Police reform: Allows prosecutors to revisit convictions, limits police use of chokeholds, makes it a crime for law enforcement officers to have sex with someone in custody and removes the residency requirements for Kansas City police officers. ()
Prescription Drug Monitoring Program: Creates a statewide database for doctors to track opioid prescriptions. ()
Gas tax: Gradually increases Missouri’s gas tax an additional 12.5 cents per gallon by 2025 with proceeds used to upgrade the state’s roads and bridges. ()
Religious boarding schools: Requires license-exempt religious boarding schools to notify the state they exist and meet basic safety standards; clarifies procedures for investigating abuse and potentially closing schools. ()
HIV medication: Allows pharmacists working under the supervision of a doctor to dispense post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), which can prevent HIV infection, without a prescription. ()
Robots and car fees: Sets rules for “personal delivery devices” and allows them to use sidewalks; raises cap on car purchase administrative fees from less than $200 to less than $500. ()
Not passed
Elections: Prevents judges from revising ballot language, requires hand-marked paper ballots, prohibits contributions to election authorities, and changes the primary election system for U.S. Senate, House and statewide elections. ()
Gambling: Addresses illegal gambling machines and allows sports betting. (/)
Unemployment overpayments: Allows Missourians to keep unemployment payments that were given to them by mistake, as long as there was no fraud. ()
Federal Reimbursement Allowance: Extends a tax on hospitals that brings in billions of dollars to the state’s Medicaid program. ()
Photos: On the last day of the Missouri Legislature session, the Senate stalls and the House kept going
Last day of the Missouri Legislature’s 2021 regular session
Last day of the Missouri Legislature’s 2021 regular session
Last day of the Missouri Legislature’s 2021 regular session
Last day of the Missouri Legislature’s 2021 regular session
Last day of the Missouri Legislature’s 2021 regular session
Last day of the Missouri Legislature’s 2021 regular session
Last day of the Missouri Legislature’s 2021 regular session
Last day of the Missouri Legislature’s 2021 regular session
Last day of the Missouri Legislature’s 2021 regular session
Last day of the Missouri Legislature’s 2021 regular session
Last day of the Missouri Legislature’s 2021 regular session
Last day of the Missouri Legislature’s 2021 regular session
Last day of the Missouri Legislature’s 2021 regular session
Last day of the Missouri Legislature’s 2021 regular session
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The Missouri House of Representatives finishes the final hours of the current legislative session on Friday, May 21, 2021, at the capitol building in Jefferson City. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com