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2011 Bill(s)
HB 126 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Transportation Funding & Public Inst. Description: Require 60 days advance notice when state government fires 50 or more employees in a county in a one-month period.
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HB 127 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: S Veterans Description: Count a partial term served by a sheriff as a full term for retirement credit.
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HB 128 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Judiciary Description: Require that in an award for a lawsuit against government that the deposit normally required for lawsuits be deducted from the amount awarded.
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HB 129 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Judiciary Description: Prohibit a juvenile or family course from using a parent's decision not to abort a fetus as grounds for a court to take or terminate jurisdiction.
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* HB 130 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Judiciary Description: Establish additional provisions to facilitate appointment of a guardian for an incapacitated adult.
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HB 158 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Judiciary Description: Add "injurious falsehood" legal actions that have a two year statute of limitations. The two year deadline for filing a suit currently includes libel and slander.
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* HB 216 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H General Laws Description: Prohibit the Public Service Commission from setting a specific electric rate for an aluminum smelting facility. AmerenUE has a special rate for Noranda's smelting plant. Was not assigned to committee until May 26, after the constitutional deadline for the legislature to act on bills.
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HB 261 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Education Description: Repeal the provision requiring seniority be considered when laying off teachers.
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HB 286 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Ways & Means Description: Provide an income tax refund check off for the Red Cross.
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* HB 334 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: IN HCS HSB 300 Description: Impose requirements on schools for dealing with student athletes who sustain head injuries. Require a health evaluation before the student can return to play.
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HB 374 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Judiciary Description: Allow lawsuits against a person filing a false claim for money, property or services from state government. Let private citizens sue and get a portion of the award.
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* HB 427 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Judiciary Description: Expand when an adopted person can obtain the person's actual birth certificate. Authorize release to descendants if the adoptee is dead. Authorize release to an adult adoptee if the biological parents had not objected.
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HB 694 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Elections Description: Move the primary election from August to June. Move the presidential primary from February to June.
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HB 867 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Higher Education Description: Establish a biosciences scholars program for faculty subject to appropriations.
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HB 957 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H General Laws Description: Require payment of a rebate to customers if an aluminum smelting facility getting a special low-cost rate does not employ 200 employees. The bill does not indicate who pays the rebate. Was not assigned to committee until May 26, after the constitutional deadline for the legislature to act on bills.
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HB 1020 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Health Insurance Description: Require the health care plan covering state government workers to cover temporormandibular joint disorder.
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HJR 4 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Downsizing State Government Description: Prohibit the Salary Commission from recommending pay raises for legislators or statewide elected officials during slow economic periods. Prohibit raises higher than that provided to at least 75% of state workers.
See: Official legislative description and status* HJR 10 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Education Description: Repeal the ban on state funds to parochial and private schools. Require the state to provide a stipend for a parent to enroll a child in any accredited school in the state outside the parent's district.
Note: The descriptions of bills, amendments and roll-call votes are written by MDN journalists. MDN's database may not include committee assignments of bills made on the last day of the session since it is too late for the committee to act on the bill and, thus, the delayed assignment has no practical effect.
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