2025 MO Legislative Scorecard
The following scorecard lists several key votes in the Missouri General Assembly in 2025 and ranks state representatives and senators based on their fidelity to (U.S.) constitutional and limited-government principles.
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Senate Votes
HJR3, the “Protect Missouri Voters” amendment, would require a majority of voters in each congressional district (8/8) to approve initiative petitions to amend the Missouri Constitution.
The Senate adopted HJR3 on September 12, 2025, by a vote of 21 to 11. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because the initiative and referendum powers in Article III of the Missouri Constitution ought to be repealed. These illegitimate populist loopholes relegate the solemn lawmaking duties of the General Assembly to the will of the masses, replacing the checks and balances of representative government with chaos and instability. Further, it is essential that Missouri raise the standard for proposing and approving constitutional amendments, as its constitution should not be subject to change as a result of a simple majority vote, whether by both houses of the General Assembly and/or electors statewide. The current threshold of a simple majority (50% + 1) is an insufficient safeguard for protecting the rights and liberties of Missourians—in every part of the state—from the “dangers of democracy” or “tyranny of the majority.” Instead, a "constitutional majority" of two-thirds, if not three-fourths, must be required. Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution guarantees to Missouri “a Republican Form of Government,” which means government limited to the “rule of law,” as opposed to the unbridled whims of “majority rule.”
SB3 authorizes tax credits for “sporting events” and the expenditure of state funds for “athletic and entertainment facility” projects.
The Senate passed SB3 on June 6, 2025, by a vote of 19 to 13. We have assigned pluses to the nays because government has no business subsidizing professional sports. Privately-owned billion-dollar organizations, such as the Kansas City Chiefs and Kansas City Royals, can more than afford to build their own stadiums. They need zero handouts from taxpayers. “Economic development” is nothing other than a cliché used by corporatist cronies to steal proliferate amounts of public money (in this case, up to 50% of the cost a new or renovated stadium) and finance their corrupt “pork-barrel” projects, in violation of the principles of free-market enterprise. In addition, this bill conflicts with several provisions of the Missouri Constitution, including those against grants of public money to private persons, special law, and multiple subjects. Nevertheless, the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights and 14th Amendment were written to “promote the general Welfare” of all Americans, not to pick economic “winners” and “losers.”
HB567 eliminates the obligation for all Missouri employers to provide paid sick time.
The Senate passed HB567 on May 14, 2025, by a vote of 22 to 11. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because mandatory paid sick leave, like the minimum wage, denies businesses and workers the ability to make their own compensation decisions. There is no right to receive nor duty to provide paid sick leave apart from the terms of a lawful employment contract—entered into voluntarily by both employer and employee. As a dishonest and manipulative tactic to control labor in the economy, mandatory paid sick leave infringes upon freedom of contract and constitutionally protected property rights by forcing private employers to shoulder onerous and unjustified costs. This one-size-fits-all policy undermines work ethic and profit incentive, hindering the best workers from getting the best benefits from the best employers.
HB2 appropriates $8.7 billion for the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The Senate passed HB2 on May 9, 2025, by a vote of 26 to 8. We have assigned pluses to the nays because education is not the role of government—it is the responsibility of a child’s parents or family. Schools can and should be privatized, without any need for public funding that steals from taxpayers (e.g., property taxes) and drains the treasury. If not dismantled, the government’s monopoly on preK-12 education will continue to displace traditional private schools and homeschooling in favor of universal state-sponsored schooling. The best “school choice,” by far, is for parents to choose not to place their child’s education in the hands of the state. Educational and economic freedom cannot be achieved by forcing other citizens to give up their hard-earned tax dollars for all that now entails a compulsory, failing, and government-run school system.
HB225 permits any chief law-enforcement official to request assistance from a law-enforcement agency outside the State of Missouri but within the United States.
The Senate adopted the emergency clause for HB225 on May 7, 2025, by a vote of 32 to 2. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this bill gives out-of-state police unwarranted power to engage in law enforcement in Missouri. Interstate policing is blatantly unconstitutional—a dangerous violation of state sovereignty that is designed to lead to the creation of a national police force. State and local law-enforcement officers are commissioned “To Protect and to Serve” their own communities, not to intervene in other jurisdictions. Keeping police independent at the state, county, and municipal levels is crucial to preventing lawless “sanctuary cities,” while, at the same time, preserving the separation of powers that exists “in every State” under our federal and “Republican Form of Government,” as guaranteed by Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution. It’s why The John Birch Society has consistently called for Missourians and all freedom-loving Americans to “Support Your Local Police.”
SB79 directs health benefit plans that offer coverage for FDA-approved “self-administered hormonal contraceptives” to cover no less than an initial three-month supply.
The Senate passed SB79 on March 27, 2025, by a vote of 24 to 6. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this bill enables health insurers to provide year-round coverage for at-home abortions. Hormonal birth-control drugs, let alone “emergency contraception,” such as the “morning-after” pill (e.g., Plan B), function not only as “contraceptives,” but as abortifacients. Abortion is murder, and no person has a right to kill a preborn child. Since the care of human life—not its destruction—is the greatest responsibility of government, Missouri ought to abolish abortion entirely. The right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and “unalienable” right mentioned in the Declaration of Independence and secured by the Fifth and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
