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Recent Missouri Public Finance Matters
Missouri Tobacco Bonding Bid Lawyer and
Lobbyist
Lawyer and lobbyist for a financial institution
in RFP response and bid proceedings. Lawyer and lobbyist before
the Missouri Governor’s Office, the Missouri State House,
the Missouri State Senate, the Missouri Attorney General’s
Office, the Missouri Office of Administration (OA), the Missouri
Budget Office, the Missouri Division of Accounting and the
Missouri Tobacco Settlement Authority Board in bid proceeding
to select tobacco securitization bonding manager.
Missouri Education and Health Care Finance
Protection Amendment Lawyer and Lobbyist
Assisted in the legal drafting of a Missouri
constitutional amendment to protect Missouri state budget
appropriations for education and Medicaid from cuts during
economic downturns. Lawyer and lobbyist-government affairs
consultant for heath care and education advocates before the
Missouri Secretary of State's Office and Missouri Attorney
General's Office on amendment ballot language and signature
verification issues. Lawyer and lobbyist-government affairs
consultant for amendment advocates on state fiscal note issues
before the Missouri State Auditor's Office, the Missouri Department
of Revenue and the Missouri Office of Administration, Division
of Budget and Planning (Missouri State Budget Office)
Missouri Electric Utility Tax Fairness Amendment
Lawyer and Lobbyist
Lawyer for a St. Louis, Mo. utility in drafting
a proposed Missouri constitutional amendment initiative petition
to standardize state and municipal utility taxation in Missouri.
Lawyer and lobbyist-government affairs consultant for utility
before the Office of Missouri Secretary of State and the Office
of Missouri Attorney General in Jefferson City, Mo. in securing
a viable elections ballot title for the state and local utility
taxes constitutional amendment.
Missouri Education Funding Coalition Lawyer
and Lobbyist
Lawyer and lobbyist-governmental affairs consultant
for a Missouri statewide coalition of local school districts
in lobbying the Missouri Governor, the Missouri House and
the Missouri State Senate for increased state education budget
appropriations and to end unfunded state mandates.
Healthy Missouri Initiative Petition Lawyer
and Lobbyist
Coordinated the drafting of Missouri statutory
initiative petition to increase state tobacco taxes and earmark
the proceeds for Missouri state budget appropriations for
health care, life sciences research, smoking prevention and
early childhood education. Lawyer and lobbyist-government
affairs consultant for initiative petition proponents before
the Missouri Secretary of State's Office and Missouri Attorney
General's Office on amendment ballot language. Lawyer and
lobbyist-government affairs consultant for amendment advocates
on state fiscal note issues before the Missouri State Auditor's
Office, the Missouri Department of Revenue and the Missouri
Office of Administration, Division of Budget and Planning
(Missouri State Budget Office).
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