Provides for cost-of-living adjustments to death benefits and increases certain wage percentages for calculation of benefits.
Relates to cash advances for the purposes of litigation financing.
Relates to college admissions for persons previously convicted of one or more criminal offenses.
Enacts the Disaster Voting Relief Act of 2017; provides for temporary voting procedures in a state of emergency.
Provides information on where to seek help regarding sexual trauma in the military.
Relates to the definition of a public body pursuant to the open meetings law; includes any advisory committee or similar body created by such public body or pursuant to federal, state or local law or any entity consisting of two or more members created by executive order of the governor.
Establishes the uniform mediation act; establishes that a mediation communication is privileged and is not subject to discovery or admissible in evidence unless waived or precluded; prohibits certain reports to be made by mediators; establishes that mediation communications are confidential; requires mediators to disclose conflicts of interests.
Enacts the "children's weapon accident prevention act"; creates crimes of failure to store a weapon safely in the first and second degrees, aggravated failure to store a weapon safely, and criminally negligent storage of a weapon in the first and second degrees; provides affirmative defenses; directs the commissioner of education to develop a weapons safety program.
Relates to the recovery of costs for the response costs and damages to natural resources as a result of the illegal disposal of waste and establishes that expenditures made by the department as a result of the illegal disposal of waste shall be a lien against the person who is responsible for such illegal disposal.
Provides protection to certain retirees from de-risking pension transactions.
