diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index ba5629d5b96..43ff2797b11 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -291,6 +291,8 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 * SOLR-16877: BackupManager now allows ConfigSet "files" to be empty, which previously caused NPEs. (Paul Blanchaert via Houston Putman)
 
+* SOLR-16753: PRS state is now always updated at the end of a splitShard. (Houston Putman, hossman)
+
 Dependency Upgrades
 ---------------------
 * PR#1494: Upgrade forbiddenapis to 3.5 (Uwe Schindler)
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/overseer/ReplicaMutator.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/overseer/ReplicaMutator.java
index 96a3a7538a7..3b06bbe6df8 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/overseer/ReplicaMutator.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/overseer/ReplicaMutator.java
@@ -421,12 +421,15 @@ private ZkWriteCommand updateState(
     Map<String, Object> sliceProps = null;
     Map<String, Replica> replicas;
 
+    boolean sliceChanged = true;
     if (slice != null) {
+      Slice.State originalState = slice.getState();
       collection =
           checkAndCompleteShardSplit(prevState, collection, coreNodeName, sliceName, replica);
       // get the current slice again because it may have been updated due to
       // checkAndCompleteShardSplit method
       slice = collection.getSlice(sliceName);
+      sliceChanged = originalState != slice.getState();
       sliceProps = slice.getProperties();
       replicas = slice.getReplicasCopy();
     } else {
@@ -442,7 +445,7 @@ private ZkWriteCommand updateState(
     DocCollection newCollection = CollectionMutator.updateSlice(collectionName, collection, slice);
     log.debug("Collection is now: {}", newCollection);
     if (collection.isPerReplicaState() && oldReplica != null) {
-      if (!persistStateJson(replica, oldReplica, collection)) {
+      if (!sliceChanged && !persistStateJson(replica, oldReplica, collection)) {
         if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
           log.debug(
               "state.json is not persisted slice/replica : {}/{} \n , old : {}, \n new {}",
@@ -462,6 +465,7 @@ private boolean persistStateJson(Replica newReplica, Replica oldReplica, DocColl
     if (!Objects.equals(newReplica.getBaseUrl(), oldReplica.getBaseUrl())) return true;
     if (!Objects.equals(newReplica.getCoreName(), oldReplica.getCoreName())) return true;
     if (!Objects.equals(newReplica.getNodeName(), oldReplica.getNodeName())) return true;
+    if (!Objects.equals(newReplica.getState(), oldReplica.getState())) return true;
     if (!Objects.equals(
         newReplica.getProperties().get(ZkStateReader.FORCE_SET_STATE_PROP),
         oldReplica.getProperties().get(ZkStateReader.FORCE_SET_STATE_PROP))) {
diff --git a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/cloud/SplitShardWithNodeRoleTest.java b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/cloud/SplitShardWithNodeRoleTest.java
index c30bfae328c..d698758cd06 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/cloud/SplitShardWithNodeRoleTest.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/cloud/SplitShardWithNodeRoleTest.java
@@ -24,13 +24,14 @@
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.request.UpdateRequest;
 import org.apache.solr.common.SolrInputDocument;
 import org.apache.solr.core.NodeRoles;
+import org.apache.solr.util.LogLevel;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
-import org.junit.Ignore;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
-@Ignore("SOLR-16753")
+@LogLevel(
+    "org.apache.solr.cloud.overseer=DEBUG;org.apache.solr.cloud=DEBUG;org.apache.solr.cloud.api.collections=DEBUG")
 public class SplitShardWithNodeRoleTest extends SolrCloudTestCase {
   private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MethodHandles.lookup().lookupClass());