The bill amends the "Pet Animal Care and Facilities Act" (Act) by: Removing language exempting from the Act a person who boards no more than 3 pet animals at one time; Exempting from the Act any pet animal rescue that qualifies as tax exempt under section 501 (c)(3) of the federal "Internal Revenue Code of 1986"; Decreasing the maximum licensing fee amount that the commissioner of agriculture may charge a pet animal facility and establishing independent contractor pet groomer licensing fees in statute; and Removing language that prohibits a person from importing or causing to be imported any pet animal for the purpose of sale, resale, trade, or barter by a pet animal facility operator unless the person is licensed.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill requires the department of education (department) to make available on the department's website to all public schools a waiver form that a parent or legal guardian may use to waive for one school year the provisions of the federal "Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974" (FERPA), as necessary to allow school personnel to communicate with behavioral health care providers about a student's health records. The waiver form must include an explanation that signing the waiver is optional. The bill requires public schools to include the waiver form in the materials for pupil registration.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill directs each district school board to issue a request for proposal for a district-wide school safety assessment. Each district shall select and contract with a school safety expert for an evaluation of each public school in the district. The expert shall report its evaluation and recommendations to the board, and the board shall vote on each recommendation. The board shall present the approved recommendations to the state board of education, which shall vote on the recommendations and provide funding to the district to cover the costs of the approved recommendations. The state board of education shall report to the legislature's education committees on the recommendations it receives, approves, and funds.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill requires local education employers to disclose to their employees the amount of money deducted from the employees' wages and salaries payable to a third party that is used for lobbying or political activity. The bill requires the local education employers to collect the necessary information from third-party entities in order to compile the disclosure information.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill requires an establishment that holds a hotel and restaurant license to sell alcohol beverages for consumption on the premises to allow a customer of the licensee who is at least 21 years of age to bring one container containing up to 750 milliliters of vinous liquor into the licensed premises where meals are actually and regularly served for the on-premises consumption by the costumer or the customer and the customer's companions who are also at least 21 years of age during a meal that the customer, and the companions of the customer, if any, have ordered from the licensee, unless: The customer has brought a container of vinous liquor into the licensed premises in the previous 24 hours; The licensee or any agent of the licensee reasonably believes that the customer is under the influence of alcohol or drugs; The licensee has ceased serving meals for the day or is preparing to cease serving meals for the day; or The licensee reasonably believes that the customer has committed any of certain unlawful acts on the licensed premises. The bill allows a customer to reseal and remove from the licensed premises an opened container of partially consumed vinous liquor that the customer brought into the licensed premises. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill requires a place of public accommodation that owns, leases, leases to, or operates a movie theater in more than 2 locations in the state to provide open captioning during at least 2 showings per week of each movie that is produced and offered with open movie captioning. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Under existing law, the penalty for driving while a person's license or privilege to drive is under restraint includes that the person may not be issued a license or granted any driving privileges for a period of time beyond the initial restraint. This penalty is in addition to a sentence to the county jail or fines that may be imposed as a penalty for driving under restraint. The bill removes the penalty restricting a person's driving privileges beyond the initial restraint when the initial restraint is for reasons other than an alcohol-related offense. Under existing law, the department of revenue is required to immediately revoke an habitual offender's driver's license. The bill removes this revocation requirement when a person is an habitual offender solely because of convictions for driving under restraint when the restraint is for reasons other than an alcohol-related offense. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill creates the school transportation grant program (grant program) in the department of education (department) to provide grant awards to public schools or school districts to increase transportation services to students. The state board of education is required to promulgate rules necessary for the implementation of the grant program. The department shall award grants subject to available appropriations. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
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, 2021, 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.)
Under eviction law, a court may enter an order on the issue of restitution of the premises without determining other claims raised in the case. Under current law, it is unclear whether an appellate court can hear an interlocutory appeal of just the order on restitution of the premises. The bill clarifies that appellate courts have jurisdiction to hear the interlocutory appeals. The bill also clarifies that if a tenant is appealing the order, the tenant must continue to pay rent due during the appeal.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
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 to the department a report concerning its use of the money, 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.)
Under current law, any completed internal investigation file is open for public inspection. In the case of an exonerated officer, the bill states that the investigation file is only available for inspection if a court issues an order of inspection after finding the requester has a compelling interest in inspecting the investigation file and the requester is a party to the investigation, the complainant, or a person who can demonstrate a viable interest in the investigation. The bill allows an agency complying with a request for an internal investigation file to bill a reasonable fee for the time involved in complying with the request. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
