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.”