Missouri Tenant Screening and Source-of-Income Preemption

No county or city, or county or city with a charter form of government, shall enact, maintain, or enforce any ordinance or resolution that: (1) Prohibits landlords from refusing to lease or rent a privately owned, single-family, or multiple-unit residential or commercial rental property to a person because the person's lawful source of income to pay rent includes funding from a federal or other housing assistance program; (2) Restricts a landlord's ability to use or consider income-qualifying methods, credit scores, credit reports, eviction or property damage history, or criminal history, according to such landlord's own customarily applied criteria, or prohibits landlords from requesting such information, to determine whether to rent or lease a property to a prospective tenant; (3) Limits the amount of security deposit a landlord may require from a prospective tenant; or (4) Requires tenants to automatically receive the right of first refusal.