MissouriMissouri would add awareness days, official symbols, and named highways
Missouri would recognize numerous awareness periods, official symbols, communities, and named roads, while encouraging activities and assigning some sign costs to transportation officials.
What it does
Several dates would recognize health issues, people, history, music, and sports. Residents would be encouraged to hold related events, but the text does not require them to do so.
The measure would name official state symbols and titles and recognize Bland and Belle as Rock Island Trail communities. It would name the St. Louis Battlehawks only if the Chiefs leave Missouri.
Several highway and bridge sections would receive memorial names. Transportation officials would post signs, with costs covered either by private donations or by the department.
Argument forAwareness designations could help families and organizations draw attention to health conditions and support related education, research, or events.
Argument againstSome required signs could use transportation department money, which might direct funds away from other highway needs.
More detail
Missouri would designate several annual awareness days, weeks, and months. The designations cover health conditions, blood donation, pediatric cancer, infertility, history, civil rights, music, sports, and other subjects. Missouri residents would be encouraged, but not required, to hold events and activities connected to the designations. The designations apply on the listed dates, weeks, or months each year.
Missouri would recognize official state songs, a mushroom, places, festivals, sports-related titles, and a professional football team under specified conditions. The designations include the Missouri promotional song, smooth chanterelle mushroom, several Missouri cities and institutions, the Missouri Rock Island Trail communities, and the St. Louis Battlehawks if the Kansas City Chiefs leave Missouri. Bland and Belle would be designated Missouri Rock Island Trail communities. Other municipalities along the Rock Island Trail could receive that designation through another act of the General Assembly. The community designation would not require state spending. The football-team designation would apply only if the Kansas City Chiefs relocate outside Missouri.
The Missouri Department of Transportation would erect and maintain signs for the listed named highways and bridges. The provisions cover designated highway and bridge sections in several Missouri counties and in St. Louis city. Private donations would pay for signs on some routes. The department would pay for signs on other routes, including the bridge named for Dr. Tommy Macdonnell. The text gives no installation deadline and does not state when the naming or sign duties begin.
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- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- Jul 13Delivered to Secretary of State (G)Latest
- Jul 13Approved by Governor Mike Kehoe (G)Became Law
- May 28Delivered to Governor
- May 28Signed by President Pro Tem (S)
- May 28Constitutional Objection Filed (S)
- May 28Signed by House Speaker (H)
- May 15House Message (H)
- Vote recorded Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed - AYES: 134 NOES: 6 PRESENT: 1. Result: pass.Lower
- May 15Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed - AYES: 134 NOES: 6 PRESENT: 1Major
- May 15House Adopts (H) - SS#2 SCS
- May 15Taken Up
- May 14Reported Do Pass (H) - AYES: 8 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0Minor
- Vote recorded Reported Do Pass (H) - AYES: 8 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0. Result: pass.Lower
- May 14Voted Do Pass (H)Minor
- May 14Executive Session Completed (H)
- May 13Referred: Fiscal Review(H)Minor
- May 13Reported to the House with... (H) - SS#2 SCS
- May 12Third Read and Passed (S) - AYES: 28 NOES: 2 PRESENT: 0Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Third Read and Passed (S) - AYES: 28 NOES: 2 PRESENT: 0. Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded Motion to Reconsider Adopted (S) - Adoption of SS SCS, as amended - AYES: 30 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0. Result: pass.Upper
- May 12SS#2 Adopted (S)
- May 12SS#2 Offered (S)Minor
- May 12SS Withdrawn (S)Major
- May 12Motion to Reconsider Adopted (S) - Adoption of SS SCS, as amended - AYES: 30 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0
- May 12Taken Up
- May 12Reported Do Pass (S)Minor
- May 12Voted Do Pass (S)Minor
- May 12Executive Session Held (S)
- May 7Referred: Fiscal Oversight(S)Minor
- May 7SS Adopted (S) - SA 1, SA 2, SA 3, SA 4, SA 5, SA 6, SA 7, SA 8, SA 9, adopted
- May 7SS OfferedMinor
- May 7Taken Up for Third Reading (S)Minor
- May 7Placed on Informal Calendar
- Apr 28SCS Reported Do Pass (S)Minor
- Apr 28SCS Voted Do Pass (S)Minor
- Apr 22Public Hearing Scheduled (S) - Tuesday, April 28, 2026, 12:00 p.m., Senate Commitee Room 1 - 1st Floor
- Apr 21Second read and referred: Progress and Development(S)
- Apr 20Reported to the Senate and First Read (S)Minor
- Apr 16Third Read and Passed (H) - AYES: 140 NOES: 3 PRESENT: 2Passed House
- Vote recorded Third Read and Passed (H) - AYES: 140 NOES: 3 PRESENT: 2. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 16Taken Up for Third Reading (H)Minor
- Apr 14Perfected with Amendments (H) - HA 1, HA 2, HA 3, HA 5, adopted
- Apr 14HS Adopted (H)
- Apr 14Title of Bill - Agreed To
- Apr 14Taken Up for Perfection (H)
- Apr 13Placed on the Informal Perfection Calendar (H)
- Apr 9Placed Back on Formal Perfection Calendar (H)
- Apr 8HS Reported Do Pass (H) - AYES: 8 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0Minor
- Vote recorded HS Reported Do Pass (H) - AYES: 8 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 7HS Voted Do Pass (H)Minor
- Apr 7Executive Session Completed (H)
- Mar 31Public Hearing Completed (H)
- Mar 23Placed on the Informal Perfection Calendar (H)
- Mar 11Placed Back on Formal Perfection Calendar (H)
- Mar 10Committed to: Legislative Review(H)
- Mar 9Placed on the Informal Perfection Calendar (H)
- Feb 17Reported Do Pass (H) - AYES: 10 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0Minor
- Vote recorded Reported Do Pass (H) - AYES: 10 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 16Voted Do Pass (H)Minor
- Feb 16Executive Session Completed (H)
- Feb 11Referred: Rules - Legislative(H)Minor
- Feb 2Reported Do Pass (H) - AYES: 12 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0Minor
- Vote recorded Reported Do Pass (H) - AYES: 12 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0. Result: pass.Lower
- Jan 28Voted Do Pass (H)Minor
- Jan 28Executive Session Completed (H)
- Jan 21Public Hearing Completed (H)
- Jan 8Referred: Special Committee on Tourism(H)Minor
- Jan 8Read Second Time (H)Minor
- Jan 7Read First Time (H)
- 2025
- Dec 23Prefiled (H)Introduced
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