SB1322 • 2026

Modifies provisions relating to the rulemaking authority of the Department of Health and Senior Services

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Brown (26), Ben; House handler: N/A
Last action: 2026-01-27
Official status: Second Read and Referred S Government Efficiency Committee
Effective date: 2026-08-28

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Modifies provisions relating to the rulemaking authority of the Department of Health and Senior Services

The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1322 - Under this act, the Department of Health and Senior Services shall not promulgate or make an order, rule, or regulation to delegate the Department's authority to make orders, rules, or regulations to any official, agency, or department and shall not promulgate or make an order, rule, or regulation to grant the authority to promulgate or make orders, rules, or regulations to a state or local official.

What This Bill Does

The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1322 - Under this act, the Department of Health and Senior Services shall not promulgate or make an order, rule, or regulation to delegate the Department's authority to make orders, rules, or regulations to any official, agency, or department and shall not promulgate or make an order, rule, or regulation to grant the authority to promulgate or make orders, rules, or regulations to a state or local official.
This act is identical to SB 153 (2025) and SB 818 (2024), substantially similar to SB 168 (2023), and similar to SB 1214 (2022).
SARAH HASKINS

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Bill History

2026-01-27 S242
Second Read and Referred S Government Efficiency Committee
2026-01-07 S81
S First Read
2025-12-01 Missouri House of Representatives and Missouri Senate
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Official Summary Text

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Introduced

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SB 1322 - Under this act, the Department of Health and Senior Services shall not promulgate or make an order, rule, or regulation to delegate the Department's authority to make orders, rules, or regulations to any official, agency, or department and shall not promulgate or make an order, rule, or regulation to grant the authority to promulgate or make orders, rules, or regulations to a state or local official.

This act is identical to SB 153 (2025) and SB 818 (2024), substantially similar to SB 168 (2023), and similar to SB 1214 (2022).
SARAH HASKINS

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SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1322
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR BROWN (26).
4282S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To repeal sections 192.006 and 192.020, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections
relating to the rulemaking authority of the department of health and senior services.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 192.006 and 192.020, RSMo, are 1
repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be 2
known as sections 192.006 and 192.020, to read as follows:3
192.006. The department of health and senior services 1
may adopt, appeal and amend rules necessary to carry out the 2
duties assigned to it. All rules shall be promulgated 3
pursuant to the provisions of this section and chapter 536. 4
No rule or portion of a rule promulgated under the authority 5
of this chapter shall become effective unless it has been 6
promulgated pursuant to the provisions of section 536.024. 7
No rule promulgated by the department shall delegate the 8
department's rulemaking authority to any official, agency, 9
or other department. No rule promulgated by the department 10
shall grant rulemaking authority to a state or local 11
administrative official. 12
192.020. 1. It shall be the general duty and 1
responsibility of the department of health and senior 2
services to safeguard the health of the people in the state 3
and all its subdivisions. It shall make a study of the 4
causes and prevention of diseases. It shall designate those 5
SB 1322 2
diseases which are infectious, contagious, communicable or 6
dangerous in their nature and shall make and enforce 7
adequate orders, findings, rules and regulations to prevent 8
the spread of such diseases and to determine the prevalence 9
of such diseases within the state. It shall have power and 10
authority, with approval of the director of the department, 11
to make such orders, findings, rules and regulations as will 12
prevent the entrance of infectious, contagious and 13
communicable diseases into the state. No order, rule, or 14
regulation made or promulgated by the department shall 15
delegate the department's authority to promulgate or make 16
orders, rules, or regulations to any official, agency, or 17
other department. No order, rule, or regulation promulgated 18
or made by the department shall grant authority to 19
promulgate or make orders, rules, or regulations to a state 20
or local administrative official. Nothing in this 21
subsection shall be construed to prohibit a county health 22
officer or local health authority from enforcing the 23
department's rules and regulations and local ordinances 24
pursuant to sections 192.280 and 192.290. 25
2. The department of health and senior services shall 26
include in its list of communicable or infectious diseases 27
which must be reported to the department methicillin- 28
resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), carbapenem-resistant 29
enterobacteriaceae (CRE) as specified by the department, and 30
vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE). 31
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