| H6284 | Pass | Streamlines the procedure for the approval of mergers of not-for-profit hospitals and unaffiliated community hospitals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5326 | Pass | Requires that the sheltering and nourishment of dogs conform to the industry standards established by the Tufts Animal Care and Conditions Scale regarding outside sheltering, proper nourishment, sanitary conditions, and physical condition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5683 | Pass | Establishes the college crusade of Rhode Island, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization registered with the Rhode Island secretary of state, as the entity that will administer and operate all program services and manage scholarship resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H6084 | Pass | Amends the provisions regarding emergency police powers to clarify that higher learning institutions with special police officers are authorized to enter into mutual aid agreements for the purpose of providing emergency assistance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5205 | Pass | Enables persons with limited exceptions misdemeanor convictions to obtain an expungement of the records of those convictions, as long as the person has not been convicted of any felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H6213 | Pass | Amends the grounds on which the DMV may refuse registration for failure to pay a fine to include, interest, penalties, or other monetary amount. Requires the municipality that requests the denial to add and forward an additional $5 fee to the DMV.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H6345 | Pass | Authorizes the directors of the departments of environmental management and health to enforce the Federal Food Safety Modernization Act as it pertains to commercial growers of fruits and vegetables.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| S0373 | Pass | Requires that any applicant or holder of a retail license for the sale of alcoholic beverages be required to file a certificate of insurance evidencing liability insurance coverage in certain minimum amounts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-13
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0395 | Pass | Provides for a proration of the homestead exemption in cases where title to property passes from those not entitled to claim an exemption to those who are entitled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-13
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0407 | Pass | Amends the definition of "Patient safety work product" to conform with the federal "Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-13
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0903 | Pass | Amends the number of occasions upon which a Class A license holder under this chapter may dispense unlimited samples of wine products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-13
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0207 | Pass | Allows retired state employee nurses to work as professors in the nursing program at a state college. It would allow them to work seventy-five (75) days or one hundred fifty (150) half days before their pension payments would be suspended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-13
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5044 | Pass | Authorizes the merger of the Lonsdale and Saylesville Fire Districts in Lincoln if the electors of both fire districts approve that merger.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-13
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6373 | Pass | Allows Marcus Capalbo to join Amy Dispirito and Gustave Brucker, IV, in marriage on or about September 23, 2017, within the Town of Westerly, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-13
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0203 | Pass | Places oversight of freshwater lakes, streams, and ponds in the fish and wildlife division of the department of environmental management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-13
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5956 | Pass | Permits the town of Jamestown to provide a tax exemption for veterans and a tax credit for one hundred percent (100%) for disabled veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-13
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0789 | Pass | Requires insurance reimbursement for chiropractic diagnosis and treatment of conditions associated with the use of pain medications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0175 | Pass | Prohibits the use of a non-hands-free personal wireless communication device while operating a motor vehicle, except for public safety personnel or in an emergency situation, and would provide for monetary fines for violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| H6319 | Pass | Allows the Honorable Scott Avedisian to join Taylor Ann Butzbach and Brian Peter Votolato in marriage on or about September 23, 2017, within the City of Warwick, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0406 | Pass | Allows family court to take individual's incarceration into consideration in motion to modify child support order by providing that incarceration is not "voluntary unemployment."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| H6361 | Pass | AllowsJames King to join Dashira Viqueira and Joseph Penniman in marriage on or about August 18, 2017, within the City of Warwick, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0478 | Pass | Establishes that membership on the Cumberland Fire District Fire Committee constitutes holding a public office and that the elections of the Fire Committee are governed by state election laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-07
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5904 | Pass | Establishes that membership on the Cumberland Fire District Fire Committee constitutes holding a public office and that the elections of the Fire Committee are governed by state election laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-07
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0894 | Pass | Validates and ratifies amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the town of West Warwick, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the town of West Warwick on May 19, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-07
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6301 | Pass | Changes the responsibility of making appointments to certain advisory and exchange commissions from the lieutenant governor to the senate president.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-07
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5397 | Pass | Imposes a penalty of two thousand dollars ($2,000) upon financial institutions failing to promptly record foreclosure deeds and pay outstanding taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-07
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0388 | Pass | Imposes a penalty of $300 per month up to an aggregate total of $2,000 upon financial institutions failing to promptly record foreclosure deeds and pay outstanding taxes. Most holders of a private mortgage would be exempt from the penalty requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-07
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6288 | Pass | Validates and ratifies amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the town of West Warwick, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the town of West Warwick on May 19, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-07
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0398 | Pass | Changes the responsibility of making appointments to certain advisory and exchange commissions from the lieutenant governor to the senate president.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-07
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0603 | Pass | Requires that matters adjudicated under the Automated School-Zone-Speed-Enforcement System Act of 2016 be done in accordance with rules promulgated by the Chief Magistrate of the Traffic Tribunal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-06
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5619 | Pass | Distinguishes real estate agents' duties regarding establishing property values from the duties of professional appraisers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-06
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5541 | Pass | Clarifies that the jurisdiction for violations of §11-9-1.5 ("electronically disseminating indecent material to minors prohibited") is vested in the superior court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-06
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0880 | Pass | Includes the benefit to customers in the PUC's study of the distribution charge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-06
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5965 | Pass | Reduces to three (3) years the residency requirement for the town of Burrillville's partial real estate tax exemption for the elderly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-06
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5457 | Pass | Establishes a free course of instruction for the parent, guardian, or designee of a child enrolled in a driver education program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-06
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0555 | Pass | Establishes a free course of instruction for the parent, guardian, or designee of a child enrolled in a driver education program effective upon approval of an online version of the course by the board of education but no sooner than January 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-06
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5318 | Pass | Includes the benefit to customers in the PUC's study of the distribution charge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-06
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0704 | Pass | Reduces to three (3) years the residency requirement for the town of Burrillville's partial real estate tax exemption for the elderly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-06
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0798 | Pass | Clarifies that the jurisdiction for violations of §11-9-1.5 ("electronically disseminating indecent material to minors prohibited") is vested in the superior court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-06
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0559 | Pass | Removes certain restrictions on who can perform routine husbandry procedures on livestock and allows a licensed human medical practitioner to assist a licensed veterinarian.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-05
Signed by Governor |
| S0570 | Pass | Exempts no more than twenty percent (20%) of the total land acreage previously classified as farm, forest or open space land from land use change tax if the change is for purposes of a commercial renewable energy system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-05
Signed by Governor |
| S0816 | Pass | Provides for changes to the veterans' services strategic plan advisory committee to provide coordination of state, federal, and private veterans' services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-05
Signed by Governor |
| H5477 | Pass | Requires that municipal animal control officers be certified by the National Care & Control Association.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-05
Signed by Governor |
| S0513 | Pass | Includes within the licensing and certification process required by the board of electricians the maintenance of certain electrical components.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-05
Signed by Governor |
| S0512 | Pass | Prohibits municipal charters and ordinances from requiring that their police officers and firefighters reside within the state of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-05
Signed by Governor |
| H6315 | Pass | Provides for changes to the veterans' services strategic plan advisory committee to provide coordination of state, federal, and private veterans' services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-05
Signed by Governor |
| H5470 | Pass | Removes certain restrictions on who can perform routine husbandry procedures on livestock and allows a licensed human medical practitioner to assist a licensed veterinarian.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-05
Signed by Governor |
| H6300 | Pass | Requires the I-195 commission to conduct training for new commission members which would include training in ethics.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-05
Signed by Governor |
| S0863 | Pass | Requires health care facilities to report to the department of health the use of non-Rhode Island licensed nurses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-05
Signed by Governor |
| H6170 | Pass | Mandates insurance coverage for medically necessary expenses for standard fertility preservation services when a medical treatment may directly or indirectly cause iatrogenic infertility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-05
Signed by Governor |
