Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez

Landlords and Tenants; Revising the definition of the term “tenant”; providing requirements for rental agreements; requiring landlords to provide certain information with rental agreements; prohibiting a landlord from evicting a tenant or terminating a rental agreement because the tenant or the tenant’s minor child is a victim of actual or threatened domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, or stalking, etc.

Communications Services; Removing certain communications services lines as items over which certain governmental entities are authorized to prescribe and enforce reasonable rules and regulations; removing limitations on municipal and county authority to regulate and manage municipal and county roads or rights-of-way; removing provisions that specify activities for which permit fees may not be imposed; removing provisions that require that work in a certain authority’s rights-of-way must comply with a specified document, etc.

Climate Fiscal Responsibility; Requiring the Economic Estimating Conference to annually prepare a climate fiscal responsibility report and provide a copy of the report to the Governor and the Legislature; requiring the Office of Economic and Demographic Research to publish the report on its website; requiring the conference to coordinate with and obtain data from certain entities in preparing the report, etc.

Energy Efficiency Savings in State Agencies; Revising the energy consumption information each state agency is required to provide to the Department of Management Services to include transportation fleet energy consumption information; requiring the state energy management plan to include recommendations for state agencies to improve energy efficiency by transitioning, retrofitting, or replacing certain inefficient facilities and fleets, etc.

Remove Marijuana from the Schedule I Drug List; Urging Congress to remove marijuana from the Schedule I drug list and allow it to be researched and used for medical purposes, etc.

Climate Health Planning; Requiring the Department of Health to prepare an annual climate health planning report that contains specified information and recommendations; requiring the report to be published on the department’s website and submitted to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date, etc.

Property Assessed Clean Energy Program; Amending the definition of “qualifying improvement” to include sewage treatment, seawall improvements, and certain improvements to underground infrastructure, etc.

English Language Learner Advisory Council; Creating the English Language Learner Advisory Council adjunct to the Department of Education; providing the purpose of the advisory council; specifying the composition of the advisory council, the appointment of members, and the terms they serve, etc.

Jurors; Requiring that a certain person’s voting rights, rather than civil rights, be restored before he or she is qualified to serve as a juror, etc.

Working Persons Tax Rebate Study; Requiring the Department of Revenue, in consultation with the Office of Economic and Demographic Research, to conduct a study and prepare a report examining the implementation of a tax rebate program for certain persons or households receiving the federal Earned Income Tax Credit, etc.