2020 Legislative Updates
2020 Legislative Session will begin on January 8, 2020.
Below is a list of some of the bills tracked by DMH during the regular session.
DMH Legislative Briefing 2020
Additional information on legislation as well as members of the General Assembly can be found on the House and Senate websites:
Senate
House
Below is a list of some of the bills tracked by DMH during the regular session.
DMH Legislative Briefing 2020
Additional information on legislation as well as members of the General Assembly can be found on the House and Senate websites:
Senate
House
2020
| Bill Number | Sponsor | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SCR 30 | Schupp | Establishes the Buddy Check 22 Day to promote awareness of suicide risks in the military. |
| SCR 31 | Emery | Recognizes the societal harms brought by pornography and the need for education, prevention, research, and policy change. |
| SJR | Sater | Requires certain MO HealthNet participants to comply with work and community engagement requirements. |
| SCR 41 | Sater | Urges the use of biosimilar medicines. |
| SJR 42 | Eigel | Places a cap on annual appropriations and reduces income tax rates based on revenue growth. |
| SB 533 | Wallingford | Requires hospitals to adopt workplace violence prevention plans. |
| SB 556 | Riddle | Modifies provisions relating to prisoner complaints against a psychologist's license. |
| SB 609 | Sater | Limits certain uses of funds form any state-settled opioid cause of action. |
| SB 625 | Libla | Establishes multidisciplinary adult protection teams. |
| SB 629 | Sifton | Modifies the Ticket to Work Health Assurance Program. |
| SB 638 | Riddle | Prohibits certain offenders of sex crimes from being near athletic facilities used primarily by children. |
| SB 648 | Koenig | Modifies several provisions relating to taxation. |
| SB 658 | Arthur | Prohibits mental health professionals from engaging in conversion therapy with minors. |
| SB 659 | Arthur | Modifies provisions relating to taxation. |
| SB 677 | Luetkemeyer | Establishes the Narcotics Control Act and provides for the incineration of certain controlled substances. |
| SB 684 | Sater | Establishes the effective date of coverage of MO HealthNet services at the date of the participant's application. |
| SB 689 | Emery | Modifies provisions relating to continuing education for professional licensees. |
| SB 712 | Arthur | Modifies provisions relating to anatomical gifts to persons with disabilities. |
| SB 748 | White | Enacts provisions relating to disability accommodations for commercial driver's license applicants. |
| SB 778 | Hoskins | Creates the offense of unlawful use of unmanned aircraft over certain facilities. |
| SB 787 | Romine | Requires all public and charter schools, and institutions of higher education to print the telephone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on either side of student identification cards. |
| SB 788 | Schupp | Establishes the "Postpartum Depression Care Act." |
| SB 803 | Crawford | Modifies provisions relating to salaries of public administrators. |
| SB 814 | Nasheed | Modifies provisions relating to medication-assisted treatment. |
| SB 823 | Wallingford | Establishes the "Alzheimer's State Plan Task Force." |
| SB 826 | White | Modifies provisions relating to child protection. |
| SB 838 | White | Modifies provisions relating to the discharge of certain committed persons. |
| SB 853 | Crawford | Requires the Department of Social Services and the Department of Mental Health to apply for a MO HealthNet waiver for certain children with disabilities. |
| SB 943 | Crawford | Permits certain health care providers to order restraints on patients in hospitals. |
| SB 973 | Wallingford | Creates the Missouri Early Childhood Cabinet. |
| SB 979 | Wallingford | Enacts provisions relating to working animals. |
| SB 1030 | Williams | Modifies provisions relating to murder in the first degree. |
| Bill Number | Sponsor | Description |
|---|---|---|
| HCR 66 | Stevens | Designates September of each year as "Opioid and Heroin Awareness Month." |
| HCR 71 | Sommer | Designates January 21 as Jaycees Day in Missouri. |
| HCR 104 | Bailey | Urges residents and business owners in the state to adopt the "Celebrate #extrAAAordinary" Initiative to benefit persons with special needs. |
| HB 1272 | Unsicker | Modifies provisions relating to health care for uninsured children. |
| HB 1276 | Unsicker | Requires state agencies to support competitive integrated employment for persons with disabilities. |
| HB 1288 | Pike | Modifies provisions relating to a minor's ability to contract for certain purposes. |
| HB 1322 | Sommer | Designates May as Mental Health Awareness Month. |
| HB 1323 | Sommer | Designates the third week of October as Invisible Disabilities Week in Missouri. |
| HB 1324 | Sommer | Designates the month of September as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month in Missouri. |
| HB 1343 | Roberts | Establishes procedures for a violent offender registry, which will include any person on probation or parole for first or second degree murder. |
| HB 1354 | Pietzman | Requires certain sexual offenders to be electronically monitored while relocating to a different county or city not within a county. |
| HB 1359 | Ellebracht | Provides that a person may be charged with promoting a suicide attempt or voluntary manslaughter if such person is convicted of abusing certain persons and such conduct significantly contributed to the suicide or suicide attempt. |
| HB 1382 | Washington | Requires long-term care facilities to have on staff one person trained in suicide assessment, treatment, and management. |
| HB 1383 | Washington | Designates July as "Minority Mental Health Awareness Month" in Missouri. |
| HB 1387 | Murphy | Establishes the "Authorized Electronic Monitoring in Long-Term Care Facilities Act." |
| HB 1396 | Price | Creates provisions for automatic voter registration. |
| HB 1450 | Schroer | Changes the laws regarding controlled substance offenses. |
| HB 1451 | Schroer | Modifies the offense of abuse of an elderly person, a person with disability, or a vulnerable person and the offense of financial exploitation of an elderly person or person with a disability. |
| HB 1470 | Applebaum | Requires teachers and principals to complete two hours of suicide prevention education each school year. |
| HB 1484 | Rehder | Establishes multidisciplinary adult protection teams. |
| HB 1487 | Rehder | Allows for the opening of recovery charter high schools. |
| HB 1528 | Razer | Modifies provisions relating to insurance coverage for mental health conditions. |
| HB 1558 | Evans | Adds grandparents to the list of individuals who are not required to submit background screenings if seeking appointments as guardians or conservators to certain persons. |
| HB 1572 | Barnes | Designates the month of September as "Deaf Awareness Month" and the last week of September as "Deaf Awareness Week." |
| HB 1654 | Sommer | Designates January 21 as Jaycees Day in Missouri. |
| HB 1683 | Wood | Establishes the "Alzheimer's State Plan Task Force." |
| HB 1691 | Rehder | Modifies provisions regarding unlawful actions by persons knowingly infected with communicable diseases. |
| HB 1692 | McCreery | Modifies provisions relating to actions by persons knowingly infected with communicable diseases. |
| HB 1693 | Rehder | Establishes the "Narcotics Control Act." |
| HB 1719 | Schnelting | Allows Missouri driver's license applicants to have an autism notation placed on the person's driver's license or non-driver's identification card. |
| HB 1752 | Spencer | Modifies provisions relating to working animals. |
| HB 1753 | Spencer | Establishes provisions relating to the protection of health care workers. |
| HB 1756 | Hannegan | Modifies provisions relating to murder in the first degree. |
| HB 1772 | Shields | Adds provisions relating to Medicaid waivers. |
| HB 1783 | Elbracht | Adds provisions relating to the care of indigent persons. |
| HB 1807 | Wood | Modifies provisions in relation to MO HealthNet eligibility. |
| HB 1813 | Moon | Establishes a "Terrorist Offender Registry." |
| HB 1875 | Gregory | Modifies provisions relating to antipsychotic drugs. |
| HB 1898 | Henderson | Creates the offenses of unlawful use of unmanned aircraft over a correctional center, unlawful use of unmanned aircraft over an open-air facility, and unlawful use of unmanned aircraft over a mental health hospital. |
| HB 1922 | Hill | Modifies provisions relating to health insurance policies sold in the state of Missouri. |
| HB 1962 | Fitzwater | Modifies provisions relating to prisoner complaints against a psychologist's license. |
| HB 2054 | Quade | Modifies provisions relating to a minor's ability to contract for certain purposes. |
| HB 2064 | Mitten | Modifies provisions relating to family law proceedings. |
| HB 2137 | Neely | Modifies provisions relating to insurance coverage for mental health conditions. |
| HB 2216 | Coleman | Modifies and creates provisions relating to the preservation of the family. |
| HB 2218 | Mayhew | Adds grandparents, uncles, and aunts to the list of individuals who are not required to submit background screenings if seeking appointments as guardians or conservators to certain persons. |
| HB 2238 | Merideth | Modifies provisions relating to taxation. |
| HB 2260 | Patterson | Adds provisions relating to medication-assisted treatment. |
| HB 2264 | Swan | Changes the Coordinating Board for Early Childhood to the Missouri Early Childhood Cabinet. |
| HB 2281 | Rogers | Modifies provisions relating to the appointment of a successor guardian or conservator. |
| HB 2282 | Rogers | Specifies that a ward's income is separate from a guardian's income and that a ward's income is not to be included in the calculation of a guardian's income. |
| HB 2283 | McCreery | Modifies provisions relating to youth mental health preservation. |
| HB 2288 | Riggs | Establishes the "21st Century Missouri Patient Education Task Force." |
| HB 2346 | Carpenter | Modifies provisions relating to health care sharing ministries. |
| HB 2379 | Helms | Modifies provisions for health care for children. |
| HB 2381 | Pollock | Permits certain health care providers to order restraints on patients in hospitals. |
| HB 2561 | Young | Provides a state supplement for public schools to hire a school nurse and a mental health professional. |
| HB 2571 | Stephens | Modifies provisions for step therapy. |
| HB 2574 | Riggs | Modifies provisions relating to postpartum depression screening. |
| HB 2613 | Lavender | Modifies the Ticket to Work Health Assurance Program. |
| HB 2633 | Ingle | Modifies provisions relating to sexual offenses. |
| HB 2634 | Swan | Establishes the Joint Task Force on Music Therapist Licensure. |
| HB 2673 | Taylor | Enacts provisions relating to the regulation of certain tobacco and nicotine products. |
| HB 2748 | Clemens | Specifies that entertainment venues cannot discriminate against persons with disabilities. |