Missouri – The 2024 Missouri legislative session ended on May 17. Many bills were passed during the session but many were left unpassed.
The bills that passed during the session include:
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- Senate Bill 912 – This is a wide-ranging military bill to help the military community while enlisted and retired.
- Senate Bill 727 – The wide-ranging education bill will increase the base pay of teachers and more.
- House Bill 1803 – This will increase the funding for the MOBuck$ Program.
- House Bill 2634 – This bill defunds Planned Parenthood.
- Senate Bill 756 – Current state law allows Missouri counties to stop property tax increases for homeowner taxpayers who are eligible for Social Security benefits. This bill clarifies that homeowners have to be 62 or older to qualify.
- Senate Bill 748 – This bill will make it so that Healthcare tax will pay Medicaid costs
- Senate Bill 751 – This bill will increase access to discounted drugs for uninsured and low-income patients.
- Senate Bill 754 – This bill is a wide-ranging crime package. It includes “Blair’s Law,” which would create a criminal offense for firing gunshots in the air to celebrate. Another provision, called Max’s Law, would increase the punishment for harming or killing law enforcement animals.
- House Bill 2062 – bans local governments from delaying evictions unless authorized by state law
- The state budget. This passed state budget is $51.7 billion. The state budget includes funding to increase state workers’ pay by 3.2%, boost childcare access to low-income families, widen the I-44 to six lanes in Joplin, Springfield, and Rolla, fund the formula to bankroll k-12 public education and school bus transportation expenses, increase funding for colleges and universities by 3%. It includes $58 million for a developmental disability rate increase and $100 million for low-volume roads.
The bills that were not passed in the 2024 legislative session include:
- Senate Joint Resolution 74 – which would toughen citizen-led ballot initiatives and make it harder to change the Constitution.
- Senate Bill 752 and House Bill 1488 – A childcare tax credit package that would provide incentives to childcare providers, donors to daycare centers, and businesses who help to cover the childcare costs of their employees.
- House Bill 1989 – this would have allowed K-12 school districts to decide if they would accept enrollment from students from neighboring school districts.
- House Joint Resolution 78 – this would have not allowed new property assessments or reassessments to exceed a change in the Consumer Price Index or 2%, whichever is less.
- House Bills 2626 and 1918 – this bill would have provided hearing aids and cochlear implants for all eligible Medicaid patients.
- House Bill 1443 – a person who is first to call 911 or campus security to ask for medical help, could not be found guilty of hazing. If they provide first aid to a hazing victim, they would be immune from prosecution for hazing. They must remain at the scene until help arrives from emergency services, law enforcement, or security.
- Senate Bills 727 and 1342 – This bill would have made child marriage illegal. Right now in the state of Missouri children are allowed to be married as long as the parent gives consent. They have announced that this bill will get reintroduced next legislative session.
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