Missouri is one of only a handful of states without congressional district lines drawn, a task that must be completed every ten years after the census.
It’s a quiet week inside the Capitol as lawmakers are on spring break, but before members left for their home districts, the Senate decided not to vote on a new congressional map.
Spring break means the first half of the session is in the books, but all lawmakers have to show for the first nine weeks, an emergency budget bill that fully funded Medicaid, gave state workers a pay raise and defunded abortion providers and their affiliates like Planned Parenthood. That is the only piece of legislation that has made it to the governor’s desk so far. The full article can be read on ozarksfirst.com.