Sen. Danny Burgess

Sales of Firearms and Ammunition; Prohibiting payment settlement entities, merchant acquiring entities, or third party settlement organizations from assigning merchant category codes or otherwise classifying merchants of firearms or ammunition separately from general merchandise or sporting goods retailers; prohibiting entities involved in facilitating or processing payment card transactions from assigning to or requiring a merchant to use certain merchant category codes; authorizing the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to investigate certain alleged violations and bring administrative actions, etc.

Prohibited Applications on Government-issued Devices; Requiring public employers to take certain actions relating to prohibited applications; prohibiting employees and officers of public employers from downloading or accessing prohibited applications on government-issued devices; providing exceptions; providing a deadline by which specified employees must remove, delete, or uninstall a prohibited application; requiring the Department of Management Services to compile a specified list and establish procedures for a specified waiver, etc.

Education of Dependents of Deceased or Disabled Servicemembers, Prisoners of War, and Persons Missing in Action; Revising eligibility requirements for educational benefits provided by the state to a spouse or dependent child of a deceased or disabled servicemember; revising eligibility requirements for educational benefits provided by the state to a dependent child of a prisoner of war or a person missing in action; revising eligibility requirements for educational benefits provided by the state to a dependent child of a deceased or disabled servicemember who participated in certain military operations, etc.

Public Records/Servicemembers; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for identification and location information of servicemembers and the spouses and dependents of servicemembers; providing for retroactive application; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Fees/Income Deduction Orders; Authorizing payors to collect certain administrative costs from the defendant’s income, as a part of the required notice that is required to accompany income deduction orders, etc.

Motor Vehicles and Driver Licenses; Requiring certain moneys from reductions in ad valorem tax revenue to be distributed to tax collectors for the provision of state driver license services; authorizing an additional method for transfer of ownership of a motor vehicle if a motor vehicle owner dies testate; specifying that a license plate with reduced dimensions is only required for small vehicles weighing less than a specified weight; authorizing disabled veterans to choose any plate, rather than a disabled veteran plate, if required fees are paid; requiring certain information regarding sex offenders and predators to be printed in a distinct format and in the color red, etc.

Child Maintenance Restitution; Authorizing a court to order a defendant to pay child maintenance restitution to the surviving parent or guardian of a minor if the defendant is convicted of violating specified provisions of law and the deceased victim of the offense was the parent or guardian of a child; requiring the court to determine an amount that is reasonable and necessary based on specified relevant factors if it sentences the defendant to pay child maintenance restitution; providing for the collection, disbursement, and enforcement of child maintenance restitution; providing civil penalties, etc.

Unlawful Possession of Firearms, Ammunition, or Electric Weapons or Devices; Revising the circumstances under which it is unlawful for any person to own or to have in his or her care, custody, possession, or control any firearm, ammunition, or electric weapon or device, or to carry a concealed weapon, etc.

Mental Health Professionals; Reclassifying intern registrations as associate licenses for the professions of clinical social work, marriage and family therapy, and mental health counseling; revising qualification requirements for experts appointed in certain criminal proceedings related to the mental condition of a defendant; revising the purposes for which certain funds awarded under the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program may be used, etc.

Interstate-Mobility and Universal-Recognition Occupational Licensing Act; Designating the “Interstate-Mobility and Universal-Recognition Occupational Licensing Act”; requiring certain agencies, boards, departments, and other governmental entities to issue an occupational license or a government certification to applicants under certain circumstances; authorizing such entities to require an applicant to pass a specified examination under certain circumstances; requiring licensing entities to provide a written decision to an applicant within a specified timeframe; authorizing the Governor to take certain actions relating to occupational licenses during declared states of emergency, etc.