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Posted By: Parker Padgett July 22, 2021 @ 9:48 pm Local News, News, Uncategorized
ST. LOUIS (AP) The Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the state’s voter-approved Medicaid expansion plan, overturning a lower court’s ruling that the constitutional amendment would wrongfully force lawmakers to set aside additional money.
The unanimous decision sends the case back to Cole County Circuit Court, where Judge Jon Beetem last month ruled the amendment unconstitutional. Supreme Court judges wrote that the plan doesn’t put limits on the Legislature’s budgeting powers.
“An initiative that simply costs money to implement does not necessarily require the appropriation of funds,” judges wrote, “so long as the General Assembly maintains discretion in appropriating funds to implement that initiative.”