The bill prohibits a defendant from bringing a second or subsequent claim for postconviction remedy on the grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel in a prior postconviction proceeding. The bill creates discovery procedures for postconviction remedy hearings. In the event a motion for postconviction remedy is denied, the bill requires the court to enter a judgment against the defendant for the amount of the costs of prosecution, the amount of the cost of care, and any fine imposed. Furthermore, the bill allows the court to assess against the defendant the costs of transporting and housing the defendant from another facility to appear in court on a motion for postconviction remedy. The bill prohibits the state public defender or an attorney who contracts with the office of alternate defense counsel from representing or advising a defendant on a second or subsequent claim for postconviction remedy, unless the motion is based upon newly discovered evidence of innocence. The bill requires the state public defender and an attorney who contracts with the office of alternate defense counsel to retain records related to the representation of defendants for 7 years, or until the defendant's death, if the defendant was convicted of a class 1 felony. The bill limits the time period that a defendant may collaterally attack the validity of the conviction or adjudication to 5 years. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More
For income tax years commencing on and after January 1, 2019, the bill: Reduces both the individual and the corporate state income tax rate from 4.63% to 4.25%; and Reduces the state alternative minimum tax by 0.38%. The bill also requires the state controller to: Proportionally void general fund appropriations for each principal department, except for the department of education, for the 2018-19 state fiscal year in an amount totaling $374.3 million; For the 2019-20 state fiscal year, to proportionally reduce the general fund appropriations for each principal department, except for the department of education, as set forth in the 2019 annual general appropriations act in an amount totaling $760.7 million.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More
Current law requires motor vehicles having an empty weight of 16,000 or more pounds or a motor vehicle that weighs 26,001 or more pounds fully loaded to clear a port of entry within 5 miles of its route. The bill exempts motor vehicles hauling trailers used primarily for agricultural commodities, including livestock. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More
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The bill creates the highly effective teacher bonus program to provide money to school districts, boards of cooperative services that operate public schools, and charter schools (local education providers) to pay bonuses to teachers who are rated as highly effective and to provide monetary incentives to recruit highly effective teachers. The department of education (department) will distribute the money to each local education provider based on a formula that takes into account the number of teachers employed by the local education provider. Each local education provider must submit a report concerning its use of the money to the department, and the department must provide a summary of the reports to the state board of education and the education committees of the general assembly.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More
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The bill directs the state board of education (state board) to identify by rule a list of statutes and rules for which a rural school district board of education (local board) may invoke an automatic waiver. A local board may invoke an automatic waiver by adopting a resolution and transmitting the resolution to the state board and the commissioner of education. The local board may invoke the automatic waiver on behalf of the entire rural school district or for one or more identified schools of the district. An automatic waiver remains in effect until revoked by the local board through adoption of a resolution. A rural school district that invokes an automatic waiver must identify the automatic waiver on its website and, starting July 1, 2020, provide a standardized description of and rationale for each automatic waiver of statute and the contact information for a school district employee who can explain the automatic waiver. The department of education, working with a statewide association that represents school districts, must adopt standardized descriptions of and rationales for each of the statutes included on the list of automatic waivers for rural school districts adopted by the state board.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More
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