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Lawmakers move to expand Missouri absentee voting amid virus
The Missouri House has advanced a proposal to ensure voters can cast absentee ballots this year if they’re worried about in-person voting during the coronavirus pandemic. House lawmakers approved an amendment to another election-related bill that would allow voters to request to have ballots mailed to them so they could avoid Election Day crowds. Voters […]
Missouri lawmakers send new redistricting proposal to voters
Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature has sent a ballot proposal to voters asking them to reconsider their earlier backing of a redistricting system that stresses fairness and competitiveness over everything else. Missourians in 2018 voted to make “partisan fairness” and “competitiveness” the top criteria in re-drawing state legislative districts. The new plan, approv[...]
Missouri House approves statute of repose bill
The bill, which needs another vote before it moves to the Senate, would set a statute of repose in products-liability cases.
Missouri bill would bar discrimination for not vaccinating
A panel of Missouri lawmakers on Monday considered enacting a ban on discrimination against unvaccinated children, an effort that comes as other states look to increase immunization amid disease outbreaks. Parents testified to lawmakers that their unimmunized children were turned away from daycares and doctors. Republican Rep. Lynn Morris, a pharmacist from southwest Missouri, said […]
Missouri bill would bar discrimination for not vaccinating
A panel of Missouri lawmakers on Monday considered enacting a ban on discrimination against unvaccinated children, an effort that comes as other states look to increase immunization amid disease outbreaks. Parents testified to lawmakers that their unimmunized children were turned away from daycares and doctors. Republican Rep. Lynn Morris, a pharmacist from southwest Missouri, said […]
US high court redistricting case draws on Missouri’s example
Missouri’s recent constitutional amendment on redistricting serves as an unusual example in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case on partisan gerrymandering. The high court is set to hear two cases on March 26 that could determine how much partisan consideration is too much when legislative districts are drawn. Lamone v. Benisek involves a challenge to […]
2 members married to backers of bill to strengthen panel
Two members of a Missouri commission that would gain authority to review sex-based discrimination complaints in higher education have ties to backers of the legislative change. At issue is a bill moving through the Missouri Legislature that would give the five-member Administrative Hearing Commission the authority to review Title IX cases. Those cases deal with […]
2 members married to backers of bill to strengthen panel
Two members of a Missouri commission that would gain authority to review sex-based discrimination complaints in higher education have ties to backers of the legislative change. At issue is a bill moving through the Missouri Legislature that would give the five-member Administrative Hearing Commission the authority to review Title IX cases. Those cases deal with […]
Missouri House passes bill on closing public records
A bill that one lawmaker said would mean “the most radical undermining of open records and transparency law in state history” passed the Missouri House on Thursday. But the bill’s sponsor said he’ll work to tamp down the most contested part of the bill, which also imposes campaign contribution caps on local candidates and applies […]
Missouri House passes bill on closing public records
A bill that one lawmaker said would mean “the most radical undermining of open records and transparency law in state history” passed the Missouri House on Thursday. But the bill’s sponsor said he’ll work to tamp down the most contested part of the bill, which also imposes campaign contribution caps on local candidates and applies […]
Missouri House votes for option to close some records
Missouri House lawmakers on Tuesday voted against protections for LGBT staffers and gave themselves the option to make some of their emails confidential, despite a voter-approved requirement for transparency. House members changed their records policy as part of a broader package of internal House rules for the 2019 legislative session, which began last week. The […]
Missouri House votes for option to close some records
Missouri House lawmakers on Tuesday voted against protections for LGBT staffers and gave themselves the option to make some of their emails confidential, despite a voter-approved requirement for transparency. House members changed their records policy as part of a broader package of internal House rules for the 2019 legislative session, which began last week. The […]
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