# Missouri SB150: Creates, repeals, and modifies provisions relating to workforce development initiatives

Missouri SB150, Creates, repeals, and modifies provisions relating to workforce development initiatives, is a 2025 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Jill Carter (Republican); status signed, last action 2025-07-09 (Delivered to Secretary of State (G)); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17).

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## Facts
- Bill: Missouri SB150
- State: Missouri
- Session: 2025 Regular Session
- Title: Creates, repeals, and modifies provisions relating to workforce development initiatives
- Status: signed
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2025-03-13
- Last action: 2025-07-09, Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
- Sponsor: Jill Carter (Republican)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 4 (30 yes, 2 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 4

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Tuition help for career certificate students: benefit, high. Beginning in 2026–27, Missouri reimburses eligible students for tuition, books, and fees in qualifying career programs. Students must meet A+ reimbursement requirements or hold a qualifying career education certificate without having received A+ reimbursement. Qualifying certificate programs genera…
- New grants for science and technology students: benefit, medium. Subject to state funding, eligible students get $1,500 per academic year, up to $6,000 total. Students must attend an approved school, pursue a science, technology, engineering, or math credential, and receive Access Missouri aid. Renewals require continued Access Missouri eligibility, at least a 2…
- Licensing agreements keep protections for workers: benefit, low. Missouri's licensing portability rules preserve the authority and requirements of applicable interstate licensing compacts and reciprocity agreements. Licensing bodies must interpret those rules to avoid conflicts with these agreements whenever possible. The law removes the limit referring only to…
- Limits on public university degree offerings: cost, low. The University of Missouri has exclusive state authority to offer research doctorates, including Ph.D.s, and specified first-professional degrees. These professional degrees cover dentistry, law, medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine. Statutory exceptions allow some other public un…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Jill Carter (Republican), Senate

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-05-13 | House | Reported Do Pass | pass | 6 | 0 |   |
| 2025-05-01 | House | Reported Do Pass | pass | 7 | 0 |   |
| 2025-04-16 | House | Reported Do Pass | pass | 7 | 1 |   |
| 2025-04-14 | House | HCS Reported Do Pass | pass | 10 | 1 | 1 |

## Actions (43)

- 2025-07-09: Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
- 2025-07-09: Approved by Governor (G)
- 2025-05-30: Delivered to Governor
- 2025-05-29: Signed by House Speaker (House)
- 2025-05-29: Constitutional Objection Filed (House)
- 2025-05-22: House Message (House)
- 2025-05-14: Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed
- 2025-05-14: House Adopts Conference Committee Report (House)
- 2025-05-14: House Submits Conference Committee Report (House)
- 2025-05-13: Reported Do Pass - AYES: 6 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0 (House)
- 2025-05-13: Voted Do Pass (House)
- 2025-05-13: Executive Session Completed (House)
- 2025-05-13: Taken Up
- 2025-05-13: Referred: Fiscal Review (House)
- 2025-05-13: House Distributes Conference Committee Report (House)
- 2025-05-06: House Message (House)
- 2025-05-06: House Conference Committee Appointed - REPRESENTATIVES KELLEY, HALEY, HAUSMAN, HEIN, STEINHOFF (House)
- 2025-05-06: House Refuses to Recede, Grants Conference (House)
- 2025-05-06: Taken Up
- 2025-05-05: Taken Up
- 2025-05-05: Reported to the Senate with... - HCS as amended (House)
- 2025-05-05: Third Read and Passed with Amendments - With HA 1, HA 2, HA 3, HA 4, HA 7, HA 10, HA 1 to HA 12, HA 12, as amended. (House)
- 2025-05-05: HCS Adopted (House)
- 2025-05-05: Title of Bill - Agreed To
- 2025-05-05: Taken Up for Third Reading (House)
- 2025-05-01: Reported Do Pass - AYES: 7 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0 (House)
- 2025-05-01: Voted Do Pass (House)
- 2025-05-01: Executive Session Completed (House)
- 2025-04-23: Placed on the Informal Third Reading Calendar (House)
- 2025-04-22: Action Postponed (House)
- 2025-04-22: Executive Session Continued
- 2025-04-17: Referred: Fiscal Review (House)
- 2025-04-16: Reported Do Pass - AYES: 7 NOES: 1 PRESENT: 0 (House)
- 2025-04-16: Voted Do Pass (House)
- 2025-04-16: Executive Session Completed (House)
- 2025-04-15: Referred: Rules - Administrative (House)
- 2025-04-14: HCS Reported Do Pass - AYES: 10 NOES: 1 PRESENT: 1 (House)
- 2025-04-14: HCS Voted Do Pass (House)
- 2025-04-14: Executive Session Completed (House)
- 2025-04-02: Public Hearing Completed (House)
- 2025-03-25: Referred: Higher Education and Workforce Development (House)
- 2025-03-19: Read Second Time (House)
- 2025-03-13: Reported to the House and First Read (House)

## Bill text

- Committee Substitute: [PDF](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0068H.06C.pdf)

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- HB3: Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development (signed)
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## Sources
- [Committee Substitute (PDF)](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/0068H.06C.pdf)

## Related
- [HB3: Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MO-HB3-2025)
- [HB8: Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MO-HB8-2025)
- [HB11: Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MO-HB11-2025)
- [HB10: Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MO-HB10-2025)
- [SB79: Modifies provisions relating to health care](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MO-SB79-2025)
- [SB271: Modifies provisions relating to emergency services](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MO-SB271-2025)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MO-SB150-2025 (as of 2026-10-17).
