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Nixon questions constitutionality of vehicle sales tax bill
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri House of Representatives approved legislation early Thursday morning that would allow Missouri localities to instate a sales tax on vehicles sold outside of the state. The Missouri Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that localities could only impose a sales tax on automobiles purchased outside of the state only [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Tax credit reform following the failed Mamtek deal in Moberly has likely died in the legislative process. Wednesday, the Senate attached language that would limit the historic preservation tax credit to the bill that made changes to economic development rules. State Sen. Jim Lembke, R-St. Louis, who led the tax credit reform [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — After much back and forth between the two chambers, the Missouri General Assembly agreed on and passed a bill Tuesday disallowing employees from suing coworkers for damages caused by on the job accidents. The legislation, a compromise on a key push by the Missouri Chamber of Commerce, passed the House of [...]
Continue reading …JOPLIN, Mo. — Dr. Richard Reed was one of nearly 500 Joplin business owners to lose their businesses in the May 2011 tornado. Reed, a local dentist, lost is office in the storm, and over the past year has been seeing patients in a temporary facility. But Monday, less than a year since the tornado [...]
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JOPLIN, Mo. — As the 2012 legislative session winds down this week, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon hopes the legislature will pass new tax credits he believes will spur job creation and manufacturing. Pointing to the reemerging success of the auto industry in St. Louis and Kansas City, Nixon said he hopes the legislature will pass additional tax [...]
Continue reading …JOPLIN, Mo. — Gov. Jay Nixon visited Joplin Monday, a week before of the one-year anniversary of the devastating tornado that destroyed a large portion of the city — including its schools. Nixon, who has visited the city dozens of time since storm last May, stopped in to announce new funding for what is becoming [...]
Continue reading …Springfield senator nearly derailed education funding deal over MSU exclusion
May 11, 2012 No Comment— State Sen. Bob Dixon brought budget negotiations to a halt this week, when he learned that Missouri State University in Springfield was not part of a $3 million higher education funding agreement. The deal, which lawmakers approved Thursday, appropriated hundreds of thousands in new spending for smaller state universities. MSU was left out of [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — With a day to spare before a constitutional deadline, lawmakers in the Missouri General Assembly passed a $24 billion budget to fund the state for 2013. After contentious debate between the House and Senate, lawmakers passed bills to fully fund elementary and secondary education, give a pay increase to some state [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri House of Representatives passed a $24 billion budget Thursday, hours before a constitutional deadline. Lawmakers added funding to elementary and higher education, mental health and social services, while cutting nearly millions from transportation and nearly $10 agriculture spending. Lawmakers had quarreled over how to fund the state’s $30 million [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Lawmakers negotiating details of the state’s $24 billion budget reached an agreement Wednesday afternoon, days before a constitutional completion deadline. Members of the budget conference committee agreed to both increase funding for higher education and preserve funding for the state’s blind health care plan, two of the strongest points of disagreement [...]
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