| S0842 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Edward O. Hawkins and Thomas C. Slater Medical Marijuana Act to provide for more protection for workers employed by the medical marijuana industry and improve public safety.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0321 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises by at least seventy cents ($.70) hourly wage of direct care staff starting October 1, 2017 and each October 1 thereafter with compliance certification and on each July 31 thereafter subject to the clawback provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0875 | Intro
Sine Die | Characterizes incentive payments to utilities as billed distribution revenue for rate setting services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-18
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S0879 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends and add several sections relative to gas and electric utility carriers, customer service provided thereby, and customer service levels and billing practices required by the carriers to the customers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-18
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S0876 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits, rather than requires, electricity and gas revenues to be decoupled from sales and require submission of a full rate filing every three (3) years by electric and gas distribution companies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-18
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S0464 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits payments to parents who serve as certified nursing assistant caregiver for their children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-18
Committee heard |
| S0124 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the sales tax on pet care services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-18
Committee heard |
| S0830 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows municipalities with a population density greater than two thousand (2,000) people per square mile to exempt from taxation real property used for agricultural operations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-18
Committee heard |
| S0775 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a tiered-rate structure for the child care assistance program, with higher rates paid to licensed child care centers and family child care homes that have achieved higher quality ratings in "BrightStars".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0510 | Intro
Sine Die | Gradually increases the hourly minimum wage from $9.60 to $15.00 on January 1, 2022, as well as gradually increasing the hourly minimum wage for employees receiving gratuities from $3.89 an hour to $15.00 an hour on January 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-17
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H5838 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that those persons taking part in the home and community care services to the elderly program (chapter 66.3 of title 42) would be eligible for lifeline telephone service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-17
To House Finance Committee |
| S0904 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the requirement that a service person serving in conflicts or undeclared wars receive a campaign ribbon or expeditionary medal in order to receive a property tax exemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-17
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| H5369 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a fee on companies that sell fossil fuels in RI and also establishes a receipt account to disburse the funds from.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-17
To House Finance Committee |
| S0078 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the hourly minimum wage to ten dollars ($10.00) effective January 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-17
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H5123 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a revolving fund to provide loans and grants to support the installation of solar energy panels.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-17
To House Finance Committee |
| S0289 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows employers to pay the greater or 75% of the state minimum wage rate, or the federal minimum wage rate to employees eighteen (18) years or younger during the first six hundred eighty (680) hours or ninety (90) days of their employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-17
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H5197 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires environmental impacts be considered in energy plant siting proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-17
To House Finance Committee |
| S0732 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an early childhood innovation fund to help close the achievement gap for at-risk children as they enter kindergarten
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| S0287 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the minimum wage to $10.50 per hour effective July 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-17
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S0507 | Intro
Sine Die | Incrementally increases from the $3.89 per hour subminimum wage for tipped workers to $9.00 per hour on January 1, 2021. Starting on January 1, 2022, the minimum hourly wage for tipped workers would be equal to the state's regular minimum hourly wage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-17
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S0238 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study Rhode Island's Minimum Wage (creates A Fifteen Member Legislative Commission To Study Rhode Island's Minimum Wage, And Would Report Back To The General Assembly By March 30, 2018, An...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-17
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H6212 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes council to grant variances to any provisions of title 16 other than those in §16-60-4.2 and to any department of education and school district regulation not affecting the health/safety/civil rights of public school pupils.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-17
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0815 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates additional restrictions on the times for which caterers with a Class P license may serve alcohol and provides for the additional penalty of possible suspension or revocation of license for violations of this section.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-17
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| H5897 | Intro
Sine Die | Prevents the energy facility siting board from proceeding to final hearing or issuing a final decision if one or more of the designated agencies inform the siting board that they are unable to form an advisory opinion due the conduct of the applicant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-17
To House Finance Committee |
| H5776 | Intro
Sine Die | Waives any fees on debt issues, bonds, or notes of or purchased by the Rhode Island health educational building corporation (RIHEBC) relating to the "school building authority capital fund" or "foundation level support".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H6193 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits individuals from completing alcohol-server training requirements from online or Internet sources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5356 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study All Aspects Pertaining To The Management Of Infrastructure Programs In The State Of Rhode Island (creates A 9 Member Commission To Study Existing Infrastructure Programs In The State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H5911 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the statewide site readiness fund a state sponsored fund for the preparation of shared ready commercial, industrial and manufacturing property in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H6184 | Intro
Sine Die | Precludes electric distribution companies from including their gas transmission contracts or cost of facilities in the rate base for electricity customers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5774 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Convention Center Authority Corporation to use fifty percent (50%) of any net profit identified by an annual accounting approved by the corporation to reduce any existing corporate debt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H5372 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits legislative grants awarded by the general assembly through the state budget.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H5371 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for additional appropriations by the general assembly to promote the capability of URI in the areas of environmental and agricultural research and education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H5493 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the purpose of preventing and detecting fraud, waste and abuse, and mismanagement in the expenditure of public funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H5025 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an economic hardship relief fund from penalties imposed on contractors for past due road or bridge projects to be paid to business owners who can show a decline in revenue as a result of the past due completion of a road or bridge project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H5799 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any state economic assistance from the commerce corporation to a business entity for a move within the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H6202 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes persons seventy (70) years of age or older eligible for exemption from jury service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H6149 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the state commerce corporation, without express general assembly approval or resolution, from loaning any funds or financial assistance of more than five million dollars ($5,000,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H5150 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides exceptions to the texting while driving prohibition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| H5995 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows infrastructure of a political subdivision to qualify for tax increment financing agreements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H6188 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits, rather than requires, electricity and gas revenues to be decoupled from sales and require submission of a full rate filing every three (3) years by electric and gas distribution companies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Corporations Committee |
| H6160 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the yearly amount of money the state airport corporation pays to the city of Warwick as payment for the municipal services it provides to them from $500,000 to $1,400,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H5794 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the state lottery commission to establish an instant game entitled Rhode Island Museum’s Blackjack, the net revenues of which would be used to maintain and support nonprofit museums located in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H5693 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the percentage of unit owners needed to consent to the termination of a condominium from eighty percent (80%) to ninety percent (90%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5993 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires investment commission to include separate section in annual report providing information and supporting documents relating to alternative investment consultant(s), hiring, performance, and confidentiality agreements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H5076 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates all user fees for access to any state beach.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H5244 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the general assembly and any governmental or quasi-governmental entity created by it, from issuing moral obligation bonds not secured by the full faith and credit of the state or revenues.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H5834 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an instant ticket scratch off game pilot program to raise funds for Rhode Island veterans and dependents of qualified service members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H5800 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the state to take certain actions in regard to state gaming as a result the recent referendum authorizing the establishment of a new casino gaming facility in the town of Tiverton.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H6182 | Intro
Sine Die | Characterizes incentive payments to utilities as billed distribution revenue for rate setting services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Corporations Committee |
| S0222 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the voter identification law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
