Missouri Ballot Measures

The November General Election is tomorrow in Missouri. the state has five issues on the ballot including Proposition A, and Amendments 3, 6, 7 and 8.

Proposition A asks if Missouri should keep the congressional map lawmakers drew up in a special session—without voters’ input?

Amendment 3, would repeal the reproductive healthcare rights amendment Missouri voters approved in 2024, stripping away broad constitutional abortion access with a narrower set of exceptions and new restrictions.

Amendment 6 would enshrine the initiative and referendum process as a fundamental right in Missouri’s Constitution, protecting voters’ power to make laws directly AND would bar the legislature from weakening that power—by preventing lawmakers from directly overturning a voter-approved law or reviving a measure voters rejected, unless they secure an 80% vote in both chambers and send the change back to voters for approval. It also keeps current signature thresholds and simple-majority approval rules unchanged. .

Amendment 7 would create the Show-Me Prosperity Fund, a permanent public endowment intended to help, over time, finance the state government with investment earnings.
It’s a way to potentially, in years to come, replace state-imposed taxes . The fund could grow through legislative appropriations, gifts, donations, grants, and bequests, but the amendment lacks a dedicated revenue source and does not require a specific starting amount. Therefore any size and growth timeline cannot be defined. The investments would be managed by the State Treasurer and lawmakers could not draw from the fund until the Treasurer determines that earnings are sufficient to offset existing taxes—at which point withdrawals would be capped at 3% of the fund’s average value over the prior five years.

Amendment 8 would place a requirement in the Missouri Constitution that counties elect a sheriff every four years along with provisions on sheriffs’ duties that currently exist only in statute. It would also constitutionalize the process for removing an elected sheriff, limiting removal to a writ of quo warranto initiated by the Missouri Attorney General, which means local governments could no longer establish a different removal method through ordinary local or state legislation.