HB 850 Missouri House · 2025 Regular Session

Modifies provisions relating to licensure of child care facilities

HB 850 modifies licensing rules for child care facilities in Missouri. It creates a new temporary license for providers expanding existing sites or adding new locations, requiring fire/sanitation inspections, background checks, and 13 months of prior operation before approval. The bill also establishes a process for facilities to request variances from licensing rules if they don’t endanger children’s health or safety. These changes directly affect child care providers, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, and children receiving care, while ensuring religious facilities remain exempt from certain regulations.

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Apr 2025

House Passage

Feb 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 13, 2025 Last action Apr 24, 2025

Maddy AI version diff · 2 comparisons

What changed between versions

House Committee Substitute → Perfected · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was refined from a House Committee Substitute to a Perfected version, primarily involving formatting corrections and reordering of text. The substantive policy content regarding child care licensing standards and religious instruction exemptions remains unchanged.

TECHNICAL

The bill number designation was updated from '2039H.03C' to '2039H.03P' to reflect its perfected status.

Text regarding religious instruction exemptions was repositioned from line 18 to line 18, with the deletion of a blank line and reordering of the legislative explanation section.

Lines 54 and 55, which contained provisions about inspections for facilities with ownership changes, were removed from the visible text, though the context suggests this may be a formatting artifact rather than a substantive policy deletion.

Floor votes

How they voted

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

Full legislative history

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Key actions

Committee

Apr 24, 2025

Upper · Passed

SCS Voted Do Pass (S)

upper

Apr 11, 2025

Upper · Passed

Public Hearing Scheduled (S) - Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 8:00 a.m., Senate Committee Room 1 - 1st Floor

upper

Mar 13, 2025

Committee

Second read and referred: Families, Seniors and Health(S)

upper

Feb 27, 2025

Lower · Passed

Third Read and Passed (H) - AYES: 155 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0

lower

Feb 25, 2025

Lower · Passed

HCS Adopted (H)

lower

Feb 18, 2025

Lower · Passed

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

lower

Feb 17, 2025

Lower · Passed

Voted Do Pass (H)

lower

Feb 6, 2025

Committee

Referred: Rules - Legislative(H)

lower

Feb 5, 2025

Lower · Passed

HCS Reported Do Pass (H) - AYES: 19 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0

lower

Feb 5, 2025

Lower · Passed

HCS Voted Do Pass (H)

lower

Jan 16, 2025

Committee

Referred: Professional Registration and Licensing(H)

lower

Jan 13, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

lower

1 primary · 4 co-sponsors