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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 vaccination center at Cerner in North Kansas City in March 2021 (file photo courtesy of Leader Rizzo’s...

Missourinet You are here: Home / Missouri’s House Budget Committee chair outlines alternative to Medicaid expansion; Kirk Mathews is Acting Medicaid director Missouri’s House Budget Committee chair outlines alternative to Medicaid expansion; Kirk Mathews is Acting Medicaid director Missouri’s House Budget Committee learned new details Tuesday in Jefferson City about a budget blueprint from the committee chair to direct dollars slated for Medicaid expansion for other programs, including MO HealthNet. That’s the state Medicaid program. Missouri House Budget Committee Chairman Cody Smit...

A Sign Urging Voters to Approve Minimum Wage Increase Amendment two gives everyone making minimum wage in Florida the right to earn $15 an hour by 2026. The voter-approved constitutional amendment to raise the minimum wage in Florida is being crafted into law, in the form of a bill working through the state legislature. But some lawmakers are pushing efforts to exclude some from that pay raise. Republican State Senator Jeff Brandes drafted a bill excluding felons, and those under 21, from the rise in minimum wage. He says he wants to limit wages for groups that are considered- quote- “hard ...

Missourinet You are here: Home Missouri’s governor pledges to move forward with Medicaid expansion; state employee pay raise proposed Missouri’s governor delivered an unprecedented State of the State Address on Wednesday afternoon in Jefferson City, in the Missouri Senate chamber. The Missouri Highway Patrol’s Color Guard presents the flags in the Senate chamber before Governor Parson’s January 27, 2021 State of the State Address (photo courtesy of the governor’s Flickr page) Missouri House and Senate GOP leaders announced earlier in the day that the governor would deliver the speec...

Missourinet You are here: Home Missouri Medicaid expansion implementation discussion to begin after State of State address The Missouri House Budget Committee is expected to hold its first meeting of 2021 this week in Jefferson City. Missouri House Budget Committee Chair Cody Smith, R-Carthage, speaks at the Statehouse in Jefferson City on November 9, 2020 (file photo courtesy of Tim Bommel at House Communications) House Majority Floor Leader Dean Plocher, R-Des Peres, has released a revised House schedule. A technical session has been added on Friday, which will allow the Budget Committee to...