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The Missouri House passed a higher education bill loaded up with amendments on a 94-36 vote Monday evening, advancing largely bipartisan proposals as the end of session nears.

House Bill 595 also prohibits local governments from enacting laws that restrict landlords from using income-qualifying methods or from limiting the maximum security deposit that may be required of tenants.

A Senate bill allowing homeschooled student participation in public and charter school activities and athletics passed the Missouri House on Wednesday.

Missourians approved Proposition A, which raised the minimum wage and mandated paid sick leave, with 57% of the vote.

Both bills now proceed to the Senate.

The Missouri House has live-streamed their floor proceedings for ten years, but the Senate still only offers audio.

Nonpartisan staff in the legislative chamber work in "a culture of fear," Clerk Dana Miller said at a news conference at a Jefferson City courthouse.

The GOP chair of the committee was thwarted in her attempt to livestream the hearing and include allegations of obstruction in a motion to dismiss the investigation of the House speaker.

The GOP-led House on Thursday amended a proposal that would require a majority of votes in five of the state's eight congressional districts to amend the constitution.

With GOP leaders barring amendments to a 153-page education bill approved by the Senate earlier this year, the House mustered up just enough votes Thursday to pass the wide-ranging education bill that includes money to boost teacher salaries