Missouri lawmakers pass longtime priorities
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The Missouri Capitol in early December 2020.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Missouri s Republican-led Legislature has pushed through a number of longtime priorities that failed to get across the finish line for years.
The list of successes from the session that ended Friday includes a prescription drug monitoring program, which took lawmakers a decade to pass.
Lawmakers this year also approved a bill to raise the gas tax for the first time in 25 years.
Another bill on the governor s desk would make Missouri the last state to require out-of-state companies to collect sales taxes on online purchases made by residents.
The state Board of Regents Wednesday voted unanimously to go to court challenge a new law prohibiting it from banning firearms on state campuses, saying the law violates the board’s constitutional authority to run the university system.
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