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.

Wide-ranging legislation that would lower tax rates for individuals and businesses passed the Missouri House on Wednesday.

The Missouri House of Representatives passed the bill that would return the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department to state control. The bill now heads to Governor Mike Kehoe, who intends to sign it later this month.

St. Louis local elected officials would lose control over the city's police force under a bill before Missouri's Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe

The bill now goes to Gov. Mike Kehoe, who made the state takeover of St. Louis Police one of his priorities. St. Louis' two police unions support the legislation, but the city mayor and police chief testified against it.