Missouri HB2201: Modifies the offense of filing false documents

What the bill says

From the introduced text:

SECOND REGULAR SESSION HOUSE BILL NO. 2201 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE PRICE. 5682H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk To repeal section 570.095, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to filing false documents, with penalty provisions. Section A. Section 570.095, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 570.095, to read as follows: 570.095. 1. A person commits the offense of filing false documents if: (1) With the intent to defraud, deceive, harass, alarm, or negatively impact financially, or in such a manner reasonably calculated to deceive, defraud, harass, alarm, or negatively impact financially, he or she files, causes to be filed or recorded, or attempts to file or record, creates, uses as genuine, transfers or has transferred, presents, or prepares with knowledge or belief that it will be filed, presented, recorded, or transferred to the secretary of state or the secretary's designee, to the recorder of deeds of any county or city not within a county or the recorder's designee, to any municipal, county, district, or state government entity, division, agency, court, or office, or to any credit bureau or financial institution any of the following types of (b) Uniform commercial code filing or record; (c) Real property recording; (d) Financing statement; (e) Contract; (f) Warranty, …

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Sponsors

• Tiffany Price (D, 026) · primary sponsor

Latest actions

1. May 15, 2026: Referred: Emerging Issues(H)
2. January 8, 2026: Read Second Time (H)
3. January 7, 2026: Read First Time (H)
4. December 5, 2025: Prefiled (H)

Common questions

What is HB2201?

HB2201 is a bill in the Missouri Legislature (2026 Regular Session): Modifies the offense of filing false documents.

What is the status of HB2201?

In committee as of May 15, 2026. Latest action: Referred: Emerging Issues(H) (May 15, 2026).

Who sponsored HB2201?

Tiffany Price (D, 026).

Where is the official record for HB2201?

On the Missouri Legislature website: https://house.mo.gov/BillContent.aspx?bill=HB2201&year=2026&code=R