Provides for exemptions from sales tax for energy-star qualified appliances and grants municipalities the option to provide such exemption.
Establishes Earth Day; relates to mandate relief for school districts and certain other educational entities; removes references to subcommittees on special education; relates to the provision of special education programs and services to students parentally placed in non-public schools through dual enrollment in the public schools; eliminates the requirement that the commissioner of education make appointments to state-supported schools; relates to the committee on special education membership requirements; relates to transportation of students with disabilities parentally placed in a private school; establishes that all school districts are approved evaluators of preschool students suspected of having a disability; relates to the statute of limitations for special education due process hearings; relates to the selection of a preschool evaluator; relates to referrals to state adult service agencies for certain students with disabilities who have reached the age of 18; gives school districts or boards of cooperative educational services the option of advertising procurement bids in the state's opportunities newsletter; relates to the state smart growth public infrastructure criteria; relates to school omnibus signs complying with federal motor vehicle safety standards; authorizes the commissioner of education to conduct a study of the feasibility and desirability of authorizing school districts and boards of cooperative educational services to enter national credit card contracts; repeals provisions relating to the duties of the director of the division of veterans' affairs; repeals provisions relating to reports on certain children of Vietnam veterans; repeals provisions relating to subcommittees on special education; and repeals provisions relating to the requirement that boards of education develop plans and policies for appropriate declassification of students with disabilities.
Prohibits the idling of any passenger vehicle, with certain exceptions, for more than 3 consecutive minutes; first violation is a warning, second violations of such section are traffic infractions punishable by a fine of $150.
Authorizes and empowers school districts to accept gifts, donations and contributions to the district and to solicit the same.
Requires driver responsibility assessments to be assessed and billed to a driver within three years of the date of the traffic infraction that resulted in the assessment.
Relates to creating a solar array pollinator benefit program; provides owners of solar sites may make a public claim that a particular site provides benefits to pollinators if such owner creates an approved vegetation management plan.
Imposes limitations on the use of drones within the state.
Relates to directing the commissioner of education to establish rules and regulations for a sepsis awareness and prevention program for school districts, boards of cooperative educational services and nonpublic schools.
Relates to the restoration of a driver's license in certain cases.
Creates a permanent environmental justice advisory group; provides that the function of the group is to ensure that no group of people, including a racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic group, bears a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and tribal programs and policies; empowers that advisory group to adopt a model environmental justice policy applicable to state agencies, and to monitor agencies on compliance with such policies; specifies responsibilities of state agencies; establishes an environmental justice interagency coordinating council.
