COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri's Republican Gov. Mike Parson approved extended Medicaid health care for new mothers and a ban on handheld phone use while driving when he took final action on remaining bills last week.
Parson already signed a close to $52 billion state budget that includes billions in funding to expand Interstate 70 across the state.
He also approved limits on access to transgender health care and a ban on transgender girls and women competing with other female athletes in school sports.
Parson signed most of the remaining bills passed by the GOP-led Legislature this year, with the exception of a measure to pay wrongfully convicted prisoners for their time behind bars.
Most of the new laws will take effect Aug. 28.
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