With more than a quarter of the 2020 legislative session behind us, members of the General Assembly are hard at work advancing bills. This week the Senate took up and passed several pieces of legislation that will now move onto the House of Representatives for its consideration. A few of these...
Legislative activity continued at the State Capitol this week with a full schedule of committee hearings and a number of bills being debated in the Senate Chamber. The Agriculture Committee approved two of the bills I presented last week and sent them on to the full Senate for its consideration....
Greetings Friends of the 8th District!
We have had many visitors from the district this week. Thank you for stopping by as you are always welcomed. Hopefully Spring is right around the corner.
House Approves Bill to Require Adequate Training for County Coroners (HB 1435)
Legislation approved by...
You might imagine, there was plenty of red on display at the Capitol this week. How about those Chiefs? Congratulations to Missouri’s NFL team for a much-deserved victory. The Chiefs did Missouri proud! We had an abbreviated week at the State Capitol as a forecast of severe weather raised concerns...
JEFFERSON CITY —State Sen. Denny Hoskins, R-Warrensburg, has been named the 2019 Senator of the Year by the Missouri Coalition of Recovery Support Providers (MCRSP). The organization is a network of faith-based peer and community service providers dedicated to helping restore lives broken by...
Greetings Friends of the 8th District!
Bill filing, committee hearings, and bill hearings are going quick here at the Capitol. If you are one who likes to follow my bills, or any of the bills, I encourage you to look on the house website at www.house.mo.gov to follow the movement of the bills this...
Getting Down to Business
The second week of the 2020 legislative session was jam-packed with activity. Committee meetings began in earnest, with back-to-back hearings every day. The Senate Agriculture Committee heard testimony on my Senate Bill 568, the “Missouri Made Fuels Act.” This legislation...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The Missouri Attorney General’s Office received 111,530 consumer complaints in 2019. The Consumer Complaint Unit received 67,964 complaints and the No-Call Unit received 43,566 complaints.
The Attorney General’s Office has dedicated staff to take complaints and work actively...
With a resounding pound of his gavel, the lieutenant governor brought the Missouri Senate chamber to order at noon on Jan. 8. Down the hall, the House of Representatives also convened for the first time in 2020. The Second Regular Session of the 100th General Assembly of the State of Missouri has...
Happy New Year!
Now as the people of Missouri said goodbye to 2019, they look ahead to what 2020 will hold for them. The Missouri General Assembly will convene on January 8 for the 2020 legislative session. Lawmakers will strive to make Missouri an even better place to live, work, and raise a...