Senate bills
SB 834 — Mortgage and Residential Sale-Leaseback Transactions: Creates protections for homeowners involved in residential sale-leaseback agreements, where someone sells a home and then rents it back. Buyers must give sellers specific disclosures before the agreement is signed. It also creates uniform rules for modifying mortgages.
SB 863 — Statewide School Activities Associations: Creates new oversight requirements involving statewide organizations that regulate school athletics and activities.
SB 878 — Pharmaceutical Drugs and Devices: Makes several changes involving pharmacies and medications. It raises the yearly purchase limit for certain pseudoephedrine products, changes pharmacists’ authority involving vaccines and some medical devices, and modifies other pharmacy and drug-distribution laws.
SB 890 — Obsolete State Programs and Laws: Removes or updates numerous obsolete state agencies, programs, boards and statutory provisions that are no longer needed.
SB 903 — Telecommunications Infrastructure: Creates stronger criminal penalties for damaging telecommunications infrastructure. It also creates an offense involving unauthorized possession of certain copper, fiber and other telecommunications materials.
SB 905 — Missouri Rangers: Creates a state training program for Missouri Rangers and establishes requirements for the program.
SB 907 — Website Accessibility Lawsuits: Creates procedures intended to protect businesses from certain abusive lawsuits alleging that their websites or online content are inaccessible.
SB 913 — Tax Credits: Extends several Missouri tax-credit programs through 2033, including credits involving wood-energy products, meat-processing facilities, ethanol, biodiesel, urban farms and agriculture. It also creates a new railroad-infrastructure tax credit beginning in 2027.
SB 914 — Sewage Regulation: Changes state requirements governing sewage systems and certain sewage-system installers and regulators.
SB 916 — Sovereign Immunity: Changes circumstances in which the Missouri Department of Transportation and certain private contractors can be held liable for injuries involving government vehicles or dangerous property conditions.
SB 937 — State Property: Authorizes Missouri to transfer interests in certain pieces of state-owned property.
SB 938 — Land Surveying: Raises certain recording fees associated with land records. Part of the additional money will support county recorder funds and the Missouri Land Survey Fund. It also allows the Department of Agriculture to set fees for certain surveying records and materials.
SB 953 — Environmental Programs: Changes several programs administered by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, including provisions involving water and environmental regulation.
SB 959 — Missouri GIS Advisory Council: Creates the Missouri GIS Advisory Council to help coordinate mapping and geographic-information data used by state and local governments.
SB 973 — Real Estate Transactions: Makes extensive changes involving delinquent property taxes, tax sales, land banks, foreclosure procedures and other real-estate transactions.
SB 975 — Ambulance Districts: Changes laws governing ambulance districts, including certain administrative and operational requirements.
SB 977 — Foreign Law: Limits Missouri courts from applying foreign law when doing so would violate rights protected under Missouri or federal law.
SB 982 — Sexual Offenses and Sex-Offender Registration: Makes changes to Missouri’s sex-offender registry and related criminal-record systems, including registration classifications and requirements.
SB 1000 — Tourism Supplemental Revenue Fund: Changes provisions governing Missouri’s Tourism Supplemental Revenue Fund and how certain tourism revenue is handled.
SB 1002 — School Board Elections: Changes procedures for certain questions that school boards submit to voters.
SB 1019 — Health Care: Changes several laws involving hospitals and health care, including hospital investments and certain health-care administration requirements.
SB 1033 — Air Quality: Changes Missouri laws involving air-quality regulation and Department of Natural Resources programs.
SB 1067 — Public Expression Lawsuits: Creates protections against certain lawsuits filed because of someone’s speech, journalism, petitioning or participation in an issue of public concern. Courts can dismiss qualifying lawsuits earlier in the process.
SB 1119 — Article V Convention Commissioners: Creates procedures Missouri would use to select and govern commissioners if a constitutional convention were called under Article V of the U.S. Constitution.
SB 1135 — Bentley and Mason’s Law: Allows a court to order a person convicted of certain DWI offenses to provide financial support for the surviving children of a parent or guardian killed in the crash.
SB 1142 — Series LLCs: Updates Missouri law governing series limited liability companies, which allow separate business units to exist under one larger LLC.
SB 1408 — 75 MPH Speed Limit: Raises the maximum speed limit from 70 mph to 75 mph on qualifying rural interstate highways and freeways.
SB 1470 — Legislative Research: Changes the duties and functions of Missouri’s Joint Committee on Legislative Research.
SB 1544 — State Designations: Creates a number of official Missouri designations, including commemorative days, places and named highways.
SB 1553 — Critical Materials and Pharmaceuticals: Creates state incentives intended to encourage production of certain critical materials and pharmaceutical products in Missouri.
SB 1572 — Public Employee Retirement: Changes provisions governing several Missouri public-employee retirement systems.
SB 1576 — Missouri-Ireland Trade Commission: Creates the Missouri Ireland Trade Commission to promote trade, investment and other relationships between Missouri and Ireland.
SB 1629 — Underground Utilities: Changes requirements involving underground utilities and excavation to help prevent damage to buried lines and facilities.
House bills
HB 1696 — Care of Vulnerable Persons: Changes Missouri’s rules determining who has authority over the remains of a deceased minor in certain circumstances. It also requires criminal background checks for certain adult employees and volunteers at residential camps.
HB 1740 — Driving While Intoxicated: Makes several changes to Missouri’s DWI laws, including provisions involving driver’s licenses and penalties for intoxicated driving.
HB 1786 — Highway Patrol Purchases: Changes purchasing rules for certain Missouri State Highway Patrol vehicles, boats, motors and trailers.
HB 1825 — County Finances: Makes several changes involving county finances and county officials, including changes to county salary commissions.
HB 1827 — Disabled License Plates and Placards: Allows licensed occupational therapists to provide certain documentation required for disabled license plates and parking placards.
HB 1839 — Adult Website Age VerificationRequires certain websites containing material considered harmful to minors to verify that users are adults and creates civil penalties for violations.
HB 1866 — Peace Officer Licensing: Changes Missouri’s peace-officer licensing laws, including circumstances in which the state may deny a license because of previous disciplinary action.
HB 1867 — Joplin Tourism Tax: Allows Joplin voters to consider increasing the city’s transient guest tax used for tourism.
HB 1871 — Elections: Makes numerous changes to Missouri election law, including provisions involving candidate filing, election notices, provisional ballots, absentee voters, polling places, campaign contributions and election administration.
HB 1908 — Divorce During Pregnancy: Allows a Missouri court to finalize a divorce or legal separation even when one spouse is pregnant.
HB 1940 — Publication of Notices: Changes requirements governing certain legal, election and government notices that must be published.
HB 2057 — Entertainment Districts: Allows certain Missouri cities to establish entertainment districts operating under special state rules.
HB 2061 — Antisemitism in Education: Creates provisions addressing antisemitic conduct that threatens students or employees at Missouri educational institutions.
HB 2108 — State Property: Authorizes the transfer of certain state-owned property.
HB 2180 — Mail Sent by State Departments: Allows certain Missouri departments to use first-class mail or electronic delivery instead of certified or registered mail for some notices. It also changes mailing requirements involving the Ethics Commission and blind-pension program.
HB 2273 — Sexual Offenses: Makes extensive changes to laws protecting children and vulnerable people from sexual exploitation. Changes include offenses involving grooming, child sexual abuse material, nonconsensual intimate images, human trafficking and online sexual exploitation.
HB 2292 — Abuse and Neglect Reporting: Changes mandatory abuse-and-neglect reporting requirements for certain professionals and includes provisions involving suspected abuse of companion animals.
HB 2366 — Employment: Changes Missouri laws involving employers that knowingly employ people who are not legally authorized to work in the United States.
HB 2372 — Health Care: Makes extensive changes throughout Missouri’s health-care system. Major provisions include:
- New Lyme disease monitoring, reporting and treatment provisions
- Adds alpha-gal syndrome to certain disease-reporting requirements
- Expands access to certain doula services
- Expands childbirth-education services
- Changes telehealth requirements
- Changes pseudoephedrine purchase and tracking rules
- Creates provisions for nutrition-based health services through MO HealthNet
- Creates future electronic prior-authorization requirements
- Changes professional health-care licensing rules
- Protects qualifying 340B prescription-drug providers
- Requires certain insurance plans to cover up to a one-year supply of hormonal contraceptives beginning in 2027
- Changes anesthesia-coverage rules
- Expands coverage for home blood-pressure monitoring during pregnancy and postpartum
- Changes certain emergency mental-health procedures
HB 2397 — Public Water Supply Districts: Changes procedures involving public water-supply districts, including how certain districts may be dissolved.
HB 2423 — Division of Finance: Changes several laws governing Missouri’s Division of Finance and financial-industry regulation.
HB 2474 — Public Contracts: Changes requirements involving certain public construction contracts, including progressive design-build projects.
HB 2508 — Business Entities: Changes laws governing business entities regulated by the Missouri Secretary of State, including series LLCs.
HB 2576 — State Designations: Creates numerous official Missouri designations and names certain roads and highways.
HB 2586 — Credit Unions: Updates Missouri credit-union laws, including provisions involving membership shares and electronic participation in board meetings.
HB 2593 — Military Affairs: Makes several changes affecting veterans, military members and the Missouri National Guard. Changes include:
- Preferences for qualifying veteran-owned businesses seeking certain government contracts
- Additional legal protections for Guard members
- Changes to the Military Family Relief Fund
- Health-insurance assistance for certain Guard members
- Changes involving military leave
- Changes involving National Guard education benefits
HB 2596 — Health Benefit Plans: Changes financial and reporting requirements for certain multiple-employer health plans. It also requires qualifying plans that cover self-administered hormonal contraceptives to cover up to a one-year supply beginning Jan. 1, 2027.
HB 2636 — Real Estate Transactions: Creates several protections and requirements involving real-estate transactions, including mortgage modifications, sale-leaseback agreements and certain insurance-related property claims.
HB 2818 — Annexation: Changes procedures Missouri cities must follow when annexing land outside their existing boundaries.
HB 2819 — Cash Transaction Rounding: Creates rules allowing certain cash purchases to be rounded to the nearest five cents under specified circumstances.
HB 2885 — Water Patrol: Requires certain boating-registration revenue to be placed in a fund used by the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Water Patrol Division.
HB 2896 — Education: Makes several changes involving Missouri education. The law:
- Removes the scheduled expiration of the Workforce Diploma Program
- Changes geographic requirements for members of governing boards at certain public colleges and universities
- Allows an ongoing elementary agricultural-education program beginning with the 2027-28 school year
HB 2934 — St. Louis Convention and Sports Authorities: Changes governance and funding provisions involving the Regional Convention and Visitors Commission and Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority in St. Louis City and St. Louis County.
HB 2974 — Professional License Reciprocity: Expands Missouri’s recognition of certain out-of-state professional licenses and establishes or joins several interstate licensing compacts, including those involving health-care professions.
HB 3080 — Historic Facilities: Changes provisions involving state programs and incentives for certain historically significant facilities and properties.
HB 3231 — Economic Development: Creates and expands several Missouri economic-development programs. Major provisions include:
- Expanded redevelopment incentives
- New or expanded Missouri Works incentives
- Creation of Missouri Innovation Zones
- Programs supporting rural development
- Public-safety and infrastructure funding
- Business and employee relocation incentives
- Tax incentives for converting underused commercial buildings into housing
- Opportunity-zone incentives
- Tax credits for qualifying investments in Missouri startup companies
HB 3279 — Missouri Community Service Commission: Changes the organization and duties of the Missouri Community Service Commission.
