All Popular Names Legislation - Minnesota
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Latest Action: 05/16/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text "Marriage and Family Protection Act"; specifying legislative findings; providing for gender neutral marriage laws; specifying instructions to the revisor of statutes (ra) Comment on Bill Latest Action: 05/15/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text "Renewable Energy Feed-In Tariff Act of 2008"; establishing a renewable energy projects rate schedule; defining certain energy terms and projects; establishing a tariff and tariff terms and rates; regulating reduction for other incentive programs and sales to nonqualifying owners; requiring public utilities commission (PUC) tariff review and adjustment; requiring electric utilities interconnection; requiring the PUC to approve standard contracts; requiring the PUC to require electric utilities to file rate schedules; providing for renewable electricity generator loan eligibility; requiring the PUC to submit a report to the legislature and the governor by certain dates (rt) SF1739 - Grieving Parents Act
Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Chief author stricken Bonoff Bill Text "Grieving Parents Act"; requiring hospitals, clinics and medical facilities having custody of a fetus following a miscarriage to provide written notification to the mother of the right to arrange for the burial or cremation of the fetus; providing for election of disposition; specifying certain duties of the commissioner of health relating to notification and election forms (je) SF1618 - Words Work early childhood literacy program establishment and appropriation
Latest Action: 03/21/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass and re-referred to Finance Bill Text Establishing Word Works a research based early childhood literacy program premised on actively involved parents, ongoing professional staff development and high quality early literacy program standards to increase literacy skills of children participating in head start, specifying program provider requirements; requiring the commissioner of education to collect longitudinal literacy data on children; appropriating money to the commissioner of education (rt) Latest Action: 03/12/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance Bill Text 1E Modifying provisions relating to the online learning act; defining supplemental online learning; modifying application and notification procedures and certain online learning parameters; authorizing supplemental online learning enrollment into the school district term, allowing a waiver; requiring course syllabus and materials availability for online learners; specifying a maximum credit for supplemental online learning, requiring application and approval for additional credits (rt) Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Creating the Minnesota forests for the future program to identify and protect private working forest lands; defining certain terms; providing for land eligibility; authorizing commissioner of natural resources to acquire permanent interests in lands by fee title, easement acquisition, gift or donation; specifying an application process; authorizing the commissioner to develop an advisory team for program management; providing for the correction and termination of easements under certain conditions; providing for payments to landowners; requiring the commissioner to establish a monitoring and enforcement program for future easements; providing a rulemaking exemption for certain easements (me) Latest Action: 01/17/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Establishing and providing for the academic competitiveness highlighting individual excellence and valuing education (ACHIEVE) grant program and providing a grant for the purpose of providing free tuition at public postsecondary institutions, specifying eligibility and grant amounts (rt) SF0575 - Higher education appropriations; Minnesota GI bill program; Minnesota Private and Out-of-State Public Postsecondary Education Act
Latest Action: 02/05/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to education ARTICLE 1 - HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS Providing a summary of appropriations by fund; appropriating money to the office of higher education services office for ACHIEVE, the Minnesota GI bill, state grants, safety officers survivors, interstate tuition reciprocity, state work study, child care grants, Minitex and MnLINK gateway, the learning network, the college savings plan, the Midwest higher education compact, certain small programs, united family medicine registry program and for agency administration, to the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) for developing and strengthening projects to improve campus recruitment and retention of underserved students, for instruction in electronic medical record technology, for excellence in the biosciences, for STEM, for performance bonuses and expanding the online program, to the board of regents [...] show full description Latest Action: 02/05/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Establishing and providing for the academic competitiveness highlighting individual excellence and valuing education (ACHIEVE) scholarship program to reward students for taking rigorous courses in high school; defining qualifying course; specifying eligibility, providing for administration by the office of higher education, specifying scholarship award amounts (me) Latest Action: 02/28/2007 - Author added Rest Bill Text "Local Community Rail Security Act of 2007"; providing for the protection of railroad property from terrorism and other criminal activities; specifying legislative findings and purpose; requiring common carriers to provide law enforcement personnel, emergency personnel, transportation officials and other first responders a risk assessment of railroads in the state; requiring common carriers to have a program in place to protect railroad infrastructure from acts of sabotage, terrorism and other criminal acts (infrastructure protection program), requiring the infrastructure protection program to provide specifically for the security of the infrastructure and include regular inspections, requiring compliance and prescribing penalties, requiring annual updates of the program; specifying requirements for common carriers to protect community facilities, prescribing a penalty; requiring common carriers to provide certain communications [...] show full description SF1971 - Omnibus transportation policy
Latest Action: 05/15/2007 - HF substituted by motion [HF1351] Bill Text 4E Relating to transportation; classifying certain department of transportation (DOT) data relating to market research, overhead rates and bid escrow; authorizing a state agency or a political subdivision to enter property for purposes of investigation, monitoring, testing, surveying or boring to perform geotechnical investigations before eminent domain proceedings, requiring notification, prohibiting unnecessary property damage; providing a limit on business reestablishment costs; defining expressway; modifying the definition of freeway; requiring the commissioner allow commercial motor vehicle operators subject to hours of service regulations under certain federal regulations to stop and park continuously for up to a certain period of time as necessary at safety rest areas and travel information centers; modifying voyageur highway description; designating I-94 as the Purple Heart trail; designating a certain portion [...] show full description Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Author added Sheran Bill Text "Textbook Pricing and Access Act"; providing higher education students better and more timely access to affordable textbooks; defining certain terms; prohibiting postsecondary institutions from having business dealings relating to sale of textbooks with a publisher (textbook bundling) and specifying certain publisher disclosure requirements; requiring faculty specificity textbooks; specifying bundling restrictions and notice to purchase requirements at student registration; requiring bookstores to adopt textbook affordability policies and procedures and requiring postsecondary financial institutions distributing financial aid to students to establish police and procedures to provide credit or financial aid for required textbooks and supplies at any bookstore; requiring the board of regents of the university of Minnesota and board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) to establish a textbook [...] show full description Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text "Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act"; defining certain terms; providing for the validity of electronic documents; providing for recording of documents; establishing an electronic recording commission and providing for membership and governance, requiring the commission to adopt standards for implementation; providing uniformity of application and construction; providing for the relation to federal electronic signatures in global and national commerce act (rt) SF0128 - Vehicle Protection Product Act
Latest Action: 03/12/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance Bill Text 2E "Vehicle Protection Product Act"; regulating vehicle protection products; specifying registration and filing requirements of warrantors, authorizing the commissioner of commerce to charge fees to registrants; classifying vehicle protection product warrantors financial information as general nonpublic data; specifying financial responsibilities of warrantors; specifying warranty reimbursement policy requirements; requiring certain disclosures to warranty holders; specifying certain prohibited acts and record keeping requirements; providing for sanctions and administrative penalties by the commissioner of commerce; specifying applicability (rt) Latest Action: 02/26/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text "Consumer Assurance of Radiologic Excellence Act"; providing public access to quality medical imaging procedures and radiation therapy procedures; requiring the commissioner of health to implement certain policies and minimum licensing criteria; specifying certain standards; defining certain terms (me) SF3514 - Equal Access to Instructional Materials in Higher Education Act
Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Author added Latz Bill Text "Equal Access to Instructional Materials in Higher Education Act"; requiring postsecondary instructional materials in an accessible format to blind and other eligible students to be simultaneously available with print instructional materials to other students, specifying publisher requirements, requiring office of higher education guidelines adoption, providing a private right of action in court (rt) Latest Action: 02/21/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text "Controlled Substance Reform Act of 2007"; authorizing deferral of judgment for certain first time drug offenses; making certain affirmative defenses available for driving while impaired offenses; requiring appointment of a conditional release screen committee by the commissioner of corrections, specifying certain membership requirements and duties; requiring the commissioners of human services and corrections to develop best practice standards for publicly funded prison based substance abuse treatment programs and to publish and implement the standards by a certain date; requiring the sentencing guidelines commission to report to the legislature on controlled substance sentencing proportionality recommendations by a certain date; appropriating money to the commissioner of health to develop the best practice standards (je) SF0540 - Minnesota False Claims Act
Latest Action: 02/05/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text "Minnesota False Claims Act"; prohibiting the intentional submission of false or fraudulent claims for payment or approval to state officers or employees, defining claim, imposing a civil penalty and liability for damages for violation, exceptions; authorizing and providing for investigation of violations by the attorney general, providing for private remedies, prohibiting actions against certain public officials; requiring action by the attorney general within a certain number of days following a complaint and disclosure, requiring complaints to be unsealed following action by the attorney general, findings or conclusions of law to be final; providing for the serving of unsealed complaints and response by the defendant and for certain additional actions to be taken by the attorney general; providing for stay of discovery and court imposed limits on participation of private plaintiffs; imposing a statute of limitations for show full description SF0253 - Minnesota GI bill program
Latest Action: 01/25/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to veterans; establishing the Minnesota GI bill program, providing for postsecondary educational assistance to eligible state veterans and to the children and spouses of deceased and severely disabled veterans, specifying eligibility and benefit entitlement amount, designating the office of higher education as responsible agency (rt) Latest Action: 03/21/2007 - Comm rpt: No recommendation, re-ref to Finance Bill Text 1E "The Child Protection and Safety Act"; establishing a child safety system for performance based accountability for the safety, permanency and well being of children and establishing a child safety fund to address the needs of children within each county; defining certain terms; requiring the commissioner of human services to allocate funds to counties according to a specified formula; requiring the commissioner to convene a work group for procedure determination for standards compliance measurement; requiring the commissioner to convene a tribal (native American) work group for tribal participation opportunities; specifying commissioner and county board duties; requiring the commissioner to evaluate county performance and progress; modifying community service plan requirements for conformance; appropriating money to the commissioner of human services (me) SF3600 - Joey's Law; drivers license and identification card appearance for persons restricted from consuming alcohol modification
Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text "Joey's Law"; changing the appearance of a Minnesota drivers license or identification card issued to an applicant restricted from consuming alcohol; authorizing alcohol servers or alcohol serving establishments to refuse service to restricted persons (je) Latest Action: 03/07/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text "Global Warming Preparedness Act of 2007"; specifying legislative findings; defining certain terms related to greenhouse gas emissions; requiring pollution control agency (PCA) to monitor sources greenhouse gas emissions; requiring all major emitting sources to file with the PCA by a certain date a good faith estimate of greenhouse gas emissions; requiring PCA to adopt rules to require the reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions; requiring PCA to report to legislature by a certain date stating the amount of statewide greenhouse gas emissions, evaluating costs and benefits of reducing greenhouse gases, identifying ways to reduce gases and developing research and investment opportunities regarding the reduction of greenhouse gases, specifying additional PCA duties; authorizing the public utilities commission (PUC) to approve routing of carbon dioxide pipelines; requiring owners of certain coal fired power [...] show full description SF2932 - Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act
Latest Action: 02/21/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text "Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act"; defining terms; providing for applicability to volunteer health practitioners; specifying division of emergency management director regulation during emergency declarations; specifying volunteer health practitioner registration systems; providing for volunteer health practitioners licensed in other states recognition, no effect on credentialing and privileges, administrative sanctions and relation to other laws; requiring the division of emergency management to adopt rules (rt) Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Modifying the postsecondary enrollment options act by prohibiting the department of education from paying postsecondary institutions for incomplete student coursework and permitting the postsecondary institution to bill student directly for course costs and unreturned textbooks and equipment (rt) Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Authorizing local authorities to implement a program to allow police officers to issue a citation to a motor vehicle owner or lessee for violations detected with the use of an automated traffic enforcement system (photo cop); defining automated traffic law enforcement system and recorded images; prescribing penalties; providing for the crediting of fines to local authorities general revenue funds; restricting the use of data; prohibiting a contract with a private entity for operation of a program from basing payment to the private entitiy on the number of citations issued (rt) Latest Action: 02/26/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text "Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act"; granting immunity from civil liability to producers, growers, manufacturers, packers, distributors, carriers, holders, marketers or sellers of food or nonalcoholic beverages for actions based on weight gain, obesity or health conditions associated with weight gain or obesity and resulting from long term purchase or consumption of the food or nonalcoholic beverages, exceptions (je) Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text "Minnesota Freedom to Buy and Sell Act"; defining certain terms; permitting residents and employers with the freedom to buy health coverage approved for sale in any state; providing insurance companies the freedom to sell in this state any health coverage permitted for sale in any other state (me) SF2785 - Hunters, Anglers and Trappers Bill of Rights; constitutional amendments for portion of sales tax dedication to game and fish purposes, right to arms, right to wear fur and display trophy animals
Latest Action: 02/18/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Hunters, Anglers and Trappers Bill of Rights" ARTICLE 1 - FINDINGS AND PURPOSE Specifying certain legislative findings and purpose to create the most possible opportunities for citizens to exercise the right to hunt, fish and take game ARTICLE 2 - HERITAGE ENHANCEMENT FUIND Proposing an amendment to the Minnesota constitution, article XI, to provide funding to enhance the population and quality of game and fish in Minnesota and provide hunting and angler access by dedicating the sale and use tax receipts equal to the state sales and use tax of a certain percentage on taxable sales of supplies and equipment used to take game and fish; creating the heritage enhancement council to develop a biennial budget plan for expenditures; specifying certain membership requirements and duties; creating a heritage enhancement fund to be spent on game and fish projects on public and private lands; [...] show full description SF3620 - Nurse licensure compact
Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to health; enacting the nurse licensure compact; providing for findings and declaration of purpose; defining certain terms; specifying general provisions and jurisdiction; specifying applications for licensure in a party state; providing for adverse actions; providing for additional authorities invested in party state nurse licensing boards; requiring a coordinated licensure information system; providing for compact administration and interchange of information; providing for immunity; providing for enactment, withdrawal and amendment; providing for construction and severability; providing for the application of the nurse licensure compact to existing laws; providing for withdrawal from the compact; specifying miscellaneous provisions; establishing a nurse licensure compact advisory committee, specifying membership, duties and organization (me) SF1567 - Health care provisions modifications; MinnesotaCare II option; Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange
Latest Action: 03/07/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to health ARTICLE 1 - HEALTH INSURANCE Allowing public assistance data to be shared for MinnesotaCare enrollment and premium collection purposes; authorizing the commissioner of human services to receive federal matching money made available through the medical assistance (MA) program for managed care oversight contracted through vendors; modifying certain medical assistance (MA) eligibility requirements for children under a certain age; requiring commissioner to develop and implement a physician directed care coordination program for certain medical assistance recipients; requiring commissioner to refer MinnesotaCare applicants and enrollees to the Minnesota health insurance exchange, specifying certain exchange of private data requirements; modifying certain MinnesotaCare eligibility requirements for families with children; modifying certain duties of the commissioner relating to availability [...] show full description SF0888 - Health and human services appropriations; Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange; MinnesotaCare II
Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Withdrawn and re-referred to Finance Bill Text Relating to state government ARTICLE 1 - HUMAN SERVICES APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the commissioner of human services (DHS) for information system projects and systems continuity, management and operations, revenue and pass through expenditures, children and economic assistance, MFIP/DWP and support services, various child care, adoption assistance, children and community services, general assistance (GA) and emergency general assistance, Minnesota supplemental and emergency supplemental aids, group residential, children and economic assistance, basic health care, MinnesotaCare, general assistance medical care (GAMC) and other health care, continuing care, alternative care, medical assistance (MA), mental health, deaf and hard of hearing, various chemical dependency and continuing care grants, targeted case management temporary funding, medical assistance (MA), physician directed care [...] show full description SF0828 - Safe Patient Handling Act
Latest Action: 03/12/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance Bill Text 2E "Safe Patient Handling Act"; requiring every licensed health care facility in the state to implement by a certain date a safe patient handling program to eliminate patient manual lifting by nurses (RN) and (LPN) and direct patient care workers, requiring mechanical assistive devices use, requiring safe patient handling program committee formation, specifying further program and committee requirements and duties; providing for facilities with existing programs; authorizing commissioner of labor and industry enforcement; requiring the commissioner to study ways to require workers compensation insurers to recognize compliance in workers compensation premiums for health care and long term care facilities; appropriating money to the commissioner of labor and industry (rt) Latest Action: 04/03/2008 - HF substituted on Calendar HF1499 Bill Text 1E "Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act"; defining certain terms; establishing a standard of conduct in managing and investing institutional funds; providing an appropriation for expenditure or accumulation of endowment funds; providing delegation of management and investment functions; providing for the release or modification of restrictions on management, investment or purpose of funds; providing compliance review; providing application to existing institutional funds; modification, limiting and superseding of electronic signatures in global and national commerce act; repealing current uniform management of institutional funds act (me) Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text "Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act"; defining certain terms; providing for the validity of electronic documents; providing for recording of documents; requiring the commissioner of commerce to adopt standards for implementation; providing uniformity of application and construction; providing for the relation to federal electronic signatures in global and national commerce act (me) SF2324 - Minnesota Health Act
Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Commerce and Consumer Protection Bill Text 1E Relating to health ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS "Minnesota Health Act"; establishing the Minnesota health plan to provide residents all medically necessary health care services; specifying health plan requirements; defining certain terms; providing for ethics and conflict of interest; requiring certain data sharing ARTICLE 2 - ELIGIBILITY Providing for eligibility to all state residents; requiring the Minnesota health board to establish a procedure to enroll residents and provide enrollees with appropriate identification, allowing health care coverage for residents temporarily residing out of state, visitors, nonresident persons working in the state and retiree benefits; providing for presumptive eligibility ARTICLE 3 - BENEFITS Authorizing eligible persons to receive services under the Minnesota health plan from any licensed participating providers; prohibiting [...] show full description Latest Action: 03/14/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Creating the NextGen energy board consisting of the commissioners of agriculture, commerce, the pollution control agnecy (PCA) and employment and economic development (DEED) and certain legislative members, specifying board duties, appropriating money to the commissioner of agriculture for grants to promote the installation of gasification technologies and to lessen dependency on fossil energy (rt) Latest Action: 01/25/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to the income tax; creating the "Rural Minnesota Catch-Up Credit" on a temporary basis to provide for economic growth in rural counties of the state; providing a refundable income tax credit for employers creating and retaining certain qualifying jobs, defining eligible county and qualifying job; specifying certain job creation and credit application requirements for credit qualification purposes; requiring eligible counties to periodically award the credits, specifying certain notice publication and applicant selection requirements, criteria; setting a limit on total credits per eligible county, allowing carryover of unawarded amounts; requiring the commissioner of revenue to prescribe the manner of issuing and claiming the credit and to report to the legislature by a certain date on the credits claimed and on the feasibility and benefit of continuing the program, authorizing consultation with the commissioner [...] show full description Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to health ARTICLE 1 - PREGNANT WOMEN AND PARENT SUPPORT "Minnesota Pregnant Women and Parent Support Act"; prohibiting health plan imposition of policy waiting periods for prenatal and maternity health insurance benefits, defining policy waiting period; eliminating pregnancy as a preexisting condition; establishing a parenting support grant program under the direction of the office of higher education for public or private postsecondary institutions, specifying certain duties of the office; establishing an informational hotline on available pregnancy, adoption and parental support agencies; requiring information on alpha-fetoprotein testing for pregnant women when providing counseling under certain conditions; requiring adoption referral information to be provided by an organization, agency, clinic or health care center receiving state funding; requiring maternity group homes receiving federal [...] show full description SF0346 - PAVE certificate recognition; human drug veterinary use; equine teeth floating services; university of Minnesota specialty practitioner
Latest Action: 01/29/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to veterinary medicine; recognizing the program for the assessment of veterinary education equivalence (PAVE) certification; authorizing the board of veterinary medicine to charge certain fees; modifying equine teeth floating services requirements; allowing faculty licensure for university of Minnesota college of veterinary medicine specialty practitioners board certified by the European board of veterinary specialization; modifying the temporary faculty veterinary medical center clinician license and cease and desist orders service; permitting dispensing of human drugs and over the counter drugs for extra label use, specifying requirements (rt) SF1938 - Minnesota Grain Inspection, Weighing, Sampling and Analysis Act repeal
Latest Action: 03/19/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Repealing the Grain Inspection, Weighing, Sampling and Analysis Act and the grain inspection and weighing account (rt) SF2878 - Program for the assessment of veterinary education equivalence (PAVE) certificate recognition
Latest Action: 03/05/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass and re-referred to Finance Bill Text Relating to veterinary medicine; recognizing the program for the assessment of veterinary education equivalence (PAVE) certification; allowing faculty licensure for university of Minnesota college of veterinary medicine specialty practitioners board certified by the European board of veterinary specialization; modifying the temporary faculty veterinary medical center clinician license and cease and desist orders service; permitting dispensing of human drugs and over the counter drugs for extra label use, specifying conditions (rt) Latest Action: 02/01/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text "Taxpayer's Transportation Accountability Act"; requiring the commissioner of transportation (DOT) prior to entering into privatization contracts to compare the cost of state employee performance with the cost of privatization; specifying certain applicability provisions; specifying contract review requirements; requiring the commissioner to provide annual written reports to the legislature by a certain date on transportation privatization contracts (rt) Latest Action: 03/17/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Business, Industry and Jobs Bill Text 3E "Minnesota Wireless Telephone Consumer Protection Act"; requiring wireless telecommunications services carriers to make certain disclosures to customers; requiring a listing of government taxes and fees on bills; prohibiting billing for certain third party goods and services; requiring disclosure of extensions in contract length; prohibiting wireless carriers from limiting consumer remedies by contract; specifying remedies, penalties and enforcement; repealing consumer protections for wireless customers (ra) Latest Action: 04/16/2007 - Author added Dibble Bill Text "Minnesota Responsible Business Corporations Act"; providing for incorporation of socially responsible for profit business corporations; defining certain terms; providing for the relationship to other law; specifying conditions for incorporation; specifying directors standard of conduct; requiring directors representation of stakeholder interests; limiting applicability of common law of agency; authorizing and providing for input and accountability considerations for other than shareholder interests; providing for attorney general intervention under certain conditions (me) Latest Action: 05/21/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text "General Railroad Safety Act"; prohibiting certain railroad related educational programs; authorizing the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to order the installation of trackside ballast surface warning devices at any railroad track and right-of-way in the state; requiring outdoor electrical lighting appliances at certain points along a railroad track; requiring the commissioner to assess and adopt certain rules for best practice clearance standards for passenger rail platforms; requiring owners of industrial complexes to ensure a positive separation between rail and any motor vehicle at certain industrial complexes; establishing locomotive safety and sanitation standards; prohibiting certain appurtenant equipment from being above the surface of the ground as well as near track switches; applying federal hours of service regulations to persons operating dual purpose railroad tracks and public road vehicles; providing show full description SF3495 - Life Settlements Act
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text "Life Settlements Act"; relating to insurance; regulating life settlements, providing enforcement and prescribing penalties and civil remedies; defining certain terms including stranger originated life insurance (STOLI); specifying certain provider or broker licensure qualification and application requirements, exceptions; authorizing the commissioner of commerce to suspend, revoke or refuse to renew a license under certain conditions; regulating life settlement contracts; specifying certain provider reporting requirements for policies settled during a certain period of time, providing for nondisclosure of identity, exceptions; authorizing the commissioner to examine the business and affairs of any licensee or application for a license; regulating advertising by a broker or provider; specifying certain disclosure requirements; specifying certain general rules for life settlement contracts; authorizing the commissioner [...] show full description Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text "Industrial Hemp Development Act"; providing for state economy and agricultural industry promotion of industrial hemp by permitting regulated industrial hemp industry development; authorizing industrial hemp as an agricultural product; placing enforcement under the commissioner of agriculture; authorizing regulated and lawful industrial hemp agriculture and commercial sales; requiring licensure for cultivation; specifying licensee requirements, compliance and notification requirements; requiring the commissioner to promulgate certain rules; requiring fee credit to the industrial hemp account and establishing the account in the agricultural fund; establishing an affirmative defense for possession of marijuana; exempting industrial hemp from the marijuana and wild hemp definitions (rt) Latest Action: 03/17/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Business, Industry and Jobs Bill Text 1E "Railroad Walkway Safety Act"; specifying general requirements for surfacing walkways by track; requiring rail carriers to provide walkways adjacent to certain portions of yard tracks; specifying standards for certain other tracks and compliance exceptions; permitting certain exceptions to rail carriers under certain conditions; authorizing rail carriers to petition the commissioner of transportation (DOT) for waivers; providing for complaints and enforcement, specifying certain exemptions (me) SF3635 - Lottery gaming machines (racino)
Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to the state lottery ARTICLE 1 - OPERATIONS Authorizing the director of the state lottery to establish lottery gaming machines (racino) and enter into a contract for the management and placement of the machines; modifying the definition of lottery procurement contract; defining gaming machine, gaming machine game, gaming machine play and adjusted gross gaming machine revenue; providing for operation of the gaming machines; requiring examination of the machines; providing for prizes and odds; prohibiting under age play; requiring compulsive gambling notices; prohibiting local licenses and fees; requiring the racing commission to require licensees to reimburse the actual costs of the commission ARTICLE 2 - CONFORMING AMENDMENTS Making certain conforming amendments ARTICLE 3 - REVENUE Authorizing and providing for an in-lieu tax on lottery gaming machines; show full description SF0770 - Teacher education and compensation helps (TEACH) program
Latest Action: 02/12/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Establishing the teacher education and compensation helps (TEACH) program to provide tuition scholarships, education incentives and early childhood teacher retention program to provide retention incentives to early car |
