Sen. Clay Yarborough

Official Actions of Local Governments; Prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from funding or promoting or taking official action as it relates to diversity, equity, and inclusion; providing that a county commissioner, a member of the governing body of a municipality, or any other county or municipal official who violates certain provisions commits misfeasance or malfeasance in office; requiring potential recipients of county and municipal contracts and grants to make a certain certification to the county or municipality before being awarded such contract or grant, etc.

Transportation Facility Designations/Harry Frisch Street; Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in a specified county, etc.

Arrest Warrants for State Prisoners; Authorizing a prisoner in a state prison who has an unserved warrant to file a notice of unserved warrant in the circuit court in which the warrant was issued; requiring the prisoner to serve the notice on the state attorney; requiring the circuit court to schedule the notice for a status hearing within a certain timeframe after receiving the notice, etc.

Transportation Facility Designations/Harris Rosen Way and Geraldine Thompson Way; Providing honorary designations of certain transportation facilities in a specified county; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.

Assault or Battery on a Utility Worker; Defining the term “utility worker”; providing for reclassification of certain offenses committed against a utility worker engaged in work on critical infrastructure, etc.

Students Enrolled in Dropout Retrieval Programs; Revising assessment and accountability requirements for a virtual instruction program provider; providing that dropout retrieval programs serve a specified group of students; requiring a dropout retrieval program to choose to receive a school grade or school improvement rating, etc.

Middle School and High School Start Times; Providing that district school boards and charter schools, respectively, are in compliance with certain provisions relating to middle school and high school start times upon submission of a specified report to the Department of Education, etc.

School District Reporting Requirements; Requiring district school boards to adopt a policy temporarily removing instructional personnel under specified circumstances; revising requirements for law enforcement to notify specified entities when an employee is arrested for certain offenses; requiring instructional personnel and administrative personnel to self-report certain arrests or judgments within specified timeframes, etc.

Actions for Recovery of Damages for Wrongful Death; Deleting a provision prohibiting the recovery of certain damages by specified parties related to the decedent in wrongful death proceedings, etc.

Feasibility Study Relating to a Statewide Pawn Data Database; Requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to conduct a feasibility study regarding the creation of a statewide pawn data database; specifying requirements for such database, etc.