The measure now heads back to the GOP-led House to review Senate changes. The deadline to pass legislation is Friday.

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Mounting concerns about the coronarvirus spread to state capitols across the country last week, as some lawmakers halted their sessions, shut out the public and scrambled to finish work on essential spending bills to keep government going. Even in states ...

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A 20-hour filibuster halted an asbestos bill in the Missouri Senate, but senators have advanced separate legislation that changes punitive damages. Following a debate that ran from mid-afternoon on Feb. 25 until 10:30 the following morning, lawmakers put aside the ...

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The Republican-led Missouri Senate on Monday passed a proposal to once again ask voters to change the state’s redistricting rules. Less than two years after voters approved a new redistricting plan, senators voted 22-9 in favor of another constitutional amendment to ...

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The Republican-led Missouri Senate this week passed a proposal to once again ask voters to change the state’s redistricting rules. Less than two years after voters approved a new redistricting plan, senators voted 22-9 in favor of another constitutional amendment ...

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Eric Greitens, Missouri Senate, impeachment

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State lawmakers returned from their mid-session break last week to inconclusive debates on changing the state’s laws on punitive damages. The Missouri Senate debated a bill on March 27 that would make it more difficult for plaintiffs to claim and ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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