Sourced and dated, always
Everything on MO Bill Watch is read from the Missouri legislature's own public records: the Senate's Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed status page, its Governor's Action report, each bill's own senate.mo.gov record, the chambers' official bill summaries, and the Senate's official fiscal-note repository. Every page names its source and the date it was read.
The enacted-bill list (all 102 bills that passed the 2026 Second Regular Session) was fetched July 26, 2026, after the session adjourned and the Governor finished acting, so it is a settled record rather than a moving one. The in-depth tracked bills, committees, and hearings docket were seeded July 25, 2026 and are refreshed by hand; an automated refresh pipeline is in progress and each refresh updates the dates shown on the pages it touches.
MO Bill Watch writes the plain-language summary on each bill page, working only from the chamber's official summary of the version that passed. They restate what the bill does in everyday language, add no opinion and no outside facts, and every page links to the official summary and record so you can check the source yourself. Where the official summary is incomplete or vague, the plain-language version says only what the source supports. Appropriations bills and resolutions are not issued narrative summaries by either chamber, so their pages say that instead.
The complete filed-bill roster (3142 bills across both chambers) comes from the chambers' own bill lists, and each bill's status, sponsor, and last recorded action from its own official page. Because the session has adjourned, "did not pass" is a settled fact for every bill outside the Truly Agreed list, not a guess about a bill still moving. How far a bill got is shown as the chamber's own last-action text, verbatim and dated, rather than characterized.
Two honest gaps on these pages. Plain-language summaries have been written for the bills that passed, not yet for the rest, so a filed bill shows its official one-line description and links to the chamber's fuller summary rather than a rewrite. And House official summaries are published only as PDFs, which this pass does not download; House pages therefore carry the description and status, never an invented summary.
Topic tags are auto-derived from official titles and descriptions by keyword rules, for navigation only. They are not official classifications, and each tagged page says so.
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MO Bill Watch is nonpartisan and does not editorialize on what a bill should do, only what it does. It is not affiliated with the Missouri General Assembly, and it is not legal advice: for anything time-sensitive or consequential, the linked official record is the authority.