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2018 Bill(s)

SB 573
Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
Description: Allow National Guard and military reserve pay to be deducted from income subject to the state income tax. Phase in the deduction eventually providing a 100 percent deduction in 2024. The amended House version includes a number of other unrelated veterans issues.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SCS SB 574
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: H Rules - Legislative Oversight
    Description: Require local law enforcement be included in a law requiring a report be filed with the state Health Department of sexual abuse of a elderly patient in a long-term care facility.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 575
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Add an exemption from requirement for state approval of a managed care coverage policy if the company offering the policy is accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 645
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: S Seniors, Families & Children
    Description: Make it a rebuttable presumption in a child-custody case that equal parenting time is in the child's best interest.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 646
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: S Professional Registration
    Description: Expand what advanced practice nurses can do to include ordering diagnostic procedures, prescribe some types of drugs and delegate therapeutic measures to assistants. Various other changes in advanced practice nursing rights.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 647
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: S Seniors, Families & Children
    Description: Require the Health Department provide an alleged perpetrator of elderly abuse with written material as to the perpetrator's rights when investigating a case of elder abuse. Require the alleged perpetrator be given time to read the material before a visit by Health Department official can begin.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 693
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: H Rules - Legislative Oversight
    Description: Impose requirements on whom a judge can appoint to be a guardian of an incapacitated person. Require the judge make a finding of deficiency to replace a guardian.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 694
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: S Seniors, Families & Children
    Description: Transfer five percent of the premium tax collected on insurance companies to a fund fund for services for the elderly through area agencies on the aging.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * HCS SB 695
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: The Senate-passed version would repeal the power of the governor to appoint an Education Board member when the legislature is not in power. It also would prohibit the governor from withdrawing a nomination without Senate approval. The original bill would require the governor nominate a teacher to be a non-voting representative on the state Board of Education, subject to Senate confirmation - a provision retained in the Senate-passed version.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SB 695 (03/01/2018): 3rd reading of a bill to prohibit the governor from appointing a member of the Board of Education when the legislature is not in session.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 728
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: S Education
    Description: Include school-attendance numbers used for determining state funding to districts include children who are in an early childhood education program provided by an an outside entity that the district had contracted to provide the services.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 729
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: S Local Gov't & Elections
    Description: Increase various fees abd fines that can be charged in a coroner's inquest.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SCS SB 730
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Various provisions for automatic rate increases for natural gas companies, subject to subsequent review by the Public Service Commission.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 749
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Expand the law against persons under age 21 using a cell phone or similar devices like PDAs while driving to include adults. Expand the ban to include voice conversations. Add an exemption for hands-free texting.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HCS SB 793
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Raise the age for juvenile court jurisdiction from under 17 years to under 18 years of age. Also require a juvenile be tried in a juvenile court unless certified as an adult. Other changes involving juvenile court matters.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 798
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: S Local Gov't & Elections
    Description: Various changes involving public libraries. Make legislators ex-officio members of the Council on Library Development. Require the state library maintain an electronic repository of state publications for public access. Repeal or simplify various provisions for public libraries to maintain state publications.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 799
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: S Insurance & Banking
    Description: Allow a parent or a guardian to freeze the credit report of a child 18 years of age or younder.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 812
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: S Veterans & Military Affairs
    Description: Allow a disabled veteran to get a veteran license plate for more than one vehicle, but limit the waiver of registration fees to just one vehicle.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HCS SB 850
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: Back to S
    Description: Various changes in child abuse report records kept by the state. Increase the number of years the reports must be retained. Repeal a provision limiting retained information to "identifying" information. The Senate-perfected version includes several other unrelated issues involving children, adoption, and the Childrens' Division.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 851
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp.
    Description: Expand the powers of juvenile courts involving a child under the jurisdiction of the court. Give the court authority to issue an order to establish paternity. Include orders of guardianship in the powers.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 852
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: S Insurance & Banking
    Description: Impose additional requirements for a dental insurance plan to update its various materials describing changes in its plan.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 853
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: S Local Gov't & Elections
    Description: Expand a law prohibiting local government from banning merchants from providing plastic or paper bags.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 854
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: S Commerce, Consumer, Energy & Env.
    Description: Various changes in 911 emergency services provisions. Allow various local governments to impose a fee on phone services for 911, upon voter approval. Impose a 3 percent tax on prepaid wireless services. Establish provisions for consolidating 911 boards.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 984
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: S Veterans & Military Affairs
    Description: Require the Transportation Cmmission to consider a small business owned by veterans to be a disadvantaged businesses for highway construction contracts and reporting of contracts.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1032
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: S Local Gov't & Elections
    Description: Reduce the maximum annual historic preservation tax credits, adjusted for inflation. Earmark the savings for a fund for the State Capitol Commission.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 1089
    Sponsor: Wallingford, Wayne
    Status: S Small Business & Industry
    Description: Give the Workers' Compensation Division more powers over a self-insurance plan that has been deemed insolvement. Workers' Compensation coverages medical and injury costs for workers injured on the job. Establish provisions for a third-party administrator.
    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.