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Springfield News-Leader JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Senate passed a tax critical to funding the states Medicaid program early Saturday morning after a bipartisan group overruled anti-abortion demands to pass the bill without language banning abortion providers from Medicaid funding. A three-year renewal of the Federal Reimbursement Allowances, which taxes hospitals, nursing homes and other health care facilities to earn Missouri federal dollars, came after nearly nine hours of closed-d...

Supporters only have four days to get legislation that would dedicate .45 percent of the state sales tax that ...

Louisiana sales tax bill draws enough opposition to kill it A key group of House Republicans announced Wednesday its objection to a Senate-led effort to permanently keep a 0.45% state sales tax that is otherwise scheduled to roll off the books in four years, opposition that could doom the proposal’s chance of passage. Still, senators plowed ahead with their effort to strip the tax’s expiration date and steer the money to road and bridge work, starting in 2025. The Senate Finance Committee v...

LA SALES TAX OPPOSITION — In 2018 Louisiana lawmakers passed a less than half-cent (0.45%) sales tax to stabilize state finances. At the time the state was

State Representative Alan Seabaugh talks about the status of a legislative move to make the .45% temporary sales tax permanent.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A key group of House Republicans announced Wednesday its...

Senate Finance advances a bill that would dedicate .45% of the state sales tax that is set to expire in 2025 p...

Group of Louisiana House Republicans revive invitation-only Conservative Caucus View Comments A group of more than 30 Louisiana House Republicans have revived The Conservative Caucus and elected as its chairman Rep. Jack McFarland, who said the new group was needed because the GOP Caucus has become unwieldly. Among the members is Chalmette Rep. Ray Garofalo, whose controversial comments about slavery cost him his chairmanship on the House Education Committee and caused a rift with Republican...

Louisiana House GOP group revives invitation-only caucus Among the members is Chalmette Rep. Ray Garofalo, whose controversial comments about slavery cost him his chairmanship on the House Education Committee and caused a rift with Republican House Speaker Clay Schexnayder of Gonzales. McFarland, a second-term lawmaker from Winnfield, emphasizes that the invitation-only caucus remains supportive of Schexnayder and the House GOP Caucus led by Rep. Blake Miguez of Erath. But Miguez wasn’t among...

Missouri Medicaid funding imperiled after Senate abruptly adjourns on chaotic final day Jonathan Shorman and Jeanne Kuang, The Kansas City Star May 14—JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Senate abruptly adjourned Friday afternoon in the final hours of the legislative session, killing an array of measures and imperiling a tax key to funding the states Medicaid program. Senators voted to adjourn after Democrats held off legislative business for hours, angry over what they described ...