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Missouri House Begins Special Session to Redistrict Congressional District Lines and to Consider Initiative Petition Reform
Governor Kehoe has called a Second Special Session of the Missouri Legislature which began Wednesday, September 3rd in the Missouri House of Representatives.
This call of the Missouri Legislature will run from September 3 and will lead up to the regular scheduled Veto Session, which will begin Wednesday, September 10 at 12:00 Noon.
Hearings on HB 1 and HJR 3 began in the House on Thursday, September 4.
The Second Special Session is for the critical issues of Redistricting the 8 Congressional Districts and Initiative Petition Reform.
Redistricting Missouri’s 8 Congressional districts will allow Missourians to vote on who represents Missouri values in Washington, D.C.
This vote will take place in the regular 2026 election cycle.
For Missouri Right to Life the new Congressional map will give us the opportunity to work for Congressional candidates that will represent our pro-life values in Washington D.C.
Missouri is a pro-life state and we want Congressmen and women that will stand and vote for the protection of women, children and pre-born babies.
The district map is available here and puts Missourians first and is clearly more contiguous than our current map:
https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills254/maps/map.3344H.01I.pdf
Missouri Right to Life supports HB 1 and testified in support of the bill in the House Special Committee on Redistricting on Thursday, September 4, 2025.
Governor Kehoe has also called this Second Special Session of the Missouri Legislature to address the issue of Initiative Petition reform.
In past years, out of country donors have spent millions of dollars to influence Missouri voters with lies about what a particular ballot measure does.
An example of this is the pro-abortion Amendment 3, which passed by a slim margin of 1.6% and enshrined abortion on demand all 9 months of pregnancy with no protections in our Missouri Constitution.
Missouri Right to Life supports HCS HJR 3 to have more voices heard when our Constitution is going to be changed.
Missouri Right to Life testified in support of HCS HJR 3 in the House Elections Committee to put Initiative Petition reform on the ballot in the 2026 election cycle to let Missouri voters decide if they want to protect our Missouri Constitution from being changed with just a simple majority.
Both of these bills were voted out of Committee on Thursday.
They will move to the House floor for consideration and a vote on Monday, September 8th and then move to the Missouri Senate for consideration after the House floor vote.
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