# Tara Peters

Tara Peters is a Republican member of the Missouri House for district 122.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Missouri House, district 122
- Serving since: 2023-01-04
- Current term: MO 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/ae8a2d25-fbb2-4254-976a-f9dcf0c92c6f

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/ae8a2d25-fbb2-4254-976a-f9dcf0c92c6f (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

41% of Peters’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Missouri, in the bottom tenth of State House Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.43 (standard error 0.07), from 37 donors and 0 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 63% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Legislation (MO 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 31 bills: 31 reached committee, 4 passed one chamber, 1 passed both, 1 became law. Cosponsored 9. 45.2% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Missouri House 32.2%; rank 45 of 150).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 2372: Modifies provisions relating to health care (became law, 2026-07-13) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/HB2372/
- HB 1963: Modifies provisions relating to social workers (passed one chamber, 2026-04-21) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/HB1963/
- HB 1961: Creates provisions relating to dietitians (passed one chamber, 2026-04-14) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/HB1961/
- HB 3262: Establishes the "Interstate Massage Compact" (in committee, 2026-04-23) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/HB3262/
- HB 3061: Modifies provisions relating to the incorporation by reference of material in Medicaid regulations (in committee, 2026-05-15) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/HB3061/
- HB 3059: Creates provisions relating to insurance coverage of prescription drugs for advanced, metastatic cancer (in committee, 2026-05-15) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/HB3059/
- HB 3060: Allows the board of trustees of a hospital that operates a licensed ambulance service to establish an ambulance district by petition (in committee, 2026-05-15) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/HB3060/
- HB 2670: Modifies provisions relating to public health programs (in committee, 2026-05-15) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/HB2670/
- HB 2538: Modifies provisions relating to administrative remedies in MO HealthNet cases (in committee, 2026-05-15) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/HB2538/
- HB 2370: Modifies provisions relating to insurance coverage of self-administered hormonal contraceptives (in committee, 2026-04-16) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/HB2370/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $37.5K (State House Republicans median $33.7K). 41% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://house.mo.gov/MemberDetails.aspx?year=2024&code=R&district=122
- Campaign site: https://tarapeters.net/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/State-Representative-Tara-J-Peters-100078327009337/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/ae8a2d25-fbb2-4254-976a-f9dcf0c92c6f