How We Grade Legislation
Thousands of bills are filed every session. We read the text (not the talking points) and evaluate them based on Constitutional limits, family impact, and biblical values. Note bills will change as they move through the process, so will our recommendations. The status shown is based on the content of the bills as they are now. Check back often for updates!
HJR 174
Income Tax Trigger & Hancock Bypass
Creates a constitutional "trigger" to ban individual income tax but authorizes taxing services to pay for it. Most dangerously, it exempts the implementing laws from Hancock Amendment voter protections and grants the Department of Revenue sweeping "notwithstanding" powers.
READ URGENT WARNINGSB 1653
Relating to Accountability Measures in Elementary and Secondary Education
SB 1653 replaces Missouri's school "report cards" with a rigid A-F grading system for all public and charter schools. Act for Missouri opposes this bill because it hard-codes standardized testing coercion by lowering school grades for student opt-outs, creates a costly $7.4 million "pay-for-score" bonus program that prioritizes metrics over classroom needs, and allows outside NGOs to define "living wage" standards for state reporting.
Read AnalysisHB 1855
Relating to Noncommunicable Disease Surveillance
HB 1855 establishes a statewide health surveillance pipeline for noncommunicable diseases. Act for Missouri opposes this bill because it grants DHSS broad authority to designate "diseases of concern" and enforce orders with minimal legislative oversight, mandates a state-to-federal reporting channel to the CDC without privacy guardrails, and ties state policy to evolving federal definitions.
Read AnalysisHB 1844
Relating to the Athletic Trainer Compact
HB 1844 pulls Missouri into an interstate compact for athletic trainer licensing. Act for Missouri opposes this bill because it delegates Missouri's rulemaking authority to an unelected external commission, mandates the sharing of personally identifiable information in a multi-state database, and allows compact rules to supersede Missouri law.
Read AnalysisSB 1396
Relating to discounts by electrical corporations
SB 1396 rewrites Missouri's utility discount law that lets electric utilities give big-load customers discounted base rates as part of "economic development" deals. Act for Missouri opposes this bill because it explicitly spreads the impact of those discounts across all customer classes, creating a hidden cost shift onto ordinary Missouri families and small businesses.
Read AnalysisHB 2780
Relating to Taxation and Property Tax
HB 2780 changes how local property-tax limits and rollbacks are calculated and expands a senior-focused property tax credit. [cite: 12] However, Act for Missouri opposes it because it acts as an omnibus bill combining multiple distinct tax regimes, which creates serious single-subject fair-notice issues and significant fiscal uncertainty for local services. [cite: 17, 88, 90]
Read AnalysisHB 2061
Prohibiting antisemitic actions at educational institutions
HB 2061 requires educational institutions to adopt the external IHRA definition of antisemitism and establishes a state and federal compliance pipeline. It creates new bureaucracy and hardwires an escalation channel into federal enforcement via the U.S. DOE and DOJ, risking speech-chill and a loss of state sovereignty.
Read AnalysisSB 917
Post-Consumer Architectural Paint Stewardship
SB 917 establishes a statewide paint "stewardship" system that imposes mandatory consumer fees and creates state-protected industry coordination. It mandates participation as a condition of doing business and expands the reach of the DNR bureaucracy.
Read AnalysisSB 971
Statewide Open Enrollment
SB 971 imposes a statewide open enrollment system managed by DESE, stripping local districts of tuition control. It empowers the state bureaucracy to assign students and shifts funding away from community schools.
Read AnalysisSB 860
Weather Modification Prohibition
SB 860 asserts state sovereignty by banning intentional weather modification and geoengineering in Missouri. It establishes a $25 million environmental bond and a mandatory chemical disclosure regime to protect the state's atmosphere from unauthorized experimentation.
Read AnalysisHB 3129
Physician Assistant Licensure Compact
HB 3129 surrenders Missouri's regulatory sovereignty to an unelected interstate commission with the power to issue binding rules that bypass state oversight. It establishes a centralized multi-state surveillance database including investigative flags and mandates participation in a national standard-setting regime.
Read AnalysisSB 1023
Sales Tax for Public Libraries
SB 1023 expands regressive sales tax authority for targeted library districts using non-transparent population brackets. It encourages "tax stacking" that increases the cost of living for Missouri families while reducing local commission oversight.
Read AnalysisHB 2372
Omnibus Healthcare, Doula Program & Standing Orders
HB 2372 creates a new state-funded doula program without pro-life guardrails, potentially funding abortion infrastructure. It also empowers bureaucrats to issue medical standing orders and outsources health policy to globalist NGOs.
Read AnalysisHB 2710
Statewide A-F Grading & Test Incentives
HB 2710 establishes a mandatory A-F grading system for all schools based on state test scores. It expands centralized "accountability" metrics, creates test-based bonus funding for schools, and increases bureaucratic control over local education.
Read AnalysisSB 836
Omnibus: Taxpayer-Funded Primary & Early Voting
SB 836 reinstates a $9 million taxpayer-funded presidential primary and expands no-excuse early voting. While it tightens ID rules, the bill significantly grows government cost and administrative machinery.
Read AnalysisHB 2688
Federal Constitutional Protections for the Unborn
HB 2688 asserts that unborn children are entitled to 5th and 14th Amendment protections. While a strong moral signal, it lacks the criminal-code enforcement necessary to overcome Amendment 3's current legal barriers.
Read AnalysisSB 976
Lobbyist-Candidate Committee Exception
SB 976 weakens ethics safeguards by allowing registered lobbyists to maintain candidate committees for local offices. This creates a "pay-to-play" risk by empowering professional influence operators in school board and municipal elections.
Read AnalysisHB 2668 & HB 2780
Omnibus Election & Property Tax Bill
These omnibus bills rewrite tax election timing and ballot language rules. While they contain some transparency reforms, they violate "fair notice" by embedding unrelated property tax changes and hidden solar subsidies into election statutes.
Read AnalysisHB 1661
Statutory Construction Regarding Unborn Children
Strengthens statutory language declaring unborn children have the "same rights" as other persons, but lacks enforcement and retains a "mother immunity" carve-out that weakens the legal standard.
Read AnalysisHB 1788
Restrictions on Campaign Fundraising
Modifies campaign finance rules to prohibit campaign committees from soliciting automatically recurring donations. While it improves transparency by requiring solicitations to clearly identify the benefiting committee, we are skeptical of the necessity of the recurring donation ban, which targets only one committee type and may disproportionately hinder grassroots fundraising efforts.
Read AnalysisHB 1789
Delivery Network Company Insurance Act
Establishes a regulatory framework for app-based delivery insurance but includes a sweeping "independent contractor for all purposes" provision that bypasses standard labor policy debates. The bill allows broad personal insurance exclusions that may leave drivers with significant coverage gaps for medical and physical damage claims.
Read AnalysisHB 2375
Workers' Compensation Reform
Significantly tightens workers' compensation eligibility by narrowing accident and injury definitions and requiring that work be the "prevailing factor" for disability. The bill shifts costs onto families and taxpayers by requiring other insurance benefits to be deducted from workers' comp awards while creating faster dismissal mechanisms for employers.
Read AnalysisHB 1997
Creation of Legislative Security Officers
Authorizes the House and Senate to employ their own armed security officers with broad, undefined law-enforcement and arrest powers[cite: 17, 19]. The bill creates a duplicate force to the Capitol Police, risks accountability gaps, and uses an emergency clause to take effect immediately[cite: 20, 106].
Read AnalysisHB 2107
Creation of Legislative Security Officers
Authorizes the General Assembly to employ armed security officers with broad, undefined law-enforcement and arrest powers. While intended to secure the Capitol, the bill risks politicized enforcement, duplicates existing Capitol Police duties, and uses an emergency clause to bypass normal oversight.
Read AnalysisHB 2303
Inmate Release Documentation & ID Support
Mandates that the Department of Corrections assist released inmates in obtaining state IDs and employment-related paperwork. While aimed at reducing recidivism, it raises concerns regarding government expansion, potential duplication of existing programs, and the use of private inmate trust funds.
Read AnalysisSB 1132
Paper Ballots & Hand Counting Elections
Moves Missouri elections away from electronic voting systems and toward paper ballots counted by hand. It repeals large blocks of current statutes tied to electronic tabulation and replaces them with a framework for hand-counting procedures.
Read AnalysisSJR 107
Repeal of "Reproductive Freedom" Amendment
Proposed constitutional amendment to repeal Article I, Section 36. It removes the "fundamental right to reproductive freedom" (including abortion) to restore the General Assembly's ability to protect the unborn and regulate abortion.
Read AnalysisHB 2380
Closed Primaries & Voter Data
Mandates a closed primary system requiring early public party affiliation. Expands centralized state databases of partisan voting behavior and increases Secretary of State control over local election funding and cybersecurity.
Read AnalysisHB 2356
Local Tax Ballot Questions
Bans misleading "no-tax-increase" labels on bond issues. Mandates plain-language disclosures of actual taxpayer obligations and home-value impacts, backed by State Auditor review.
Read AnalysisSB 836
Elections Omnibus & Primary
Reinstates a state-funded presidential primary, doubles the no-excuse early voting window to four weeks, and pushes citizen oversight further back by expanding electioneering buffer zones to 50 feet.
Read AnalysisSB 1008
AG Investigators & Arrest Powers
Restructures the Attorney General's staffing statute to create a formal category of commissioned investigators with full peace-officer arrest powers, expanding centralized law enforcement authority in a statewide political office.
Read AnalysisSJR 72
Constitutional Personhood & Right to Life
Proposes to amend Article I, Section 2 of the Missouri Constitution to define “person” as every human being with a unique DNA code, specifically including every in-utero human child from the moment of conception until birth.
Read AnalysisHJR 129
School District Debt Expansion
Proposes a constitutional amendment raising the school district debt ceiling from 15% to 20%. Allows for significantly more government debt and higher property tax risks without new taxpayer protections.
Read AnalysisHB 2245
Administrative Rules "Two-for-One" Repeal
Mandates a "two-for-one" reduction in state regulations: no agency can issue a new rule without repealing two existing ones. Halts the growth of the administrative state.
Read AnalysisSB 859
AI Non-Sentience & Responsibility Act
Declares that artificial intelligence is non-sentient and can never be treated as a legal person, spouse, or property owner. Ensures humans and human institutions always remain responsible for AI actions.
Read AnalysisSB 879
Electric Utility, Solar Permitting & Taxation Package
Tightens local control with new county solar permits and setbacks, but permanently locks in special tax breaks ($6,000/MW) and subsidies for utility-scale solar projects.
Read AnalysisSB 841
Health Care Omnibus & Agency Expansion
Massive omnibus bill that creates a new Medicaid doula benefit and privileges national public-health NGOs. Critically, it grants unelected state health officials open-ended authority to issue standing medical orders for "any other purpose." [cite: 12, 13, 27]
Read AnalysisSJR 90
Property Tax Oversight & Assessment Reform
Constitutional amendment that reshapes State Tax Commission oversight by banning international assessment standards (IAAO), establishing a Taxpayer Ombudsman, and restricting the Commission from mandating county-wide assessment increases.
Read AnalysisSB 1131
Property Tax Oversight & Assessment Reform
Reshapes State Tax Commission oversight by banning international assessment standards (IAAO), creates a Taxpayer Ombudsman, and caps assessment increases for vehicles under $50k.
Read AnalysisSJR 96
Constitutional Ban on Taxing Unrealized Gains
Amends the Constitution to strictly prohibit taxes on unrealized gains on any asset prior to sale, protecting farms, homes, and small businesses from future "mark-to-market" tax schemes.
Read AnalysisHB 1871
Elections Omnibus & Primary
Reinstates a state-funded presidential primary, doubles the no-excuse early voting window to four weeks, and pushes citizen oversight further back by expanding electioneering buffer zones to 50 feet.
Read AnalysisSB 1273
School Property Preemption
Preempts local control by forbidding deed restrictions on sold school property, retroactively voids existing contracts blocking educational use, and creates a "right of first refusal" for public entities over private buyers.
Read AnalysisHB 1704
Education Freedom Act
Restructures K-12 accountability by narrowing statewide testing to federal minimums, mandating local assessment systems with parent input, and opening a competitive path for national accreditation to break DESE's monopoly.
Read AnalysisHB 1676
Ban on State-Mandated Digital Identification
Prohibits Missouri from implementing state-sponsored digital ID systems or requiring digital ID for services, and repeals the authority for digital driver's licenses to protect citizen privacy.
Read AnalysisSB 916
Sovereign Immunity for MoDOT Contractors
Amends the sovereign immunity statute to grant private contractors working for MoDOT the same immunity as public entities, shielding them from lawsuits when their negligence injures Missourians.
Read AnalysisSB 935
Ballot Measure & Initiative Petition Changes
Revises procedures for challenging ballot titles, allowing courts to "extinguish" lawsuits after 180 days and enjoin petitions early if a 100-word summary is deemed impossible due to single-subject complexity.
Read AnalysisSB 864
Omnibus Tax Credit Extensions
Removes sunset dates on multiple tax credit programs, locking the state into permanent subsidies for wood energy, biofuels, meat processing, and freight rail.
Read AnalysisHB 1626
Nuclear Construction Pre-Charges
Shifts construction risks for new nuclear plants from investors to families by allowing charges on bills years before the plant produces power.
Read AnalysisHB 1682
Prenatal Equal Protection Act
Establishes personhood for the unborn in Missouri's homicide code and challenges the "reproductive freedom" amendment.
Read AnalysisHB 1701
School Instruction in Human Growth and Development
Rewrites Missouri’s human sexuality instruction statute and adds a new requirement that every public and charter school teach “human growth and development” and mandates that sex-ed classes watch the “Meet Baby Olivia” video from Live Action.
Read AnalysisHB 1792
DESE Media Literacy Pilot
Expands DESE bureaucracy to create "Media Literacy" standards, giving the state power to define "misinformation" in schools.
Read AnalysisHJR 109
Constitutional Personhood & Right to Life
Proposes to amend Article I, Section 2 of the Missouri Constitution to define “person” as every human being with a unique DNA code, specifically including every in-utero human child from the moment of conception until birth.
Read AnalysisHJR 112
Residential Assessment Caps
It would cap how fast residential property assessments can go up in Missouri.
Read AnalysisHB 1917
Water District Detachment
Creates a detachment process and debt-payoff rules for water districts, but is drafted as a constitutionally questionable "special law" targeting one county.
Read AnalysisSB 843
Centralizing Land Bank Control
Centralizes power by allowing the county executive to appoint all seven land bank board members, removing local checks and balances.
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