Missouri takes first step to make a truce with Kansas businesses.
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Missouri takes first step to make a truce with Kansas businesses.

Date: March 19, 2012
By: Natalia Allen
State Capitol Bureau
Links: HB 1449

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Missouri House members passed a bill to make a compromise with Kansas businesses.
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Wrap: Missouri House Representatives passed a bill that prohibits tax credits in order to prevent business relocation from Missouri to Kansas.   

Kansas has yet to draft similar legislation.

However, House Minority Floor leader Rep. Mike Talboy says he thinks it is important to begin the process.

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Description: "From most of the parties involved thought one side needed to at least do something to begin with and so we decided to go ahead and take that step and now we are going to continue those discussions."

The bill now goes to the Senate.

Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Natalia Allen.

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House Minority Floor Leader says he thinks Kansas lawmakers will be cooperative with legisilation to stop giving tax credits for businesses to move across the border.
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Wrap: Missouri House Representatives passed a bill that prohibits tax incentives to prevent businesses from relocating across the Missouri and Kansas border.

House Minority Floor leader Rep. Mike Talboy says he thinks Kansas lawmakers will follow suit and pass similar legislation.

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Description: "And I think the guys over in Kansas that we have been talking to have been receptive to those ideas and we will continue to keep talking and if we get to some point we get there and if not, we won't."
 

The bill now goes to the Senate.

Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Natalia Allen.