HB 145 Missouri House · 2025 Regular Session

Modifies provisions of the sunshine law

HB 145 amends Missouri's sunshine law to update the list of exemptions allowing public governmental bodies to close meetings, records, or votes. The bill specifies 11 exemptions, including legal proceedings (requiring public disclosure of settlement agreements after final resolution), real estate transactions (requiring disclosure after execution), and employee personnel matters (requiring voting records to be public within 72 hours). It clarifies that personal information in health, student, or welfare cases remains closed, but voting records on final decisions must be disclosed. This change replaces the existing exemption language with updated provisions to modernize transparency rules.

Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Dec 2024

Committee Review

May 2025

House Passage

May 2025

Senate Passage

May 2025

Governor

Introduced Dec 2, 2024 Last action May 30, 2025

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Senate Committee Substitute → Senate Substitute (Senate Floor Substitute) · 6 edits

MODERATE

The bill was revised from a general public records disclosure law to a specific judicial privacy act focused on protecting court-related officers and their families. The repeal of sections now targets specific judicial privacy statutes rather than the broader sunshine law, and the scope narrowed to primarily protect judges, prosecutors, and court clerks from public disclosure of personal information.

Scope change

The bill's scope changed from applying to all public governmental bodies under the sunshine law to specifically applying to court-related officers and government agencies regarding judicial privacy protections.

SCOPE

Removed the broad sunshine law framework that applied to all public governmental bodies, meetings, and records.

DEFINITION

Added specific definitions for 'court-related officer' including judges at all levels, prosecutors, and court clerks.

Added new definitions for 'personal information' including home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and financial account numbers.

ELIGIBILITY

Changed eligibility criteria from general public records exemptions to specific protections for judicial officers and their immediate families.

REQUIREMENT

Removed numerous exemptions for real estate transactions, employee hiring/firing, student records, and welfare cases that were previously protected.

Added requirements for written requests to be submitted to specific court clerks rather than general public records requests.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

Full legislative history

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Committee

Amendments

May 12, 2025

Lower · Passed

Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed - AYES: 107 NOES: 50 PRESENT: 1

lower

May 12, 2025

Introduced

House Adopts (H) - SS SCS as amended - AYES: 120 NOES: 37 PRESENT: 0

lower

May 12, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported Do Pass (H) - AYES: 7 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0

lower

May 12, 2025

Lower · Passed

Voted Do Pass (H)

lower

May 8, 2025

Committee

Referred: Fiscal Review(H)

lower

May 8, 2025

Introduced

Reported to the House with... (H) - SS as amended

lower

May 8, 2025

Upper · Passed

Third Read and Passed with Amendments (S) - SA 1, SA 2 adopted - AYES: 30 NOES: 1 PRESENT: 0

upper

May 8, 2025

Upper · Passed

SS Adopted (S)

upper

May 8, 2025

Introduced

SS Offered

lower

May 1, 2025

Upper · Passed

SCS Reported Do Pass (S)

upper

Apr 29, 2025

Upper · Passed

SCS Voted Do Pass (S)

upper

Apr 10, 2025

Committee

Second read and referred: General Laws(S)

upper

Apr 2, 2025

Lower · Passed

Third Read and Passed (H) - AYES: 138 NOES: 15 PRESENT: 0

lower

Mar 26, 2025

Lower · Passed

Perfected with Amendments (H) - HA 1, HA 2, HA 3 adopted

lower

Mar 26, 2025

Lower · Passed

HCS Adopted (H)

lower

Mar 12, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported Do Pass (H) - AYES: 10 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0

lower

Mar 12, 2025

Lower · Passed

Voted Do Pass (H)

lower

Feb 19, 2025

Committee

Referred: Rules - Legislative(H)

lower

Feb 6, 2025

Lower · Passed

HCS Reported Do Pass (H) - AYES: 10 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0

lower

Feb 6, 2025

Lower · Passed

HCS Voted Do Pass (H)

lower

Jan 22, 2025

Committee

Referred: Legislative Review(H)

lower

Dec 2, 2024

Introduced

Prefiled (H)

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors