Sen. Jason Brodeur

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations; Authorizing a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) to incorporate as a corporation or organize as a limited liability company if certain conditions are met; providing that a DAO member, participant, smart contract, algorithm, or wallet is not liable for actions, decisions, or liabilities of the DAO; authorizing DAOs to raise unlimited amounts of capital, subject to certain limitations and requirements, etc.

Prohibitions Related to 340B Drugs; Prohibiting certain actions by health insurance issuers, pharmacy benefit managers, or other third-party payors, or their agents, relating to reimbursement to a 340B entity for 340B drugs; prohibiting certain actions by manufacturers relating to interference with the acquisition of a 340B drug; prohibiting a manufacturer’s interference with a pharmacy’s right to contract with a 340B entity, etc.

Audit Enforcement Commission; Creating the Audit Enforcement Commission for a specified purpose; providing membership of the commission; requiring the Auditor General to conduct a follow-up audit within a specified timeframe under certain circumstances; requiring the Auditor General to report certain findings to the Legislative Auditing Committee, which shall hold a public hearing for a specified purpose, etc.

Virtual Currency Sales Tax Holiday; Defining the terms “convenience store” and “virtual currency”; providing a sales tax exemption during a specified period for the retail sale of tangible personal property and services which is paid in virtual currency and is made by specified establishments, etc.

Defamation, False Light, and Unauthorized Publication of Name or Likenesses; Requiring that certain articles or broadcasts be removed from the Internet within a specified period to limit damages for defamation; providing persons in certain positions relating to newspapers with immunity for defamation if such persons exercise due care to prevent publication or utterance of such a statement; providing venue for damages for a defamation or privacy tort based on material broadcast over radio or television; providing a rebuttable presumption that a publisher of a false statement acted with actual malice in certain circumstances, etc.

Competition for the Sale of Event Tickets; Prohibiting live performance venues from entering into specified contracts and covenants for the sale of tickets and licenses or from requiring artists to distribute tickets through specific ticket platforms; requiring live performance venues to allow artists to distribute tickets through the ticket platforms of the performance artists’ choice, subject to certain conditions; prohibiting a live performance venue from selling or transferring tickets and licenses at more than face value, etc.

Invalid Restrictive Covenants in Health Care; Specifying that certain restrictive covenants in employment agreements relating to certain licensed physicians are not supported by a legitimate business interest; specifying that such restrictive covenants are void and unenforceable, etc.

Preventing Contaminants of Emerging Concern from Discharging Into Wastewater Facilities and Waters of the State; Establishing the PFAS and 1,4-dioxane pretreatment initiative within the Department of Environmental Protection for a specified purpose; requiring the department to coordinate with wastewater facilities in implementing the pretreatment of contaminants of emerging concern; requiring that industrial users identified as probable sources of the specified contaminants be issued permits, orders, or similar measures to enforce specified pretreatment standards by a specified date; providing interim discharge limits for industrial users beginning on a specified date, etc.

Tourist Development Tax; Prohibiting a plan for tourist development from allocating more than a certain percentage of the tax revenue to an individual project unless the governing board of the county approves such use by supermajority vote, etc.

Suits Against the Government; Increasing the statutory limits on liability for tort claims against the state and its agencies and subdivisions; prohibiting a party from lobbying against any agreed upon settlement brought to the Legislature as a claim bill; requiring the Department of Financial Services, beginning on a specified date and every 5 years thereafter, to adjust the limitations of liability for claims, not to exceed a certain percentage for each such adjustment, etc.