Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
4 instruments in Missouri. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
▲Expands benefitsAdds a veteran-owned business preference, raises paid military leave to 160 hours and ends the GI Bill offset.
Repealed thirteen sections and enacted twenty-four. Four changes move figures or gates in this catalog. New Mo. Rev. Stat. 34.069 gives a three-point bonus preference and a three percent goal to any honorably discharged veteran-owned enterprise, alongside the existing service-disabled preference in 34.074, and both sections now bar a business from taking points under one after taking them under the other, so the two are mutually exclusive rather than cumulative; both bind every political subdivision as well as the state. Section 105.270 raised paid military leave for state, county, municipal, school district and other public employees from 120 to 160 hours per federal fiscal year for federal service, leaving state-call duty uncapped. Section 40.490 gained two subsections extending all Servicemembers Civil Relief Act rights to Guard members on state active duty for more than thirty consecutive days, which the federal Act does not itself reach, and giving the member a private right of action alongside attorney general enforcement. And section 173.239 struck "GI Bill educational entitlements" from the list of aid applied before the National Guard tuition and fee waiver, so a Guard member holding Post-9/11 entitlement now keeps the waiver on top of it. The act also broadened the medals paragraph of 42.300 from named conflicts to any conflict identified under chapter 42 and created three medallion programmes at once. Tracked because published guidance still prints the 120-hour leave figure, and because the GI Bill offset deletion is invisible from the current statute text.
▲Expands benefitsRaises the property tax credit and its income ceilings for the first time since 2008, and indexes both.
Amended Mo. Rev. Stat. 135.010, 135.025 and 135.030, the senior citizens property tax credit that a 100 percent service-connected disabled veteran enters without being 65. For calendar years beginning on or after January 1, 2026 the credit is computed on up to $1,055 of rent constituting property taxes, raised from $750, or $1,550 of actual property tax, raised from $1,100. The maximum upper limit on income, frozen at $27,500, or $30,000 for a homestead owned and occupied all year, since 2008, was replaced by four figures: $38,200 single, $42,200 single owning and occupying all year, $41,000 married filing combined, and $48,000 married filing combined owning and occupying all year. The income exemption in 135.010(5) rose from $2,000 to $2,800, and from $4,000 to $5,800 for a homestead owned and occupied all year. From January 1, 2027 both sets index annually, and to different indexes: the credit maximums to the Midwest Region CPI-U and the income ceilings to the national CPI-U. Tracked because a calendar year 2026 claim is filed in 2027, so the Department of Revenue page and every secondary guide still printed $750 and $1,100 through the 2026 filing season, and because the split index means the two halves of the credit will drift apart over time.
▲Expands benefitsExtends deemed Missouri domicile for in-state tuition to graduate programs 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.
▲▼Expands and restrictsAdds a tuition and fee waiver, but caps it at 120 hours, ends it in a year of falling state share and requires repayment.
Rewrote Mo. Rev. Stat. 173.239 to add a tuition and fee waiver at Missouri public institutions alongside the existing grant, not to be implemented before the 2025-26 academic year, capped at 120 completed credit hours counting hours earned without the benefit. Two conditions in the rewrite are unusual. Subsection 6 provides that the waiver "shall not be available in any fiscal year in which the percent of total program costs covered by the state appropriation for the educational assistance provided pursuant to this section has decreased compared to the previous fiscal year", so a single year of declining state share turns the waiver off for everyone while the grant survives. And subsection 7 requires a recipient who ceases active military affiliation while enrolled, for any reason except death, disability or medical disqualification, to repay amounts awarded or waived for that term. Tracked because a funding-contingent switch of this kind has no parallel elsewhere in this catalog and cannot be predicted from the eligibility criteria a member reads, and because published descriptions still give the older 39-hours-per-year and 150-lifetime-hour structure.
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