SB1123 • 2026

Modifies provisions relating to providing explicit sexual material to a student

Education

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Schroer, Nick; House handler: N/A
Last action: 2026-01-15
Official status: Second Read and Referred S Education Committee
Effective date: 2026-08-28

Plain English Breakdown

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Modifies provisions relating to providing explicit sexual material to a student

The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1123 - This act provides that any library district or school district that employs a person who has been found guilty of the offense of providing explicit sexual material to a student shall no longer be eligible to receive any state funds.

What This Bill Does

The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1123 - This act provides that any library district or school district that employs a person who has been found guilty of the offense of providing explicit sexual material to a student shall no longer be eligible to receive any state funds.
Additionally, the act modifies the offense of providing explicit sexual material to a student by including situations where a person approves of the provision of such material, as well as by adding library board members to the definition of persons who are "affiliated with a public or private elementary or secondary school in an official capacity".
This act is identical to SB 483 (2025) and SB 1272 (2024).
OLIVIA SHANNON

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Bill History

2026-01-15 S188
Second Read and Referred S Education Committee
2026-01-07 S62
S First Read
2025-12-01 Missouri House of Representatives and Missouri Senate
Prefiled

Official Summary Text

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Introduced

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SB 1123 - This act provides that any library district or school district that employs a person who has been found guilty of the offense of providing explicit sexual material to a student shall no longer be eligible to receive any state funds.

Additionally, the act modifies the offense of providing explicit sexual material to a student by including situations where a person approves of the provision of such material, as well as by adding library board members to the definition of persons who are "affiliated with a public or private elementary or secondary school in an official capacity".

This act is identical to SB 483 (2025) and SB 1272 (2024).
OLIVIA SHANNON

Current Bill Text

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SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1123
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR SCHROER.
4695S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To repeal section 573.550, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to
providing explicit sexual material to a student, with penalty provisions.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 573.550, RSMo, is repealed and two new 1
sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 2
67.5127 and 573.550, to read as follows:3
67.5127. Any library district or school district that 1
employs a person who has been found guilty of the offense of 2
providing explicit sexual material to a student as defined 3
in section 573.550 shall no longer be eligible to receive 4
any funds raised by the state. 5
573.550. 1. A person commits the offense of providing 1
explicit sexual material to a student if such person is 2
affiliated with a public or private elementary or secondary 3
school in an official capacity and, knowing of its content 4
and character, such person provides, assigns, supplies, 5
distributes, loans, approves, or coerces acceptance of or 6
the approval of the providing of explicit sexual material to 7
a student or possesses with the purpose of providing, 8
assigning, supplying, distributing, loaning, approving, or 9
coercing acceptance of or the approval of the providing of 10
explicit sexual material to a student. 11
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2. The offense of providing explicit sexual material 12
to a student is a class A misdemeanor. 13
3. As used in this section, the following terms shall 14
mean: 15
(1) "Explicit sexual material", any pictorial, three- 16
dimensional, or visual depiction, including any photography, 17
film, video, picture, or computer-generated image, showing 18
human masturbation, deviate sexual intercourse as defined in 19
section 566.010, sexual intercourse, direct physical 20
stimulation of genitals, sadomasochistic abuse, or 21
emphasizing the depiction of postpubertal human genitals; 22
provided, however, that works of art, when taken as a whole, 23
that have serious artistic significance, or works of 24
anthropological significance, or materials used in science 25
courses, including but not limited to materials used in 26
biology, anatomy, physiology, and sexual education classes 27
shall not be deemed to be within the foregoing definition; 28
(2) "Person affiliated with a public or private 29
elementary or secondary school in an official capacity", an 30
administrator, teacher, librarian, media center personnel, 31
substitute teacher, teacher's assistant, student teacher, 32
law enforcement officer, school board member, library board 33
member, school bus driver, guidance counselor, coach, guest 34
lecturer, guest speaker, or other nonschool employee who is 35
invited to present information to students by a teacher, 36
administrator, or other school employee. Such term shall 37
not include a student enrolled in the elementary or 38
secondary school. 39
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