Establishes the sex offender alert line to permit members of the public to request notification of the residence of a registered sex offender within certain zip codes; provides that notification will be requested and made by telephone or via the internet; provides that it shall be limited to such information as is otherwise legally permitted to be divulged; immunizes the state from liability for failure to notify.
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Prohibits insurers from selling policies of insurance which duplicate existing coverage relative to long term health care policies.
Directs the commissioner of health to develop screening tools and procedures to be used by health care providers to detect elder abuse or maltreatment in their patients.
Enacts the "wireless facility siting act"; directs cities, towns and villages to regulate the siting of cellular communications facilities.
Provides free use of state parks for veterans and the surviving spouses or domestic partners of those killed in combat.
Prohibits certain sex offenders from residing within 1,350 feet of school grounds, except that in cities having a population of one million or more, no such sex offender may reside within 500 feet of school grounds; a violation thereof shall be a class C felony.
Expands the statement of notice of a registration determination hearing to be given to a sex offender to include notice of the right to counsel and that the failure to appear shall be a violation of the sex offender registration act; removes the proof of residence exception for failure to mail the signed verification form; makes all violations of the sex offender registration act class D felonies.
Relates to burglary in the second degree; adds language where the building is a dwelling which, at the time of the commission of the crime, is occupied by a person who is not a participant in the crime to what constitutes burglary in the second degree.
Relates to the "uniform employee and student online privacy protection act"; relates to the protection of employee and student online accounts.
Bans smoking in hotel and motel rooms.