Sen. Blaise Ingoglia

Domestic Violence; Citing this act as "Greyson’s Law"; requiring the court with jurisdiction over the proceeding to consider certain factors in deciding whether shared parental responsibility is detrimental to the child; providing additional conduct regarding domestic violence which the court must consider when ordering a parenting plan; providing an additional factor that the court must consider in determining whether a petitioner of a domestic violence injunction is in imminent danger, etc.

Sexual Exploitation and Human Trafficking; Requiring residential treatment centers for children and adolescents to place specified signage; requiring the Department of Children and Families, in consultation with the Agency for Health Care Administration, to adopt rules; requiring the Services and Resources Committee of the Statewide Council on Human Trafficking to conduct a study and make certain recommendations; requiring the department to establish a process to certify adult safe houses that provide housing and care to adult survivors of human trafficking; providing requirements for safe houses and safe foster homes, etc. APPROPRIATION: $463,000

Immigration; Prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from providing funds to any person, entity, or organization to issue identification documents to an individual who does not provide proof of lawful presence in the United States; specifying that certain driver licenses and permits issued by other states exclusively to unauthorized immigrants are not valid in this state; requiring certain hospitals to collect patient immigration status data information on admission or registration forms; requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to enter a certain order and require repayment of certain economic development incentives if the department finds or is notified that an employer has knowingly employed an unauthorized alien without verifying the employment eligibility of such person, etc. APPROPRIATION: $12,000,000

Employee Organizations Representing Public Employees; Requiring a public employee who desires to be a member of an employee organization to sign a membership authorization form beginning on a specified date; requiring an employee organization to revoke a public employee’s membership upon receipt of his or her written request for revocation; prohibiting certain employee organizations from having dues and uniform assessments deducted and collected by the employer from certain salaries; revising requirements for applications for initial registrations and renewals of registration of employee organizations; revising prohibitions for employee organizations and certain persons and entities relating to employee organizations, etc.

Land Use and Development Regulations; Revising the planning periods that must be included in a comprehensive plan; requiring local governments to determine if plan amendments are necessary to reflect a certain minimum planning period; requiring, rather than encouraging, a local government to comprehensively evaluate and update its comprehensive plan to reflect changes in local conditions; requiring the state land planning agency to provide population projections if a local government fails to update its comprehensive plan, etc.

Medical Treatment of Animals; Citing this act as the “Providing Equity in Telemedicine Services (PETS) Act”; authorizing veterinarians to practice veterinary telemedicine; providing licensure requirements to practice veterinary telemedicine; authorizing a veterinarian practicing telemedicine to order, prescribe, or make available specified medicinal drugs; providing that a supervising veterinarian assumes responsibility for any person working under the veterinarian’s supervision or at his or her direction, etc.

Political Parties; Citing this act as “The Ultimate Cancel Act”; requiring the Division of Elections to immediately cancel the filings of a political party if certain conditions exist; requiring the division to follow a certain procedure; requiring the division to provide a specified notice to certain voters; authorizing a canceled political party to reregister with the Department of State; providing procedures for an organization to reregister as a political party, etc.

Local Officials; Prohibiting the governing body of a county from renewing or extending the employment contract of a county administrator during a specified timeframe; prohibiting the governing body of a municipality from renewing or extending the employment contract of a chief executive officer or municipal general counsel during a specified timeframe; prohibiting a district school board from renewing or extending the employment contract of a superintendent during a specified timeframe; prohibiting a district school board from renewing or extending the employment contract of a district school board general counsel during a specified timeframe, etc.

Internal Revenue Service Civil Liability Trust Fund; Creating the trust fund within the Department of Financial Services; providing sources of funds; specifying the purpose of the trust fund; requiring that any balance in the trust fund at the end of the fiscal year remain in the trust fund; exempting the trust fund from termination, etc.

Term Limits; Establishing term limits for county commissioners; revising term limits for district school board members, etc.