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Kelly Participates in House Hearings on Mamtek
As a member of the House Government Accountability Committee, Rep. Chris Kelly participated in two days of hearings on Nov. 29 and Nov. 30 as part of the House investigation into a failed economic development deal that left the city of Moberly on the hook for a $39 million bond issue to build an artificial [...]
State House Maps Finalized
A panel of state appellate judges finalized new state legislative districts on Nov. 30, producing House districts that group 40 percent of eligible returning incumbent state representatives with fellow incumbents.The new legislative districts will be used for the next 10 years starting with the 2012 elections and ending with the 2020 elections. In drawing the [...]
Dec 1 – Weekly Capitol Update
APPELLATE JUDGES COMPLETE STATEHOUSE REDISTRICTING A panel of state appellate judges finalized new state legislative districts on Nov. 30, producing House districts that group 40 percent of eligible returning incumbent state representatives with fellow incumbents and creating a Senate plan that repeatedly violates the Missouri Constitution’s prohibition against splitting counties among Senate districts. The new [...]
Nov 23 – Weekly Capitol Update
NEW FORMULA DROPS MISSOURI’S GRADUATION RATES Missouri’s high school graduation rate for the 2010-2011 school year dropped by 6.6 percentage points under a new federally imposed formula for calculating such rates. Under the old method, Missouri’s graduation rate for 2011 was 86.4 percent; the recalculated rate is 79.8 percent. The new formula is intended to [...]
Nov 17 – Weekly Capitol Update
MoDOT’S I-70 TOLL PROPOSAL GETS MIXED RESPONSE The Missouri Department of Transportation’s push for legislative approval of its new plan to rebuild Interstate 70 and convert it to a toll road won praise for innovative thinking from a legislative committee but also skepticism as to whether Missourians would accept tolling of the state’s primary east-west [...]
House Hearings To Be Held on Mamtek
As a member of the House Interim Committee on Government Oversight and Accountability, Rep. Chris Kelly will participate in a planned two-day hearing on the recent Mamtek failure in Moberly. The hearing will be held in late November. Witnesses before the panel include Economic Development Department Director David Kerr, Moberly Mayor Bob Riley, Moberly Area [...]
Nov 10 – Weekly Capitol Update
FATHER OF THE HANCOCK AMENDMENT DIES AT AGE 82 Former U.S. Rep. Mel Hancock, the author of a landmark 1980 amendment to the Missouri Constitution that restricts how the state collects and spends tax revenue, died in his sleep in the early hours of Nov. 6 at his home in Springfield. He was 82. Hancock [...]
Nov 3 – Weekly Capitol Update
HIGH COURT HEARS CHALLENGES TO LAWSUIT DAMAGE CAPS The Missouri Supreme Court on Nov. 2 heard arguments in a pair of cases that separately challenge provisions state law that cap financial damages that can be awarded to successful plaintiffs in lawsuits. Both cases claim the caps, which the Republican-controlled General Assembly imposed in 2005, violate [...]
Oct 27 – Weekly Capitol Update
SENATE CALLS IT QUITS ON UNPRODUCTIVE SPECIAL SESSION The Missouri Senate on Oct. 25 finally pulled the plug on a special legislative session that had been on life support for weeks as Senate and House Republicans deadlocked over a job creation and tax credit reform bill that had been the primary purpose for the session. [...]
Kelly Awarded MU Presidential Citation
It has just been announced that Rep. Chris Kelly is the 2011 recipient of the Alliance of Alumni Associations and Extension Presidential Citation Award. Each year, the University President, every campus alumni association, and Extension select a deserving recipient who exemplifies outstanding and continuing service to the University of Missouri. Rep. Kelly will be honored [...]
