Enacts Carlos' law; relates to crimes involving the death or injury of a worker; establishes higher fines for corporations who commit such crimes.
Sen. Andrew Gounardes
Sponsored bills
Relates to the purchase of zero-emission buses and the procurement of electric-powered buses, vehicles or other related equipment.
Requires the department of environmental conservation to authorize and encourage the use of nature-based solutions as the preferred alternative for stabilizing tidal shorelines in the state; provides such solutions should be considered when promulgating and implementing rules and regulations relating to such.
Establishes a moratorium on cryptocurrency mining operations that use proof-of-work authentication methods to validate blockchain transactions; provides that such operations shall be subject to a full generic environmental impact statement review.
Provides a heart disease presumption for correction officers, correction supervisors, deputy sheriff patrol or deputy sheriff patrol supervisors.
Provides for the types of damages that may be awarded to the persons for whose benefit an action for wrongful death is brought.
Establishes the problem gambling advisory council.
Permits the admissibility of testimony that a person reported acts of discrimination to another person in a civil trial under the human rights law, including the contents of such report.
Imposes an excise tax on the sale of ammunition to be deposited into the firearm violence intervention fund to help victims of and witnesses to violence.
Provides that certain allegations made by employees involving employment shall be protected and matters of public interest in actions involving public petition and participation.