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Senate Commerce and Labor
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- HB 175 Foreign business entities; service of process on registered agent.
- HB 1174 Electric energy; consumption reduction goal, report.
- SB 8 Payday loan offices and motor vehicle title loan offices; distance from casino facility.
- SB 54 Payday loans; permitted interest.
- SB 88 Minimum wage; increases wage from its current federally mandated level to $8 per hour.
- SB 92 Workers' compensation; disease presumption for correctional officers.
- SB 129 Minimum wage; increases minimum wage from its current federally mandated level to $8.00 per hour.
- SB 148 Renewable energy; SCC to establish third-party power purchase agreements.
- SB 164 Consumer finance loans; rate of interest.
- SB 165 Open-end credit agreements; sellers of certain goods to extend credit.
- SB 166 Motor vehicle title lenders; narrows exemption for consumer finance companies.
- SB 167 Consumer finance companies; annual reports.
- SB 183 Health insurance; removes prohibition on provision of abortion coverage.
- SB 189 Payday loans; permitted interest.
- SB 221 Discrimination between employees on the basis of sex; payment of wages.
- SB 239 Workers' compensation; recovering damages from other party.
- SB 274 Paid sick days for employees; civil penalties.
- SB 324 Willful failure to pay wages.
- SB 331 Accident and sickness insurance; step therapy for psychiatric medications.
- SB 332 Accident and sickness insurance; step therapy protocols.
- SB 345 Workers' compensation; employer's duty when employee incapable of work.
- SB 474 Workers' compensation; recovering damages from other party.
- SB 524 Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases.
- SB 565 Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases.
- SB 583 Credit unions; added as a qualified public depository for state funds.
- SB 614 Natural gas companies; right of entry upon property.
- SB 623 Consumer finance loans; rate of interest.
- SB 633 Structured Settlement Protection Act; applications for approval of transfer.
- SB 638 Structured Settlement Protection Act; amends Act, obligor and issuer shall rely on court order.
- SB 639 Health insurance; proton radiation therapy coverage decisions.
- SB 647 Renewable energy; efficient biomass.
- SB 668 Minimum wage.
- SB 684 Utility vegetation management activities; notices required to customers, civil penalties.
- SB 725 Competitive telephone companies; alternative providers.
- SB 744 Electric utilities; recovery of cost of line extensions to serve megasites.
- SB 761 Electric utilities; mandatory renewable portfolio standard.