Bill > HB3135

This bill establishes new fire safety requirements for doors in public schools, mandating that each school board must have all "protective door assemblies" – which include doors with panic or fire exit hardware, doors in exit enclosures, electronically controlled egress doors, and doors with special locking arrangements like delayed egress – inspected and tested annually by a "qualified inspector," a person with demonstrated expertise in fire safety. These inspections will verify compliance with specific fire safety codes, such as the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA) Life Safety Code (NFPA 101), with different standards applying based on when the door was installed. If a door is found to be non-compliant, the school board must take all necessary steps to fix it and then have it re-inspected, with reports detailing compliance or non-compliance, including any serious fire or life safety hazards, provided to the school board. Beginning in 2028, the "authority having jurisdiction," the entity responsible for enforcing these rules, will annually review school records and can issue citations to school boards that are not actively working to make non-compliant doors safe within specified timeframes, though these citations will not carry civil penalties or fines, and the school board must post any issued citation publicly online until compliance is achieved.

https://house.mo.gov/Bill.aspx?bill=HB3135&year=2026&code=R