Feb. 21, 2025

Steps in the Right Direction

Hello, from your favorite Senator Angela Mosley! I hope you are having a good week and staying safe with all the snow. This week was a triumph for citizens of the 13th Senatorial District.

I moved Senate Bill 40 rapidly through the legislative process. This bill creates the Missing and Murdered African American Women and Girls Task Force to investigate the violence against women and girls in our community. I am proud to say it has now been perfected and am optimistic it will be passed and sent over to the Missouri House of Representatives next week.

I also took a stand against Senate Bill 4 on the Senate floor. This large utilities omnibus bill threatens to increase utility payments by changing how they are calculated. The bill would make it so payments are based off a future test year rather than past years. I voted against it in committee due to the impact it could have on my constituents. Traditionally, when there is a gap between parties on the bill, they go to each other and work it out before the legislation is taken up on the floor. In this case that did not happen and none of the bill’s proponents came to me to discuss how we could work out our differences. Because of this I felt I needed to take a stand, slow down the legislation and inform Missourians of the impact it would have on them. Ultimately the bill was passed in the Senate, but I believe progress was made and the people of Missouri were informed.

In other news, I am happy to report that my Senate Bill 42 was voted out of the Education Committee this past week. This bill requires schools to perform safety assessments identify the level of risk for school shootings and intruders.

In addition, just last week the hearing for Senate Bill 41 was held in the Transportation, Infrastructure and Public Safety Committee. This bill creates the Christian Taylor Ferguson Medical Alert System. This alert system would work much like an Amber Alert but specifically for missing children who require medication or medical treatment.

I am grateful to everyone who has come out in support of these two bills. They are both so important for the continued growth of our community. I believe protecting the children of our community should be one of our top priorities.

Looking at next week, I will present Senate Bill 306 to the Education Committee on Tuesday at 8 a.m. in Senate Committee Room 1. This bill modifies how administrative boards for unaccredited schools are formed and requires unaccredited schools become accredited within a certain timeline. I welcome anyone who would like to come and support or be a witness for this bill.

I would also like to invite you to join Missouri Humanities and the Kinder Institute for their Constitutional Democracy for Civil Dialogues: The People, The President, & The Constitution on Thursday, March 6th in St. Louis.

The Civil Dialogues program is a project co-founded by Mizzou alumnae Jean Becker and Linda Lorelle, providing participants with a space where they can express their views and ask questions without judgment.

Leading the discussion on March 6th is Jay Sexton, historian and Director of the Kinder Institute, and Kathy Kiely, veteran reporter and Lee Hills Chair in Free-Press Studies at the University of Missouri. 

This is a free event, but registration is required! Learn more and register here. 

If you have any questions please reach out to my office. 

 For more information on Sen. Angela Walton Mosley’s legislative actions, please visit her official Senate website at senate.mo.gov/Mosley. If you, or a loved one, are struggling with thoughts of suicide or self-harm please call the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988.

Diana Patterson & Michele Steptoe-Clark with Alzheimer’s Association discussed Dementia and Senate Bill 410.