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2008 Bill(s)
* SB 773 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Small Business Description: Require disclosure and a two-day waiting period for signing a Medicare Advantage insurance plan -- the private insurance coverage alternative to Medicare for the elderly.
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SB 774 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: IN SCS SB 761 Description: Restrict operation of small-size utility vehicles on highways or in streams.
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* SB 775 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Small Business Description: Impose requirements on auto insurance coverage for repairs. Let the policy holder to choose the repair shop to be used.
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SCS SB 821 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Perf Description: Add an osteopath to the MO HealthNet advisory board (that oversees the old Medicaid program).
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SB 822 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: H Government Affairs Description: Let various local governments impose a property tax for a fund on cemetery maintenance, upon voter approval.
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SB 823 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Ways & Means Description: Provide a sales tax exemption for weather radios.
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* SB 847 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Agriculture Description: Let a farmer replant patented genetically-modified seed if the farmer registers with the Agriculture Dept. and pays a fee.
See: Official legislative description and status* SB 848 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Financial Description: Make all offices in the Capitol building accessible to physically disabled -- effectively prohibiting the double-decker offices for some House members that are accessible only by stairs.
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SB 849 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Judiciary Description: Let the state Child Advocate file findings and reports with a court.
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SB 860 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Pensions Description: Prohibit the state or local government from condemning land owned by a gun club or sportsmen's club.
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SCS SB 861 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Perf Description: Repeal a requirement for legal representation (or waving the right in writing) for an intoxicated driving offense to count as a prior offense.
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* SB 862 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Agriculture Description: Require prior notice before a private person can enter onto property to investigate the origin or source of a farm commodity (such as genetically engineered crops).
See: Official legislative description and status* SB 866 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Ways & Means Description: Prohibit various tax breaks or government loans to a business for five years to a business with 25% or more of it's workforce with salaries below the federal poverty level.
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SB 867 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Financial Description: Require inflation increases in the salaries of state government workers.
See: Official legislative description and status* SB 868 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Small Business Description: Impose additional requirements on auto insurance coverage including requirements that there be written standards for an established appraisal system to determine costs.
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SB 869 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Financial Description: Remove a 15-year time limit for action to be taken against a bail bond agent license for conviction of a crime.
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SB 923 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Health Description: Ad an optometrist to the committee that oversees Mo HealthNet -- the old Medicaid program.
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SB 937 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Transportation Description: Allow utility vehicles to operate on highways.
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SB 938 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Financial Description: Establish pay "parameters" for Corrections Department guards.
See: Official legislative description and status* SB 984 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Education Description: Expand the Bright Flight Scholarship Program to include students with GEDs. Increase the scholarship coverage and amounts.
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SB 985 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Judiciary Description: Make it a crime to tell a lie to government employee during a criminal investigation.
* SB 1189 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Education Description: Prohibit regular school students from enrolling in a virtual school course that also is offered by the regular school.
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SB 1253 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Commerce Description: Restrict public access to county property tax records.
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SJR 35 Sponsor:Shoemyer, Wes Status: S Agriculture Description: Let St. Louis city adopt ordinances on health and welfare, so long as they are no more restrictive than state law.
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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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