House
HB 1674, 1694, 1755, 1780, 2056, 2312 — Creates the Act Against Abusive Website Access Litigation, which seeks to prevent lawsuits filed by people alleging a website is in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and seeking to recover damages. (Rep. Brian Seitz, Mazzie Christensen, Carolyn Caton, John Voss, Jeff Vernetti, Mike Costlow)
HB 1690, 1697 — Suspends fees collected and remitted to the Missouri Beed Industry Council until Congress passes a National Country of Origin Labeling bill. (Rep. Scott Cupps, Rep. Mazzie Christensen)
HB 1705 — Changes laws regarding foreign ownership of land. (Rep. Mazzie Christensen)
HB 1871 — Seeks to reinstate the Presidential Primary in the first Tuesday of March and clarifies that candidates for President are not precluded from running for other public offices. (Rep. Peggy McGaugh)
HB 2036 — Would eliminate motor vehicle inspections. (Rep. Jeff Farnan)
HB 2409 — Creates three new childcare tax credits. One credit covers 75% of donations to eligible child care providers or intermediaries, subject to statewide limits. A second credit allows employers to claim 30% of qualifying childcare expenses tied to supporting employee childcare. A third credit would support providers by offsetting certain costs.
HB 2871 — (Right to Repair) Changes laws regarding consumer products so that certain individuals and businesses have access to product repair information from certain manufacturers. (Rep. Emily Weber)
HB 2944 — Removes requirement for annual reapplications in counties that have adopted the Senior Property Tax Relief measure, including Nodaway County. Once a qualifying senior completes the initial application and meets local requirements, the tax freeze will continue automatically each year until the homeowner relocates or passes away. (Rep. Hardy Billington)
House Concurrent Resolutions
HCR 29 — Urges Congress to restore Country of Origin Labeling. (Rep. Keith Elliott)
House Joint Resolutions
HJR 165 — Eliminates the Missouri State Income Tax. To replace the lost revenues, it would expand sales and use taxes, including services and taxes that were previously exempt. Subject to Missouri voter approval in the November 2026 election. (Sen. Jon Patterson)
Senate
SB 866, 885, 947, 1049 — Changes laws regarding foreign ownership of land. (Sen. Doug Beck, Travis Fitzwater, Rick Brattin, Rusty Black)
SB 971 — Creates statewide open enrollment. Students could enroll in a public school outside their home district. Families could transfer based on space availability with rules around timelines, capacity, and transportation.
SB 1194 — Would direct the State Board of Education to develop a standardized annual report card for every district, school building, and charter school. This would codify Governor Kehoe’s Executive Order 26-01 into law.
SB 1442 — Strengthens Missouri’s early literacy framework by tightening requirements around teacher preparation and reading instruction. It would limit practices such as three-cueing, or the practice of having students use cues to guess unfamiliar words. A similar bill, HB 2872, would explicitly ban the practice.
Senate Concurrent Resolutions
SCR 12 — Urges Congress to restore Country of Origin Labeling.. (Sen. Mike Moon)
Governor Mike Kehoe
Executive Order 26-01 — Ordered the Missouri State Board of Education to assign each public school district, public school, and charter school an overall rating of A, B, C, D, or F based on a 0-100 point scale, with schools having an “A” rating producing excellent student outcomes and schools with an “F” rating failing to produce adequate student outcomes. Any school that does not test at least 95% of its students on required state assessments shall have its grade lowered by one letter grade. Private schools can opt-in to the letter grading framework.
Schools shall be evaluated on student improvement on the Missouri Assessment Program performance, student academic achievement including proficiency in English language arts, literacy, math, and science, and graduation rates.
Iowa
Senate File 2008 — Requires private schools receiving public money through vouchers to adhere to the same data reporting, auditing, and other accountability and transparency requirements as public schools.
Federal
Rural Hospital Cybersecurity Enhancement Act — Passed unanimously out of committee Friday. Would require the HHS to develop a comprehensive rural hospital cybersecurity workforce development strategy, make available instructional materials for rural hospitals to train staff on fundamental cybersecurity measures, and report annually to Congress on updates. (Senators Josh Hawley, Maggie Hassan, Mark Kelly)
Special Inspector General for Program Fraud Act — This bill would create a Special Inspector General for Program Fraud. They would conduct audits, investigations, and oversight over federally funded child assistance programs in the US. They would make quarterly reports to Congress, make public findings of misuse of taxpayer resources, and refer any evidence of criminal acts to the US Department of Justice for further action and prosecution. (Senator Josh Hawley)
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