Representative Dan Stacy (R-Blue Springs) has introduced HB 1233, the increase the number of signatures for a statewide independent from 10,000 signatures, to 2% of the number of registered voters. It also increases the number of signatures for an independent running for district or county partisan office from 2% of the last gubernatorial vote, to 2% of the number of registered voters.

Stacy has also introduced HB 1232, which forbids “sore losers”. In 2012 Gary Johnson ran in the Republican presidential primary in Missouri, and he then appeared as the Libertarian presidential nominee in Missouri in November 2012. If HB 1232 had been enacted, Johnson could not have appeared on the November ballot.