Establishes Earth Day; relates to mandate relief for school districts and certain other educational entities; removes references to subcommittees on special education; relates to the provision of special education programs and services to students parentally placed in non-public schools through dual enrollment in the public schools; eliminates the requirement that the commissioner of education make appointments to state-supported schools; relates to the committee on special education membership requirements; relates to transportation of students with disabilities parentally placed in a private school; establishes that all school districts are approved evaluators of preschool students suspected of having a disability; relates to the statute of limitations for special education due process hearings; relates to the selection of a preschool evaluator; relates to referrals to state adult service agencies for certain students with disabilities who have reached the age of 18; gives school districts or boards of cooperative educational services the option of advertising procurement bids in the state's opportunities newsletter; relates to the state smart growth public infrastructure criteria; relates to school omnibus signs complying with federal motor vehicle safety standards; authorizes the commissioner of education to conduct a study of the feasibility and desirability of authorizing school districts and boards of cooperative educational services to enter national credit card contracts; repeals provisions relating to the duties of the director of the division of veterans' affairs; repeals provisions relating to reports on certain children of Vietnam veterans; repeals provisions relating to subcommittees on special education; and repeals provisions relating to the requirement that boards of education develop plans and policies for appropriate declassification of students with disabilities.
Asm. Rebecca Seawright
Sponsored bills
Provides three options for the designation of sex by applicants for driver's licenses and learner's permits.
Relates to public assistance employment programs for disabled persons.
Relates to the establishment of reduced residential rates for electric and natural gas service to low-income customers.
Relates to standing of certain relatives in custody and guardianship proceedings.
Enacts the "Voter Enfranchisement Modernization Act of 2017"; relates to establishing the electronic personal voter registration process; provides for online voter registration.
Relates to establishing a pilot program for the use of body-worn cameras on certain correction officers.
Relates to requiring a registered nurse on staff at facilities certified for enhanced assisted living or special needs assisted living.
Enacts the "consumer credit fairness act"; establishes a 3 year statute of limitations for commencement of a cause of action arising out of a consumer credit transaction where the defendant is a purchaser, borrower or debtor; establishes a notice of lawsuit which must be mailed to the defendant in such a cause of action; establishes certain requirements for the complaint in such an action; provides for arbitration of such actions; requires debt collectors to send consumers a written notice of their rights under state law along with their initial debt collection correspondence; such notice would contain information such as who and when a principal creditor may contact a debtor about the debt owed as well as the fact that a principal creditor cannot disclose information affecting a consumer debtor's reputation for creditworthiness if the principal creditor knows or has reason to know such information is false; applies to consumer rather than commercial debts.
Creates the state office of the utility consumer advocate to represent interests of residential utility customers.