JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The Missouri House has voted to override Gov. Mike
Parson’s vetoes of about $785,000 of budgeted expenditures for services
benefiting hospitals, youth and the deaf.The votes Wednesday marked the first step in the process of overriding vetoes.
The Senate also would need to approve the veto overrides by a two-thirds vote
for them to be accomplished.
Parson made 21 line-item vetoes totaling more than $12 million when he enacted
the state’s $28.6 billion budget for the fiscal year that started July 1. The
House voted to override four of those, including funding for a hospital
certification program and public defenders for juveniles.
It’s somewhat unusual for a Republican-led legislature to override vetoes of a
Republican governor. But House budget leaders said the programs at issue are
important.
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