Reusable Tenant Screening Reports; Authorizing a landlord to accept reusable tenant screening reports and require a specified statement; prohibiting a landlord from charging certain fees to an applicant using a reusable tenant screening report, etc.
Sen. Ileana Garcia
Sponsored bills
Subsidy Payments for the Home Care for the Elderly Program; Requiring that subsidy payments made by the Department of Elder Affairs for the home care for the elderly program cease for certain persons upon such persons’ enrollment in the Medicaid long-term care managed care program, etc.
School Buses; Revising the definition of the term “school bus” as it relates to state uniform traffic control; revising the definition of the term “school bus” as it relates to driver licenses to include a motor vehicle used to transport students to and from a charter school, in addition to a public or private school, etc.
Victims of Domestic Violence and Dating Violence; Requiring the Division of Telecommunications within the Department of Management Services to consult with certain entities to conduct a feasibility study regarding a specified alert system; revising legislative findings to include victims of dating violence; authorizing victims of dating violence to apply to participate in the Attorney General’s address confidentiality program, etc.
Ballot Boxes; Requiring that ballot boxes or ballot transfer containers be transported from a supervisor of elections to a precinct by a law enforcement officer; requiring that all ballot boxes, ballots, ballot stubs, memoranda, and other related papers be transported to a supervisor’s office by a law enforcement officer; requiring that certain policies and procedures include general guidelines for the recording and the proper storage, retention, and release of body camera audio and video data recorded by body cameras while performing specified actions, etc.
Electronic Monitoring Devices in Long-term Care Facilities; Authorizing a resident, or his or her representative, of a nursing home facility or assisted living facility, respectively, to authorize the installation and use of an electronic monitoring device in the resident’s room if specified conditions are met; providing for installation and use of such device if the resident lives in a shared room with another resident with the consent of the other resident or his or her representative; prohibiting facilities from denying admission to a person or discharging a resident or otherwise discriminating or retaliating against a resident for the decision to install and use an electronic monitoring device in the resident’s room, etc.
Specific Medical Diagnoses in Child Protective Investigations; Providing an exception to the requirement that the Department of Children and Families immediately forward certain allegations to a law enforcement agency; requiring Child Protection Teams to consult with a licensed physician or advanced practice registered nurse when evaluating certain reports; authorizing, under a certain circumstance, a parent or legal custodian from whom a child was removed to request specified examinations of the child, etc.
Firefighter Benefits; Revising the definition of the term “cancer” to include acute myeloid leukemia for the purpose of expanding cancer treatment benefits, etc.
Elections; Requiring the Department of State to adopt rules for minimum standards for security measures for electronic and electromechanical voting and other election systems; requiring that a certain full supply chain analysis be conducted on specified components; revising the name of the Bureau of Voting Systems to the Bureau of Voting Systems and Other Election Systems; prohibiting governing bodies from purchasing any other election system unless such system has been certified by the Department of State; providing criminal penalties for members of governing bodies who purchase or sell other election systems in violation of specified provisions, etc.
Door Alarms for Multifamily Residential Properties; Creating the “Multihousing Water Safety Act”; requiring that certain properties have door alarms installed and maintained on certain doors beginning on a date certain; requiring that door alarms be inspected annually; requiring the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to enforce this act and authorizing the department to take any enforcement action as authorized by law, etc.