Missouri Bills

Modifies provisions governing annexation of territory outside the boundaries of a city

Establishes the "Uniform Mortgage Modification Act"

Modifies provisions relating to health benefit plans

Modifies various provisions relating to military affairs

Revises the par value of membership shares and allows for participation in board meetings by telephone or electronic means

Creates several new state designations

Allows for a search of the series LLC in the SoS Business Entity website and to obtain a certificate of good standing

Modifies provisions governing design-build contracts

Modifies requirements for a dissolution of a public water supply district

Modifies provisions relating to health care

Modifies provisions relating to employment of unauthorized aliens

Modifies provisions relating to abuse and neglect reporting, including a requirement to report companion animal abuse

Authorizes the conveyance of certain state property in Cole County

Modifies provisions relating to the establishment of certain entertainment districts

Changes the law regarding advertisements and orders of publication in newspapers

Modifies provisions relating to elections

Authorizes Joplin to increase a transient guest tax for tourism to no more than six percent upon a vote of the people

Establishes an alert system to assist in the location of missing persons with developmental disabilities

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

Adds licensed occupational therapists to the definition of "other authorized health care practitioner" for purposes of physician's statements required for disabled license plates and placards

Removes the prosecuting attorney and the sheriff from the county salary commission

Modifies provisions relating to driving while intoxicated

Modifies provisions relating to the right of sepulcher

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SR 984 - This resolution modifies Senate Rule 96 to provide that, no later than January 1, 2027, the Senate shall provide an audio and video feed of its proceedings on the website of the Senate. JIM ERTLE

SR 567 - 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. JIM ERTLE

SR 566 - This resolution modifies Senate Rules 84 and 85 to provide that at least two-thirds of the Senators, rather than a majority, must sustain a motion for the previous question. JIM ERTLE

SR 565 - This resolution modifies Senate Rules 28 and 47 regarding the fiscal review required for senate and house bills before action can occur on such bills in various stages of the legislative process. JIM ERTLE

SJR 97 - This proposed constitutional amendment, if approved by the voters, modifies term limits for members of the General Assembly. Beginning December 3, 2026, no one shall be elected to serve more than sixteen years total in both houses of the General Assembly. Service in the General Assembly resulting from an election prior to December 3, 2026, shall be counted. This proposed constitutional amendment is similar to HJR 2 (2025). JIM ERTLE

SS/SCS/SJR 111 - Current constitutional provisions require taxing jurisdictions to reduce property tax levies when the total assessed value of property in the taxing jurisdiction increases by more than the percent increase in inflation, with an exception made for levies imposed for the payment of principal and interest on bonds or other indebtedness. This constitutional amendment, if approved by the voters, removes the exemption for debt service levies. The amendment also provides that, beginning January 1 following the effective date of the amendment, taxing jurisdictions shall calculate levies for each subclass of real property, and shall reduce the levy for any such class if the assessed valuation for such class increases over the previous year, as provided in the amendment. Additionally, this amendment requires the value of new construction and improvements to be included in the calculation of total assessed valuation for the purpose of calculating property tax levies. (Section 22) This amendment is substantially similar to HJR 148 (2026). JOSH NORBERG

SCS/SB 998 - This act creates, repeals, and modifies provisions of the Missouri Empowerment Scholarship Accounts Program. The act changes the definition of "illegal alien" to "legal resident" as set forth under federal law. The act modifies the definition of "qualified student" by removing the requirement for a qualified student to have attended a public school during the previous 12 months, as well as removing requirements relating to students' kindergarten eligibility and siblings who participate in the program. Such definition is further modified by adding dyslexia and disability diagnoses to requirements concerning individualized education plans. This provision is similar to a provision in SS/HCS/HBs 2097 & 1905 (2026). (Section 166.700) The act provides that an organization representing a group of parents of qualified students may intervene on behalf of such parents as a defendant in any action in which any provision of state law, the Missouri Constitution, or a state regulation involving the program is at issue. An organization that intervenes as provided in the act shall have the right to file such pleading necessary on behalf of such parents. (Section 166.719) Finally, except as specifically provided in state law, the act prohibits the creation or enforcement of any rule, regulation, or other requirement that conditions a qualified school's participation in the program on accreditation or compliance with any other requirement. Any rule, regulation, or other requirement that violates this provision is void and shall have no force or effect. (Section 166.720) OLIVIA SHANNON

SS/SB 996 - This act modifies provisions relating to workers' compensation. CHANGES OF ATTORNEYS IN WORKERS' COMPENSATION CASES (Sections 287.200 and 287.470) The act permits the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission to change the name, information, or fee arrangement of the attorney or law firm representing a claimant upon the filing of a written agreement, signed by both the claimant and his or her attorney and the new attorney, with the Commission. QUALIFICATIONS, COMPLAINTS, DISCIPLINE, AND REMOVAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES (Sections 287.610 and 621.045) The act provides that all administrative law judges (ALJs) shall retire from being an ALJ at 70 years old. Furthermore, ALJs are exempted from the employee at-will doctrine. Current law requires that a retention vote be taken by the Administrative Law Judge Review Committee with respect to each workers' compensation ALJ every twelve years. This act provides that such retention vote shall occur, beginning August 28, 2026, every four years and any ALJ who receives a vote not in favor of retention by a majority of the Committee shall be immediately terminated as an ALJ. This acts also repeals provisions of current law relating to performance audits of ALJs and recommendations of confidence and no confidence. The act permits the Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation to file a complaint with the Administrative Hearing Commission (AHC) seeking to remove an ALJ from office for one or any combination of the following causes: • The ALJ has committed any felony or misdemeanor, regardless of whether a criminal charge has been filed; • The ALJ has been convicted, or has entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere in a criminal prosecution under the laws of any state, the United States, or of any country, regardless of whether sentence is imposed; • The ALJ is guilty of misconduct, habitual intoxication, willful neglect of duty, corruption in office, or incompetency; or • The ALJ has committed any act that involves moral turpitude or oppression in office. Prior to filing a complaint, the Director shall notify the ALJ in writing of the reasons for the complaint. Special provisions are included if the reason for the complaint is willful neglect of duty or incompetency. Upon a finding by the AHC that the grounds for disciplinary action are met, the Director may, singly or in combination, issue the disciplinary actions against the ALJ, as provided in the act, including removal or suspension from office. Upon a finding that there are no grounds for disciplinary action, the ALJ shall immediately resume duties and shall receive any attorney's fees due under current law. An ALJ may be suspended without pay, without notice, at the discretion of the Director if: • The ALJ commits a crime for which the ALJ is being held without bond for a period of more than 14 days; • The ALJ's license to practice law has been suspended or revoked; or • A declaration of incapacity by a court of competent jurisdiction has been made with respect to the ALJ. PAYMENT AND RETIREMENT BENEFITS OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES (Sections 287.615, 287.812, and 287.835) The act provides that the compensation for ALJs and chief administrative law judges shall be determined solely by the rate outlined in law and shall not increase when pay raises for executive employees are appropriated. The salary premium for chief ALJs is increased from $5,000 to $10,000. The act furthermore repeals reference to the position of Chief Legal Counsel. The act repeals a prohibition on the payment of any retirement benefits under workers' compensation law to any administrative law judge who has been removed from office by impeachment or for misconduct, or to any person who has been disbarred from the practice of law, or to the beneficiary of any such persons. These provisions are substantially similar to SB 667 (2025), HCS/HB 83 (2025), HCS/HB 123 (2025), SCS/HCS/HB 176 (2025), SCS/HCS/HB 615 (2025), SCS/SB 1390 (2024) and certain provisions in SCS/HCS/HB 2064 & HCS#2/HB 1886 (2024) and similar to HB 2194 (2024). REMOTE HEARINGS (Section 287.640) This act allows the Division of Workers' Compensation or any administrative law judge acting through the Division to hold any hearing by electronic means, allowing the parties, attorneys, and judges to be remote. SURCHARGE RATES (Section 287.690) Current law allows the Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation to impose taxes or surcharges for different purposes relating to the administration of workers' compensation, with such tax rate being rounded up to the nearest one-half of a percentage point. This act requires the tax or surcharge rates to instead be rounded up to the nearest one-tenth of a percentage point. This provision is identical to SB 932 (2026). SCOTT SVAGERA

CCS/HCS/SB 994 - This act modifies provisions relating to taxation. TAX CREDITS This act repeals several expired tax credits, including: 1) Distressed Areas Land Assemblage Tax Credit (Section 99.1205); 2) Charcoal Producers Tax Credit (Section 135.313); 3) Missouri Certified Capital Company Law (Section 135.500 to 135.529); 4) Tax credit for relocating business to distressed communities (Section 135.535); 5) Tax credit for investing in the transportation development of distressed communities (Section 135.545 and 135.546); 6) Qualified Beef Tax Credit (Section 135.679); 7) Qualified Equity Investment Tax Credit (Section 135.680 and 135.682); 8) Grape and Wine Producers Tax Credit (Section 135.700); 9) Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property and Electric Vehicle Recharging Property Tax Credit (Section 135.710); 10) Small Business Guaranty Fees Tax Credit (Section 135.766); 11) Enhanced Enterprise Zones Program (Section 135.950 to 135.973); 12) Unmet Health, Hunger, and Hygiene Needs of Children in School Tax Credit (Section 135.1125); 13) Higher Education Scholarship Donation Program (Section 173.196); 14) Tax Credit for purchasing dry fire hydrants or providing water storage for dry fire hydrants (Section 320.093); 15) Contributions to Innovation Centers Tax Credit (Section 348.300 to 348.318); 16) Missouri New Enterprise Creation Act (Section 620.635 to 620.653); 17) Missouri Quality Jobs Act (Section 620.1875 to 620.1890); and the 18) Innovation Campus Tax Credit (Section 620.2600). The act also makes several corresponding technical corrections to other tax credits in current law. These provisions are identical to HB 3329 (2026) and to provisions in SB 1188 (2026), and are substantially similar to HCS/HB 3092 (2026) and to provisions in HCS/SS/SB 889 (2026). DONATED FOOD TAX CREDIT Current law authorizes a tax credit for donations of cash or food made to certain organizations, with such credit scheduled to sunset on December 31, 2026. This act extends the sunset date to December 31, 2032. (Section 135.647) This provision is similar to SB 1082 (2026), HCS/HBs 2461, 2457 & 1782 (2026), and to a provision in SCS/SB 1547 (2026). MILITARY INCOME TAX DEDUCTION Current law authorizes an income tax deduction for income received for military service while the taxpayer serves in a combat zone. For all tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, this act modifies such deduction to apply to all military income, as defined in the act, regardless of duty status or filing status. (Section 143.121) This provision has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027. These provisions are identical to HB 3294 (2026). BEGINNING FARMER INCOME TAX DEDUCTION Current law authorizes an income tax deduction for certain income received for the sale or lease of farmland to beginning farmers. This act adds a definition of "taxpayer" to such deduction. (Section 143.121) This provision is substantially similar to SCS/SB 1291 (2026), HB 3324 (2026), SB 682 (2025), and HB 1042 (2025), and to a provision in HCS/SS/SB 67 (2025), HCS/HB 828 (2025), and HCS/SS/SCS/SB 466 (2025). This provision has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027. TAX RETURNS Current law provides that the date for filing income tax returns shall be the fifteenth day of the fourth month following the close of the taxpayer's taxable year. This act provides that such date shall be the date prescribed for the filing of federal tax returns. (Section 143.511) This provision is substantially similar to a provision in HCS/SS/SB 67 (2025), HCS/SS/SCS/SB 466 (2025), and HCS/HB 828 (2025). Current law requires withholding tax returns to be submitted electronically by employers with at least two hundred fifty employees. Beginning January 1, 2027, this act requires such electronic returns for employers with at least ten employees. (Section 143.591) This provision is identical to HB 1919 (2026) and is substantially similar to SB 1429 (2026). Current law requires a taxpayer to indicate on the taxpayer's return the school district in which the taxpayer is a resident. This act repeals such provision and instead requires the Department of Revenue to submit an annual report to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education including the average Missouri adjusted gross income per return for the state, as well as the average Missouri adjusted gross income per return for each school district in the state. (Section 143.998) TAX DEFICIENCIES This act provides that if a taxpayer has a state income tax balance due resulting from the full or partial denial of a tax credit, the taxpayer shall not be held liable for any addition to tax, penalty, or interest on such amount of income tax due if the reason for the denial of a tax credit was the cumulative maximum amount of allowable tax credits being exceeded for the tax year, if the balance due is paid or payment arrangements have been made within sixty days of receiving notice of the balance due, and the addition to tax or penalty is not due to fraud or fraudulent intent. (Section 143.512) This provision is substantially similar to SB 1203 (2026) and HB 1771 (2026), and to a provision in HB 2754 (2026), HCS/SS/SB 67 (2025), HCS/SS/SCS/SB 466 (2025), and HCS/HB 828 (2025). This act provides that a taxpayer that has paid a deficiency and any interest, additions to tax, or penalties attributable to such deficiency that is subsequently found to be erroneous, regardless of whether such taxpayer has timely filed a protest with the Director of Revenue, shall be entitled to a refund in the amount of the deficiency and any interest, additions to tax, or penalties attributable to such deficiency that were paid by the taxpayer. Such refund shall be paid as provided in current law. (Section 143.621) This provision is identical to SB 1377 (2026). SEVERABILITY This act contains a severability clause. JOSH NORBERG

SS/SCS/SBs 984 & 968 - This act modifies provisions relating to pharmacy benefit managers. This act adds definitions for the terms "audit" and "entity" for the purposes of audits of licensed pharmacies. Current law requires a one week notice for any on-site audit. This act increases such notice to fourteen days and requires the notice to specify specific prescriptions to be audited. A pharmacy shall have the right to submit amended claims within thirty days of the discovery of an error. Audits shall be limited to forty unique prescriptions, with a maximum of two hundred separately adjudicated claims, that are randomly selected, and the act provides that recoupment shall only occur following the correction of a claim, as described in the act. No audit shall occur during the first five business days, rather than the first three, of any month. An entity shall not perform more than two audits of a pharmacy in a calendar year, unless fraud is suspected. (Section 338.600) This act modifies the definitions of "health carrier" and "pharmacy benefits manager" and adds definitions for "contracted pharmacy", "pharmacy benefits manager affiliate", for the purposes of regulating costs charged to covered persons for prescription drugs. Additionally, PBMs are prohibited from including a provision in a contract that requires payment for a prescription drug that exceeds the lesser of either the copayment amount or the amount the person would pay if they paid in cash. This act provides that the price shall also not exceed the contracted rate the pharmacy would be reimbursed for the drug. (Section 376.387) This act modifies several definitions and adds new definitions for the purpose of regulating contracts between pharmacy benefits managers and pharmacies. The act also adds several provisions relating to contracts between PBMs and pharmacies, including providing plan sponsors with pharmacy claims data, submitting documentation of any benefit design that encourages or requires the use of affiliated pharmacies, and authorizing the Department of Commerce and Insurance to conduct audits of PBMs. (Section 376.387) This act requires the Department of Commerce and Insurance to establish a critical access care pharmacy program to ensure the sustainability of critical access care pharmacies in the state. (Section 376.394) Finally, this act requires health benefit plans to comply with the federal H.R. 7148, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, by September 1, 2028. The Department of Commerce and Insurance have the authority to enforce this act. (Section 376.399) TAYLOR MIDDLETON

SCS/SBs 971 & 906 - This act establishes the "Public School Open Enrollment Act" to enable students to transfer from their charter school or resident school district ("resident local education agency" or "LEA") to a nonresident LEA. (Section 167.1200) No student shall be enrolled under the Public School Open Enrollment Act before July 1, 2028. (Section 167.1230) TRANSFER POLICY AND PARTICIPATION (Section 167.1205) Any student in kindergarten to grade 12 may attend school in a nonresident LEA participating in the open enrollment program. Before November 1st of each year, each charter school or school district, defined as a "local education agency" or "LEA", shall adopt a resolution stating whether the LEA intends to participate in the program by receiving transferring students during the subsequent school year. LEAs may restrict the number of students who may transfer to a nonresident LEA to 3% of the previous school year's enrollment. After the 2028-29 school year, an LEA's maximum number of students who may transfer to a nonresident LEA shall increase by 1% for every two consecutive school years that the LEA is at the transfer maximum, up to a potential maximum of 5% of the previous school year's enrollment. For purposes of calculating the transfer maximum, a transferring student shall be counted as enrolled in the resident LEA if, in the school year before the year of transfer, the student was enrolled in a school other than a public school, attended an FPE school, as such term is defined in current law, or moved to Missouri from another state and has not yet enrolled in school. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) shall develop and maintain an online resource that allows a nonresident LEA to ensure that such LEA does not accept a transfer application if doing so would cause the transferring student's resident LEA to exceed the transfer maximum established in the act. The online resource shall additionally provide a searchable public database of the number of transfers offered in each participating LEA, listing allowable transfers for each building, grade level, classroom, and program in an LEA. LEAs shall not be required to add teachers, staff, or classrooms to accommodate transfer applicants. DESE or an entity skilled in policy development shall develop a model open enrollment transfer policy as outlined in the act, including specific standards for acceptance and rejection of transfer applications. All LEAs that participate in open enrollment shall adopt a policy that defines the term "insufficient classroom space," taking into account future population growth and establishing standards for acceptance and rejection of transfer applications. The standards for acceptance and rejection of transfer applications may include the capacity of the school, the availability of classroom space, and any class-size limitation. An LEA may use projections to determine class-size limitations. The standards shall include a statement that priority shall be given to any applicant who has a sibling who is already enrolled in the nonresident LEA. The standards shall not include a consideration of an applicant's academic achievement, athletic ability, disabilities, English proficiency level, or previous disciplinary proceedings, except that any suspension or expulsion from another LEA shall be included. LEAs receiving transferring students shall not discriminate on the basis of gender, national origin, race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, disability, or whether the student is homeless or a migrant. A nonresident LEA shall accept credits toward graduation that were awarded by another LEA and award a diploma to a transferring student if the student meets the nonresident LEA's graduation requirements. The governing body of each LEA shall cause certain information about the open enrollment program, such as application deadlines and procedures, to be posted on the LEA's website and in the student handbook. Students who wish to attend a nonresident LEA that has an academic or competitive entrance process shall furnish proof that they meet the admission requirements of the nonresident LEA. A nonresident LEA may deny a transfer to a student who, in the most recent school year, has been suspended from school two or more times or who has been suspended or expelled for an act of school violence, as described in the act. A student whose transfer is initially precluded under this provision may, upon the approval of the nonresident LEA, be permitted to transfer as a probationary student, subject to no further disruptive behavior. A student who is denied a transfer due to disciplinary issues has the right to an in-person meeting with the nonresident LEA's superintendent, as provided in the act. LEAs shall develop common standards for determining disruptive behavior that shall include criteria established in current law. High school students who participate in open enrollment shall be ineligible to participate in interscholastic athletics during the first 365 days of enrollment in a nonresident LEA, with exceptions outlined in the act. APPLYING FOR TRANSFER (Section 167.1210) A student who applies for a transfer under the act may accept only one transfer per school year. A student who accepts such a transfer shall commit to attend and take all courses through the nonresident LEA for at least two school years. The student may meet with the superintendent of the nonresident LEA to be released from such commitment if extenuating circumstances arise or if the student's resident LEA changes. A transferring student shall not enroll as a full-time student in the Missouri Course Access and Virtual School Program. A student who transfers to a nonresident LEA and then returns to the resident LEA shall complete a full semester in the resident LEA before applying for another transfer. A transferring student with a school attendance rate below 80% for any quarter shall be notified of such rate, and if such student's attendance rate in the subsequent quarter does not reach at least 90%, the student's transfer and eligibility to attend the nonresident LEA may be voided by the LEA. A student who transfers to a nonresident LEA may complete all remaining school years in the nonresident LEA without reapplying each year. Any sibling of a student enrolled in a nonresident LEA may enroll in the same nonresident LEA if the LEA has the capacity and the sibling has no discipline issues, as provided in the act. The transferring student or the student's parent is responsible for the transportation of the student to and from the boundaries of the nonresident LEA in which the student is enrolled. Nonresident LEAs shall provide transportation within the boundaries of the LEA, but charter schools that do not currently provide transportation services are exempt from this requirement. Transportation costs shall included in the nonresident LEA's calculation for transportation reimbursement under current law. For the purposes of determining federal and state aid, a student who transfers to a nonresident school district LEA shall be counted as a resident of the nonresident LEA. For a student transferring to a nonresident charter school LEA, state aid for such student shall be determined by multiplying the weighted average daily attendance of such transferring student by the state adequacy target and multiplying this product by the dollar-value modifier, as the terms "weighted average daily attendance", "state adequacy target", and "dollar-value modifier" are defined in current law, and certain provisions of state law providing for state aid payments to charter schools shall not apply to such calculation. For purposes of payment to special school districts, a transferring student receiving services from a special school district shall be counted as a resident pupil of the nonresident LEA in which the student is enrolled. If a student receives 50% or more of such student's instruction from the special school district, the special school district shall receive all funding which would otherwise be paid to the nonresident LEA for such student. The provisions of the act shall not be construed to relieve any resident LEA of its responsibility to pay toward the cost of the education of children who receive special educational services or attend the Missouri Schools for the Severely Disabled, as provided in current law. PARENT PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE FUND (Sections 167.1211 and 167.1212) The act establishes the "Parent Public School Choice Fund". Appropriations to the fund shall be used to supplement state aid payments to LEAs that participate in the open enrollment program and reimburse nonresident LEAs for the costs of providing special educational services for students with an IEP, as provided in the act. DESE shall annually evaluate the availability and use of moneys from the fund and, if necessary, request additional funds by a specific line item appropriation as part of the legislative budget process. NUMBER OF TRANSFER STUDENTS (Section 167.1215) Before November 1st annually, each LEA shall publish and notify DESE of the number of transfer students the LEA is willing to receive for the following school year, delineated by building, grade, classroom, or program, if such criteria for acceptance have been set by the LEA. An LEA shall not be required to accept any transfer students above this published number. A special school district shall consult with each partner school district and, before November 1st annually, shall notify DESE of the number of likely available spots for special education services at each partner school district, as provided in the act. The online resource created by DESE shall include a waiting list for applications to nonresident LEAs. The online resource shall notify each applicant that the applicant's transfer application may be subject to placement on such waiting list if the number of transfer applications exceeds the number of available transfers. The act sets forth a priority order for acceptance of applications from the waiting list. A parent of a student on the waiting list shall be informed by DESE of the details of the operation of the list and whether the parent will be required to refile an application for open enrollment in order to remain on the waiting list. APPLICATION PROCESS (Section 167.1220) The parent of a student seeking a transfer shall submit an application to DESE between November 15th and January 1st of the school year before the school year in which the student seeks to begin the fall semester, as provided in the act. No more than five transfer applications per school year shall be submitted for any student. Upon receiving an application, DESE shall assign a unique identifying number to the application. On or before January 15th, DESE shall conduct a lottery of eligible applications to determine which student transfers DESE will approve for submission to the nonresident LEAs, subject to conditions set forth in the act, and shall also notify each nonresident LEA of applications that DESE has approved for transfer. The governing body of the nonresident LEA shall request from all schools attended by the student within the last 12 months certain records relating to the transfer, including special education records, discipline records, and records of behavioral risk assessments. An LEA that receives such a request for records shall respond to the request within five business days. Any official to whom such information is disclosed shall comply with the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Nonresident LEAs shall review and make a determination on transfer applications received from DESE within 10 business days, as provided in the act. If a nonresident LEA rejects an application, DESE shall submit the next application on the waiting list to the nonresident LEA for consideration. Before March 1st of the school year preceding the school year in which a student seeks to enroll in a nonresident LEA, the nonresident LEA's superintendent shall notify DESE as to whether the student's application has been accepted or rejected through the online resource created by DESE. Within three business days of sending notifications to the resident and nonresident LEAs, DESE shall notify the parent as to whether the student's application has been accepted or rejected, as provided in the act. If an application is rejected, DESE's notification shall state the nonresident LEA's reason for the rejection. If an application is accepted, DESE shall state in its notification a reasonable deadline before which the student shall enroll, along with instructions for renewing enrollment each year. DESE shall also notify the resident LEA of the student's participation. DESE shall further notify the student and the student's parent of the opportunity to participate in an anonymous survey provided by DESE regarding all reasons for the student's and parent's interest in participating in the open enrollment program. DESE shall publish an annual report based on the survey results, providing aggregate data of sufficient detail to allow analysis of trends regarding the reasons for participation in the open enrollment program at the statewide, regional, and local levels. The annual report shall also include detection and analysis of the impact of the program on racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic balance among schools and LEAs. No such survey results shall be published in a manner that would allow for the identification of data attributable to a specific LEA or that reveals information regarding a group of five or fewer students. DESE shall privately share data specific to each LEA with each LEA prior to publishing the annual report. If a student declines enrolling in the nonresident LEA, provided the nonresident LEA still has capacity to accept additional students, DESE shall send the LEA the next application on the waiting list for consideration. No additional open enrollment transfer applications shall be sent by DESE or approved by a nonresident LEA after April 15th of the school year immediately preceding the school year of enrollment. SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND GIFTED CHILDREN (Section 167.1224) Before enrolling in a nonresident LEA, a student with certain special educational needs, English as a second language (ESL) needs, or who is identified as a gifted child shall be provided the same process that exists for a resident student moving into the nonresident LEA. The nonresident LEA, parent, or both shall have the opportunity to reevaluate the student to determine what comparable special educational services may be required or what programs or services for which the student may be eligible. A nonresident LEA is responsible for providing a free appropriate education to the student and shall provide the same or substantially similar services as a resident student would receive. Before enrolling in the nonresident LEA, if necessary, a transferring student and parent shall be provided the opportunity to develop a new or amended IEP, individualized family service plan, or 504 plan, or to evaluate the ESL, gifted, or dyslexia programs and services provided by the nonresident LEA. The nonresident LEA shall provide the student and parent with prior written notice documenting the services that the nonresident LEA determines appropriate to meet the student's needs. The nonresident LEA shall offer the transferring student 10 business days to accept or decline the acceptance of the nonresident LEA. LEAs that are served by a special school district shall execute a form agreement prepared by DESE with such special school district regarding finance, staffing, and other relevant items prior to participating in open enrollment. An LEA and a special school district may choose to modify such form agreement, but no modifications shall delay the LEA's participating in open enrollment. A nonresident LEA shall make reasonable accommodations to address the needs of incoming transferring students and to provide such students with equal access to a free appropriate public education. These provisions shall not be construed to preclude a nonresident LEA from adding additional staff, services, or programs, or to preclude the nonresident LEA from performing subsequent evaluations to ensure proper placement of a transferring student. AUTHORIZED EXEMPTIONS (Section 167.1225) A student may participate in open enrollment if such student's transfer does not cause the resident LEA to conflict with a provision of an enforceable desegregation court order or a court-approved desegregation plan. An LEA may annually declare an exemption from the program if the LEA is subject to such court order or plan, as provided in the act. Any LEA declaring such exemption shall notify DESE of such before November 1st of the preceding school year. The act sets forth certain exemptions from open enrollment for students who qualify for transfers under current law and for LEAs that receive transfer students under such provisions. If a student transfers from a resident LEA that is a K-8 school district to another school district for any of grades 6-8, the resident LEA shall pay tuition to the nonresident LEA upon the student's promotion to 9th grade as provided in current law. For any student who transfers to a nonresident LEA that is a K-8 school district, the K-8 school district shall not be considered such student's resident LEA for any purpose after the student completes 8th grade or upon the student's transfer out of the K-8 school district before completing 8th grade. ANNUAL REPORTING AND AUDITING (Section 167.1229) DESE shall collect and report data annually from school LEAs on the number of applications and study the effects of transfers under the act. DESE shall consider, as part of its study, the maximum number of transfers and exemptions for both resident and nonresident LEAs for up to two years to determine if a significant racially segregative impact has occurred in any LEA. The report shall be submitted annually before December 1st to the Joint Committee on Education, the House Committee on Elementary and Secondary Education, and the Senate Committee on Education. DESE shall annually make a random selection of 10% of the LEAs participating in the open enrollment program and audit each selected LEA's transfers approved or denied under policies adopted by the school board. If DESE determines that a selected LEA is improperly implementing and administering the transfer process, DESE may withhold any state aid provided to the LEA until the LEA corrects the transfer process improprieties identified by the audit. This act is substantially similar to provisions in SS/SCS/HCS/HB 711 (2025) and HCS#2/SS/SB 266 (2025), and is similar to HB 2604 (2026), SB 1051 (2024), HCS/HB 1989 (2024), SCS/SB 5 (2023), SB 1010 (2022), HB 1814 (2022), and HS/HCS/HB 543 (2021). OLIVIA SHANNON

SS/SCS/SB 970 - This act provides that when calculating an enrollee's overall contribution to an out-of-pocket max or any cost-sharing requirement under a health benefit plan, a health carrier or pharmacy benefits manager shall include any amounts paid by the enrollee or paid on behalf of the enrollee for any medication for which a generic substitute is not available. Additionally, no health carrier or pharmacy benefits manager shall design benefits in a manner that takes into account the availability of any cost-sharing assistance program for any medication for which a generic drug substitute is not available. The provisions of this act shall apply to health benefit plans entered into, amended, extended, or renewed on or after August 28, 2026. This act is similar to HB 79 (2025) and substantially similar to provisions in SB 45 (2025), and similar to provisions in SB 187 (2025), SB 512 (2025), SB 1106 (2024), SB 844 (2024), SB 1190 (2024), HCS/HB 442 (2023), HB 1628 (2024), SB 269 (2023), and SB 1031 (2022). TAYLOR MIDDLETON

SS/SB 948 - This act provides that a parent has a fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health of such parent's child free from government interference. A governmental authority shall not restrict parental rights unless such authority demonstrates that the restriction is essential to further a compelling governmental interest and is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling interest. This provision applies to all state and local laws, resolutions, and ordinances and to the implementation of such laws, resolutions, and ordinances. (Section 1.390) The act outlines certain parental rights that are exclusively reserved to a parent without obstruction by or interference from this state, any political subdivision of the state, any governmental entity, or any other institution. Under the act, parents shall have the right to: (1) Direct the education of the child; (2) Access and review all written and electronic educational records of the child; (3) Direct the child's upbringing; (4) Direct the child's moral or religious training; (5) Consent in writing to all physical and mental health care decisions for the child; (6) Access and review all health and medical records of the child; (7) Consent in writing before a biometric scan of the child is made, shared, or stored; (8) Consent in writing before any record of the child's blood or DNA is created, stored, or shared, unless authorized pursuant to a court order; (9) Consent in writing before any governmental authority makes a video or voice recording of the child, unless, without abrogating rights secured under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, such recording is made as part of an event or circumstance described in the act; (10) Be notified promptly if a governmental authority suspects that abuse, neglect, or a criminal offense has been committed against the child, unless such notification is reasonably believed to be likely to endanger the life or physical safety of the child; (11) Opt the child out of any personal analysis, evaluation, survey, or data collection by a school district except what is necessary and essential for establishing a student's educational record for a student of the school district; (12) Excuse a child from school attendance for religious purposes; (13) Participate in parent-teacher organizations and other school organizations that are sanctioned by the board of education of a school district; (14) Receive, upon first contact with a representative of the Department of Social Services, an accurate written itemization containing all details of allegations of child abuse or neglect of the child, excluding only the name of the person who made the allegations; and (15) View a publicly available, easily accessible accounting of all financial transactions conducted with school district funds without being required to submit a formal request or otherwise make direct contact with the school district to access such information. Except for law enforcement personnel, a governmental authority shall not encourage or coerce a child to withhold information from the child's parent; nor shall a governmental authority withhold from a child's parent information that is relevant to the physical, emotional, or mental health of the child. A parent who believes his or her rights have been violated under this act may assert that violation as a claim or defense in a judicial or administrative proceeding, regardless of whether the government is a party to the proceeding, and obtain appropriate relief against the government, including declaratory relief, injunctive relief, compensatory damages, and reasonable attorney's fees and costs. (Section 1.391) Additionally, each school district shall maintain an easily accessible online record of all money the district receives and spends. Each public school within a school district shall prominently link to the district's financial ledger on the school's own website. (Section 162.192) The act additionally repeals provisions authorizing minors to consent to medical treatment or procedures involving venereal disease and drug or substance abuse. (Section 431.061) This act is similar to HB 2426 (2026). OLIVIA SHANNON

SB 942 - This act provides that vehicles may exceed the vehicle weight limits otherwise specified by law by up to 10% under certain circumstances. This act is identical to SB 736 (2025) and HB 1375 (2025). TAYLOR MIDDLETON

SB 931 - Current law requires a notice of tax deficiency to a taxpayer by certified or registered mail. This act instead requires such notice to be mailed by regular first class mail, or electronically at the taxpayer's request. This act is identical to SB 1419 (2026) and to a provision in SB 1420 (2026) and SCS/HB 2180 (2026), and is substantially similar to a provision in SB 666 (2025). JOSH NORBERG

SS/SCS/SB 919 - This act modifies several provisions relating to property taxes. CLASSIFICATION OF PROPERTY This act prohibits an assessor from reclassifying real property without first conducting an in-person consultation with the owner of record of such property. An assessor shall be deemed to be in compliance with this provision if the assessor can document a good-faith effort to contact the owner of record, as described in the act. (Section 137.016) REAL PROPERTY ASSESSED VALUES Current law provides that an assessor shall not increase the assessed valuation of any parcel of residential real property by more than fifteen percent since the last reassessment without first conducting a physical inspection of the property and providing notice to the taxpayer. This act modifies such provision by prohibiting any increase in assessments of residential real property in excess of fifteen percent. Additionally, a property owner may request the assessor to conduct a physical inspection. (Section 137.115.10) REAL PROPERTY TAX CREDIT Current law allows counties to provide a property tax credit to certain seniors. This act requires counties to provide such credit and makes technical changes to the definitions of "eligible credit amount" and "eligible taxpayer". The act also requires the statement of tax due to include certain information about the proportional amount of the credit attributable to each taxing jurisdiction. Such statement shall also include a note indicating that it is the responsibility of the taxpayer to notify the county if the taxpayer is no longer eligible for the property tax credit, as described in the act. The act also provides that the credit shall apply to all property tax levies, including debt service levies. The act provides that a taxpayer shall not be required to reapply for the property tax annually. The tax credit shall continue to be applied to the taxpayer's homestead until the tax year in which the taxpayer relocates to another homestead or upon the death of the taxpayer. The Department of Health and Senior Services shall establish and maintain a secure electronic portal accessible to each county for the purpose of verifying whether an applicant is deceased. (Section 137.1050) Current law authorizes certain counties to provide a tax credit for the property tax liabilities owed on an eligible taxpayer's homestead. This act repeals such provision and instead provides that all counties shall provide a property tax credit for any real property owned by an eligible taxpayer, provided that the real property tax liability owed on the taxpayer's real property may be increased by no more than 2.5% per year or the percent increase in inflation, whichever is less. However, for any county in which any subclass of real property is considered to be valued below its true value in money, as determined in the act, the amount by which a taxpayer's real property tax liability may increase shall not exceed 5% per year, provided that this provision shall no longer apply to a county once such subclass of real property in such county is no longer considered to be valued below its true value in money. Additionally, the act provides that no personal property tax liability owed on any individual item of personal property shall not be increased above the liability owed on such item during the 2024 tax year or the first year an eligible taxpayer first incurs personal property tax liability on such personal property, whichever occurs later. Any eligible taxpayer experiencing such an increase shall be eligible for a credit on the eligible taxpayer's personal property tax liability in an amount equal to such increase, as described in the act. (Sections 137.1058 and 137.1055) STATE TAX COMMISSION RATIO STUDIES Current law requires the State Tax Commission to equalize the valuation of each class and subclass of property among the respective counties. This act requires the Commission to utilize ratio studies to determine whether a class or subclass is valued below or above its true value. Such values shall be no less than 80% and no more than 100% of true market value, as described in the act. (Section 138.390) JOSH NORBERG

SB 918 - This act makes changes to the provision regarding admissibility of expert testimony to mirror the Federal Rules of Evidence. Specifically, expert testimony may not be admitted unless the proponent demonstrates to the court that it is more likely than not that the proffered testimony meets the knowledge, testimony, and reliability requirements. Furthermore, this act modifies the reliability requirement by providing that the expert's opinion reflects a reliable application of, rather than the expert has reliably applied, the principles and methods to the facts of the case. This act is identical to SB 238 (2025), HB 263 (2025), and a provision in SB 313 (2025). KATIE O'BRIEN

SS/SB 917 - This act creates provisions relating to a post-consumer paint recycling program. Under the act, producers of architectural paint sold in the state may establish or join a representative organization, as defined in the act. The duties of the representative organization shall be on behalf of all its member producers. Any producer who is not a member of a representative organization shall have the duties under the act separately. A representative organization or a producer of architectural paint sold at retail in the state that is not a member of such representative organization shall develop and submit to the Director of the Department of Natural Resources for the Director’s approval a plan for the establishment of a post-consumer paint collection program. Additional paint products may be proposed in a subsequent program plan in consultation with the Department. The structure of the program includes reduction of post-consumer paint, promotion of reusing and recycling of post-consumer paint, and other specifics described in the act. Requirements of the plan, including costs, transportation and recycling, an independent financial auditor, enforcement, and other specifics are described in the act. The Department shall establish an administrative fee to be paid by each producer or representative organization submitting the plan under the act. The Department shall set the administrative fee amount when paid by every producer or representative organization that submits the plan as described in the act. The act creates the Paint Stewardship Subaccount within the Solid Waste Management Fund. All administrative fees received under the act shall be deposited into the subaccount. The administrative fees collected under this provision shall be dedicated, upon appropriation, to the Department for the administration of the provisions of the act. Moneys and interest earned on moneys in the subaccount shall not revert to the General Revenue Fund at the end of each biennium. Upon implementation of the program under the act, each producer shall include in the price of any architectural paint sold to retailers and distributors in the state a paint assessment fee in the approved plan as described in the act. Retailers may incorporate the paint assessment fee into the price of architectural products as described in the act. After the paint collection program is implemented, no producer or retailer shall sell or offer for sale architectural paint to any person in this state unless the producer of a paint brand or a representative organization is implementing or participating in such program as required under the act. A retailer shall be deemed to be in compliance with this act if, on the date the architectural paint was offered for sale, the producer is listed on the Department’s website as implementing or participating in the program or if the paint brand is listed on the Department’s website as being included in the program. A paint collection site authorized under the act shall not charge any additional amount for the disposal of paint when the paint is offered for disposal. A producer or a representative organization that organizes the collection, transport, and processing of post-consumer paint under the act shall not be liable for anticompetitive activity arising from conduct undertaken in accordance with the program. Before March 31st of each year, the producers or representative organizations shall submit an annual report for the previous year to the Director that details the program. The requirements of such report are described in the act. The producers or the representative organization shall implement the program on January 1, 2028, or six months after the approval of the plan, whichever occurs later. Generators of household waste, as defined in the act, and conditionally exempt small quantity generators may transport or send architectural paints to a paint collection site to the extent permitted by a paint collection program approved by the Director. Paint collection sites may collect and temporarily store architectural paints generated by entities specified in the act in accordance with the requirements of the program in lieu of any otherwise applicable requirements of state laws or regulations. Nothing in the act shall be construed to restrict the collection of architectural paint by a program where such collection is authorized by any other state laws or regulations. Nothing in the act shall be construed to affect any requirements applicable to facilities that treat, dispose, or recycle architectural paint under any other state laws or regulations. The act is similar to SB 239 (2025), HB 2152 (2024), HCS/HB 1216 (2025), SCS/SB 936 (2024), SB 639 (2023) and HB 880 (2023). JULIA SHEVELEVA

SS/SB 904 - This act modifies the definition of "industrial hemp" in statute, as well as adds a definition of "hemp" and removes a definition of "illegal industrial hemp". Under this act, no state agency or state employee shall disclose any personally identifying information of persons who have applied for or obtained a qualifying patient identification card, a qualifying patient cultivation identification card, or primary caregiver identification card for medical marijuana to the federal government or any federal employee, or other unauthorized third party, unless required to do so pursuant to a subpoena or court order issued by a court. Any person who knowingly violates this act shall be guilty of a class E felony. Upon the written request of a consumer, a marijuana dispensary shall not create or retain any record containing a consumer's identifying information. This provision shall not apply to any constitutionally-mandated record-keeping requirements relating to qualifying patients and primary caregivers. Dispensary facilities that violate the provisions of this act shall be assessed a $2,500 fine per occurrence. These provisions are substantially similar to SS/SCS/SB 54 (2025). This act establishes the "Intoxicating Cannabinoid Control Act". Under this act, intoxicating hemp-derived products shall be considered marijuana and regulated as marijuana is regulated by the Department of Health and Senior Services under the Missouri Constitution. The cultivation, production, manufacturing, testing, transportation, and retail sale within Missouri of all intoxicating hemp-derived products shall be conducted solely by licensed comprehensive, medical, testing, and marijuana microbusiness facilities. The Attorney General, the Department of Health and Senior Services, the Department of Public Safety, prosecuting and circuit attorneys, and other state agencies shall collaborate to enforce these provisions as described in the act. Hemp and industrial hemp shall not be subject to regulation under these provisions. No person or entity engaged in the sale of cannabidol (CBD), hemp, marijuana, cannabinoids, hemp-derived cannabinoid products, or related paraphernalia, other than a comprehensive or medical marijuana dispensary facility or a microbusiness dispensary facility, shall carry on, conduct, or transact business under a name that contains as part of the name the word "dispensary". Any person or entity in violation of these provisions shall be guilty of a class D felony and subject to an administrative fine of $5000 per transaction, as described in the act. These provisions are similar to provisions in SS/SCS/SB 54 (2025). SARAH HASKINS

SCS/SB 896 - The act creates new provisions relating to funds used for election administration. Specifically, government entities, as that term is defined in the act, are prohibited from soliciting, accepting, or using any funds or in-kind goods or services for election administration if those funds or in-kind goods or services are donated directly or indirectly by any person other than a government entity. An election officer may, however, solicit, accept, or use funds or in-kind goods or services of de minimis value. Government entities are additionally prohibited from being members of or participate in programs run by organizations that engage in election administration and receive foreign funding. Except as otherwise provided in the act, a government entity or election officer shall not join the membership of any entity, participate in any program, or purchase any services from any entity if such membership, program, or service relates to the administration of elections unless the entity complies with certain certification requirements as described in the act. An election officer who, in his or her private capacity, joins or considers joining the membership of a person, or participates or considers participating in any program described above shall disclose his or her participation or membership, or potential participation or membership, and have the participation or potential participation or membership considered in a public hearing, and disclosed on his or her public website as provided by this act. Violation of these provisions is a class B misdemeanor. Moreover, any registered voter in the state is permitted to bring a cause of action to enforce this act. The act preempts any local law in conflict with this act. This act is substantially similar to HB 2381 (2026), certain provisions in HB 3263 (2026), and HCS/HB 794 (2025). SCOTT SVAGERA

SS/SB 895 - This act modifies provisions relating to professional licensing. INTERIOR DESIGNERS (SECTIONS 324.001, 324.028 TO 327.750. 537.033 & 621.045 & THE REPEAL OF SECTIONS 324.406 TO 324.436) This act modifies the registration of interior designers from the Division of Professional Registration with advice and recommendations by the Interior Design Council to the licensing of interior designers from the Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, Professional Landscape Architects, and Licensed Interior Designers ("Board"). The Board shall increase from fifteen members to seventeen members with the two new members being licensed interior designers. The Interior Design Council and the Interior Design Council Fund shall be abolished upon the appointment by the Governor and confirmation by the Senate of the licensed interior designer members of the Board. The rules of the Interior Design Council shall be deemed adopted by the Board until revised, amended, or repealed, of which such action shall be taken on or before January 1, 2027. The funds in the Interior Design Council Fund shall be transferred to the State Board of Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, Professional Landscape Architects, and Licensed Interior Designers Fund. Additionally, this act defines the practice of licensed interior design and provides that a licensed interior designer shall undertake to perform licensed interior design services only when he or she is qualified by education, training, and experience in the specific technical areas involved. Furthermore, licensed interior designers shall be in responsible charge of interior design technical submissions that can affect the health, safety, and welfare of the public within their scope of practice. Licensed interior designers shall not take responsible charge over interior technical submissions prepared by another person unless the licensed interior designer actually exercises personal supervision and direct control over such interior technical submissions. This act modifies the educational and training requirements for licensed interior designers by repealing the qualification of at least three years of an interior design curriculum from an accredited institution with three years of experience. Additionally, an applicant shall be exempt from providing substantial evidence of certain educational and training qualifications if his or her curriculum or transcript has been approved by the Board. Nothing in this act shall be construed as precluding an architect from performing any of the services within the practice of licensed interior design. Current law provides that a renewal or reinstatement application for registration as an interior designer shall be accompanied by proof of completion of continuing education in the fields of either interior design or architecture. This act repeals such provision and provides that the Board shall establish the continuing education requirements for interior designers which shall be substantially equivalent to the continuing education requirements for architects. Finally, this act includes licensed interior designers in the definition of "design professional" for immunity from civil liability for participation in a peer review process. This act contains a delayed effective date for the repeal of the Interior Design Council and the Interior Design Fund, which shall become effective upon notification to the Revisor of the appointment of the interior designer members of the Board by the Director of the Division of Professional Regulation. These provisions are identical to SS/SCS/SB 991 (2026), provisions in HCS/SS/SB 1083 (2026), in the truly agreed to and finally passed HCS/SS#2/SB 1233 (2026), and HB 2353 (2026), and are similar to provisions in SB 287 (2025), HB 566 (2025), SB 1325 (2024), and HB 2158 (2024). TEMPORARY LICENSES (SECTION 324.004) Under this act, any person who has at least three years of work experience in an occupation or profession in another state or the District of Columbia that does not use a license to regulate that occupation or profession may submit an application for a license in Missouri to the relevant oversight body. A person shall submit proof of experience in the occupation or profession and proof of citizenship or lawful presence in the United States, except as provided. Within 45 days of receiving the application, the oversight body shall make a determination of qualification. The oversight body shall require an applicant to take and pass a profession-specific examination and may require an examination specific to Missouri laws. A license issued under this act shall be a one-time, non-renewable, two-year temporary license. If the applicant is not residing in Missouri, the oversight body shall conditionally approve the application. If an applicant fails to provide proof of domicile in Missouri within 60 days of receipt of temporary license, the oversight body may terminate the temporary license and the applicant may reapply for the temporary license. Upon expiration of the temporary license, individuals shall be required to apply for a permanent license, consistent with the licensure and application requirements of that license as set forth in statute and rule. A license issued under this act shall not be qualified for reciprocity with another state or as part of an interstate compact. The provisions of this act shall not apply to certain specified professions. This provision is identical to a provision in HCS/SB 1092 (2026) and in the truly agreed to and finally passed HCS/SS#2/SB 1233 (2026) and is similar to a provision in HCS/HB 2300 (2026), in SS/SB 61 (2025) and in the perfected HB 478 (2025), SB 817 (2024), in HCS/SS#2/SCS/SB 88 (2023), and HB 1900 (2022). PHYSICIAN LICENSURE REQUIREMENTS (SECTION 334.031) This act requires a candidate applying for licensure as a physician to submit to a criminal background check and furnish certain educational and experience documents. This act also allows the Board of Registration for the Healing Arts to require applicants to list all licenses to practice as a physician currently or previously held in another state, territory, or country and to disclose any past or pending investigations, discipline, or sanctions for such licenses. The Board may also obtain a report on the applicant from the National Practitioner Data Bank or the Federation of State Medical Boards. This provision is identical to a provision in SS/SB 1083 (2026), and SCS/SB 1423 (2026) and HB 2976 (2026), is substantially similar to a provision in SCS/SB 292 (2025), and is similar to a provision in SB 1030 (2024), SB 1251 (2024), HB 2349 (2024), HB 2753 (2025), HB 1279 (2023), SB 511 (2023), and SB 538 (2021). LENGTH OF SUPERVISION FOR SOCIAL WORK (SECTION 337.600) This act modifies the definitions of a "qualified advanced macro supervisor," "qualified baccalaureate supervisor," and "qualified clinical supervisor" to provide that such person is a licensed social worker who has practiced social work for which he or she is supervising the applicant for a minimum of three, instead of five, years. This provision is identical to a provision in SS/SB 1083 (2026), SB 1092 (2026), SB 1417 (2026), HB 1963 (2026), SB 479 (2025), and SB 563 (2025) and is substantially similar to HB 886 (2025). CLINICAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS & AUDIOLOGISTS (SECTION 345.050) This act modifies the requirements for licensure as a speech pathologist or audiologist by providing for completion of a clinical fellowship under the direct supervision of a licensed speech-language pathologist in good standing, rather than under the direct supervision of a person licensed by the state of Missouri in the profession in which the applicant seeks to be licensed. This provision is identical to a provision in SS/SB 1083 (2026), SB 1405 (2026), in HCS/HB 2372 (2026), in HCS/SS/SB 7 (2025), in the perfected SS/SB 61 (2025), in the perfected HCS/HB 268 (2025), SB 431 (2025), in the perfected HB 478 (2025), in HB 765 (2025), and in SCS/HB 834 (2025), and is substantially similar to a provision in HCS/SB 1019 (2026), in HCS/SB 1092 (2026), in HCS/SS#2/SB 1233 (2026), HCS/HB 2300 (2026) and SCS/HB 2591 (2026), KATIE O'BRIEN

HCS/SS/SB 889 - The act repeals and reassigns duties for a number of administrative entities. The Division of Workforce Development within the Department of Economic Development is renamed and moved to the Office of Workforce Development within the Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development. The Board for Certification of Interpreters is repealed and its duties assigned to the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. The Life Sciences Research Board is repealed and its duties assigned the Department of Economic Development. The act repeals the Missouri Quality Home Care Council as well as all duties of the Council. The act repeals the following entities: the AgriMissouri Advisory Commission for Marketing Missouri Agricultural Products; the Coordinating Board for Early Childhood; the Minority Environmental Literacy Advisory Committee; the Missouri Cybersecurity Commission; the Small Business Compliance Advisory Committee; and the Commission on the Special Health, Psychological and Social Needs of Minority Older Individuals the Joint Committee on Disaster Preparedness and Awareness; the Missouri Task Force on Fair, Nondiscriminatory Local Taxation Concerning Motor Vehicles, Trailers, Boats, and Outboard Motors; the Study Commission on State Tax Policy; the Electric Vehicle Task Force; the Career Readiness Course Task Force; the Infection Control Advisory Panel; the Missouri Arthritis Advisory Board and the Arthritis Program Review Committee; the Missouri Task Force on the Prevention of Infant Abuse and Neglect; the Trauma-Informed Care for Children and Families Task Force; the Sentencing and Corrections Oversight Commission; the Advisory Board of Vocational Enterprises Program; the Task Force on the Petroleum Storage Tank Insurance Fund; the Joint Task Force on Radiologic Technologist Licensure; the Missouri Electronic Prior Authorization Committee; the Task Force on Fair, Nondiscriminatory Local Taxation Concerning Solar Energy Systems; the Missouri Rights of Victims of Sexual Assault Task Force; and the Ozark Exploration Bicentennial Commission. Currently, the Joint Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect expired on January 15, 2023. This act extends the expiration to August 28, 2031, and requires the Committee to send copies of its reports to leadership in the General Assembly. The act additionally repeals the Missouri Economic Diversification and Afforestation Act of 1990. These provisions are identical to SB 790 (2025). Further, this act repeals a number of provisions of law concerning the acquisition of one insurance company by another, the payment of dividends by insurance companies, required deposits by life insurance companies; assessment plan life insurance and stipulated premium plan life insurance, mutual insurance companies other than for life and fire, and required cash reserves for reciprocal or interinsurance exchanges. The act repeals a provision of current law prohibiting the establishment of a state-based health benefit exchange under certain circumstances. This provision is identical to SB 848 (2026). This act also repeals a number of expired, terminated, sunset, and obsolete statutes and references to such statutes contained in other statutes. Many provisions of this act are identical to HRB 1 (2024), which is a bill prepared by the Joint Committee on Legislative Research as required by current law. These provisions are also contained in SS/SB 889 (2026). This act is substantially similar to HCS/SS/SCS/SB 890 (2026) and SB 729 (2025). JIM ERTLE

SB 887 - This act establishes the "Missouri Lyme Disease Eradication Act". First, Lyme disease is added to the list of diseases that must be reported to the Department of Health and Senior Services by health care providers, laboratories, and local health departments. The Department shall compile an annual report on the incidence and prevalence of Lyme disease in Missouri, as described in the act. The Department shall also collaborate with public four-year institutions of higher education to integrate Lyme disease surveillance data into existing tick-borne disease monitoring programs. Next, this act creates the "Lyme Research and Eradication Fund" in the state treasury. The Department shall use the moneys in the fund to distribute grants for the purposes of developing treatments, studying novel therapies, and researching eradication strategies. Grants shall be prioritized as described in the act, with no less than 20% of funds utilized to support eradication efforts in rural counties. Under this act, a health care provider shall not be subject to any discipline, suspension, or revocation of license or denial of a license renewal, solely for prescribing, administering, or dispensing treatments or therapies for Lyme disease or Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS), including extended antibiotic therapy or similar treatment deemed medically necessary. Finally, this act requires every health carrier or health benefit plan offering or issuing health benefit plans in the state on or after January 1, 2027, to provide coverage for diagnostic testing, treatment, and management of Lyme disease and PTLDS for insured persons who receive a diagnosis from a licensed health care provider, including testing, antibiotic therapy, supportive therapies, and holistic or herbal supplements and therapies. Coverage shall be subject to the same deductibles, coinsurance, and out-of-pocket maximums as apply to other services covered under the plan for nonpreventative services. The carrier or plan shall not deny or limit coverage for Lyme disease tests or treatments based solely on guidelines that deem extended antibiotic therapy to be experimental, impose step therapy or prior authorization requirements described in the act, or rescind coverage retroactively for related claims without evidence of fraud. By July 1 each year, each carrier and plan shall report certain Lyme disease-related data to the Director of the Department of Commerce and Insurance, who shall share the data with the General Assembly and the Department of Health and Senior Services to inform research priorities. SARAH HASKINS

SS/SB 879 - The act creates and modifies provisions relating to electric utilities. POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS (Section 67.5360) The act provides that the governing body of any political subdivision shall not approve a plan relating to the development of the political subdivision with a developer whose more than half of the solar panels or the solar panel components are manufactured or sourced by an individual or government identified as a foreign adversary. TAXATION OF SOLAR ENERGY PROJECTS (Sections 137.100, 137.124, 153.030, & 153.034) The act repeals a provision exempting solar energy systems not held for resale from taxation. (Section 137.100) Beginning January 1, 2027, for purposes of assessing all real property, excluding land, or tangible personal property associated with a project that uses solar energy directly to generate electricity and that was built or constructed to sell power, the tax liability actually owed shall be equal to specific amounts, as described in the act, as annually adjusted for inflation. These provisions shall not be construed to affect any existing enhanced enterprise zone agreements or similar tax abatement agreements with state or local officials entered into prior to August 28, 2026. After August 28, 2026, solar energy projects shall not be permissible under enterprise zones or similar tax abatements. Beginning January 1, 2027, for purposes of assessing land that is associated with a solar energy project, the land shall be assessed as commercial property. (Section 137.124) Beginning January 1, 2027, for any public utility that has a solar energy project, such solar energy project shall be assessed using certain methodology for real and personal property as described in the act. (Section 153.030) The real and tangible personal property associated with a project which uses solar energy shall include certain solar equipment as described in the act. (Section 153.034) These provisions are similar to SB 892 (2024), HB 2651 (2024), SB 549 (2023), SB 1014 (2022) and HB 1997 (2022), and provisions in SB 213 (2025), a provision in HCS#2/HBs 440 & 1160 (2025). THE CONSTRUCTION OF SOLAR FARMS REGULATED BY THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION (Section 393.2040) The act provides that these provisions shall apply only to a solar farm that is owned or operated by an electrical corporation under the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission. These provisions shall not apply to solar farms owned or operated by not-for-profit electrical corporations. Prior to the construction of a solar farm in the state, the Commission shall require that each electrical corporation shall submit a certificate of convenience and necessity ("CCN") application to the Commission with a construction plan for the solar farm. The construction plan requirements are described in the act, including boundary requirements between the solar farm and private or public properties, landscaping requirements, noise requirements, sign requirements, and fencing requirements. An applicant shall maintain a solar farm until decommissioning, as described in the act. An owner or operator shall decommission and remove the solar farm when the solar farm is at the end of its useful life, as described in the act. The Commission shall require that, prior to the construction of a solar farm, an owner or operator of the solar farm shall submit to the Commission a preliminary decommissioning plan. Requirements of the plan are described in the act. At least one year prior to the cessation of operation of a solar farm or in the case of a solar farm ceasing operation due to an unexpected event, as described in the act, the owner or operator shall submit a final decommissioning plan, as described in the act. Requirements for the disposition of solar panels are described in the act. An electrical corporation intending to make a material amendment after it has obtained a CCN for the construction of a solar farm shall submit a new application to amend the CCN. The Commission shall require any applicant who is issued a CCN for the construction of a solar farm to obtain liability insurance in an amount sufficient to cover reasonable expected damages which may arise from the construction of the solar farm. An applicant applying for a CCN under the act shall be required to pay a fee as described in the act. For purposes of enforcing compliance with the construction requirements under the act, all owners or operators of solar farms in the state shall be subject to the procedures before the Commission. For any violation, complaints may be submitted to the Commission pursuant to the provisions of current law. On or before January 1, 2027, the Commission shall provide a report about the specifics of solar farms in the state, as described in the act. Beginning August 28, 2026, a solar farm for which certain economic incentive agreements are not in place shall not be eligible for any economic incentives or any tax exemptions. These provisions have an emergency clause. CONDEMNATION OF PROPERTY (Section 523.010) Under the act, the authority of any electrical corporation to condemn property shall not extend to the construction of any structure or facility that uses wind or solar energy to generate or manufacture electricity. The authority of any electrical corporation to condemn property shall extend to acquisition of rights needed to construct, operate, and maintain certain electrical infrastructure, described in the act, needed to collect and deliver solar or wind energy to the distribution or transmission grid. This provision is identical to SB 199 (2025), a provision in SB 214 (2025), SB 1262 (2024), to a provision in SB 805 (2024), a provision in HB 1449 (2024), a provision in SCS/HCS/HB 1746 (2024), provisions in HB 1052 (2023) and substantially similar to a provision in HB 221 (2025), a provision in HCS#2/HBs 440 & 1160 (2025), HB 475 (2025), a provision in SB 139 (2025), HB 1750 (2024), and SB 577 (2023). THE CONSTRUCTION OF SOLAR FARMS REGULATED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES (Section 640.1050) The act provides that these provisions shall apply only to a solar farm that is not owned or operated by an electrical corporation under the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission and on which the construction has not commenced as of December 31, 2026. The Department of Natural Resources shall require an application with a construction plan for a permit for the construction of a solar farm to be obtained from the Department prior to the construction of the solar farm. The construction plan requirements are described in the act, including boundary requirements between the solar farm and private or public properties, landscaping requirements, noise requirements, sign requirements, and fencing requirements. An applicant shall maintain a solar farm until decommissioning, as described in the act. An owner or operator shall decommission and remove the solar farm when the solar farm is at the end of its useful life, as described in the act. Prior to the construction of a solar farm, an owner or operator of the solar farm shall submit a preliminary decommissioning plan to the Department. Requirements of the decommissioning plan are described in the act. At least one year prior to the cessation of operation of a solar farm or in the case of a solar farm ceasing operation due to an unexpected event, as described in the act, the owner or operator shall submit a final decommissioning plan, as described in the act. Requirements for the disposition of solar panels are described in the act. Within 90 days of receiving an application for the construction of a solar farm, the Department shall hold a public hearing before issuing a permit. The Department shall provide notice at least 14 days prior to the public hearing. At the public hearing, an applicant and the Department shall provide certain information in writing, as described in the act. No later than 90 days after the public hearing, the Department shall issue a permit, issue a permit limiting the boundaries of the proposed solar farm, or deny the permit. An applicant that intends to make a material amendment after the permit is issued by the Department shall submit a new application for the permit to the Department. The Department shall require any applicant who is issued a permit for the construction of a solar farm to obtain liability insurance in an amount sufficient to cover reasonable expected damages which may arise from the construction of the solar farm. If an owner or operator of a solar farm that is not an electrical corporation under the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission sells or transfers the solar farm to an entity that is an electrical corporation, the transferee shall certify in writing to the Department that the transferee shall comply with the construction requirements of a solar farm regulated by the Commission. An applicant applying for a permit shall be required to pay a fee as described in the act. On or before January 1, 2027, the Commission shall provide a report about the specifics of solar farms in the state, as described in the act. Beginning August 28, 2026, a solar farm for which certain economic incentive agreements are not in place, shall not be eligible for any economic incentives or any tax exemptions. These provisions have an emergency clause. JULIA SHEVELEVA

SB 856 - This act modifies provisions relating to the circuit court of Cole County, including its appellate district and venue for certain cases. APPELLATE DISTRICT FOR COLE COUNTY (SECTION 477.050) This act provides that Cole County shall be within the territorial jurisdiction of the Eastern District of the Missouri Court of Appeals, rather than within the Western District. This provision is identical to a provision in HB 3054 (2026) and in SCS/HCS/HB 1259 (2025). VENUE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL CASES (SECTION 508.010) This act provides that in all actions in which there is any count alleging a procedural defect in the enactment of a bill into law or the validity of a provision of the Missouri Constitution, a Missouri statute, or a Missouri regulation, the venue shall be in Cole County. This provision is identical to a provision in HB 3054 (2026). KATIE O'BRIEN

SB 849 - The act provides that there shall be a moratorium on the construction of new and current solar projects in the state beginning the effective date of the act. The Department of Natural Resources shall promulgate rules concerning environmental issues with respect to the construction, placement, and operation of a solar project. The moratorium shall end on December 31, 2027. However, if the Department does not promulgate the rules before such date, the moratorium shall continue until such rules have been promulgated. This act has an emergency clause. The act is identical to SB 933 (2026) and similar to HB 2477 (2026). JULIA SHEVELEVA

SS/SCS/SB 841 - This act modifies provisions relating to health care. AWARENESS DAYS (Sections 9.021, 9.025, 9.238, 9.412, 9.418, and 9.502) This act designates the last full week of September each year as "Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD) Awareness Week" in Missouri. This provision is identical to SB 1709 (2026). This act designates the month of January as "Blood Donor Awareness Month" in Missouri. This provision is identical to SB 1328 (2026). This act establishes September each year as "Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month" in Missouri. This act designates each September as "Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month" in Missouri and the last full week of April each year as "Infertility Awareness Week" in Missouri. This act designates March 26 of each year as "Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS)/Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcus (PANDAS) Awareness Day" in Missouri. This provision is identical to a provision in the perfected HCS/HB 2372 (2026). HOSPITAL INVESTMENTS AND SERVICE AREAS (Sections 96.192, 96.196, 206.110, and 206.158) This act modifies the investment authority of boards of trustees of municipal hospitals in third class cities and hospital district hospitals. Current law permits investment of up to 25% of funds not required for operations of the hospital or other obligations. This act permits investment of up to 50% of funds not required for operations or other obligations in a manner described in the act, with the remaining portion to be invested into any investment in which the state Treasurer is allowed to invest. These provisions shall only apply if the hospital receives less than three percent of its annual revenues from municipal, county, hospital district, or state taxes or appropriated funds from the municipality in which such hospital is located. Under this act, municipal hospitals in third class cities may operate in areas where hospital district hospitals and county hospitals operate. Hospital district hospitals may operate in areas where municipal hospitals in third class cities and county hospitals operate. These provisions are identical to provisions in SCS/HCS/HB 943 (2025) and SCS/SB 317 (2025) and substantially similar to the perfected SB 1019 (2026) and SB 244 (2025). EPINEPHRINE PRODUCTS (Sections 167.627, 167.630, 190.246, 196.990, and 321.621) This act changes "epinephrine auto-injector" to "epinephrine delivery system" throughout statute. These provisions are identical to the perfected HCS/HBs 1826 et al (2026) and similar to provisions in HB 165 (2025) and HB 553 (2025). COMMUNITY PARAMEDIC SERVICES (Sections 190.098 and 190.165) This act modifies provisions relating to certification of community paramedics and the provision of community paramedic services. Community paramedic services shall mean those services provided by an entity that employs licensed paramedics certified by the Department of Health and Senior Services as community paramedics, that is endorsed by the Department, and that provides services in a nonemergent setting, consistent with the education and training of a community paramedic and the supervisory standard approved by the medical director, and documented in the entity's patient care plans or protocols. Ambulance service shall enter into written contracts with another ambulance service provider to provide community paramedic services in that provider's service area. The Department shall establish regulations for the purpose of recognizing community paramedic services entities that have met the standards necessary to provide such services. The Department shall endorse such entities to provide community paramedic services for a period of 5 years. These provisions are similar to provisions in the perfected HCS/HB 2372 (2026), SCS/HCS/HB 943 (2025), SCS/SB 317 (2025), SB 548 (2025), SB 206 (2025), and SCS/SB 1382 (2024). SICKLE CELL STANDING COMMITTEE (Section 191.117) This act creates the "Lori Zena Baker Act". This act establishes the "Sickle Cell Standing Committee" as a subcommittee of the Missouri Genetic Advisory Committee within the Department of Health and Senior Services, with membership as specified in the act. The Director of the Department of Health and Senior Services shall appoint the committee members. The committee shall assess the impact of sickle cell disease on the state and make recommendations to the General Assembly and Governor regarding services and policies to address the state's needs, as described in the act. This provision is identical to SB 1735 (2026) and substantially similar to HB 1483 (2016). DOULA SERVICES (Sections 191.708, 208.662, 208.1400-1425, 376.1758, and 376.1765) This act creates the "Missouri Doula Reimbursement Act". Under this act, the chief medical officer or chief medical director of the Department of Health and Senior Services or the MO HealthNet Division of the Department of Social Services may issue nonspecific recommendations for doula services, a medical standing order for prenatal vitamins, or a medical standing order for a purpose promulgated in rule, to terminate as specified in the act. Additionally, this act adds doula services and childbirth education classes for pregnant women and a support person to the list of covered MO Healthnet and "Show-Me Healthy Babies Program" services, to be reimbursed as described in the act. The Department of Social Services shall study the impact of the childbirth education classes on infant and maternal mortality and shall submit a report to the General Assembly prior to January 1, 2028. These provisions are identical to provisions in the perfected HCS/HB 2372 (2026) and substantially similar to provisions HCS/SB 94 (2025) and HCS/HB 1095 (2025). Finally, the Department of Health and Senior Services shall review and approve doula registration for purposes of insurance coverage of doula services. Beginning January 1, 2027, every health carrier or health benefit plan shall provide coverage of doula services, except as otherwise provided. This provision is identical to a provision in the perfected HCS/HB 2372 (2026). TELEHEALTH (Sections 191.1146 and 334.108) Currently, the establishment of a physician-patient relationship for purposes of telehealth shall include an interview and a physical examination. Under this act, an evaluation is required, but a physical examination shall be required only if needed to meet the standard of care. Current law prohibits the use of an internet or telephone questionnaire completed by a patient from constituting an acceptable medical interview for the provision of treatment by telehealth. This act permits such questionnaires if the information provided is sufficient as though the medical evaluation was performed in person, with a report to be provided to the patient's primary health care provider within fourteen days of evaluation, as described in the act. Additionally, current law requires a physician-patient relationship for purposes of telehealth to include a sufficient dialogue with the patient regarding treatment. This act changes "dialogue" to "exchange" with the patient regarding treatment. Finally, current law prohibits a health care provider from prescribing any drug, controlled substance, or other treatment to a patient based solely on an internet request or questionnaire. Under this act, a health care provider shall not prescribe any drug, controlled substance, or other treatment to a patient in the absence of a proper provider-patient relationship. These provision are substantially similar to SB 108 (2025) and SB 851 (2024) and similar to SCS/SB 418 (2023) and HB 710 (2023). ALPHA-GAL SYNDROME (Section 192.020) This act requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to include alpha-gal syndrome in its list of diseases that are required to be reported to the Department. Laboratories shall submit any required alpha-gal syndrome case reports to the Department within 7 days of receiving a positive laboratory confirmation, as described in the act. Subject to appropriation, the Department may follow up on reported cases of alpha-gal syndrome. The Department shall submit an annual report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the reporting and incidence of alpha-gal syndrome in Missouri. This provision is similar to a provision in the perfected HCS/HB 2372 (2026), HCS/HB 1855 (2026), and SB 1630 (2026). DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES CONTRACTS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH (Section 192.021) This act authorizes the Department of Health and Senior Services to contract with a Missouri affiliate of a national public health association or public health institute, or a similar or successor entity, in order to assist in carrying out its duties to promote the health and well-being of Missouri residents. Such contracts may include efforts to assist in the delivery of health services throughout the state and the administration of grant funds and related programs. The Department and the designated affiliate shall provide a report to the General Assembly as specified in the act. This act is identical to SB 1525 and substantially similar to provisions in SB 1037 (2026), HCS/SB 94 (2025), and SB 549 (2025). DEMENTIA SERVICES COORDINATOR (Section 192.2155) This act requires the Division of Senior and Disability Services within the Department of Health and Senior Services to establish a dementia services coordinator as a full-time position. The coordinator shall perform duties specified in the act, including coordinating information resources affecting Missourians living with dementia and their caregivers, streamlining applicable services to increase efficiency and improve the quality of care in certain settings, identifying any duplicated services, promoting public awareness and education, and collecting and monitoring relevant data. This act is identical to HCS/HB 2149 (2026) and substantially similar to SB 1230 (2026), SB 410 (2025), SB 1410 (2024), and HB 2071 (2024). MULTIDISCIPLINARY ADULT PROTECTION TEAMS (Sections 192.2400 and 192.2435) This act modifies current law relating to protective services for elderly and disabled adults by authorizing multidisciplinary adult protection teams to access confidential reports of abuse and neglect and case information to the extent necessary to conduct team activities and to share such information with other team members. Additionally, the Department of Social Services and the Department of Mental Health shall have limited access to such confidential reports, as described in the act. This provision is identical to SB 1505 (2026). DISCLOSURE OF VITAL RECORDS (Section 193.245) This act repeals a provision of law permitting the Department of Health and Senior Services to disclose a listing of persons who are born or who die on a particular date upon a person's request. This provision is identical to SB 1137 (2026), SB 598 (2025), and a provision in SCS/HCS/HB 943 (2025). LIMITS ON SALE OF OVER-THE-COUNTER DRUGS (Sections 195.417 and 579.060) Currently, no person shall sell, dispense, or purchase, over a 12 month period, more than a total amount of 43.2 grams of certain meth precursors. This act increases the amount to 61.2 grams. Beginning October 1, 2026, any manufacturer of a meth precursor drug that is sold in or into this state shall pay a monthly fee to the administrator of the real-time electronic pseudoephedrine tracking system, as described in the act. The fee is set by the administrator. A manufacturer commits the offense of unlawful, sale, distribution, or purchase of over-the-counter methamphetamine precursor drugs if the manufacturer knowingly fails to pay the fees required by this act. This act is identical to provisions in the perfected HCS/HB 2372 (2026) and substantially similar to provisions in SB 1069 (2026), SB 726 (2025), HB 1036 (2025), provisions of HCS/SS/SB 7 (2025), SCS/SB 317 (2025), SCS/HCS/HB 943 (2025), SB 548 (2025), and SB 143 (2025). IVERMECTIN AND HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE (Section 195.1000) Under this act, ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine tablets suitable for human use may be sold or purchased as over-the-counter medications in Missouri without a prescription or consultation with a pharmacist or other health care professional. This provision is identical to a provision in the perfected HCS/HB 2372 (2026), SB 1086 (2026), SB 1275, and SB 1489 (2026) and substantially similar to SB 744 (2025) and HB 2581 (2024). ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICATIONS (Sections 196.990 and 335.081) This act adds licensed long-term care facilities and child care facilities to the definition of "authorized entity" in current law permitting such entities to stock a supply of epinephrine delivery devices for use in an emergency. Additionally, the administration by technicians, nurses' aides, or their equivalent in long-term care facilities of epinephrine delivery devices and subcutaneous injectable medications to treat diabetes shall not be prohibited by nurse licensing laws. These provisions are similar to provisions in SCS/HCS/HB 943 (2025), SB 548 (2025), SCS/SB 317 (2025), and HCS/HB 2824 (2024). HOSPITAL WORKPLACE VIOLENCE (Section 197.708) Under this act, each hospital shall prominently display a printed sign, in all capital letters, warning that assaulting a health care professional is a serious crime which may be punishable as a class A misdemeanor. This provision is substantially similar provisions in the perfected HCS/HB 2372 (2026), HCS/SB 94 (2025), and HCS/HB 1213 (2025) and substantially similar to SB 791 (2025). INSPECTIONS OF LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES (Section 198.022) Under this act, the Department of Health and Senior Services may accept, in lieu of an inspection conducted by the Department, a written report of a survey or inspection conducted by any state or federal agency, provided the survey or inspection is comparable in scope or method to the Department's inspections and conducted in accordance with Title XVIII of the Social Security Act. A residential care or assisted living facility shall be subject to an inspection by the Department if the facility fails to maintain an accredited status by a recognized accreditation entity. Finally, if a facility exempt from an annual inspection under this act has one or more violations of any class I standards, then the facility shall be subject to a full inspection by the Department. This provision is identical to a provision in the perfected HCS/HB 2372 (2026), substantially similar to a provision in SCS/HCS/HB 943 (2025), and similar to SB 689 (2025). MO HEALTHNET TICKET TO WORK (Section 208.146) Under current law, the "Ticket to Work Health Assurance Program" expired on August 28, 2025. This act repeals that expiration date. This provision is identical to SB 1708 (2026). MO HEALTHNET COVERAGE OF CERTAIN CLINICAL PATHOLOGY SERVICES (Section 208.149) This act requires that the fee for the professional component of clinical pathology services shall be paid by MO HealthNet for professional services provided by a hospital-based pathologist for inpatient clinical pathology services rendered to MO HealthNet patients. The reimbursement shall be set at no less than thirty percent of the approved MO HealthNet Independent Lab-Technical Component fee schedule, as described in the act, as shall be made directly to the physician providing the services or the entity the physician has assigned the right to receive payment. This provision is identical to a provision in the perfected HCS/HB 2376 (2026) and substantially similar to a provision in HCS/SB 94 (2025) and SCS/HCS/HB 943 (2025). MO HEALTHNET THIRD PARTY LIABILITY (Section 208.215) Under this act, any health benefit plan, third-party administrator, administrative service organization, or pharmacy benefits manager paying all properly submitted medical assistance subrogation claims or MO HealthNet subrogation claims shall respond to any inquiry by the state regarding a claim for payment for any health care item or service not later than 60 days after receiving the inquiry. Additionally, such entity shall not deny a claim submitted by the state for failure to provide prior authorization for the item or service, except that this provision shall not apply to certain programs or plans, including the original Medicare fee-for-service program, a Medicare Advantage plan, a reasonable cost reimbursement plan, a health care prepayment plan, or a prescription drug plan. A health benefit plan, third-party administrator, administrative service organization, or pharmacy benefits manager shall accept authorization provided by the state that an item or service is covered under the state plan or a waiver for the individual as if the authorization were the prior authorization made by the third party, except that this provision shall not apply to certain programs or plans, including the original Medicare fee-for-service program, a Medicare Advantage plan, a reasonable cost reimbursement plan, a health care prepayment plan, or a prescription drug plan. This provision is identical to SB 1687 (2026). "FOOD IS MEDICINE ACT" (Section 208.270) This act creates the "Food is Medicine Act". Under this act, the Department of Social Services shall submit a waiver to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a "Food is Medicine" program. The program shall be designed to improve health outcomes for MO HealthNet participants with nutrition-related chronic diseases through nutrition services and to reduce the need for medical care for those participants. Covered nutrition services may include case management, nutrition counseling, food provisions, medically tailored groceries and meals, and produce prescriptions. When feasible, the MO HealthNet Division shall prioritize the inclusion of community-based organizations and local growers to support the purchase of locally grown food in nutrition prescription. This provision is identical to a provision in the perfected HCS/HB 2372 (2026) and substantially similar to SB 1075 (2026) and SB 1499 (2026). CHILDREN'S HEALTH SCREENINGS (Section 210.110) Under this provision, a physician or nurse practitioner shall perform a physical health screening on an abused or neglected child within 72 hours of the child entering the custody of the state, as described in the act. No vaccine shall be administered to the child during the physical without the consent of the biological parent. Within 30 days of the physical, a referral shall be made for additional screenings, which may be performed by a licensed mental health professional or a primary care physician using a standardized assessment tool. This provision is identical to HCS/HB 2745 (2026). FOOD-BORNE ALLERGIES (Section 210.225) This act establishes "Elijah's Law". Before July 1, 2028, each licensed child care provider shall adopt a policy on allergy prevention and response with a focus on potentially deadly food-borne allergies, as specified in the act. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education shall develop a model policy or policies before July 1, 2027. Adoption of a policy on allergy prevention and response shall be required for licensure as a child care provider. This provision is identical to a provision in the perfected HCS/HB 2372 (2026) and substantially similar to SB 783 (2025) and HB 580 (2025). LICENSE PLATES (Section 301.142) This act adds licensed occupational therapists to the definition of "other authorized health care practitioner" for purposes of the physician's statement required for issuance of a disabled license plate or placard. Additionally, removable windshield placards shall be renewed every eight years, instead of the four years in current law. The Department of Transportation shall have the authority to automatically renew placards, as described in the act. This provision is identical to HB 1827 (2026) and substantially similar to SB 1634 (2026) and SB 616 (2025). LICENSE RECIPROCITY (Section 324.009) Those health care providers, who hold a current license issued by another jurisdiction and are licensed in Missouri with a waiver of examination, educational, or experience requirements, shall be deemed to be fully licensed to practice within the profession's scope of practice in Missouri and may provide telehealth services to the same extent and manner as health care providers who receive a license without a waiver. This provision is identical to SB 1691 (2026), a provision in the perfected HCS/HB 2372 (2026), and HCS/HB 2974 (2026). PRACTICE OF DENTISTRY IN CORRECTIONAL CENTERS (Section 332.081) Current law provides that no corporation shall practice dentistry unless that corporation is a nonprofit corporation or a professional corporation under Missouri law. This act provides that such provision shall not apply to entities contracted with the state to provide care in correctional centers. This provision is identical to a provision in SCS/HCS/HB 943 (2025), SB 143 (2025), SB 548 (2025), SCS/SB 317 (2025), SS/SCS/HCS/HB 1659 (2024), SB 1287 (2024), and HB 2280 (2024). ADMINISTRATION OF CERTAIN VACCINES (Section 338.010) Currently, the practice of pharmacy includes the ordering and administration of vaccines approved or authorized by the FDA, but excludes certain vaccines and those vaccines approved after January 1, 2023. This act instead provides that the practice of pharmacy includes the ordering and administration of certain vaccines approved or authorized by the FDA as of January 1, 2026, but excludes certain vaccines and those that are not included by joint rules promulgated by the Board of Pharmacy and the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts. This provision is identical to a provision in the perfected SS/SCS/SB 878 (2026), the perfected HCS/HB 2372 (2026), and the perfected HCS/HB 3009 (2026) and substantially similar to HB 1976 (2026). LICENSURE OF WHOLESALE DRUG DISTRIBUTORS (Section 338.333) Under this act, the Board of Pharmacy may permit an out-of-state wholesale drug distributor or third-party logistics provider to be licensed in this state despite not having a license issued by the distributor's or provider's resident state if the distributor or provider has a current and valid drug distributor accreditation from the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy. This provision is identical to a provision in SCS/HCS/HB 943 (2025), HCS/SB 94 (2025), and HB 1465 (2025). RX CARES FOR MISSOURI PROGRAM (Section 338.710) This act removes the expiration date of August 28, 2026, from the "RX Cares for Missouri Program". This provision is identical to HB 1445 (2025). SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS AND AUDIOLOGISTS (Section 345.050) This act modifies the requirements for licensure as a speech-language pathologist or audiologist by providing for completion of a clinical fellowship under the direct supervision of a licensed speech-language pathologist in good standing, rather than under the direct supervision of a person licensed by the state of Missouri in the profession in which the applicant seeks to be licensed. This provision is identical to a provision in SB 1405 (2026), the perfected HCS/HB 2372 (2026), in HCS/SS/SB 7 (2025), in the perfected SS/SB 61 (2025), in the perfected HCS/HB 268 (2025), SB 431 (2025), in the perfected HB 478 (2025), in HB 765 (2025), and in SCS/HB 834 (2025), and is substantially similar to the perfected HB 2591 (2026). 340B DRUGS (Section 376.417) Under this act, a health carrier, a pharmacy benefits manager, or an agent or affiliate of such, shall not discriminate against a covered entity, as defined in the act, including by reimbursing the covered entity for a quantity of a 340B drug in an amount less than it would pay similarly situated non-covered entities for such drugs, imposing different terms and conditions as compared to similarly situated entities, refusing to cover 340B drugs or discriminating in reimbursement for 340B drugs, and other situations described under this act. The Director of the Department of Commerce and Insurance shall impose a civil penalty on any health carrier, pharmacy benefits manager, or agent or affiliate of such, that violates this provision, not to exceed $5,000 per violation per day. This provision is identical to a provision in SCS/HCS/HB 943 (2025) and HB 784 (2025). MULTIPLE EMPLOYER SELF-INSURED HEALTH PLANS (Sections 376.1000-376.1017) This act modifies the definition of "multiple employer-self insure health plan" by including two or more self-employed individuals, each with at least one common-law employee, and their dependents. Currently, funds collected from the participating employers under the health plans are held in trust and trustees are required to file an annual report with the director of the Department of Commerce and Insurance showing the condition and affairs of the plan as of the preceding thirty first day of December. This act requires the annual report be filed with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and comply with current law. This act requires plans to establish a surplus account equal to the greater of six hundred thousand dollars or an amount equal to two times the authorized control level risk-based capital, as defined by current law. These provisions are identical to the perfected HCS/HB 2596 (2026) and similar to SB 1464 (2026). CONTRAST ENHANCED MAMMOGRAPHY (Section 376.1183) Currently, each health carrier or health benefit plan that provides coverage for diagnostic breast examinations, supplemental breast examinations, coverage required under current law, or any combination of such coverage shall not impose any cost-sharing requirements on diagnostic breast examinations or supplemental breast examinations. This act modifies when supplemental breast examinations may be necessary and specifies that diagnostic and supplemental examinations may include contrast enhanced mammographies. INSURANCE COVERAGE OF ANESTHESIA SERVICES (Section 376.1245) Under this act, no health carrier or health benefit plan shall establish, implement, or enforce any policy that imposes a time limit for the payment of anesthesia services provided during a medical or surgical procedure, as described in the act. This provision is identical to a provision in the perfected HCS/HB 2372 (2026) and substantially similar to provisions in SCS/HCS/HB 943 (2025), HCS/SB 94 (2025), and HCS/HBs 1126 & 932 (2025). INSURANCE COVERAGE OF ALTERNATIVES TO OPIOID DRUGS (Section 376.1280) This act provides that an enrollee's health benefit plan shall not deny coverage of a non-opioid prescription drug in favor of an opioid drug, require the enrollee to try an opioid drug before covering the non-opioid prescription drug, or require a higher level of cost-sharing for a non-opioid prescription drug than for an opioid drug. This act shall apply to health benefit plans delivered, issued for delivery, continued, or renewed in this state on or after January 1, 2027. These provisions shall only be applicable when multiple nonopioid medications are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of chronic or acute pain. This provision is substantially similar to a provision in the perfected HCS/HB 2372 (2026) and SB 158 (2025). ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MENTAL HEALTH (Section 407.3007) The act provides that no person or entity that develops or deploys artificial intelligence (AI) shall advertise or represent to the public that the AI is or is able to act as a mental health professional, as defined in the act, or is capable of providing therapy services, psychotherapy services, or a mental health diagnosis. A violation under the act shall be considered an unlawful practice under the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act. The Attorney General shall enforce the provisions of the act. Any individual may report violations of the act to the Attorney General. If the Attorney General finds that a violation occurred, the Attorney General shall commence a civil action. If the court finds that a violation occurred, the court may grant relief as described in the act. This provision is identical to a provision in the perfected HCS/HB 2372 (2026) and SCS/SB 1444 (2026) and similar to HB 2368 (2026). CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM (Section 590.192) Under current law, all peace officers and first responders are required to have a mental health check-in with a program service provider once every three to five years. This act allows a department to satisfy this requirement if they have an established behavioral health or mental health program that meets enumerated requirements. This act also adds first responder commanding officers to the list of people approved to receive notification that the check-in requirement has been met. This provision is identical to SB 1731 (2026) and SB 1745 (2026). MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT (Section 632.305) This act modifies notarization requirements for applications for detention for evaluation and treatment at a mental health facility. Under this act, no notarization shall be required for the application or any affidavits, declarations, or other supporting documents filed under certain provisions of law, including when filed in court by an adult, when a peace officer takes a person into custody for detention at the facility for a period of 96 hours, when a person presents themselves at the facility and the health care provider completes the application, or if the person executing the application is an employee acting on behalf of a hospital. This provision is identical to the perfected SS/SCS/SB 1015 (2026), the perfected HB 1977 (2026), a provision in the perfected HCS/HB 2372 (2026), and provisions in SCS/HCS/HB 1259 (2025) and substantially similar to SB 1274 (2026) and SB 436 (2025). SARAH HASKINS

SS/SCS/SB 838 - The act creates and modifies certain provisions relating to electric utilities. UTILITY COLOCATION (Section 227.241) The State Highways and Transportation Commission and the Missouri Department of Transportation shall allow the installation, operation, and maintenance of electric transmission facilities within highway rights of way. The Commission and Department shall develop uniform criteria for colocation of transmission facilities within highway rights of ways. The duty of the Commission and Department shall include providing reasonable time lines and procedures for review and approval of colocation requests, ensuring safety of the public and infrastructure, avoiding duplication of corridors, and imposing reasonable conditions that shall not interfere with colocation. This provision is identical to SB 1711 (2026) and HB 3456 (2026). ENERGY PRODUCTION (Section 260.035) The act removes nuclear energy from the type of energy the State Environmental Improvement and Energy Resources Authority may not purchase. This provision is identical to a provision in HCS/HB 2807 (2026) and similar to a provision in HB 2657 (2026). RENEWABLE ENERGY STANDARD (Sections 393.1025 and 393.1030) The act provides each kilowatt-hour of renewable energy generated and stored using an eligible battery energy storage system, as defined in the act, located in the state that becomes operational after December 31, 2026, shall count as an additional 0.25 kilowatt-hours, for a total of 1.50 kilowatt-hours for purposes of compliance. The act repeals a provision relating to the renewable energy portfolio requirements applying to certain electric utilities. The act modifies the definition of an "accelerated renewable buyer". An electrical corporation shall not demand any charge for service based on the costs of construction work in progress for any nuclear power generating facility. SURCHARGES FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY (Section 393.1905) No nuclear energy related cost may be recovered through any surcharge or any rate making mechanism outside a general rate proceeding. ZERO EMISSION (Section 393.1910) The Public Service Commission may authorize an electric utility to offer or participate in a zero emission credit program or tariff. A zero emission credit may exist for up to three years from the date of its creation, may only be used once, and may not be used to satisfy any similar non-federal requirement if one exists. The Commission shall not increase the allowed return on equity for an electric utility solely because that utility is constructing a zero emission facility. JULIA SHEVELEVA

SCS/SB 836 - This act modifies various provisions relating to elections. NOTICES OF ELECTION (Section 115.125) The act allows a notice of election to be sent by email. This provision is identical to a provision in the truly agreed to SS/SCS/HCS/HB 1871 (2026) and substantially similar to a provision in SCS/SB 182 (2025), SB 926 (2024), a provision in HCS/HB 1525 (2024), a provision in HCS/HB 2140 (2024), and a provision in HCS/HB 2895 (2024). CANDIDATE FILING DEADLINES - LOCAL OFFICES(Section 115.127) Under current law, the period for filing a declaration of candidacy in certain political subdivisions and special districts is from 8:00 a.m. on the 17th Tuesday prior to the election until 5:00 p.m. on the 14th Tuesday prior to the election. This act changes that period to 8:00 a.m. on the 16th Tuesday prior to the election until 5:00 p.m. on the 13th Tuesday prior to the election, unless the 13th Tuesday prior to an election falls on a holiday, then the closing of filing shall be at 5:00 p.m. on the next day that is not a holiday. This provision is identical to a provision in the truly agreed to SS/SCS/HCS/HB 1871 (2026), a provision in SCS/SB 182 (2025), SB 774 (2024), a provision in SB 926 (2024), a provision in HCS/HB 1525 (2024), HB 1604 (2024), a provision in SCS/HB 2084 (2024), a provision in HCS/HB 2140 (2024), a provision in HCS/HB 2206 (2024), a provision in HCS/HB 2895 (2024), a provision in SCS/SB 346 (2023), and CCS/HS/HCS/SS#2/SCS/SB 96 (2023) and substantially similar to HB 2225 (2024), HCS/HB 1214 (2023), provisions in the perfected HCS/HBs 267 & 347 (2023), and HCS/HB 783 (2023). TESTING OF ELECTION EQUIPMENT (Section 115.233) Current law requires, in any election in which an electronic voting system is to be used, an election authority to have the automatic tabulating equipment tested within 14 days prior to the election to ascertain that the equipment is in compliance with the law and that it will correctly count the votes cast for all offices and on all questions. This act changes the timeline for testing such that it must be completed at least 14 days, but no less than one week prior to the election. This provision is identical to a provision in the truly agreed to SS/SCS/HCS/HB 1871 (2026). ABSENTEE VOTING (Sections 115.277 and 115.284) The act allows eligible covered voters to vote absentee by submitting a federal postcard application at the office of the election authority on election day even though the person is not registered. Interstate former residents and new residents may vote by absentee ballot at the office of the election authority on election day for the offices for which such voters are entitled to vote. This provision is identical to a provision in SCS/SB 182 (2025), SB 926 (2024), a provision in HCS/HB 1525 (2024), a provision in HCS/HB 2140 (2024), and a provision in HCS/HB 2895 (2024). The act provides that all lists of absentee ballot applications for persons with permanent disabilities shall be kept confidential. These provisions are identical to provisions in SCS/SB 182 (2025), SB 926 (2024), a provision in HCS/HB 1525 (2024), a provision in HCS/HB 2140 (2024), and a provision in HCS/HB 2895 (2024), substantially similar to provisions in the truly agreed to SS/SCS/HCS/HB 1871 (2026) and provisions in SCS/SB 346 (2023), and similar to a provision in the perfected HCS/HBs 267 & 347 (2023), a provision in HCS/HB 783 (2023), and a provision in CCS/HS/HCS/SS#2/SCS/SB 96 (2023). VOTER IDENTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS (Section 115.427) The act makes accommodations for individuals who appear at the office of an election authority to vote absentee and fail to present a form of personal identification by explicitly allowing such voters to cast a provisional ballot that will only be counted upon the voter returning to the office of the election authority by 7:00 p.m. on election day and presenting a form of personal identification for voting. This provision is identical to a provision in the truly agreed to SS/SCS/HCS/HB 1871 (2026). CASTING PROVISIONAL BALLOTS (Section 115.430) The act expands a provision of law governing the casting and counting of provisional ballots to all public elections, rather than just particular primary or general elections. This provision is identical to a provision in the truly agreed to SS/SCS/HCS/HB 1871 (2026), a provision in SCS/SB 182 (2025), HCS/HB 1525 (2024), HB 2052 (2024), HCS/HB 2140 (2024), HCS/HB 2895 (2024), SCS/SB 346 (2023), the perfected HCS/HBs 267 & 347 (2023), and a provision in HCS/HB 783 (2023). WRITE-IN CANDIDATES - REPEAL OF EXEMPTION FOR ELECTIONS WITHOUT PARTY CANDIDATES (Section 115.453) Current law provides that votes for write-in candidates are only counted for candidates who have filed a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate. Current law also provides an exemption to this requirement in instances where no candidate has filed for the office in question. This act repeals the exemption so that write-in candidates are only counted when a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate has been filed with the proper election authority. This provision is identical to a provision in the truly agreed to SS/SCS/HCS/HB 1871 (2026) and a provision in SCS/SB 182 (2025). SCOTT SVAGERA

HCS/SS/SCS/SBs 1694 & 1688 - This act expands the "Missouri Downtown and Rural Economic Stimulus Act" by increasing allowable tax increments, extending project durations, and broadening eligibility and financing mechanisms for redevelopment projects. Current law defines terms used under the Missouri Downtown and Rural Economic Stimulus Act (MODESA), including development project, economic activity taxes, and related financing mechanisms used for redevelopment. This act modifies the definition of "economic activity taxes" to expand the types of revenues that may be captured, including certain additional local taxes, fees, and other revenue sources generated within a project area. The act also modifies and adds definitions relating to "expanded development projects", allowing for broader project structures and eligibility. Current law allows municipalities to establish a downtown economic stimulus authority to approve and oversee redevelopment projects within a defined downtown area. This act modifies the authority structure by allowing greater flexibility in how project areas are defined and administered, including permitting project areas to be not limited strictly to traditional downtown boundaries. The act also revises procedures for project approval and oversight. Current law requires development plans to meet certain statutory requirements, including demonstrating eligibility, outlining project costs, and identifying anticipated revenues and financing structures. This act modifies development plan requirements by expanding eligibility criteria and allowing for expanded development projects. The act removes certain prior limitations and allows municipalities greater discretion in structuring redevelopment plans, including modifications and expansions of previously approved projects. Current law allows redevelopment projects to be financed through a combination of payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTs), economic activity taxes (EATs), and a portion of state tax increments, generally subject to statutory limitations. The act also allows 100% of payments in lieu of taxes, economic activity taxes, and the municipal residential earnings tax increment from the fund for contributions to a development project or expanded development project from any private nonprofit organization or local contributions from tax abatement. Current law provides that state tax increment financing is limited in scope and subject to various eligibility and structural requirements. This act modifies these provisions by expanding the categories of state tax revenues that may be captured. The act also authorizes a residential income tax increment of up to 70% based on wages earned by individuals residing within the project area. Current law requires redevelopment projects to be reviewed and approved through a defined process, including submission to the Department of Economic Development. The act also allows for greater flexibility in amending or modifying approved projects over time. Current law subjects redevelopment projects and associated financing mechanisms to statutory time limits. This act modifies the duration of redevelopment incentives by allowing projects to receive benefits for up to 30 years, including the repayment of project costs and obligations. Current law provides for various administrative and procedural provisions for governing the implementation of redevelopment projects under MODESA. This act modifies these provisions by revising administrative procedures, and making conforming changes to reflect the expanded financing and incentive structure authorized under the act. (Sections 99.918 to 99.980) These provisions are identical to provisions in SS#2/SCS/HCS/HBs 3231 & 2531 (2026) and are substantially similar to HCS/HB 3395 (2026). MISSOURI WORKS (Section 620.2012) The Missouri Works program is currently authorized to provide various incentives for the creation and retention of new and existing jobs. This act authorizes the Department of Economic Development to issue tax credits to qualified companies that expend at least $30 million in new capital investments located in a certified Missouri innovation zone, or $50 million in new capital investments for a project located outside of a certified Missouri innovation zone, within two years of submitting a notice of intent with the Department. The Department shall respond to a notice of intent within thirty days, provided, however, that a failure to respond within thirty days shall not be construed as an approval of a notice of intent. Tax credits authorized by the act shall not exceed 2.5% of the new capital investment, and shall not exceed the least amount necessary to obtain the qualified company's commitment to initiate the project. Tax credits authorized by the act shall count toward the maximum amount of Missouri Works incentives allowed in a fiscal year as provided under current law. (Section 620.2012) This provision is substantially similar to SB 1443 (2026) and HB 2654 (2026). MISSOURI INNOVATION, PUBLIC SAFETY, AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT (Sections 620.6000 to 620.6033) This act establishes the "Missouri Innovation, Public Safety, and Accountability Act" by authorizing the designation of Missouri innovation zones and the use of certain economic development incentives administered by the Department of Economic Development (DED) and local municipalities. The act authorizes a city to apply to DED for designation of a Missouri innovation zone by submitting a master plan to the Department. The master plan shall describe the proposed district boundaries, identify vacant or under-utilized properties, identify infrastructure and public safety priorities, provide high-level projections of anticipated housing and employment growth, and other required planning elements as described in the act. A city may establish only one innovation district. The Department shall approve or deny a completed application within forty-five calendar days. The Department's authority shall extent only to determining whether the required materials have been submitted, whether they are facially sufficient, and that the proposed boundaries conform to the required criteria in the act. Approval of a certified Missouri innovation zone shall be conditional, and shall not authorize the granting of any incentives, until the city adopts and implements certain local policies as required in the act. No other ordinance, resolution, legislative finding, or separate redevelopment area designation shall be required for a project within an innovation zone to qualify for incentives. The act requires the Department to promulgate rules to establish a master scorecard for the purposes of evaluating the office-to-residential conversion incentive and local tax increment financing incentives for a given project. Such scorecard shall establish objective, measurable, performance-based criteria; a weighting methodology, a maximum score of one hundred points, no fewer than five incentive tiers, and other provisions as described in the act. Once a reviewing authority verifies that a project has achieved a tier threshold, the incentives shall be awarded consistent with such tier. (Section 620.6003) The act requires a city to establish and maintain a "one stop shop" as a coordinated business, development, and incentive review process. Each city shall provide for electronic submission of applications for permits; zoning, rezoning, and variance approval; site plan approval; subdivision approval; and incentive, certificate, license, registration, or other prior authorization required for construction, alteration, repair, renovation, expansion, change of use, occupancy, or lawful business operation. The city shall designate a one stop review authority responsible for receiving and coordinating development applications, applications for locally administered development incentives, and business applications, and for issuing consolidated determinations or approvals by relevant departments and governing bodies. (Section 620.6006) The act establishes the "Rural Missouri Development Fund", to be administered by the Department, for the purpose of supporting economic development, infrastructure, housing, workforce development, and related community-building activities in rural and smaller communities in the state. Any city with a certified Missouri innovation zone and ranking within the highest five percent of all cities in terms of assessed valuation of real property shall be required to annually contribute to the Fund an amount equal to ten percent of net-new state sales tax revenue retain for the Innovation Zone Public Safety Fund, which is created by the act. Moneys in the fund shall be awarded to rural and smaller cities or local or regional development corporations, community development corporations, or similar entities. Such moneys shall be used for rural education, public infrastructure improvements or public safety, housing development, workforce development, health care or community service facilities, and other economic purposes consistent with the act. The Department shall annually submit a report to the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives indicating the process used to determine disbursements, including the amount and recipients of such disbursements. (Section 620.6009) The act establishes the "Innovation Zone Public Safety Fund" for the purpose of reinvesting a portion of net-new state economic activity generated in a certified Missouri innovation zone into public safety, public infrastructure, and related improvements. The Fund shall receive fifty percent of net-new state revenue, as defined in the act, generated within the certified Missouri innovation zone that would otherwise be deposited into the state General Revenue Fund. Moneys in the Fund shall be used for capital or operating expenditures related to public safety and infrastructure improvements within the district, including law enforcement personnel, lighting and surveillance systems, streets and sidewalks, traffic and pedestrian safety improvements, landscaping and public space improvements, property stabilization or demolition, and other improvements consistent with the district master plan. No less than forty percent of such moneys shall be used for public safety purposes and no less than forty percent shall be used for public infrastructure purposes. (Section 620.6012) The act establishes an employer retention and reinvestment incentive within the Missouri Works program, providing withholding benefits to qualified companies that maintain a continued presence in a certified Missouri innovation zone and reinvest in their operations. For all tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, the act authorizes a qualified company to retain state income tax withholdings or receive a withholding tax credit. A qualified company shall apply to the Department for a benefit agreement, and the Department shall approve or deny such application within forty-five calendar days. The benefits authorized in this act shall be determined based on the amount of state income tax withholdings attributable to employees in new and retained jobs at the certified Missouri innovation zone location, provided that no benefit shall exceed three percent of the aggregate gross wages paid to such new and retained jobs. The withholding benefit shall be authorized for not less than three years and not more than ten years. Any withholding benefit received under the act shall be used solely for qualifying reinvestment expenditures, defined as expenses incurred for capital improvements or other investments at or for the benefit of the certified Missouri innovation zone location, as described in the act. (Section 620.6018) The act establishes an employer relocation incentive within the Missouri One-Start Program for eligible qualified companies that create new jobs in a certified Missouri innovation zone. For all tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, an eligible qualified company shall be authorized to claim a tax credit in an amount equal to the eligible relocation expenses incurred and paid by the company on behalf of a relocated employee, not to exceed five thousand dollars per employee. (Section 620.6021) The act establishes an office-to-residential conversion incentive for the purpose of converting nonresidential real property to a predominantly residential use, as defined in the act. For all tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, this act authorizes a taxpayer to claim a tax credit equal to 25% of qualified conversion expenditures, as defined in the act, for a qualified converted building or upper-floor housing located within a certified Missouri innovation zone or a qualified Missouri main street district, or 30% of qualified conversion expenditures with respect to upper floor housing, as described in the act, incurred for converting nonresidential real property from office use to predominantly residential use, which may include retail or other commercial use. Tax credits authorized by the act shall not be refundable, but may be carried forward ten years. Tax credits may also be transferred, sold, or assigned, as described in the act. The total amount of tax credits authorized pursuant to this act shall not exceed $50 million in any fiscal year. Fifty percent of such maximum amount shall be reserved for qualified converted buildings of more than 750,000 square feet and shall be allocated to the annual limit over a period of ten years, provided that such project meets criteria described in the act. Twenty-five percent of the maximum amount of tax credits available to be authorized shall be authorized solely for projects located in a qualified Missouri main street district, as defined in the act. If the total amount of such reserved tax credits have been authorized, projects located in a qualified Missouri main street district may receive tax credits from the remaining unreserved amount of tax credits. A taxpayer shall apply to the Department of Economic Development to receive tax credits pursuant to this act. Such application shall include proof of ownership or site control, floor plans of the existing structure, architectural plans, and, where applicable, plans of the proposed conversion of the structure, as well as proposed additions, estimated cost of conversion, the anticipated total costs of the project, the actual basis of the property, as shown by proof of actual acquisition costs, the anticipated total labor costs, the estimated project start date, and the estimated project completion date, proof that the property is an eligible property, a copy of all land use and building approvals reasonably necessary for the commencement of the project, and any other information which the Department may reasonably require to review the project for approval. All taxpayers with applications receiving approval shall submit within 120 days following the award of credits evidence of the capacity of the applicant to finance the costs and expenses for the conversion of the eligible property. All taxpayers with applications receiving approval, excluding projects of more than 750,000 square feet, shall commence conversion within twelve months of the date of issuance of the letter from the Department granting the approval for tax credits. To claim a tax credit authorized by this act, a taxpayer with approval shall apply for final approval and issuance of tax credits from the Department, which shall determine the final amount of qualified conversion expenditures and whether the completed rehabilitation meets the requirements of the act. The final application shall demonstrate that the taxpayer has substantially converted a qualified converted building; satisfactory evidence of any qualified conversion expenditures for the structure, as determined by the Department; and any other information reasonably requested by the Department. The Department shall determine, on an annual basis, the overall economic impact to the state from the rehabilitation of eligible property pursuant to this act. No taxpayer shall be issued tax credits for qualified conversion expenditures on a qualified converted building within 27 years of a previous issuance of tax credits pursuant to this act on such qualified converted building. (Section 620.6024) The act establishes the "Missouri Opportunity Zone" program to encourage long-term private investment by allowing the deferral of Missouri income tax liability if the amount of the tax liability is invested in a qualifying property or business located in such zones. The deferral ends upon certain inclusion events, including disposition of the investment, loss of qualification, ten years after the investment, failure of an operating business to commence substantial operations within twenty-four months, or failure to place investment property into active use or make qualifying improvements within thirty months, as described in the act. If an investment results in net income prior to the expiration of the deferral period, the amount of tax liability for which payment was previously deferred shall be included in Missouri income tax for such tax year in an amount equal to 4.7% of the taxpayer's share of net income so generated. (Section 620.627) The act establishes an angel investment incentive. For all tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, this act allows an investor, as defined in the act, to claim a tax credit in an amount equal to forty percent of the investor’s investment in the qualified securities of a qualified Missouri business, as defined in the act, or fifty percent of the investor's investment if the qualified Missouri business is located in a rural county, as defined in the act, or sixty percent of the investment if the qualified Missouri business is located in a Missouri innovation zone. If the amount of the tax credit exceeds the investor’s tax liability in any one tax year, the credit may be carried forward for up to five subsequent tax years. No investor shall receive more than seventy-five thousand dollars in tax credits in a single year for contributions to a single qualified Missouri business, and shall not receive more than three hundred thousand dollars in tax credits in total in a single tax year. A tax credit may be transferred by a qualified investor. The total amount of tax credits authorized in a single tax year by the Missouri Technology Corporation (MTC) shall not exceed six million dollars for the 2027 and 2028 calendar years. Thereafter, the maximum amount of tax credits that may be authorized shall be increased annually by 20%, provided that the maximum amount of tax credits was authorized in the previous year. To be designated as a qualified Missouri business, a business shall apply to the MTC, as described in the act. The designation of a business as a qualified Missouri business shall be made annually by the MTC. In addition to other requirements described in the act, a qualified Missouri business shall not have had annual gross revenues of more than five million dollars in the most recent tax year of the business, and the business shall not have been in operation longer than five years if the business is not a bioscience business, or longer than ten years if the business is a bioscience business. Each business that has been allocated tax credits by the MTC shall submit a report containing certain information, as described in the act, to the MTC before such tax credits are issued. The state of Missouri shall not be held liable for any damages to an investor that makes an investment in any qualified security of a qualified Missouri business, any business that applies to be a qualified Missouri business but is turned down, or any investor that makes an investment in a business that applies to be a qualified Missouri business but is turned down. The MTC shall annually review the activities undertaken by this act to ensure they are in compliance with the provisions of the act. If the MTC determines that a business is not in substantial compliance, it may inform the business that such business will lose its designation if it does not come into compliance within one hundred twenty days. If the business does not come into compliance, the MTC may revoke its designation. If a business loses its designation as a qualified Missouri business, it shall be precluded from being allocated any additional tax credits. However, investors in such a business shall be entitled to keep all of the tax credits properly issued prior to the loss of designation by the business. The MTC shall report certain information annually, as described in the act, to the Department of Economic Development, the Governor, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. (Section 620.6030 and 620.6033) This act shall sunset 10 years after the effective date unless reauthorized by the General Assembly. These provisions are identical to provisions in HCS/SS/SCS/SBs 1694 & 1688 (2026) and are substantially similar to SB 1668 (2026). SEVERABILITY The act contains a severability clause. JOSH NORBERG

SCS/SBs 1653 & 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, and school districts. In addition to providing information about student performance, the report cards shall be designed to satisfy federal reporting requirements and shall be presented in a standardized, clear, and easily accessible form so that they can be easily understood by parents, taxpayers, school personnel, legislators, and the media. The State Board of Education may assign duties specified in the act to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) or contract with a third party under state law. By September 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 September 30 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. A school district, public school, or charter school that does not test at least 95% of its students in the annual summative assessment shall have its rating lowered by one level. 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 grades below 9th 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 skilled workforce position as determined by a governmental agency or non-governmental organization with expertise in such positions. DESE shall additionally develop a statewide report card that provides the percentages of students attending schools with each grade rating and student performance on the MAP test relative to student performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. 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. A special school district or state-operated school in which all of the students enrolled are students with disabilities shall be exempt from state requirements relating to school accountability report cards. This act is similar to HB 2539 (2026) and to provisions in SCS/HCS/HB 2710 (2026) and in HCS/SB 1351 (2026). OLIVIA SHANNON

HCS/SS/SCS/SB 1652 - This act creates the "Phoenix Alert System" to aid in the identification and location of abducted or missing African American women and girls. The Department of Public Safety shall develop regions to provide the system. The Office of Missing and Murdered African American Women and Girls and the Department of Public Safety shall coordinate with law enforcement agencies and public commercial television and radio broadcasters to provide an effective system. In the event that a local law enforcement agency opts not to implement the system and an abduction occurs, the law enforcement agency shall notify the Office who shall notify local media in the region. Regions shall be notified within one hour of receipt of a report of a missing or murdered African American woman or girl. The Phoenix Alert System shall include the Office of Missing and Murdered African American Women and Girls, Department of Public Safety, Highway Patrol, Department of Transportation, Department of Health and Senior Services, and Missouri Lottery Commission. Participation of local law enforcement and federally licensed radio and television broadcasters in the Phoenix Alert System is optional. After initial notification, the Department of Public Safety shall update notifications sent under this act whenever new information becomes available at least every month for the first year. Any person who knowingly makes a false report that triggers an alert is guilty of a class A misdemeanor. The Director of the Department of Public Safety shall establish and maintain an office within the Missouri Department of Public Safety dedicated to preventing and ending the targeting of African American women and girls. The Director shall appoint an executive director for the office who is a person closely connected to the African American community and who is highly knowledgeable about criminal investigations. The Director shall hire a qualified executive director no later than December 31, 2026. The duties of the office are described in the act. The office may coordinate with stakeholder groups, which are described in the act. The office shall report on measurable outcomes achieved to meet its statutory duties. Information required to be in the report is described in the act. The report shall be submitted by the office by January fifteenth each year to the chairs and ranking minority members of the legislative committees with primary jurisdiction over public safety. This act creates in the state treasury the "Missing and Murdered African American Women and Girls Fund", which shall consist of moneys appropriated by the General Assembly, gifts, and grants. The office shall issue grants to community-based organizations that provide services designed to prevent or end the targeting of African American women or girls, or to provide assistance to victims of offenses that targeted African American women or girls. The use of these funds is described in the act. On or before February first of each year, the office shall report to the legislative committees of the General Assembly with jurisdiction over public safety on the work of grant recipients, including the description of the number of entities awarded grants, the amount of those grants, and the number of individuals served by the grantees. The office shall have access to corrections data and medical data maintained by an agency and classified as private data on individuals or confidential data on individuals to the extent the data is necessary for the office to perform its duties under this act. TRISTAN BENSON, JR.

SS/SB 1605 - This act makes 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) in amounts concentrated at a level above 1,000 parts per million on a dry-weight basis a Schedule I controlled substance. This provision is substantially similar to HB 1614 (2026). Additionally, this act prohibits the preparation, distribution, advertisement, sale, or offering for sale of a kratom product that: (1) is adulterated; (2) is sold to a person under 21 years of age; (3) contains 7-hydroxymitragynine concentrated at a level above 1,000 parts per million on a dry-weight basis; (4) mimics candy or is appealing to children; or (5) is combustible or intended for vaporization. Kratom products shall contain specified labels that include disclaimers. A person who violates this provision will be deemed to have engaged in an unlawful practice in violation of the state's Merchandising Practices Act. Finally, it shall be an infraction for a person to sell a kratom product to a person under 21 years of age, as described in the act. These provisions are substantially similar to SCS/SB 927 (2026). SARAH HASKINS

SS#2/SCS/SB 1586 - The act modifies and creates new provisions relating to solid waste management. Under the act, no person may transfer title to any property containing a solid waste disposal site or demolition landfill without disclosing the sale, conveyance, or transfer to the Department of Natural Resources. The seller shall inform the buyer with a written notice signed and dated by the seller about the existence and location of the disposal or landfill site. If the seller fails to send the written notice to the buyer, the buyer may cancel the sale and the seller shall return to the buyer any earnest money paid by the buyer to the seller. After October 1, 2027, an annual adjustment of fees collected for solid waste accepted shall be based on the percentage increase measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for the preceding year. The Department shall have the authority to assess, investigate, test, remediate, and manage abandoned solid waste disposal areas. 51%, instead of 61% as currently provided, of revenue shall be used to fund the operating costs of the Department. 10% of revenue shall be allocated to the Department for remediation of abandoned solid waste disposal areas. If there are no more abandoned solid waste disposal areas left in the state in any given year, the percentage of revenue used to fund the operating costs of the Department shall increase to 61%. JULIA SHEVELEVA

SS/SCS/SB 1534 - This act modifies provisions relating to the exclusion of certain transactions from sales tax. CREDIT CARD PROCESSING FEES This act excludes credit card and debit card processing fees from the definition of "gross receipts" for the purpose of imposing sales taxes. Such processing fees shall not exceed three percent of the purchase price or the merchant discount fee, whichever is less. Any business that charges a processing fee that is excluded from gross receipts shall provide notice to a purchaser of such charges, as described in the act. (Section 144.010) This provision is substantially similar to a provision in SCS/HB 1707 (2026). FOOD SALES TAX EXEMPTION Current law taxes retail sales of food, as defined in current law, at a rate of one percent. This act provides that retail sales of food shall be exempt from state sales taxes. (Section 144.014) This provision is identical to SB 688 (2025), SB 734 (2025), and SCS/SB 161 (2023), and to a provision in SB 57 (2025) and SCS/HCS/HB 154 (2023), and is substantially similar to SB 1656 (2026), HB 2079 (2026), HB 2253 (2026), HB 2568 (2026), SB 659 (2025), HB 345 (2025), HB 432 (2025), HB 872 (2025), HB 1587 (2025), HB 1418 (2024), HB 1464 (2024), HB 2174 (2024), HB 260 (2023), HB 452 (2023), HB 591 (2023), HB 896 (2023), HCS#2/HB 1992 (2022), HB 1817 (2022), and HB 2530 (2022), and to a provision in HB 1029 (2025), HB 2815 (2024), HB 2887 (2024), HB 377 (2023), HCS/HBs 876, 771, 676 & 551 (2023), HB 1136 (2023), HB 1779 (2022), and HB 2249 (2022). The act also provides that, of the 4% state sales tax rate, the revenue derived from a rate of 0.2% shall be deposited in the School District Trust Fund. (Section 144.020) These provisions are identical to SCS/SBs 1017 & 1239 (2026). JOSH NORBERG

SB 1481 - Current law imposes a prepaid wireless emergency telephone service charge equal to three percent of the retail transaction, with the first $15 of each transaction exempt from the charge. This act repeals the exemption for the first $15 of each transaction and, beginning January 1, 2027, increases the service charge to four percent. The act also requires the Director of Revenue to require a seller to report the number of retail transactions as well as the total dollar amount of each transaction and the total amount of prepaid wireless emergency telephone service charges collected. Current law allows a seller to deduct and retain three percent of the service charges that are collected by the seller. Beginning January 1, 2027, this act increases such amount to four percent. If the Director of Revenue determines that a seller has not collected the required amount of services charges, the seller shall not be permitted to deduct and retain any amount of the services charges, nor shall the seller be permitted to deduct and retain any amount of sales taxes allowable under current law. This act is substantially similar to HB 2767 (2026). JOSH NORBERG