US EditionNashville and Salt Lake City Have Reached Out to Royals, Missouri Senator Says
- Governor Mike Kehoe convened Missouri legislators in Jefferson City on June 2, 2025, for a special session focused on tax incentives designed to retain the state’s professional football and baseball teams from Kansas City.
- The session was prompted by Kansas offering up to 70% funding for new stadiums and the teams needing to decide by the end of June, while lawmakers face internal disagreements about tax cuts and disaster relief funding.
- Kehoe’s $235 million spending bill includes tax incentives covering about 50% of stadium costs, using stadium-generated tax revenues committed to 30-year bond payments, alongside disaster relief and other state projects.
- Senate committees approved the stadium incentives 6-3 after testimony, while lawmakers debated tax cuts, disaster aid, and alternative stadium funding proposals including the 'No Taxation, All Donation Act'.
- The special session highlights partisan and intraparty tensions, with outcomes uncertain as lawmakers weigh the fiscal impact of tax incentives against demands for broader tax cuts and expanded disaster relief.
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Nashville and Salt Lake City have reached out to Royals, Missouri senator says
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Day three of Missouri's special session was off to a very slow start Wednesday afternoon. Lawmakers were supposed to gavel in at 10 a.m.—but as of 1:45 p.m., that hadn't happened. Private deal-making is likely going on after Republican Governor Mike Kehoe brought back state senators Monday to try and get a deal passed for the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals. A package for the teams passed out of the Senate Committee on Fiscal…
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CoMo BUZNew funding for private school vouchers will ‘set precedent’ for future Missouri budgets
Gov. Mike Kehoe’s first budget proposal launched a tug of war between public-school advocates and those hoping to use state funds for private education. Both sides ultimately came away with what they wanted — but neither expects this to be…
Game time: Missouri Senate primed to debate Chiefs and Royals stadium funding bill - Missourinet
Sen. Kurtis Gregory, R-Marshall, says his bill to help fund new or improved stadiums for the Kansas City Royals and Chiefs is not like throwing the entire house at the teams – it’s more like half the kitchen sink. The offer that Gregory and state leaders have come up with has already cleared two Missouri […]
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Missouri Senate moves forward on stadium and disaster bills
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Senate voted Tuesday to advance four pieces of legislation that would provide relief for victims of recent severe weather, develop a financing plan for Kansas City Chiefs and Royals stadiums, and fund capital projects that didn’t make it to the finish line during the regular legislative session last month. Four bills emerged from two separate Senate committees that started Tuesday morning and carried into the a…
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Stadium funding, disaster aid set to be debated by divided Missouri Senate
The first two days of the special legislative session called by Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe to allocate state money for Kansas City sports stadiums, disaster recovery and unfinished spending bills have gone as well as could be expected. The Missouri…
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