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Saturday, May 16, 2026

The 2026 Regular Session of the 103rd Missouri General Assembly officially adjourned at the final gavel at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. By nearly every measure, this was one of the more productive sessions in recent memory, a notable contrast to last year's regular session and special sessions, where the Senate used the "previous question" motion four separate times.

The PQ, as it's known, is a procedural move that cuts off debate and forces an immediate vote, and the Missouri Senate uses it sparingly because it breaks the chamber's tradition of unlimited debate.

This year still saw controversy and stalemate, but the disagreements appeared to be driven more by policy differences than personalities, and the overall decorum of the building held through the final gavel.

Below is the full list of the 100 bills (policy + spending bills) that crossed the finish line before the constitutional deadline and were Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed (TAFP). The bills are grouped by subject area, with a short plain-language description of what each one does. Each bill number is linked to its official bill page, where you can find the full text, sponsor information, action history, and committee reports.

Because the General Assembly has adjourned, the Governor has 45 days to act on each bill. He can sign it, veto it, or let it become law without his signature. None of these bills are in effect yet, and effective dates will vary once his action on each is complete.

In the coming weeks, we will send out follow-up publications that go deeper into these bills, breaking down individual sections, highlighting key changes for affected industries, and sharing the broader data trends and insights from this session. Consider this email a high-level reference; the deeper analysis will follow.

Many of the bills noted below do not have the latest/final summary posted for the contents that passed. Those will be available in the coming days and will be sent out in a series of additional posts.

Public Safety & Criminal Justice

• HB 1740 (Griffith) — Tightens Missouri's DWI laws. Raises felony penalties for drunk drivers who injure or kill another person, expands when ignition interlock devices are required, and limits restricted driving privileges for high-BAC offenders.
• HB 1866 (Roberts) — Lets the Department of Public Safety deny a peace officer license to people who are not U.S. citizens or who previously had a license revoked. Also expands which school employees can serve as school protection officers.
• HB 2273 (Lewis) — Strengthens protections for children and vulnerable persons. Replaces "child pornography" with "child sexual abuse material," creates new offenses for grooming ("Evie and Sophie's Law"), and increases penalties for child sex trafficking and related crimes.
• HB 2637 (Black) — Major public safety package. Increases penalties for sex offenses and dangerous felonies, updates sex offender registry rules, creates new offenses for cyberstalking and intimate-image abuse, sets new parole eligibility percentages, and changes juvenile detention and certification rules.
• HB 2641 (Hinman) — Creates the Intoxicating Cannabinoid Control Act. Treats hemp-derived intoxicating products as marijuana under the Missouri Constitution, limiting sales to licensed dispensaries. Also protects medical marijuana patient information.
• SB 888 (Schroer) — Comprehensive criminal justice reform. Updates juvenile detention and adult certification, sets new percentage-based parole eligibility, expands dangerous felony definitions, and increases penalties for sex offenses involving children.
• SB 905 (Gregory (David)) — Creates the Missouri Rangers school safety officer program. Trained Rangers, employed by school districts, can carry firearms on school property and make arrests for weapons and trespass offenses on school grounds.
• SB 982 (Coleman) — Modernizes the sex offender registry by using federal Tier I, II, and III classifications. Prohibits registrants from changing their legal name and lists offenders under their biological sex.
• SB 1421 (Schroer) — Public safety package focused on unmanned aircraft (drones). Restricts drone use near critical infrastructure and large events, creates new offenses for masked intimidation and gift card fraud, increases fentanyl trafficking penalties, and creates automatic criminal record expungement for eligible offenses.
• HB 2885 (Hovis) — Directs all boat registration fees to the Water Patrol Division Fund. Requires anyone born on or after January 1, 2006 to carry a boating safety identification card to operate a vessel.
• HB 1696 (Christensen) — Updates Missouri's right of sepulcher law, which governs who has the right to decide how a deceased person's remains are handled.
• SB 903 (Henderson) — Expands the definition of critical infrastructure to include wired telecommunications networks. Creates a new offense for unauthorized possession of copper, fiber, and similar telecom materials.

Health Care, Pharmacy & Insurance

• HB 2372 (Peters) — Omnibus health care bill modifying multiple provisions related to health services, providers, and programs in Missouri.
• HB 2596 (McGaugh) — Expands access to self-administered hormonal contraceptives to a one-year supply. Updates rules for multiple-employer self-insured health plans and adjusts surplus account requirements.
• SB 878 (Fitzwater) — Modernizes pharmacy practice. Allows pharmacists to prescribe certain medical devices, dispense ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine without a prescription under set protocols, and protects discounts for 340B drug providers.
• SB 1019 (Crawford) — Modifies multiple health care provisions affecting how services are delivered and regulated.
• HB 2974 (Stinnett) — Allows out-of-state health care providers licensed in Missouri through reciprocity to provide telehealth services. Joins Missouri to interstate compacts for dietitians, athletic trainers, and physician assistants.
• HB 1827 (Violet) — Adds occupational therapists to the list of professionals who can sign disabled license plate and placard applications. Doubles the renewal period for windshield placards from four to eight years.

Children, Families & Vulnerable Persons

• HB 1840 (Gallick) — Creates Missouri's "Purple Alert" (RJ's Law) to help find missing persons with developmental disabilities. Also creates "Mason's Law" allowing drivers with communication-related disabilities to have a special designation linked to their license plate, and expands the Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
• HB 2292 (Jones) — Modifies abuse and neglect reporting laws and adds a new requirement to report suspected companion animal abuse.
• HB 1908 (Williams) — Allows a court to grant a divorce or legal separation even when one party is pregnant. Pregnancy alone can no longer block the entry of a dissolution judgment.
• SB 999 (Hudson) — Expanded protections for vulnerable persons. Creates the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, expands the Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review Board, updates assault and harassment offenses, and creates new offenses for cyberstalking and intimate-image abuse.
• SB 1135 (Henderson) — Creates "Bentley and Mason's Law." A driver convicted of DWI causing the death of a parent or guardian can be ordered by a court to pay child support to surviving children.
• HB 1839 (Gallick) — Requires commercial websites where at least one-third of content is sexual material harmful to minors to use a third-party age verification system to keep minors out.

Education & Schools

• HB 2061 (Hruza) — Requires public schools, charter schools, and public colleges to adopt policies defining and prohibiting antisemitism. Treats antisemitic conduct the same as race-based discrimination.
• HB 3279 (Shields) — Moves the Missouri Community Service Commission from the Department of Economic Development to the Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development.
• SB 863 (Bean) — Creates the Interscholastic Athletic Oversight Commission. The five-member commission, appointed by the Governor, will hear appeals of decisions made by statewide activities associations like MSHSAA, mostly involving athletic eligibility and transfers.
• SB 1002 (Schnelting) — Requires St. Charles County school board elections, tax levy votes, and bond elections to be held at the November general election. Allows candidates to list party affiliation on the ballot.
• HB 2896 (Brown) — Modifies provisions relating to the governing bodies of certain public institutions of higher education in Missouri.

Elections & Voting

• HB 1871 (McGaugh) — Wide-ranging elections bill. Designates August 12 as Election Worker Appreciation Day, requires recurring campaign contributions to use opt-in (not pre-checked) consent, expands what felons on probation can vote, and updates candidate filing deadlines and election notice requirements.
• HB 1940 (McGaugh) — Updates rules for publishing official notices in newspapers. Reduces the time a newspaper must have been published from three years to one year to qualify for printing legal notices, and changes election notice publication timing.
• SB 1119 (Trent) — Sets up procedures for the General Assembly to appoint commissioners if Missouri attends a constitutional convention called under Article V of the U.S. Constitution.

Real Estate, Housing & Property

•  HB 1870 (Roberts) — Updates Missouri's garnishment laws. Raises the dollar value of personal property that's protected from creditors (household goods, vehicles, jewelry, homestead) and sets new procedures for bank account garnishments.
• HB 2636 (Bromley) — Protects homeowners in real estate transactions. Requires real estate wholesalers to give written disclosure to property owners 14 days before contracting. Also creates the Missouri Residential Sale Leaseback Protection Act and the Uniform Mortgage Modification Act.
• SB 834 (Crawford) — Creates the Missouri Residential Sale Leaseback Protection Act, requiring buyers to provide written disclosures to sellers in sale-leaseback deals. Also creates the Uniform Mortgage Modification Act, clarifying the legal effect of modifying an existing mortgage.
• SB 973 (Trent) — Adds disclosure requirements for real estate wholesalers and creates the Missouri Residential Sale Leaseback Protection Act. Also updates rules for county land bank agencies and delinquent tax sales.

Business, Commerce & Licensing

• HB 2057 (Vernetti) — Authorizes the creation of entertainment districts in Osage Beach and Chesterfield where patrons can carry alcoholic drinks between licensed establishments within the district boundaries.
• HB 2423 (Oehlerking) — Restructures fees and licensing under the Division of Finance. Creates a new Consumer Licensing Fund and converts certain registrations (earned wage access, premium finance, small loans, credit service organizations) into licenses.
• HB 2508 (Brown) — Allows Secretary of State to issue certificates of good standing for LLCs and LLC series. Requires LLCs that own and rent property in large counties to file affidavits identifying a responsible person.
• HB 2586 (Casteel) — Lowers the minimum par value of credit union membership shares from $25 to $1. Allows credit union board members to participate in meetings electronically.
• HB 2819 (Shields) — Lets vendors round cash-only transaction totals to the nearest five cents. Does not affect non-cash payments.
• SB 907 (Hudson) — Creates the Act Against Abusive Website Access Litigation. Targets lawsuits filed mainly to extract settlements over website accessibility issues by giving defendants 90 days to correct alleged violations before being sued.
• SB 938 (Bernskoetter) — Increases the user fee collected by county Recorders of Deeds from $4 to $6 per recorded document. The increase funds the Missouri Land Survey Program.
• SB 1142 (Hudson) — Updates Missouri's limited liability company law. Allows series LLCs to obtain certificates of good standing and requires each series to be individually searchable on the Secretary of State's website.
• SB 1233 (Trent) — Wide-ranging professional licensing bill. Creates a two-year temporary license for workers from other states, creates a professional license (replacing registration) for interior designers, and updates rules for CPAs, dietitians, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, and others.
• HB 2366 (Vernetti) — Strengthens enforcement of laws against employing unauthorized aliens. Lets the Attorney General investigate alleged violations and seek monetary damages from employers who knowingly hire unauthorized workers.

Taxes, Tax Credits & Economic Development

• HB 1867 (Roberts) — Allows Joplin, with voter approval, to increase its transient guest (hotel/motel) tax from 5% to 6%. The extra revenue must fund new tourism-related capital projects.
• HB 3080 (Riggs) — Makes technical changes to Missouri's historic preservation tax credit, with an emergency clause making the changes retroactive to August 28, 2024.
• HB 3231 (Christ) — Creates the Missouri Innovation, Public Safety, and Accountability Act. Establishes Missouri Innovation Zones in eligible cities with tax incentives for capital investment, employer retention, office-to-residential conversion, and angel investment. Reauthorizes the Missouri Downtown Economic Stimulus Act.
• SB 913 (Gregory (Kurtis)) — Extends the sunset on nine tax credits from 2028 to 2033 (including wood energy, biodiesel, urban farms, and meat processing). Creates a new Railroad Infrastructure Tax Credit equal to 50% of qualified railroad expenditures.
• SB 1000 (Hudson) — Reinstates rules for the Division of Tourism Supplemental Revenue Fund, restoring how the fund is sourced and the marketing strategy review process by legislative committees.
• SB 1553 (Gregory (Kurtis)) — Creates the Missouri Defense and Energy Independence Act. Offers tax credits up to 25% for companies producing critical materials and pharmaceuticals in Missouri, plus a $10 million grant fund.
• SB 1576 (Fitzwater) — Creates the Missouri Ireland Trade Commission to study ways to expand trade, investment, and business exchanges between Missouri and Ireland.

State & Local Government

• HB 1825 (Busick) — Updates county government. Keeps certain fourth-class counties from automatically becoming third-class counties, removes prosecuting attorneys and sheriffs from county salary commissions in most counties, and raises statutory salaries for various county officials.
• HB 2180 (Griffith) — Allows the Department of Revenue and several other state agencies to send notices and documents by first-class mail or email instead of certified or registered mail.
• HB 2818 (Shields) — Updates annexation procedures for cities in St. Charles and Jefferson counties. Allows St. Joseph to annex its airport even though it's not contiguous to city limits.
• HB 2934 (Christ) — Restructures the St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority into the Regional Convention and Visitors Commission, expanding its powers including the ability to levy special assessments and sales taxes.
• SB 890 (Coleman) — Repeals or reassigns duties for several outdated administrative boards and commissions. Renames and moves the Division of Workforce Development to the Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development.
• SB 1470 (Bernskoetter) — Updates the duties of the Joint Committee on Legislative Research. Allows electronic distribution of laws, changes committee membership, and authorizes the State Auditor to assist with fiscal notes.
• SB 1572 (Henderson) — Modifies provisions relating to public employee retirement systems.

State Property Transfers

• HB 2108 (Griffith) — Authorizes the conveyance of state-owned property in Cole County, with certain land going to the City of Jefferson.
• SB 937 (Bernskoetter) — Authorizes the Governor to convey numerous pieces of state-owned property, including state schools, regional offices, and National Guard readiness centers across many counties.

Transportation & Vehicles

• HB 1786 (Voss) — Raises the threshold for Highway Patrol vehicle, watercraft, and trailer purchases requiring specific legislative appropriation from $100,000 to $500,000 per unit.
• SB 1408 (Burger) — Raises Missouri's maximum speed limit on rural interstates and freeways from 70 to 75 miles per hour.
• SB 1629 (Fitzwater) — Exempts storm water sewers from the requirement that new underground facilities be installed with a detectable underground location device.

Military & Veterans

• HB 2593 (Hardwick) — Comprehensive military affairs bill. Extends federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act protections to Missouri National Guard members on state active duty, creates a living organ donor leave program (MO GIVES), increases military leave for public employees, and creates new commemorative medals for Missouri veterans.

Environment, Energy & Natural Resources

• SB 914 (Gregory (Kurtis)) — Modernizes Missouri's sewage regulation. Replaces percolation tests with soil morphology evaluations for on-site sewage disposal system permits, and creates a registration program for on-site wastewater professionals.
• SB 953 (Bean) — Updates standards for the Missouri Clean Water Commission, modifies permitting requirements, and creates new water regulations for the Department of Natural Resources.
• SB 1033 (Bean) — Updates Missouri air quality regulation. Keeps certain Natural Resources Protection Fund balances from reverting to general revenue, exempts older farm-use vehicles from emissions inspections, and exempts smaller cotton gins from air dispersion modeling requirements.

Telecommunications & Infrastructure

• SB 959 (Roberts) — Establishes the Missouri GIS Advisory Council to support the state's geospatial data infrastructure. The Council is prohibited from collecting personally identifiable information.

Courts, Civil Law & Sovereign Immunity

• HB 2474 (Voss) — Modifies provisions governing design-build contracts in Missouri.
• SB 835 (Crawford) — Wide-ranging court procedures bill. Restricts assignment of insurance benefits in property damage claims, codifies three circuit judges in the 25th Judicial Circuit, updates the Statewide Court Automation Committee, and modifies attachment, execution, and garnishment procedures.
• SB 916 (Burger) — Modifies sovereign immunity rules. Creates a clear statutory cause of action for damages caused by MoDOT agents in motor vehicle operations and during MoDOT projects, while limiting the liability of private contractors and engineers.
• SB 1067 (Henderson) — Establishes the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act (often called an anti-SLAPP law). Provides a procedure to quickly dismiss lawsuits filed in retaliation against someone exercising free speech, press, assembly, or association rights.
• HB 2397 (Bromley) — Modifies requirements for the dissolution of a public water supply district.

Ambulance Districts & First Responders

• SB 975 (Black) — Updates ambulance district governance. Allows counties to choose between subdistrict-based or at-large board elections, simplifies district consolidation procedures, and lets first responder mental health programs satisfy the required check-in.

Foreign Law & International Affairs

• SB 977 (Schroer) — Establishes the "No Foreign Laws Act," which prohibits the application or enforcement of foreign laws in Missouri courts when those laws would violate fundamental rights guaranteed by the U.S. or Missouri Constitution. Also prohibits enforcement of mandates from international organizations.

State Designations & Memorial Honors

• HB 2576 (Black) — Creates dozens of new state designations including awareness days, weeks, and months (such as Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month and Frontotemporal Degeneration Awareness Week); names the smooth chanterelle the official state mushroom and Kansas City the official "Barbecue Capital"; and designates numerous memorial highways and bridges. Also designates the St. Louis Battlehawks as the official professional football team if the Chiefs leave Missouri.
• SB 1544 (Nurrenbern) — Creates additional state designations, including awareness days and weeks, official state designations (such as the city of Bland as the "Silver City of the Rock Island Trail"), and numerous memorial highways and bridges across Missouri.
• SCR 21 (Bernskoetter) — Encourages all Missouri citizens to engage in patriotic programs and events in observance of "Show-Me America 250," Missouri's contribution to the 250th anniversary of American independence.

Constitutional Amendments (Pending Voter Approval)

These resolutions place constitutional amendments on a future ballot for voter approval.

• HJR 173 (Davidson) — Constitutional amendment that, if approved by voters, requires the General Assembly to reduce and eventually eliminate Missouri's individual income tax. It allows expanding the sales tax to cover more goods and services to replace the revenue, but requires local governments that collect sales tax to offset 97% of any new revenue by reducing their property tax levies or other local tax rates.
• SJR 87 (Carter) — Constitutional amendment that, if approved by voters, makes the elected sheriff the chief law enforcement officer of each county. Sheriffs would serve four-year terms and could only be removed through a quo warranto petition by the Attorney General. Does not apply to St. Louis City, St. Louis County, or St. Charles County.
• SJR 95 (Schnelting) — Constitutional amendment that, if approved by voters, creates the "Show-Me Prosperity Fund" — a permanent state endowment invested in S&P 500 exchange-traded funds. Once investment earnings are large enough, the earnings would be used to eliminate state-imposed taxes.

State Budget & Appropriations (FY 2027)

The following 17 appropriations bills make up Missouri's FY 2027 state budget and supplemental funding. All are sponsored by Rep. Dirk Deaton, chair of the House Budget Committee.

• HB 2002 (Deaton) — Funds the State Board of Education and Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
• HB 2003 (Deaton) — Funds the Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development.
• HB 2004 (Deaton) — Funds the Department of Revenue and Department of Transportation.
• HB 2005 (Deaton) — Funds the Office of Administration, Department of Transportation, Department of Conservation, Department of Public Safety, and the Chief Executive's Office.
• HB 2006 (Deaton) — Funds the Department of Agriculture, Department of Natural Resources, and Department of Conservation.
• HB 2007 (Deaton) — Funds the Department of Economic Development, Department of Commerce and Insurance, and Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.
• HB 2008 (Deaton) — Funds the Department of Public Safety and Department of the National Guard.
• HB 2009 (Deaton) — Funds the Department of Corrections.
• HB 2010 (Deaton) — Funds the Department of Mental Health, Department of Health and Senior Services, and the Missouri Health Facilities Review Committee.
• HB 2011 (Deaton) — Funds the Department of Social Services.
• HB 2012 (Deaton) — Funds statewide elected officials, the Judiciary, the Office of the State Public Defender, and the General Assembly.
• HB 2013 (Deaton) — Funds real property leases and related services for state government.
• HB 2014 (Deaton) — Provides supplemental appropriations for the current fiscal year.
• HB 2017 (Deaton) — Funds capital improvement projects across state government.
• HB 2018 (Deaton) — Provides additional appropriations for various state departments and offices.
• HB 2019 (Deaton) — Provides additional appropriations for various state departments and offices.
• HB 2020 (Deaton) — Provides additional appropriations for various state departments and offices.

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