Sen. Matt Bartle
JEFFERSON CITY — A bill naming part of Highway 40 in St. Louis after sportscaster Jack Buck appears to violate the state constitutional ban on piggybacking unrelated subjects together.
That’s the opinion of the bill’s Senate handler, Matt Bartle, R-Lee’s…
Sen. Matt Bartle votes aye on a 2004 DNA testing bill.
JEFFERSON CITY — The House has sent a bill that would expand DNA profiling to the governor.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Marilyn Ruestman, R-Joplin, would require that anyone arrested for some…
JEFFERSON CITY — Senators have taken up their long-awaited alternative to Gov. Jay Nixon’s jobs bill, and historic preservationists are not going to be happy.
The massive, 250-page bill includes a $50 million annual cap on tax credits for restoring historic…
JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Senate passed Sen. Wes Shoemyer’s resolution that encourages the federal government to allow horse slaughter 31-0.
“It’s one of the most impractical things,” Shoemyer, D-Clarence, said. “It just doesn’t make any good common sense whatsoever.”
Sen. Matt Bartle,…
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JEFFERSON CITY — Update: the committee just passed the resolution.
Sen. Matt Bartle, R-Lee’s Summit, has sponsored an amendment (similar to this one in the House) that urges U.S. Congress to not pass the Freedom of Choice Act.
The testimony in the…
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JEFFERSON CITY — A senator has filed a bill to address the problem with fake degrees that higher ed reporter Kavita Kumar wrote about in December.
Sen. Matt Bartle, R-Lee’s Summit sponsored a bill that would make it a class C misdemeanor…
