# Missouri

Every law and rule change USCLI tracks for Missouri, across the professions, on one page. Each entry links to its full write-up and official sources.

Source: https://uscli.org/states/missouri

## Licensing Ledger

Missouri licenses private investigators, private fire investigators, their agencies, and agency investigator employees through a board in the Division of Professional Registration. A 2026 law renames that board and adds professional surety bail bond agents to it.

[Full Missouri page: every change, its sources, and what has not changed](https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/missouri) (9 entries).

- Aug 28, 2026 — **[Temporary license for experienced applicants from states that do not license](https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/missouri#sb-1233)** — Senate Bill 1233, 103rd General Assembly — New RSMo 324.004 applies to any Missouri board or agency that issues occupational or professional licenses, and does not exclude private investigators. A person with at least three years of work experience in a state or the District of Columbia that does…
- Aug 28, 2026 — **[Board renamed and expanded to license bail bond agents](https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/missouri#sb-1421)** — Senate Bill 1421, 103rd General Assembly — The public safety bill amends RSMo 324.1100, 324.1102, 324.1103, 324.1105, 324.1116 and 324.1134 and moves the licensing of professional surety bail bond agents from the Department of Commerce and Insurance to the renamed Board of Private Investigators,…
- Jul 30, 2026 — **[Agency employees with an active license can change agencies without reapplying](https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/missouri#20-csr-2234-3-040-2026)** — Final rule — A new application is now required only when an agency investigator employee without an active license moves to a different agency. An employee who holds an active license instead files a Change in Agency Affiliation form and a Verification by…
- Jun 12, 2026 — **[New crime of tracking a vehicle without the owners’ consent, with no exception for investigators](https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/missouri#hb-2637)** — House Bills 2637 & 3155, 103rd General Assembly — Enacted RSMo 565.260. A person commits unlawful tracking of a motor vehicle by knowingly installing, concealing, or placing an electronic tracking device in or on a motor vehicle without the consent of all owners of the vehicle, for the purpose of…
- Feb 28, 2026 — **[Repeating a continuing education course now needs board approval](https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/missouri#20-csr-2234-6-010-2026)** — Final rule — Private investigators and agency investigator employees may not take the same course in consecutive cycles without a written request to the board that gives the reason for repeating it. The amendment also restates the reporting cycles as March 1 to…

## Officer Ledger

In Missouri the director of the Department of Public Safety licenses peace officers and disciplines licenses through the Administrative Hearing Commission, and the POST Commission sets training standards. Since 2023 the State has widened the grounds for license discipline, raised basic training to at least 600 hours, limited civilian review boards to listed powers, and made a revoked or surrendered license a cause to deny a new application.

[Full Missouri page: every change, its sources, and what has not changed](https://uscli.org/officer-certification-tracker/missouri) (6 entries).

- Aug 28, 2026 — **[A revoked or surrendered license is cause to deny a new application](https://uscli.org/officer-certification-tracker/missouri#hb1866-2026)** — 2026 HCS HB 1866, amending RSMo 590.100 (also 590.010 and 590.205) — New 590.100.2: the director “shall have cause to deny” an application for a peace officer license, or for entry into basic training, when the applicant had a peace officer license or certification that was revoked or surrendered. This covers Missouri…
- Aug 28, 2025 — **[Fingerprint checks for basic training applicants now run through the Highway Patrol, with results to the director](https://uscli.org/officer-certification-tracker/missouri#sb71-2025)** — 2025 HCS SS SCS SB 71, amending RSMo 590.060.3 — Each person seeking entry into basic training “shall” submit fingerprints for a state and federal fingerprint-based check. The fingerprints go to the Highway Patrol’s central repository and on to the FBI. The Patrol “shall” notify the director of any…
- Aug 28, 2025 — **[Six hours on racial profiling, implicit bias, and de-escalation added to basic training, starting 2027](https://uscli.org/officer-certification-tracker/missouri#hb495-2025)** — 2025 SS#2 SCS HCS#2 HB 495, adding RSMo 590.040.4 — The basic training of every peace officer first licensed on or after August 28, 2027 “shall include” at least six hours on the prohibition against racial profiling: two hours of racial profiling training, two hours of implicit bias training, and two hours…
- Aug 28, 2024 — **[Civilian review boards limited to listed powers; broader oversight authority preempted](https://uscli.org/officer-certification-tracker/missouri#sb754-2024)** — 2024 SS#2 SCS SBs 754, 746, 788, 765, 841, 887 & 861, amending RSMo 590.653 — Since 2000, cities and counties could set up a civilian review board to receive, investigate, make findings, and recommend discipline on public complaints of excessive force, abuse of authority, discourtesy, or offensive language, with no finding based…
- Aug 28, 2023 — **[Wider grounds to discipline licenses: off-duty conduct, unexplained positive drug tests, revocation elsewhere, gross misconduct](https://uscli.org/officer-certification-tracker/missouri#sb186-2023-discipline)** — 2023 CCS HCS SB 186, amending RSMo 590.080 — New definitions cover “gross misconduct,” “moral turpitude” (fraud, theft, bribery, illegal drug use, sexual misconduct, and similar acts), and “reckless disregard.” Ground (1) no longer requires that incompetence or unsafety result “from a mental…

## Forensic Ledger

Missouri has a standing Crime Laboratory Review Commission and requires a crime lab to be accredited before its reports or testimony are used in state court. It has no analyst license and has not adopted the 2023 change to Federal Rule 702. Since 2023 the State has moved prosecutor motions to vacate to the jurisdiction where charges were filed, authorized an optional, advisory conviction review unit, and opened wrongful-conviction compensation to people exonerated without DNA.

[Full Missouri page: every change, its sources, and what has not changed](https://uscli.org/forensic-science-tracker/missouri) (2 entries).

- Aug 28, 2025 — **[Wrongful-conviction compensation no longer limited to DNA exonerations](https://uscli.org/forensic-science-tracker/missouri#hb-495)** — HB 495 (2025), RSMo 650.058 — The act struck “solely as a result of DNA profiling analysis” from the eligibility rule. A qualifying finding of innocence may now come from “an evidentiary hearing and finding in a habeas corpus proceeding or a proceeding held pursuant to section…
- Aug 28, 2024 — **[Motions to vacate go where charges were filed; a conviction review unit is authorized](https://uscli.org/forensic-science-tracker/missouri#sb-754)** — SB 754 (2024), RSMo 547.031 and new 547.500 — Under 547.031.1, the prosecutor who may file, and the court that hears, a motion to vacate are now those in the jurisdiction “in which charges were filed,” not where the person was convicted. Nothing else in the section changed. New 547.500 says the…