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GOVERNOR PARSON SIGNS SPEAKER PRO TEM JOHN WIEMANN S LEGISLATION TO MAKE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS MORE ACCOUNTABLE AND TRANSPARENT | KMMO

House Speaker Pro Tem John Wiemann’s legislation to improve local government accountability and transparency (HB 271) was signed into law by Governor Mike Parson. Wiemann’s bill creates the Missouri Local Government Expenditure Database, which creates an easy-to-use, downloadable database allowing taxpayers to search expenditures and payments received and made by counties and municipalities. The new database will be housed on the Missouri Accountability Portal. One provision included in the final bill will limit the ability of local health officials to close businesses, churches and schools during an emergency. It will prevent local health officials from abusing their power, limiting their ability to close businesses, schools and churches during a public health or safety emergency to a period of 30 days, as opposed to closures in perpetuity, which occurred during the pandemic. Another provision bans so-called “vaccine passports” to ensure Missourians do not have to show pro

Dueling Senate, House crackdowns on Missouri public health officials emerge

Dueling Senate, House crackdowns on Missouri public health officials emerge John Haughey, The Center Square contributing © Provided by Washington Examiner The Missouri House on Monday refused to endorse an avalanche of Senate amendments restricting local public health officials’ emergency powers and banning “vaccine passports” on an unrelated bill it had already adopted. The House Monday kicked House Bill 271 back in a message to the Senate, “House Refuses to Adopt, Requests Senate to Recede or Grant Conference” in reference to a raft of 30 amendments, SS#2, the Senate added to the bill when it passed 25-6 on April 28. The message calls for a conference committee between the chambers to synthesize the amended HB 271 with another House-adopted bill limiting local public health officials’ authority before the session adjourns May 14.

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