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Read. Follow. Verify.Missouri House Bill 6 appropriates state funds for Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Conservation departments for fiscal year 2026
Last action · November 25, 2025: Message Received from the Governor, pursuant to Article IV, Section 27Sponsor: Dirk Deaton
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What This Bill Would Do
House Bill 6 appropriates state and federal funds for the operating expenses, grants, refunds, and capital improvements of the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Natural Resources, and the Department of Conservation for the period beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026. The legislation allocates funding across multiple state funds, sets full-time employee (FTE) caps for each division, and restricts the use of funds for certain activities such as maintenance on specific private land trails and certain vehicle checkpoints.
Residents across Missouri will experience direct impacts on state-funded agricultural programs, environmental protection, park operations, and infrastructure grants totaling over $1.6 billion across three major state departments.
- House Bill 6 is part of the annual appropriations process in the Missouri General Assembly, determining state spending for the upcoming fiscal year. context
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Department of Agriculture
Receives operational funding, grants, and employee headcount authorizations for fiscal year 2026.
Department of Natural Resources
Receives funding for environmental quality, state parks, water resources, and energy programs.
Department of Conservation
Receives funding for habitat, fish, wildlife, recreation management, and staff development.
Agricultural Producers
Eligible for specific grant programs, loan guarantees, and veterinary student loan payments.
Key Facts
- Appropriates a total of $73,758,039 for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026.
- Appropriates a total of $1,306,904,669 for the Department of Natural Resources for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026.
- Appropriates a total of $240,930,141 for the Department of Conservation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026.
- Allocates $3,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund for the Missouri Food and Beverage Task Force.
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- Allocates $25,000,000 for wastewater improvements and projects for any city with a population between 18,000 and 20,000 in specified counties.
- Prohibits the use of Department of Natural Resources funds for the maintenance, rehabilitation, restoration, and repair of the Missouri Rock Island Trail Corridor running from Windsor to Beaufort on private land.
- Prohibits the expenditure of Department of Conservation funds for vehicle checkpoints where motorists may be detained without individualized reasonable suspicion, except under Section 6.629.
- Allocates $15,000,000 for the purchase of 1,600 or more contiguous acres and construction of a state park in a qualifying county.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently filed. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Committee.
Procedural history
1 action- Nov 25, 2025Governor of MissouriMessage Received from the Governor, pursuant to Article IV, Section 27
Version history
Only one version on file - nothing to compare yet. As later stages (committee substitute, engrossed, enrolled) are captured, the redline appears here.
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No state lobbying filings in our records match this bill. Federal lobbying reports (LDA) cover Congress, so they are not listed on state bills.
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Vehicle Checkpoint Funding Restrictions
The bill explicitly forbids the expenditure of Department of Conservation funds on vehicle checkpoints lacking individualized reasonable suspicion, except for a nominal $15 allocation in Section 6.629.
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