What else is circulating, and how firm each item is

The property-tax question has generated a good deal of talk in Missouri this interim. Sorting it by how much documentary record exists:

1. The special-session request above — a real, dated, published document from a sitting committee chair. Strongest of the set, and still only a proposal.
2. A reported intention by House leadership to appoint another property-tax interim committee. We could not verify the quotes attributed to the Speaker from a primary source, and we found no such hearing on either chamber's published calendar. Treat as unconfirmed reporting, not as a scheduled process.
3. The 2025 interim committee as the template. Missouri ran a property-tax interim committee that year: six statewide hearings, more than twenty hours of testimony, and a bill package that died anyway. That is the realistic base rate for this kind of process, and it is a fact rather than a forecast.
4. Constitutional amendments. Dozens of property-tax joint resolutions were filed during the 2026 session. None is going to the voters.
5. Initiative petitions. 149 were filed with the Secretary of State this cycle. Three would let cities cap rent. None touches homeowners associations, condominiums or insurance, and none is certified to a ballot. A board that has heard there is an HOA measure coming before Missouri voters has heard wrong.

The one genuinely association-specific proposal, and it is not about tax

If a Missouri board wants to watch one thing between now and December, it is not the property-tax agenda. It is whether the Missouri Declaration and Bylaws Modernization Act returns.

That bill — SB 1603 (Senator Lincoln Hough) and HB 3176 (Representative Mike Costlow) in 2026 — would have let an association amend its declaration and bylaws by simple majority, with a deemed-approval mechanism when turnout fails. The Senate hearing was cancelled on 15 April 2026; the House version got a hearing on 8 April and never moved. Both died in committee.

Its sponsors' advocacy committee has said publicly that it is coming back: “While those efforts were unsuccessful this year, MOLAC will pick up where we left off when the legislature is next in session.”²

That is a stated intention from the organisation that drafted the bill, which is a firmer thing than most of what is circulating — and still not a filing.

What is definitely not happening

We looked specifically, and each of these is a verified absence rather than an omission:

• No pre-filed 2027 Missouri bills exist. Pre-filing opens 1 December 2026. Any claim about a pre-filed 2027 bill today is impossible.
• No Missouri effort to adopt the Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act, and no Missouri Bar committee proposal to modernise Chapter 448. No committee report, no drafted bill, no named proponent.
• No Missouri condominium structural-inspection or reserve-study mandate has been proposed, and no named person is on the record urging one. A keyword sweep of both chambers' complete 2026 bill lists produced no such bill; no Senate or House interim, select or task-force committee carries a condominium, reserve or building-safety study topic.
• No documented 2027 legislative agenda from Missouri REALTORS or the homebuilder associations touching association law.
• No governor's task force, commission or executive order on housing, property insurance, condominiums or community associations.

The post-Surfside wave that reshaped condominium law in Florida and elsewhere has not reached Missouri in any documentary form. Trade commentary saying states are “expected” to add structural-integrity requirements is a vendor forecast, not a Missouri proposal.

What a board can do with a page full of proposals

1. Nothing, operationally. None of this changes a duty, a deadline or a document. A board that reorganises its budget around a proposal has made a worse decision than one that ignores it.
2. Diarise 1 December 2026. That is the first day anything about 2027 becomes real. The three filings to look for: a return of the Declaration and Bylaws Modernization Act; a re-filing of the HOA ten-year renewal-or-dissolve bill, whose two sponsors both pre-filed in the last cycle and one on day one; and a standalone re-enactment of section 442.404, the state's only real HOA statute, whose 2024 amending act a circuit court invalidated in its entirety.
3. If the board wants something, ask now. The interval before pre-filing is when a request to a local legislator can still shape a draft. Afterwards it is a request to amend someone's bill, which is a much harder thing. The specific gap worth raising, on the evidence of the last two sessions, is that Missouri's storm-relief measures are drafted around the single-family homestead and leave common-element costs outside — the deductible credit, the failed mediation programme and the failed retrofit grants all share that shape.
4. Treat “the legislature is about to fix this” as a claim requiring a bill number. Four attempts at a comprehensive Missouri HOA framework across 2017, 2024, 2025 and 2026 produced four hearings and zero floor votes. That is the base rate.

What to watch next

Whether the Governor calls a special session on property tax before the regular session convenes. If one is called, the thing to watch for is not the headline rate relief but the assessment-classification question — that is the piece that reaches owners in association neighbourhoods who rent, and it is the piece that came closest to passing in May.