All Roll Calls
Yes: 34 • No: 5
MissouriSB632025 Regular SessionSenateWALLET
Creates and modifies provisions relating to the participation of certain students in nontraditional educational settings
Sponsored By: Ben Brown (Republican)
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
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5 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
More school activity access for home-taught students
Districts and charter schools generally cannot exclude home, Family Paced Education, or full-time virtual students from covered events and activities. Students must meet the same residency, physical exam, behavior, performance, and fee requirements as other students. Parents serving as primary instructors bear the main responsibility for academic standards tied to participation. Schools can require classes essential to fine arts, career-and-technical student groups, or activities that combine classes with outside participation. Attendance and discipline rules must apply equally; unrelated gatherings and special occasions remain outside these protections. Schools cannot join or pay statewide activities associations when doing so violates these participation rights. Schools also cannot disclose records created or kept under these rules unless state or federal law requires it.
One-year activity ban for some students
Some students face a 12-calendar-month activity ban after leaving a district or charter school. This applies when their grades or disciplinary status would have made them ineligible for extracurricular participation. They must also have left for home, Family Paced Education, or full-time virtual instruction. The ban runs from the departure date and applies only at the district or charter school they left.
Faster school withdrawal processing for families
A parent, guardian, or other person responsible for a child can give written notice of another lawful education option. When that person also requests removal from public school enrollment rolls, the district must promptly remove the child.
More school options for students in recovery
The education commissioner can authorize up to four recovery high school pilots for students diagnosed with substance use disorder. These schools combine a full high school program with structured recovery support. Sponsors can include Missouri's education department, districts, magnet schools, charter schools, qualifying private schools, or groups of these entities. Recovery high schools no longer have to be public or operate in a public-school setting. Each school needs State Board approval before opening and a proposal covering its education program, accreditation, and financial plan.
Home school limits and family-paced school flexibility
The law treats home schools and Family Paced Education (FPE) schools as separate school types. A school cannot qualify as a home school while enrolling children in programs under sections 135.712–135.719 or 166.700–166.720. FPE schools can enroll children in those programs without the school having to submit to a background check.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Ben Brown
Republican • Senate
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/8/2025
Reported Do Pass
Yes: 8 • No: 0
House vote • 4/28/2025
Reported Do Pass
Yes: 8 • No: 1
House vote • 4/17/2025
HCS Reported Do Pass
Yes: 18 • No: 4
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
5/29/2025HouseHouse Message
5/8/2025HouseTruly Agreed To and Finally Passed
5/8/2025House Adopts Conference Committee Report
5/8/2025HouseHouse Submits Conference Committee Report
5/8/2025HouseReported Do Pass - AYES: 8 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0
5/8/2025HouseVoted Do Pass
5/8/2025HouseExecutive Session Completed
5/8/2025HouseTaken Up
5/7/2025Referred: Fiscal Review
5/7/2025HouseHouse Distributes Conference Committee Report
5/7/2025HouseHouse Message
5/5/2025HouseHouse Conference Committee Appointed - REPRESENTATIVES DEATON, HURLBERT, BOGGS, JOBE, COLLINS
5/5/2025HouseHouse Refuses to Recede, Grants Conference
5/5/2025HouseTaken Up
5/5/2025Taken Up
5/1/2025Reported to the Senate with... - HCS, as amended
4/30/2025HouseThird Read and Passed with Amendments - With HA 1.
4/30/2025HouseHCS Adopted
4/30/2025HouseTitle of Bill - Agreed To
4/30/2025Taken Up for Third Reading
4/30/2025HouseReported Do Pass - AYES: 8 NOES: 1 PRESENT: 0
4/28/2025House
Bill Text
Committee Substitute
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