Trade; Urging Congress to expeditiously renew trade promotion authority for the executive branch, urging the executive branch to negotiate a comprehensive and mutually beneficial free trade agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom, and urging Congress to ratify such agreement, etc.
Prisoner Communication Services; Requiring the Department of Corrections to provide prisoners daily voice communication services, free of charge; requiring the department to maintain a certain ratio of prisoners to operable voice communication devices; authorizing the supplementation of voice communication services with other communication services; requiring such services to be provided free of charge, etc.
Involuntary Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to enroll certain persons for a specified time in a prerelease treatment program developed by the department under certain circumstances; creating a rebuttable presumption that it is not safe for a person to be at large if the person has not completed a hierarchal advancing treatment plan; requiring certain persons to complete a hierarchal advancing treatment plan before being released; providing requirements for such plan; requiring primary treating clinicians and clinical directors or their specified designees to review a person’s treatment plan and progress and prepare a status report for the person’s clinical file, etc.
Using Alternative Therapies to Treat Mental Health and Other Medical Conditions; Requiring the Department of Health, in collaboration with the Board of Medicine, to conduct a study regarding the use of alternative therapies in the treatment of mental health and other medical conditions; providing requirements for the study; requiring the department to submit a report to the Governor and Legislature by a specified date; providing for future expiration, etc.
Abortion Clinic Regulations; Deleting a specified timeframe in which certain information must be provided to a pregnant woman before a termination of pregnancy may be performed; deleting provisions prohibiting state agencies, local governmental entities, and Medicaid managed care plans from expending funds for the benefit of, paying funds to, or initiating or renewing contracts with certain organizations that perform abortions; deleting a requirement that the Agency for Health Care Administration inspect a specified percentage of abortion clinic patient records as a component of license inspections, etc.
Sealing and Expunction of Criminal History Records; Revising the eligibility criteria a person must meet to qualify for a court-ordered expunction of a criminal history record; revising the eligibility criteria a person must meet to qualify for a court-ordered sealing of a criminal history record, etc.
Marriage Between Persons of the Same Sex; Repealing provisions relating to marriage between persons of the same sex; deleting a prohibition on the recognition of same-sex marriages; deleting a prohibition on the state and its agencies and subdivisions giving effect to a public act, record, or judicial proceeding that respects a same-sex marriage or relationship or a claim arising from such marriage or relationship, etc.
Teacher Salaries; Requiring each school district that has not yet reached a specified minimum base salary to use its share of the teacher salary increase allocation in a specified manner; authorizing school districts that have met the minimum base salary for full-time classroom teachers to use funds to raise the salaries of specified personnel; authorizing, instead of prohibiting, district school boards to use advanced degrees as a criterion in setting a salary schedule for certain personnel; authorizing certain instructional personnel to continue to use a salary schedule adopted before a district school board adopts a performance salary schedule or opt into the performance salary schedule, etc.
Required Instruction in the History of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; Requiring the history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to be included in specified instruction, etc.
Student Health Services; Citing this act as the “Learning with Dignity Act”; defining the term “menstrual hygiene products”; requiring school districts to make menstrual hygiene products available, at no charge, in each school nurse’s office or other physical school facility for health services, etc.
