Mike Lear | Mar 1, 2012 | News, Politics / Govt
The House Budget Committee Chairman is proposing wiping out the Governor’s cut to higher education, in part with money that supports some of the state’s blind. Chairman Ryan Silvey (R-Kansas City) proposes filling back in the $106 million dollar cut the...
