Missouri / State / 103rd General Assembly, 1st Regular Session
SS#2 House Bill 419 (2025) Extended deemed domicile for in-state tuition to graduate programmes for Guard and reserve members
Section 173.1153 deems any individual currently serving in the Missouri National Guard or in a reserve component to be domiciled in Missouri for in-state tuition at any approved public institution, and the current text reaches undergraduate and graduate degree programmes. The section conditions the benefit on demonstrating presence in Missouri, or within the taxing district for a community college, and subsection 3 makes it strictly last-dollar: the limitation is provided only after all other federal and state aid has been applied, and no individual may receive more than the actual cost of attendance. Tracked because section 173.900, in the same chapter, gives a combat veteran the opposite right, an express discretion to take the tuition limitation before other federal and state aid, and the two sequencing rules produce materially different outcomes for a student holding Post-9/11 entitlement. A Guard member who is also a combat veteran should be told which section to claim under.
Progress
Path to law: Bill in a two-chamber legislature
- Introduced Done, House, prefiled
- In committee Done, House Veterans and Armed Forces, then Senate Veterans and Military Affairs
- Passed one chamber Done, House
- Passed both chambers Done, Truly agreed to and finally passed
- Signed by the governor Done,
- In effect Done,
Sponsors
- Don Mayhew
- Jim Schulte
- John Hewkin
- Deanna Self
- Marla Smith
- Burt Whaley
- Bill Irwin
What it touches
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 173.1153
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 173.900
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Official record
Read SS#2 House Bill 419 (2025) on the jurisdiction's own record