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A Kansas City Democrat on the committee said the move is election year posturing. Multiple studies over the years have debunked the alleged links between undocumented immigrants and violent crime — and research indicates that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than those born in the U.S.
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The presumptive next speaker of the Missouri House, Majority Leader Jon Patterson of Lee's Summit, is determined to keep the Kansas City Chiefs on his side of the state line.
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House Chief Clerk Dana Miller accuses Dean Plocher of pushing for the purchase of expensive constituent communication software, because it would mean large donations for his statewide campaign for lieutenant governor.
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This year’s Missouri General Assembly session was defined by fighting among factions in the Republican Party amid campaigns for other offices ahead of the November general election. It resulted in a recent low for passing legislation. Most laws are still waiting a signature or veto from Gov. Mike Parson.
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A gridlocked Missouri Senate was unsuccessful in passing a measure to change how voters can amend the state constitution. But the legislature did pass measures relating to public safety and ranked-choice voting.
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Under legislation that cleared the Missouri Senate with virtually no opposition earlier this year, marriage would be banned for anyone under 18. Although it passed out of a House committee this week, Republican leaders said it was too late to place the bill on the calendar for debate before the session ends.
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After the critical tax measure overcame a 40-hour filibuster in the Missouri Senate, the House passed it in less than 10 minutes. It now goes to Gov. Mike Parson.
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The Federal Reimbursement allowance is set to expire at the end of September. The bill in question would extend the tax through September 2029.
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Missouri House ethics panel ends investigation into Dean Plocher, after blocking release of evidenceThe committee voted to dismiss the ethics complaint, after removing language that blamed the result on “the inability of the committee to finish the investigation as a direct result of obstruction of the process and the intimidation of witnesses by” Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher.
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The Missouri House Speaker is already being accused of obstructing the work of an ethics committee. Recently, lawmakers have raised concerns about whether the ethics rules in the House need to be reworked in cases where the chamber’s most powerful member is the focus of an investigation.
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Missouri House votes to make it harder to amend constitution, with controversial language reinstatedCurrently, a simple majority of votes is needed to pass a proposed constitutional amendment once it makes it onto the ballot. The proposed resolution would increase that threshold to both a simple majority of votes and the majority of Missouri’s eight congressional districts — but the bill also includes unrelated "ballot candy."
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A bill headed to the Missouri governor's desk would require larger school districts to receive voter approval before adopting a four-day week. That includes the Independence School District, which switched to a four-day week this school year to attract more teachers.