Creating a flexible voluntary program to allow family members to provide personal care services to persons with developmental disabilities or long-term care needs under a consumer-directed medicaid service program.

Requires the department of social and health services to develop and implement a consumer-directed medicaid program which is intended to be a voluntary alternative option for individuals with long-term care needs or developmental disabilities who choose to receive personal care services from a family member.

Allows payment by the department of social and health services for in-home personal care or respite services when the care is provided to a client who: (1) Is an enrolled member of a federally recognized Indian tribe; or

Concerning the administration of motor vehicle excise taxes by regional transit authorities.

Authorizes a regional transit authority to contract with the department of licensing for the collection of a motor vehicle excise tax only if the authority has implemented a market value adjustment program.

Requires a contract entered into to provide that: (1) The department of licensing will receive amounts sufficient to fully cover the costs applicable to the tax collection and market value adjustment process, including customer service-related costs, information technology-related costs, public announcement and education costs, and liability or other related risk assessment costs; and

(2) Any unforeseen future administrative costs will be borne by the regional transit authority.

Requires the department of licensing, if it enters into a contract with a regional transit authority for the collection of a motor vehicle excise tax, and after the regional transit authority implements a market value adjustment program, to clearly indicate when collecting the tax, the amount of tax owed under current law, the amount of credit applied, and the net result, when notifying taxpayers of the expected tax due.

Concerning convicted persons.

Modifies the seriousness level of certain crimes.

Addresses the following with regard to convicted persons: (1) Community custody;

(2) Habitual property offenders;

(3) Identicards for persons released from the department of corrections; and

(4) Motor vehicle property offenders.

Enhancing consumer access, affordability, and quality of broadband and advanced telecommunications services.

Addresses broadband and advanced telecommunications services.

Creates the governor's office on broadband access and requires the office to: (1) Serve as the coordinating body for public and private efforts to ensure statewide broadband access and deployment;

(2) Coordinate with communities, public and private entities, and consumer-owned and investor-owned utilities to develop strategies and plans for deployment of broadband infrastructure and access to broadband services;

(3) Review existing broadband initiatives, policies, and public and private investments and make comprehensive recommendations to advance the state's broadband access goals;

(4) Update the state's goals and standards for broadband service as technological advances become available; and

(5) Establish a competitive grant program to assist qualified local governments and public entities to deploy broadband services in unserved and underserved areas of the state.

Creates the broadband access task force to assist the governor's office on broadband access for the purpose of reviewing existing broadband initiatives, policies, and public and private investments and providing a comprehensive set of recommendations to advance the state's broadband deployment, services, and access goals.

Creates the broadband deployment partnership initiative for the purpose of initiating and fostering partnerships between entities that facilitate deployment of broadband to enhance and expand broadband services in underserved and unserved areas of the state.

Removing the prohibition on planning for a nuclear attack in emergency management plans.

Concerning the taxation of crossfit facilities with less than three hundred members.

Excludes the following from the definition of "sale at retail" or "retail sale" for purposes of business and occupation taxes: Charges for the use of a crossfit center or for crossfit classes, held at a crossfit center with less than three hundred members.

-- 2017 1ST SPECIAL SESSION --
May 5	First reading, referred to Ways & Means.