Provides veterans of the armed forces of the United States access to all state parks and recreational facilities without the charge of any admission.
Permits the commissioner of education to include graduate programs as programs eligible for approval under the state tuition assistance program.
Eliminates additional application fees and annual fees for special license plates issued to veterans of the armed forces of the United States.
Enacts "Kirby and Quigley's Law"; establishes a cause of action against a person who has intentionally caused injury or death of a companion animal.
Increases the sales price threshold for real property conveyances that will trigger additional sales tax.
Increases civil service credits given to veterans currently returning from service.
Enacts Caylee's law; establishes the crime of failure to report a child's disappearance or death, a class D felony; makes exception where child dies while under the medical care of a licensed physician.
Requires school administrators in private schools to report allegations of child abuse in an educational setting; includes private schools in the reporting requirements relating to child abuse in an educational setting.
Provides that the town board of any town, exclusive of suburban towns and towns having a population exceeding fifty thousand, may by local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation establish maximum speed limits on town highways which have been classified by the department of transportation as local roads and which are outside of villages.
Designates certain offenses against emergency medical services personnel, firefighters, and law enforcement officers as hate crimes; includes the definition of emergency medical services personnel, firefighters, and law enforcement officers.
