Establishes provisions relating to active duty combat deployment by the United States Congress for the Missouri National Guard

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Establishes provisions relating to active duty combat deployment by the United States Congress for the Missouri National Guard

The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1332 - This act provides that the Missouri National Guard shall not be called forth into active duty combat by the Governor unless the United States Congress has: (1) Made an official declaration of war; or (2) Called forth the Missouri National Guard and the members thereof in an official action taken pursuant to the Constitution of the United States for the purposes of expressly executing the laws of the United States, repelling invasion, or suppressing an insurrection.

What This Bill Does

• The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1332 - This act provides that the Missouri National Guard shall not be called forth into active duty combat by the Governor unless the United States Congress has: (1) Made an official declaration of war; or (2) Called forth the Missouri National Guard and the members thereof in an official action taken pursuant to the Constitution of the United States for the purposes of expressly executing the laws of the United States, repelling invasion, or suppressing an insurrection.
• Furthermore, the Governor shall take all necessary actions to comply with the requirements of this act.
• Lastly, nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit or limit the Governor's authority to deploy the Missouri National Guard into active duty for the purposes of defense support for civil authority missions in a foreign state or within the United States.
• This act is identical to SB 767 (2025) and is similar to HB 1228 (2025), HB 1521 (2024), HB 166 (2023), and HB 2098 (2022).

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SB 1332 - This act provides that the Missouri National Guard shall not be called forth into active duty combat by the Governor unless the United States Congress has:
(1) Made an official declaration of war; or
(2) Called forth the Missouri National Guard and the members thereof in an official action taken pursuant to the Constitution of the United States for the purposes of expressly executing the laws of the United States, repelling invasion, or suppressing an insurrection.

Furthermore, the Governor shall take all necessary actions to comply with the requirements of this act. Lastly, nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit or limit the Governor's authority to deploy the Missouri National Guard into active duty for the purposes of defense support for civil authority missions in a foreign state or within the United States.

This act is identical to SB 767 (2025) and is similar to HB 1228 (2025), HB 1521 (2024), HB 166 (2023), and HB 2098 (2022).
KATIE O'BRIEN

Current Bill Text

SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1332
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR MOON.
5725S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To repeal section 41.480, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to
deployment of the Missouri National Guard for active duty combat.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 41.480, RSMo, is repealed and two new 1
sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 41.037 2
and 41.480, to read as follows:3
41.037. 1. As used in this section, the following 1
terms mean: 2
(1) "Active duty combat", performing one of the 3
following services: 4
(a) Participation in an armed conflict; 5
(b) Performance of a hazardous service related to an 6
armed conflict in a foreign state; or 7
(c) Performance of a duty through an instrumentality 8
of war; 9
(2) "Official declaration of war", an official 10
declaration of war pursuant to an act of Congress as 11
authorized by Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the 12
Constitution of the United States. 13
2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the 14
contrary, the Missouri National Guard and the members 15
thereof shall not be called forth into active duty combat by 16
the governor unless the United States Congress has: 17
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(1) Made an official declaration of war; or 18
(2) Called forth the Missouri National Guard and the 19
members thereof in an official action taken pursuant to 20
Article I, Section 8, Clause 15 of the Constitution of the 21
United States for the purposes of expressly executing the 22
laws of the United States, repelling invasion, or 23
suppressing an insurrection. 24
3. The governor shall take all necessary actions to 25
comply with the requirements of subsection 2 of this section. 26
4. Nothing in this section shall be construed to 27
prohibit or limit the governor's authority to deploy the 28
Missouri National Guard into active duty for the purposes of 29
defense support for civil authority missions in a foreign 30
state or elsewhere within the United States. 31
41.480. 1. Except as provided in section 41.039, the 1
governor may, when in his opinion the circumstances so 2
warrant, call out the organized militia or any portion or 3
individual thereof to execute the laws, suppress actual and 4
prevent threatened insurrection and repel invasion. The 5
governor, if in his judgment the maintenance of law and 6
order will thereby be promoted, may by proclamation declare 7
martial law throughout the state or any part thereof. 8
2. The governor may, when in his opinion circumstances 9
so warrant, call out the organized militia or any portion 10
thereof as he deems necessary to provide emergency relief to 11
a distressed area in the event of earthquake, flood, tornado 12
or other actual or threatened public catastrophe creating 13
conditions of distress or hazard to public health and safety 14
beyond the capacities of local or other established agencies. 15
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