Missouri House

The Missouri House passed over 20 bills on Thursday, sending most of them to the Senate. It is unclear how many of them will make it to Gov. Mike Kehoe.

A similar version of the bill was thrown out by the Missouri Supreme Court in January because of an unrelated item.

A proposed House bill would establish a registry for persistent domestic violence offenders.

The Missouri House initially perfected the bill last month but sent it back to committee, where the measure was ultimately split into two pieces of legislation.

The Missouri Secretary of State may be given additional subpoena power to investigate complaints of election fraud.

Following hours of testimony last week, a Missouri House committee on Tuesday evening approved bills that would remove the 2027 sunsets from the state's restrictions on transgender minors and athletes.

If the House does not make any changes to the legislation, the bills could pass the entire legislature on Wednesday.

While the Missouri legislature is accountable to the state’s sunshine law, lawmakers can still find loopholes to get around it.

One bill being discussed in the Senate would include life imprisonment without parole as a punishment for immigration violations, and would allow Missourians to collect $1,000 bounties for reporting people who are in the country without legal status.

Formerly, House members were allotted 10 minutes to speak on the final vote of a House bill. That time is now five minutes.