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Bill crucial to Missouri Medicaid funding fails
By Jason Hancock, Rudi Keller and Tessa Weinberg
Missouri Independent
Missouri lawmakers ended the 2021 legislative session with a $2 billion question left unanswered.
For the first time in 30 years, the General Assembly failed to renew taxes on hospitals, nursing homes and pharmacies that last year accounted for $2.3 billion of Missouri’s $10.8 billion Medicaid program.
Now, lawmakers have no choice but to return to Jefferson City for a special session before the taxes expire in September.
Yet the issues that upended the process in the first place aren’t going anywhere.
Sen. Paul Wieland, R-Imperial, sponsored the amendment that locked the Senate in a debate over whether to put restrictions on the types of contraceptives available to Medicaid recipients.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. â Missouri s Republican-led Legislature passed a high-profile measure to ban local enforcement of federal gun laws with just an hour to spare before lawmakers 6 p.m. Friday deadline.
The GOP-led House voted 111-42 along party lines to send the firearms bill to Republican Gov. Mike Parson.
The measure would block enforcement of federal gun laws by local police, an effort growing in popularity in Republican-led states under Democratic President Joe Biden s administration. The Second Amendment is under attack, bill sponsor Republican Rep. Jered Taylor said. It s under attack by the Democrats, particularly the Biden administration.