Relates to authorizing small business tax-deferred savings accounts.
Enacts the "safe staffing for quality care act" to require acute care facilities and nursing homes to implement certain direct-care nurse to patient ratios in all nursing units; sets minimum staffing requirements; requires every such facility to submit a documented staffing plan to the department on an annual basis and upon application for an operating certificate; requires acute care facilities to maintain staffing records during all shifts; authorizes nurses to refuse work assignments if the assignment exceeds the nurse's abilities or if minimum staffing is not present; requires public access to documented staffing plans; imposes civil penalties for violations of such provisions; establishes private right of action for nurses discriminated against for refusing any illegal work assignment.
Relates to subsequent exemptions for enhanced STAR based on age.
Relates to veterans real property tax exemptions and state funding to localities that grant such exemptions.
Relates to establishing the paint stewardship program, minimizing the public sector involvement in the management of post-consumer paint, and negotiating agreements to collect, transport, reuse, recycle, and/or burn for energy recovery at an appropriately licensed facility post-consumer paint using environmentally sound management practices.
Provides a tax credit for farmers who use qualified biodiesel fuel for the sole operation of their farm equipment.
Relates to the employment of retired police officers as special security officers by school districts.
Relates to the use of oral medications by optometrists.
Relates to accomplice liability for certain violations of law under the jurisdiction of the joint commission on public ethics.
Relates to the prohibition of declawing of cats; makes such violation punishable by a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000.
