Relates to providing more predictable and stable schedules for employees in low-wage occupations.
Expands the amount of information available to police and the public, by means of the internet, on registered sex offenders.
Creates the state office of the utility consumer advocate to represent interests of residential utility customers.
Requires insurer to respond within thirty days of a written request from an insured for his or her health plan documents, including copies of most recent group or individual contracts.
Provides for physician ranking for opiate prescriptions on a county by county basis.
Authorizes the people in a criminal proceeding, the presentment agency in a juvenile delinquency proceeding and a governmental agency or public employer in a civil enforcement action to move to protect the identity, address and any other identifying information of any witness who is an undercover public officer or employee when the disclosure of the identity of such officer or employee would endanger the officer's life or employee's life or compromise his or her continued effectiveness.
Directs the mental hygiene legal service and commissioner of developmental disabilities to maintain adequate 24 hour a day staffing for review orders to provide or deny life-sustaining treatment to persons with developmental disabilities.
Permits certain minors to be employed as a referee, umpire or official at a youth sporting event; limits a minor 12 or 13 years of age to one youth sporting event per week.
Relates to flexible working arrangements; provides that employees may submit a request for flexible working arrangements in good faith; requires the employer to notify the employee of the decision; prohibits employers from retaliating against employees for exercising rights under the section.
Relates to contractual relationships with minority-owned and women-owned businesses.
