Sen. Jabari Brisport

Maddy summaryThis bill, known as the Fashion Environmental Accountability Act, requires large fashion sellers to conduct standardized environmental due diligence on their supply chains and establish a remediation fund. It applies to businesses selling new apparel, footwear, or fashion bags with over $100 million in annual gross receipts, while excluding used clothing retailers and most multi-brand stores. Companies must map their suppliers across four tiers, assess environmental risks, and report their findings using open data principles. Additionally, the legislation mandates that workers in the supply chain be paid a living wage and that any adverse environmental impacts be remediated through the newly created fund.

Enacts the "consumer and small business protection act"; relates to standing for persons affected by prohibited or unlawful business practices; expands prohibited acts to include unfair, deceptive or abusive acts.

Provides for the regulation of indoor and outdoor worksites with temperature protection standards and education, training and reporting requirements to ensure that employers provide safe conditions for their employees.

Requires the office of temporary and disability assistance, in conjunction with the office of mental health and the office of children and family services, to develop a mental illness training course to be utilized by providers of temporary housing assistance to focus on recognizing signs and symptoms of mental illness.

Establishes visiting policies for incarcerated people, to provide incarcerated people opportunities for personal contact with relatives, friends, clergy, volunteers and other persons to promote better institutional adjustment and better community adjustment upon release.

Relates to school climate and codes of conduct on school property and disciplinary action following violation of such codes of conduct; makes conforming amendments.

Relates to the language which must be included in mortgage foreclosure notices; requires lenders, assignees, and mortgage loan servicers to evidence strict compliance with such notice requirements as pertinent.

Creates a single, streamlined process whereby a facility or program operating both a pre-kindergarten program and a daycare program may apply for and receive any certification, licensing, or other requirement otherwise necessary to operate a pre-kindergarten program or daycare program under the laws of the state.

Maddy summaryThis bill requires organizations that submit records to state agencies for protection under the Freedom of Information Law to periodically renew their request for that protection. Instead of keeping records exempt from public disclosure indefinitely, entities must apply for an extension every three years, and if they fail to do so, the records become subject to public release. The law also establishes a process where agencies must review these renewal requests and provide written decisions, along with a clear timeline for appealing denials. Ultimately, the measure aims to ensure that sensitive information submitted to the government is regularly re-evaluated to justify continued exemption from public access.

Requires that functional epinephrine auto-injector devices be made available in places of public assembly and that at least one employee or volunteer of such place of public assembly be trained in its proper operation and use and be present at each facility function.