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Missouri · 2026 Regular Session · Bill

SB 1239: Authorizes a sales tax exemption for food

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 1239 is a bill introduced in the Missouri Senate on December 1, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Authorizes a sales tax exemption for food. Primary sponsor: Mary Elizabeth Coleman (Republican). Most recent recorded action (February 25, 2026): Bill Combined w/SCS SBs 1017 & 1239.

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Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

SB 1239 - Current law taxes retail sales of food, as defined in current law, at a rate of one percent. This act provides that retail sales of food shall be exempt from state sales taxes. This provision is identical to SCS/SB 161 (2023) and to a provision in SCS/HCS/HB 154 (2023), and is substantially similar to HB 1418 (2024), HB 1464 (2024), HB 2174 (2024), HB 260 (2023), HB 452 (2023), HB 591 (2023), HB 896 (2023), HCS#2/HB 1992 (2022), HB 1817 (2022), and HB 2530 (2022), and to a provision in HB 2815 (2024), HB 2887 (2024), HB 377 (2023), HCS/HBs 876, 771, 676 & 551 (2023), HB 1136 (2023), HB 1779 (2022), and HB 2249 (2022). This act also provides that, beginning on January 1, 2027, local sales taxes imposed on food shall annually be reduced in four equal increments over a period of four years. Beginning January 1, 2031, there shall be no local sales taxes imposed on food. (Section 144.014) This act is identical to provisions in SB 57 (2025). JOSH NORBERG

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Mary Elizabeth ColemanPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate22

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Bill Combined w/SCS SBs 1017 & 1239
  2. Hearing Conducted S Economic and Workforce Development Committee
  3. Second Read and Referred S Economic and Workforce Development Committee
  4. S First Read
  5. Prefiled

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source