Creates minority and women-owned business enterprise regional advocates; provides that the advocates will help ensure that municipal agencies comply with the provisions of law relating to minority and women-owned business enterprises.
Relates to language development for deaf and hard of hearing children; requires the department to select language development milestones for existing standardized norms for purposes of developing a resource for use by parents to monitor and track deaf and hard of hearing children's expressive and receptive language acquisition and developmental stages toward English literacy.
Requires certain lodging facilities to post notices concerning services for human trafficking victims.
Relates to authorizing the authorities budget office to suspend local authority board members and executive staff.
Amends the dosing limitations and medical conditions permitting the use of medical marihuana.
Relates to authorizing additional paid leave for health related services for certain employees not employed by the state who served in a combat theater or combat zone of operations.
Prohibits drivers of school buses from using hands free mobile telephones and provides for certain exceptions.
Provides that the public service commission shall not approve the transfer of cable systems unless the applicant demonstrates that the proposed transferee and the cable television system conform to the standards established in the regulations promulgated by the public service commission, that approval would not be in violation of law, and that the transfer is otherwise in the public interest.
Includes electronic cigarettes in the regulation of tobacco products; relates to the distribution and transportation of such products.
Exempts parties liable for failure to obey or enforce certain child protective, domestic relations, or domestic violence orders of protection or temporary orders of protection from limited liability provisions pertaining to non-economic loss and providing for limitation of joint liability.
