Provides for compensation for injury or death caused by the negligent entrustment of a firearm.
Sen. Leroy Comrie
Sponsored bills
Relates to affordable housing corporation grants by increasing the amount that can be granted to a high cost project.
Establishes Eid-al-Adha and Eid-Al-Fitr as school holidays in certain school districts.
Requires that every subcontracted transportation center service worker shall be compensated at a rate that is no less than the applicable standard rate for subcontracted transportation center service workers.
Prohibits discrimination against religious attire and appurtenances thereto, including facial hair.
Relates to combat veteran tax credit for entrepreneurs.
Requires hospitals to provide forms in Punjabi.
Enacts "Erin Merryn's law"; requires the commissioner of education to make recommendations to the board of regents relating to instruction on preventing child sexual exploitation and child abuse in grades kindergarten through eight.
Enacts the "omnibus obesity and respiratory illness reduction act"; provides for the screening for childhood obesity by elementary and secondary schools and promotes the availability of certain healthy foods and beverages; provides for the regulation of the use of trans fats and requires the provision of nutritional information by food service facilities; requires instruction in schools on good health practices; includes certain respiratory diseases and obesity in disease management demonstration programs; enacts provisions to reduce the incidence of certain respiratory diseases; enacts provisions to prevent in-utero exposure to tobacco smoke; provides for the use of inhalers and nebulizers by certain students; provides for residential real property smoking policies; expands the collection and reporting of data on obesity in the state; directs the health research science board to study obesity and respiratory diseases; provides for expanded obesity prevention and screening; expands ease of breastfeeding in child day care centers and at work; establishes the obesity and respiratory disease research and education fund; relates to the use of school facilities by not-for-profit and charitable organizations for after school programs; includes weight management and physical fitness in wellness programs; requires day care centers to provide healthy foods and exercise; provides for a state office building bicycle parking and storage facilities expansion and inventory plan and creates a temporary bicycle commuting task force; authorizes school districts and institutions of higher education to donate excess food to local voluntary food assistance programs.
Creates the people's history project within the department of parks, recreation and historic preservation to foster the recognition of heretofore overlooked personages, sites, and events of historical significance; provides for the establishment of a committee to pass on nominations made by the citizens of this state for the inclusion of personages, sites, and events in the project; provides for publication of a brochure thereof; provides for education in the schools on this subject.