Legislative Update: April 2008 Archives

During the past week, leadership has signed-in, testified and taken a position on a number of bills being heard in committee. Here is a complete list of those bills:


SB 530—relative to kindergarten aid. (testified in opposition and offered an amendment)
SB 539—relative to the cost of an adequate education and provision of fiscal capacity disparity aid. (oppose)


SB 317—relative to the retail sale of tobacco products. (oppose)
SB 519—imposing a per diem fine on dam owners and operators for failure to repair damage. (oppose)

During the past week, leadership has signed-in, testified and taken a position on a number of bills being heard in committee. Here is a complete list of those bills:


SB 342—establishing a mechanism for expediting relief from municipal actions which deny, impede, or delay
qualified proposals for workforce housing. (oppose)
SB 421—relative to workforce housing. (oppose)



HB 1472—relative to workforce housing. (oppose)

SB 312—relative to insurance coverage for obesity and morbid obesity. (oppose)
SB 500—relative to certain insurance fraud, relative to workers’ compensation for employee leasing companies,

and establishing a task force on employee misclassification.(oppose)

SB 374—relative to the process for nonrenewal of teacher contracts. (oppose)

SB 210—relative to making various changes to the regulation of plumbers and water treatment technicians by

the board of licensing and regulation of plumbers. (oppose)