Requires disclosure of albizia trees in a disclosure statement as part of the sale or transfer of real estate assets.
Prohibits enforced wage secrecy and retaliation or discrimination against employees who disclose, discuss, or inquire about their own or co-workers' wages.
Increases the minimum wage to $12.00 per hour beginning 1/1/2020 and $14.00 per hour beginning 1/1/2022.
Provides ranked choice method of voting for all partisan primary elections, special elections, and nonpartisan general elections held in this State on or after 1/1/2018.
Prohibits the use or application of sunscreen or sunblock containing oxybenzone or cosmetics with sunscreen containing oxybenzone while in a marine life conservation district.
Requires a purchaser or transferee to execute an oceanfront purchaser statement with every sale or transfer of oceanfront real estate. Requires the statement to be recorded with the bureau of conveyances. Establishes mandatory provisions for every oceanfront purchaser statement. Takes effect 11/1/17.
Requires the department of taxation to manage a public database of all registered transient accommodation and resort time share vacation plan businesses. Makes failure to register as a business of furnishing transient accommodations a class C felony rather than a misdemeanor. Requires filers of transient accommodations tax to include the amount of transient accommodations tax revenues collected by zip code on tax return form. Requires filers of transient accommodations tax to include certificate of registration number on annual tax return. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/16.
Prohibits the courts from deferring the acceptance of guilty or no contest pleas that could result in the expungement of the offense from the criminal record of state or county law enforcement officers for felonies, misdemeanors, or petty misdemeanors that the officers are alleged to have committed while in the performance of the duties of an officer.
Increases maximum fines for violations of the fireworks control law. Appropriates funds for the Department of Public Safety, Sheriff Division, in collaboration with the Department of Defense, Department of Transportation, and other federal and state agencies, to establish a shipping container inspection program to randomly inspect shipping containers for illegal fireworks and explosives using explosive-sniffing dogs and establishes requirements for the inspection program. Requires the Department of Transportation to assess a fee on all shipping containers to fund the program.
Appropriates $1,000,000 to the department of public safety for rehabilitation of incarcerated persons. Allows the department to contract with private service providers for rehabilitation services. Requires the department to report to the legislature 20 days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2018.
