Reduces the tax on combative sport event ticket sales to five percent.
Establishes the nurse loan repayment program; authorizes the commissioner to award loan repayment awards to nurses serving in underserved areas or nursing homes.
Establishes the "Safe Staffing for Hospital Care Act"; establishes minimum staffing levels for various health care workers in different health care facilities; requires submission of staffing plans; prohibits most mandatory overtime.
Enacts "private environmental law enforcement act"; authorizes any private citizen who has an interest which is or may be adversely affected to commence civil judicial actions for injunctive or declaratory relief to remedy environmental harms under certain circumstances; provides that such action may be commenced against any person for any violation of an administrative or court order compelling an investigation or remediation of an inactive hazardous waste disposal site.
Requires state and local law enforcement officers to identify themselves to the public upon initiation of law enforcement activity.
Prohibits horizontal drilling and high-volume hydraulic fracturing.
Relates to the alternative veterans property tax exemption; authorizes active members of the military to apply for such exemption.
Relates to the definition of employer and the duty of public employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence.
Directs the commissioner of health to establish a direct patient care ratio reporting and rebate requirement for nursing homes.
Relates to the discharge of residents of a community residence; provides that nothing shall be deemed construed as creating a relationship of landlord and tenant between an operator of a community residence and a resident; defines community residence.
