Missouri House Backs Requiring Local Approval For City-County Merger [View all]
The Missouri House overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment requiring local approval for a city-county merger.
Whether that plan makes it to voters is an open question, especially since Rep. Dean Plocher’s measure needs to get past a potential Senate filibuster.
Plocher’s amendment is in response to the Better Together plan, which seeks to create a metro government overseeing St. Louis and St. Louis County.
The Des Peres Republican does not like how the proposal is going to statewide voters — so he got the House to vote 143-10 for a competing statewide ballot measure stipulating that approval from city and county voters is necessary for the plan to go into effect.
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