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2001 Bill(s)
SB 47 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: IN SCS SB 46 Description: Several provisions on dental services for children. Let dental hygienists give them fluoride treatments.
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CCS SB 48 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Expand child-care hot-line list to include the Mental Health Dept's employee disqualification list.
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SB 49 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: S Insurance Description: Require state health plan include long-term health care coverage.
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SCS SB 99 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: S Perf Description: Allow state funds to federally qualified health centers.
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* SB 199 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: S Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Description: Let cities have automatic photo traffic enforcement, but without points being assessed for violations.
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SB 200 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Create a woman offender program in the Corrections Dept.
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SB 201 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Make February Lifelong Learning Month.
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SB 208 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: S Ways & Means Description: Property tax exemption for disabled veterans.
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SB 235 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: S Public Health and Welfare Description: Total rewrite of the law limiting medical facility expansion and construction.
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CCS SB 236 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Add first cousin to those eligible for adoption subsidies. HS has women's health coverage & elderly prescription drugs.
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* SB 275 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Allow notice of being deaf be included on a driving license, if requested.
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SB 276 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: S Education Description: Require state to provide scholarships to foster children to cover tuition not covered by other financial aid.
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SB 277 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: S Local Govt Description: State to distribute gambling taxes to St. Louis County local towns. Ban future revenue sharing contracts in the county.
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SB 289 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: S Insurance Description: Require health insurance provide annual statement of claims paid by the insurer for that policy.
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* SB 318 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: S Public Health and Welfare Description: Expand Medicaid to those below 100% of federal poverty levels.
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HCS SB 348 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Let court terminate guardianship if parent is found fit to care for the child.
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SB 349 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: S Insurance Description: No insurance time limit for coverage of reconstructive surgery or prosthetic devices after breast cancer surgery.
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* SB 350 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: S Transportation Description: Require a state permit to operate a hay ride and proof of insurance.
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CCS SB 393 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Let dentist from another state provide free dental services in Missouri up to 14 days. Now limited to summer camps.
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* SB 399 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: S Pensions Description: Detail how tobacco settlement money will be spent -- health research, children, stop-smoking programs.
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SB 419 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: S Insurance Description: Expand Medicaid to employed disabled covered under a federal law.
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SB 434 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: H Children Description: Allow state funds for a health-coverage program that now is limited funds from a cigarette tax.
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SS SB 448 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: H Children Description: Extend Medicaid to some breast and cervical cancer patients.
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* SB 449 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: H Social Services Description: Require Alzheimer's disease training by workers in various facilities caring for the elderly.
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* SB 550 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: S Judiciary Description: Repeal sovereign immunity for ADA lawsuits. Let the state be sued in state court for Disabilities Act lawsuits.
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HCS SS SB 551 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: H 3rd Read (IN BUDGET) Description: Limit foster grandparent program to lower-income grandparents. And make it subject to appropriation.
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SB 552 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: S Public Health and Welfare Description: Allow comanagement post-surgery care agreements by ophthalmologists and optometrists.
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* SJR 13 Sponsor:Sims, Betty Status: S Pensions Description: Put tobacco settlement money into a trust fund and limit uses to health, smoking prevention, children.
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