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2003 Bill(s)

SB 21
Sponsor: Bland, Mary
Status: S Judiciary
Description: Various restrictions on police in line ups, using testimoney of admissions made by incarcerated person, etc.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 22
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Impose a temporary moratorium on executions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 23
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Income tax increase to fund a universal health care plan
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 72
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Education
    Description: Require urban charter schools meet state accreditation standards.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SCS SB 73
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: H Health
    Description: Create a commission to study obesity & treatment programs.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 74
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Require health insurance cover weight-reduction services.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 105
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Lower the minimum age of a juror from 21 to 18.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 106
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Education
    Description: Establish a planning commission for the Kansas City school district.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 107
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Pensions
    Description: Create a statewide Amber Alert system, a system for issuing missing children alerts. Already created by executive order.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 126
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Let the PSC order ratepayer refunds for unauthorized pipeline use charges.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 127
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Commerce
    Description: Let the PSC consider ability to pay in setting utility rates effectively allowing lower rates for poor people.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 128
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Earmark sales tax increases from natural gas price increases to the Utilicare program.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 138
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Financial & Governmental Organization
    Description: Lower the maximum charge allowed for late payment on some credit transactions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 139
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Expand grandparent foster care program. Remove restriction that limits it to lower income and subject to appropriation.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 140
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Impose an earnings tax on non-residents to finance a college scholarship program for the lower income.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 145
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Require police file reports on the race of every pedestrian stopped. Racial profiling reports now cover just drivers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 146
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Require health insurance cover mental health care at levels similar to the physical health coverage provided.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 147
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Aging
    Description: Establish minimum staffing levels for nursing homes.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 149
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Financial & Governmental Organization
    Description: Regulate and license hair braiders.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 150
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Education
    Description: Let a school create a commmttee to work at developing programs for youth-at-risk.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 151
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Create a two-year tax free zone in Kansas City.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 152
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Require a firearm lock with the sale of pistols.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 153
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Financial & Governmental Organization
    Description: Allow state funds to the Housing Development Commission grants to local organizations.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 154
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Ban HMOs from changing the drug formulary expect at the start of each year's coverage cycle.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 155
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Agriculture
    Description: Make the original Walt Disney studio in Kansas City a state historic site.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 156
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: IN SCS SB 361
    Description: Extend the expiration date of the $.50 fee for a car tire for the waste management fund, from 2004 to 2011.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 157
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Financial & Governmental Organization
    Description: Toughen licensing provisions over bail bond agents.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 158
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Financial & Governmental Organization
    Description: Create a state board to review the state's Sunshine Law.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SCS SB 159
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: H Health
    Description: Require schools to have programs to prevent obesity.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 160
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Expand the hate crime law to include arson of a church.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 161
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Require drunken boaters to complete a substance abuse program.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 162
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Require health insurance cover at least one day of hospital care after surgery.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 163
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Require biometic information in driver's licenses.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 164
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Prohibit open liquor containers in cars.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 165
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: H Small Business
    Description: Various changes in the Minority Business Advocacy Commission.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 166
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Aging
    Description: Establish a needle exchange program in the Health Dept.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 178
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Allow property tax installment payments in Jackson County.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 179
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Restrict insurance companies from refusing coverage for various reasons.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 180
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: H Retirement
    Description: Let retired Kansas City teachers resume teaching for 4 years without losing retirement.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 200
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: IN SCS SB 415
    Description: Establish a multi-state nurse licensing compact.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 272
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Expands various tax credit provisions for development in distressed communities.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 273
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Extend the Kansas City transportation sales tax from December 2003 to December 2005.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 515
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Financial & Governmental Organization
    Description: Regulate & license advanced practice nursing. Various other nurse licensing changes.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SB 665
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Require health insurance cover treatment for obesity and overweight conditions.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HCS SCS SB 666
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Require schools to develop enrollment option plans.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SB 667
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Expand the membership and scope of the sentencing commission that studies sentences.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SJR 1
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Judiciary
    Description: Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that prohibits discrimination based on sex.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SJ 2
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Repeal the Hancock limit on state revenue collections.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • * SJ 5
    Sponsor: Bland, Mary
    Status: S Ways & Means
    Description: Repeal Hancock provision for return of excess tax revenue to taxpayers. Instead, put it in a government reserve.
    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.