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Senate advances bill expanding survivor benefits tax deduction, with unrelated educator expense amendment
Summary
The Missouri Senate took up and passed a bill expanding income tax deductions for military survivor benefits; the measure also carries an amendment adding an educator expenses deduction that some members said was unrelated to the underlying change.
Senator from Newton County moved and the Senate advanced Senate Substitute for Senate Bill 59, a measure expanding income tax deductions to include survivor benefits related to armed forces service and carrying an amendment that adds an educator expenses tax deduction.
The measure's sponsor, identified in the record as the senator from Newton County, told the chamber the bill "expands the veteran survivor benefits tax deduction" and that the change is "essentially ... one sentence." The sponsor said…
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