2025 MO Legislative Scorecard

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 House passed SB79 on May 15, 2025, by a vote of 147 to 1. We have assigned pluses to the noes 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 should 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.

HB199 classifies Downtown Saint Louis as an “entertainment district” to promote tourism.

The House passed HB199 on May 15, 2025, by a vote of 134 to 16. We have assigned pluses to the noes because this bill exempted the “entertainment district” in Downtown St. Louis from the statutory requirement that proposed community improvement districts obtain signatures from more than 50% of resident real property owners. Moreover, the General Assembly has no business spending state funds to promote “entertainment tourism.” It’s nothing other than a cliché used by corporatist cronies to steal proliferate amounts of taxpayer money and finance their corrupt “pork-barrel” projects, in violation of the principles of free-market enterprise. The U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights and 14th Amendment were written to secure “private property” rights and “promote the general Welfare” of all Americans, not to pick economic “winners” and “losers.”

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 House defeated the emergency clause for HB225 on May 8, 2025, by a vote of 88 to 34. We have assigned pluses to the noes 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.”

HB927 allows a court to grant “visitation rights” to grandparents after 60 days, even if opposed by both of the child’s parents who are married and living together with the child.

The House passed HB927 on April 10, 2025, by a vote of 135 to 11. We have assigned pluses to the noes because final decision-making authority over the upbringing and care of a child belongs to the child’s parents—not their grandparents, the government, or anyone else. No law-abiding parent should ever be compelled to relinquish their child under threat of the full weight and force of judicial system. Opponents of traditional marriage and the family are working tirelessly in each of the several States to proceed beyond “no-fault divorce” by advocating for “equal shared parenting,” “grandparent visitation,” and other “best interests of the child” legislation that seeks to rewrite U.S. family law based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Missouri officials must resist this intrusion. Parental rights, as with all other natural rights, are retained via the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment. Article VI, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution demands that “Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”

HB1175 would reestablish the “Second Amendment Preservation Act,” prohibiting any political subdivision or law-enforcement agency from knowingly depriving a Missouri citizen of their right to keep and bear arms.

The House passed HB1175 on March 27, 2025, by a vote of 100 to 51. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because the right of the people to keep and bear arms is an “unalienable” right enshrined in both the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article I, Section 23 of the Missouri Constitution. Thus, any attempt to impose unconstitutional firearms restrictions is “unauthoritative, void, and of no force.” Whenever the federal government or a state government assumes undelegated powers, nullification is the proper remedy.