Senate introduces emergency housing and University of Missouri research reactor funding bill; senator says he filed higher reactor amount

Senators read Senate Bill 1, a special-session appropriations measure that, as read on the floor, would transfer up to $25 million from the general revenue fund to the Missouri Housing Trust Fund for affordable housing and emergency aid and would appropriate up to $25 million from the general revenue fund to the University of Missouri for planning, design and construction of a radioisotope science center at the University of Missouri Research Reactor on the Columbia campus.

Senate Bill 1 as printed on the floor states the housing and research reactor appropriations are “not to exceed $25,000,000” and references the senate substitute for House Bill 19 from the 2025 regular legislative session. The bill text was read by a Senate clerk on the floor as part of introductions.

Senator Weber, when explaining related appropriations later in the floor sequence, described the special-session version he filed to the chamber as a different dollar amount for the Research Reactor. “The MU Research Reactor, the money was 50,000,000. I took the liberty of filing it at 75,000,000,” Weber said on the floor, referring to his filing for the chamber. The transcript contains both the bill text as read and Weber’s later floor remarks; the bill text itself as read on the floor shows $25,000,000 but Weber stated he had filed a higher amount.

The transcript does not record any committee action, amendment, or final vote on Senate Bill 1 during this session excerpt. The reading of the bill placed the appropriation on the Senate’s introductory calendar; next steps would require committee referral, hearings or floor action according to standard Senate procedure.

Quoted text and attributions in this article are taken from the Senate reading and Senator Weber’s floor remarks as recorded in the transcript.