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2008 Bill(s)

* HCS SS SB 726
Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
Status: H 3rd Read
Description: Establish a state rating system for child-care facilities. On May 7, the bill was approved by the H Family Committee, but the committee's vote was not been reported to the full House until May 12, leaving just four days left in the session. Appeared on the calandar for the last day of the session. Held in Fiscal Review until after the session had adjourned
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  • Senate roll call - SS SCS SB 726 (03/27/2008): 3rd reading of a bill to establish a rating system for child day care centers.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 727
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Establish a crime of home mortgage fraud.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 728
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: IN SCS SB 753
    Description: Name a portion of U.S. Highway 169 the Deputy Charles M. Cook Memorial Highway.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 955
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Allow an auto owner to get a registration payment refund when the auto is sold in some circumstances.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 968
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Extend the Sunshine Law to cover judicial nominating commission requiring open meetings and records.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1037
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: S Education
    Description: Change the school funding formula that allocates state funds among local schools to allow a funding decrease by recalculation of the state funding-adequacy requirement.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 1038
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Repeal the law imposing limits on the size of contributions political candidates can accept.
    See: 
  • House roll call - SB 1038 (05/16/2008): 3rd reading of a bill to repeal the limits on campaign contributions that voters originally had passed in 1994.
  • House roll call - HA1 HA1 SB 1038 (05/16/2008): An amendment to a campaign finance bill to prohibit the state attorney general from campaigning for any officle.
  • Senate roll call - SB 1038 (02/23/2008): Adoption of the emergency clause to the bill repealing the limits on campaign contributions. The emergency clause requires a 2/3rds vote (23 vote). It would put the bill into effect immediately upo
  • Senate roll call - SB 1038 (02/21/2008): 3rd reading of a bill to repeal the limits on campaign contributions that voters originally had passed in 1994.
  • Senate roll call - SA 6 SB 1038 (02/20/2008): Adoption of an amendment to submit to the voters the bill to repeal the limits on campaign contributions that voters originally had passed in 1994,
  • Senate roll call - SA 3 SB 1038 (02/20/2008): Delay implementation of the bill to repeal campaign contribuition limits until January, after the November elections.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1188
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Remove a 2005 expriation to a program for tax credits to business for research. Limit the credits to agriculture and biotechnology.
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  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1233
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: S Health
    Description: Establish a system for designating hospitals as heart attack or stroke centers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 1234
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Prohibit a business simultaneously getting both an Enhanced Enterprise Zone tax credit and a Quality Jobs tax credit. SCS provides tax credits for large-scale projects - designed to provide up to $880 in tax breaks for a Canadian firm to build an aircraft manufacturing plant in Kansas City.
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  • Senate roll call - SA 4 SS SB 1234 (04/15/2008): An amendment to the tax-break package for a Canadian aircraft firm to give the legislature a final say in whatever package ultimately is negotiated by the administration in return for locating a pla
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1278
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Remove the requirement that members of the Public Service Commission live within 40 miles of Jefferson City.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * HCS SB 1288
    Sponsor: Shields, Charlie
    Status: Conference
    Description: Expand a requirement that lobbyists report expenditures made to legislative standing committees to cover all committees. In recent years, the House has replaced a number of its standing committees with "special" committees. The HCS bans executive branch employees from accepting gifts from lobbyists.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • 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.