Requires health care professionals to order, prescribe, administer and dispense pain-relieving medications in accordance with professional standards and guidelines.
Allows certain defenses to parking violations despite entering of a default judgment.
Provides an additional personal income tax exemption for an individual taxpayer who provides more than one-half of the support for a parent, stepparent, immediate family member or sibling who is 70 years of age or over and who resides with the taxpayer.
Requires all toll plazas contain at least one cash lane where electronic toll collection systems are installed.
Enacts the farmworkers fair labor practices act: grants collective bargaining rights to farm laborers; requires employers of farm laborers to allow at least 24 consecutive hours of rest each week; provides for an 8 hour work day for farm laborers; requires overtime rate at one and one-half times normal rate; makes provisions of unemployment insurance law applicable to farm laborers; provides sanitary code shall apply to all farm and food processing labor camps intended to house migrant workers, regardless of the number of occupants; provides for eligibility of farm laborers for workers' compensation benefits; requires employers of farm laborers to provide such farm laborers with claim forms for workers' compensation claims under certain conditions; requires reporting of injuries to employers of farmworkers.
Requires that at least one commissioner of the public service commission have experience in utility consumer advocacy.
Extends the expiration of the authorization to the county of Wyoming to impose an additional one percent sales and compensating use tax.
Requires shareholders to approve corporate political expenditures.
Provides for the types of damages that may be awarded to the persons for whose benefit an action for wrongful death is brought i.e. grief and anguish; loss of love, society, protection, comfort, companionship and consortium; reasonable funeral expenses; reasonable expenses for medical care, treatment etc. prior to death; pecuniary injuries due to loss of services, support, inheritance; and loss of nurture, guidance or education.
Relates to the definition of a clinical peer reviewer by clarifying that such term shall be applicable for the entire utilization review and external appeal article and means either a physician or a health care professional with certain qualifications.
