Requires the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to establish and maintain an online database of all reports to the legislature made by the judiciary and each department, board, commission, or officer of the State or any of its political subdivisions. Requires the website be online and accessible to the public by 1/1/2018.
Requires the chief election officer, with the assistance from the county clerks for elections involving county offices and countywide ballot issues, to publish and disseminate a voters' pamphlet. Appropriates moneys to allow the chief election officer to produce and distribute a voters' pamphlet for each election.
Requires the department of land and natural resources to develop an intake and dispatch training program to enable the department to efficiently and effectively receive and respond to information and reports relating to conservation and resource enforcement matters received on the division of conservation and resource enforcement's direct line. Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources to establish one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) permanent civil service position to provide intake and dispatcher services for the division of conservation and resource enforcement.
Allows unit owners in planned community associations and homeowners associations to withhold legal fees from assessments claimed by associations pending decision in an arbitration or court proceeding in which the owner has filed for a determination of the validity of the amounts and attorney's fees claimed by the association.
Imposes a restraining order that preserves the financial assets of the parties and their dependents upon the commencement of annulment, divorce, or separation court action.
Establishes a fee on sugar-sweetened beverages, syrup, and powder with the revenues generated to be used for department of education cooking, gardening, nutrition, physical education, early education, science, and youth health programs at public and charter schools.
Establishes a refundable state earned income tax credit and earned income tax credit special fund. Establishes an 11% income tax rate for taxable income over $200,000 after December 31, 2016. Allocates revenues collected for deposit into the earned income tax credit special fund.
Specifies that no property shall be forfeited unless the owner or interest-holder of the property has been convicted of a covered offense or indicted for a covered offense and there is a significant risk that the property will be destroyed or otherwise made unavailable, and the State has met its rebuttable presumption for forfeiture. Requires the State to show by clear and convincing evidence that a claimant's interest in the property is subject to forfeiture.
Requires that a defendant be denied bail when the charge is for a violent crime or the defendant has been previously convicted of a violent crime. Distinguishes between a serious crime for which the judge has the discretion to grant bail and a violent crime for which bail must be denied.
Establishes hazing in the first degree as a misdemeanor.
