# Missouri HB9: Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Corrections Missouri HB9, Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Corrections, is a 2025 Regular Session House bill sponsored by Deaton, Dirk (159); status signed, last action 2025-06-30 (Delivered to Secretary of State (G)) (as of 2026-10-19). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MO-HB9-2025 - As of: 2026-10-19 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Missouri HB9 - State: Missouri - Session: 2025 Regular Session - Title: Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Corrections - Status: signed - Chamber: House - Introduced: 2025-02-19 - Last action: 2025-06-30, Delivered to Secretary of State (G) - Sponsor: Deaton, Dirk (159) - Cosponsors: 0 - Touches household money: no - Roll calls: 7 (554 yes, 21 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 17 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Prison health care and opioid treatment: benefit, medium. For July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026, the law provides about $211.1 million for prisoners’ physical and mental health care. This includes $203.2 million from General Revenue. Another $7.9 million from the Opioid Addiction Treatment and Recovery Fund supports an opioid treatment pilot. The pilot funds acc… - Ten prisons receive staff funding: benefit, medium. For July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026, the law provides about $199.3 million for staff costs at ten prisons. They are Potosi, Fulton, Tipton, Western Reception, Maryville, Crossroads, Northeast, Eastern Reception, South Central, and Southeast. Each facility has its own full-time-equivalent staffing cap. S… - Dog fostering and service training funded: benefit, low. For July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026, the law provides $75,000 from the State Institutions Gift Trust Fund. The money supports a dog foster program that aims to improve shelter dogs’ chances of adoption. It also supports training service dogs for people with disabilities. The law does not guarantee a pla… - Wrongly convicted people receive restitution funding: benefit, low. For July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026, the law sets aside $73,000 from General Revenue for wrongful-conviction restitution. The money supports payments to qualifying people who were wrongly convicted. The appropriation does not set each person’s payment or explain how the total is divided. - Prison nursery and family services funded: benefit, low. For July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026, the law provides $842,413 for the Prison Nursery Program in Vandalia. The program serves participants and their children at the Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center. Funding includes $674,413 from General Revenue and $168,000 from federal Tem… - Treatment and recovery services receive funding: benefit, low. For July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026, the law funds about $12.91 million in substance use and recovery services. This includes $1.91 million from the opioid recovery fund and $40,000 from the Correctional Substance Abuse Earnings Fund. Staffing is capped at 49 full-time-equivalent jobs, with all funding… - Prison education and canteen services funded: benefit, low. For July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026, prison education receives about $12.37 million, including $1.6 million from the Inmate Canteen Fund. Education staffing is capped at 199 full-time-equivalent jobs. The law separately provides $1.2 million from that fund for education, recreation, and religious servic… - Prison work and release payments funded: benefit, low. For July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026, the law provides about $4.48 million for inmate wages and release-related costs. This includes $3.5 million from General Revenue and $979,585 from the Inmate Canteen Fund, without setting individual payment amounts. Missouri Correctional Enterprises receives about $3… - Corrections settlement and legal claims funded: benefit, low. For July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026, the law provides about $1.73 million for the Hootselle case against Missouri Corrections. General Revenue covers settlement and related resolution expenses, without specifying how the money is divided. The law also transfers $1 from General Revenue to the Missouri St… - Funding supports community supervision and monitoring: benefit, low. For July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026, the law provides $4 million for a secure web-based low-risk supervision platform. It supports agency or court check-ins before or after conviction, exclusion zones, compliance tracking, and reports. The law also provides $1.7 million from the Inmate Fund for low-risk… - Local jails receive menstrual product funding: benefit, low. For July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026, the law provides $240,000 for menstrual products for prisoners in local facilities. A county or city qualifies by operating a jail or detention facility eligible for reimbursement under state law. Corrections must make one annual payment to each eligible county or ci… - New community supervision center receives funding: benefit, low. For July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026, the law provides $8 million in one-time General Revenue funding for a new Community Supervision Center. The money covers planning, design, maintenance, demolition, land purchases, and construction. The county must have more than 19,000 but fewer than 22,000 residents… - Prisons fund data and call monitoring: benefit, low. For July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026, the law provides $8 million for AI-powered monitoring and investigation of inmate communications. The platform continuously transcribes and analyzes calls, handles all incoming communication data, and processes large volumes near real time. Staff can search transcrip… - Supervision and transition centers receive funding: benefit, low. For July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026, community supervision centers receive about $7.07 million for staff, expenses, and equipment. Their staffing is capped at 128.42 full-time-equivalent jobs. Transition center staffing receives about $5.09 million in St. Louis and $5.01 million in Kansas City. Their st… - Reentry funding supports jobs and services: benefit, low. For July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026, the law funds about $8.26 million for reentry, capped at 99.5 full-time-equivalent jobs. This includes $1.8 million in General Revenue, $1.73 million from the Inmate Fund, and $178,000 for Kansas City reentry. Private programs receive $2.5 million through performance… - County jail payments include debt deductions: mixed, low. For July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026, the law provides about $55.63 million for local jail and criminal-case payments. Eligible county jail reimbursements are $24.95 per prisoner per day, with about $49.96 million budgeted for them. Funding also covers prisoner delivery, transportation, extradition, spec… - Probation and parole operations receive funding: mixed, low. For July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026, probation and parole operations receive about $99.91 million, capped at 1,691.31 full-time-equivalent jobs. This includes $3.6 million for transfers and refunds offset against debts under existing law. The Command Center receives $762,328, with a cap of 16.40 full-ti… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Deaton, Dirk (159) ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2025-05-09 | House | House Adopts Conference Committee Report | pass | 143 | 3 | | | 2025-05-09 | House | Third Read and Passed | pass | 145 | 3 | | | 2025-05-09 | Senate | Senate Adopts Conference Committee Report | pass | 29 | 4 | | | 2025-05-09 | Senate | Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed | pass | 29 | 4 | | | 2025-04-29 | Senate | Third Read and Passed | pass | 30 | 4 | | | 2025-04-03 | House | Third Read and Passed | pass | 148 | 3 | 2 | | 2025-03-26 | House | HCS Reported Do Pass - with a time limit of six hours of debate on Perfection pursuant to Rule 24(4)(d) | pass | 30 | 0 | | ## Actions (55) - 2025-06-30: Delivered to Secretary of State (G) (House) - 2025-06-30: Vetoed in Part 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) - 2025-05-09: Senate Message (Senate) - 2025-05-09: Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed - AYES: 29 NOES: 4 PRESENT: 0 (Senate) - 2025-05-09: Senate Adopts Conference Committee Report - AYES: 29 NOES: 4 PRESENT: 0 (Senate) - 2025-05-09: Senate Submits Conference Committee Report (Senate) - 2025-05-09: House Message (House) - 2025-05-09: Third Read and Passed - AYES: 145 NOES: 3 PRESENT: 0 (House) - 2025-05-09: House Adopts Conference Committee Report - AYES: 143 NOES: 3 PRESENT: 0 (House) - 2025-05-09: House Submits Conference Committee Report (House) - 2025-05-08: House Distributes Conference Committee Report (House) - 2025-05-01: Senate Message (Senate) - 2025-05-01: Senate Conference Committee Appointed - SENATORS MAY, WASHINGTON, HUDSON, BLACK, HOUGH (Senate) - 2025-05-01: House Message (House) - 2025-05-01: House Conference Committee Appointed - REPRESENTATIVES DEATON, DAVIDSON, FOGLE, BROWN(149), DOUGLAS (House) - 2025-04-30: Senate Message (Senate) - 2025-04-30: Senate Refuses to Recede, Grants Conference (Senate) - 2025-04-30: House Message (House) - 2025-04-30: House Refuses to Adopt, Requests Senate to Recede or Grant Conference (House) - 2025-04-30: Taken Up (House) - 2025-04-30: Reported to the House with... - SS SCS (House) - 2025-04-29: Third Read and Passed - AYES: 30 NOES: 4 PRESENT: 0 (Senate) - 2025-04-29: SS Adopted (Senate) - 2025-04-29: SS Offered (Senate) - 2025-04-29: Taken Up for Third Reading (Senate) - 2025-04-24: SCS Reported Do Pass (Senate) - 2025-04-16: SCS Voted Do Pass (Senate) - 2025-04-16: Executive Session Held (Senate) - 2025-04-16: Public Hearing Held (Senate) - 2025-04-14: Public Hearing Scheduled - CANCELLED: Thursday, April 17, 2025, 8:30 a.m., Senate Committee Room 2 - 1st Floor (Senate) - 2025-04-14: Public Hearing Scheduled - Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 9 AM, SCR 2 - 1st floor (Senate) - 2025-04-14: Public Hearing Scheduled - Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 30 minutes upon adjournment, Senate Committee Room 2 - 1st Floor (Senate) - 2025-04-08: Second read and referred: Appropriations (Senate) - 2025-04-07: Reported to the Senate and First Read (Senate) - 2025-04-03: Delivered to the Senate - 2025-04-03: Third Read and Passed - AYES: 148 NOES: 3 PRESENT: 2 (House) - 2025-04-03: Taken Up for Third Reading (House) - 2025-04-01: Perfected (House) - 2025-04-01: HCS Adopted (House) - 2025-04-01: Taken Up (House) - 2025-04-01: Laid Over (House) - 2025-04-01: Taken Up (House) - 2025-03-31: Laid Over (House) - 2025-03-31: Title of Bill - Agreed To (House) - 2025-03-31: Taken Up for Perfection (House) - 2025-03-26: HCS Reported Do Pass - with a time limit of six hours of debate on Perfection pursuant to Rule 24(4)(d) AYES: 30 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0 (House) - 2025-03-24: HCS Voted Do Pass (House) - 2025-03-24: Executive Session Completed (House) - 2025-02-24: Public Hearing Completed (House) - 2025-02-20: Referred: Budget (House) - 2025-02-20: Read Second Time (House) - 2025-02-19: Introduced and Read First Time (House) ## Bill text - Truly Agreed, 2025-05-09: [PDF](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0009H.05T.pdf) - Perfected, 2025-04-01: [PDF](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0009H.02P.pdf) - Committee Substitute, 2025-03-26: [PDF](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0009H.02C.pdf), [PDF](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0009S.03C.pdf) - Senate Substitute, 2025-03-26: [PDF](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0009H.05S.pdf), [PDF](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0009S.04F.pdf) - Introduced, 2025-02-19: [PDF](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0009H.01I.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/0009H.05T.pdf) - [Perfected (PDF)](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0009H.02P.pdf) - [Committee Substitute (PDF)](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0009H.02C.pdf) - [Committee Substitute (PDF)](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0009S.03C.pdf) - [Senate Substitute (PDF)](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0009H.05S.pdf) - [Senate Substitute (PDF)](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0009S.04F.pdf) - 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[All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MO-HB9-2025 (as of 2026-10-19).