# Missouri HB199: Modifies provisions relating to political subdivisions Missouri HB199, Modifies provisions relating to political subdivisions, is a 2025 Regular Session House bill sponsored by Bill Falkner (Republican); status signed, last action 2025-07-10 (Delivered to Secretary of State (G)); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MO-HB199-2025 - As of: 2026-10-17 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Missouri HB199 - State: Missouri - Session: 2025 Regular Session - Title: Modifies provisions relating to political subdivisions - Status: signed - Chamber: House - Introduced: 2024-12-02 - Last action: 2025-07-10, Delivered to Secretary of State (G) - Sponsor: Bill Falkner (Republican) - Cosponsors: 0 - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 9 (510 yes, 59 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 37 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Property tax relief for senior homeowners: benefit, high. Counties can authorize a credit for Missouri residents age 62 or older against rising taxes on their primary home. Residents must own or hold a qualifying interest in the home, live there, and owe its property taxes. The credit covers the increase over the initial credit year's tax bill, with adjus… - Nearby owners can challenge nuisance properties: benefit, medium. Owners within 1,200 feet of an alleged nuisance can sue for lost property value, court costs, and nuisance removal. This applies in counties with more than one million residents, including cities and villages within them. Qualifying neighborhood organizations can seek court orders for eligible owne… - Higher base pay for circuit clerks: benefit, medium. Beginning September 1, 2025, annual circuit clerk base salaries are $94,330 in first-class counties. They are $90,573 in second- and fourth-class counties and $85,565 in third-class counties. First-class counties where court is held in two cities add $4,000. Pay also includes the approved annual ad… - County voters gain tax repeal process: benefit, low. For the county tax covered by this provision, registered voters can petition to force a repeal vote. Signatures must equal at least 10% of the county’s registered voters who voted in the last governor’s election. Majority approval ends the tax on December 31 that year; rejection leaves it in place.… - Voters can challenge emergency district taxes: benefit, low. Ambulance and fire protection districts must hold a sales-tax repeal vote after receiving a qualifying petition. Signatures must come from at least 20% of district registered voters who voted in the last governor’s election. If a majority voting on repeal approves, the tax ends on December 31 that… - Local jails gain flexibility and reimbursements: benefit, low. Regional jail districts can equip and maintain jails and lease district property. Their commissions can build, repair, improve, equip, or extend jails, contract with public or private entities to house prisoners, and locate jails anywhere within the district. Counties and the city not within a coun… - More funding support for county coroners: benefit, low. One dollar from each death-certificate fee goes to the Missouri Coroners’ Fund. At least $150,000 each year is designated for training, equipment, training-program aid, and training-attendance reimbursements. Coroner offices in second-, third-, and fourth-classification counties can receive grants… - Small city boards can include nonresidents: benefit, low. In eligible small cities, mayoral appointees to nonelected boards can meet residency requirements by owning city property or a business. This covers fourth-class cities with fewer than 3,000 residents outside counties with more than one million residents. Utility-board appointees must also live wit… - Land banks can buy more properties: benefit, low. Local land banks can acquire property through gifts, inheritance, transfers, exchanges, foreclosure, purchases, and specified tax-foreclosure processes. Purchases outside foreclosure no longer need to be next to property the land bank already owns. Acquired property must remain wholly within the co… - Lake communities can create entertainment districts: benefit, low. Counties bordering or containing part of a lake with at least 1,000 miles of shoreline can establish theater, cultural arts, and entertainment districts. Cities, towns, and villages within those counties also gain this authority. The law does not itself create a district or supply funding. - Late-report fine relief for local governments: benefit, low. Some local governments are exempt from the $500-per-day fine for late annual financial statements. An exemption applies with gross revenue under $5,000, fewer than 500 residents, or no sales or use tax levied or collected that year. For governments with fewer than 500 residents, previously assessed… - More port sites qualify for funding: benefit, low. Port Trust Fund eligibility includes qualifying land owned by a city outside any county and managed by a Missouri port authority. Projects must improve commerce or transport facilities on or beside a navigable Missouri river, within port boundaries. The fund can cover no more than 80% of project co… - State support opens for entertainment tourism: benefit, low. State departments can support tourism in designated entertainment districts whose applications receive economic development department approval by August 28, 2027. No appropriation is allowed before July 1, 2026. Annual appropriations are capped at $2.5 million for fiscal years ending through June… - More contracting options for water projects: benefit, low. Local governments can combine design and construction in one contract for water and wastewater storage, transport, or treatment projects. The Department of Economic Development cannot reject a community development block grant project solely for using this contract type. The Department of Natural R… - Assessment relief for tax-exempt organizations: benefit, low. Property owned by a federally tax-exempt 501(c) organization is exempt from the specified district special assessments, including community improvement district assessments. The exemption lasts while the property serves the organization's tax-exempt purposes. It lowers qualifying organizations' ass… - Higher sales tax ceiling for jails: cost, medium. Regional jail districts can seek voter approval for sales taxes up to 1%, replacing rate options capped at 0.5%. Revenue pays for jail services, facilities, and equipment. The law removes the September 30, 2028 expiration and the 12-month wait to resubmit a failed proposal. A county joining a distr… - Higher tax ceiling for qualifying counties: cost, low. Beginning August 28, 2025, qualifying counties can seek voter approval to exceed the 1% combined sales-tax limit under this authority. The new ceiling is 1.5%, not a cap on all state and local sales taxes combined. A county must have 8,001–8,899 residents, and its county seat must have 731–799 resi… - More towns can seek safety taxes: cost, low. More Missouri cities and villages can ask voters to approve a public-safety sales tax capped at 0.5%. Newly eligible places include multi-county cities with 16,001–17,999 or 51,001–57,999 residents. Other additions cover villages with 431–479 residents and cities with 12,501–13,999 residents, subje… - Small city can seek lodging, food taxes: cost, low. An eligible city can seek voter approval for a room tax up to 6% per room per night. It can also seek a food-establishment tax up to 2% of gross receipts. The city must have more than 165 but fewer than 185 residents, in a county with more than 11,000 but fewer than 12,500. The county seat must hav… - Coroners face stricter training requirements: cost, low. County coroner candidates must show proof of qualifying death-investigation training or certification when filing to run. Accepted sources include a nationally recognized accredited credentialing organization, a training provider authorized by the law, or qualifying annual training. Elected and app… - Coroner pay protection and required training: mixed, medium. Every coroner, deputy coroner, and assistant must complete at least 20 classroom training hours each calendar year. In counties without charter governments, $1,000 of authorized salary is payable only after completing qualifying training. Training providers must meet the stated state or national re… - Higher emergency taxes with property offsets: mixed, medium. Ambulance and fire protection districts can seek voter approval for sales taxes up to 1%, up from 0.5%. The law also removes the listed county exclusions. Districts must cut property-tax revenue by an amount equal to 50% of the previous year's sales-tax receipts. This is not a 50% cut to each prope… - Erosion work can bring property assessments: mixed, low. Neighborhood improvement districts can undertake river- or creek-bank erosion work even when benefits extend beyond private property owners. Districts can pay for the work through special assessments on property within the district. Property owners may face added costs while the projects address lo… - Nuisance lawsuits get new court rules: mixed, low. Nuisance notices can use prepaid mail instead of certified mail, with posting allowed after specified delivery problems. Notices must identify the nuisance, discovery date, location, and requested relief. A case cannot start until 60 days after required notices reach the mailing stage for occupants… - Vehicle valuation rules and assessment protection: mixed, low. Assessors must use October trade-in values from a national auto publication selected by the State Tax Commission. For unlisted vehicles, assessors use other sources they judge fairly estimate the vehicle's value. A vehicle worth less than $50,000 on January 1, 2025, cannot be assessed above its pre… - Portable bars gain special district license: mixed, low. Qualified businesses in the specified entertainment district can obtain a portable-bar liquor license for $300 annually. Sales run from 6:00 a.m. until 3:00 a.m. the next day Monday–Saturday, and until 1:30 a.m. the next day Sunday. The district must combine entertainment venues, bars, nightclubs,… - Counties get new financial disclosure rules: mixed, low. First- through fourth-classification counties must publish annual financial statements by June 30, replacing the first-Monday-in-March deadline. Statements cover the prior year ending December 31; records remain open for inspection for five years. Newspapers can request the underlying data electron… - Entertainment districts gain policing, not taxing: mixed, low. Community improvement districts designated as entertainment districts cannot impose their own taxes; other authorized governments can still tax within them. These districts can hire and train state-certified peace officers to enforce laws and district rules inside their boundaries. Those rules can… - Road district must hold dissolution vote: mixed, low. The specified special road district must place dissolution on the ballot no later than the November 2026 general election. Its county must have more than 15,700 but fewer than 17,600 residents. The county seat must have more than 4,210 but fewer than 6,000 residents. If voters approve dissolution,… - County planning hearing notices move online: mixed, low. County planning boards must post website notices before hearings to adopt, change, or extend a county master plan. This replaces physical notices posted at least 15 days ahead in two conspicuous places in each township. The separate newspaper notice requirement remains at least 15 days before the h… - Courts can oversee vacant nuisance buildings: mixed, low. Eligible local governments can pass ordinances letting building officials ask a circuit court to appoint a receiver for vacant nuisance buildings. A receiver can repair or demolish the building, or arrange its sale; the large-county authority requires a qualified buyer. This authority covers counti… - More neighborhoods gain nuisance lawsuit tools: mixed, low. Nuisance lawsuit tools extend to home-rule cities with more than 160,000 but fewer than 200,000 residents, or more than 71,000 but fewer than 79,000. Neighborhood groups must meet nonprofit, purpose, geographic-boundary, and board-residency requirements. Nuisance grounds include reduced nearby prop… - Cities gain mineral-spring project financing options: mixed, low. Third-class cities can acquire, build, maintain, and operate mineral springs, wells, related facilities, and other properties for the listed statutory purposes. The law removes former restrictions against increasing city debt or using general or special tax revenue for these projects. Cities gain f… - Counties gain sports authorities and matching funds: mixed, low. A county with more than 230,000 but fewer than 260,000 residents can create a five-commissioner sports complex authority by governing-body order. Certified copies go to the governor and secretary of state; the authority can develop, maintain, or operate sports, convention, exhibition, or trade faci… - Governments gain lasting design-build contracting options: mixed, low. The Office of Administration can use design-build contracts for noncivil projects over $7 million. It can also contract for no more than five noncivil projects under $7 million each fiscal year. Advertising, selection, and award rules apply. Eligible local governments retain design-build authority… - Public property protections allow private-project liens: mixed, low. Political-subdivision buildings and lands, including courthouses, jails, public offices, and burial grounds, are protected from court attachment and execution. A subdivision can consent to construction liens on a project intended mainly for private lease and nongovernmental use. Consent must be wri… - Sports projects can receive sales-tax revenue: mixed, low. Approved regional sports facility projects can receive up to 50% of estimated added state general-revenue sales taxes from project-area businesses. The added receipts must come from operation of the facility. The economic development director and administration commissioner must approve the authori… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Bill Falkner (Republican), House ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2025-05-15 | House | House Adopts - SS#2 SCS as amended | pass | 136 | 16 | 3 | | 2025-05-15 | House | Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed | pass | 134 | 16 | 3 | | 2025-05-14 | House | Reported Do Pass | pass | 6 | 1 | | | 2025-05-13 | Senate | Emergency Clause Defeated | pass | 15 | 14 | | | 2025-05-13 | Senate | Third Read and Passed with Amendments - SA 1 and SA 2 adopted | pass | 25 | 7 | | | 2025-05-12 | Senate | Motion to Reconsider Adopted - SS SCS, as amended | pass | 26 | 5 | | | 2025-04-14 | House | Third Read and Passed | pass | 147 | 0 | | | 2025-03-13 | House | Reported Do Pass | pass | 8 | 0 | | | 2025-03-06 | House | Reported Do Pass | pass | 13 | 0 | | ## Actions (59) - 2025-07-10: Delivered to Secretary of State (G) (House) - 2025-07-10: Approved by Governor (G) (House) - 2025-05-30: Delivered to Governor (House) - 2025-05-30: Signed by President Pro Tem (Senate) - 2025-05-29: Signed by House Speaker (House) - 2025-05-22: House Message (House) - 2025-05-15: Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed - AYES: 134 NOES: 16 PRESENT: 3 (House) - 2025-05-15: House Adopts - SS#2 SCS as amended AYES: 136 NOES: 16 PRESENT: 3 (House) - 2025-05-15: Taken Up (House) - 2025-05-14: Reported Do Pass - AYES: 6 NOES: 1 PRESENT: 0 (House) - 2025-05-14: Voted Do Pass (House) - 2025-05-14: Executive Session Completed (House) - 2025-05-13: Referred: Fiscal Review (House) - 2025-05-13: Reported to the House with... - SS#2 as amended (House) - 2025-05-13: Emergency Clause Defeated - AYES: 15 NOES: 14 PRESENT: 0 (Senate) - 2025-05-13: Third Read and Passed with Amendments - SA 1 and SA 2 adopted AYES: 25 NOES: 7 PRESENT: 0 (Senate) - 2025-05-13: SS#2 Adopted (Senate) - 2025-05-13: Taken Up (Senate) - 2025-05-13: Placed on Informal Calendar - SS#2 SCS, SA 1 and SA 2 adopted, pending (Senate) - 2025-05-13: Taken Up (Senate) - 2025-05-12: Placed on Informal Calendar (Senate) - 2025-05-12: SS#2 Offered (Senate) - 2025-05-12: SS Withdrawn (Senate) - 2025-05-12: Motion to Reconsider Adopted - SS SCS, as amended AYES: 26 NOES: 5 PRESENT: 0 (Senate) - 2025-05-12: Taken Up (Senate) - 2025-05-08: Placed on Informal Calendar (Senate) - 2025-05-08: SS Adopted - SA 1, SA 2, SA 3, SA 5, SA 6, SA 7, SA 8, adopted (Senate) - 2025-05-08: SS Offered (Senate) - 2025-05-08: Taken Up for Third Reading (Senate) - 2025-05-07: Placed on Informal Calendar (Senate) - 2025-05-06: Reported Do Pass (Senate) - 2025-05-05: Voted Do Pass (Senate) - 2025-05-05: Executive Session Held (Senate) - 2025-04-30: Referred: Fiscal Oversight (Senate) - 2025-04-29: SCS Reported Do Pass (Senate) - 2025-04-28: SCS Voted Do Pass (Senate) - 2025-04-28: Executive Session Held (Senate) - 2025-04-22: Public Hearing Held (Senate) - 2025-04-22: Public Hearing Scheduled - Monday, April 14, 2025, 2:00 p.m., Senate Lounge - 3rd Floor (Senate) - 2025-04-17: Second read and referred: Local Government, Elections and Pensions (Senate) - 2025-04-14: Reported to the Senate and First Read (Senate) - 2025-04-14: Third Read and Passed - AYES: 147 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0 (House) - 2025-04-14: Taken Up for Third Reading (House) - 2025-04-09: Perfected (House) - 2025-04-09: Title of Bill - Agreed To (House) - 2025-04-09: Taken Up for Perfection (House) - 2025-04-07: Placed on the Informal Perfection Calendar (House) - 2025-03-13: Reported Do Pass - AYES: 8 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0 (House) - 2025-03-13: Voted Do Pass (House) - 2025-03-13: Executive Session Completed (House) - 2025-03-11: Referred: Rules - Administrative (House) - 2025-03-06: Reported Do Pass - AYES: 13 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0 (House) - 2025-03-05: Voted Do Pass (House) - 2025-03-05: Executive Session Completed (House) - 2025-02-26: Public Hearing Completed (House) - 2025-02-13: Referred: Local Government (House) - 2025-01-09: Read Second Time (House) - 2025-01-08: Read First Time (House) - 2024-12-02: Prefiled (House) ## Bill text - Truly Agreed, 2025-05-15: [PDF](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0316S.14T.pdf) - Perfected, 2025-04-09: [PDF](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0316H.03P.pdf) - Committee Substitute, 2025-03-06: [PDF](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0316S.07C.pdf) - Senate Substitute, 2025-03-06: [PDF](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0316S.12F.pdf), [PDF](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0316S.14F.pdf) - Introduced, 2025-01-08: [PDF](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0316H.03I.pdf) ## Related bills - HB3: Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development (signed) - HB8: Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Public Safety and the Department of National Guard (signed) - HB11: Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Social Services (signed) - HB10: Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Mental Health, the Department of Health and Senior Services, and t… (signed) - SB79: Modifies provisions relating to health care (signed) - SB271: Modifies provisions relating to emergency services (signed) ## Sources - [Truly Agreed (PDF)](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0316S.14T.pdf) - [Perfected (PDF)](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0316H.03P.pdf) - [Committee Substitute (PDF)](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0316S.07C.pdf) - [Senate Substitute (PDF)](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0316S.12F.pdf) - [Senate Substitute (PDF)](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0316S.14F.pdf) - [Introduced (PDF)](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0316H.03I.pdf) ## Related - 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