Provides a payroll tax credit for compensation of journalists; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Establishes a temporary task force on the variable supplements fund program to make findings and recommendations.
Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees and their dependents or reducing the employer's contributions for such insurance; defines employers to include the state, municipalities, school districts, and public authorities and commissions.
Relates to revisions to charter schools that would expand the grades served at such charter schools.
Protects a parent who is a victim of domestic violence from having children removed from their custody if they reported the abuse.
Allows a tax exemption for taxpayers in the amount of the purchase price of a fire extinguisher, fire alarm, heat alarm or carbon monoxide alarm purchased for residential use during the month of October.
Provides for paid family leave after a stillbirth.
Enacts the "stop Anti-Semitism on college campuses act" to ensure no state aid is granted to any college or university that authorizes, facilitates, provides funding for, or otherwise supports any event promoting Anti-Semitism on campus; defines "Anti-Semitism".
Adds arts and music education as a common school branch that should be incorporated into the public school curriculum to provide a more well-rounded education for children.
Relates to mandatory dispositions and the commission of a felony offense while in possession of a firearm; provides an additional five years imprisonment.
