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- HB 59 Electrical generating facilities; certificates.
- HB 221 Miscellaneous casualty insurance; definition.
- HB 231 Consumer Protecton Act; admissibility of cure offers.
- HB 288 Unemployment compensation; disqualification for benefits.
- HB 322 Health insurance carriers; fair business practices for retroactive denials.
- HB 342 Business entities; conversions and mergers, registration.
- HB 363 Legal service plans; moves regulation to Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
- HB 390 Health Spa Act; requirement for bond or letter of credit.
- HB 460 Fidelity and surety insurers; changes in provisions.
- HB 471 Nonprofit Credit Counseling Act; created, abolishes Nonprofit Debt Counseling Agencies.
- HB 472 Wages and salaries; deposit into employee account.
- HB 474 Workers' compensation; deposit to be made by self-insurers in order to secure payment for liability.
- HB 529 Unemployment compensation; definition of employment services as it relates to prison inmates.
- HB 553 Insurance; rates on renewal policies.
- HB 596 Property & Casualty Insurance Guaranty Association; definition of covered claim & insolvent insurer.
- HB 599 Enterprise zones; designations and business and real property investment tax credit.
- HB 609 Homeowners insurance; notices outlining flood coverage.
- HB 625 Charitable assets; standard of conduct for directors of charitable corporations.
- HB 628 Health maintenance organizations; explan. of benef. to enrollees covered by med. asst. serv., etc.
- HB 686 Post-Disaster Anti-Price Gouging Act; created.
- HB 687 Labor and Industry, Commissioner of; definition.
- HB 688 Payday Loans; retention of copies of checks, payments on loan prior to maturity.
- HB 689 Telephone Privacy Protection Act; prohibits telephone solicitation to persons on Do-Not-Call Regist.
- HB 754 Public service companies; definition includes limited liability companies.
- HB 798 Telephonic reading services; created.
- HB 818 Homeowners insurance; prohibits policy nonrenewal due to claims made within 60 months.
- HB 864 Workers' compensation; lien by employer on settlement or verdict.
- HB 884 Nonstock corporations; terms of directors.
- HB 898 Homeowners insurance; notice to insured on changes in deductibles.
- HB 920 Natural gas; direct sales to certain public schools.
- HB 935 Consumer Choice Benefits Plan Act; created.
- HB 938 Telephone companies; local exchange service competition policy.
- HB 1007 Homeowners insurance; exclusion of coverage for an insured's dangerous or vicious animal.
- HB 1016 Health insurance; coverage for certain persons.
- HB 1155 Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact; created.
- HB 1181 Insurance; annuity nonforfeiture.
- HB 1183 Limited liability companies; registered agents.
- HB 1186 Insurance; actuarial opinions.
- HB 1187 State Corporation Commission; refunds for overpayment of fees.
- HB 1238 Insurance Continuing Education Board; membership.
- HB 1267 Workers' compensation; eligibility of electoral board members.
- HB 1269 Banks; loans and other extensions of credit to executive officers and directors.
- HB 1288 Unemployment compensation; applicable to a military spouse.
- HB 1327 Multiple employer welfare arrangements (MEWA); elim. regulatory jurisd. of St. Corporation Comm.
- HB 1342 M.veh. insurance; disclos. to insured informa. on 3rd party repres. in connection w/ a glass claim.
- HB 1404 Health insurance; coverage for dependent children.
- HB 1407 Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act; increases part. physician & hospital assessment.
- HB 1408 Health insurance; requirements when providing insured with claims experience or med. costs record.
- HB 1424 Personal Information Privacy Act; restricting use of date of birth as conditi. for accepting checks.
- SB 9 Employment Commission; elim. reqmnt. for dev. of workforce plan during times of econ. recess., etc.
- SB 22 Minimum wage; increased.
- SB 44 Health insurance; coverage for biologically based mental illness.
- SB 56 Workers' compensation; allows choice of physician.
- SB 64 Enterprise zones; business and real property investment tax credit.
- SB 65 Enterprise zones; real property investment tax credit.
- SB 67 Health insurance; coverage for biologically based mental illness.
- SB 68 Fire Programs Fund; assessment on motor vehicle insurance.
- SB 105 Health insurance; includes physicians in prohibition against refusing to accept assignments.
- SB 116 Electric utility restructuring; municipal and state aggregation.
- SB 117 Electric utility providers; minimum stay requirement by commercial and industrial customers.
- SB 119 Uniform Commercial Code; revisions concerning electronic documents of title.
- SB 128 Unemployment compensation; eliminates offset for retirement benefits.
- SB 129 Unemployment compensation; representation at hearings.
- SB 130 Unemployment compensation; penalties for late filing.
- SB 131 Corporations; articles of termination of corporate existence.
- SB 136 Health records; release of patient info. to Comm. of Dept. of Labor & Ind. due to death, etc.
- SB 144 Judgment; rate of interest.
- SB 154 Fire Programs Fund; use.
- SB 163 Financial Institutions, SCC Bureau of; submission of confidential info. pursuant to grand jury sub.
- SB 171 Wireless E-911 Fund; provisions for payments.
- SB 179 Unemployment compensation; benefit charges resulting from a temp. work closure forced by disaster.
- SB 194 Unemployment compensation; allowed two weeks of benefits if terminated before resignation date.
- SB 239 Electrical generating facilities; certificates.
- SB 240 Business entities; changes in requirements for fictitious names.
- SB 242 Post-Disaster Anti-Price Gouging Act; created.
- SB 255 Health insurance; coverage for infertility.
- SB 282 Telephone companies; filing a cost allocation manual.
- SB 291 Health insurance; reimbursement rates to health care providers.
- SB 309 Medical malpractice joint underwriting association; activation.
- SB 323 Workers' compensation; deposit to be made by self-insurers in order to secure payment for liability.
- SB 324 Motor vehicle purchases; cure offers for consumer disputes.
- SB 337 Health records; privacy, access, etc.
- SB 344 Telephone Privacy Protection Act; prohibits telephone solicitation to persons on Do-Not-Call Regist.
- SB 355 Insurance; domestic reciprocals.
- SB 372 Health maintenance organizations; definition of net worth.
- SB 376 Motor vehicle insurance; assessment for State Police Training and Retention Fund.
- SB 383 Telephone companies; basic services regulation.
- SB 401 Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association; changes in provisions.
- SB 428 Minimum wage; public bodies prohibited from requiring payment that exceeds minimum standards.
- SB 433 Homeowners insurance; coverage for windstorms and hail.
- SB 475 Employment discrimination based on prior convictions; prohibited.
- SB 535 Life insurance; issuance of funding agreements.
- SB 536 Asset-Backed Securities Facilitation Act; created.
- SB 538 Business entities; changes in provisions.
- SB 542 Subsidiary trust companies and trust company holding companies; ownership.
- SB 547 Workers' compensation; eligibl. of AmeriCorps memb. & certain Food Stamp Empl. & Trng. participants.
- SB 558 Workers' compensation; lien by employer on settlement or verdict.
- SB 564 Securities Act; name changed to Uniform Securities Act, changes in provisions.
- SB 582 Workers' compensation; presumption as to death or disability vol. or salaried emerg. med. ser. prov.
- SB 591 Economic Development Partnership Authority; membership of board of directors.
- SB 594 Health insurance; coverage for prescription contraceptives.
- SB 597 Workers' Comp. Comm.; powers concerning administration of oath, compel attendance of witnesses, etc.
- SB 618 Health insurance; provider may electronically send a provider directory to its insureds.
- SB 621 Unemployment compensation; minimum qualifying earnings.
- SB 641 Heath insurance; coverage for hearing aids for minors.
- SB 650 Health insurance; exclusion for prophylactic surg. procedures for difficult-to-diagnose pathologies.
- SB 651 Electric utility restructuring; changes in provisions rate caps, fuel factors, electrical gen. faci.
- SB 662 Health insurance; moratorium on new benefit mandates.
- SB 663 Natural gas companies; right of entry upon property.
- SB 673 Voice-over-Internet Protocol; exempt from regulation by State Corporation Commission.
- SB 679 Consumer Choice Benefits Plan Act; created.
- SB 687 Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act; increases participating phys. & hosp. assessmt.
- SR 7 Workers' Compensation Commission; nominations for election of member.
- SR 8 State Corporation Commission; nomination for election of member.