House Speaker Calls for Charter Schools in Opening Speech

Intro:	Charter schools were listed as a top priority of Missouri's House Speaker on the first day of the legislative session.
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Wrap: In his opening speech at the state Capitol, House Speaker Todd Richardson called for more choices in education.

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Description: We make this state a place where every child has the opportunity to build a great life for themselves, no matter where they were born or what their parents did for a living.

House Democratic Leader Gail McCann-Beatty said her party is working to protect public schools in the state.

The legislative session started Wednesday and will end on May eighteenth.

Jack Morrisroe, Newsradio 1120, KMOX.

Intro:	Missouri's House Speaker says a lobbyist gift ban will be passed to the Senate in the second week of the year
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Wrap: It would be the third straight year that the House passed a gift ban in the first month of the session. It has failed to become law both of the last two years.

House Speaker Todd Richardson said he plans to have a lobbyist gift ban approved quickly.

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Description: We'll be back to our early session effort again to try to impose a ban on lobbyist gifts.

Democrats said they will work with Republicans to pass a gift ban and hope that more ethics measures will be passed, such as requiring all political nonprofits to disclose their donors.

Missouri allows lawmakers to take unlimited lobbyist gifts if they are disclosed to the Missouri Ethics Commission.

Jack Morrisroe, Newsradio 1120, KMOX.

Intro:	Missouri's House Speaker said he plans to quickly pass a measure to display posters with a human trafficking hotline across the state. *****OUTRO: If you have information about a potential human trafficking situation, you can call the Human Trafficking Resource Center at 1 (888) 373-7888 or text "Help" to 233733
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Wrap: Speaker Todd Richardson said a measure to limit human trafficking is one of his top policy priorities for the year.

The measure would require the poster to be clearly visible in transportation hubs such as airports and train stations as well as any quote "sexually oriented businesses."

Missouri had the sixteenth-highest number of human trafficking cases reported in the United States in 2017, according to the National Human Trafficking Hotline.

Jack Morrisroe, Newsradio 1120, KMOX.

Intro:	Missouri's House Minority Leader said a representative should face consequences for a Facebook post, which called for vandals to quote 'be hung from a tall tree with a long rope.'
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Wrap: Democratic Representative Gail McCann-Beatty said the comment was wrong and the hearing should focus on punishment for Republican Representative Warren Love.

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Description: It is about the words of a legislator calling for murder, and that is never appropriate.

The hearing is scheduled for Thursday at one o'clock. The House Ethics Committee can send a recommendation for actions against a fellow lawmaker, but the full House has to approve those actions.

Jack Morrisroe, Newsradio 1120, KMOX.

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Wrap: I'm Jack Morrisroe in Jefferson City with details on what Missouri House leaders hope to approve this year.