Funding for Missouri Transportation to be a Priority in 2016 Session - OzarksFirst.com

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Funding for Missouri’s roads and bridges is expected to be an important topic next year in the Missouri legislature.

Missouri lawmakers considered several versions of a bill to raise the state’s gas tax to support the transportation infrastructure, but none of those passed before the Legislative session ended Friday.

A general lack of consensus on how to fund transportation, coupled with more than two days of holding up debate by Senate Democrats, effectively killed those proposals.

The new Speaker of the House, Todd Richardson (R-Poplar Bluff), elected by the body on Friday, says the issue will be a priority in 2016.

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Funding for Missouri Transportation to be a Priority in 2016 Session - OzarksFirst.com