House approves a slate of bills on telehealth, local districts, infrastructure and more

The Missouri House considered a broad set of committee substitutes and perfected numerous bills across public-safety, health, education, tax and consumer-protection policy.

Notable floor actions included: a unanimous third-reading passage of a telehealth licensure/reciprocity bill (House committee substitute for HB 2,974); adoption of consolidation language for a convention-center governance bill (HB 29 34); passage of an entertainment-district technical fix for the Lake of the Ozarks and Chesterfield (HB 20 57); refinement and perfection of HB 23 83 to make wired telecommunications infrastructure explicitly protected; adoption of a combined statute-of-limitations package (HB 16 64 et al.); and approval of HB 1,800 to lower the inflationary growth factor for some taxing districts from 5% to 3% after a lengthy debate.

Votes at a glance:

- HB 2,974 (telehealth licensure reciprocity): third read and passed — Yeas 136, Nays 0.
- HB 29 34 (convention center governance consolidation): third read and passed — Yeas 121, Nays 24.
- HB 20 57 (entertainment district technical fix): third read and passed — Yeas 137, Nays 10.
- HB 1,800 (reduce inflation growth cap from 5% to 3%): third read and passed — Yeas 82, Nays 61.
- HB 16 64 package (statute-of-limitations changes): committee substitute adopted and perfected; multiple roll-call tallies recorded.

Several bills were perfected and printed for Senate consideration (examples: HB 23 83 as amended, HB 31 46 as amended on ballot-summary timing; HB 23 02 reentry identification; HB 23 95 septic/soil-analysis rules). The floor also adopted dozens of technical/perfection amendments across a long calendar and concluded the session with an adjournment until 10 a.m. on 03/10/2026.

How we tracked this: Each roll-call tally listed on the floor was transcribed to ensure accuracy; where a named tally was not present the clerk’s announced yeas/nays from the board were used.