Missouri Legislature 2025
Click on the underscored bill number to see the details and status. Contact your legislator or the bill sponsor to register your opposition or support. Full texts are available from the links. General Assembly adjourns 5/16.
SB594 (HB34 Billington) Jamie Burger [R] Ten Commandments. Requires posting of the Ten Commandments in every public or charter school classroom in Missouri. Hearing held 3/25, S Education Committee. Opposition to this bill, featuring comments by our Board member Rev. Bart Tichenor and other opposition speakers that were organized by Bart and Board member Rev. Brian Kaylor was featured on the front-page story in the March 26 issue of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Email the Senate Education Committee and the President Pro Tem. Possible vote on 4/1.
SB681 Jill Carter [R] Pregnancy Center Diversion. Allows taxpayers to satisfy 100% of their income tax obligation up to $50K per year by donations to “pregnancy resource centers”, organizations that oppose abortion. Referred to S Economic and Workforce Development Committee.
HB75 (SB739 Schnelting) Cathy Loy [R] The “Missouri Religious Freedom Protection Act”. Exempts religious meetings from closure due to pandemics, for example. Voted “Do Pass” 10-4 in the HCS Committee. Hearing held 3/4. Sent to General Laws Committee.
HJR54 Melanie Stinnett [R] Negates the constitutional right to abortion, except for rape or incest, and has 12-week limit. Referred to House Children and Families Committee. This may be the vehicle under which the repeal would be enacted, combining and subsuming HJR’s 9, 14, 30, 31, 47, 59,63, 73, and 97, HBs 163, 194, 195, 429, 581, 919, 1119, 1246, 1304, 1367, 1474, 1581, and SJRs 5, 8, 9, 17, 23, 25, 29, 33, 41, 52, and 55.
SJR5 Rick Brattin [R] This is a proposed constitutional amendment that would supersede the “right to abortion” amendment that was passed in 2024. Referred to Senate Family, Seniors, and Health Committee.
HB195 Brian Seitz [R] and HB119 Holly Jones [R] “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act”. Referred to House Rules – Legislative Committee. Reported “Do Pass”, Vote 6-3
SB119 Mike Moon [R] Outlaws “chemical abortion” by making possession of relevant chemicals illegal and their use a felony. Referred Family, Seniors, and Health Committee. No action since 1/23.
SB118 Mike Moon [R] and SB49 Rusty Black [R] Authorizes “volunteer” chaplains in public schools. We testified against these bills in the Senate Education Committee hearing. Bill Combined w/(SCS SBs 49 & 118). Moribund lately. No House bill filed.
SB195 Rick Brattin [R] and SB 53 Richard West [R]Authorizes 100% deduction for expenses in educating a student in a private school or at home. SCS Voted Do Pass (w/ SCS/SBs 195 & 53) Education Committee. Substantial impact on the state budget is noted, and 28-3 witnesses in opposition at House Emerging Issues hearing. This is dangerous and potentially budget-breaking bill.
SJR8 Mike Moon [R] Confers personhood on fetuses, from conception. This would become a constitutional amendment. Referred to Families, Seniors, and Health Committee. Voted “Do Pass” 3/5
SB77 Adam Schnelting [R] The title of this bill implies that it is about “concealed carry” of firearms on public transit, but the bill text discloses that it makes the default for firearms in ‘houses of worship” “yes, you can” rather than “no, you can’t”. It is very deceptive and sneaky. Reported “Do Pass” by House Rules-Administrative Committee.
Abortion The voter-approved constitutional amendment that passed in November is the target for about a dozen Republican bills that would repeal it; three of them are linked above. No such bill has gotten through the House so far, and only one has gotten through a Senate Committee. Since the vote in November was a constitutional amendment, another state-wide vote would be required to repeal it.
More to come.
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