Establishes the clinical trial access and education fund to provide grants to eligible applicants to provide certain services for patients with life-threatening or disabling conditions or diseases.
Relates to prohibiting tinted windows in sport utility vehicles.
Relates to an intentional act or course of action that would cause serious physical harm to ten or more people.
Requires every general hospital to have a community advisory board.
Requires 45 hours of mandatory continuing education in a three year period for registered professional nurses; permits exemptions for illness, military duty and nurses who are not engaged in the practice.
Enacts requirements relating to the safe handling of prescription drug samples by certain health care professionals; requires maintenance of certain records and information regarding samples received and distributed including expiration dates.
Requires the division of human rights to develop and implement a uniform sexual harassment policy for all state agencies, offices and departments, the executive department, and every member, officer or employee of the legislature; provides that such policy shall define the conduct which is prohibited, establish a process for the resolution of complaints of such conduct, and provide for appropriate training for all employees of state agencies, offices and departments, including the executive department, and officials, members or employees of the legislature.
Permits awarding of reasonable attorneys' fees and costs and exemplary damages in court actions for unlawful discriminatory practices pursuant to the human rights law; provides incentive to the employer not to discriminate against the employee knowing there will be financial repercussions for their actions.
Authorizes the commissioner of corrections and community supervision, in consultation with the commissioner of health, to develop and implement programs in every correctional facility to prevent the spread of hepatitis C, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV among correctional employees and incarcerated persons.
Creates a permanent environmental justice advisory group; provides that the function of the group is to ensure that no group of people, including a racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic group, bears a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and tribal programs and policies; empowers that advisory group to adopt a model environmental justice policy applicable to state agencies, and to monitor agencies on compliance with such policies; specifies responsibilities of state agencies; establishes an environmental justice interagency coordinating council.
