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2008 Bill(s)
* HCS HB 1321 Sponsor:Sutherland, Mike Status: S 3rd Read Description: Increase property tax relief for the elderly. HCS restricts the revenue a local government can collect from a voter-approved tax increase to the revenue that would be generated in the preceding year's assessed valuation. SCS includes a ban on cutting off electric service for past bills during the summer.
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* HB 1827 Sponsor:Sutherland, Mike Status: H Professional Registration Description: Require registration of mobile home dealers and provide regulatory authority with the Public Service Commission.
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HB 1828 Sponsor:Sutherland, Mike Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Expand the rule-making authority for the Revenue Department over sales taxes.
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HB 1879 Sponsor:Sutherland, Mike Status: H Health Care Policy Description: Prohibit substitution of anti-eplieptic drugs by a pharmacist without signed approval.
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HB 1978 Sponsor:Sutherland, Mike Status: H Judiciary Description: Provide liability lawsuit protections for ski operations.
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HB 2192 Sponsor:Sutherland, Mike Status: H 2nd Read Description: Provide exemptions to the certificate of need law for long-term facilities that imposes a requirement for government approval for expansion of a facility. Allow relocation to a nearby facility without going thru the process.
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HB 2205 Sponsor:Sutherland, Mike Status: H Judiciary Description: Create new crimes of causing death or injury from operation of a motor vehicle.
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HCS HB 2206 Sponsor:Sutherland, Mike Status: S Transportation Description: Require the Transportation department to consider bicycle and pedestrian paths in their planning.
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HCS HB 2250 Sponsor:Sutherland, Mike Status: S Commerce Description: Provide a seven-day sales tax exemption for purchase of energy efficient products.
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HB 2405 Sponsor:Sutherland, Mike Status: H Ways & Means Description: Provide a one-week period when purchase of digital-to-analog converter boxes would be exempt from the sales tax. Assigned to committee on April 10, just five weeks before the end of the legislative session.
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HB 2410 Sponsor:Sutherland, Mike Status: H 2nd Read Description: Let the Revenue Department require tax returns be filed electronically.
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HB 2445 Sponsor:Sutherland, Mike Status: H 2nd Read Description: Require local registration, available to the public, of dangerous animals. Various other changes changes in law restricting ownership of dangerous animals.
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HB 2461 Sponsor:Sutherland, Mike Status: H Ways & Means Description: Phase out the franchise tax on business.
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.