Our radio story . Senate rejects drug testing of welfare recipients. By a tie vote, the Missouri Senate rejected a proposal to subject welfare recipients to testing for illegal drugs. Under the amendment, any recipient who tested positive would be ineligible for welfare for three years. The proposal was offered as an amendment to a bill that would implement federal welfare reform.
Federal court calls for an end of state funds for Kansas City school desegregation.
Parties in the case began discussions on a final settlement after a U.S. Supreme Court decision signaled that there would be an end to the federal court orders in the Missouri desegregation cases. The Kansas City ruling as no affect on the St. Louis desegregation case. There, negotiations on a final settlement continue. Deadbeat parent crackdown passes the Senate. Like the House earlier this session, the Senate approved a measure that would give the state's welfare department sweeping new powers to go after child support payments from absent parents.