JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Republicans’ decadelong effort to require people to show photo identification when voting has cleared a major hurtle. Senate Democrats allowed a bill and a constitutional amendment to get initial approval Monday after about a month of stalling. Republicans agreed to allow people without photo ID to cast a ballot…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature is weighing a number of tax breaks for businesses as the session wraps up. Proposed tax breaks range from a package of small business incentives to an exemption for farmers who raise deer to sell their urine. The small business proposal is close to passage. Businesses with…
( KTRS ) A measure to allow beer-makers to lease coolers to stores to keep drinks frosty has passed the Missouri House. House members voted in favor of adding the provision onto a bill that already had Senate approval. The underlying bill would allow a state wine board to oversee marketing of the beverage. Supporters…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Republican Missouri state Sen. Dan Brown is dropping out of the race for state treasurer. Brown said in a statement Thursday he’s endorsing fellow Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt, who now faces no primary challenger. Brown says it’s important for Republicans to win in November. Brown, of Rolla, was a surprise…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A proposal to require Missouri voters to show photo ID at polling places is stalled in the state Senate. Democrats filibustered the bill for about six hours Wednesday night. The Senate paused its business shortly after midnight for lawmakers to meet off the floor, and the chamber adjourned early Thursday…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The state Senate has approved exempting some types of farm data from Missouri’s open-records laws. Senators voted 25-6 Tuesday on a bill requiring state agencies to keep confidential the information collected for voluntary agricultural programs, including registration data for animal disease tracking programs. Anyone who improperly releases that information could…
( KTRS ) A bill designed to ease limits on the concealed carry of weapons is advancing in the Missouri Legislature after House members voted 112-37 to send the measure to the Senate. The approved legislation would allow people to carry concealed guns without a permit anywhere they now can carry openly, something that doesn’t…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A bill moving through the Missouri Legislature would limit public access to police body camera footage. Senators voted 30-0 on Tuesday to seal body camera footage until police investigations become inactive. The bill would also exempt footage from body cameras and dashboard cameras from open records laws if they depict…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri beef producers have soundly rejected an effort to establish a $1 per head beef checkoff fee. The Department of Agriculture announced Monday the proposal lost with nearly 75 percent of the beef producers who voted opposed and just over 25 percent in favor. The department said ballots were mailed…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Senate has tabled a sales tax proposal after a senator filibustered it by reading a book about 50 Cent. Democratic Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal on Monday read for almost an hour from “The 50th Law,” a self-help book co-authored by 50 Cent and Robert Greene that draws on anecdotes…