Establishes the nurse loan repayment program; authorizes the commissioner to award loan repayment awards to nurses serving in underserved areas or nursing homes.
Provides a tax credit for qualified caregiving expenses.
Relates to facilitating the prosecution of hate crimes; establishes the crimes of bias harassment in the first and second degrees.
Establishes March 13 as a day of commemoration to be known as "K9 Veterans Day".
Provides for insurance coverage of comprehensive annual medical examinations for firefighters due to their increased risk for cancer and cancer-related diseases.
Provides for dispensing emergency contraception under certain conditions; defines emergency contraception.
Relates to allowing for students in certain postsecondary education experience or transition programs to receive awards from the tuition assistance program.
Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to establish contraband screening at correctional facilities including canines at the entrances and a third-party secure vendor mail program.
Requires lifetime post-release supervision for offenders convicted of rape in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse in the first degree, course of sexual conduct against a child in the first and second degrees or sexual abuse in the first degree when the other person is less than eleven years old; prohibits good behavior allowances against a determinate sentence for a person convicted of any such crimes.
Relates to crimes against a child; makes endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree a crime.
