The Missouri General Assembly adjourned Friday without the factional warfare and late-session meltdowns that have come to define the Capitol in recent years, ending a 2026 session marked less by dysfunction than by a return to legislative basics. Republicans used their supermajorities to advance major pieces of Gov. Mike Kehoe’s agenda, including a proposed constitutional […]
Healthcare providers could face the death penalty if they don’t provide life-saving care to a baby born after an attempted abortion under legislation headed to Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe. The legislation — approved by the House Wednesday on a 102-46 vote — has been a top priority of Republicans this year and was the only significant anti-abortion […]
A bill requiring pornography websites to conduct age checks before granting access is headed to Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe. Commercial websites and platforms must already verify that users are at least 18 if more than a third of their content is sexually explicit as part of a rule enforced by Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway […]
Missouri voters will decide later this year whether to grant lawmakers power to increase and expand the sales tax in order to raise revenue needed to eliminate the income tax. The Missouri House voted 95-59 Tuesday to send a proposed constitutional amendment directing future legislatures to cut personal income tax rates as state revenue increases. […]
An intraparty schism opened Thursday among legislative Democrats as the party’s leader in the Missouri House blasted state Senate Democrats for their silence during a 70-minute debate on a proposal to replace the state income tax with increased sales taxes. Speaking to reporters at a news conference, House Minority Leader Ashley Aune of Kansas City […]
For more than 20 years, Republicans have won every Missouri House race in St. Charles County. It is one of two counties in Missouri with more than 150,000 people — the other is Jefferson — with no Democrats in the local legislative delegation. And it is one of the places Democrats need to win to […]
When state Rep. Elizabeth Fuchs first arrived in Jefferson City as a lobbyist in 2015, a woman who had been around the Capitol longer pulled her aside and offered advice that sounded, at first, absurd for a statehouse job. Don’t drink from the “special refrigerator” in someone’s office. Don’t go for one-on-one drinks after hours. […]
Fifteen months after Missouri voters approved a constitutional right to abortion, Republican lawmakers are playing the long game, introducing a flood of familiar legislation seeking to roll back some protections in the hopes of ultimately ending access to the procedure altogether. Republicans are moving to expand criminal penalties for doctors who perform abortions and civil […]
Missouri Republicans voted Thursday to advance a plan to add Medicaid work requirements to the state Constitution, hoping to put the issue before voters in November. Democrats insist the proposal, which passed the Missouri House 99-48 on a party-line vote, would open the door for state lawmakers to defund the voter-approved expansion of Missouri’s Medicaid […]
A property tax overhaul moving through the Missouri House includes provisions that would potentially push all elections to August and November. The bill’s sponsor, however, said that’s not his intent and will make any changes necessary to prevent it. The measure that would require taxing districts to set separate rates for each type of property […]