The National Labor Relations Board rejected BeLeaf Medical’s claim that post-harvest employees at a St. Louis facility were agricultural workers exempt from federal union protections. #moleg #mogov

Lawmakers approved a measure mandating automatic expungement of felony or misdemeanor drug possession and unlawful use of drug paraphernalia. Drug trafficking would not be eligible for expungement. #moleg #mogov

St. Charles County Elections Director Kurt Bahr favors the 2025 map because it gives the GOP an opportunity to win seven of Missouri’s eight congressional districts. But he said he values smooth operations of the election over partisan advantage. #moleg #mogov

The Missouri General Assembly adjourned Friday without the factional warfare and late-session meltdowns that have come to define the Capitol in recent years. #moleg #mogov

A Senate-backed plan to move MoScholars out of the treasurer’s office stalled after the fiscal review chairman refused to bring it up for a vote following a call from St. Louis Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski. #moleg #mogov

The Missouri Senate on Thursday voted to strip oversight of the state’s private school voucher program from State Treasurer Vivek Malek, moving it to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. #moleg #mogov

The head of the state clerks association says local election officials still lack access to the voter database needed to finalize new district assignments for the gerrymandered map. #moleg #mogov

The Missouri House gave final approval Thursday to a wide-ranging healthcare bill expanding women’s and maternal health coverage, increasing access to telehealth and requiring licensed childcare facilities to maintain allergy treatment policies. #moleg #mogov

Missouri’s largest marijuana company is facing a second antitrust lawsuit in two weeks, this time from a Kansas City consumer who alleges Good Day Farm and more than 40 affiliated LLCs used a web of dispensary licenses to limit competition and inflate prices. #moleg #mogov

ICYMI: Missouri ‘born-alive’ abortion bill heads to governor after contentious House debate #moleg #mogov

ICYMI: Boone County clerk refuses to update voter rolls amid uncertainty over Missouri map #moleg #mogov

The lawsuit argues the tax overhaul amendment is constitutionally defective and should be blocked from any ballot. In the alternative, it asks the court to rewrite the summary statement voters would see. #moleg #mogov

Health care providers could face the death penalty if they don’t provide life-saving care to a baby born after an attempted abortion under legislation headed to Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe. #moleg #mogov

Boone County Clerk Brianna Lennon says she says she cannot determine which congressional map is in effect for the Aug. 4 primary until Secretary of State Denny Hoskins determines whether there are sufficient petition signatures to force a referendum. #moleg #mogov

Commercial websites and platforms must already verify that users are at least 18 if more than a third of their content is sexually explicit as part of a rule enforced by Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway. The bill would codify that rule into state law. #moleg #mogov

A Missouri House committee voted down legislation on Tuesday aimed at establishing safeguards on the use of artificial intelligence over concerns that the bill lacked enforcement mechanisms and included drafting errors. #moleg #mogov

The unanimous rulings hand Republicans a legal victory in their push to use a new map aimed at unseating Kansas City Democrat Emanuel Cleaver. #moleg #mogov

Missouri Education Commissioner Karla Eslinger will step down at the end of the month — two years after taking her position at the top of the state’s education department. #moleg #mogov

The Missouri Supreme Court hears arguments over constitutionality, legal effect of the congressional map passed in 2025. The judges’ decision will determine whether the new map, or the one drawn in 2022, will be used in this year’s elections. #moleg #mogov

Sam Lee has spent years helping draft and promote a Missouri version of the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.” But on Monday, the longtime anti-abortion advocate sat before the House Children and Families Committee and declined to support the bill in its current form. #moleg #mogov

The Missouri Supreme Court will hear arguments in two cases Tuesday that will decide whether the state’s gerrymandered congressional map approved in 2025 meets constitutional standards and if a referendum petition puts the map on ice until after an election. #moleg #mogov

“That’s the first time in my six years that I’ve been here that you haven’t had some faction or another that’s just ready to burn the whole place down by the time we get to the last week,” said House Majority Leader Alex Riley, a Springfield Republican. #moleg #mogov

A Jackson County judge on Friday denied Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s attempt to immediately stop Kansas City-based CBD American Shaman and several affiliated companies from selling kratom products. #moleg #mogov

The bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Jill Carter, has described it as a way to foster "support at the community level without a drain on the state." Another provision would seek to bolster access to interpreters and translation for deaf individuals. #moleg #mogov

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley’s push against mifepristone — along with various lawsuits and a new ballot fight — keeps Missouri central to the national abortion debate. #moleg #mogov

Good Day Farm helped bankroll Missouri’s recreational marijuana campaign in 2022. A little-noticed change in that amendment dropped language limiting common control and management. Records obtained by The Independent show what happened next. #moleg #mogov

A Missouri appeals court on Thursday rewrote the ballot summary for a proposed referendum on the state’s newly gerrymandered congressional map, ruling Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’ description still included unsupported claims about the map approved by lawmakers last year. #moleg #mogov

The legislation calls for a five-member board appointed by the governor and located within the state’s education department to give high school athletes and coaches a chance to appeal decisions on eligibility. #moleg #mogov

The Missouri General Assembly passed a sweeping public safety bill Wednesday that Democrats say would correct errors in legislation signed by Gov. Mike Kehoe three weeks ago. #moleg #mogov

A proposal to write Medicaid work requirements into the Missouri Constitution has been stripped down in a Senate committee to instead give lawmakers, the governor or the state’s social services department constitutional authority to impose them. #moleg #mogov

With under three weeks remaining in Missouri’s legislative session, Senate Education Committee Chairman Rick Brattin is forging ahead with legislation aimed at giving the public a clearer view of school spending. #moleg #mogov

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley is calling for Congress to take a closer look at presidential security following the third assassination attempt on President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday. #mosen #moleg #mogov

Missouri would join at least 14 other states with a “Super Tuesday” presidential primary in 2028 under a bill that would also bind the state’s delegate on the first ballot at national political conventions. #moleg #mogov

The U.S. Supreme Court could be ready to overturn a Missouri state court verdict that favored a man who sued the manufacturer of the popular herbicide Roundup for lacking any warning that the product carried a risk of cancer after oral arguments in the case Monday. #moleg #mogov

The accidental exposure of student information from Missouri’s MOScholars program has reopened a broader fight over how much scrutiny the state’s private school voucher program should face. #moleg #mogov

A bill to more than quadruple the time childhood sexual abuse victims have to sue their abusers stalled this week in the Missouri Senate after Democrats accused insurance lobbyists of using it to impose shorter limits on personal injury lawsuits. #moleg #mogov

A Missouri Senate decision to use money set aside for Capitol renovations to shore up funding for public schools isn’t popular with Gov. Mike Kehoe or the budget chief in the Missouri House. But they aren’t dismissing it outright. #moleg #mogov

Months after having its federal family planning funding restored, the only Title X grantee program in Missouri is facing new threats from U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley. #moleg #mogov

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed a bill Thursday that will take all intoxicating hemp products off the shelves starting Nov. 12 — including THC seltzers currently sold in bars and grocery stores. #moleg #mogov

Overly optimistic predictions for revenue from the lottery and casino taxes will cost Missouri school districts $245 per pupil before the fiscal year ends in June. And state lawmakers are now building next year’s budget around other funding sources that may prove just as uncertain. #moleg #mogov

A St. Louis smoke shop has agreed to stop selling highly potent THC edibles packaged to mimic popular candy, after Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway sued the store for alleged violations of state consumer-protection laws. #moleg #mogov

A bill aimed at clarifying Missouri’s sex offender registry law — including when people convicted in other states must register here and when some offenders can ask to come off the list — cleared the House Tuesday. #moleg #mogov

A dozen Republican state attorneys general, led by Missouri's Catherine Hanaway, are moving to defend President Donald Trump’s executive order on mail ballots from legal challenges mounted by Democrats. #moleg #mogov

Missouri voters will decide later this year whether to grant lawmakers power to increase and expand the sales tax in order to raise revenue needed to eliminate the income tax. #moleg #mogov

A Cole County judge has ordered Missouri officials to repay former state Rep. Wiley Price more than $22,000, ruling the House lacked lawful authority to enforce a financial penalty imposed as part of his 2021 censure. #moleg #mogov

The data included students’ names, their parents’ email addresses, scholarship funding amounts and the schools they attend. It had been inadvertently posted on the Treasurer's website since at least May 2025. It was taken down after The Independent discovered it last week. #moleg #mogov

The Missouri House passed a bill Monday that would force entities receiving state funding to restrict usage of restrooms, changing areas and sleeping accommodations based on biological sex and codify definitions for “female,” “male” and “sex” throughout state statute. #moleg #mogov

The data included student names, parents' email addresses, scholarship funding amounts and schools they attend. The Independent discovered the data, which has been online for nearly a year, last week. The treasurer’s office quickly removed the records from its website. #moleg #mogov

The Missouri House passed a bill Monday aimed at curbing minors’ access to social media, banning the distribution of “deepfakes” and setting new requirements for social media platforms and some artificial intelligence developers. #moleg #mogov

A bipartisan push to end a Missouri law allowing judges to impose the death penalty when jurors can’t agree has moved further through the legislature this year than at any point in at least a decade. But opposition from Senate leaders makes it unlikely to pass. #moleg #mogov