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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (WGEM) – Missouri lawmakers are making a last-ditch effort to keep the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals from moving to Kansas. A plan from Gov. Mike Kehoe was debated and voted on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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The Missouri House approves the governor\u2019s Hail Mary plan to incentivize the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals to stay in the state. This plan was truly introduced in the fourth quarter, now well into the final week of the legislative session. It\u2019s not a home run <\/i>just yet, the Missouri Senate needs to approve the plan before Friday at 6 p.m. when lawmakers will leave the Capitol for the year.<\/p>\n

This plan only benefits NFL and MLB teams, allowing them to make upgrades to existing stadiums or construct new stadiums. The plan allows teams to get a bond up to their current state tax revenue; that comes out to nearly $29 million for Chiefs and $26 million for the Royals. It also allows a 10% tax credit up to $50 million, and only up to half of the project.<\/p>\n

There is a clawback trigger put in to protect Missouri. If a team relocates its headquarters or training facility to another state, the money will have to be returned.<\/p>\n

Neither party is united on these late game adjustments. At the end of the day, more Republicans voted against it than Democrats.<\/p>\n

As Kansas City Rep. Chris Brown explains, the governor is rushing this plan because Kansas is negotiating \u201caggressively\u201d with the teams. The incentives Kansas lawmakers enacted to draw the teams over expire next month.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s in our DNA,\u201d Brown said. \u201cThe Chiefs and the Royals are literally a part of us to some degree. They are a fabric woven within the state of Missouri.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the governor\u2019s office told our Missouri Capitol Bureau support from Kansas City, Missouri, residents will be just as important as a fair and equitable incentives package from the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cGov. Kehoe has been working for months to develop a competitive package to keep both the Royals and the Chiefs in Missouri where they belong. He views these projects as important economic development retention projects,\u201d said Gabrielle Picard, Kehoe\u2019s communications director.<\/p>\n

But with the introduction in the bottom of the ninth,<\/i> minority leader and Kansas City-native Rep. Ashley Aune feels rushed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s come to a head right now, and unfortunately it seems like Missouri\u2019s waited until the 11th hour to do something about it,\u201d Aune said.<\/p>\n

The plan has the support of Kansas City Mayor Quinten Lucas. A statement his office shared reads, \u201cKansas City strongly supports the legislation presented today by Governor Kehoe. The Governor\u2019s legislation will ensure the Kansas City Royals and the Kansas City Chiefs are Kansas City\u2019s teams today and will remain Kansas City\u2019s and Missouri\u2019s teams for generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

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