A proposed Senate resolution to change the State Constitution would allow Missouri voters to decide on the national controversy. Bill Sponsor, Republican Senator Sarah Steelman.
A proposed Senate resolution to change the State Constitution would allow Missouri voters to decide on the national controversy. Bill Sponsor, Republican Sen. Sarah Steelman.
The youth vote came just days after Sen. Sarah Steelman, R-Rolla, proposed a resolution to allow Missouri voters to decided whether or not to uphold the Missouri state statue, passed in 1999, which bans same-sex marriages.
State Sen. Sarah Steelman co-sponsored the Missouri bill to manadate the pledge in classrooms. She says it would be unfortunate if the Supreme Court ruled the pledge unconstitutional in schools.
"I don't think that they are responding to this legislative body in a way that a public institution should respond," said Sen. Sarah Steelman, R-Rolla.
The amendment was added to a bill sponsored by Sen. Sarah Steelman, R-Rolla, that changes staffing procedures for the Public Service Commission. No one voted against the amendment on the Senate floor.
The bill's Senate sponsor -- Sen. Sarah Steelman, R-Rolla -- said the bill will allow high- speed Internet service providers, such as SBC, to provide Missourians the service more areas of Missouri.
JEFFERSON CITY -A mock-vote by Missouri high school students passed a bill to permit same-sex couples a civil union in Missouri. The vote came days after Sen. Sarah Steelman, R-Rolla, proposed a statewide vote to maintain Missouri's current ban of same-sex marriages.
JEFFERSON CITY - If passed in both houses, Senate resolution proposed by Rolla Republican Sen. Sarah Steelman would allow Missouri voters to decide whether or not to change State Constitution to ban gay marriages.
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