Last week three top lawmakers submitted a friend of the court brief in opposition to the tax increase. House Speaker Pro Tem Carl Bearden, Rep. Allen Icet and Sen. Chuck Gross joined together to oppose the ballot measure because it requires the state to provide Medicaid coverage to everyone at 200 percent or less of the federal poverty level.
Last week three top Republican lawmakers announced their opposition to the tax increase. House Speaker Pro Tem Carl Bearden, Rep. Allen Icet and Sen. Chuck Gross filed a brief with the Supreme Court on Friday. The lawmakers oppose the ballot measure because it requires the state to provide Medicaid coverage to everyone at 200 percent or less of the federal poverty level.
Sen. Chuck Gross, R-St. Charles, and chair of the Appropriations Committee, said he thinks the new plan is on solid ground because it seems to be legal and is exactly what the Senate had proposed last legislative session. But added, "It does to a degree break the precedent that the appropriation of money is reserved exclusively for the legislature."
St. Charles Senator Chuck Gross sponsored the bill in which university building projects statewide would receive the bulk of the profit. While no plan is set in stone, some schools' building projects would take presidence.
Lawyers from the Senate and the governor's office have already checked into the legality of the sale according to Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman, Chuck Gross.
Sen. Chuck Gross, R-St. Charles, who handled the bill in the Senate, said the bill will add about 32,000 people to Uliticare, a program that assists low income Missourians.
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