{"id":2248448,"date":"2024-05-20T08:38:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T12:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/failure-on-constitutional-ballot-reform-highlights-end-of-missouri-legislative-session\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T08:41:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T12:41:07","slug":"failure-on-constitutional-ballot-reform-highlights-end-of-missouri-legislative-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/failure-on-constitutional-ballot-reform-highlights-end-of-missouri-legislative-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Legislative Session Ends with Constitutional Ballot Reform Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffailure-on-constitutional-ballot-reform-highlights-end-of-missouri-legislative-session%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2248448&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>House Speaker Dean Plocher, a GOP candidate for secretary of state, \u2062urged the \u200dMissouri Senate to work on \u2063a resolution to amend \u2062initiative petitions.\u200d The\u200b Senate faced challenges, leading to\u200b a failed compromise with\u200b the House on Senate Joint Resolution 74. Amid disagreements, the session concluded without Senate activity, highlighting legislative obstacles and tensions. House Speaker\u200d Dean Plocher, a \u2063GOP candidate for secretary of state, \u2063called on the Missouri Senate to \u2064address a resolution regarding \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouri-judge-rewrites-ballot-questions-for-abortion-amendment-to-remove-unborn-child\/\" title=\"Missouri judge edits abortion amendment ballot questions, removes 'unborn child'.\">initiative \u200bpetitions<\/a>. However, the Senate encountered difficulties, \u200dresulting in \u200ban\u200b unsuccessful \u2063compromise with the House on Senate Joint Resolution \u206474. As disagreements persisted, the session\u2062 ended without Senate proceedings, underscoring legislative hurdles and discord.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 As House Speaker Dean Plocher asked the Missouri Senate to get to work on Friday, the chamber adjourned.<\/p>\n<p>Plocher, a candidate for the GOP nomination for secretary of state from St. Louis, held a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-have-lower-opinion-of-joe-biden-than-any-other-nation-global-poll\/\" title=\"Americans Have Lower Opinion of Joe Biden Than Any Other Nation: Global Poll\">rare press conference<\/a> before starting the final day of the 2024 session. He demanded the Senate pass a resolution to alter initiative petitions (IP), the way citizens vote to change the state constitution at the ballot box.<\/p>\n<p>After a two-day filibuster by Senate Democrats ended on Wednesday, the Senate sent the bill to the House for a possible compromise version in a committee. On Thursday, the House resoundingly voted against any compromise on Senate Joint Resolution 74 and sent the bill back to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not our problem,\u201d Plocher told reporters. \u201cThis is not our mess. I think the other side of the building has proven to be a mess year in and year out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Senate adjourned without conducting any business on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it might be the best way to end the session,\u201d Senate Majority Floor Leader Cindy O\u2019Laughlin, R-Shelbina, told reporters at a press conference. \u201cI never know what might be going to come up. This being the last day, I thought it would be good to end in a cordial way. Yesterday was not that day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Senate failed on Thursday to get through the mundane task of passing its journal from the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt that the risk of leaving it open was less than the reward of ending early,\u201d O\u2019Laughlin said.<\/p>\n<p>The legislature passed 46 bills, including 18 appropriations bills, during the session. Seventeen were from the Senate and 11 from the House. Not counting the appropriations bills, the 28 passed was the smallest number since 31 were passed in 2020 during the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Plocher and other Republicans prioritized initiative petition reform at the start of the session after it died in the Senate last year. The legislation would have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-poised-to-strip-dem-gov-of-emergency-covid-powers\/\" title=\"Pennsylvania Poised to Strip Dem Gov of Emergency COVID Powers\">asked voters<\/a> to decide if changes to the state constitution should be approved by a majority statewide and in five of the state\u2019s eight congressional districts. The ballot language started by asking if only U.S. citizens should vote on constitutional amendments and prohibit foreign countries from funding amendment proposals, both currently illegal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wouldn\u2019t let them trick people,\u201d Senate Minority Leader John Rizzo said. \u201cAnd, obviously, there were a lot of people on the other side of the aisle that felt the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Senate\u2019s Freedom Caucus held a filibuster during the session to move IP reform ahead and threatened progress of other legislation unless the governor immediately signed into law a bill ending Medicaid reimbursements to abortion providers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was always the plan to tank IP from the start,\u201d Sen. Rick Brattin, R-Harrisonville, and a member of the Freedom Caucus, told reporters. \u201cThat\u2019s why we started the filibustering and forcing this to the forefront.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rizzo said the session and its ending was \u201cbizarre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think Democrats won or Republicans lost,\u201d Rizzo said. \u201cDecorum won. I think the bullies lost. I think the [Senate] pushed back on being pushed around all year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Plocher Urges Missouri Senate Action, Session Adjourns. 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