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2015 Bill(s)
* SB 39 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Agriculture, Food & Outdoor Resources Description: Create a separate commission named by the governor to regulate and license animal care facilities, shelters, kennels and shopts. Currently, that responsibility is handled by the Agriculture Department.
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SB 40 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Ways & Means Description: Provide a tax credit for lower income persons eligible for the federal earned income tax credit.
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SB 41 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections Description: Combine the election boards of Kansas City and Jackson County.
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SCS SB 69 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Perfection Description: Change from the county clerk to the board of elections where a candidate files in counties with two election boards -- Kansas City and Jackson County.
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SB 70 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: IN SCS SB 1 Description: Prohibit the Board of Education from declaring a school district unaccredited if no board member is from the congressional district in which the school is located. Let schools refuse to accept students from unaccredited districts if it would violate the district's student-teacher ratio policy.
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SB 71 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Education Description: Require the Higher Education Department develop a policy for dual credit course fee reimbursement. in the A++ scholarship program.
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SB 88 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections Description: Abolish a provision by which a government appointee continues to hold office after the term has expired until a successor is appoint. Instead, declare the office vacant immedately after the term expired.
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SB 89 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Small Business Description: Give the Insurance Department power over private health insurance rates. Give the depeartment power to disapprove proposed rates.
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* SB 90 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Veterans' Affairs & Health Description: Raise eligibility of Medicaid to 133 percent of federal poverity -- actually 138 percent because Missouri law ignores the first five percent of income in determining eligibility.
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SB 95 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections Description: Allow release to legislators and their staff confidential information held by licensening boards.
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* SB 96 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Rules Description: Reinstate limits on campaign contributions, how much any one person or organization can contribute to a candidate.
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* SB 97 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Rules Description: Reinstate limits on campaign contributions, how much any one person or organization can contribute to a candidate. Add two members appointed by legislative leaders to the Ethics Commission. Give each statewide elected official power to appoint one member.
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SB 99 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Judiciary Description: Require anyone involved in prescription drugs to report if he/she has reason to believe a pharmacist is providing fake, counterfeit or black-market drugs. Make it a crime to fail to make such a report.
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SB 100 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: IN SCS SB 451 Description: Include various crimes in a law establishing means to have a criminal record expunged. Make records and hearings for expungement closed.
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SB 101 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't Description: Add Kansas City to cities that can enact ordinances that imposes pre-treatment requirements on sewage treated by government-owned treatment plants.
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SB 102 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Governmental Accountability Description: Expand the requirement for the legislative staff estimate of the costs to government of legislation from the next two years to then next five years. If there is no cost in the first five years, expand the requirement to five years after the first year that there is a cost.
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SB 103 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections Description: Give individual legislators and legislative staff access to confidential information held by professional licensing boards.
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SB 144 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Small Business Description: Require the Labor Department to develop guidelines involving gender equality in salaries and wages.
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SB 184 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Small Business Description: Various changes in corporate registration for nonprofit organizations. Require the Secretary of State to establish an eletronic filing system. Lower fees.
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SB 185 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Governmental Accountability Description: Expand the requirement for the legislative staff estimate of the costs to government of legislation from the next two years to then next five years, or longer if there is a phase in greater than five years. Require that audio and video appropriations bill hearings be streamed on the legislature's website.
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SB 193 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Small Business Description: Increase the base minimum wage from $6.50 to $10.00 per hour. With annual cost-of-living adjustment, the current minimum is $7.65.
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SB 238 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S General Laws & Pensions Description: Prohibit a person collecting state government retirement benefits if working full time for a local government, excluding school teachers.
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SB 439 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Judiciary Description: Move one circuit court division from Kansas City to Independence.
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SB 453 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Seniors, Families & Public Health Description: Expand the Amber alert system to include persons endangered because of age, health or disability or other factors.
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SB 454 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections Description: Change the makeup of the Jackson County political party committees.
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SB 490 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Veterans' Affairs & Health Description: Establish special Medicaid coverage for prescription drugs for some patients with HIV, cancer or several mental illness. Require Medicaid provide prior authorization for all the drugs rather than each one. Prohibit requiring prior authorization more frequently that every six months.
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SB 494 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Veterans' Affairs & Health Description: Fix the statutory reference to a federal law in a provision dealing with funding for federally qualified health centers.
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SB 557 Sponsor:LeVota, Paul Status: S Agriculture, Food & Outdoor Resources Description: Require the Conservation Department reimburse an auto owner up to $500 for damages caused by hitting a deer.
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