JEFFERSON CITY — A bill to scrap residency requirements for St. Louis police officers has been broadened to include all other Missouri municipalities. The change was made despite opposition from Kansas City, the state’s biggest city.

The amended bill also removes residency requirements for all municipal employees, but that language applies only to St. Louis.

Given opposition from other cities, there are already plans in the works to narrow the scope of the legislation so that the police-related provisions apply only to St. Louis, according to its sponsor.

“I’ve already spoken to the leadership in the House and the speaker’s office,” Rep. Ron Hicks, R-Dardenne Prairie, said Thursday. “We’re going to strip out the statewide part.”

The measure was voted out of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday night, but only after it was amended by Rep. Nick Schroer, R-O’Fallon, so that it would do away with residency requirements for all municipalities.