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S0864 - Autism Spectrum Disorder Training for Law Enforcement and Correctional Officers
Criminal Justice, Fiscal Policy, Jay Collins
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Providing requirements for training officers for interacting with individuals with autism spectrum disorder; requiring the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission to adopt specified rules requiring such training as part of basic recruit training or as part of the required instruction for continued employment or appointment as officers, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1082 - Housing for Legally Verified Agricultural Workers
Rules, Jay Collins
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Defining the terms "legally verified agricultural worker" and "housing site"; prohibiting a governmental entity from adopting or enforcing any legislation to inhibit the construction of housing for legally verified agricultural workers on agricultural land operated as a bona fide farm; authorizing governmental entities to adopt local land use regulations that are less restrictive; authorizing the continued use of housing sites constructed before the effective date of the act if certain conditions are met, etc.
STATUS
Vetoed
S1600 - Interstate Mobility
Fiscal Policy, Jay Collins
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Providing requirements for the applicable board, or the Department of Business and Professional Regulation if there is no board, relating to licensure by reciprocity and by endorsement; requiring the respective boards of occupations, or the Department of Business and Professional Regulation if there is no board, to allow licensure by endorsement if applicant meets certain criteria; requiring the department, and authorizing the board, as applicable, to review the results of the criminal history checks according to specified criteria to determine if the applicants meet the requirements for licensure; designating the "Mobile Opportunity by Interstate Licensure Endorsement Act" or the "MOBILE Act", etc.
STATUS
Passed
S0818 - Military Leave
Bryan Avila, Jay Collins
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Providing that public officials and employees of the state, a county, a municipality, or a political subdivision, respectively, are entitled to their full pay for the first 30 days of military service, if such service is equal to or greater than a specified timeframe, etc.
STATUS
Passed
S1286 - Return of Weapons and Arms Following an Arrest
Criminal Justice, Jay Collins
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring that weapons, electric weapons or devices, or arms taken from a person pursuant to an arrest that are not either seized as evidence or seized and subject to forfeiture be returned to the person within a certain timeframe if specified conditions are met; authorizing a sheriff or chief of police to develop procedures to ensure the timely return of such weapons, electric weapons or devices, or arms; deleting a requirement for an order of a trial court judge to return a pistol or firearm taken by an officer for a breach of the peace, etc.
STATUS
Passed
S1712 - Peer Support for First Responders
Jay Collins, Keith Perry
Last updated 10 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Revising the definition of the term "first responder" to include correctional officers and correctional probation officers for the provision of peer support, etc.
STATUS
Introduced
S0828 - Coverage for Orthotics and Prosthetics Services
Jay Collins
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to pay for specified orthotics and prosthetics services for Medicaid recipients; requiring individual health insurance policies, group, blanket, and franchise health insurance policies, and health maintenance contracts, respectively, to provide coverage for specified orthotics and prosthetics services; prohibiting health insurers and health maintenance organizations from denying claims under certain circumstances, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1718 - Wind Energy Facility Siting
Jay Collins
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Prohibiting construction, operation, or expansion of wind energy facilities and offshore wind energy facilities in this state, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1686 - Ad Valorem Tax
Finance and Tax, Jay Collins
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to provide an ad valorem homestead property tax exemption to veteran recipients of certain medals and their surviving spouses, and to provide an effective date, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1634 - Career Offenders
Jay Collins
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring that all licenses for the operation of motor vehicles or identification cards issued or reissued by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to persons designated as career offenders subject to registration under specified provisions have a specified marking on the front of the cards; revising the definitions of the terms "permanent residence" and "temporary residence"; providing a timeframe under which certain career offenders are required to register with the Department of Corrections and provide specified information, etc.
STATUS
Failed
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