Get the House-passed bill, SCS HS HJR 61 . A House panel approves a bill to legalize child abandonment. The House Children Committee has endorsed a Senate-passed plan that would make it legal for a mother to abandon her child at a hospital. Supporters say the purpose of the bill is to provide an alternative to a new mother to dumping a new born infant in conditions that threaten the child's live. Get the Senate-passed bill, HCS SCS SB 597 .
Lawmakers grab more space in the statehouse.
The rooms were constructed with temporary barriers in what had been public hallways just off the House and Senate chambers. Ironically, the action came at the same time that a growing number of legislators are complaining about the few number of bills that are being passed this year. Meanwhile, temporary signs House staff had installed telling the public they could not use the governor's public elevator have disappeared on all but the floor where the House chamber is located. . Public hospitals lobby to use an Open Meetings bill to add an exemption. The request was made at an unusual meeting with the House Speaker, hospital lobbyists and lobbyists for Missouri newspapers.