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2002 Bill(s)
* SB 678 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Education Description: Require urban charter schools beet all state standards.
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SB 679 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Education Description: Create planning commission for the Kansas City school system and how to regain accreditation.
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* HS SCS SB 680 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: Conference Description: Establish a data bank on how to lose weight and treat obesity.
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* SB 730 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Insurance Description: Require health insurance cover weight loss programs for obesity.
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* SB 731 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Judiciary Description: Impose moratorium to 2005 on the death penalty for a study on how it is being applied.
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SCS SB 732 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: H Social Services Description: Require annual report to legislature on welfare statistics including statistics on who got off welfare and who did not.
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* SB 762 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Insurance Description: Income tax and business tax increase to fund a universal health care program.
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* SB 763 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Judiciary Description: Lower minimum age of a juror from 21 to 18.
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* SB 764 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Public Health and Welfare Description: Establish a need exchange program for drug addicts.
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* SB 780 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Ways & Means Description: Extend food sales tax exemption to local sales taxes. Also increase income deduction for federal income taxes.
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* SB 781 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Description: Require firearm lock or trigger lock with sale of a firearm.
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* SB 782 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Insurance Description: Let the legislature appropriate funds for housing grants.
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SB 789 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Description: Require cop to report the race of every person stopped. Now, the law covers only stops for an auto law violation.
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* SB 790 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Ways & Means Description: Earnings tax on non residents to fund a college scholarship program.
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SB 791 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Education Description: Require early school attendance in urban schools starting at age five.
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* SB 792 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Insurance Description: Ban HMO from removing drugs it covers except at the annual start of a policy.
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SB 793 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Aging Description: Expand the foster grandparent program. Remove income limit for participants. Provide full reimbursement.
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SB 794 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: H Education Description: Let schools form committees to provide youth-at-risk programs.
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* SB 835 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Aging Description: Ban discrimination against people with service animals. Add them to the Human Rights law on access to public facilities.
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* SB 852 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Insurance Description: Require health insurance cover weight-loss counseling for person more than 50 lbs over weight if ordered by doctor.
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SB 1042 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Commerce Description: Transfer natural gas sales tax increases to the Utilicare Fund that finances utility services for the poor.
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SCS SB 1043 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Consent: REMOVED Description: Make the Walt Disney studio in Kansas City an historic site.
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* SB 1044 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Insurance Description: Require health insurance provide 24 hours of inpatient care after surgery.
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SB 1045 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Ways & Means Description: Establish a sales-tax-free zone in Kansas City for 2 years.
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SB 1079 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Financial & Governmental Organization Description: Lower penalty for late payment on some credit transactions.
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SB 1080 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Financial & Governmental Organization Description: License hair braiders & require training.
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SB 1081 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Public Health and Welfare Description: Create a joint legislative committee on health care policy and planning.
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* SB 1082 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Aging Description: Establish minimum staffing levels for nursing homes.
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SB 1141 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Insurance Description: Require insurance provide same coverage for mental health care as for physical health care.
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SB 1215 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Insurance Description: Restrict insurance coverage decisions being made on the basis of credit reports.
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SB 1216 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Transportation Description: Require substance abuse program attendance for someone convicted of drunken boating.
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SB 1234 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Commerce Description: Let the PSC set lower utility rates for poor customers.
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SB 1235 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Commerce Description: Let the PSC order rate payer refunds for unauthorized natural gas pipeline charges.
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HCS SB 1244 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Make receiving facility responsible for completing the newborn hearing exam required by law if infant transferred.
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SB 1252 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Description: A number of changes in the criminal justice processes.
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SB 1278 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Description: Expand penalty for arson motivated by race, religion, sexual orientation or disability of the victim.
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* SJR 28 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Judiciary Description: Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution barring discrimination based on sex.
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