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JEFFERSON CITY — Gov. Mike Parson has vetoed a piece of legislation that would have kept Columbia Mayor Brian Treece out of potential hot water. The legislation that hit Parsons desk would have created an exemption to an existing state statute and clarified that lobbyists running for municipal and school district offices could maintain candidate committees. Because Parson vetoed that exemption, lobbyists running for office must dissolve any candidate committee, according to the statute....

Viets is still waiting on an answer to his inquiry. The delay could be related to House Bill 685, Viets said. This bill, which included changes to requirements to run for public office, ultimately was vetoed last Friday by Gov. Mike Parson. An amendment added to the bill in a revision known as a Senate committee substitute through the Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee, chaired by state Sen. Caleb Rowden, R-Columbia, would have allowed an exception to a law governing candi...

Missourinet You are here: Home / What we’re watching this week in the Missouri Legislature: Medicaid expansion debate, budget and daylight saving time bill What we’re watching this week in the Missouri Legislature: Medicaid expansion debate, budget and daylight saving time bill You can expect a debate about Medicaid expansion on the Missouri Senate floor in Jefferson City later this week. Missouri Senate Minority Leader John Rizzo (D-Independence) and other Democratic lawmakers tour a vacc...

Missourinet You are here: Home / What we’re watching next week in Missouri Legislature: budget, oversight hearings and MLB antitrust exemption pushback What we’re watching next week in Missouri Legislature: budget, oversight hearings and MLB antitrust exemption pushback The proposed state operating budget will be heading to the Missouri Senate Appropriations Committee in Jefferson City next week for daily hearings and for consideration. The state Constitution requires lawmakers to approve ...

State of Maine: Concept draft vagueness weakens the process  Welcome to a legislative rabbit hole—the concept draft. It is a way of submitting legislation that is much abused, though it had merit as originally designed. What if this newspaper’s editor accepted “concept columns”? Title: “Concept Drafts.” Column, in its entirety: “Concept drafts may be good or bad.” It states a point of view but doesn’t give readers their money’s worth.  Smoke-filled rooms, back room d...

Supporting Our Troops This week, the General Assembly sent the second completed bill of the 2021 legislative session to the governor’s desk. Senate Bill 2, which was passed by the Senate in January, received final approval from the House of Representatives. This measure expands the Missouri Works jobs creation program, allowing part-time military jobs to be eligible for tax incentives. The aim of the legislation is to make Missouri military facilities more attractive to Pentagon planners by r...

Citing constituents’ concerns, members of the legislature’s Bipartisan Commission on Intellectual Disabilities and the Impact of COVID-19 have urged Gov. Ned Lamont to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Sens. Cathy Osten, D-Sprague, and Paul Formica, R-East Lyme, are among the six members of the commission, which was created under the Joint Rules of the Senate at the start of the legislative session. “We believe that this vulnerable po...

We’ve faced the ravages of a global pandemic and economic crisis for over a year, marshaling as much courage and patience as humanly possible. Municipal leaders, health care and frontline workers, small businesses, educators, young people, and more...

We’ve faced the ravages of a global pandemic and economic crisis for over a year, marshaling as much courage and patience as humanly possible. Municipal leaders, health care and frontline workers, small businesses, educators, young people, and more...

Massachusetts House, Senate differ on public access to legislative testimony Updated Feb 24, 2021; By Matt Murphy | State House News Service House leaders have put together a package of rules to govern how joint committees and the two legislative branches will work together over the next two years, recommending a different approach from the Senate to how committees should share written testimony, publish votes online and advise the public of upcoming hearings. The proposal drafted by House lea...