Sen. Tina Polsky

Special Observances/Fentanyl Awareness and Education Day; Designating August 21 of each year as “Fentanyl Awareness and Education Day”; encouraging specified agencies, local governments, and public schools to sponsor events to promote awareness of the dangers of fentanyl and potential overdoses, including education on specified topics, etc.

Cardiac Emergencies; Revising a requirement for instruction on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of an automated external defibrillator; requiring each public school to develop a cardiac emergency response plan (CERP); requiring school officials to work with local emergency service providers to integrate the CERP into emergency responder protocols; providing a requirement for automated external defibrillator placement, etc.

Transportation Facility Designations/Harris Rosen Way and Geraldine Thompson Way; Providing honorary designations of certain transportation facilities in a specified county; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.

Holocaust Remembrance Day; Requiring the Governor to proclaim a specified day annually as “Holocaust Remembrance Day”; authorizing “Holocaust Remembrance Day” to be observed in this state’s public schools and be observed by public exercise as the Governor may designate, etc.

Firefighter Health and Safety; Requiring the Division of State Fire Marshal within the Department of Financial Services to assist in decreasing the frequency and severity of fatalities; authorizing the division to recommend a phased approach in adopting certain rules related to firefighting gear; requiring the division to adopt rules relating to education on chemical hazards and toxic substances in protective gear and employers’ mental health best practices, etc.

Public Education of Background Screening Requirements; Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration and the Department of Law Enforcement, in consultation with certain agencies, to develop and maintain a care provider background screening education and awareness webpage; providing requirements for resources provided on the webpage; requiring that specified agencies provide a link to the webpage on their respective websites and promote the inclusion of the link in certain media, etc.

Disability History and Awareness Instruction; Citing this act as the "Evin B. Hartsell Act"; requiring the Department of Education to develop specified curricula; authorizing the department to consult with the Evin B. Hartsell Foundation to further develop such curricula, etc.

Advertisements for Representation Services; Prohibiting notaries public from using specified terms to describe themselves under certain circumstances; creating a civil cause of action for declaratory or injunctive relief and to recover damages and attorney fees and costs; requiring certain businesses or persons offering immigration services to post a conspicuous notice with a specified statement, etc.

Maddy summarySB 1674, titled "Unrated Bonds," prohibits local governments from requiring a minimum bond rating for certain types of investments. This means local government entities would no longer be able to mandate that an investment hold a specific rating (e.g., AAA, BB) before they can invest in it. The bill directly affects local governments by removing a current restriction on their investment policies for these particular investments.

Fentanyl Testing; Creating "Gage's Law"; requiring hospitals and hospital-based off-campus emergency departments to test for fentanyl as part of any urine testing they conduct to treat individuals for possible drug overdose or poisoning; requiring such facilities to perform a confirmation test if the urine test results are positive for fentanyl; requiring that the results of such tests be retained as part of the patient’s clinical record in accordance with the facility’s current recordkeeping practices, etc.