Relates to training and education for sustainable wage jobs and traditional and non-traditional employment in public assistance employment programs.
Provides that, on an annual basis, at least 25% of the moneys deposited into the health care transformation fund shall be allocated exclusively for certain community-based health care providers.
Requires merchants to accept cash as payment for goods and services; permits the superintendent of financial services to provide exemptions based on certain criteria.
Preserves the ability of health care providers to access the independent dispute resolution process.
Requires medical assistance coverage for medically tailored meals and medical nutrition therapy for the purpose of disease management.
Establishes a community solar pilot program to promote the use of community solar energy.
Designates March twenty-first as a day of commemoration to be known as "Down Syndrome Awareness Day".
Relates to preserving access to affordable drugs; provides that an agreement resolving or settling, on a final or interim basis, a patent infringement claim, in connection with the sale of a pharmaceutical product, shall be presumed to have anticompetitive effects if a nonreference drug filer receives anything of value from another company asserting patent infringement and if the nonreference drug filer agrees to limit or forego research, development, manufacturing, marketing, or sales of the nonreference drug filer's product for any period of time.
Amends provisions relating to certain employers; provides that on or before April 1, 2024, the commissioner of labor, in consultation with the commissioner of health, shall submit a report to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly on the number of employees who were provided unpaid or paid sick leave or disability benefits.
Enacts the "cannabis adult-use transition act"; increases the number of members on the state cannabis advisory board from thirteen to seventeen voting appointed members; provides that an eligible registered organization shall be authorized as a registered organization adult-use cultivator processor distributor retail dispensary upon approval of an application to the office of cannabis management that must be available to such registered organizations no later than August first, two thousand twenty-three and remain available thereafter; provides that the office must approve or deny such application within thirty days of its submission or it shall be deemed approved; makes related provisions.
