Parson Signs Supplemental Budget Bill

(Jefferson City, MO) Missouri Governor Mike Parson is signing House Bill 15, a second supplemental budget bill for Fiscal Year 2023 budget, into law. HB 15 appropriates more than $2 billion to ensure state government operations continue uninterrupted through the end of the current fiscal year, ending June 30, 2023. The measure appropriates critical funding for K-12 education, higher education, public safety, mental health, and transportation, among others including $217 million for school nutrition programs, $75 million for state aid to charter schools, $3 million for career and technical education programs in K-12 schools, $800,000 for the Fast Track Workforce Incentive Grant Program, and $175,000 for the Missouri Blue Scholarship, The more than $2 billion package includes $427 million in general revenue, $1.45 billion in federal funds, and $176 million in other funds.