The legislation creates an opt-in program where Missouri public schools can choose to accept students who live outside their district. It now goes to the Missouri Senate, where similar bills have died in prior sessions.

The Missouri House has passed a bill creating an open-enrollment program for the state’s public schools. The House voted 88-69 to pass the legislation. The legislation creates an opt-in program where schools can choose to accept students who live outside their district.

One bill would set the state income tax to a flat rate of 4.7%, with the ability to reduce it to 3.7% over the next decade, and would also reduce the corporate income tax rate.

House Bill 495, which would return control of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department back to the state, has passed in the Missouri House.