| H8257 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides increased school housing aid for communities who utilize resident architectural firms for the architectural services included in a new school or school renovation project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
To House Finance Committee |
| H7535 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that an open and obvious danger or defect is not a complete bar to recovery of damages in personal injury or property damage actions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2091 | Intro
Sine Die | Expedites the foreclosure procedure on vacant property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
Defeated by Senate |
| S2855 | Intro
Sine Die | Temporarily expands incentives to enhance the school housing aid ratio to encourage new school and renovation projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
To House Finance Committee |
| S2859 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health insurers, nonprofit hospital service corporations, nonprofit medical service corporations and health maintenance organizations that issue policies that provide coverage for prescription drugs and use step therapy protocols.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2008 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires Internet service providers to follow Internet service neutrality requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2852 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the trapping and release of unowned feral cats for the purpose of spaying or neutering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2062 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits a municipality, in which twelve percent (12%) of the housing in a municipality qualifies for low-income housing, to charge a tax up to ten percent (10%) of the current year's gross scheduled rental income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2951 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires electrical work performed in state be in accordance with latest edition of NEC, that state building code standards committee adopt latest edition. Regulatory analysis for proposed rule would not apply to building, fire safety or electrical c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
Committee heard |
| H7557 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals provisions of the general laws allowing deferred deposit providers, also known as "payday lenders."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
To House Finance Committee |
| S2074 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the maximum tax on qualifying low-income property from eight percent (8%) of the previous year's gross scheduled rental income to ten percent (10%) of the prospective year's gross scheduled rental income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2063 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the maximum tax for qualifying low-income housing from eight percent (8%) to ten percent (10%) of the property's previous year's gross scheduled rental income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H8119 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the use of stunguns/tasers after issuance of permit from attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| H7291 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits redevelopment agencies to finance the construction of projects for residential, recreational, commercial, industrial, institutional, public, or other purposes contemplated by a redevelopment plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
To House Finance Committee |
| H7773 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that all electrical work performed in the state be done in accordance with the latest edition of the National Electric Code, and would also require that the state building commission adopt the latest edition of the National Electric Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
Committee heard |
| H8182 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the maximum charge imposed by the Rhode Island airport corporation to three dollars ($3.00) per trip for transportation network company services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
To House Finance Committee |
| H7676 | Intro
Sine Die | Prevents credit history or score from being used to determine insurance rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-16
To House Corporations Committee |
| H8324 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a monthly tax collection accounting and compliance with federal, state and local laws by hosting platforms for transient rentals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H8325 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from sales and use taxes the sale of cremation urns for humans and pets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-15
To House Finance Committee |
| S2785 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes state to seek waiver of ACA to allow qualified small business owners/sole properties to purchase small group health insurance on cost/impact assessment by OHIC provide coverage for essential health benefit categories/services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-15
To House Finance Committee |
| S2974 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate Resolution Respectfully Requesting That The Office Of The Postsecondary Commissioner Form A Work Group To Conduct A Thorough Review Into How Rhode Island Can Protect Student Loan Borrowers
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2481 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State Of Rhode Island (sessions Of General Assembly) (proposes A Constitutional Amendment Which, If Approved By The Voters, Chang...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
To Senate Rules, Government Ethics and Oversight Committee |
| H8320 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes 9 sports betting parlor licenses for on-site/on-line wagering with DBR granted licensing/regulatory power relating to license issuance to applicants/emplolyees/third-party vendors/collection of fees/taxes with local licensing. eff. 11/6/1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
To House Finance Committee |
| S2397 | Intro
Sine Die | Broadens definition of "employee" to include assistants/technologists providing direct medical care to patients and allows union/association to file appeal to personnel appeal board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
To House Labor Committee |
| H8321 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the department of health to establish and inspection and evaluation program and establish rules and regulations regarding air quality in elementary and secondary schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H8256 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the town of Middletown to adopt annual fair market assessments of its ratable property that do not exceed the two percent (2%) annual increase ceiling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H8255 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the town of Middletown from annually increasing its tax levy, more than 2% of the total levied by the town, for its prior fiscal year, without the occurrence of one or more of 5 conditions and an affirmative vote of the majority of its elec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| S2738 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate Resolution Amending The Rules Of The Senate
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
To Senate Rules, Government Ethics and Oversight Committee |
| H7048 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an 11 member legislative commission to study procedures to expedite the certification and licensure of military service members and their spouses by the DMV and DOA, and who would report back by March 12, 2019, and expire on June 12, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
To House Veterans Affairs Committee |
| H7418 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires emergency generators in any elderly housing complex consisting of more than five (5) residential units in one building sufficient to operate a refrigerator and at least one other electrical outlet in each unit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-13
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H8314 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds urns and shrouds, prayer cards and other items customarily sold or provided by a funeral director to those funeral items which are already exempt from sales and use taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-13
To House Finance Committee |
| S2575 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study Potential Reform Of Vicious Dogs Hearings (creates A 10 Member Commission To Study Potential Reform Of Vicious Dogs Hearings, And Who Would Report Back To The General Assembly By Ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-12
Senate passed Sub A |
| H7111 | Intro
Sine Die | Protects individuals from internet disclosure of personally identifiable information by commercial websites/online service operators and creates right of action for violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-12
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| S2819 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates that quasi-public corporations limit the use of all funds/property to perform the function/service for which the quasi-public corporation was created. Prohibits the transfer or reallocations of funds held by a quasi-public corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2965 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that contributions to a retirement plan be remitted to the retirement board on the date contributions are withheld but not later than three (3) business days following the pay period ending in which contributions were withheld.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H8306 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the DOT to establish a schedule of all maintenance, including landscaping and mowing of lawns on state roads, and provide a copy of said schedule to the department of public works in any city or town where the state road is located.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-12
To House Corporations Committee |
| H8303 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides immunity to persons donating food to food banks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2956 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows state employees who had also been a correctional officer to elect to combine their service time earned from each job, for the determination of their retirement eligibility date and calculation of retirement benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2199 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the taxation of military service pensions for purposes of the Rhode Island personal income tax would be reduced and phased out over a five (5) year period from 2018 to 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2782 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds department of corrections' correctional officers to the list of public safety employees that are entitled to their full salary if they are injured and become disabled as a result of performance of their job duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H8304 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Scituate town council to propose a town charter to the voters at the next general election, subject to ratification by the general assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8607 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing The Town Of Cumberland To Issue Not To Exceed $83,000,000 General Obligation Bonds, Notes And Other Evidences Of Indebtedness To Finance The Construction, Renovation, Improvement, Alteration, Repair, Furnishing And Equipping Of Schools An...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-08
To House Finance Committee |
| S2077 | Intro
Sine Die | Protects people with health insurance from surprise medical bills for emergency and other services by requiring a non-participating health care provider to bill an insured party only for a co-payment, or deductible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-08
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2196 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a tax on sugary drinks for the purpose of reducing the demand for those beverages, and discouraging the excessive consumption of, sugary drinks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
Committee heard |
| H8281 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a reporting requirement for state agencies and departments for violations of the fair employment practices chapter and the Equal Opportunity and Affirmative chapter. The act would also remove legislative branch exclusion from "agency" definit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
To House Labor Committee |
| S2381 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the compensation of direct-care staff of nursing facilities as a result of the application of the inflation index.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
Committee heard |
| S2100 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that houses, condominiums, or other residential dwelling units, regardless of the number of rooms, which are used and/or advertised for rent for occupancy would be exempt from the state sales or hotel tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2582 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates process within DCYF for reviewing a determination that out-of-home residential placement is appropriate in an effort to ensure that a child is placed in the least restrictive placement. Requires DCYF to develop plan for recruiting foster fami...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2307 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the registration, certification, and regulation of those individuals who provide personal care assistant services to a consumer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2061 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the general assembly to appropriate a minimum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) in capital financing to Rhode Island Housing & Mortgage Finance Corporation (RIHMFC) for the development of affordable housing for the homeless.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
Committee heard |
