Mo. Rev. Stat. § 178.698: Plan to distribute funds to allow voluntary participation.

Pursuant to the educational and screening program for children under age five and their parents established in sections 178.691 to 178.699, in its budget requests for fiscal years 1995, 1996, and 1997, in anticipation of moneys from the trust fund established in section 160.500, the department of elementary and secondary education shall include a plan to distribute sufficient moneys to public school districts to allow all eligible children and their parents to voluntarily participate in the program beginning with the 1997-98 school year.