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12/12/2005 - Legislation Proposed to Ban Protesting at Funerals:
State Senator Charlie Shields has now proposed legislation that would ban protesting for one hour on either side of a funeral.
11/9/2005 - Medicaid Reform Commission Looks for Healthy Living:
Committee Chairman Charlie Shields says its a thought process issue:
11/30/2005 - Report shows Medicaid cuts most affect women:
Single mothers were a "significant population taken off the Medicaid rolls," said Medicaid reform Commission chairman Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph.
11/09/2005 - Medicaid Reform Commission focuses on healthy behavior:
Medicaid Reform Commission chairman Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, supports the drive to focus on health management and education.
10/27/2005 - Medicaid Commission discusses new technology:
Senator Charlie Shields recommended screening Medicaid recipients for risk behaviors like smoking.
10/26/2005 - Medicaid Reform Commission member Margaret Donnelly asks when the commission will make decisions.:
Commission chairmen Charlie Shields says the commission will have recommendations ready for the governor by January first.
10/20/2005 - Advocacy Group Launches Campaign To Restore Medicaid:
Republican Senate Floor Leader Charlie Shields, of Buchanan, and member of the Medicaid Reform Commission, said the state's Medicaid system is fundamentally broken.
10/19/2005 - Medicaid Coverage Initiative Considered:
But the Republican senate floor leader Charlie Shields says the state's Medicaid program is broken and G-R-O's ballot initiative won't fix the problem.
9/30/2005 - Medicaid Reform Commission moves future hearings from rural areas.:
Republican Senator and Commission chairperson Charlie Shields says the move is neccessary because of time constraints -- he says they have just three months to finish their reccomendation
5/14/2005 - Unresolved abortion disputes highlights divide in Republican majority:
While permitting the measure's sponsor to troll for support to end a filibuster and force the issue to a vote, Senate Majority Leader Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, kept the Senate away from abortion on the session's final day.
5/12/2005 - Legislature passes foundation formula:
The measure's sponsor, Senate Majority Leader Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, said the passage was a major step forward because student need rather than the local property tax rate would now dictate how much money came to a school district.
5/11/2005 - House passes foundation formula:
Blunt and Rep. Brian Baker, R-Belton, who was put in charge of the bill in the House, said natural economic growth would generate the money. But the bill's sponsor, Senate Majority Leader Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, has said he favored the combination of economic growth with a repeal of loss limits and an increase to the gross receipts taxes gambling boats pay.
5/03/2005 - Blunt pushes foundation formula proposal costing almost $1B:
Senate Majority Leader Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, has said he would support eliminating casino loss limits and increasing gross receipts taxes, which when combined with additional tax revenues from economic growth would fund the formula.
5/02/2005 - Debate continues in Missouri over end-of-life issues:
Although not directly related to Schiavo's case, Senate Majority Leader Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, has filed a bill that he said would establish a "pecking order" for who should make health-care decisions for incapacitated patients without durable power of attorney. The bill would provide that no health care decisions made by an attorney or surrogate if that decision is contrary to the provider's religious beliefs or institutional religious-based policy.
4/28/2005 - House committee rejects foundation formula proposal:
The measure's sponsor Senate Floor Leader Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, downplayed the importance of the committee vote. Shields, who has been working on the new formula for two years, said he believed the proposal could be saved.
4/26/2005 - Senate approves cuts to higher education:
Floor Leader Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, providing the paperwork for Barnitz to opt out of the state health care plan, encouraged the rookie senator to "lead by example" and take himself off the plan whether the Senate passes the amendment or not.
4/14/2005 - Senate turns down optional helmets while state budget and foundation formula chug ahead:
The formula, sponsored by Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, would cost $680 million and be implemented over five years.
4/14/2005 - Senate passes changes to school funding:
Sen. Charlie Shields, the Republican Floor Leader, says he is optimistic about being able to find the money needed for the new formula..
4/13/2005 - Senate gives first round approval to school foundation formula:
With the cost of the proposed formula exceeding $650 million, Senate Majority Leader Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, who led the effort to make the formula's first wholesale changes since 1993, said a companion bill to help fund the new formula would be debated on the floor before the end of the session.
4/13/2005 - Legislators kill amendment to cut their own healthcare benefits:
Republican Senator Charlie Shields of St. Joseph says he understands the political statement Democrats are trying to make, but thinks they are missing the point.
4/12/2005 - Senate grapples with school funding:
Republican Senator and bill sponsor Charlie Shields says the new formula would be based more on student need.
3/17/2005 - Senate gives final approval to Medicaid bill:
"I got elected to this body, and I got to be even more compassionate because not only did I get to spend my own money, but I got to spend others' money as well," Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, said.
3/08/2005 - Joint-committee passes foundation formula fix:
The committee's chairman, Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, praised the committee for its work but predicted the proposal is only the starting point for later debate in the Senate and House.
3/02/2005 - Committee delays vote on foundation formula:
Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, had set a controversial four-week deadline for the joint Senate-House committee assigned to the task, but a vote is not expected until the formula can be compiled into bill form. This will not happen until next week.
3/02/2005 - Foundation formula fix delayed:
Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, had set a controversial four-week deadline for the joint Senate-House committee assigned to the task, but a vote is not expected until the formula can be compiled into bill form. This will not happen until next week.
3/01/2005 - Senate-House joint committee to vote on proposed foundation formula next week:
Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, had set a controversial four-week deadline for the joint Senate-House committee assigned to the task, but a vote is not expected until the formula can be compiled into bill form. This will not happen until next week.
2/7/2005 - Missouri Government News for the Week of February 7, 2005:
JEFFERSON CITY - In Tuesday's initial meeting of the Senate-House joint committee charged with providing the state with a recommendation on how to the fix the formula for distributing state aid to public education, Chairman Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, advocated a formula that leans toward student needs rather than the willingness of local residents to pass local tax increases.
2/17/2005 - Republican senators propose amendment to limit school lawsuits:
Senate Majority Floor Leader Charlie Shields says lawmakers should determine education funding, not judges.
2/17/2005 - Senators propose constitutional amendment:
Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, who heads the joint committee, and Senate Education Committee Chairman Gary Nodler, R-Joplin, cosponsored the measure. Nodler said he believed the courts should not have accepted the suit.
2/14/2005 - Missouri Government News for the Week of February 14, 2005:
Senate Majority Floor Leader Charlie Shields says lawmakers should determine education funding, not judges.
2/03/2005 - House creates committee to address Foundation formula:
But the chairman of the joint committee -- Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph -- said the new House committee was necessary because joint committees cannot send bills to the floor and said the joint committee should complete its work by the March 1.
2/01/2005 - Senate removes cap on lobbyist gifts:
The chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee which recommended the change - Senate Majority Leader Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph -- called the $50 cap an "arcane" rule.
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