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A scene Tuesday in the Missouri Senate could revive the faction fighting that paralyzed the GOP majority for the past two years.

Extending Medicaid benefits for new mothers has broad support in the Missouri legislature, but faces complications in the Senate.

Education committees in both chambers of the Missouri Legislature are now digging into the school funding formula.

A Missouri House committee debated a bill Tuesday that would allow charter schools to open statewide rather than just in metropolitan areas.

The Missouri Senate gave an initial approval this week to a personal property tax cut that looks to counteract the recent jump in used car evaluations.

The Missouri Senate gave an initial approval to a personal property tax cut that looks to counteract the recent jump in used car evaluations.

A push to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage in Missouri could face hurdles to federal approval after an abortion-related provision was added by Senate conservatives.

Sen. Denny Hoskins engaged in a filibuster after a Senate committee voted down his bill legalizing sports betting and video lottery games. 

But new language added by a pair of conservative Republican state senators on Tuesday seeks to make clear that women who have abortions cannot receive postpartum benefits, as well as add other language that seeks to “reform” Medicaid.

The senator who filed the bill said it "builds on" an earlier Missouri law nullifying federal gun statutes in the state.