Missouri Bills

Grants use of the House Chamber to multiple schools located within Missouri House District 68 on April 20, 2026, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. for presentation of Glory Awards

Proposes a constitutional amendment that modifies term limits for members of the general assembly

Proposes a constitutional amendment that modifies term limits for members of the general assembly

Establishes provisions providing teachers with immunity if the teacher intervenes in incidents involving violence

Modifies the statute of limitations for personal injury claims from 5 years to 2 years

Modifies the statute of limitations for personal injury claims and childhood sexual abuse, injury, or illness

Allows electrical corporations to charge for services based on the costs of certain construction work in progress

Lowers the statute of limitations for certain actions

SB 1194 - This act repeals provisions relating to annual report cards for elementary and secondary schools and establishes new accountability measures for all public schools, charter schools, school districts, and the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). The State Board of Education may assign duties specified in the act to DESE or contract with a third party under state law. By July 15 of each year, the State Board of Education shall provide a confidential version of the school accountability report cards to each school district, public school, and charter school. Within 36 hours of the delivery of the embargoed report cards, the report cards shall be published on the DESE website in a clear and easily accessible location, and by August 15 of each year, the report cards shall be published in a clear and easily accessible location on each school or district website. The State Board of Education shall assign each school district, public school, and charter school a letter grade rating of A-F based on a 0-100 scale, where an "A" rating represents excellent student outcomes, a "B" rating represents more than satisfactory outcomes, a "C" rating represents satisfactory outcomes, a "D" rating represents less than satisfactory outcomes, and an "F" rating represents a failure to produce adequate outcomes. Each public school and public charter school shall earn a school rating and may be eligible to earn a performance-based funding award based upon student performance on the state-mandated annual summative assessments. A school district, public school, or charter school that does not test at least 95% of its students in the annual assessments shall have its rating lowered by one level. The "Show Me Success Program" is created to provide financial awards to schools that experience high student performance. The program includes a "Success Ready Graduate" measure for high schools. If funds are available, public schools and charter schools shall receive $100 per student if the school is in the top 5% of student performance statewide under criteria established by the State Board of Education. A school may earn $50 per student if the school is in the top 10% but below the top 5% of student performance statewide. These rewards shall begin after the 2026-27 state-mandated annual summative assessment and shall be based on the results of such assessment. Funds shall be used for nonrecurring bonuses to school faculty and classroom staff. DESE shall use a criteria-referenced growth measure, called "growth to proficiency", in addition to the existing normative value-added growth measure. Growth to proficiency shall evaluate for each student with two consecutive years of Missouri Assessment Program performance levels whether that student has made sufficient academic progress to put such student on a trajectory to reach grade-level proficiency within three years or by 10th grade, whichever comes first. The act describes the factors that shall be used in determining a school's or a school district's A-F rating. These factors include students' academic achievement status, academic growth, and, for high schools, the four-year graduation rate and a success ready graduate measure to be calculated by DESE based upon factors including students' achievement of Advanced Placement scores of 3 or higher, International Baccalaureate scores of 4 or higher, dual enrollment course completions with a "C" grade or higher, and career and technical education certificates, as provided in the act. For schools serving students in kindergarten through 8th grade, academic achievement level shall represent 40% of the rating, value-added growth shall represent 30% of the rating, and growth to proficiency shall represent 30% of the rating. For high schools, academic achievement level shall represent 25% of the rating, value-added growth shall represent 25% of the rating, growth to proficiency shall represent 25% of the rating, the success ready graduate measure shall represent 15% of the rating, and the student four-year graduation rate shall represent 10% percent of the rating. School districts, public schools, and charter schools shall also report, for high schools, the number of graduates who, within six months of graduation, attend postsecondary education or training programs, serve in the military or in national or community service, or are employed in a living-wage career as determined by a governmental agency or non-governmental organization with expertise in living-wage calculation. The State Board of Education shall additionally develop an annual accountability report card for DESE for the purpose of providing information about DESE's performance in supporting districts and schools in producing positive outcomes for students. This report card shall consider factors specified in the act, such as the school and district ratings, student proficiency on the statewide assessments, and an anonymous annual survey of all leaders of Missouri local educational agencies regarding their satisfaction with DESE's efficacy and timeliness of support and communication. The A-F grading scale for schools shall automatically increase to ensure rigor in the calculation such that when success is achieved, the following school year, expectations are raised so performance does not stagnate. Specifically, when 65% percent of schools earn an A or a B, the following school year, the school grading scale shall increase by five percentage points to earn an A, B, C, and D. OLIVIA SHANNON

Establishes the "Success for Homeless and Foster Youth in Higher Education Act"

Establishes the "Jerrad Bennett Memorial Bridge" in Howell County

SB 1088 - This act modifies the definition of "residential property" for the purposes of the taxation of real property by providing that such definition shall include single family homes that are owned by a sole proprietor, individual, partnership, or limited liability company and leased, in whole or in part, for a term of less than thirty consecutive days. This act is identical to SCS/HB 1086 (2025) and is substantially similar to SB 699 (2025) and SB 784 (2025), and to a provision in HB 660 (2025). JOSH NORBERG

Establishes a registry of persistent domestic violence offenders

Establishes a registry of persistent domestic violence offenders within the department of public safety

Limits the use of technology for student learning practices in elementary schools

Modifies provisions governing the assessment and taxation of property

Creates the telemarketing no-call list to protect businesses and residents from unwanted telephone solicitation including via call spoofing

Precludes call spoofing to business subscribers and establishes the "Caller ID Anti-Spoofing Act"

Precludes call spoofing to business subscribers and establishes the "Caller ID Anti-Spoofing Act"

Proposes a constitutional amendment modifying provisions relating to taxation of real property

Establishes provisions relating to civil liability for publishing or distributing material harmful to minors on the internet

Establishes provisions relating to civil liability for publishing or distributing material harmful to minors on the internet

Modifies provisions relating to good time credit

Provides federal Servicemember Civil Relief Act (SCRA) protections to National Guard members called to state duty

Modifies provisions relating to credit earned by offenders committed to the department of corrections

Establishes provisions relating to summer and day camps

Creates provisions relating to expungement

Provides federal Servicemember Civil Relief Act (SCRA) protections to National Guard members called to state duty

Modifies provisions relating to property tax assessments of certain stationary property

Establishes provisions relating to allergy prevention and responses in child care facilities

Creates provisions relating to cost-sharing under health benefit plans

Establishes provisions relating to allergy prevention and responses in child care facilities

Modifies provisions governing contributions to qualified tuition programs

Establishes antibullying requirements for school districts

Creates provisions relating to cost-sharing under health benefit plans

Grants use of the House Chamber to Riverbend Middle School, St. Clair Junior High School, Union Middle School, and Lonedell R-XIV School on April 17, 2026, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. for presentation of Glory Awards

Grants use of the House Chamber to multiple schools in Kansas City on April 17, 2026, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. for presentation of Glory Awards

Grants the use of the House Chamber to the YMCA Youth in Government State Conventions on November 13-14, 2026, November 20-21, 2026, and December 4-5, 2026

Reserves the House Chamber for the Association of Electric Cooperatives on July 16, 2026, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Restores voting rights to individuals on probation and parole

Modifies provisions for voter qualifications

Provides that a grandparent shall be given priority if it is in the best interest of the child to be placed in the custody of a third party

SB 906 - Current law authorizes students who reside in an unaccredited school district to transfer to an accredited school district in the same or an adjoining county under certain conditions. This act repeals and modifies provisions limiting these transfers to students in unaccredited school districts. Under the act, any student may transfer to another public school, including transfers from a student's district of residence, or "sending district", to a public school in a nonresident district, or "receiving district", beginning in the 2027-28 school year and in all subsequent school years. The school board of each school district shall determine the district's capacity to accept student transfers in each grade level and in each school in the district. Each school board shall provide this information to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) beginning on July 15, 2027, and by the first day of each month thereafter. DESE shall publish and update the capacity of each district's grade levels and schools on its website. (Section 167.895) Parents of students who wish to transfer shall notify DESE by August 1, 2027, and by the first day of each month thereafter, and DESE shall assign students to a receiving district or charter school as provided in the act. A receiving district shall accept all students who apply and are assigned to the district, so long as there is capacity for each student. School board policies shall not discriminate against any transfer student on the basis of his or her residential address, academic performance, athletic ability, disability, race, ethnicity, sex, or free and reduced price lunch status. (Sections 167.895 and 167.898) The act repeals provisions that require sending districts to make tuition payments to receiving districts. Instead, for purposes of calculating state and federal aid, each transfer student shall be counted as a resident of the receiving district in which the student is enrolled. Tuition shall not be charged to any student or to his or her parent or legal guardian. (Sections 160.415, 162.081, 167.132, 167.151, and 167.895) DESE shall designate at least one receiving district or charter school to which each sending district shall provide transportation. A sending district shall be required to provide transportation only to the school district or charter school designated by DESE. (Section 167.241) If the receiving district is part of a special school district, the sending district shall contract with the special school district for the entirety of the costs to provide special education and related services, excluding transportation. The special school district may contract with a sending district for transportation, or the sending district may provide transportation on its own. (Section 167.895) The act outlines school districts' responsibilities for the provision of special education and related services to students with disabilities. A special school district shall continue to provide special education and related services, excluding transportation, to students with disabilities who transfer to another school within the special school district. If the sending district is a metropolitan school district, it shall remain responsible for providing special education and related services, including transportation, to students with disabilities who transfer to a receiving district. A special school district in an adjoining county to a metropolitan school district may contract with the metropolitan school district for the reimbursement of special education and related services provided by the special school district for transfer students. A receiving district that is not part of a special school district shall not be responsible for providing transportation to transfer students, regardless of whether transportation is identified as a related service within a student's individualized education program. A sending district may contract with a receiving district that is not part of a special school district for transportation of students with disabilities. A seven-director or urban school district may contract with a receiving district that is not part of a special school district in the same or an adjoining county for the reimbursement of special education and related services provided by the receiving district. (Section 167.895) This act is identical to SB 971 (2026) and similar to SCS/SBs 215 & 70 (2025). OLIVIA SHANNON

SB 1111 - Current bankruptcy law provides for a homestead exemption provided the value of the homestead does not exceed $15,000. This act increases the value to $50,000. This act is identical to HB 2200 (2026). KATIE O'BRIEN

Modifies provisions relating to the establishment of certain entertainment districts

Proposes a constitutional amendment relating to property tax

Modifies provisions relating to criminal offenses, including minimum prison terms and conditional release

Modifies provisions relating to epinephrine delivery devices

Modifies provisions relating to epinephrine delivery devices

Modifies provisions relating to epinephrine delivery devices

Modifies and establishes provisions relating to sexual offenses

Establishes the Media Literacy and Critical Thinking Act

Creates provisions that allow for transfer of utility service to a spouse of the account holder without additional fees under certain circumstances

Requires school districts to provide instruction in cursive writing

SR 640 - This resolution modifies Senate Rule 52 to require Senate bills with House amendments and conference committee substitutes to lie on the table for one day before being acted upon by the Senate. The resolution further modifies Senate Rule 84 to provide that a motion for the previous question shall be admitted upon the written demand of 18, rather than 10, senators. This resolution is similar to SR 567 (2026). JIM ERTLE

Provides procedures for making real property available for school purposes to charter schools and school districts

Prohibits the act of registering a motor vehicle in another state with the intent to circumvent the titling and registration requirements of this state

Prohibits the act of registering a motor vehicle in another state with the intent to circumvent the titling and registration requirements of this state

Creates provisions relating to insurance coverage of alternatives to opioid drugs

Creates provisions relating to insurance coverage of alternatives to opioid drugs