JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri House has passed legislation that would implement performance-based funding for public universities and community colleges.

Under the bill, the schools would work with the Department of Higher Education to develop goals, such as graduation and retention rates, that would then be used to determine part of their funding.

The House voted 143-3 on Wednesday to send the bill to the Senate. Senators have already passed their own version of the bill, but it doesn’t include community colleges and would expire in 2016.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) led more than half of the members of the Senate Republican Conference today to introduce the Executive Needs to Faithfully Observe and Respect Congressional Enactments of the Law (ENFORCE the Law) Act to ensure the president upholds his constitutional obligation to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” To read the bill, click here.

The ENFORCE the Law Act puts a procedure in place to permit Congress to authorize a lawsuit against the executive branch for failure to faithfully execute the laws. The legislation also provides for expedited consideration of any such lawsuit, first through a three-judge panel at the federal district court level and then by providing for direct appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

“It’s the president’s constitutional responsibility to faithfully execute the law, and Americans are rightly concerned about executive overreach and dysfunction under the current administration,” Blunt said. “This bill restores the system of checks and balances and reiterates the importance of the Constitution’s curb on runaway executive branch power.”

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri conservation officials say tests of deer from the fall hunting season have indicated no new cases of chronic wasting disease in free-ranging deer.

The Department of Conservation says nearly 3,700 deer were tested. About 40 percent of the animals came from a containment zone of a half-dozen counties in north-central Missouri.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Missouri man has pleaded not guilty to prostituting his 41-year-old wife at a hotel in North Dakota’s capital city.

Bismarck police arrested 67-year-old Marvin Lord in early February. The Bismarck Tribune reports that hotel staff alerted authorities.

Lord’s wife is from China and doesn’t speak English. She pleaded guilty to prostitution charges and spent two weeks in jail.

Lord appeared in court Tuesday and is currently being held in the county jail.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas City police have found nearly a dozen hidden cameras in a woman’s apartment above a tattoo parlor where she worked.

The Kansas City Star reports the 25-year-old woman found a hidden camera in a smoke detector and called police Saturday. Investigators found 10 more cameras hidden throughout her home, including four in her bathroom.

Officers traced wiring from some of the cameras to the basement below the tattoo parlor, where they found a computer monitor with seven video screens showing the interior of the victim’s apartment.

The woman told police her 47-year-old landlord and boss had propositioned her and asked her out several times. She says he remodeled her bathroom in October when she was out of town.

The woman has moved out.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri Senate committee is considering legislation on the death penalty.

The only committee chaired by a Democrat in the Republican-controlled Senate held hearings Wednesday on several bills. One measure seeks to abolish the death penalty while others addressed procedures involved with carrying out executions.

Another proposal would bar the Department of Corrections from using cash to purchase execution drugs. It also would prevent those supplying equipment and chemicals from inclusion on Missouri’s execution team. The identity of members of the execution team is protected by state privacy laws.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A western Missouri man has admitted improperly receiving more than $109,000 in disability benefits while working at a Kansas equine training center.

The U.S. Attorney’s office says 39-year-old Michael Burt, of Archie, pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing Social Security funds.

Burt was approved for Social Security disability payments in 2002 after being deemed medically unable to work because of back disorders.

But he admitted that he began working full-time in July 2004 at Two Bit Training in Overland Park, Kan., doing manual labor that included cleaning stalls and looking after the horses. The Social Security Administration was never told of his employment at the business, which trains horses and riders.

Burt’s plea agreement calls for him to pay full restitution. He also faces a possible prison sentence.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A western Missouri woman is suing a pawn shop that sold her mentally ill daughter a gun that she used to fatally shoot her father.

Janet Delana of Wellington appeared at a news conference Wednesday with attorneys for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence to announce the suit filed that morning in Lafayette County Circuit Court.

A manager at the pawn shop had not seen the lawsuit and declined to comment.