Adopts the PA licensure compact to enhance the portability of a physician assistant license between participating states while safeguarding the safety of patients.
Adopts the Interstate Massage Compact to support the mobility of licensed massage therapists by creating an additional licensing pathway to create reciprocity among participant states and reduce the barriers to license portability.
Provides a payroll tax credit for compensation of journalists; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Relates to the regulation of live restraint cable devices to take wildlife; authorizes regulations by the department of environmental conservation.
Requires health insurance for state officers and employees who receive health insurance benefits from the state to take effect immediately upon employment.
Makes the commission of rape, a criminal sexual act, aggravated sexual abuse or course of sexual conduct against a child less than 12 years of age or against a child less than 14 years of age by a person 21 years old or more a class A-I felony; eliminates references to such offenses in less severe crimes; includes such offenses within murder in the second degree for purposes of sentencing to life imprisonment without parole for murder committed in the course of committing such sex offenses against a child; designates such sex offenses against a child as sexually violent offenses for the purposes of sex offender registration; requires every sex offender convicted of such an offense to be subject to lifetime electronic monitoring by the division of criminal justice services upon release from prison.
Enacts the regional broadband expansion and access program act; relates to the cost of expanding broadband access.
Adopts the psychology interjurisdictional compact (Part A); adopts the recognition of emergency medical services personnel licensure interstate compact (Part B); adopts the interstate counseling compact (Part C).
Permits owners of private property to post such property to prevent trespass by painting purple markings on trees or markers.
Provides that sentence for commission of certain provisions of murder in the first degree is death or life without parole.
