Legislators will be back at square one on transportation with at least 83 new members entering the General Assembly next session, said Rep. Joan Bray, D-St. Louis County. Bray, a member of the House Appropriations Committee for Transportation, is running for state Senate.
The contest that may be in the highest profile is between Rep. Joan Bray and schoolteacher John Lewis. The upper-income suburban St. Louis County district has been represented for the past 10 years by Republicans.
Rep. Joan Bray, D-St. Louis, had introduced an amendment proposing an annual $600 increase for all state employees during the next fiscal year. The amendment would have been financed by using some of the $23 million allocated for the prison, which would delay its opening for at least one fiscal year.
Rep. Joan Bray, D-St. Louis, had introduced an amendment proposing an annual $600 pay increase for all state employees during next the fiscal year instead of opening the prison. The House rejected Bray's amendment 112-27.
"Nothing is out of the woods yet" said the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee that deals with transportation, Rep. Joan Bray, D-St. Louis County.
Rep. Joan Bray, D-St. Louis County and chairman of the House Appropriations Committee which handles the transportation budget, says she is sympathetic to the elderly and handicapped citizens that benefit from the assistance programs.
JEFFERSON CITY - Cancer patients that receive a second opinion are more likely to receive proper treatment for their diagnosis, and Rep. Joan Bray thinks insurance companies should foot the bill.
A new equal pay bill, proposed by St. Louis Representative Joan Bray, says if the employees are doing the same work in the same setting, they have to be paid the same amount of money.
Under a proposal by state representative Joan Bray, only newspaper content considered obscene, defamatory or potentially dangerous would need advanced approval.