SHOW NOTES:
But, FIRST:
Dear Senators Adam Schnelting, Nick Schroer, Brad Hudson, and Rick Brattin…the so-called champions for the Life Issue—the self proclaimed conservatives where have you been all session? You have done a LOT of sitting on major issues. Now, it is time for you to do some standing up for LIFE. You have three weeks left to save babies from being aborted until the 9th month. You talk a big game. We are sure you will come back into your districts and talk about the Life/Abortion issue. But, we are noting here for posterity that you have done NOTHING all session to STAND UP for Life. You have sat down all session long even on bad bills. We have NOT SEEN YOU FILIBUSTER FOR LIFE. WHY NOT? IT IS TIME, don’t you think?
We put this here for posterity. You have made promises. You have yet to deliver.
We are watching.
TOM PRATER WAS PULLED FOR CONSIDERATION FROM THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION BY GOVERNOR MIKE KEHOE WHEN IT WAS EXPOSED THAT HE IS A PROGRESSIVE SUPPORTING RADICALS IN THE SPRINGFIELD AREA:
Jungerman in Springfield Schools pushing DEI: Jungerman was supported for carrying out Thomas Prater’s liberal agenda. Jungerman was the former, very liberal, superintendent of schools in Springfield.
Keho withdrew his Prater nomination for State Board of Ed:
Thomas Prater Springfield School Board donations for “UNITED SPRINGFIELD” which is supported by radical, liberal, donors.
THE REASON TRUE CONSERVATIVES IN MISSOURI ARE AGAINST TOM PRATER: CLICK TO WATCH
MORE DETAILED INFORMATION ON UNITED SPRINGFIELD AND THE LIBERALS THAT BACK THAT PAC:
Now, ask yourself why Governor Mike Kehoe would choose such a radical to lead public education in Missouri as part of the state board of education?
LITERACY BILLS IN MISSOURI MATCH LIBERAL DEMOCRAT BILLS IN NEW YORK:
Remember the “SCHOOL CHOICE BILL” SB 727? Digital Literacy was embedded. It was a Democrat favor from the Republicans for not fighting the bill.
Here is what that looks like in Missouri. This is just the beginning. It looks exactly as we said it would look:
Remember what we warned you about last year? Click to read. We were right …. AGAIN!
PSC APPROVES MASSIVE RATE INCREASE FOR AMEREN. (THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SB4. THOSE RATE INCREASES ARE YET TO COME).
Bad news for Missouri? The PSC still has over $1 billion worth of rate increases on their desk for Missouri’s public utilities. And never forget what the office of Public Counsel did to sell you out on SB4 when they boldly changed their stance on that bill once they got their budget increased by almost double by Cindy O. for staying silent on SB4. THAT IS CALLED EXTORTION. NEVER TRUST THEM.
You can read about and watch the gross deception with Senator Rick Brattin here:
NOTES FROM THE HOUSE and SENATE LAST WEEK FROM PHENOMENAL RESEARCH/VIDEO/NOTES SO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR HOUSE REP AND SENATOR ARE DOING TO REPRESENT YOU. A huge thank you to our diligent researcher who does not miss a beat:
4-21-25
Local Governments Committee
During this public hearing on HB1385 Tim Meadows, a former House of Representatives member in Missouri spoke. Meadows served in the district that is now held by Representative Amato. Meadows gave Representative Bryant Wolfin props for speaking on the constitutionality of the bill as it singles out 1 individual political subdivision. The public hearing on this bill is being continued to next week and the chair apologized to those who drove up to testify, as the hearing was running long
Senate Confirmation Hearing, The committee was called to order at 10:05 but stated that they did not yet have a quorum present, and the first up is the Tom Prater appointment, and Senator Hough said it was his pleasure to carry the appointment of Dr Tom Prater to the State Board of Education. Mr Prater is part of Mattix Neu Prater Eye Center of Springfield, Missouri. Lincoln Hough said that Dr Prater had. Even friends and neighbors for years.
Senator Moon spoke on the appointment, saying that he has received some opposition to this appointment. Some of the items he wanted to talk to Dr Prater about privately, but did want to talk about United Springfield, a PAC and both Republican and Democrats receiving donations. There was discussion of the PAC did not look into political affiliations of school board candidates as school board is non-political. The current Springfield Superintended Dr Jungmann has advocated or DEI and up to $1 million toward implementation of chromebooks and the positives and negatives of chromebooks. Dr Prater was a member of the SPS school board at the time Dr John Jungmann was hired. There was DEI training and it was not well received.
Senator Mosley inquired of Dr Prater asking, you don’t feel that diversity is important.
Dr Prater said I’m going to be in between the 2 of you, referring to the differences in positions between Senator Moon and Senator Mosley.
Senator Bernskoetter carried the appointee Brooks Miller of Sunrise Beach for his appointment to the State Board of Eduction. Mr Miller has 42 years in health care, was Executive Director for Missouri NE Health Centers as well as serving at Jordan Valley in Springfield.
There was a discussion at length with Senator Mosley concerning post-pandemic decisions and wraparound services. Wraparound services are medical services, including mental health counseling in our public schools.
Moon spoke of Miller’s time in Springfield and working with Ozark, Republic, and Nixa schools on innovation centers. These centers expose students to more professions without making a commitment to that field of study.
Tom Wardinhouse was also an appointee presented in the committee, and this time to the State Board of Healing Arts. He has served on the electric co-op board, and state tech foundation board, as well as a number of other boards mentions. It was said that it was believed he would be a great member for any committees.
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Legislative Session 4-23-25– joined after listening to some of the Senate confirmations in committee
HB176 was filed as a 6 page bill and after the title was changed and amended by Rudy Viet the bill was perfected with 98 pages and a new title of Civil Jurisprudence.
SB28 Cotton Trailers bill was changed to Agriculture Transportation. THe Dems pushed back on the titling amendment. It appears that all the same amendments are being added to SB28 as those that were added to HB169. HB169 was the Ag Omnibus Bill. HB799 was added to the bill concerning fewer inspections on newer vehicles as well as conservation and Space Force license plates in Missouri. SB28 was 3rd read and passed with a vote of 148-2
SB1 carried by Representatives Reedy includes provisions on coroners becoming sheriff in the absence of sheriff and what the coroners new salary would be, 3rd class counties assessed valuation threshold allowing local officials to set salaries, all records to be made available to auditors, Boone CO sheriff to be carved out as the provisions of the bill would actually lower the sheriff’s salary, public administrators pay schedule concerning letters for guardianship and conservatorship.
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Elementary and Secondary Education chaired by Ed Lewis
HB1146 carried by Representatives Doyle Justice concerning books contested in public libraries passed out of committee in executive hearing with a vote of 20-1
HB1180 Represenative Phil Oehlerking on requiring a personal finance curriculum being taught in public school was voted due pass.
HB1269 by Barry Hovis about Higher Education proprietary Schools, like tech schools. There was discussion on these schools requiring a bond to be held by the school to reimburse students if the school ceases to exist before the student graduates/receives their certification and to reimburse for tuition paid as well as losing the ability to get a job on schedule based on their schooling being interrupted by the school not completing the certification.
Loy inquired why is the word which changed the way through the statute to that. Theresa answer is this is cleaning up the statutes, changing the grammar, the same as removing pronouns all through the statutes.
The primary purpose of the bill is consumer protection and creating standards for operations.
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Legislative Session 2pm 4-24-25
HB389, 314 and 862 changing the minimum sentencing in Missouri that repeat offenders must serve 50% of their sentence. 95% of first time non-violent offenders, 90% of 2nd time nonviolent offenders don’t serve time. On the 3rd offense the offender is typically finally part of the Department of Corrections and is legally considered a first time offender.
Representative Bennie Cook, who is a law enforcement officer as well, introduced Amendment 1 to the bill, delaying implementation for a year.
Gold and Silver HB433 Representative Bill Hardwick, was brought to the House floor on Wednesday April 23, shortly after the lunch recess for the perfection vote. Representative Hardwick always does a great job of introducing his bills and summarizing the importance of his legislation.
A democrat immediately tried to push back saying just because we can accept gold and silver as legal tender is not compelling. The rep also went on to say it would create inefficiently in the Missouri government.
Representative Wolfin inquired of Representative Hardwick. Wolfin appears to have a good grasp on why gold and silver can help us.
Representative Castille pointed out in 1971 when we went off the gold standard in g, our national debt was $23 Billion and today it is $36 Trillion.
Representatives Mayhew also spoke in favor of the bill, and debated wrapped up with Representative Christensen chiming in. That interaction was fun, and maybe caught the often somber on the floor, Representative Hardwick by surprise. I believe that the introduction of the bill by Representative Hardwick as well as the rest of the debate on the House floor does a great job of explaining why Gold and Silver can be positive for the state of Missouri and the pushback by some democrats of why some are not in support of gold and silver as legal tender. I encourage you to listen to the 37 minutes of debate on the floor for yourself by clicking this link.
2025 Legislative Session - Day Fifty Eight - Wednesday, April 23 - Afternoon Session
Representative Mayhew introduced his catalytic converter bill on the House floor. This is an omnibus bill on catalytic converters that was created in 2024 from a number of bills from several representatives that have attempted to address this issue in the state of Missouri. Catalytic converters are frequently stolen from under cars and sold. Representative Mayhew said one of the issues of previous versions of the bill has been fixed, was the paperwork including the tracking of VIN registration numbers that would have been done on catalytic converters that were still attached to cars when the entire car is scrapped. That was not the intended purpose of this legislation, but to help prevent catalytic converters from being stolen and sold for scrap.
HB362 Cecile Williams, the Taylor Swift AI Bill. This bill addresses non consentual graphic images in an attempt to stop deepfake porn. There are currently no restrictions for regular citizens having their images used by AI to create fake images. This bill includes criminal and civil penalties concerning consent.
HB627 by Representative Mayhew. This bill says that the DNR cannot deny a permit for a project if a new ordinance that would prevent the project was created after the initial permit was filed.
House Amendment 1 was presented by Representative Tim Taylor to change the title to allow for a few choice things, “to open it up to various things”. TIM TAYLOR IS EXACTLY EVERYTHING WRONG WITH POLITICIANS.
What he is trying to do on the floor, once the bill has already been through committee, is to change the title so “various things” can now be added (in the form of amendments) to his bill. Wow.
Amendment 2 about MERC reestablishes the date and collect fees to support first responders and attached with a voice vote.
Amendment 3 by Representative Sasseman, his bill on invasive species. There was an amendment to the amendment to remove 1 plant, the burning bush. Representative Holly Jones spoke against the amendment and asked if he would amend his amendment if any of the plants on his invasive species bill had medicinal purposes and Representative Sasseman agreed. The amendment to the amendment failed by voice vote. Democrat representative had previously asked for a roll call vote on the to the amendment and the invasive species amendment passed 77-53.
Amendment 4 Mark Mierath was further amended by representative Wellenkamp of his HB1461 flood mitigation bill. This amendment would allow and HOA to incorporate themselves and borrow $$ from a newly formed state revolving fund to pay for the neighborhood flood mitigation using natural materials at a rate of 2-4% interest. This amendment attached with a voice vote.
HB627 was perfected with a voice vote, and has been referred to Fiscal Review
HB1316. Hardy Billington this bill would prevent a municipality from requiring landlords from having to list their rental property on a registry with the municipality. There was much debate on this bill and push back from democrats that want inspections of properties before they can be rented or rerented. Representative Billington is advocated for free market and said that properties that aren’t required to pass every inspection would allow people with lower incomes to actually live in a home instead of being homeless. This bill was laid over.
SB28
The Democrats were pushing back on the changing of title, with the titling amendment. Theresa underlying bill on cotton trailers has now changed to Agriculture Transportation. It appears that all the same amendments are being added to SB28 as those that were published on HB169. HB169 was added to the Ag Omnibus Bil
Amendment 4, HB799 added to the bill, which I was about fewer inspections on newer vehicles as well as conservation plates and Space Force plates.
SB1 County Officials, Representative Reedy the bill carrier. The discussion was to keep the bill very narrow and following the narrow title, as a previous bill with some of this same language was struck down by the courts because the bill was amended late in the session.
2025 Legislative Session - Day Fifty Eight- Wednesday, April 23 - Morning Session
This bill defines what happens and how a coroner is compensated if the sheriff is vacated in a county. Provisions for 3rd class counties to set local official salaries if above a certain threshold of assessed valuation. Records are to be made available to auditors, sheriff’s pay requirements actually lowered the sheriff’s salary in Boone County, so they want an opt out. Also provisions for public administrators pay schedule dealing with guardianships and conservatorships.
This was law put them in limbo with the court decision.
2025 Legislative Session - Day Fifty Eight- Wednesday, April 23 - Morning Session
This interaction in the next clip is between Representatives Bryant Wolfin and Representative John Black on March 26th at 3:18 in the afternoon on the constitutionality of changing the original purpose of the bill with a titling amendment and then additional amendments to the underlying bill.
RUDY VEIT ADDING AN 80 PAGE AMENDMENT CREATES QUESTIONS AS TO ETHICS OF SUCH A MOVE.
2025 Legislative Session - Day Forty Two - Tuesday, March 25 -Afternoon Session-
Representative Darin Chappell
This discussion was on HB176 about trusts. Representative Rudy Viet introduced an 81 page amendment that was further amended by Representatives Black with an amendment to the amendment. There was additional inquiry by multiple democrats representatives about the length of the amendment and the lack of time to read over the 81 page amendment that was dropped on the floor. The concern was the lack of time given to representatives that are not part of the committee that the amendment came through as a stand alone bill.
From these clips you can see that there are Representatives that are concerned with changing the titles on the bills and amending the bills with entire pieces of legislation. They know there is a possibility of entire pieces of legislation being struck down because of changing of bill titles and adding other subjects into the bills as they go through the process.
4-24-25 General Legislative Session House of Representatives
The first bill that came to the floor was the return of HB737 from the Senate. The Senate had made a number of changes to this bill dealing with the placement of foster children in the state of Missouri, including changes that have nothing to do with foster placement. Representative Melissa Schmidt asked the body to vote in favor of HB737 that is now Bill number CCS SS HCS HB737 & 486. That translates to Conference Committee Substitute to Senate Substitute to House Committee Substitute to House Bills 737 and 486.
Representative Van Schoiack had concern with a Senate amendment that changes the legal age of marriage in the state of Missouri to 18. This bill has not been heard on the floor of the Missouri House of Representatives.
Representative Holly Jones spoke on the age of marriage saying it was discussed at length in the Children and Families committee. Rene Reuter spoke also, that if a person is married before the age of 18, they can’t get a divorce and they cannot go to a domestic abuse shelter as they aren’t 18. Representative Proudie added that child brides are sometimes females that are forced to marry their sex trafficker
Representative Billington spoke on the bill. He explained that in current law when anyone 16 and 17 that get married in the state of Missouri are emancipated, so changing the age of marriage to 18 is not necessary. He asked the body to vote no on the bill, as statistics show that those couples who have conceived a baby before they marry, that go ahead and get married are less likely to abort the baby, so if the body is pro-life then they should vote no on the bill. He continues by saying that if you can’t vote no on the bill, you can “take a walk” and not vote on the bill. He said that he would be a no one the bill. Interesting that Representative Billington was absent at the time of the vote.
Representative Seitz spoke on the bill saying that the House needs to look at the bill as a whole and not certain parts in it and “do not make perfect the enemy of the good.”
Interesting Inquiry between Democrat Representatives Ingle and Representatives Billington. Representatives Ingle said that with Billington’s remarks on couples that get married as opposed to those that don’t get married when there is a pregnancy, that Billington is accusing Senators and represenatatives alike, if they don’t allow marriages under the age of 18. This shows how the democrats can twist words, but also goes to show that when multiple subjects are included into 1 bill that there ARE things that are not liked, but those things senators and representatives vote for in a bill that they don’t care for, to get the “good” that they do want, that the bad things can also have very negative consequences as well as being held against them.
2025 Legislative Session - Day Fifty Nine - Thursday, April 24
Barry Hovis inquired of Representatives VanShoiak on the age of marriage plus the idea of killing bad bills and that they NEED to stick to single subject bills.
2025 Legislative Session - Day Fifty Nine - Thursday, April 24
This bill was 3rd read and passed with a vote of 129 yes, 14 no, 1 present and 18 absent. After studying the other votes for the day, it appears there were 7 representatives that were absent all day, that did not take a walk, but that 11 representatives “took a walk” and didn’t vote on this bill. You will see them below highlighted in hot pink.
If you would like to listen to the entire debate on HB737 & 486 you can listen above:
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Next up was SB28 that the House 3rd read on 4-23-25 and the Senate refused to concur on House Amendments 1, 2, the amendment to the amendment of Amendment 3 and House Amendment 4. The House refused to receded from the amendments and grants a conference with the Senate. SB28 is now on the conference calendar.
The conference committees meet behind closed doors, there are no public comments heard, and there are no minutes to the conference committee’s published. The conference committees are made up of 4 House members and 4 Senate members.
HB595 and 343 is also back from the Senate and refusing changing and is requesting a conference committee
SB81 and 174 are already in conference committee
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SB’s for 3rd read
SB68 carried by Senator Mike Henderson. The House Bill Handler is Bill Allen
House Amendment 1 by Chad Perkins was added.school has a safety plan that includes AED’s that the first responders are given they plan for the AED and charter schools are also included. AED’s are portable defibrillators,
Representative Ed Lewis spoke on the permission that was granted to the House to “make some adjustments and make some additions”.
Ed gives a quick summary of “17 BILLS that came across this floor” that were added to this bill.
2025 Legislative Session - Day Fifty Nine - Thursday, April 24
There were a total of 14 additional amendments added to this bill on the House Floor, besides those that were added to the bill in the House Committee Substitute.
HA2 Ed Lewis, if a student is currently in a. School in an adjacent state that is receiving an IEP or instruction with disabilities, the students can remain so not to remove services.
HA3 Ann Kelly on administrative staff training and support
HA4 Sheild-teachers for tomorrow cannot be certified through his program for gifted, joining special ed also cannot be certified through this as they need additional training.
HA5 Pollitt Creates the Stem Career Awareness program
HA6 Knight, enlist in Military, exempted from not being able to play for the first 14 days. Kids that go through basic training between their junior and senior years should not be penalized for missing practice while in basic training.
HA7 Black International baccalaureate program
HA8 Black Missouri Religions Liberties Awareness in Schools Act
HA9 Christ child can attend district where you work, not just teachers, but also staff, now extended to charter schools.
HA10 Keathley on more provisions on Missouri religious liberties awareness in Schools act
HA11 Haley HB329, pensions and retirement for teachers.
HA12 Diehl federal IDEA program, changes the age the programs ends for IP and special ed students
HA13 Steinhoff (democrat) special education services are provided from age 3.
After all the discussion of the Committee Substitute as well as the amendments that were added to the floor, there were some Kum Bay ya moments on the floor with Representatives Ed Lewis, Represenative, Pollitt, Representatives Banderman, Representatives Gragg, just before Speaker Jonathan Patterson brought the bill for the final vote. You can listen to this exchange of the representatives on the floor sounding very proud of themselves for creating this omnibus bill, that even they admitted is a very large bill below:
2025 Legislative Session - Day Fifty Nine - Thursday, April 24
The Bill passed within. Vote of 130-15-3
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HB205 was 3rd read and passed with a vote of 134-13. This bill is about combining the 3 pensions systems of the St Louis fire department. This subject has been discussed for a number of years as there is a very old pension system as well as a new modernized system, but the 2 systems have been run independently, with independent boards, keeping the systems confusing. This will allow the same board to oversee both funds/systems at the same time. The African Americans firefighters union in St Louis adamantly opposes the bill according to LaKeySha Bosley
HB837 by Jeff Farnan of District 1 doubles the funding for the Regional Planning Commission as well as CPI adjustments going forward.
HB 606 Workforce Development Representative Willard Haley
This bill includes provisions of creating a Workforce Development Board, the custody of the funds, MSU will retain doctoral research programs, a career-tech certificate program as well as an International baccalaureate degree. The bill was 3rd read with a vote of 115-37
LISA’S NOTES FROM THE WEEK OF 4/21/25:
April 21st Week
IN House Chamber:
HB810 in gallery Ben Baker designated HWY for his daughter and son in law.
Davie and Natalie Lloyd-passed away as Missionaries in Haiti. This bridge was to honor their remarkable lives.
HB595 Schroer handling
Great bill that no city or county can enact an ordinance that prohibits landlords from looking at income as a term of the rental or prohibits a security deposit or right of first refusal.
Nicola added on an amendment that corporations with a net value or assets of $25 million or more a year shall not acquire, directly or indirectly any residential real estate in the state. This was a great addition to the bill.
Trent made an inquiry that basically said why is this fair to stop only at the corporations not taking homes? What about steel and other things? Those would be called monopolies, and we do prohibit those. We should be doing a better job but we do prohibit those.
Black pushed back on the amendment also about the concern about what could happen in his district if they don’t have these actors.
Brattin was providing support for Nicola’s amendment said there was not this pushback in committee but now that its on the floor the realtors lobbyists are providing pushback because they want the corporations to be able to buy these properties. Nicola pulled back his amendment.
Brattin offered an amendment excluding a bunch of counties. This means the whole list can do the opposite. The amendment passed.
This is the amendment:
by inserting after the word "county" the following: ",
except any portion of such city that is located in a county
with more than one hundred thousand but fewer than one
hundred twenty thousand inhabitants and with a county seat
with more than nine thousand but fewer than eleven thousand
inhabitants or a county with more than one hundred thousand
but fewer than one hundred twenty thousand inhabitants and
with a county seat with more than four thousand but fewer
than six thousand inhabitants".
Passed the bill and third read.
Two of the lobbyists were talking in the house about a bill in committee that none of the committee had read or vetted but they had moved out of committee. They were laughing at the incompetence of what was going on. This happens every single day.
In the Senate:
House bills HB 742- great bill
No DEI in interdepartmental or divisive topics. It also gives a parents bill of rights showing curriculum to parents. There is nothing about the testing that we have been so vocal about.
No state contracts shall incentivize DEI in private business.
School districts are prohibited from 1619 project. If it violates the provisions, then they get half of their funding pulled.
Brattin laid the bill over.
Gubernatorial appointments and Kehoe put up Tom Prater for the State Dept of Education. He is an eye surgeon in Springfield. He was part of United Sprinfield PAC that has been running democrat leaning candidates for the local elections including the school board.
Prater also supported Junngerman who did DEI training in the Springfield Schools.
Senator Moon asked pointed questions about the PAC and his involvement with Jungerman (former superintendent in Springfield).
Brooks Miller was another one that was put up for an appointment by Kehoe to the State Dept of Education. He is from the Springfield area and has a background with dealing with the low income communities and healthcare. There were questions about how he could be instrumental in wrap around services in the school or the WSCC model. This would not be a plus for the people of Missouri. He will likely be instrumental in pushing the Ed to Med model in our public schools.
Steven Oscilica was nominated for the community service board. He spoke saying this could be an important position for him to be in because of the fedral level cuts with DOGE and how it might impact our state if certain entities do not continue to receive funding. Steven referenced Americorps and making sure Americorps continues to get funded if DOGE cuts it. To be clear if they feds cut it this guy is making sure that woke group continues to stay funded by our state budget. He is a terrible choice and clearly leans very liberal. Seems Kehoe has a “type”.
Americorps was birthed per Steven from the Peacecorps. Peacecorps is the birth child of the United Nations.
https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/our-history
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/executive-order-10924
Americorps believes in mandatory service that they call voluntary but it isn’t.
https://www.projectchangemaryland.org/the-case-for-mandatory-national-service/
Brian Strider put up for Agriculture and believes in the small farmer program because of the ageing out of the farmers. These programs have now been replaced from small individual farmers to corporations.
These appointments don’t look like the most conservative of the bunch and the democrats should be thrilled.
Sb1 has now been passed. This language is in SB1:
Upon request, the auditor shall have access to and the ability to audit and examine claims of every kind and character for which a county officer has a fiduciary duty.
No language should be highlighting examining claimes of every kind and character. This could be used for ESG and the requirement of it.
The bill says that county coroners get a pay increase. Salray commission from 3rd class counties also receive a pay increase. Allows the Boone county Shriffe to get a pay increase because under previous legislation sheriffs received an increase but not Boone county. Finally it deals with county public administrators salaries.
The House passed only in its chamber the gold and silver bill HB433.
Currently, all purchases of bullion and investment coins are exempt
from all State and local sales taxes. This bill additionally
exempts from State income tax the portion of capital gain on the
sale or exchange of gold and silver specie that are otherwise
included in the taxpayer's Federal adjusted gross income.
It allows for the use of gold and silver for payment including in an electronic form.
Senate sent SB28 Bean cotton trailers to conference committee
Senate sent SB81 Kurtis Gregory about fireworks goes to conference committee
Senate went to HB567 Prop A Gallick prop A fix dealing with minimum age and sick time was taken up and fillivustered by the democrats until 2 in the morning.
HB737 Schmidt is in a conference was a great bill until they substituted it for a 75 page bill in conference.
Her bill had started out giving to childrens non for profits getting deduction of 70 percent from 50 percent. Also eliminated language of neglect from being left at home for a small amount of time or walking to school, things like that.
This is where it starts to go off the rails. It requires the dept of social services to develop a program for youth with severe behavioural challenges. These kids are so bad that they housed in jails, hospitals, hotels, etc. But, these facilities are going to put them all under one roof. Chew on that for a moment. The worst of the worst that have been kept isolated are going to be under one roof. They are able to enter into memorandums of understanding (MOU) which we know in a lot of instances are kept from public eyes. The sevice providers are not liable for damages. So there are definite concerns here.
The bill goes into the protocol for investigation after a call has been made. If the division is responding to an investigation of abuse or neglect, the person responding shall first ensure safety of the child through direct observation and communication with the child. This is not good. Good parents get harassed. Homeschool parents get harassed. If someone showed up at my door I would first call my attorney. Communication with my child without MY attorney would not be ok. On a positive note the democrats added that the investigator must show identification.
Next, they give the child their own counsel. Not guardian ad litem bu their own attorney. The guardian ad litem must look out for the welfare of the child. The counsel or attorney must look out for their client who in this case is the child. Now let’s give a scenario. You have a child that wants to change their gender identity. Parents are opposed and non affirming. Child gets removed from the home. A guardin ad litem would be able to say the parents are looking out for the best interests in this case. The attorney would be required to do what the client or child wants in this case the affirmation. Interesting enough they started these attorneys or counsel at the age of 14. So if you were looking out for the best legal help why not at birth? Why not at 1 month or 1 year? Why 14?
The child and the parent cannot be represented by the same counsel.
It goes into youth placed into custody of the department that once was children placed into the custody of the department of social services. It talks about the entities distributing payment to these children with reference to the case of benefits administered by the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, the Social Security Administration, or the Veterans Administration, the division shall determine whether the child is receiving or otherwise eligible to receive the benefits and social services applying for those benefits on behalf of the child.
They added to the amber alert system the missing African American youth. Could you imagine if we added the missing Caucasian American youth alert? They are already covered with the same equality. Why are we allowing this to continue in Missouri?
The department of public safety shall not discriminate against any person because of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, disability, or familial status when coordinating with local law enforcement agencies and public commercial television and radio broadcasters to provide an effective system. When you say national origin it could literally mean illegals. We would have to be looking out for missing illegals.
It removed current law that if you were under the age of 18 and had parental consent you could get married. Current law had stated not under 16 and no one to be given over to by someone over 21.
Created was a child and family legal representation commission to study funding sources including gifts. This is bad. What used to be current law were things forbidding receiving private funds to public entites for good reason. Private money opens up bad actors to the highest bidder with our children and youth.
Its complicated, but opens up the definition of childhood sexual abuse for laws that have been on the books, but never in regard to childhood sexual abuse.
Laws like this are how bad things happen to good people with do-gooder politicians that don’t understand the weaponization of laws against good people. This is how the covid tyranny happened using the words safety, health and welfare
The House asked HB595 to go to conference which is the local entities cannot prohibit landlords from looking at income to determine tenants. As it is coming out of the senate is clean and the House should be taking it as is but instead asking for a conference tells you all the garbage will be added to it there and then brought forth as a complicated, fast moving, omnibus.
House asked B28 to go to conference, which right now is a clean cotton trailer bill. Let’s see what they do to that.
House asked SB81 to go to conference which at this moment is a clean fireworks bill. What will they do to screw that up?
The House passed a changed version of SB68 that will have to make its way back to the Senate. Its an education omnibus bill with all kinds of garbage in it like IB programs that are United Nations, to media literacy which is another woke program that the city of STL just adopted looking at digital citizens and deciding what sources we can trust online much of like the FB fact checkers did.
We have now passed 5 bills:-3 weeks to go
SB4 bad utilities bill
Sb22 the courts cant rewrite the ballot language-sos gets 3 shots before courts can rewrite.
SB47 Trent class actions.
HB495 public safety with the regional policing.
HB810 Baker designating a HWY for his daughter.
Pay attention for the next three weeks. We are watching their every move. Remember there is an election year coming next year —-their actions in the next three weeks will build a case to their constituents on whether we keep them or bring in someone to primary them.
Here we go.
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