HB 768

FEES/LICENSES/PERMITS: Provides relative to vapor products, alternative nicotine products, and modified risk tobacco products (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)

ASSESSORS: Authorizes limited increases in annual compensation for assessors in each parish (EN +$847,031 LF EX See Note)

EDUCATION/SPECIAL: Provides that a local education agency shall have the burden of proof in any special education due process hearing relative to the appropriateness of a student's current or proposed program or placement (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

STUDENTS: Provides relative to behavioral health services for public school students (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to temporary release of inmates for limited purposes (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

COURTS/CRIMINAL: Provides with respect to the collection of criminal court fines and fees

CRIME: Provides relative to unlawful conduct involving images of another person created by artificial intelligence (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Creates a pretrial incarceration alternative pilot program in Caddo Parish (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)

HEALTH: Provides for prohibitions on hiring individuals with certain criminal convictions

CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides with respect to the seizure of off-road vehicles (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Prohibits using artificial intelligence to create child sexual abuse materials. (8/1/26)

PUBLIC SFTY/CORRECTIONS: Provides for the issuance of certain documentation to inmates before their release from incarceration (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Require electronic recordings of all parole board hearings

Mental health; criminal background, license status, and registry checks for owners, applicants, and employees of certain mental health facilities; provide

REDUCING BARRIERS TO LICENSURE

Correctional Services - Maryland Parole Commission - Members and Hearing Examiners

Professions and Businesses; a preclearance process in the licensing of individuals with criminal records who make application to or are investigated by certain licensing boards and commissions; create

"Putting Georgia's Patients First Act""; enact"