Sen. Jason W. B. Pizzo

Reapplication for Revoked Health Care Practitioner Licenses; Requiring, rather than authorizing, health care practitioner boards under the Department of Health to establish rules for reapplication for licensure by health care practitioners who have had their licenses permanently revoked; requiring the boards to grant such applicants opportunities at reasonable intervals to demonstrate certain competencies; requiring the board to grant an applicant such initial opportunity within a specified timeframe, if requested, etc.

Public Records/Domestic Violence Injunction; Providing that all pleadings and documents related to a petition domestic violence injunction that have been ordered to be sealed are confidential and exempt from public records requirements; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption under the Open Government Sunset Review Act; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Unemployment Compensation; Increasing the weekly benefit amounts an individual may receive, etc.

Visiting County and Municipal Detention Facilities; Authorizing specified persons to visit at their pleasure county and municipal detention facilities; prohibiting persons not otherwise authorized by law from entering such facilities; prohibiting the unreasonable withholding of permission to enter such facilities from professional journalists or writers, etc.

Condominium Associations; Providing that certain associations may continue to represent, prosecute, or defend unit owners in certain proceedings; revising the parties considered to be the defendant in a tax suit; revising criminal penalties relating to the acceptance of things or services of value or kickbacks; providing criminal penalties for fraudulent voting activities related to association elections, etc.

Clothing-optional Locations; Specifying that an exception to the commission of the offense of unlawful exposure of sexual organs includes clothing-optional beaches; requiring the Division of Recreation and Parks of the Department of Environmental Protection to amend a specified rule to comply with this act, etc.

Reporting Animal Cruelty; Citing this act as "Allie’s Law"; specifying that the failure of a veterinarian to report suspected animal cruelty is grounds for disciplinary action; requiring veterinarians, veterinary technicians, and other animal treatment provider employees to report cases of suspected animal cruelty to certain officials; authorizing veterinarians, veterinary technicians, and other animal treatment provider employees to report suspected cases of animal cruelty at certain commercial food-producing animal operations under certain circumstances, etc.

Vacation Rentals; Authorizing local governmental entities to adopt and apply certain regulations and ordinances to vacation rentals under certain circumstances; requiring an applicant for a vacation rental license to provide the Division of Hotels and Restaurants of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation with certain information, etc.

Vessel Safety; Revising the penalties for persons operating a vessel involved in an accident or injury who leave the scene of the accident or injury under certain circumstances; providing graduated penalties depending on the level of damage to property or person; providing a mandatory minimum sentence for a person who willfully commits such violation resulting in the death of another while boating under the influence; providing that a person commits boating under the influence manslaughter when their impaired operation of a vessel causes the death of an unborn child; revising the definition of the term “vessel homicide” to include the killing of an unborn child by causing injury to the mother by operation of a vessel in a reckless manner under certain circumstances, etc.

Law Enforcement Reform; Requiring the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission to adopt rules prohibiting law enforcement officers, correctional officers, or correctional probation officers from using specified techniques; providing an exception; requiring the commission to provide specified data regarding final commission orders to the National Decertification Index; requiring the commission to establish and maintain standards for the instruction of officers in specified subjects in order to build upon and improve police-community relations; revising the minimum aspects of law enforcement that the law enforcement accreditation program must address, etc.