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2004 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor

Chairman: William C. Wampler, Jr.

Clerk: Jocelyn R. Lance
Date of Meeting: February 16, 2004
Time and Place: 1/2 after adjournment, Senate Room B, GAB

H.B. 231 Motor vehicle purchases; cure offers for consumer disputes.

Patron: Athey

H.B. 474 Workers' compensation; deposit to be made by self-insurers in order to secure payment for liability.

Patron: Nixon

S.B. 56 Workers' compensation; allows choice of physician.

Patron: Miller

S.B. 116 Electric utility restructuring; municipal and state aggregation.

Patron: Watkins

S.B. 117 Electric utility providers; minimum stay requirement by commercial and industrial customers.

Patron: Watkins

S.B. 239 Electrical generating facilities; certificates.

Patron: Norment

S.B. 383 Telephone companies; basic services regulation.

Patron: Norment

S.B. 428 Minimum wage; public bodies prohibited from requiring payment that exceeds minimum standards.

Patron: Wagner

S.B. 475 Employment discrimination based on prior convictions; prohibited.

Patron: Ticer

S.B. 650 Health insurance; exclusion for prophylactic surg. procedures for difficult-to-diagnose pathologies.

Patron: Deeds

S.B. 679 Consumer Choice Benefits Plan Act; created.

Patron: Martin

S.B. 687 Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act; increases participating phys. & hosp. assessmt.

Patron: Devolites