MO State News

 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has filed lawsuits against six school districts (Special School District of St. Louis, Maplewood Richmond Heights, Clayton, Ladue, Webster Groves, and Mehlville) for reimposing their mask mandates on school-age children. The lawsuits argue that the school districts, through arbitrarily set “triggers,” re-implemented their mask mandates. The Missouri […]

JEFFERSON CITY – The State’s first-ever hepatitis C elimination plan, Show Me the Cure, will improve access to equitable testing and patient-centered treatment services to combat the hepatitis C virus (HCV). The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS), Bureau of HIV, STD and Hepatitis is working to eliminate hepatitis C in Missouri by

JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri State Parks values the tremendous contributions and sacrifices made by members of the U.S. military and their families. To show its appreciation to active service members, Missouri State Parks is participating in the Blue Star Museums program, which offers free tours to the nation’s active-duty personnel and their families. The Blue Star

JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri State Highway Patrol, would like to remind the public about laws pertaining to the use of all-terrain vehicles and utility vehicles. Colonel Eric T. Olson said Missouri laws define utility vehicles as any motorized vehicle manufactured and used exclusively for off-highway use, which is more than 50 inches, but no more

JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri’s unemployment dipped slightly to 3.4 percent in April, compared to March’s 3.6 percent. Missouri non-farm payroll employment decreased slightly from March 2022 to April 2022, and the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased by two-tenths of a percentage point. Employment, seasonally adjusted, decreased by 5,300 jobs over the month. Private industry employment

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Department of Natural Resources will hold a virtual Formal Initiative Roundup meeting at 1:30 p.m., May 23 as part of Cycle 1 of the Missouri State Energy Planning, or MoSEP, process. The department’s goal for the MoSEP process is to identify and address, through an ongoing series of stakeholder engagement workshops,

JEFFERSON CITY – Governor Mike Parson has signed HB 2909 into law, approving the proposed boundaries for Missouri’s eight congressional districts.  “Today, we signed into law a congressional map that meets our constitutional requirements,” Governor Parson said. “This past session, we saw a few individuals’ political posturing obstruct key pieces of priority legislation and promote inefficient and

WASHINGTON – This week, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.), along with U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (Texas), John Cornyn (Texas), John Thune (S.D.), Cynthia Lummis (Wyo.), Jerry Moran (Kan.), Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Tommy Tuberville (Ala.), Dan Sullivan (Alaska), John Kennedy (La.), Mike Lee (Utah), James Inhofe (Okla.), Bill Cassidy (La.), Roger Wicker (Miss.), James Lankford (Okla.), John

Columbia, Mo.— The University of Missouri Board of Curators voted on Tuesday to approve a new differential tuition structure for each of the University of Missouri System’s four universities, which will go into effect for the Fall 2023 semester. The differential tuition model will consolidate supplemental course fees and the information technology fees into a

By Holly Rehder, Mo State Senator The 2022 legislative session has come to a close. It was a contentious four and half months but, in the end, we were able to accomplish quite a bit of good with a number of important measures crossing the legislative finish line. We passed relatively few bills, but many