St. Louis Beacon reporter Jo Mannies and I reported on a new proposal emanating out of Gov. Jay Nixon's office to overhaul Proposition B.
From the article:
The agreement is in the form of a measure aimed at superceding a controversial bill -- SB 113 -- that does away with most of the provisions in Proposition B, which imposes restrictions on dog breeders.The proposition was narrowly approved by Missouri voters last fall but is opposed by rural legislators.
Approved by both chambers, SB 113 was formally placed on Gov. Jay Nixon's desk today. Nixon now has 15 calendar days to decide whether to veto the bill, sign it or allow it to go into effect without his signature.
Nixon announced today that he backed the agreement proposing the alternate measure and that he and his staff had been involved in helping to bring it about. Nixon, a Democrat, is running for re-election in 2012; he'd like to avoid getting stuck between rural voters who opposed Proposition B and the suburban and urban voters who backed it.
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The above video features comments on the proposal from Senate Majority Leader Tom Dempsey, R-St. Charles, and Senate President Pro Tem Rob Mayer, R-Dexter.