HCS/SS/SB 61 - This act modifies provisions relating to professional licensing.TEMPORARY LICENSES (SECTION 324.004)
Under this act, any person who has at least 3 years of work experience in an occupation or profession in another state or the District of Columbia that does not use a license to regulate that occupation or profession may submit an application for a license in Missouri, with proof of experience and U.S. citizenship, to the relevant oversight body. Within 45 days of receiving the application, the oversight body shall make a determination of qualification. The oversight body shall require an applicant to take and pass a profession-specific examination and may require an examination specific to Missouri laws.
A license issued under this act shall be a one-time, non-renewable, two-year temporary license. If the applicant is not residing in Missouri, the oversight body shall conditionally approve the application. If an applicant fails to provide proof of domicile in Missouri within 90 days of receipt of temporary license, the oversight body may terminate the temporary license and the applicant may reapply for the temporary license.
Upon expiration of the temporary license, individuals shall be required to apply for a permanent license, consistent with the licensure and application requirements of that license as set forth in statute and rule. A license issued under this act shall not be qualified for reciprocity with another state or as part of an interstate compact. The provisions of this act shall not apply to certain specified professions.
This provision is identical to the perfected HB 478 (2025) and is similar to a provision in SB 817 (2024), in HCS/SS#2/SCS/SB 88 (2023) and HB 1900 (2022).
LICENSE RECIPROCITY & LICENSE WAIVERS FOR SPOUSES OF MISSOURI LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS (SECTION 324.009)
Current law requires an oversight body for professional licenses to waive any examination, educational, or experience requirements within 30 days for a resident military spouse or a nonresident military spouse and shall issue such applicant a license if the applicant meets all other requirements. This act provides such waiver to resident and nonresident spouses of Missouri law enforcement officers, as such term is defined in the act.
Additionally, the Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Professional Landscape Architects may deny an application for license reciprocity if it determines that the qualifications are not substantially equivalent to those established by the Board. Additionally, this act repeals provisions regarding application of this provision of law relating to license reciprocity to oversight bodies that have entered into licensing compacts.
This provision is substantially similar to a provision in HCS/SS/SB 150 (2025), in the perfected HCS/HB 268 (2025), in perfected HB 478 (2025), and in HCS/HB 946 (2025), and is similar to SB 283 (2025).
LICENSURE RECIPROCITY FOR DENTISTS AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS (SECTIONS 332.211 & 332.281)
Current law provides that the Missouri Dental Board ("Board") shall grant without examination a license to a dentist who has been licensed in another state for at least five consecutive years immediately preceding the application for licensure in this state if the Board is satisfied that the qualifications are at least equivalent to the Missouri licensure requirements. Additionally, current law provides that the Board shall grant without examination a license to a dental hygienist who has been licensed in another state for at least two consecutive years immediately preceding the application for licensure in this state if the Board is satisfied that the qualifications are at least equivalent to the Missouri licensure requirements.
This act repeals this provision and provides the Board shall waive, within six months, any examination, educational, or experience requirements for licensure to any person who holds a valid current dentist or dental hygienist license issued by another state or territory of the United States or a branch or unit of the Armed Forces of the United States for at least one year if it determines that the person met the minimum requirements of the other state. The Board may require an applicant to take and pass an examination specific to Missouri law. For military spouses with licensure in another state, the Board shall waive such examination, educational, or experience requirements and issue a license within thirty days.
The Board shall not waive any examination, educational, or experience requirements for any person who has a revoked license, is currently under investigation or disciplinary action, has a complaint pending, does not hold a license in good standing, has a criminal record which would disqualify from licensure in this state, or does not hold a valid current license in the other jurisdiction on the date of receipt by the Board of his or her application.
Additionally, any person who is licensed under this act shall be subject to the Board's jurisdiction and all rules and regulations pertaining to the practice of dentistry and dental hygiene. Finally, this act shall not be construed to waive any requirement for fees of licensure.
These provisions are identical to provisions in HCS/SS/SB 7 (2025), in HB 56 (2025), and HCS/SB 94 (2025) and substantially similar to provisions in SB 778 (2025) and HB 2075 (2024).
DENTAL AND DENTAL HYGIENIST COMPACT (SECTIONS 332.700 TO 332.760)
This act establishes the Dental and Dental Hygienist Compact ("Compact"), which facilitates the interstate practice of dentistry and dental hygiene and provides for dentists and dental hygienists licensed in a participating state the ability to practice in other participating states. The Compact sets forth the requirements to be met in order for a state to join and the requirements for a dentist or dental hygienist to obtain and exercise the ability to practice in other participating states.
The Compact further provides that a dentist or dental hygienist with compact privilege shall function within the scope of practice authorized by the participating state in which they seek to practice and shall be subject to that state's regulatory authority. A dentist or dental hygienist whose privilege in a participating state is encumbered or removed is not eligible for compact privilege in other participating states until the encumbrance or removal has passed and all requirements are met.
Additionally, the Compact creates a joint government agency ("Commission") and provides for its powers and duties, including the development and maintenance of a coordinated database and reporting system containing licensure, adverse actions, and investigative information on all licensees and applicants.
Furthermore, the Compact shall come into effect on the date in which the seventh state enacts the Compact into law. Any participating state may withdraw from the Compact by repealing the Compact, but such withdrawal shall not take effect until 180 days after the enactment of the repeal. Finally, the Compact shall be binding upon participating states and shall supersede any conflict with state law.
These provisions are identical to provisions in HCS/SS/SB 7 (2025), in HB 56 (2025), and in HCS/SB 94 (2025) and substantially similar to provisions in SB 327 (2025), in SS/SB 778 (2024), and in SCS/HCS/HB 943 (2025).
FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS (SECTIONS 333.041 & 333.042)
This act modifies the process for obtaining a license to practice embalming and to practice funeral directing.
This act provides that a practicum embalming student registrant may assist, under the direct supervision of a licensed embalmer, in a licensed funeral establishment after approval by the State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors ("Board"), but shall not assist when not under such supervision.
In addition of the current requirements for an embalmer's license, this act provides that an applicant for an initial license to practice embalming shall furnish evidence that he or she has passed the National Board Examination Sciences, the Missouri Law Examination, and upon written request to the Board and if such person has not previously passed, the person may sit for the National Board Examination Arts. Additionally, the applicant shall provide evidence of employment in a qualifying embalmer apprentice program, as defined in the act, for no less than six months and has personally embalmed at least twenty-five dead human bodies under the supervision of a licensed embalmer, with the first twelve bodies embalmed under the direct supervision of a licensed embalmer.
Additionally, this act repeals provisions regarding failure to complete the requirements for an embalmer's license in a five-year period, passage of a state examination administered by the Board for an embalmer's license, issuance of an embalmer's or funeral director's license by the Board, and waiver of any licensure requirements to certain individuals of a licensed funeral director because of sickness, mental incapacity, or injury.
This act also provides licensure requirements for an initial license to practice funeral directing. An applicant for such license shall furnish evidence that he or she is eighteen years of age, possesses a high school diploma or equivalent thereof, and has either:
(1) Completed a funeral service education program and received a passing score on the National Board Examination Arts and the Missouri Law Examination; or
(2) Applied for a funeral director provisional license, completed a qualifying funeral director apprentice program, and:
(a) Within twenty-four months, completes a twelve-month apprentice program under the personal supervision of a licensed funeral director in a licensed Missouri funeral establishment, which includes arranging and conducting ten funeral services, and receives a passing score on the National Board Examination Arts and the Missouri Law Examination; or
(b) Within thirty-six months, completes an eighteen-month apprentice program under the personal supervision of a licensed funeral director in a licensed Missouri funeral establishment, which includes arranging and conducting twenty-five funeral services, and receives a passing score on the Missouri Law Examination.
Additionally, this act repeals provisions regarding hours devoted as an apprentice for applicants of a funeral director license, passage of a state examination administered by the Board for a funeral director's license, failure to complete the requirements for an embalmer's license in a two-year period, and waiver of certain requirements for licensed embalmers seeking a funeral director license.
A person seeking to obtain a funeral director limited license for work only in a cremation funeral establishment shall meet the qualifications as specified in the act. Additionally, such person shall be exempt from an apprenticeship program.
Finally, this act provides that the Board may, at its discretion and upon written request, waive the funeral director licensure requirements for up to six months if there is an absence of a funeral director in charge due to the death or disability and there is no licensed funeral director available to fulfill the duties. The waiver may allow for a spouse, next of kin, personal representative, or conservator to conduct business until such time as a licensed funeral director can be obtained or arrangements for closure or sale of the funeral establishment, but the waiver shall not allow any services to be provided for which a formal funeral service education program is required.
These provisions are identical to provisions in HCS/HB 268 (2025), in the perfected HB 478 (2025), in the perfected HB 765 (2025), and in SCS/HB 834 (2025) and are similar to provisions in SB 351 (2025), SB 1052 (2024), in SCS/HB 2280 (2024), in HCS/HBs 2322 & 1774 (2024), SB 348 (2023), HB 629 (2023), HB 1491 (2022), HCS/SB 9 (2021), HCS/SB 330 (2021), SCS/HB 585 (2021), HCS/HB 724 (2021), HB 1349 (2021), and HB 2432 (2020).
PHYSICIAN LICENSURE (SECTION 334.031)
This act repeals the current provisions regarding evidence of good moral character and academic documentation for candidates applying for licensure as a physician and provides for such candidates to submit to a criminal background check and furnish certain educational and experience documents. This act also allows the Board of Registration for the Healing Arts ("Board") to require applicants to list all licenses to practice as a physician currently or previously held in another state, territory, or country and to disclose any past or pending investigations, discipline, or sanctions for such licenses. The Board may also obtain a report on the applicant from the National Practitioner Data Bank or the Federation of State Medical Boards.
This provision is similar to a provision in SCS/SB 292 (2025), HB 609 (2025), SB 1030 (2024), HB 2753 (2024), and HB 1279 (2023).
ADMINISTRATION OF CERTAIN VACCINES (SECTION 338.010)
This act provides that the practice of pharmacy shall include the ordering and administering of vaccines, except for the vaccine for chikungunya and those vaccines approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after January 1, 2025, instead those after January 1, 2023.
This provision is identical to a provision in HCS/SS/SB 7 (2025), in SCS/SB 317 (2025), in the perfected HB 478 (2025), SB 548 (2025), in the perfected HCS/HB 943 (2025), SB 1455 (2024), in SCS/HB 2280 (2024), and HB 2879 (2024).
LICENSURE OF WHOLESALE DRUG DISTRIBUTORS (SECTION 338.333)
Under this act, the Board of Pharmacy may permit an out-of-state wholesale drug distributor or third-party logistics provider to be licensed in this state despite not having a license issued by the distributor's or provider's resident state if the distributor or provider has a current and valid drug distributor accreditation from the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy.
This provision is identical to a provision in HCS/SB 94 (2025), in SCS/HCS/HB 943 (2025), and HB 1465 (2025).
REPEAL OF THE SUNSET FOR THE RX CARES FOR MISSOURI PROGRAM (SECTION 338.710)
This act repeals the expiration date of August 28, 2026, from the RX Cares for Missouri Program, which provides funds to private and public entities for programs or education to promote medication safety or to prevent prescription drug abuse in Missouri.
This provision is identical to a provision in HCS/SS/SB 7 (2025), in HCS/SS#2/SCS/SB 10 (2025), in the perfected HB 478 (2025), in the perfected HCS/HB 943 (2025), HB 1445 (2025).
DEFINITION OF LICENSEE FOR PAYMENTS BY BROKERS (SECTION 339.150)
This act includes "real estate broker" in the definition of "licensee" for purposes of payments by a broker directly to business entities owned by a licensee for the purpose of receiving compensation earned by such licensee.
BROKERAGE AGREEMENTS FOR BUYERS AND TENANTS (SECTION 339.780)
This act provides that a designated real estate broker acting as a single agent for a buyer or tenant shall enter into a written agency agreement before, rather than either before or while, engaging in brokerage acts.
This provision is identical to SB 478 (2025), a provision in CCS/SS/HCS/HBs 595 & 343 (2025), and HB 596 (2025).
CLINICAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR SPEECH PATHOLOGISTS AND AUDIOLOGISTS (SECTION 345.050)
This act modifies the requirements for licensure as a speech pathologist or audiologist by providing for completion of a clinical fellowship under the direct supervision of a licensed speech-language pathologist in good standing, rather than under the direct supervision of a person licensed by the state of Missouri in the profession in which the applicant seeks to be licensed.
This provision is identical to a provision in HCS/SS/SB 7 (2025), in the perfected HCS/HB 268 (2025), SB 431 (2025), in the perfected HB 478 (2025), in HB 765 (2025), and in SCS/HB 834 (2025).
APPLICATION OF THE MONEY TRANSMISSION MODERNIZATION ACT OF 2024 TO CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS (SECTION 361.909)
The Money Transmission Modernization Act of 2024 shall not apply to any person appointed as an agent of payer for payroll processing services who would otherwise need to be licensed by the Director of the Division of Finance within the Department of Commerce and Insurance if certain conditions specified in the act apply.
This provision is substantially similar to a provision in the perfected HB 707 (2025) and in the truly agreed to and finally passed SS/SCS/HB 754 (2025).
ON-SITE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEMS (SECTIONS 701.040 & 701.046)
Currently, the Department of Health and Senior Services ("Department") shall develop a state standard for the location, size of sewage tanks, and length of lateral lines based on the percolation or permeability rate of the soil construction, installation, and operation of on-site sewage disposal systems. This act provides that the Department of Health and Senior Services shall develop the state standard for the location, size of sewage tanks, and length of lateral lines based on soil properties, construction, installation, and operation of on-site sewage disposal systems.
Additionally, the Department shall define a list of registered on-site soil evaluators to conduct soil morphology evaluations, rather than a list of those persons qualified to perform the percolation or soil morphology tests.
The act repeals provisions regarding the Department's periodical review of county and city ordinances for enforcement with the state standard. Instead, the act provides that the Department shall administer before January 1, 2026, a mandatory registration program requiring continuing education for on-site wastewater treatment system professionals qualified to perform percolation tests. Before January 1, 2026, if a soil morphology evaluation cannot be reasonably obtained, a percolation test may be accepted at the discretion of the administrative authority.
The act repeals certain provisions relating to fees for construction or major modifications or repairs to an on-site sewage disposal system and fees by the Department for the training of contractors to perform percolation tests. Rather, the Department shall promulgate rules establishing the conditions and requirements for the construction permit application, including the collection of reasonable fees, which shall be set at a level to produce revenue not exceeding the cost and expense of administering the act.
These provisions are identical to SB 601 (2025), in the perfected HB 200 (2025), HB 2083 (2024), and HB 814 (2023), and is substantially similar to SB 1283 (2024), and SB 523 (2023).
KATIE O'BRIEN
HA #1: INSERTS PROVISIONS RELATING TO ADMINISTRATION OF EPINEPHRINE AND OTHER MEDICATIONS IN LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES AND CHILD CARE FACILITIES (SECTIONS 196.990 & 335.081); INSERTS PROVISIONS RELATING TO DENTAL SERVICES IN CORRECTIONAL CENTERS (SECTION 332.081); MODIFIES THE PROVISIONS RELATING TO PHYSICIAN LICENSURE BY INCLUDING "OR A REPUTABLE MEDICAL COLLEGE OR OSTEOPATHIC COLLEGE" (SECTION 334.031); REMOVES THE PROVISION RELATING TO DEFINITION OF LICENSEE FOR PAYMENTS BY BROKERS (SECTION 339.150); REMOVES THE PROVISION RELATING TO BROKERAGE AGREEMENTS FOR BUYERS AND TENANTS (SECTION 339.780); CHANGES PAYER TO PAYOR IN THE EXEMPTION TO THE MONEY MODERNIZATION ACT (SECTION 361.909); REMOVES THE PROVISIONS RELATING TO ON-SITE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEMS (SECTIONS 701.040 & 701.046)
HA #1 TO HA#1: ADDS PROVISIONS RELATING TO ON-SITE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEMS (SECTIONS 701.040 & 701.046)
HA #2: INSERTS PROVISIONS RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS (SECTIONS 337.600, 337.604, 337.615, 337.627, 337.628, 337.644 & 337.645)
HA #3: INSERTS PROVISIONS RELATING TO TEMPORARY CHILD CARE LICENSES BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (SECTION 210.221)