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Senate Commerce and Labor
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Wampler (Chairman), Colgan, Saslaw, Chichester, Miller, Norment, Stosch, Stolle, Potts, Edwards, Williams, Watkins, Wagner, Newman, Rerras
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- HB 935 Consumer Choice Benefits Plan Act; created.
- HB 1016 Health insurance; coverage for certain persons.
- HB 1288 Unemployment compensation; applicable to a military spouse.
- HB 1772 Homeowners insurance; policy nonrenewals for claims from other than natural causes.
- HB 1804 Voice-over-Internet protocol service; exempt from regulation by State Corporation Commission.
- HB 2194 Employee day of rest; exempts banking institutions.
- HB 2207 Enterprise zones; repeals sunset provision.
- HB 2445 Extended Service Contract Act.
- HB 2474 Consumer Protection Act; restricting use of social security numbers.
- HB 2626 Business Assistance and Workforce Services, Department of; created.
- HB 2693 Unemployment compensation; benefit termination by employer for misconduct.
- HB 2713 Telecommunications relay service; allows purchase of equipment for use by hearing-impaired.
- SB 116 Electric utility restructuring; municipal and state aggregation.
- SB 117 Electric utility providers; minimum stay requirement by commercial and industrial customers.
- SB 239 Electrical generating facilities; certificates.
- SB 240 Business entities; changes in requirements for fictitious names.
- SB 282 Telephone companies; filing a cost allocation manual.
- SB 309 Medical malpractice joint underwriting association; activation.
- SB 383 Telephone companies; basic services regulation.
- SB 401 Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association; changes in provisions.
- SB 564 Securities Act; name changed to Uniform Securities Act, changes in provisions.
- SB 582 Workers' compensation; presumption as to death or disability, adds emerg. medical service providers.
- 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 673 Voice-over-Internet Protocol; exempt from regulation by State Corporation Commission.
- SB 705 Minimum wage; qualification for overtime pay.
- SB 772 Unemployment compensation; base period for benefits.
- SB 824 Payday loans; exclusions.
- SB 860 Health insurance; coverage for prescription contraceptives.
- SB 886 Consumer Finance Act; revolving loans secured by non-purchase-money security interest in motor veh.
- SB 960 Telecommunications services provided by localities; cost allocations.
- SB 974 Banks; authorized to make interest-only mortgage loans.
- SB 975 Pay-per-call services; prohibit provider from accepting call from number not accepted by individual.
- SB 982 Title insurance; policies or contracts to be based upon published risk rates, penalty.
- SB 1037 Accident and sickness insurance, group; misreporting of claims experience data; penalty.
- SB 1049 Health insurance; optional coverage for developmental delay treatment.
- SB 1055 Unemployment compensation; minimum earnings.
- SB 1172 Employer and employee; covenants restricting competition.
- SB 1265 Health insurance; explanation of benefits.
- SB 1283 Unemployment compensation; VEC may furnish information to allow collection of monetary obligations.
- SB 1321 Health care provider panels; definition.
- SB 1335 Communications services; various revisions to taxation thereof.
- SB 1337 Video infrastructure development; equalizing franchise requirements for competitors.