As session winds down, House backs $1.2B bond measure

Intro:	Missouri's state House has voted to put more than 1 billion dollars into repairing state buildings. But time is running short for the idea to pass in the state Senate.
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House members voted 136-23 in favor of a bond measure to repair and upgrade the buildings. If it's approved by the legislature the bond measure would on Missouri's ballot in November 2014.

Republican House Speaker Tim Jones says that money would create much-needed construction jobs. He says one of the bond measure's main supporters, Columbia Democrat Chris Kelly, convinced him that the bond measure will help the state's economy.

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Description: "He has convinced me and so many others, across this state and in this chamber, that it is time to be good stewards of our taxpayer dollars."

The measure now heads to the state Senate with a little more than a week left in the legislative session.

Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Wes Duplantier. Newsradio 1120. KMOX.

Intro:	Missouri's state House has voted to put more than 1 billion dollars into repairing state buildings. But time is running short for the idea to pass in the state Senate.
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House members voted 136-23 in favor of a 1.2 billion-dollar bond measure to repair and upgrade the buildings. If it's approved by the legislature, the bond measure would on Missouri's ballot in November 2014.

Republican House Speaker Tim Jones, of Eureka, says the bond money would help build new college classrooms, upgrade the state's mental hospital and that it would create much-needed construction jobs throughout Missouri.

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Description: "Mr. Speaker, this is an opportunity of a generation. Missourians will reap deep dividends."

The measure now heads to the state Senate with a little more than a week left in the legislative session.

Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Wes Duplantier. Newsradio 1120. KMOX.