# Missouri SB71: Creates and modifies provisions relating to public safety Missouri SB71, Creates and modifies provisions relating to public safety, is a 2025 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by David Gregory (Republican); status signed, last action 2025-07-11 (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-SB71-2025 - As of: 2026-10-17 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Missouri SB71 - State: Missouri - Session: 2025 Regular Session - Title: Creates and modifies provisions relating to public safety - Status: signed - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2025-03-13 - Last action: 2025-07-11, Delivered to Secretary of State (G) - Sponsor: David Gregory (Republican) - Cosponsors: 0 - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 3 (24 yes, 2 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 25 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Tuition help for public safety workers: benefit, high. Qualifying Missouri public safety workers with at least six years of service can receive up to 100% of resident tuition and mandatory fees, subject to state funding and available seats. Workers must be full-time, hold the required credential, verify Missouri residence and employment annually, and h… - Disability pensions lose a payment limit: benefit, medium. Qualifying disability retirees in the local government retirement system are no longer subject to the specified maximum-allowance rules. Removing that limit allows higher payments for members previously affected by it. The law does not specify an increase for any individual member. - More local workers can join pensions: benefit, medium. The law removes a membership barrier in the Missouri Local Government Employees Retirement System. Employees of participating local governments are no longer excluded solely because they cannot reach minimum service years before retirement. This does not change the service requirements for receivin… - More time to claim pension contributions: benefit, medium. Former local government retirement-system members or their legal representatives have ten years to claim unclaimed contributions, up from three. This applies when no retirement allowance is or will become payable on the account. The period starts when membership ends. After ten years, unclaimed con… - Security Grants for Eligible Missouri Nonprofits: benefit, low. A new state fund supports nonprofit security planning, equipment, training, technology, building upgrades, and threat assessments. Each organization can receive up to 5% of the available grant pool. Its federal nonprofit security grant application must receive approval from Missouri's homeland secu… - Retirement boards can pool plan investments: benefit, low. The law lets retirement boards pool investments from authorized plans while tracking each plan's money separately for accounting and reporting. The firefighters' retirement board can also manage another firefighter pension plan for a city not within a county and covered dependents. Joint investment… - Survivor death benefit faces 2031 sunset: cost, medium. The public safety line-of-duty compensation program sunsets December 31, 2031, unless lawmakers reauthorize it. The program provides a $25,000 death benefit, subject to state funding, for qualifying deaths on or after June 19, 2009. Survivors must file within one year. If the program sunsets, the s… - Yearly local pension cap adjustments end: cost, medium. The law ends the required October 1 adjustment to the local government retirement system's maximum allowance. Affected retirees and beneficiaries no longer receive that yearly adjustment to the payment ceiling. Separately, the inflation measure for annual allowance changes is now defined more broad… - Fingerprint Checks for Medical License Applicants: cost, low. Missouri boards can require fingerprints for nursing, pharmacy, dental, podiatry, and listed physician and healing-arts credentials. Covered roles include physician assistants, assistant physicians, anesthesiologist assistants, physical therapists and assistants, and athletic trainers. The authorit… - Fingerprint Checks for Mental Health Applicants: cost, low. Missouri licensing bodies can require fingerprints from psychologists, behavior analysts, professional counselors, social workers, and marital and family therapists. The authority includes listed provisional and temporary credentials, including temporary clinical social work permits. When required,… - Fingerprint Checks for More Health Professions: cost, low. Missouri boards can require fingerprints for respiratory care, optometry, audiology, speech-language, occupational therapy, and clinical perfusionist applications. This also covers chiropractic, acupuncture, and massage credentials, including massage business licenses. Covered applications include… - Fingerprint checks for trainees and professionals: cost, low. Applicants to basic law enforcement training must submit fingerprints for state and federal background checks and pay required fees. The education board can require these checks for teacher and substitute-teacher certificate applicants. The interpreter committee can require them for regular and tem… - More Screening for Public Service Applicants: cost, low. The nursing board can require fingerprints from job applicants, as can Natural Resources for job and volunteer applicants. Courts can require fingerprints for qualified interpreter certification and Missouri Bar admission or reinstatement. Required fingerprints receive state and FBI criminal-record… - Fingerprint Screening for Medicaid Provider Applicants: cost, low. Missouri's Medicaid audit and compliance unit can require fingerprints from applicants seeking to become MO HealthNet providers. Required fingerprints go to the Missouri State Highway Patrol for state and federal criminal-history searches. The unit can access related criminal-history records. This… - Fingerprint Checks for Business License Applicants: cost, low. Missouri regulators can require fingerprints for real estate, appraisal, accountancy, athlete agent, and private investigator applications. Covered applications also include private fire investigators, accounting firm permits, appraisal management licenses, and specified vehicle-related business li… - New Penalties for Vehicle and Business Entry: cost, low. Unlawfully entering a vehicle to commit a felony or theft is second-degree burglary, a class D felony. It becomes class C if the person possesses a firearm or steals one from the vehicle. Entering restricted business areas to commit a crime is class B misdemeanor burglary, or class A for repeat vio… - Hazardous-material reporting fees continue six years: cost, low. The law renews hazardous-material reporting fee collection for six years beginning August 28, 2025. Covered employers remain responsible for these fees during the renewed period, ending August 28, 2031. This replaces the collection period that began August 28, 2018. - One-Time Fee for Hazardous Materials Employers: cost, low. Employers covered by the hazardous-materials reporting fee schedule owe a one-time fee. It is based on the filing due March 1, 2025, and payment is due November 1, 2025. The amount follows the referenced fee schedule; this provision does not state a separate dollar amount. - Dependent tuition help carries residency requirements: mixed, high. Legal dependents of qualifying Missouri public safety workers with at least ten years of service can receive tuition awards, subject to state funding. Awards cover up to 100% of resident tuition and mandatory fees for an associate or bachelor's degree. Workers must meet credential, employment-verif… - Household Checks for Emergency Child Placements: mixed, medium. When a parent's, guardian's, or custodian's unexpected absence requires emergency placement, officials can check household residents over 18. Checks can cover criminal history, full protection orders, and warrants; child-abuse registry checks are required. Requested fingerprints cover residents ove… - Police pension calculations count pay differently: mixed, medium. Covered police pensions generally use the last two years of service for members with credited service on or after October 1, 2001. Members without service on or after that date generally use their last three years; a shorter total service period replaces either period. Special calculations apply to… - Foster Households Face Updated Background Checks: mixed, low. Foster licensing investigations require fingerprints from household residents over 18. They also cover younger residents whom the Children's Division finds were certified as adults for crimes. Fingerprints receive state and federal checks, results go to officials, and applicable residents receive c… - Emergency health records get access protections: mixed, low. Authorized people can request patient records created by emergency care providers or telecommunicator first responders during formal calls for help. Requests must be in writing; records can also be provided under a subpoena or court order. Providers can require payment of the fee allowed for other… - Retirement Investment Meetings Can Be Private: mixed, low. The retirement-system board can discuss and decide investment or financial matters in closed meetings when disclosure threatens implementation or investment goals. Related records can stay private only to the extent, and for as long as, that risk remains. This protects the board's ability to carry… - Pension investments gain flexibility, lose safeguards: mixed, low. The law removes the affected retirement system's former 10% limit on investments in improved real estate, including real estate funds and trusts. It also removes this section's requirement that an appointed investment counselor with delegated authority hold federal investment-adviser registration.… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: David Gregory (Republican), Senate ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2025-05-01 | House | Reported Do Pass | pass | 7 | 0 | | | 2025-04-24 | House | Reported Do Pass | pass | 8 | 0 | | | 2025-04-15 | House | HCS Reported Do Pass | pass | 9 | 2 | 2 | ## Actions (36) - 2025-07-11: Delivered to Secretary of State (G) - 2025-07-11: Approved by Governor (G) - 2025-05-30: Delivered to Governor - 2025-05-29: Signed by House Speaker (House) - 2025-05-06: Emergency Clause Adopted on Truly Agreed to Bill - 2025-05-06: Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed - 2025-05-06: Taken Up - 2025-05-06: House Message (House) - 2025-05-06: House Refuses to Recede, Requests Senate to Take Up and Pass - HCS, as amended, (House) - 2025-05-06: Taken Up - 2025-05-05: Taken Up - 2025-05-05: Taken Up - 2025-05-01: Reported to the Senate with... - HCS as amended (House) - 2025-05-01: Emergency Clause Adopted (House) - 2025-05-01: Third Read and Passed with Amendments - With HA 1, HA 2, HA 3, HA 4, HA 5, and HA 6. (House) - 2025-05-01: HCS Adopted (House) - 2025-05-01: Title of Bill - Agreed To - 2025-05-01: 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) - 2025-04-30: Placed on the Informal Third Reading Calendar (House) - 2025-04-30: Action Postponed (House) - 2025-04-30: Executive Session Continued - 2025-04-28: Referred: Fiscal Review (House) - 2025-04-24: Reported Do Pass - AYES: 8 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0 (House) - 2025-04-23: Voted Do Pass (House) - 2025-04-23: Executive Session Completed (House) - 2025-04-15: Referred: Rules - Legislative (House) - 2025-04-15: HCS Reported Do Pass - AYES: 9 NOES: 2 PRESENT: 2 (House) - 2025-04-14: HCS Voted Do Pass (House) - 2025-04-14: Executive Session Completed (House) - 2025-04-07: Public Hearing Completed (House) - 2025-04-01: Referred: Emerging Issues (House) - 2025-03-19: Read Second Time (House) - 2025-03-13: Reported to the House and First Read (House) ## Bill text - Truly Agreed, 2025-05-06: [PDF](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/1178H.08T.pdf) - Committee Substitute: [PDF](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/1178H.08C.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/1178H.08T.pdf) - [Committee Substitute (PDF)](https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills251/hlrbillspdf/1178H.08C.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) - [Missouri bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/missouri/bills) - [Missouri state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/missouri) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MO-SB71-2025 (as of 2026-10-17).