Sen. Joe Gruters

Elections; Revising the information that the uniform statewide voter registration application must be designed to elicit from an applicant and must contain; requiring the Department of State and supervisors of elections to verify certain information relating to citizenship status; requiring certain voter registration applicants who have not previously voted in the state to provide certain identification before voting; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to provide an opportunity to register to vote or update voter registration records to certain individuals, etc.

Public Records/Patient-directed Doctor’s Order Forms; Creating an exemption from public records requirements for personal identifying information held in the database for patient-directed doctor’s order forms; authorizing the disclosure of such information to certain entities and individuals under specified conditions; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption under the Open Government Sunset Review Act; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Installation of Waterway Markers; Revising the application requirements for marking certain waters of this state; requiring that all waterway markers be affixed to certain structures or buoys beginning on a specified date; requiring state and local governmental entities to conform to such requirements by a specified date, etc.

Cost-of-living Adjustment of Retirement Benefits; Revising how the cost-of-living adjustment of benefits for certain retirees and beneficiaries is calculated; providing a declaration of important state interest, etc.

Forms of Identification; Expanding the list of acceptable forms of identification for certain voter registration applicants to include United States passport cards, identification cards issued by a federally recognized tribal nation or Indian tribe, and United States Merchant Mariner Credentials; requiring that driver licenses issued to drivers denote certain individuals as noncitizens, etc.

Motor Vehicle Repair Work; Citing this act as the "Lilly Glaubach Act"; requiring a motor vehicle repair shop to request a written crash report from a customer under certain circumstances; requiring a motor vehicle repair shop to prepare a transaction form under certain circumstances; requiring the motor vehicle repair shop to deliver transaction forms to law enforcement by a certain time; authorizing the department to revoke a vehicle repair shop’s registration under certain circumstances, etc.

Patient-directed Doctor’s Orders; Authorizing specified personnel of hospitals, nursing homes, and home health agencies, respectively, to withhold or withdraw cardiopulmonary resuscitation if presented with a patient-directed doctor’s order (PDDO) form that contains an order not to resuscitate; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to adopt by rule procedures for the implementation of PDDO forms in hospice care; requiring the Department of Health to establish by rule circumstances and procedures under which emergency medical technicians and paramedics may honor PDDO forms, etc.

Controlled Substances; Excepting from the list of Schedule I controlled substances certain xylazine animal drug products approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration and used for certain purposes, etc.

Protection of Medical Freedom; Prohibiting the Department of Health from requiring enrollment in the state’s immunization registry or otherwise requiring persons to submit to immunization tracking; prohibiting business entities from requiring individuals to provide proof of vaccination or postinfection recovery from any communicable disease to gain access to, entry upon, or service from such entities; adding a person’s vaccination and immunity status to the prohibited forms of discrimination by local housing assistance plans; prohibiting employers from refusing employment to, or discharging, disciplining, demoting, or otherwise discriminating against, an individual solely on the basis of vaccination or immunity status; prohibiting places of public accommodation from discriminating on the basis of vaccination or immunity status; prohibiting the Department of Health from requiring, as a school-entry requirement, that children receive immunizations approved only for emergency use, etc.

Heated Tobacco Products; Revising the definition of the term “cigarette”; revising the definition of the term “tobacco products”; prohibiting its application to heated tobacco products; defining the term “heated tobacco product”, etc.