Relates to the negative effect of COVID-19 related budget cuts on certain populations.
Sen. Zellnor Myrie
Sponsored bills
Modifies the standard of evidence and certain other procedures when determining whether to revoke the community supervision of a person.
Relates to automatic expungement of certain criminal records.
Prohibits the search, with or without a warrant, of geolocation data of a group of people who are under no individual suspicion of having committed a crime, but rather are defined by having been at a given location at a given time.
Suspends all rent payments for certain residential tenants and small business commercial tenants if such tenant has lost employment or was forced to close their place of business and certain mortgage payments for landlords of such tenants in the state for ninety days following the effective date of this act in response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Provides that a designating petition for the June 2020 primary election shall be filed with the appropriate board of elections on March 17 through March 20, 2020; makes related provisions.
Relates to adding certain properties located in a city of one million or more to the definition of a qualified historic home for the historic homeownership rehabilitation credit.
Requires wardens or superintendents of correctional facilities to accept assistance from state and federal agencies and municipalities in the event of an emergency, including loss of power, heat, or water or a medical state of emergency.
Relates to prohibiting involuntary employment of prisoners; provides that no prisoner shall be compelled to provide labor against his or her will by actual force, threats of force, threats of punishment, threats of legal coercion or by any scheme, plan or pattern intended to cause the person to believe that, if such person did not provide such labor that such person or another person would suffer serious harm or physical restraint.