Transparency in the Missouri government

Show-me Missouri
URL: http://www.mo.gov/

Description:
 * Official state website. Provides information about the Missouri government and its services.

MAP: Missouri Accountability Portal
URL:http://mapyourtaxes.mo.gov/MAP/Portal/Default.aspx

Description:
 * Official state transparency website.
 * Includes information on expenditures, tax credits, and employee payroll.

Missouri General Assembly
URL: http://www.moga.mo.gov/

Description:
 * Web portal for state legislative information.

Lobbying disclosure information
URL: http://www.mec.mo.gov/ethics/Lobbying/LobElecReports.aspx

Description:
 * Missouri Ethics Commission website allows searches for lobbyists by last name or city beginning in 2001.

State campaign disclosure information
URL: http://www.moethics.mo.gov/Ethics/Generalinfo/Generalinfo.aspx

Description:
 * Missouri Ethics Commission website has searchable campaign finance information.

Proposed legislation
HB 316

(Track bill) Sponsor: Rep. Timothy Jones


 * Strengthens Missouri's open records and public meetings law;
 * Makes records of the Missouri Ethics Commission public with the exception of files in investigations where a decision has yet to be made or reports where a complaint was dismissed;
 * Widens the range of meetings open to the public;
 * Requires more advanced notice of meetings addressing fees, taxes, eminent domain, zoning, and transportation development.

More legislative information
For more on transparency legislation, see the Missouri transparency legislation webpage at Sunshine Review.