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That’s because it restores funding for higher education by cutting a health care program for the blind.

The Missouri House is debating all 13 bills Tuesday that make up the state’s proposed budget for next year.  Lawmakers are offering up several amendments to the budget – one in particular would have shifted 150-thousand dollars from the state’s biodiesel fund to Alzheimer’s patients.  It was sponsored by Independent House Member Tracy McCreery of St. Louis County.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

• The status of the Missouri budget.
• What the Columbia Police Department is doing to prepare for Spring Break burglaries.

• A Missouri law that would push tougher penalties on hunters who accidentally kill someone.

Missouri's proposed budget looks $1 billion bigger, thanks to hundreds of additions by the House Budget Committee.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

• House budget would cut services to the blind, restore higher education dollars
• City takes aim at energy efficiency in rental units
• Opponents of blight designation voice concerns