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Governor Kehoe (r) spins like a top and signs deplorable anti-working people legislation into law

11 Friday Jul 2025

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HB 567, signed into law, repeals much of the pro-worker provisions overwhelmingly approved by the voters with Proposition A in 2024.

What the voters approved:

Official Election Returns
State of Missouri – General Election, November 05, 2024, Tuesday, November 5, 2024
As announced by the Board of State Canvassers on Thursday, December 5, 2024

Proposition A (3572 of 3572 Precincts Reported) [pdf]

Yes Votes 1,693,064 57.6%
No Votes 1,247,658 42.4%

Total Votes 2,940,722

Mike Kehoe (r) [2024 file photo].

Yesterday, what right wingnuts taketh away:

Governor Kehoe Signs Bold Tax Cuts and Pro-Business Legislation into Law
JULY 10, 2025

Jefferson City — During a bill signing ceremony at the Missouri State Capitol, today Governor Mike Kehoe signed two major pieces of legislation—House Bills (HB) 567 and 594—delivering on his commitment to lower taxes and defend small businesses.

“Conservative leadership is about keeping more money in the hands of Missouri families, and less in government coffers,” said Governor Kehoe. “Today, we are protecting the people who make Missouri work—families, job creators, and small business owners—by cutting taxes, rolling back overreach, and eliminating costly mandates.”

HB 567, sponsored by Representative Sherri Gallick and Senator Mike Bernskoetter, modifies provisions relating to employee compensation.

Maintains the state’s minimum wage law at $15 per hour, repealing the annual Consumer Price Index adjustment, and extends the wage requirement to public employers as well as private.
Repeals onerous paid sick leave mandates on Missouri small businesses, including:
Requirements dictating when and how paid leave must be provided.
Burdensome record keeping and compliance obligations.
[….]

Yep, working people take it in the gut yet again, courtesy of the Governor (r) and our right wingnut republican controlled Missouri General Assembly.

HB 44, HB 78, HB 79, and HB 104: they ain’t gonna prevail no more

01 Thursday Dec 2016

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Today is the first day of bill filing for the 2017 session of the Missouri General Assembly. Organized labor has a big target painted on it for the new legislative session in the General Assembly. But, we already knew that.

….Prevailing wage laws protect communities and workers from unscrupulous contractors low-balling bids on taxpayer-funded construction projects by setting wage rates to the local or prevailing standard….

Four bills limiting or repealing prevailing wage, all sponsored by republicans, were filed today:

HB 44
Prohibits the Missouri Housing Development Commission from requiring a prevailing hourly wage to be paid to a contractor on a project for a housing tax credit if it is in a Governor-declared disaster area
Sponsor: White, Bill (161)
Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2017
LR Number: 0155H.01I
Last Action: 12/01/2016 – Prefiled (H)
Bill String: HB 44
Next Hearing: Hearing not scheduled
Calendar: Bill currently not on a House calendar

Does that include Kansas? Just asking.

HB 78  
Allows public bodies to opt out of prevailing wage laws for the construction of public works projects that are $750,000 or less
Sponsor: McGaugh, Joe Don (039)
Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2017
LR Number: 0385H.01I
Last Action: 12/01/2016 – Prefiled (H)
Bill String: HB 78
Next Hearing: Hearing not scheduled
Calendar: Bill currently not on a House calendar

Joe Don McGaugh (r) [2016 file photo].

Joe Don McGaugh (r) [2016 file photo].

HB 79
Establishes the School Construction Act, which exempts construction and maintenance work done for certain school districts from the prevailing wage requirement upon the school board’s approval
Sponsor: McGaugh, Joe Don (039)
Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2017
LR Number: 0386H.01I
Last Action: 12/01/2016 – Prefiled (H)
Bill String: HB 79
Next Hearing: Hearing not scheduled
Calendar: Bill currently not on a House calendar

HB 104
Repeals provisions relating to prevailing wages on public works
Sponsor: Love, Warren (125)
Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2017
LR Number: 0069H.01I
Last Action: 12/01/2016 – Prefiled (H)
Bill String: HB 104
Next Hearing: Hearing not scheduled
Calendar: Bill currently not on a House calendar

Rep. Warren D. Love, a Republican, represents Hickory, St. Clair and parts of Benton and Cedar counties (District 125). He was elected to his first two-year term in November 2012.

In addition to his legislative duties, Rep. Love is a rancher, restaurant owner, and carpenter-contractor….

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Well, that certainly explains it.

Previously:

HB 42 and HB 91: right to get paid less rears its ugly head – again (December 1, 2016)

HB 42 and HB 91: right to get paid less rears its ugly head – again

01 Thursday Dec 2016

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They’ll get their way. There’s no one to stop them.

Today is the first day of bill filing for the 2017 session of the Missouri General Assembly. Two republican representatives have already filed “right to get paid less” bills:

HB 42  
Specifies that a person cannot be required to become or refrain from becoming a member of or paying dues to a labor organization as a condition or continuation of employment
Sponsor:
White, Bill (161)
Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2017
LR Number: 0154H.01I
Last Action: 12/01/2016 – Prefiled (H)
Bill String: HB 42
Next Hearing: Hearing not scheduled
Calendar: Bill currently not on a House calendar

And:

Holly Rehder (r) [2013 file photo].

Holly Rehder (r) [2013 file photo].

HB 91  
Specifies that a person cannot be required to become or refrain from becoming a member of or paying dues to a labor organization as a condition or continuation of employment
Sponsor: Rehder, Holly (148)
Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2017
LR Number: 0360H.01I
Last Action: 12/01/2016 – Prefiled (H)
Bill String: HB 91
Next Hearing: Hearing not scheduled
Calendar: Bill currently not on a House calendar

Working people and the unions that represent them will get screwed yet again.

Previously:

HB 1770: those who voted for your right to get paid less (April 11, 2014)