Personal care attendants in Missouri will not be getting a pay raise. The Nixon administration had sought to implement a pay hike agreed upon by home health care workers, but state lawmakers passed a bill blocking the pay hike, saying the legislature alone has the power to authorize pay raises.
Governor Nixon vetoed the blocking bill, but today that veto was overridden by the House. Democrat Genise Montecillo of St. Louis County joined Republicans in supporting the override.
"It could have been simple... the governor could have put this line item in the budget... it's a slippery slope when we start to pick and choose which rules we're going to follow and which rules we're not going to follow," Montecillo said.
The senate overrode Nixon’s veto last month, so the rule change allowing the pay hike is dead for the year.
