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2015 Bill(s)

* SB 39
Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
Status: S Agriculture, Food & Outdoor Resources
Description: Create a separate commission named by the governor to regulate and license animal care facilities, shelters, kennels and shopts. Currently, that responsibility is handled by the Agriculture Department.
See: Official legislative description and status

SB 40
Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
Status: S Ways & Means
Description: Provide a tax credit for lower income persons eligible for the federal earned income tax credit.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 41
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections
    Description: Combine the election boards of Kansas City and Jackson County.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SCS SB 69
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Change from the county clerk to the board of elections where a candidate files in counties with two election boards -- Kansas City and Jackson County.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 70
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: IN SCS SB 1
    Description: Prohibit the Board of Education from declaring a school district unaccredited if no board member is from the congressional district in which the school is located. Let schools refuse to accept students from unaccredited districts if it would violate the district's student-teacher ratio policy.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 71
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Education
    Description: Require the Higher Education Department develop a policy for dual credit course fee reimbursement. in the A++ scholarship program.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 88
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections
    Description: Abolish a provision by which a government appointee continues to hold office after the term has expired until a successor is appoint. Instead, declare the office vacant immedately after the term expired.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 89
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Give the Insurance Department power over private health insurance rates. Give the depeartment power to disapprove proposed rates.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 90
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Veterans' Affairs & Health
    Description: Raise eligibility of Medicaid to 133 percent of federal poverity -- actually 138 percent because Missouri law ignores the first five percent of income in determining eligibility.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 95
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections
    Description: Allow release to legislators and their staff confidential information held by licensening boards.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 96
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Rules
    Description: Reinstate limits on campaign contributions, how much any one person or organization can contribute to a candidate.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 97
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Rules
    Description: Reinstate limits on campaign contributions, how much any one person or organization can contribute to a candidate. Add two members appointed by legislative leaders to the Ethics Commission. Give each statewide elected official power to appoint one member.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 99
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Require anyone involved in prescription drugs to report if he/she has reason to believe a pharmacist is providing fake, counterfeit or black-market drugs. Make it a crime to fail to make such a report.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 100
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: IN SCS SB 451
    Description: Include various crimes in a law establishing means to have a criminal record expunged. Make records and hearings for expungement closed.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 101
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Jobs, Economic & Local Gov't
    Description: Add Kansas City to cities that can enact ordinances that imposes pre-treatment requirements on sewage treated by government-owned treatment plants.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 102
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Governmental Accountability
    Description: Expand the requirement for the legislative staff estimate of the costs to government of legislation from the next two years to then next five years. If there is no cost in the first five years, expand the requirement to five years after the first year that there is a cost.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 103
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections
    Description: Give individual legislators and legislative staff access to confidential information held by professional licensing boards.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 144
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Require the Labor Department to develop guidelines involving gender equality in salaries and wages.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 184
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Various changes in corporate registration for nonprofit organizations. Require the Secretary of State to establish an eletronic filing system. Lower fees.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 185
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Governmental Accountability
    Description: Expand the requirement for the legislative staff estimate of the costs to government of legislation from the next two years to then next five years, or longer if there is a phase in greater than five years. Require that audio and video appropriations bill hearings be streamed on the legislature's website.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 193
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Increase the base minimum wage from $6.50 to $10.00 per hour. With annual cost-of-living adjustment, the current minimum is $7.65.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 238
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S General Laws & Pensions
    Description: Prohibit a person collecting state government retirement benefits if working full time for a local government, excluding school teachers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 439
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Move one circuit court division from Kansas City to Independence.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 453
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Seniors, Families & Public Health
    Description: Expand the Amber alert system to include persons endangered because of age, health or disability or other factors.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 454
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Financial, Gov't Organ. & Elections
    Description: Change the makeup of the Jackson County political party committees.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 490
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Veterans' Affairs & Health
    Description: Establish special Medicaid coverage for prescription drugs for some patients with HIV, cancer or several mental illness. Require Medicaid provide prior authorization for all the drugs rather than each one. Prohibit requiring prior authorization more frequently that every six months.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 494
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Veterans' Affairs & Health
    Description: Fix the statutory reference to a federal law in a provision dealing with funding for federally qualified health centers.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 557
    Sponsor: LeVota, Paul
    Status: S Agriculture, Food & Outdoor Resources
    Description: Require the Conservation Department reimburse an auto owner up to $500 for damages caused by hitting a deer.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

  • 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.