2021 Legislative Updates
2021 Legislative Session will begin on January 6, 2021.
Below is a list of some of the bills tracked by DMH during the regular session.
Additional information on legislation as well as members of the General Assembly can be found on the House and Senate websites:
Senate
House
Below is a list of some of the bills tracked by DMH during the regular session.
Additional information on legislation as well as members of the General Assembly can be found on the House and Senate websites:
Senate
House
2021
Bill Number | Sponsor | Description |
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SB 9 | Riddle | Modifies provisions relating to prisoner complaints against a psychologist's license. |
SB 13 | Onder | Establishes "Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month" in Missouri. |
SB 27 | Crawford | Modifies provisions relating to political subdivisions. |
SB 53 | Luetkemeyer | Modifies provisions relating to the administration of justice. |
SB 65 | Rehder | Modifies provisions relating to persons knowingly infected with communicable diseases. |
SB 80 | Raver | Modifies provisions relating to insurance coverage for mental health conditions. |
SB 96 | Hoskins | Establishes a minimum biodiesel fuel content mandate for diesel fuel sold or offered for sale in Missouri. |
SB 122 | White | Modifies provisions relating to the discharge of certain committed persons. |
SB 159 | Crawford | Modifies provisions relating to working animals. |
SB 173 | White | Modifies provisions relating to antipsychotic drugs for MO HealthNet participants. |
SB 207 | Arthur | Prohibits mental health professionals from engaging in conversion therapy with minors. |
SB 380 | Moon | Creates provisions relating to a terrorist offender registry. |
SB 412 | Moon | Creates provisions relating to working animals. |
SB 461 | Koenig | Modifies provisions relating to tax credits for the care of certain children. |
SB 521 | Roberts | Modifies provisions relating to medication-assisted treatment. |
SB 523 | White | Establishes the "Alzheimer's State Plan Task Force" in the Department of Health and Senior Services. |
SB 551 | May | Creates provisions relating to mental health programs for law enforcement officers. |
SB 607 | Williams | Modifies the Ticket to Work Health Assurance Program. |
Bill Number | Sponsor | Description |
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HJR 4 | Terry | Reduces property tax assessments on senior citizens and disabled persons by fifty percent. |
HCR 6 | Stevens | Designates September of each year as "Opioid and Heroin Awareness Month." |
HB 59 | Schnelting | Establishes provisions to protect personal information of active and retired first responders. |
HB 115 | Walsh Moore | Requires state agencies to support competitive integrated employment for persons with disabilities. |
HB 118 | Walsh Moore | Modifies provisions relating to MO HealthNet eligibility. |
HB 142 | Pietzman | Requires certain sexual offenders to be electronically monitored while relocating to a different county or city not within a county. |
HB 170 | Ellebracht | Provides that a person may be charged with promoting a suicide attempt or voluntary manslaughter if such person is convicted of abusing certain persons and such conduct significantly contributed to the suicide or suicide attempt. |
HB 200 | Ellebracht | Modifies provisions for providing copies of medical records. |
HB 270 | Quade | Creates a grant program for behavior crisis care centers. |
HB 273 | Hannegan | Modifies provisions relating to professional registration. |
HB 278 | Hannegan | Modifies provisions relating to murder in the first degree. |
HB 283 | Bland Manlove | Modifies provisions relating to the health professional student loan repayment program. |
HB 304 | Kelley | Enacts requirements relating to suicide prevention education and information. |
HB 319 | Fitzwater | Modifies provisions relating to complaints against a psychologist's license. |
HB 361 | Baker | Modifies provisions relating to tax credits for the adoption of children. |
HB 364 | Gregory | Modifies provisions relating to antipsychotic drugs. |
HB 383 | Kidd | Modifies provisions relating to insurance coverage for mental health conditions. |
HB 398 | Wallingford | Requires hospitals to adopt workplace violence prevention plans. |
HB 422 | Proudie | Establishes provisions relating to civil actions for abuse, bullying, or neglect of certain persons with disabilities. |
HB 427 | Proudie | Establishes definitions that relate to the issuance of protective orders. |
HB 430 | Kelly | Modifies provisions relating to tax credits for the adoption of children. |
HB 476 | Grier | Modifies provisions relating to occupational license reciprocity for military members. |
HB 530 | Evans | Modifies provisions relating to criminal offenses. |
HB 537 | Kelley | Modifies provisions relating to MO HealthNet coverage of mental health services. |
HB 582 | Riggs | Establishes the "21st Century Missouri Patient Education Task Force." |
HB 647 | Pollitt | Modifies provisions relating to working animals. |
HB 673 | Coleman | Modifies and creates provisions relating to the protection of children. |
HB 682 | Chipman | Prohibits public institutions of higher education from requiring students to live on campus, except for first-year freshmen who may be required to live in campus housing for their first year. |
HB 751 | Stephens | Modifies provisions for step therapy. |
HB 755 | Christofanelli | Modifies provisions regarding unlawful actions by persons knowingly infected with communicable diseases. |
HB 837 | Derges | Modifies provisions relating to mental health care for minors. |
HB 838 | Lewis | Creates provisions relating to COVID-19 vaccination. |
HB 841 | West | Modifies provisions relating to working animals. |
HB 851 | Walsh | Preempts the field of legislation regarding the classification of essential workers and states that all occupations qualify as essential workers. |
HB 882 | Anderson | Authorizes the Missouri Homestead Preservation Act. |
HB 889 | Lewis | Modifies provisions relating to insurance coverage for mental health conditions. |
HB 937 | Fogle | Requires certain health care professionals to complete two hours of cultural competency training as a condition of licensure. |
HB 941 | Burton | Authorizes the Missouri Homestead Preservation Act. |
HB 978 | Reedy | Modifies provisions relating to powers and duties of a guardian of an incapacitated person. |
HB 989 | Mayhew | Establishes the "Alzheimer's State Plan Task Force." |
HB 1003 | Evans | Modifies provisions relating to individuals who are not required to submit background screenings if seeking appointments as guardians or conservators to certain persons. |
HB 1011 | Young | Provides a state supplement for public schools to hire a school nurse and a mental health professional. |
HB 1058 | Morse | Specifies that any contract with a person over sixty-five years of age or with a person who has certain incapacities must be in writing. |
HB 1095 | Deaton | Modifies provisions relating to tax credits. |
HB 1165 | Riggs | Establishes the 21st-Century Missouri Social Services Gap Analysis Task Force. |
HB 1174 | Toalson Reisch | Authorizes a tax credit for donations made to certain organizations. |
HB 1213 | Sauls | Enacts provisions relating to alternative treatment options for veterans. |
HB 1244 | Mayhew | Creates provisions relating to counseling patients on potential suicidal thoughts when prescribing or dispensing certain medications. |
HB 1258 | Doll | Modifies provisions relating to health care sharing ministries. |
HB 1269 | Fogle | Prohibits mental health professionals from engaging in conversion therapy or sexual orientation change efforts with minors. |
HB 1287 | Reedy | Modifies provisions relating to the salary schedule for public administrators. |
HB 1335 | Sauls | Adds provisions allowing a child to reenter foster care if the child was discharged from foster care due to age while the state was under a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
HB 1380 | Shields | Modifies provisions relating to medication-assisted treatment. |