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MissouriSB2182025 Regular SessionSenateWALLET
Modifies provisions relating to court operations
Sponsored By: Rusty Black (Republican)
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
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10 provisions identified: 6 benefits, 0 costs, 4 mixed.
Mental health courts expand treatment options
Missouri circuits can create mental health treatment courts for criminal cases linked to mental health or co-occurring disorders. Successful completion can lead to dismissed, reduced, or changed charges or penalties. State- or federally funded referrals generally must use a state-certified program unless no appropriate program exists in the county. Treatment-program fees are not court costs, charges, or fines, except for costs waived under section 488.016. This fee rule does not specify a change in what participants pay.
Families can shield deceased relatives’ misdemeanor records
A parent, spouse, child, or personal representative can seek confidentiality for a deceased person’s misdemeanor conviction record. The request goes to the convicting court and covers the record in an automated case management system. The person must have been dead for at least six months, and the motion must include a death certificate. The court considers whether confidentiality would unfairly harm anyone before granting the request.
Legal aid funding continues for low-income residents
The law removes the Basic Civil Legal Services Fund’s December 31, 2025 expiration date. The fund keeps supporting legal help for people who meet federal Legal Services Corporation income guidelines. Money goes through Missouri legal services groups that qualify for federal Legal Services Corporation funding. The fund cannot pay constitutionally required refunds under Article X, Section 18. The law sets no specific funding amount.
State pays interpreters for court participants
The state pays interpreter or translator fees when a party or witness needs those services in a proceeding. Payment comes from appropriated state funds. Necessary travel expenses are covered up to state rates, but travel time is not paid.
Busy court circuits can add judges
A circuit gains authorization for one additional judge when annual reports show sustained staffing needs. Reports must show a need for at least two full-time judicial positions for three consecutive calendar years. The new position requires an initial appropriation. Unless merit selection or another law applies, voters elect the judge at the next general election and every six years afterward.
Three Missouri circuits receive judge staffing changes
The law sets the Sixth Judicial Circuit at three circuit judges. The Thirteenth Circuit, serving Boone and Callaway Counties, has five judges in divisions one, two, three, four, and thirteen. Voters elect the Division Thirteen judge in 2030 and every six years afterward. The Nineteenth Circuit, serving Cole County, has four circuit judges. Voters elect its fourth judge in 2030 and every six years afterward.
Two Missouri circuits add appointed judges
The Twenty-fourth Circuit has three judges and serves Madison, St. Francois, Ste. Genevieve, and Washington Counties. The governor appoints its Division Three judge through January 1, 2031; elections occur in 2030 and every six years afterward. The Thirty-second Circuit has three judges in three divisions and serves Perry, Bollinger, and Cape Girardeau Counties. The governor appoints its Division Three judge through January 1, 2029; voters elect that judge in 2028.
Court officers gain privacy with exceptions
Privacy protections cover current, former, and retired court officers, including clerks, administrators, municipal clerks, and juvenile officers. Agencies must remove covered personal information from public content within five business days of a valid written request. Restrictions also cover online posting or distribution by people, businesses, and associations. Officers can request shielding of eligible deed records using document locator numbers and their legal name or alias; family documents require the family member’s name or alias. Court-proceeding records in the statewide automated system follow Missouri Supreme Court rules instead of the Act’s general agency nondisclosure rules.
Jurors get new mileage and pay options
Grand and petit jurors receive courthouse travel reimbursement at the state-employee mileage rate, replacing 7 cents per mile. The new mileage amount is not stated here. A county or city not within a county can adopt an alternative pay system by majority vote. That system pays $50 per day starting on the third day of actual service, plus state-rate mileage. The first two days receive no service pay under that option.
Veterans courts direct participants to treatment
Veterans treatment courts must refer participants for substance use or mental health treatment through specified providers. These include military health care, the Veterans Administration or its successor, and community-based substance use disorder treatment programs. Courts can choose another provider only after finding good cause. This referral rule does not itself require participants to pay for treatment.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Rusty Black
Republican • Senate
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/5/2025
Reported Do Pass
Yes: 7 • No: 0
House vote • 4/29/2025
Reported Do Pass
Yes: 5 • No: 3
House vote • 4/22/2025
HCS Reported Do Pass
Yes: 13 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Delivered to Secretary of State (G)
7/9/2025Approved by Governor (G)
7/9/2025Delivered to Governor
5/30/2025Signed by House Speaker
5/29/2025HouseTruly Agreed To and Finally Passed
5/7/2025Taken Up
5/7/2025Reported to the Senate with... - HCS, as amended
5/7/2025HouseThird Read and Passed with Amendments - With HA 1.
5/7/2025HouseHCS Adopted
5/7/2025HouseTitle of Bill - Agreed To
5/7/2025Taken Up for Third Reading
5/7/2025HousePlaced on the Informal Third Reading Calendar
5/5/2025HouseReported Do Pass - AYES: 7 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0
5/5/2025HouseVoted Do Pass
5/5/2025HouseExecutive Session Completed
5/5/2025HouseReferred: Fiscal Review
4/30/2025HouseReported Do Pass - AYES: 5 NOES: 3 PRESENT: 0
4/29/2025HouseVoted Do Pass
4/29/2025HouseExecutive Session Completed
4/29/2025HouseReferred: Rules - Administrative
4/28/2025HouseHCS Reported Do Pass - AYES: 13 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0
4/22/2025HouseHCS Voted Do Pass
4/16/2025HouseExecutive Session Completed
4/16/2025HousePublic Hearing Completed
4/2/2025HouseReferred: Judiciary
3/25/2025House
Bill Text
Truly Agreed
5/7/2025
Committee Substitute
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