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Missouri lawmakers fail to deliver property tax relief

JEFFERSON CITY (Missouri Independent) -- As the Missouri House began the final day of this year’s session last week, state Rep. Tim Taylor reluctantly reported that last-minute efforts to salvage a package of changes to property tax laws had failed. For most of the past year, property taxes and how they are levied had dominated the three-term Republican’s legislative work. The change he considered key to making the system fairer had died weeks earlier in disagreements between the House and Senate. Now he was telling […]

todayMay 20, 2026 45 1

Brenda Shields Missouri

Missouri

Missouri childcare tax credit bill stalled

JEFFERSON CITY (MissouriNet) -- A package of tax breaks designed to help childcare centers in Missouri hire more workers failed to make it out of this year’s legislative session. House Bill 870 would have provided tax credits for childcare providers. It would also provide tax credits for those who donate to daycare centers. Businesses that help cover childcare costs for their employees would also have been eligible. It was sponsored by State Representative Brenda Shields, R-St. Joseph. “We didn’t have a […]

todayMay 20, 2023 1221

Missouri Bruce DeGroot

Missouri

Missouri could set up baby nurseries behind prison walls

JEFFERSON CITY (Missourinet) -- Newborn children could be raised for up to 18 months within Missouri’s prison system for women. The Missouri House of Representatives has given preliminary approval to a bill that would create a prison nursery program. Representatives Bruce DeGroot (R-Chesterfield) and Curtis Trent (R-Springfield) are leading the effort. They want to let eligible state prisoners raise their newborns during those first critical months of life if the mothers want to and if the other parent does not […]

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