Sen. Janet Cruz

Drinking Water in Public Schools; Subject to legislative appropriation, requiring district boards to coordinate with district school boards to identify certain schools and to provide funding to those schools by a specified date; requiring school districts, as applicable, to install filters that meet certain specifications on drinking water sources; requiring school districts, as applicable, to post signage on certain water sources and requiring school districts to publish specified information on school district websites, etc. APPROPRIATION: $3,000,000

Reemployment Assistance Claims and Benefits Information System; Requiring, by a specified date, that the system allow claimants to use a mobile device to take certain actions and obtain specified information, etc.

Transportation Facility Designations/Maximino Capdevila and Coralia Capdevila Road; Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in a specified county; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.

Transportation Facility Designations/Virginia Creighton Bridge; Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in a specified county; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.

Lewd Adult Battery; Creating the offense of lewd adult battery, which prohibits a person from knowingly and intentionally, without the consent of the victim, touching the breasts, genitals, genital area, or buttocks, or the clothing covering them, of a person 18 years of age or older; defining the terms “consent” and “coercion”; providing criminal penalties, etc.

Human Trafficking Public Awareness Signs; Requiring the employer of each athletic venue, entertainment venue, and convention center with a certain capacity to display a human trafficking public awareness sign in a conspicuous location that is clearly visible to the public and employees; defining the term “entertainment venue”; providing a noncriminal violation, etc.

Commissioner of Education; Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to provide for the election of the Commissioner of Education and his or her inclusion as a member of the Cabinet and the State Board of Education, etc.

The Legislature; Citing this act as the "Truth in Government Act"; deleting provisions regarding the administration of oaths and affirmations to witnesses appearing before legislative committees, and associated penalties, to conform to changes made by the act; requiring that persons addressing a legislative committee take an oath or affirmation of truthfulness; providing exceptions; requiring that the committee chair or other member of the committee administer the oath or affirmation; providing criminal penalties for certain false statements before a legislative committee, etc.

Prescription Drug Price Transparency; Prohibiting permits for prescription drug manufacturers and nonresident prescription drug manufacturers and for certain wholesale distributors of prescription drugs from being renewed unless specified requirements are met; providing reporting requirements for certain entities that engage in wholesale distributions of prescription drugs; providing requirements for notifications by manufacturers of prescription drug price increases under certain circumstances; providing additional requirements for contracts between pharmacy benefit managers and individual health insurers, group health insurers, and health maintenance organizations, respectively, etc.

Abandoned and Historic Cemeteries; Creating the Historic Cemeteries Program within the Division of Historical Resources of the Department of State; providing the duties and responsibilities of the program; creating the Historic Cemeteries Program Advisory Council within the division; providing for membership, terms, and duties of the council; revising the definition of the term “conservation easement” to include a right or interest in real property which is appropriate to retaining the structural integrity or physical appearance of certain cemeteries, etc.