Increases the tax exemption for pensions and annuities for persons age fifty-nine and one-half or greater from $20,000 to $25,000 in 2018, $30,000 in 2019, $35,000 in 2020 and $40,000 for each subsequent year.
Provides for monthly installment payments for the earned income credit.
Relates to instituting internet service neutrality; provides the public service commission with jurisdiction over monitoring internet service providers; requires a certification for internet service neutrality in certain state contracts.
Establishes a maximum temperature in school buildings and indoor facilities; provides a definition of extreme heat condition days and the standard to measure room temperature.
Creates a firearm violence research institute and a firearm violence research fund; makes an appropriation therefor.
Enacts the "school bus camera safety act" to authorize the installation and use of photo monitoring devices on school buses to detect and record vehicles illegally passing or overtaking a school bus; provides for owner liability of a motor vehicle detected by a camera to have illegally passed or overtaken a school bus; provides that liability shall be a civil fine equal to the traffic infraction fine imposed therefor; authorizes school districts to receive state aid for the purchase of such cameras.
Relates to affordable housing corporation grants by increasing the amount that can be granted to a high cost project.
Provides that if the person or business providing the notification was the source of the breach, an offer to provide appropriate identity theft prevention and mitigation services, shall be provided at no cost to the affected person for not less than 12 months, along with all information necessary to take advantage of the offer to any person whose information was or may have been breached if the breach exposed or may have exposed personal information.
Relates to requiring the board of regents to obtain legislative approval of any rule or regulation containing an unfunded mandate.
Provides for a moratorium on standardized testing of students with IEPs; authorizes the creation of a task force to develop a new evaluation system for such students, and a corresponding method for providing their teachers with their annual professional performance reviews.
