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SB1353 • 2026

Requires school districts to include the amount expended for legal services in their Annual Secretary of the Board Report

Requires school districts to include the amount expended for legal services in their Annual Secretary of the Board Report

Education
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Brattin, Rick; House handler: N/A
Last action
2026-01-27
Official status
Second Read and Referred S Education Committee
Effective date
2026-08-28

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires school districts to include the amount expended for legal services in their Annual Secretary of the Board Report

The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1353 - This act requires school districts to include the amount expended for legal services in their Annual Secretary of the Board Report.

What This Bill Does

  • The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1353 - This act requires school districts to include the amount expended for legal services in their Annual Secretary of the Board Report.
  • If the report does not include the amount expended for legal services, then the attorney general may investigate the violation of this subdivision and may bring a civil action, including an action for injunctive relief, against the school district.
  • Such action shall be brought in the county where the school district is located.
  • This act is substantially similar to SB 793 (2025).

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-27 S243

    Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

  2. 2026-01-07 S84

    S First Read

  3. 2025-12-01 Missouri House of Representatives and Missouri Senate

    Prefiled

Official Summary Text

The following summaries of this bill are available:

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Introduced

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SB 1353 - This act requires school districts to include the amount expended for legal services in their Annual Secretary of the Board Report. If the report does not include the amount expended for legal services, then the attorney general may investigate the violation of this subdivision and may bring a civil action, including an action for injunctive relief, against the school district. Such action shall be brought in the county where the school district is located.

This act is substantially similar to SB 793 (2025).
OLIVIA SHANNON

Current Bill Text

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EXPLANATION-Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in this bill is not enacted
and is intended to be omitted in the law.
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1353
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR BRATTIN.
5162S.02I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To repeal section 162.821, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to
education.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 162.821, RSMo, is repealed and one new 1
section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 162.821, 2
to read as follows:3
162.821. The district secretary shall keep a record of 1
the proceedings of all annual and special elections of the 2
voters of the district and of the proceedings of the board 3
of education. He shall make copies of the election notices, 4
contracts with teachers, certificates and all other papers 5
relating to the business of the district, and securely keep 6
the same. He shall maintain a correct plat of the district 7
and shall promptly notify the department of elementary and 8
secondary education and the county clerk of each county 9
affected of all changes in the boundaries of the district. 10
He shall transmit to the county commission and to the state 11
department of elementary and secondary education, on or 12
before the fifteenth day of August in each year, a report 13
embracing the following items: 14
(1) The number of children, male and female, attending 15
the public schools during the year; 16
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(2) Total number of days' attendance by all such 17
children; 18
(3) The number of days the public schools of the 19
district have been maintained during the school year; 20
(4) The number of teachers employed, male and female, 21
and the wages per month of each; 22
(5) Estimated value of school property owned and 23
managed by the district; 24
(6) Assessed valuation of the district; 25
(7) Rate of school tax on the assessed valuation of 26
the district; 27
(8) Cash on hand at the beginning of the year; 28
(9) Tuition fees received and credited to the 29
teachers' fund of the district; 30
(10) Public funds received by county treasurer; 31
(11) District tax received by county (or township) 32
treasurer; 33
(12) Amount paid on teachers' wages; 34
(13) Amount paid for incidental expenses; 35
(14) Amount expended for purchasing site, erecting 36
schoolhouses, rent and repairs; 37
(15) Amount expended in cancelling bonded indebtedness 38
and paying interest on same; 39
(16) Amount expended for library; 40
(17) Amount expended for legal services. If the 41
report does not include the amount expended for legal 42
services, then the attorney general may investigate the 43
violation of this subdivision and may bring a civil action, 44
including an action for injunctive relief, against the 45
school district. Such action shall be brought in the county 46
where the school district is located; 47
(18) Cash on hand at the end of the year; 48
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[(18)] (19) Such other information as may be required 49
by the state board of education. 50
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