State House gives vocal approval to chokehold bill
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)
The Missouri House of Representatives gave Senate Bill 53 initial approval in a voice vote Monday.
The bill features a measure that prohibits law enforcement officers from using a respiratory choke-hold unless deadly force is authorized under the law.
According to the state, a respiratory choke-hold includes the use of any body part or object to attempt to control or disable a person by applying pressure to the person s neck with the purpose, intent, or effect of controlling or restricting the person s breathing.
The action on the bill comes as former police officer Derek Chauvin awaits his sentence after being convicted of second and third degree murder in the death of George Floyd. Floyd died after Chauvin pinned his knee on Floyd s neck for about 9 minutes, which some medical experts say resulted in his death.
Stimulus Check Strangeness: Why Can Criminals Get $1,400 Checks?
In Missouri, per News Press Now, an effort is underway to allow the Missouri Department of Corrections to intercept stimulus checks from prisoners who owe restitution.
The $1,400 stimulus checks that are being distributed as part of the American Rescue Plan can lawfully be garnished by debt collectors, although members of Congress and state governments have taken steps to try to avoid such garnishments taking place. That was not allowed for the payments that went out as part of the CARES Act in 2020.
Now, there’s another push for garnishment of stimulus checks-for those of prisoners.
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Missouri likely going to court either way as Senate panel rejects Medicaid expansion funds Jeanne Kuang, The Kansas City Star
Apr. 22 JEFFERSON CITY A powerful Missouri Senate committee dealt an early blow Wednesday night to Democrats and Medicaid expansion advocates who hoped the upper legislative chamber would restore funding that the House had stripped out of the state budget.
In a 7-7 tie, a proposal introduced by Springfield Republican Sen. Lincoln Hough to partially fund the voter-approved expansion failed to clear the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Two other Republicans, including Lee s Summit Sen. Mike Cierpiot, joined the committee s four Democrats in voting for it. Appropriations Chair Dan Hegeman, a Cosby Republican, opposed funding the expansion.
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