Legislative Update

March 23, 2026

Please see the linked flyer on a Town Hall meeting hosted by the Superintendents of Lafayette County on Tuesday, March 24, 2026 at Santa Fe High School.

We invite all interested parties to attend.

For those that cannot attend in person, here is a link to the LiveStream of the event: https://www.facebook.com/share/17FoN4LL1y/

Town Hall Meeting

March Legislative Update

Property tax reform is a focus this year for the Missouri State Legislature. The following 2 bills if enacted could have an impact on local revenue for the Concordia R-2 School District. 

• HB2780 is a property tax reform bill that was actually sent back to committee in February. The committee then removed several provisions of the bill and HS2780 passed out of the House and is now in the Senate. There is one provision in the bill that is still problematic. The bill calls for the reduction of the minimum operating levy to reduce from $2.75 to $2.20 beginning in the 2026-2027 school year. This will impact those school districts that collect at the minimum operating levy now, and will impact foundation formula calculations as well.
  • ​​​​​​Potential Impact of HB2780 to local revenue for the school district is a reduction of $31,293.29 in the first year.
• HB1766 has several provisions that if enacted will impact the district These include:
  • Requires most property tax proposals by political subdivisions to be submitted to voters only at the November general election. Township governments may continue using April or November elections.
  • Prohibits political subdivisions and election authorities from advertising or describing a proposed property tax as a “no tax increase” proposal, except in limited circumstances.
  • Requires property tax ballot measures to be labeled numerically or alphabetically only.
  • Beginning January 1, 2027, standardizes property tax ballot language and requires proposed taxes to be expressed in specified dollar amounts based on property type.
  • Requires political subdivisions that receive revenue from tax abatements or similar economic incentives to reduce their real property tax levy by the amount of revenue received from those abatements.
  • Expands and clarifies property tax credit requirements in certain counties and limits annual increases in eligible credit amounts to the lesser of 5 percent or inflation in certain counties.
  • Institutes the senior citizen property tax freezes from SB190 on every county in the state. 
  • Potential Impact of HB1766 to local revenue for the school district is a reduction of $74,385.99 in the first year.