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2003 Bill(s)
SB 21 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Judiciary Description: Various restrictions on police in line ups, using testimoney of admissions made by incarcerated person, etc.
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* SB 22 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Judiciary Description: Impose a temporary moratorium on executions.
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* SB 23 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Small Business Description: Income tax increase to fund a universal health care plan
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* SB 72 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Education Description: Require urban charter schools meet state accreditation standards.
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* SCS SB 73 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: H Health Description: Create a commission to study obesity & treatment programs.
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* SB 74 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Small Business Description: Require health insurance cover weight-reduction services.
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* SB 105 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Judiciary Description: Lower the minimum age of a juror from 21 to 18.
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SB 106 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Education Description: Establish a planning commission for the Kansas City school district.
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SB 107 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Pensions Description: Create a statewide Amber Alert system, a system for issuing missing children alerts. Already created by executive order.
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SB 126 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Commerce Description: Let the PSC order ratepayer refunds for unauthorized pipeline use charges.
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* SB 127 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Commerce Description: Let the PSC consider ability to pay in setting utility rates effectively allowing lower rates for poor people.
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SB 128 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Ways & Means Description: Earmark sales tax increases from natural gas price increases to the Utilicare program.
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SB 138 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Financial & Governmental Organization Description: Lower the maximum charge allowed for late payment on some credit transactions.
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SB 139 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Ways & Means Description: Expand grandparent foster care program. Remove restriction that limits it to lower income and subject to appropriation.
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* SB 140 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Ways & Means Description: Impose an earnings tax on non-residents to finance a college scholarship program for the lower income.
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* SB 145 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Judiciary Description: Require police file reports on the race of every pedestrian stopped. Racial profiling reports now cover just drivers.
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* SB 146 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Small Business Description: Require health insurance cover mental health care at levels similar to the physical health coverage provided.
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* SB 147 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Aging Description: Establish minimum staffing levels for nursing homes.
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SB 149 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Financial & Governmental Organization Description: Regulate and license hair braiders.
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SB 150 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Education Description: Let a school create a commmttee to work at developing programs for youth-at-risk.
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SB 151 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Ways & Means Description: Create a two-year tax free zone in Kansas City.
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* SB 152 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Judiciary Description: Require a firearm lock with the sale of pistols.
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SB 153 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Financial & Governmental Organization Description: Allow state funds to the Housing Development Commission grants to local organizations.
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SB 154 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Small Business Description: Ban HMOs from changing the drug formulary expect at the start of each year's coverage cycle.
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SB 155 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Agriculture Description: Make the original Walt Disney studio in Kansas City a state historic site.
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* SB 156 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: IN SCS SB 361 Description: Extend the expiration date of the $.50 fee for a car tire for the waste management fund, from 2004 to 2011.
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* SB 157 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Financial & Governmental Organization Description: Toughen licensing provisions over bail bond agents.
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SB 158 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Financial & Governmental Organization Description: Create a state board to review the state's Sunshine Law.
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* SCS SB 159 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: H Health Description: Require schools to have programs to prevent obesity.
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* SB 160 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Judiciary Description: Expand the hate crime law to include arson of a church.
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* SB 161 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Transportation Description: Require drunken boaters to complete a substance abuse program.
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* SB 162 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Small Business Description: Require health insurance cover at least one day of hospital care after surgery.
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SB 163 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Transportation Description: Require biometic information in driver's licenses.
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* SB 164 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Transportation Description: Prohibit open liquor containers in cars.
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SB 165 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: H Small Business Description: Various changes in the Minority Business Advocacy Commission.
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* SB 166 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Aging Description: Establish a needle exchange program in the Health Dept.
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SB 178 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Ways & Means Description: Allow property tax installment payments in Jackson County.
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SB 179 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Small Business Description: Restrict insurance companies from refusing coverage for various reasons.
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SB 180 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: H Retirement Description: Let retired Kansas City teachers resume teaching for 4 years without losing retirement.
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SB 200 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: IN SCS SB 415 Description: Establish a multi-state nurse licensing compact.
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SB 272 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Ways & Means Description: Expands various tax credit provisions for development in distressed communities.
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SB 273 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Transportation Description: Extend the Kansas City transportation sales tax from December 2003 to December 2005.
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SB 515 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Financial & Governmental Organization Description: Regulate & license advanced practice nursing. Various other nurse licensing changes.
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* SB 665 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Small Business Description: Require health insurance cover treatment for obesity and overweight conditions.
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HCS SCS SB 666 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Require schools to develop enrollment option plans.
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SB 667 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Judiciary Description: Expand the membership and scope of the sentencing commission that studies sentences.
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* SJR 1 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Judiciary Description: Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that prohibits discrimination based on sex.
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* SJ 2 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Ways & Means Description: Repeal the Hancock limit on state revenue collections.
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* SJ 5 Sponsor:Bland, Mary Status: S Ways & Means Description: Repeal Hancock provision for return of excess tax revenue to taxpayers. Instead, put it in a government reserve.
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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.
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