Missouri names observances, state symbols, and honored roads

Missouri designates recurring days and weeks for public awareness and commemorations. The designations include Blood Donor Awareness Month in January; several named awareness days and weeks; and days honoring Ulysses S. Grant, Frankie Muse Freeman, William Lacy Clay Sr., Eliot and Muriel Battle, and Missouri's River Runner passenger train. The listed observances recur on their specified dates or weeks each year.

Missouri names a state mushroom, places, and a professional football team under a stated condition. The designations name the smooth chanterelle as the state mushroom, Dexter as Rib City, Missouri Military Academy as the state military academy, Marshfield's cherry blossom festival, Kansas City as Barbecue Capital, Belle as Cowbell Capital, and Bland as the Silver City of the Rock Island Trail. The St. Louis Battlehawks become the official state professional football team only if the Kansas City Chiefs relocate outside Missouri.

The transportation department names specified roads and bridges and provides for signs. The named locations are specific highway stretches and bridges in Ralls, St. Francois, Greene, St. Louis, Jackson, Johnson, Webster, and Harrison counties. The text assigns sign costs to private donations for some locations and to the transportation department for others. The department is to erect and maintain signs for the named locations; the text gives no deadline.

Missouri designates two municipalities as Rock Island Trail Communities and allows the legislature to add others. The designation applies to municipalities along the Rock Island Trail corridor that promote outdoor recreation, heritage tourism, and economic development. Bland and Belle are named. Nothing in this provision requires spending state funds.