Requires the recommendation to a parent for blood lead level screenings of their child when a health care provider finds high lead levels in the blood of such child; directs the department of health to conduct an environmental investigation when a child is found to have high levels of lead in their blood.
Establishes the work opportunity tax credit for businesses with fifty employees or less for hiring a long term unemployed person; provides a credit shall be allowed of up to $2,400; provides the total amount of credit provided statewide shall not exceed fifteen million dollars.
Requires insurers which issue contracts providing long term care benefits to maintain records of policies cancelled during each year and requires that such records indicate which policies were cancelled due to, or within thirty days after, an increase in policy premiums.
Provides that the contractor who performed the construction work which results in an illegal conversion of a housing unit shall be held liable for monetary penalties related to such illegal conversion, rather than the residents; provides that the owner of the building shall be held liable if such person knew or should reasonably have known that the construction was being done without prior approval by the department of buildings and without the required permits.
Prohibits the use of weaponized robots, non-weaponized robots which may potentially cause injury, or robots being used for surveillance purposes by police agencies.
Prohibits a finding of educational neglect based solely on excessive absence from school in certain situations during the COVID-19 state of emergency, and requires the closure of investigations into claims of educational neglect when the child has not been provided with the resources or opportunity to participate in distance learning during the COVID-19 state of emergency or when the child's parent or caregiver is an essential worker, the fact that the child's parent or guardian is an essential worker, is caring for someone with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), is sick with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), or is in mandatory isolation or quarantine.