The data included students’ names, their parents’ email addresses, scholarship funding amounts and the schools they attend. It had been inadvertently posted on the Treasurer's website since at least May 2025.
It was taken down after The Independent discovered it last week. #moleg #mogov
The Missouri House passed a bill Monday aimed at curbing minors’ access to social media, banning the distribution of “deepfakes” and setting new requirements for social media platforms and some artificial intelligence developers. #moleg #mogov
The data included student names, parents' email addresses, scholarship funding amounts and schools they attend. The Independent discovered the data, which has been online for nearly a year, last week.
The treasurer’s office quickly removed the records from its website. #moleg #mogov
The Missouri House passed a bill Monday that would force entities receiving state funding to restrict usage of restrooms, changing areas and sleeping accommodations based on biological sex and codify definitions for “female,” “male” and “sex” throughout state statute. #moleg #mogov
A bipartisan push to end a Missouri law allowing judges to impose the death penalty when jurors can’t agree has moved further through the legislature this year than at any point in at least a decade.
But opposition from Senate leaders makes it unlikely to pass. #moleg #mogov
Missouri is preparing to open up an unlimited number of licenses to allow for marijuana research in the state. #moleg #mogov
An intraparty schism opened Thursday among legislative Democrats as the party’s leader in the Missouri House blasted state Senate Democrats for their silence during a 70-minute debate on a proposal to replace the state income tax with increased sales taxes. #moleg #mogov
After unveiling a new plan just before midnight to replace Missouri’s income tax with a broader sales tax, state Senate Republican leaders moved quickly to push it to passage early Thursday morning. #moleg #mogov
With general revenue slipping behind last year’s pace, state senators leaned on surplus funds to avoid deeper cuts. #moleg #mogov
Gov. Mike Kehoe’s office received 10,000 handwritten letters Tuesday asking him to veto a Missouri bill that would impose a statewide ban on intoxicating hemp products. #moleg #mogov
Missouri’s first responders say naloxone saves lives. But the program that distributed 1.2 million doses in 2025 is facing a potential $3 million budget cut, even after the Senate moved to restore some of the money. #moleg #mogov
Missouri education board approves first charter school in Columbia over local opposition #moleg #mogov
A Missouri bill would force some struggling readers to repeat 3rd grade. School leaders told lawmakers Tuesday that literacy efforts are already showing progress — and warned the mandate could disrupt that momentum. #moleg #mogov
The first-year cost of a House-passed proposal to eliminate the Missouri income tax ballooned to $4.2 billion under revisions made in the state Senate that were called “drafting errors” Monday during a committee debate. #moleg #mogov
The Missouri Senate peeled back its plans to establish broad state oversight of the Missouri State High School Activities Association, passing a less expansive bill Monday that would create a secondary appellate body for the association’s athletes. #moleg #mogov
Missouri hospitals and clinics that perform forensic exams following sexual assault are not required by law to offer emergency contraception to survivors, a coverage inconsistency a bipartisan group of lawmakers is trying to correct with legislation aimed at standardizing care after rape. #moleg
Advocates for cancer patients, people with developmental disabilities and their caregivers urged Missouri lawmakers Wednesday to reject a proposal writing Medicaid work requirements into the state Constitution. #moleg #mogov
What began as a divisive bill focused on antisemitism passed the Senate unanimously after a negotiated rewrite — but the House now has to decide whether to accept the broader version. #moleg #mogov
Torch Electronics told Missouri retailers it will switch off its machines Friday as Attorney General Catherine Hanaway and federal prosecutors pursue a joint criminal investigation. #moleg #mogov
The proprietors of a now-shuttered Southwest Missouri boarding school are facing a new lawsuit by a former student alleging trafficking across several states, coerced labor, isolation and sexualized punishment while she was underage. #moleg #mogov
Legislation signed by Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe allows prosecutors to request a hearing to certify a young person as an adult and increases the minimum prison time adults must serve before becoming eligible for parole. #moleg #mogov
A top business lobbying group is stepping up its opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment to replace the Missouri income tax with sales taxes, arguing Missouri is already an attractive place to do business. #moleg #mogov
A bill making it clear that pregnancy cannot prevent a divorce from being finalized was signed into law Tuesday by Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe. #moleg #mogov
Multicultural student organizations at the University of Missouri are losing tens of thousands in direct funding as campus leadership cites federal guidance on diversity, equity and inclusion. #moleg #mogov
Democrats are contesting more House seats, but the bigger test is whether they can back those campaigns with the kind of coordinated support Republicans have spent years building. #moleg #mogov
An effort to set guardrails for artificial intelligence in Missouri is running into fear that any state regulation could put federal broadband money at risk. #moleg #mogov
A tax question on local ballots around the state on Tuesday could also shape the future of county disability boards, which help fund services many families rely on. #moleg #mogov
A push to strengthen Missouri’s anti-SLAPP law is moving again, with supporters arguing the change could make weak defamation suits far riskier to file. #moleg #mogov
