Individual Education Plans; Requires IEPs for certain students to contain information on legal rights & responsibilities that transfer to students at age 18; requires information to include ways in which student may provide informed consent to allow his or her parent to continue to participate in educational decisions.
Middle School and High School Start Times; Provides requirements for middle school & high school start times; provides district school board requirements; requires charter schools to meet requirements relating to middle school & high school start times.
Telehealth Practice Standards; Revises definition of term "telehealth."
K-12 Teachers; Authorizing the Office of Inspector General within the Department of Education to investigate allegations and reports of suspected violations of certain persons’ rights; establishing the Dual Enrollment Educator Scholarship Program; establishing the Teacher Apprenticeship Program; providing eligibility requirements for apprentice teachers; revising the validity period for certain temporary certificates, etc.
Term Limits for District School Board Members; Revises term limits for district school board members.
Education; Requiring school districts to annually review and confirm that specified information is accurate and up to date; creating the Year-round School Pilot Program for a period of 4 school years beginning with a specified school year; requiring the Commission for Independent Education to annually prepare an accountability report by a specified date; providing requirements for searches of students’ personal belongings; requiring dual enrollment courses to be age and developmentally appropriate; authorizing students to use a combination of volunteer service hours and paid work hours to meet certain program eligibility requirements; providing an appropriation, etc. APPROPRIATION: $6,800,000
Savings and Out-of-pocket Expenses in Health Insurance; Requires certain licensed facilities & physicians to provide specific pricing & cost-obligation information to patients; requires health insurer to apply payment for service that nonpreferred provider provided to insured toward insured's deductible & out-of-pocket maximum as if service had been provided by preferred provider, if specific conditions are met.
Continuing Chiropractic Education; Removes requirement chiropractic continuing education be completed in classroom setting; prohibits board from limiting number of hours of continuing education courses chiropractic physician may complete through distance learning; authorizes board to make exceptions to meet continuing education requirements during declared state of emergency; specifies who may teach board-approved continuing education courses.
Energy Regulation; Requires determinations on building new energy generating facilities to take certain factors into consideration; prohibits local governmental entities from requiring or prohibiting certain building materials, vehicles, or home heating elements; authorizes local governmental entities to adopt bid specifications for public works projects that take energy savings or production into consideration; prohibits adoption or enforcement of certain state & regional programs to regulate greenhouse gas emissions without specific legislative authorization.
Relief/Maury Hernandez/Department of Corrections; Provides appropriation to compensate Maury Hernandez for injuries & damages sustained as consequence of alleged negligence of DOC in course of his employment; provides limitation on payment of compensation & attorney fees. APPROPRIATION: $10,000,000
