Missouri SB 907: What the New ADA Website Law Changes

Missouri is the first state to write a law aimed squarely at abusive website accessibility lawsuits. Senate Bill 907, the Act Against Abusive Website Access Litigation, was signed by Governor Mike Kehoe on May 6, 2026 and took effect on August 28. If you run a business in Missouri, it gives you new tools. It does not, however, stop you from being sued, and reading it that way would be an expensive mistake.

What SB 907 does

• Creates a new claim for abusive website access litigation. A business that was sued over its website can ask a Missouri court to decide whether that suit was abusive.
• Defines abusive by its main purpose. A court looks at the totality of the circumstances and asks whether the primary goal of the original suit was to get paid rather than to improve accessibility.
• Lets the Missouri Attorney General step in, either by bringing the claim on behalf of Missouri residents or by intervening.
• Allows real money back. Summaries describe recovery of attorney's fees and costs, and additional damages or sanctions of up to three times the fees awarded.
• Rewards fast fixes. A business that, in good faith, substantially corrects the problem within 90 days of written notice or of being served gets a presumption that later claims over the same problem are abusive.
• Includes an off switch. If the U.S. Department of Justice issues web accessibility standards for businesses under the ADA, key parts of the act expire.

What SB 907 does not do

It does not block a lawsuit from being filed. The ADA is a federal law, and a state cannot take away a federal claim. A plaintiff can still sue a Missouri business in federal court, and most website accessibility suits are filed in New York, California, Florida, and Illinois, against businesses based anywhere. Whether a Missouri claim can reach an out-of-state plaintiff's firm in practice has not been tested yet.

It also does not make an inaccessible website legal. The law targets suits whose main purpose is a payout. A business that leaves real barriers in place and ignores the notice is not the business the 90-day presumption was written for.

The part that matters most: 90 days, documented

The practical heart of SB 907 is the cure window. If you fix the cited problems within 90 days, and can show you did it in good faith, the law tilts in your favor. That only works if you can prove what you fixed and when. A dated record of testing before and after the fix is exactly the kind of evidence that window calls for.

1. If a demand letter or lawsuit arrives, note the date. The 90-day clock is the one to watch, and your attorney should confirm how it applies to you.
2. Scan the pages the complaint cites and fix the specific failures first. Our 7-step demand letter plan covers the order of operations.
3. Keep dated records of every test and fix. Screenshots and a timestamped scan history are far stronger than a description written after the fact.
4. Do not install an overlay widget and call it fixed. Plaintiffs test the page underneath, and lawsuit trackers keep counting suits against sites that already had one.

What this means outside Missouri

Nothing changes for a business in another state today. But SB 907 is a model other legislatures are watching, and the federal version, the ACCESS Act, has not moved out of committee. Our 2026 lawsuit numbers explain why waiting on Congress is a poor plan, and our guides to New York and California cover the states where most suits are actually filed.

The safest position under SB 907 is the same as everywhere else: find your accessibility problems before a plaintiff does. The free WCAG checker shows your baseline in about 30 seconds.