A fight over allowing guns on public transportation temporarily derailed debate on the Missouri budget Wednesday before being struck down in the Senate.
The Senate approved Senate Bill 382, introduced by Sen. Wayne Langerholc, R-Cambria County, in a 28-19 vote.
The bill will now go to the House.
“This P3 plan is a failure,” Langerholc said on the Senate floor Tuesday. “We owe our commonwealth residents more than this.”
Bridges to be tolled
On Feb. 18, PennDOT announced the bridge renovation plan, approved by the obscure Public-Private Transportation Partnership (P3) in November, would be funded by tolls on several bridges, including:
I-78 Lenhartsville Bridge Replacement Project (Berks County)
I-79 Widening, Bridges and Bridgeville Interchange Reconfiguration (Allegheny County)
I-80 Canoe Creek Bridges (Clarion County)
I-80 Nescopeck Creek Bridges (Luzerne County)
If all goes well, Whitmer said, Michigan could hit its first benchmark meaning that 55 percent of eligible Michiganders have received their first dose in seven to ten days, with restrictions that would start to lift two weeks after that, before the end of May. Eleven of Michigan’s 83 counties have already met that goal; 19 others, though, remain below 40 percent.
Workers can return to the office and other job sites two weeks after 55 percent of Michiganders, or 4.4 million residents, receive their first doses. This would relax a Whitmer administration rule that employees work remotely when feasible.
Restaurant and bar curfews will be lifted, indoor capacity at sports stadiums, conferences, banquets, funeral homes, now set at different levels, will increase to 25 percent, and capacity limits at gyms will increase from 30 percent to 50 percent two weeks after 60 percent of Michiganders, or 4.9 million residents, receive their first doses.
Failed guns on buses effort delays Missouri budget debate
Republican Sen. Bob Onder tried to amend the budget to strip public transportation funding unless they allowed people with concealed carry permits to ride
Credit: KSDK Published: 10:33 PM CDT April 28, 2021 Updated: 10:33 PM CDT April 28, 2021
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) A fight over allowing guns on public transportation temporarily derailed debate on the Missouri budget Wednesday before being struck down in the Senate.
Republican Sen. Bob Onder, of Lake St. Louis, tried to amend the budget to strip public transportation funding unless buses and trains allowed people with concealed carry permits to ride.
But top Republican Sen. Dave Schatz struck the proposal down, saying it would violate rules against enacting policies through the budget.
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