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2018 Bill(s)
SS SB 593 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Various insurance law changes. Impose internal audit requirements on insurance companies. Repeal a provision exempting insurance holding companies from reporting and examination requirements involving agricultural operations in some circumstances. Require annual reports to the Insurance Department on internal governance, for some countries.
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SB 594 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Provide an exemption from having to file with the Insurance Department insurance coverage plans and rates for various types of policies including workers' compensation, medical malpractice liability, farm property, etc.
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* SB 595 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: S General Laws Description: Repeal the death penalty.
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SB 878 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety Description: Give a law enforcement officer responding to another local jurisdiction in a mutual aid agreement the same arrest powers and immunity protections as the officer had in his own district.
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SB 879 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: S Insurance & Banking Description: Require a health benefit program allow enrollment of a pregnant person at any time after the woman became pregnant.
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SB 880 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: S Ways & Means Description: Provide that if local government voters approve an increase of a tax rate ceiling when there is a previously approved temporary tax, the new ceiling lasts only until the temporary tax expires.
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SB 895 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp. Description: Lower the maximum interest rate that can be charged in lawsuit judgements.
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SB 896 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: S Education Description: Let any taxpayer initiate a grievance procedure at a public higher education institution.
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SB 908 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: S Insurance & Banking Description: Various changes in a law assuring continued coverage of life or health insurance coverage for policies issued by firms that have gone bankrupt. Excluse some policies, such as accident-only insurance and dental-only insurance from the health coverage.
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SB 942 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: S Insurance & Banking Description: Add provisions for creating a trust for health savings accounts. Raise the trust assets below which the trust can be terminated if the trustee determines the value is insufficient to justify cost of administration.
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SB 943 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: S Insurance & Banking Description: Various changes in pre-need funeral contract requirements. Impose a shorter deadline for placing sale funds into an account and require the account be an escrow account. But exempt the account requirements if five or less preneed contracts in a calendar year.
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SB 962 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: S Insurance & Banking Description: Various changes in the filing fees charged to insurance companies and expand who is covered.
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* SCS SB 963 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: S Perfection Description: Allow the governor's chief operating officer or the commissioner of administration to wave competitive bid requirements for "innovative technlogy" purchases by the state.
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* SB 967 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: S Government Reform Description: Establish requirements and consumer protections in a contract with a lawyer in a consumer lawsuit. Require state registration of consumer lawsuit funding services.
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SB 968 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: S Insurance & Banking Description: Authorize the Public Service Commission to allow electric utilities to issue bonds for capital investment financed by electric rates.
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SB 981 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Let a group of political subdivisions that self-insure for workers' compensation coverage change their filed rate classification to the average rate classification, with approval from the Workers' Compensation Division director.
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SS SB 982 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Change the definition of emergency medical conditions in requirements for utilization review by health carriers for health-cost coverage. Define emergency medical condition if a person would believe immediate medical care is required, regardless of the final diagnosis.
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SCS SB 1015 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: S Perfection Description: Provide a tax credit for a contribution to a non-profit organization that collects for diapers children and adults and then distributes them for free through two or more partner agencies.
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SB 1016 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: S Insurance & Banking Description: A couple of wording changes in a health insurance that legislative staff designate as technical corrections.
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SB 1017 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: S Seniors, Families & Children Description: Require the Social Services Department include unborn, step and adopted children in calculating benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (once known as Food Stamps). Allow foster children to be included. Require expedited service for various types of facilities including maternity homes, non-profit agencies assisting sex-trafficing victims and pregnancy resource centers.
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SB 1028 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: S Small Business & Industry Description: Impose additional requirements on the sale of precious metals. Require the fingerprints as well as a photograph of a person selling precious metal. Prohibit the sale by persons convicted of gurglary or robbery. Impose a 120 day waiting period after a purchase before a person can again purchase precious metals.
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SB 1071 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: S Insurance & Banking Description: Create a state health insurance program to be an alternative to the federal Affordable Care Act.
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SB 1072 Sponsor:Wieland, Paul Status: S Insurance & Banking Description: Change the definition of emergency medical conditions in requirements involving health insurance coverage. Define emergency medical condition if a person would believe immediate medical care is required, regardless of the final diagnosis. Restrict the charges a health care provider can charge for hospital services that is within the patient's network.
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