Bill Commons

MO SB 935

died on adjournment

SB 935 - This act modifies provisions relating to ballot measures. Current law requires that summary statements for ballot measures be sufficient and fair. This act requires summary statements for initiative petitions to be complete, concise, clear, and accurate. Furthermore, if a court finds that a summary statement is not complete, concise, clear, and accurate and that a complete, concise, clear, and accurate statement cannot possibly be written in 100 or less words due to a single subject violation, the court shall enjoin the measure from being circulated for further signatures or, in the event that the measure has been certified to be placed on the ballot, the court shall enjoin the secretary of state from certifying the measure and all other officers from printing the measure on the ballot. SCOTT SVAGERA

Missouri · 2026 Regular Session · upper

Follow this bill’s action updates (Atom)

Subscribe in a feed reader. The feed covers recorded actions from the last 30 days; Bill Commons may record an action after it happened at the legislature.

Quick answers

Did MO SB 935 pass?

No. MO SB 935 died when the 2026 Regular Session adjourned without final action on it. Bills that die this way are sometimes reintroduced in a later session. Latest recorded action (2026-02-02): Hearing Cancelled S Local Government, Elections and Pensions Committee

What is MO SB 935 about?

MO SB 935 is a bill in the 2026 Regular Session titled “SB 935 - This act modifies provisions relating to ballot measures. Current law requires that summary statements for ballot measures be sufficient and fair. This act requires summary statements for initiative petitions to be complete, concise, clear, and accurate. Furthermore, if a court finds that a summary statement is not complete, concise, clear, and accurate and that a complete, concise, clear, and accurate statement cannot possibly be written in 100 or less words due to a single subject violation, the court shall enjoin the measure from being circulated for further signatures or, in the event that the measure has been certified to be placed on the ballot, the court shall enjoin the secretary of state from certifying the measure and all other officers from printing the measure on the ballot. SCOTT SVAGERA”.

Who sponsors MO SB 935?

Cierpiot, Mike is the primary sponsor of MO SB 935.

Description

SB 935 - This act modifies provisions relating to ballot measures. Current law requires that summary statements for ballot measures be sufficient and fair. This act requires summary statements for initiative petitions to be complete, concise, clear, and accurate. Furthermore, if a court finds that a summary statement is not complete, concise, clear, and accurate and that a complete, concise, clear, and accurate statement cannot possibly be written in 100 or less words due to a single subject violation, the court shall enjoin the measure from being circulated for further signatures or, in the event that the measure has been certified to be placed on the ballot, the court shall enjoin the secretary of state from certifying the measure and all other officers from printing the measure on the ballot. SCOTT SVAGERA

Introduced
—
Latest action
2026-02-02 — Hearing Cancelled S Local Government, Elections and Pensions Committee
Bill type
bill
Last updated
—

Sponsors

  • Cierpiot, Mikeprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2026-02-02

    Hearing Cancelled S Local Government, Elections and Pensions Committee

  2. 2026-01-08

    Second Read and Referred S Local Government, Elections and Pensions Committee

    reading-2,referral-committee

  3. 2026-01-07

    S First Read

    reading-1

  4. 2025-12-01

    Prefiled

Versions

Documents

Votes

Not provided by source.

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:25:15.077812Z

Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:

Session-wide evidence can include changes to other bills:

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=MO&identifier=SB 935. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

  • Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
  • Committee referrals are not yet captured.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.