AB 50

As introduced, Governor's Budget: - Prohibits a broadband service provider from denying a group of potential residential customers access to its broadband service because of the group’s race or income. - Allows broadband subscribers to terminate contracts if the broadband service provider fails to satisfy minimum standards. - Requires broadband providers to meet minimum standards, disclose factors affecting broadband speed, repair service within 72 hours after an outage, requires a pro rata refund for an outage of more than four hours, and requires 30 days notice before a rate increase. Requires each Internet service provider to register with the Public Service Commission. - Requires electric utilities to increase to spend 2.4% (currently 1.2%) of their annual operating revenues derived from retail sales on "Focus on Energy" renewable projects. - Create PSC feasibility study on nuclear power plants. - Allows utility to issue bonds to replace nonrenewable electric plant. - Allows a municipality or county to sell wine in its public parks without an alcohol beverage license. - Requires grants for organizations supporting 988 suicide lifelines. - Appropriates funding for the broadband expansion grant program. - Directs development of artificial intelligence tools and infrastructure for the benefit of state agencies. - Requires conducting cybersecurity emergency incident response for state agencies. Directs a cybersecurity insurance program for executive branch agencies. - Amends current law regarding background checks, extreme risk protection restraining orders, ghost guns, modern sporting rifle restrictions, safe storage, licensing, dealers, and concealed carry. - Expands the ignition interlock requirement to all OWI offenses that involve the use of alcohol. - Contains spills law exemptions and requirements for PFAS, groundwater standards for PFAS, and rule-making exemptions for PFAS. - Creates a PFAS community grant program (pg. 1481). - Requires the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), when ranking the priority of Safe Drinking Water Loan Program (SDWLP) projects, to rank a project relating to PFAS in the same manner as if a maximum contaminant level for PFAS had been attained or exceeded, if DHS has recommended an enforcement standard for the type of PFAS involved in the project (pg. 1464). - Authorizes the DNR, if it determines doing so is necessary to protect human health or the environment, to require a person who possesses or controls or who causes the discharge of PFAS, or who manufactures products that contain intentionally added PFAS, to provide proof of financial responsibility for remediation and long-term care to address contamination by a potential discharge of PFAS or environmental pollution that may be caused by a discharge of PFAS (pg. 1484). - Requires a person disposing of PFAS, or transporting PFAS for the purpose of disposal, to attempt to avoid disposing of PFAS in, or transporting PFAS to, any location where such disposal or transportation will contribute to environmental justice concerns and to consider all reasonable alternatives for transport and disposal of PFAS (pg. 1485). - Requires a person who generated solid or hazardous waste at a site or facility under investigation by DNR to provide access to records relating to that waste, if the waste was transported to, treated at, stored at, or disposed of at another site, facility, or location (pg. 1475). - Requires special group members to make a voluntary payment of $25 to be issued the special plates. - Requires a person to pay a $100 fee to the county for a second petition for expungement. - Adds current and former district judges and magistrate judges for federal district courts in this state as well as current and former bankruptcy judges for federal bankruptcy courts in the state to the list of judicial officers to whom privacy protections apply. - Allows the Department of Workforce Development or an individual who is alleged or was found to have been discriminated against or subjected to unfair honesty or genetic testing to bring an action in circuit court to recover compensatory and punitive damages caused by the act of discrimination, unfair honesty testing, or unfair genetic testing, in addition to or in lieu of filing an administrative complaint. - Increases from $30 to $45 the general recording and filing fee for the register of deeds. - Legalizes marijuana for persons 21 and older. Allows 18 year olds to possess marijuana for medical purposes. - Permits possession of up to 2oz. - Regultes delta-8 and delta-10 THC as marijuana. - Requires a permit applicant with 20 or more employees to enter into a labor peace agreement with a labor organization to receive a permit. - Establishes marijuana testing laboratory requirements. - Establishes that no person may engage in any act of employment discrimination against an individual because of their use of marijuana off the employer's premises during nonworking hours. - Exempts THC, including marijuana, from drug testing for public assistance programs. - Limits marijuana sales between the hours of 8am and 8pm. - Creates supplemental nutrition aid to reimburse educational agencies for school meals provided to pupils who satisfy the income criteria for a reduced-price lunch under the federal school lunch program and pupils who do not satisfy the income criteria for a free or reduced-price lunch under the federal school lunch program. - Creates the worker advancement program to provide grants for local workforce development boards and establishes grants for apprenticeships, on the job training, and green jobs. - Establishes the Workforce Innovation Grant to address workforce challenges and careers in artificial intelligence. - Increases aid for career and technical education. - Modifies criteria for which mass transit systems are placed into classes for operating expenses. - Provides for local road improvement program funding. - Creates a new film tax credit for up to 25% for producing a film in the state. (p. 647+) - Increases wage and hour requirements for the business development and enterprise zone tax credits. (p. 878) - Alters tax increment financing permissions and procedures. (p.838-) - Exempts radio, cellular, and telecommunication towers from the property tax and telephone company tax. (p. 854) - Adjusts personal income tax brackets and adds a new bracket for income over $1 million at 9.8%. (p. 871-3) - Adds nuclear power to the research tax credit. (p. 884) - Permits more taxpayers to obtain the historic rehabilitation credit. (p.900+) - Increases the earned income tax credit from 4% to 16% for those with one child and 11% to 25% for those with two children. (p. 901) - Forbids the dividends received deduction when carrying forward net operating losses. (p. 907, 932) - Increases the filing fee for petitions for the Tax Appeals Commission and permits electronic filing of petitions to $250. (p. 962) - Exempts all residential electricity and natural gas from the sales and use tax, instead of only that sold during November to April. (p. 977) - Exempts over-the-counter drugs, diapers, feminine hygiene products, breastfeeding equipment, and gun safety items from sales and use tax. Modifies the sales and use tax exemption for solar systems. (p. 977-980) - Permits the creation of regional transit authorities, who can levy a sales and use tax of up to 0.5% and several fees. Permits a county to levy a local option sales and use tax at 0.1%-0.5% for general revenue, in addition to the 0.1%-0.5% sales tax for property tax relief. (p. 980) - Requires disclosure by an insurer for the use of algorithms or artificial intelligence in reviewing claims (p. 1604). - Adjusts local levy limits, removing and expanding exclusions. - Makes changes throughout to conform with the Internal Revenue Code as amended by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, including on losses for non-corporate taxpayers, business-related interest deduction, fringe benefits, and FDIC premiums. - Eliminates the right to work law. - Expands family and medical leave benefit requirements and requires such leave to be paid for up to 8 weeks. - Requires the secretary of workforce development to establish a committee to study options to achieve a minimum wage that ensures all workers in this state earn a living wage. - Requires an employer to negotiate in good faith with an employee to accommodate schedule changes and requires approval under certain circumstances. - Requires service industry employers to provide employees with written schedules and certain notice of changes; imposes additional scheduling requirements; and provides for enforcement. - Provides for liquidated damages in wage claim actions. - Requires employers to include compensation in a job posting. - Repeals certain state and local employment regulations regarding waiver of rights and collective bargaining. - Requires the DWD to design and make available to employers a notice regarding worker classification laws, requirements for employers and employees, and penalties for noncompliance. - Establishes penalties for uninsured employers. - Imposes certain requirements regarding knowledge of fraudulent workers' compensation benefits. - Eliminates preemptions of local governments from policies related to wage claims and collections; employee hours and overtime and scheduling; employment benefits; an employer's right to solicit wage history; minimum wage; and occupational licensing requirements. - Changes the definition of "misconduct" that affects eligibility for unemployment benefits, which also impacts worker's compensation law. - Permits DWD to collect certain funds from insurers to pay supplemental benefits to employees who were permanently disabled by an injury that is compensable under worker's compensation. - Establishes penalties for worker misclassification in regards to unemployment insurance. - Increases maximum weekly unemployment benefits and increases the benefit wage gap. - Revises ineligibility provisions regarding unemployment benefits to deal with substantial fault and misconduct. - Eliminates unemployment benefit provisions regarding drug testing. - Modifies unemployment provisions regarding acceptance of suitable work; quitting due to non-suitable work or relocation; effect of Social Security benefits on UI benefit amounts; waiting periods; work search and registration; and electronic communications. - Establishes a Prescription Drug Affordability Board with the authority to set a UPL. - Directs the Commissioner of Insurance to establish a Gold Card program. - Prohibits any person from reimbursing certain entities that participate in the 340B Program for a drug subject to an agreement under the program at a rate lower than that paid for the same drug to pharmacies that have a similar prescription volume. - Establishes licensure for APRNs. - Requires parity in insurance coverage for telehealth. - Implements the Health Care Entity Oversight And Transparency Act, which regulates the purchase of a healthcare facility by a REIT. (p. 1338) - Increases tax on vapor products to 71% of the manufacturer's list price. Defines vapor product as a noncombustible product that employs a heating element, power source, electronic circuit, or other electronic, chemical, or mechanical means that can be used to produce vapor from a solution or other substance, regardless of whether the product contains nicotine. Includes an electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe, or similar product or device, as well as any container of a solution or other substance that is intended to be used with these items. - Taxes little cigars at the rate of 126 mills per little cigar, regardless of weight. Defines little cigar to mean a cigar that has an integrated cellulose acetate filter and is wrapped in any substance containing tobacco. - A landlord must disclose to a prospective tenant a building code or housing code violation, regardless of whether the landlord has actual knowledge of the violation, if the violation presents a threat to the prospective tenant's health or safety. - Doubles all bingo and raffle license fees. - Imposes 2% occupational tax on all gross receipts derived from the conduct of bingo by a licensed organization. - Allows certain individuals who are not U.S. citizens to receive any professional license issued in this state if they meet all other requirements or qualifications for the professional license. - Establishes that DSPS or a credentialing board in DSPS may promulgate rules to achieve enhanced license portability to help facilitate streamlined pathways to licensure for internationally trained professionals and increased reciprocity. - Creates an exemption from nonresident tuition for an individual who is not a citizen of the United States. - Mandates that an applicant for a REAL ID noncompliant drivers license or identification card (noncompliant REAL ID) is not required to provide documentary proof that the applicant is a U.S. citizen or is otherwise lawfully present in the United States. - Prohibits any person from labeling a food product as, or selling or offering for sale a food product that is labeled as, any type of milk unless the food product is cow’s milk, hooved or camelid mammals’ milk, or a type of dairy milk that meets certain specifications under federal law. - Prohibits a person from labeling a food product as, or selling or offering for sale a food product that is labeled as, a type of dairy product or a dairy ingredient unless the food product is a dairy product or dairy ingredient that is or is derived from cow’s milk, hooved or camelid mammal’s milk, or a dairy product that meets certain specifications under federal law. - Prohibits any person from labeling wild rice as “traditionally harvested” unless the wild rice is harvested using traditional wild rice harvesting methods of American Indian tribes or bands. - Requires DATCP to promulgate a rule defining traditional wild rice harvesting methods of American Indian tribes or bands.