Liability for Renting to Persons with Criminal Records; Specifying that a cause of action does not arise against a landlord, or a manager or an agent of a landlord, solely for renting to a tenant with a criminal record; providing exceptions, etc.
Dental Services Under the Medicaid Program; Revising adult dental services as optional Medicaid services for which the Agency for Health Care Administration may pay; extending the date by which the agency may seek state plan amendments and federal waivers to commence enrollment in the Medicaid prepaid dental health program; extending the term of existing program contracts with dental managed care providers; providing requirements for minimum benefits provided by the program, etc.
Crimes Evidencing Prejudice; Expanding grounds for the reclassification of crimes to include acts of prejudice based on the gender, gender identity or expression, or physical or mental disability of a victim; specifying that the reclassification occurs if the crime was based in whole or in part on the actual or perceived race, color, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, homeless status, physical or mental disability, or advanced age of the victim; providing for the reclassification of crimes if the crime was based in whole or in part on the actual or perceived mental or physical disability of the victim, etc.
Healthy Food Financing Initiative Program; Revising requirements for the administration of and participation in the Healthy Food Financing Initiative program; providing program eligibility requirements for nonprofit organizations and revising eligibility requirements for community development financial institutions; requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to review the program and collected data after a specified timeframe and provide the Legislature with a specified report; specifying that program funding is subject to and provided from certain appropriations, etc.
Student Elopement; Requiring public schools to create a School Staff Assistance for Emergencies (SAFE) Team and a school elopement plan; providing for membership and responsibilities of the team; providing requirements for the plan; requiring the team to create student-specific elopement quick reference guides for certain students, etc.
Public Records/Human Trafficking Victim Expunction; Providing that a petition for human trafficking victim expunction and all pleadings and documents related to the petition are confidential and exempt from public records requirements; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Pregnant Women in Custody; Citing this act as “Ava’s Law”; requiring that every female who is arrested and not released on bond within 72 hours after arrest be administered a pregnancy test within a specified timeframe, upon her request; defining the term “pregnant woman”; authorizing a sentencing court to stay the beginning of the period of incarceration for up to a certain amount of time for a pregnant woman convicted of any offense; requiring that, within 10 days after the end of the stay and the commencement of the woman’s incarceration, she be offered and receive, upon her request, a specified assessment and services, etc.
State Recognition of Indian Tribes and Bands; Providing for state recognition of specified Indian tribes and bands; authorizing Indian tribes and bands to petition the Secretary of State for state recognition; authorizing the Secretary of State to review such petitions and make certain recommendations to the Legislature by specified dates; requiring the Secretary of State to consider certain factors when making such recommendations; requiring the Secretary of State to make the first recommendations pursuant to the act by a specified date, etc.
Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking/Department of Legal Affairs; Creating the Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking within the Department of Legal Affairs; providing for the funding sources and purposes of the trust fund; providing for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund, etc.
Health Insurance Cost Sharing; Requiring specified individual health insurers and their pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments by or on behalf of insureds toward the total contributions of the insureds’ cost-sharing requirements; requiring specified contracts to require pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments by or on behalf of insureds toward the insureds’ total contributions to cost-sharing requirements; requiring specified group health insurers and their pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments by or on behalf of insureds toward the total contributions of the insureds’ cost-sharing requirements; requiring specified contracts to require pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments by or on behalf of insureds toward the insureds’ total contributions to cost-sharing requirements, etc.
