Legislative Update 5/12/24

Missouri Equity Education Partnership-Action mobilizes those who support diversity, equity, and inclusion for ALL! Please see the calls to action outlined below and join us in bending the arc towards equity ensuring Missouri schools are a safe, welcoming space where folks can learn all things

This is the last week of the session. As we learned last year, anything can happen. While we did not succeed in stopping all the legislation we had hoped, we still moved the needle. We have bent the arc a little more towards justice and equity. We have definitely made our voices heard. Please join us after session ends for our End of Session Report. Stay tuned for the date and time.

Thank you all for every piece of testimony you submitted, for every call you made, every email you sent, every step you took on Lobby Day, for every zoom you attended. 

Thank you for helping grow MoEEP and MoEEP Action.

HOUSEKEEPING NOTES

There are no committees hearing bills we are monitoring as of publication.

There will not be a Thursday zoom on May 16. Please stay tuned for the End of Session LegUp date and time.

THERE ARE NO CALLS

TO ACTION THIS WEEK

RECAP OF LAST WEEK

Three bills were signed into law:

SB 727 - Vouchers (May 7)

HB 2287 - Virtual Education with Voucher bill “fixes” (May 7)

HB 2634 - Defunding Planned Parenthood (May 9)

2 bills were voted out of Senate committees

HJR 86 (Black) - House version of Initiative Petition

HB 1900 (Proudie) - Crown Act

The Budget was passed by the Constitutional Deadline

WHAT TO EXPECT THIS WEEK

The House will move the FRA (Federal Reimbursement Allowance for healthcare) through their side of the rotunda.

The Senate will likely take up Initiative Petition.