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2015 Bill(s)
HB 96 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Health & Mental Health Policy Description: Authorize physicians to prescribe epinephrine auto-injectors for emergency use and provide lawsuit protections for providing the injectors. Let persons use them on others after training.
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* HB 226 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Government Oversight Description: Require a report within 14 days of any lobbyist expense made out of state for a legislator, judicial officer or elected official.
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* HB 227 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Government Oversight Description: Require a separate disclosure in a lobbyist disclosure report of expenditures made for a committee outside of the Capitol building.
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* HB 228 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Perfection Description: Prohibit a legislator from working or serving as a lobbyist until at least one year after leaving office. The bill was approved by the H. Gov't Accountability Cmmittee on Jan. 9, but the bill was not assigned to a select committee nor does it appear on the perfection calendar.
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HCS HB 319 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: S Veterans' Affairs & Health Description: Expand Medicaid coverage to include some "telehealth" services.
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HB 320 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Children & Families Description: Require the Social Services Department to establish incentives for health clinics and health centers to be located on the property of schools with a high percentage of children from lower income families. Prohibit a clinic located in such a school from providing or referring for abortion or contraception.
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* HB 330 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Government Oversight Description: Impose a $30 limit on the value of how much a legislator, Legislator's staff or legislator's family can accept from a lobbyist.
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* HB 331 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Government Oversight Description: Prohibit a legislator from being a paid political consultant.
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* HB 332 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Civil & Criminal Proceedings Description: Lower the maximum amount of a city's budget that can be financed by traffic fines from 30 percent to 10 percent.
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* HB 333 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Government Oversight Description: Require any funds received by the state for settlement of a lawsuit be transferred to the state with some exceptions such as payments for damages to victims.
See: Official legislative description and status* HB 334 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Public Safety Description: Require local government have a policy to designate an outside law enforcement agency to investigate any the death involving a police officer. Require prosecution be handled by an outside prosecutor. Ferguson related.
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HB 386 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Health & Mental Health Policy Description: Provide additional reimbursement for Medicaid providers who provide services between 5pm and 7am. Assigned to committee on April 14.
See: Official legislative description and status* HB 482 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H 2nd Read Description: Cut the top income tax under the phased income tax cut passed in 2014. Reduce the eventual maximum rate from five percent to three percent. Eliminate various tax credits.
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HB 493 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H 2nd Read Description: Shorten the number of weeks for which a person can collect unemployment compensation if the state's unemployment rate drops below nine percent. Make the number of weeks of eligibility a sliding scale based on the unemployment rate to as low as 13 weeks. The governor vetoed a similar bill, SB 673, in 2014. The Senate voted to override, but the override motion failed in the House.
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HB 606 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Civil & Criminal Proceedings Description: Expand authority for the parent of a child conceived by rape to file to terminate parental rights of the perpetrator. Authorize the court to prohibit any contact time with the child.
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HCS HB 636 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: S Seniors, Families & Public Health Description: Give a broker power to refuse to disburse from the account of an elderly person or suffering from some types of disabilities if the broker believes an attempt of financial explitation is happening. Provide a right to notify relatives.
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* HB 792 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Emerging Issues Description: Impose requirements and require a permit from the state for companies like Uber that compete with taxi cabs. Require they have insurance.
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HB 934 Sponsor:Barnes, Jay Status: H Government Oversight Description: Require every county and city have a website. Require it be updated every month. Impose requirements on information that has to be included including budget, ordinances and operating hours of offices.
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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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