Creates a public education initiative designed to eliminate stigma and misinformation about mental illness and chemical dependence among military service members.
Directs the commissioner of education to promulgate rules and regulations that prohibit harassment, intimidation and bullying of students; makes school districts responsible for making copies of such policies available to parents, guardians, students, volunteers and school employees.
Relates to sentencing and resentencing in domestic violence cases.
Provides that possession of a condom may not be received in evidence in any trial, hearing or proceeding as evidence of prostitution, patronizing a prostitute, promoting prostitution, permitting prostitution, maintaining a premises for prostitution, lewdness or assignation, or maintaining a bawdy house.
Relates to the use of American-made iron, steel and manufactured products in certain government contracts.
Requires lithium batteries of less than 1 inch in diameter and products containing such batteries to be labeled with warnings that swallowing such batteries has been known to cause death.
Prohibits landlords from requiring animals that occupy the unit be de-clawed as a condition of rental.
Prohibits foreign banking corporations from issuing payday loans; defines payday loans as any transaction in which a short-term cash advance is made to a consumer in exchange for (i) a consumer's personal check or share draft, in the amount of an advance plus a fee, where presentment or negotiation of such check or share draft is deferred by agreement of the parties until a designated future date; or (ii) a consumer's authorization to debit the consumer's transaction account, in the amount of the advance plus a fee, where such account will be debited on or after a designated future date.
Relates to an OGS tracking database for food procured by agencies.
Exempts monthly assessments due from residential health facilities located in any area designated as a Health Professional Shortage Area or serving a medically underserved population and experiencing a medical assistance utilization rate of eighty-five percent or greater from interest or penalties for any period prior to October 1, 2018.
