Contingency Fees; Prohibits local & regional governmental entities from entering into certain contingency fee contracts with private attorneys or law firms.
Fees/Tobacco Products Dealer Permits; Requiring all applications for retail tobacco products dealer permits to be accompanied by an annual permit fee, etc.
Nicotine and Tobacco Products; Defining the term “electronic smoking device”; redefining the term “tobacco products”; revising exemptions to the prohibition of the sale or delivery of tobacco products; deleting a provision that allows the sale or delivery of tobacco products from a vending machine equipped with a certain device; prohibiting a dealer from selling flavored e-liquid; providing that certain statements and claims are presumptive evidence that e-liquid is flavored e-liquid, etc.
Medical Marijuana Employee Protection; Prohibits employers from taking adverse personnel action against employees or applicants who are qualified patients using medical marijuana; requires employers to provide certain written notice to employees or applicants who test positive for marijuana; provides procedures for if employee or applicant tests positive for marijuana; provides cause of action & damages.
Medical Marijuana Employee Protection; Prohibiting an employer from taking adverse personnel action against an employee or job applicant who is a qualified patient using medical marijuana; requiring an employer to provide written notice to an employee or job applicant who tests positive for marijuana of his or her right to explain the positive test result; providing procedures when an employee or job applicant tests positive for marijuana; providing a cause of action and damages, etc.
Elections; Revises provisions relating to the office of Secretary of State, General Election Day, candidate qualifying, petitions, Division of Elections, supervisors of elections, voter registration, ballots, voting, vote-by-mail, canvassing, absent voters, and dates for returns, and violations of election code.
Economic Self-sufficiency; Requires DCF to contract for evaluation of effectiveness of certain programs; creates interagency working group for specified purposes; provides requirements for such working group & specified evaluations.
Public Records/Aquaculture Records/Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Providing a public records exemption for certain aquaculture records held by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; providing for future legislative review and repeal under the Open Government Sunset Review Act; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Public Records/Animal Health Records/Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Exempting from public records requirements certain animal health records submitted to or generated by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services or the state veterinarian in connection with the Bronson Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Energy; Prohibiting a deed restriction, covenant, declaration, or other binding agreement from prohibiting or having the effect of prohibiting the installation of cool roofs or renewable energy source devices; requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, in coordination with the Department of Management Services and the Department of Environmental Protection, to develop a greenhouse gas registry and inventory; establishing the Clean Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment Center Program within the department for a specified purpose, etc.
Surrendered Newborn Infants; Authorizes hospitals, emergency medical services stations, & fire stations to use newborn safety devices to accept surrendered newborn infants under certain circumstances; requires such entities to visually check & test device within specified timeframes; adds locations under which prohibition on initiation of criminal investigations based solely on surrendering of newborn infant applies.
Division of Library and Information Services; Revises duties of Division of Library & Information Services, State Archives, records & information management program, & library cooperative grants.
