Category: Weekly Capitol Update
Jun 30 – Weekly Capital Update
COURT SIDES WITH ON-LINE COMPANIES IN TAX DISPUTE The Missouri Supreme Court on June 28 sided with a group of on-line travel companies, including Orbitz, Expedia and Travelocity, in a dispute with St. Louis County and the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission over payment of local hotel and tourism taxes. The county and CVC [...]
Jun 23 – Weekly Capital Update
GOV. NIXON VETOES PHOTO VOTER ID REQUIREMENT Gov. Jay Nixon on June 17 vetoed legislation that sought to require voters to show government-issued photo identification at their polling place as a condition of casting a ballot. The Secretary of State’s Office estimates that more than 230,000 legal Missouri voters — especially the elderly, disabled and [...]
Jun 23 – Weekly Capitol Update
GOV. NIXON VETOES PHOTO VOTER ID REQUIREMENT Gov. Jay Nixon on June 17 vetoed legislation that sought to require voters to show government-issued photo identification at their polling place as a condition of casting a ballot. The Secretary of State’s Office estimates that more than 230,000 legal Missouri voters — especially the elderly, disabled and [...]
Jun 16 – Weekly Capital Update
GOVERNOR MAKES CUTS TO UPCOMING STATE BUDGET Gov. Jay Nixon signed the $23.23 billion state budget for the 2012 fiscal year into law on June 10 but invoked his constitutional authority to bring the budget into balance by restricting $57.1 million in legislatively approved general revenue spending and another $115.1 million in spending from other [...]
Jun 9 – Weekly Capital Update
HIGHWAYS COMMISSION BACKS MoDOT DOWNSIZING The Missouri State Highways and Transportation Commission on June 8 approved plans for a sweeping restructuring of the state Department of Transportation that will reduce its workforce by one-fifth and close 131 facilities, including three of its 10 district offices, by the end of 2013. MoDOT officials hope the plan [...]
Jun 2 – Weekly Capital Update
MISSING FROM JOPLIN TORNADO ALL ACCOUNTED FOR The Missouri Department of Public Safety said on June 1 that all of the 268 people who had been reported missing following the May 22 tornado that devastated Joplin have now been accounted for. Of the missing, 144 people were located alive and the remaining 124 confirmed dead. [...]
May 19 – Weekly Capital Update
FY 2012 STATE BUDGET $90 MILLION OUT OF BALANCE Gov. Jay Nixon’s administration says the $23.23 billion state operating budget that the General Assembly approved earlier this month for the 2012 fiscal year is about $90 million out of balance. Nixon attributed the shortfall to legislature’s failure to pass a tax amnesty bill that was [...]
May 13 – Weekly Capital Update
PHOTO VOTER ID AMENDMENT SET FOR STATEWIDE BALLOT The Senate on May 9 voted 25-9 in favor of a proposed constitutional amendment that would authorize the General Assembly to require voters to show government-issued photo identification in order to vote. The measure, which the House of Representatives previously passed 102-55, will automatically go on the [...]
May 5 – Weekly Capital Update
CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING VETO OVERRIDDEN The General Assembly on May 4 overrode Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of bill to establish new congressional district boundaries that will last for the next 10 years. In rejecting the bill on April 30, Nixon rejected said the redistricting plan “does not adequately protect the interests of all Missourians.” The override [...]
Apr 28 – Weekly Capital Update
FINAL CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING BILL PASSES Breaking a week-long stalemate, the Senate and House of Representatives on April 27 each granted final approval to a congressional redistricting bill and forwarded it to Gov. Jay Nixon. HB 193 passed 96-55 in the House and 27-7 in the Senate, with majority Republicans mostly in favor and minority Democrats [...]
