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NEW MADRID, Mo. - It only seemed appropriate that the sun glinted off the golden shovels as officials posed for ground-breaking photos Friday morning. After all, everyone agreed, the future looks...
A redrawn congressional map cleared the Missouri House on Wednesday, but without an emergency clause needed for it to go into effect before the Aug. 2 primary.
Parson expects lawmakers to work out differences on Medicaid provider taxes before bringing them back to Jefferson City.
Missouri Medicaid funding imperiled after Senate abruptly adjourns on chaotic final day Jonathan Shorman and Jeanne Kuang, The Kansas City Star May 14—JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Senate abruptly adjourned Friday afternoon in the final hours of the legislative session, killing an array of measures and imperiling a tax key to funding the state's Medicaid program. Senators voted to adjourn after Democrats held off legislative business for hours, angry over what they described as a betrayal by Republican leaders on a deal to renew a tax on medical providers that generates bi...
Special to St. Louis Public Radio Missouri lawmakers toss paper into the air to commemorate the end of the 2021 legislative session. The last day of the Missouri General Assembly’s legislative session ended with a thud when the Senate adjourned without approving a must-pass bill that helps fund the state’s Medicaid system. It was an anticlimatic end to a legislative session that failed to fund voter-approved Medicaid expansion but featured passage of long-sought legislation that could have a big impact on the state’s roads, police, children and opioid abuse issues. When lawmakers retur...