$500 million tax rebate plan is axed from record $49 billion state budget
An avalanche of tax revenue is bulging Missouri’s treasury, but tax rebates approved by lawmakers won’t be coming to taxpayer bank accounts.…
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Winners and losers of Missouri’s raucous 2022 legislative session
The 2022 legislative session ended last week the same way it began back in January: With the Missouri Senate bogged down…
Missouri lawmakers finish record $49 billion state budget hours before deadline
The largest budget in Missouri history passed with relative ease Friday, in part because the final version was larger than…
‘Something for everyone’: Final votes coming for record-setting Missouri budget
A record state operating budget that a top legislative Republican said “has a little bit of something for everyone” is heading for…
Missouri Senate approves record budget, adds $1.2B to House spending
Supporters of the only attempt to add money to the state’s record operating budget during Senate debate Tuesday also complained loudest…
State budget heads to floor debate with funding for community programs, celebrations, senior centers
Conservative Republican Emory Melton, R-Cassville, a state senator from 1973 to 1997, didn’t like it when new programs with ongoing…
Record Missouri budget grows as Senate adds spending, House works on $1B tax credit plan
Missouri would pay its full share of public school transportation costs for the first time in more than 20 years…
$500,000 for doula training program named for Cora Faith Walker is included in House’s state budget plan
After 28 hours of labor, Adrianne Blakemore felt incredible joy when her first son came into the world in 2017,…
Can Missouri get out rental assistance quickly enough to prevent evictions?
Missouri has more than $300 million available in federal housing relief assistance and another $270 million on the way. But…
Parson to slash budget if lawmakers don’t reach Medicaid funding deal by noon
Gov. Mike Parson gave lawmakers a deadline of noon Tuesday to strike a deal to renew medical provider taxes vital to funding…
Missouri public defenders set to hire 53 more attorneys
Mary Fox stood before a room full of people, most of them recent law-school grads, last week to make her…
Without medical provider tax extension, Missouri budget cuts loom
With only weeks before the new state fiscal year begins, top legislative budget writers think progress in discussions on medical provider…
Missouri House sends budget to Senate without Medicaid expansion funding
Republicans in the Missouri House finalized their plan to block funding for voter-approved Medicaid expansion on Thursday, giving final approval…
Budget plan shows first Missouri savings from Medicaid changes
The first examples of what Missouri taxpayers will save in the coming fiscal year as the federal government shoulders a…
Spending bill for Medicaid expansion raises questions of intent
The $1.6 billion cost of expanding Medicaid to approximately 275,000 uninsured Missourians has been segregated from other spending in the…
Schools to get $123 million as Parson releases budget withholdings
Missouri public schools will receive $123 million withheld from the state education budget, as Gov. Mike Parson announced Monday that…