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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

SB 933 - 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 849 (2026) and similar to HB 2477 (2026). JULIA SHEVELEVA

SB 1380 - This act prohibits lobbyists from receiving, or agreeing to receive, any direct or indirect compensation or other payment in any form, including intangible or in-kind, for carrying out any lobbying activity on behalf of another person that is a foreign adversary, a foreign political party of a foreign adversary, or foreign adversary client. A lobbyist who violates this act shall be subject to an action for disgorgement of any compensation received as well as a civil penalty of not more than $1,000 per violation. The Attorney General is given investigative authority and may subpoena documents, tangible things, and other information, as well as written responses under oath to questions or oral testimony under oath, to any person that may have knowledge or information regarding a potential violation of this act. The Attorney General may also file a civil action to enforce or otherwise obtain the assistance of a court with respect to any such subpoena. The provisions of law pertaining to the Missouri Ethics Commission and its role with respect to complaints and suspected violations of lobbying laws do not apply to this act. This act contains a severability clause. This act is substantially similar to HB 3128 (2026). SCOTT SVAGERA

SB 1053 - The Missouri Human Rights Act (MHRA) currently allows a prevailing party in any civil action brought pursuant to that chapter to be awarded court costs and reasonable attorney fees. This act only permits court costs and reasonable attorney fees in cases not involving a public employer, as that term is defined in the act. This act is identical to SB 717 (2025) and HB 1145 (2025) and substantially similar to HB 2715 (2026). SCOTT SVAGERA

Authorizes a sales tax exemption for supplies needed to care for infants

SB 1589 - The act repeals the provision that prohibits the Clean Water Commission from adopting or recommending a clean water fee exceeding $5,000. The act is identical to a provision in SB 1397 (2026). JULIA SHEVELEVA

SJR 107 - This constitutional amendment, if adopted by the voters, will repeal Article I, Section 36, the "Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative". This constitutional amendment is identical to SJR 55 (2025). SARAH HASKINS

SB 1210 - The act creates the "Lithium Battery Recycling and Safety Act". Under the act, any manufacturer or recycler of batteries in the state shall establish or join a representative organization, as defined in the act. The representative organization shall develop a plan for the establishment of a battery recycling program and submit it to the Director of the Department of Natural Resources for approval no less than every five years. Specifics of the plan are described in the act. The Department shall enforce the representative organization's compliance with the plan pursuant to provisions of current law and establish enforcement procedures and penalties. After the battery recycling program is implemented, a manufacturer or recycler shall not manufacture or recycle batteries in the state unless the manufacturer or recycler participates in the battery recycling program. After the program is implemented, all batteries shall only be disposed into receptacles at collection sites approved by the program and shall not be disposed into household waste or recycle containers. The act shall not prevent a manufacturer or recycler from offering a fee-based battery collection service or a battery mail back service independent of a battery recycling program, provided that the manufacturer or recycler complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Any person may report violations of this act to the Department. If the Department finds that a manufacturer or recycler violated provisions of the act, the Department shall ask the Attorney General to commence a civil action. If the court finds that the manufacturer or recycler violated provisions of the act, the court may grant relief as described in the act. By June 1, 2028, and by June 1st of each following year, a representative organization shall submit an annual report to the Department covering the preceding calendar year of the battery recycling program. Specifics of the report are described in the act. The report shall be posted on the Department's and the representative organization's website. The act is similar to HB 2611 (2026) and SB 593 (2025). JULIA SHEVELEVA

SB 1014 - Beginning in the 2027-28 school year and continuing in subsequent school years, this act modifies the "Jason Flatt/Avery Reine Cantor Act" by adding a requirement for school districts to provide at least two hours of suicide prevention training to all licensed educators. For the 2028-29 school year and all subsequent school years, such training shall include risk and protective factors, warning signs, response procedures, and postvention support, as the term "postvention" is defined in the act. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) shall include such information in its guidelines for training or professional development in youth suicide awareness and prevention. The act repeals provisions requiring public schools and charter schools to print certain contact information on identification cards for pupils in grades 7-12. By July 1, 2027, pupil identification cards shall include only the three-digit dialing code for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, 988. Any unissued cards that include additional contact information shall continue to be issued until the supply of cards is depleted. For the 2028-29 school year and all subsequent school years, each school district shall update its policy on youth suicide awareness and prevention training for school district employees to include risk and protective factors, warning signs, response procedures, and postvention support. The corresponding model policy currently developed by DESE shall be updated accordingly. Finally, beginning in the 2027-28 school year and in each subsequent school year, the act requires each pupil in a public school to receive mental health awareness training at any time in grades 5-8. Such instruction shall be included in the school district's existing health or physical education curriculum and shall be based on a program established by DESE. This act is similar to SB 695 (2025) and provisions in HB 244 (2025) and HCS/HB 2471 (2024). OLIVIA SHANNON

SCS/SB 1396 - The act repeals certain provisions and creates new provisions relating to discounts by electrical corporations. The act repeals a provision relating to discount percentages and provides that when a new load is less than 75 megawatts, the discount percentage shall equal 35% and shall apply for five years, as described in the act. The act repeals a provision relating to the variable cost to serve new load for purposes of a discount. An applicant shall not be eligible for a discount for any new or expanded facility that is determined by an electrical corporation to be a nonqualifying facility, as defined in the act. The act repeals a provision relating to the cents-per-kilowatt-hour realization and a provision relating to an application for a discounted rate. The act is similar to HCS/HB 2248 (2026). JULIA SHEVELEVA

SB 872 - This act authorizes a sales tax exemption for baby bottles, baby wipes, and breast pump supplies, as such term is defined in the act. This act is identical to HB 3198 (2026) and HB 3248 (2026). JOSH NORBERG

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

SCS/SB 1060 - The act creates provisions relating to public water supply districts. DETACHMENT FROM A PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT (Section 247.181) Under the act, as an alternative to detachment from a public water supply district located in certain counties, the owners of 50% or more of the area located within the district that does not receive water service from the district may petition the circuit court to be detached from the district by filing a petition. Conditions for the detachment are described in the act. Specifics of the petition are described in the act. After receiving the petition, the election authority shall issue a certificate stating whether the records of the authority show any voters residing within the area proposed to be detached. The authority shall file the certificate with the circuit court and shall serve a copy of the certificate upon the petitioners, as described in the act. Following the receipt of the petition, the board of directors of the district shall file with the circuit court a verification stating whether any water lines or other facilities owned or operated by the district are located within the area proposed to be detached or whether the district has any outstanding obligation bonds at the time the petition is filed. The verification shall be filed with the court and served upon the petitioners, as described in the act. The petitioner shall be responsible for payment of the reasonable costs of the district for providing the verification. Pursuant to the timelines described in the act, the court shall set a public hearing date on the proposed detachment. Notice of the filing of the petition shall be posted in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the proceedings are pending. Specifics of the notice are described in the act. At the public hearing, an interested person may file written objections or comments and may be heard with respect to any issues set forth in the notice. The court may hear all protests, objections, comments, and other evidence presented at the hearing. The court shall thereafter determine if the petition satisfied the conditions under the act and whether the petitioners are entitled to detachment, as described in the act. If the court determines that the petition is defective, the court shall dismiss the petition without prejudice. The petition shall not be considered defective based on the fact that the district is a borrower under a federal loan program. The petitioner shall bear all costs of the proceedings under the act. A certified copy of the court's order shall be filed as described in the act. ACCEPTANCE OF MONETARY CONTRIBUTIONS (Section 247.229) If a public water supply district that is located in certain counties, and pursuant to the provisions of the act, has an outstanding debt owed to or guaranteed by the United States government, the board of directors of the district shall accept any monetary gift, donation, or bequest made to the district for its use, unless such acceptance would be in violation of current law. Such donations shall be applied first to the payment of any outstanding debt of the district that is owed to or guaranteed by the United States government, until such debt is satisfied in full. Excess funds may be applied as authorized by current law. If no such debt exists, the board of directors may apply the funds as authorized by current law. The board shall maintain records of all monetary gifts, donations, or bequests received and make such records available for public inspection. Any person or entity may make full payment for any debt of the district that is owed to or guaranteed by the U.S. government or its agency. The board of directors shall take all necessary actions to facilitate such payments, as described in the act. These provisions shall only apply to specific public water supply districts, as described in the act. The act has an emergency clause. The act is substantially similar to HB 1917 (2026). JULIA SHEVELEVA

SB 1202 - This act provides that the definition of "tangible personal property" shall, for the purposes of property taxation, include machinery and equipment used to provide broadband communications service, as described in the act. (Section 137.010) This act also creates a new subclass of tangible personal property that includes machinery and equipment used to provide broadband communications service and that is placed in service on or after August 28, 2026. All such property shall be assessed at 12% of its true value in money for the 2027-2033 calendar years, and at 33.3% of its true value in money for the 2034 and all subsequent calendar years. (Sections 137.080 and 137.115) This act is substantially similar to HCS/HB 2711 (2026). JOSH NORBERG

Requires MoDot to obtain the approval of the governing body of a county, city, town, or village prior to constructing any roundabouts on certain roadways

SB 1429 - Current law requires withholding tax returns to be submitted electronically by employers with at least two hundred fifty employees. Beginning January 1, 2026, this act requires such electronic returns for employers with an amount of employees that meets or exceeds the threshold provided in federal law. This act is substantially similar to HB 1919 (2026) and to a provision in HCS/SB 994 (2026). JOSH NORBERG

Creates provisions relating to pharmacies

SB 1727 - Current law provides that property tax payments made by mail shall be deemed paid as of the postmark date stamped on the envelope, and shall not be subject to penalty if the postmark indicates that the payment was mailed prior to January 1. This act provides that payments shall be deemed timely paid if postmarked no later than January 5. JOSH NORBERG

SB 1476 - This act defines "adult cabaret performance" in regards to provisions relating to restrictions on sexually oriented businesses. Additionally, this act creates the offense of engaging in an adult cabaret performance if such performance is on public property or in a location where the performance could be viewed by a person who is not an adult. Such offense shall be a class A misdemeanor for the first offense and a class E felony for any subsequent offense. This act is identical to SB 764 (2025), HB 722 (2025), HB 1650 (2024), HB 1849 (2024), HB 2300 (2024), and HCS/HBs 494 & 498 (2023), and contains provisions identical to SB 295 (2025), SB 949 (2024), and SB 693 (2023). TRISTAN BENSON, JR.

Repeals the tax imposed on the sale of bingo cards