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Missouri’s governor says the only special session he plans to call this year at this point involves congressional redistricting, which is required because of the new U.S. Census data.
Missouri Governor Mike Parson briefs Capitol reporters in Jefferson City on June 7, 2021, after the PDMP bill-signing ceremony (photo courtesy of the governor’s Flickr page}
Governor Mike Parson tells Capitol reporters that he currently has 13 requests for special sessions, on his desk.
“The legislators have not even been out two to three weeks and we’ve already got 13 requests, which is not even practical to think that you’re going to be able to do that on taxpayer dollars. Most of the items we’re talking about have already (been) discussed in the legislative session, just didn’t get across the finish line,” Parson says.
Bill crucial to Missouri Medicaid funding fails
By Jason Hancock, Rudi Keller and Tessa Weinberg
Missouri Independent
Missouri lawmakers ended the 2021 legislative session with a $2 billion question left unanswered.
For the first time in 30 years, the General Assembly failed to renew taxes on hospitals, nursing homes and pharmacies that last year accounted for $2.3 billion of Missouri’s $10.8 billion Medicaid program.
Now, lawmakers have no choice but to return to Jefferson City for a special session before the taxes expire in September.
Yet the issues that upended the process in the first place aren’t going anywhere.
Sen. Paul Wieland, R-Imperial, sponsored the amendment that locked the Senate in a debate over whether to put restrictions on the types of contraceptives available to Medicaid recipients.