Doug Clemens
Democratic · MO · Missouri State Representative, District 72
Doug Clemens is a Missouri state representative for District 72 who was first elected in 2018. His campaign biography says he previously worked in services for people with hearing impairments and chaired the West Lake/Bridgeton Landfill Community Advisory Group for more than four years. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science, international relations, and economic studies from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Track record
Government Efficiency
· 7 records
Sponsored Missouri HB 1969 to require hazardous-waste-site checks and notice before excavation; the bill remained in the House Emerging Issues Committee when the session ended.
May 15, 2026For
Source: legiscan.com · researched July 14, 2026
Voted against Missouri HB 3146, which changed the process for preparing official summaries of ballot measures.
March 11, 2026Against
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Sponsored Missouri HB 405 to place charter-school sponsorship and impact review primarily with local school boards; the bill was referred to the House Emerging Issues Committee.
May 15, 2025For
Source: legiscan.com · researched July 14, 2026
At a St. Louis County news conference, urged Congress to extend and expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to cover Missouri residents exposed to nuclear contamination.
April 5, 2024For
Source: apnews.com · researched July 14, 2026
Publicly called for a strong policy response to investigations of radioactive waste contamination around Coldwater Creek and West Lake Landfill.
August 23, 2023For
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At an Army Corps of Engineers meeting, called for direct notification to residents whose homes might face radiation risks from Coldwater Creek contamination.
February 27, 2018For
Source: dredgewire.com · researched July 14, 2026
At a public meeting on the Bridgeton and West Lake landfills, criticized decades of repeated official assurances while radioactive waste remained at West Lake.
June 26, 2013For
Source: stlpr.org · researched July 14, 2026
Housing Affordability
· 3 records
Voted against the conference report for Missouri HB 595, which prohibited local governments from requiring landlords to accept Section 8 vouchers or other lawful sources of income.
May 5, 2025Against
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Voted against Missouri SB 190, which authorized counties to provide a property-tax credit freezing eligible seniors' homestead tax liability.
May 8, 2023Against
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Voted against Missouri HB 1606, which limited where unhoused people could sleep.
May 12, 2022Against
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Corporate Accountability
· 3 records
Opposed Missouri legislation allowing utilities to charge customers during nuclear-plant construction, citing radioactive-waste harms and the risk of shifting failed-project costs to the public.
April 8, 2026Against
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Sponsored Missouri HB 2723, the Healthy Pets Act, to impose breeding, disclosure, and sales standards on commercial breeders and pet sellers; the bill died in committee.
May 17, 2024For
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Voted for Missouri HB 2134, requiring Department of Natural Resources regulation of industrial wastewater and meatpacking sludge.
May 9, 2024For
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General
· 9 records
Seconded an America 250 Missouri Commission motion to spend $6,500 on a PBS sponsorship in the St. Louis market; the motion passed.
September 8, 2025
Source: showme250.mo.gov · researched July 14, 2026
Was appointed to the Missouri Joint Committee on Public Employee Retirement, which reviews state and local public retirement systems.
February 26, 2025
Source: documents.house.mo.gov · researched July 14, 2026
Was appointed by the Missouri House speaker to the America 250 Missouri Commission.
January 16, 2024
Source: documents.house.mo.gov · researched July 14, 2026
Sponsored Missouri HB 552 to cap insured patients' out-of-pocket cost for a 30-day supply of insulin; the bill died after referral to the House Healthcare Reform Committee.
May 12, 2023
Source: legiscan.com · researched July 14, 2026
Joined a demonstration at the Missouri Capitol calling for implementation of voter-approved Medicaid expansion.
July 1, 2021
Source: themissouritimes.com · researched July 14, 2026
Voted for Missouri SB 63, establishing a statewide prescription drug monitoring program.
May 11, 2021
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Sponsored Missouri HB 1035 to waive recovery of non-fraudulent federal unemployment-benefit overpayments; a House committee substitute was reported do pass.
February 17, 2021
Source: trackbill.com · researched July 14, 2026
Voted for Missouri HB 1682, which authorized free COVID-19 testing.
May 15, 2020
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Voted against Missouri HB 126, which prohibited most abortions after eight weeks and included a trigger prohibition if Roe v. Wade were overturned.
February 26, 2019
Source: justfacts.votesmart.org · researched July 14, 2026
Elections
- County Assessor · August 4, 2026 · St. Louis County, Missouri
Profile last researched July 14, 2026.