2026-09-12 · Missouri · Legislation · Proposed — not yet introduced

Not law, and not even a bill. On 3 September 2026 — nine days before this was written — a sitting Missouri House committee chair published a seven-point property-tax agenda and asked the Governor to call a special session to act on it. No special session has been called. No bill has been filed. Nothing in it has any legal effect today.¹

We are reporting it because it is a primary-source, dated, official legislative communication from a member with jurisdiction over the subject, and because property tax is the one fiscal question that reaches every owner in every Missouri association. It is a proposal, and readers should hold it as one.

Why a property-tax agenda is association news at all

It is not, directly. Nothing in a property-tax package changes what an association assesses, how it governs itself, or what its covenants permit. Missouri enacted no homeowners-association governance statute in either the 2025 or the 2026 regular session, and nothing proposed here would.

What it changes is the total housing cost members carry, and — in one specific way — the politics an association operates inside. A board that raises assessments in a year when members' property tax bills also rise is having a different conversation at the annual meeting than one that does not.

The 2026 session ended without it

This is the context for the special-session request. Missouri's 2026 regular session adjourned at the constitutional cutoff, 6:00 p.m. on 15 May 2026, and property-tax reform was among the things that did not pass. The near-miss most relevant to association neighbourhoods was the short-term-rental classification bill — legislation to stop county assessors reclassifying single-family homes rented for under 30 days as commercial property, moving them from roughly a 19 percent to a 32 percent assessment ratio. It reached “SS SCS HCS HBs 1768 & 2060” through both chambers' substitute processes and was referred to Fiscal Review on the session's final day. It died there.

What is genuinely unknowable right now

Whether a special session happens is the Governor's call, and no call has issued. Whether any of the seven points becomes a bill is a matter for filings that cannot exist yet: Missouri pre-filing for the 2027 regular session opens 1 December 2026, and the 104th General Assembly convenes 6 January 2027 with a membership set by the November 2026 election.

We are not going to predict any of that, and it is no basis for planning.

1. Missouri House of Representatives, complete 2026 regular session bill list ↩
2. CAI Heartland Chapter, The Heartbeat, Summer 2026 — MOLAC legislative update and 2026 priority legislation outcomes ↩
3. Missouri Senate, complete 2026 regular session bill list — no condominium reserve or structural inspection bill ↩
4. HB 1768 (2026) — short-term rental property-tax classification, referred to Fiscal Review on the session's final day ↩
5. Mo. Const. art. III, § 20 — pre-filing between 1 December and the January convening date ↩