SB 156

BRIDGES/FERRIES: Designates the elevated portion of United States Highway 190 as the "Lance Corporal Justin D. McLeese Memorial Bridge"""

HUMAN TRAFFICKING: Provides relative to victims of human trafficking and prostitution offenses (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

SCHOOLS: Provides that each public school board is to install exterior master key boxes to allow for rapid entry, response, and rescue by law enforcement and first responders during a school crisis. (8/1/26) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT: Provides for the increase of parish board of election supervisor meetings in certain parishes for certain races. (8/1/26) (EN +$192,000 GF EX See Note)

AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: To urge and request the American Sugarcane League, LSU AgCenter, and Southern University Agricultural Center, in collaboration with agricultural manufacturers, to continue work on furthering technology and research into equipment to reduce the dependency of burning sugarcane.

CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Provides that certain crimes relative to child sexual abuse materials do not apply to persons under 17 under certain circumstances. (8/1/26)

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

Criminal procedure: indigent defense; parent and child legal representation commission; create

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"