Movement in Missouri Legislation

Recently the Missouri Senate put up Bill 1106 and a companion Missouri House of Representatives Bill 2614, which will "modify provisions relating to funding for housing programs."

The House Bill is upcoming in a Public Hearing on March 23, 2022.

Key Take-aways from these bills:

• This act states that no one will be permitted to use state-owned lands for unauthorized sleeping or long-term shelters. Any violation will be a class C misdemeanor.

• No homelessness assistance funding will be given to any nonprofit in a city that shows an increase of 50 unsheltered homeless individuals for two years and refuses to enforce unauthorized camping.

• No state funds will be allocated to any nonprofit for the construction of short-term housing that costs more than $55,000 per bed to build or costs more than $20,000 a year to maintain at a basic level.

• A nonprofit may use 10% of state grants for permanent housing to support enforcement of unauthorized sleeping and data collection.

Senate Bill Summary

The Missouri Balance of State Continuum of Care seeks to advocate for its members by informing of changes in funding for housing programs. The Mo BoS CoC is not advocating for or against specific policy decisions. Additionally, the Mo BoS CoC has created a Legislative Education Workgroup to focus on informing the CoC of the ramifications of these legislations. Please contact for more information about these bills.



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