{"id":8716,"date":"2022-04-22T13:38:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T18:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/?p=8716"},"modified":"2022-05-26T19:51:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T19:51:55","slug":"senate-continues-budget-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/news-archive\/senate-continues-budget-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate continues budget work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state budget process continued in a Missouri Senate committee this week with lawmakers considering several important pro-business appropriations.<\/p>\n<p>Funding proposals under consideration include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Onshoring industries that are vital to national security.<\/li>\n<li>Improving employee retention via improved access to childcare.<\/li>\n<li>Support for computer science job training.<\/li>\n<li>Fully restored Missouri River Runner Amtrak service.<\/li>\n<li>Enhancing Missouri\u2019s river port system.<\/li>\n<li>Supporting international livestock trade efforts.<\/li>\n<li>Economic development program enhancements.<\/li>\n<li>Health care job training.<\/li>\n<li>A geospatial intelligence training program for high school students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As these discussions continue, the Missouri Chamber is also working to ensure budget bills are not used as a vehicle to pass anti-business language that would override employer vaccine policies.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate will continue budget work next week ahead of the state\u2019s May 6 constitutional budget deadline.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Kara Corches,\u00a0Missouri Chamber vice president of governmental affairs, at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:kcorches@mochamber.com\">kcorches@mochamber.com<\/a>\u00a0or 573-645-3511.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state budget process continued in a Missouri Senate committee this week with lawmakers considering several important pro-business appropriations. Funding proposals under consideration include: Onshoring industries that are vital to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":8717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/article-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8786,"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions\/8786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}