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Gilda Jacobs (D)
State Senator, District 14
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Missed Votes
- Did not vote on 2009 Senate Bill 950 (Authorize false veteran penalties ). Passed in the Senate (36 to 0) on November 10, 2009, to authorize penalties of up to one year in jail, a $5,000 fine, and 100 hours of community service in a veterans home or for a veterans service organization for a person who falsely claims to be a military veteran so as to claim awards or benefits. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 Senate Bill 949 (Increase war memorial vandalism penalties ). Passed in the Senate (34 to 0) on November 10, 2009, to raise penalties for the destruction or mutilation of a war memorial or monument to $5,000 or triple the cost of the damage, whichever is greater, increase community service penalties to up to 200 hours in a veterans home or veterans service organization. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 House Bill 5126 (Revise community mental health program budget detail ). Passed in the Senate (36 to 0) on September 30, 2009, to repeal the sunset on a law that allows a community mental health program to carry forward unspent funds equal to at least 5 percent of the state portion of its annual operating budget from one year’s budget into the next. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 Senate Bill 791 (Set standards for electronic deed recording ). Passed in the Senate (36 to 0) on November 10, 2009, to authorize and establish uniform statewide regulations and procedures for the electronic recording of real estate deeds and related documents and instruments. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 House Bill 4650 (Revise welfare utility subsidies). Passed in the Senate (36 to 0) on November 10, 2009, to establish a system of automatic payments to utilities of heating bill payments to energy providers for certain low income households subject to shutoff for nonpayment. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 House Bill 4673 (Impose restrictions on utility shutoff for nonpayment ). Passed in the Senate (36 to 0) on November 10, 2009, to prohibit municipal utilities from shutting off service during the heating season of a customer who is a senior citizen who hasn’t paid his or her bills, or of a low income customer if the individual pays 7 percent of his or her annual charges as part of a monthly winter protection plan, and applies for government heating subsidies. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 House Bill 4658 (Impose restrictions on utility shutoff for nonpayment ). Passed in the Senate (36 to 0) on November 10, 2009, to require municipally-owned electric and natural gas utilities to make efforts to determine which customers are senior citizens. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 House Bill 4655 (Impose restrictions on utility shutoff for nonpayment ). Passed in the Senate (36 to 0) on November 10, 2009, to require municipal utilities to notify the Public Service Commission of any cases where shutting off the service of a customer who hasn’t paid his or her bills causes injury or death, and give the PSC the authority to investigate such cases. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 House Bill 4386 (Impose restrictions on utility shutoff for nonpayment ). Passed in the Senate (36 to 0) on November 10, 2009, to require a utility postpone shutting off the service of a customer who hasn’t paid his or her bills for up to 63 days if the customer is a household with a “critical care” individual requiring the use of life support. [Vote Details and Comments]
