| S3082 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming May 21, 2024, To Be "cox Impact Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Senate read and passed |
| S3084 | Pass | Senate Resolution Supporting "period Poverty Awareness Week" On May 20-28, 2024, In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Senate read and passed |
| S3081 | Pass | Senate Resolution Celebrating May 21, 2024, As "korea Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Senate read and passed |
| S3080 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of George A. Donovan
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Senate read and passed |
| S3083 | Pass | Senate Resolution Commemorating The 50th Anniversary Of "national Ems Week" On May 19-25, 2024, In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Senate read and passed |
| S3085 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Glen D. Biddiscombe, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Senate read and passed |
| S2732 | Engross
50% | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- HUNTING AND HUNTING SAFETY -- CAPTIVE HUNTING PROHIBITED - Prohibits captive hunting for domestic or wild animals and does not prohibit the release of domestic game birds for hunting on licensed shooting preserves.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence |
| S2844 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL EDUCATION OMBUD - Establishes the RI ombud for special education who ensures school districts throughout the state meet the minimum standards required to comply with the individualized education p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
To House Finance Committee |
| S2146 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL AND YOUTH PROGRAMS CONCUSSION ACT - Requires all school districts to designate an athletic trainer to be available for high school athletic practices and games.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
To House Education Committee |
| S2519 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PREKINDERGARTEN EDUCATION ACT - Allows municipalities participating in the state prekindergarten program to accept students from outside the municipality under certain conditions and establishes a lottery for enrollment in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
To House Finance Committee |
| S2819 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF NURSING SERVICE AGENCIES - Removes the exemption from licensure for certain nursing service agencies accredited by the joint commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S3037 | Engross
50% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts the Center for Mediation and Collaboration Rhode Island from taxation of the real property and tangible personal property located at 831 Bald Hill Road in the city of Warwick.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| S2147 | Engross
50% | Joint Resolution To Approve, Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Right To An Adequate Education (amends The Constitution To Guarantee Rhode Island Residents With Equal Opportunity To Receive An Educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| S2442 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES -- HIV/AIDS - Repeals the required HIV testing for an individual convicted under chapter 34.1 of title 11 and allows the option for HIV testing for any person convicted under this...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2945 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CONFIDENTIALITY OF HEALTH CARE COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ACT - Amends provisions relative to confidentiality of health care communications and the process for requesting records and/or confidential health care infor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2148 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- THE KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE TWO - 2) MAXIMUM CLASS SIZE ACT (Mandates 20 students per classroom for kindergarten through second grade. Exceptions for emergencies and temporary situations, not to exceed 3 days and mid-year enrollments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
To House Education Committee |
| S2293 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RENEWABLE READY PROGRAM - Establishes the renewable ready program and fund to promotes the responsible siting/development of renewable energy generating resources in locations where it would be an ancillary beneficial ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2843 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PREKINDERGARTEN EDUCATION ACT - Establishes guidelines for the continued implementation and expansion of high quality public prekindergarten education programs in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
To House Finance Committee |
| S2630 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Amends several sections of law relating to zoning ordinances to provide uniform zoning standards for accessory dwelling units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S3078 | Pass | Senate Resolution Welcoming The Narragansett Council, Boy Scouts Of America, To The Rhode Island State House And Joyfully Celebrating Scouting Month In February
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Senate read and passed |
| S2989 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOBILE AND MANUFACTURED HOMES - Makes several amendments relative to manufactured homes, including adding a definition for manufactured home and a provision allowing for certain manufactured homes to be considered a single...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2988 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RHODE ISLAND COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING AND LAND USE ACT - Provides amendments relative to the compliance and implementation of the comprehensive planning and use act including the conditions upon which limitations may be placed on la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S3077 | Pass | Senate Resolution Congratulating The Eleanor Slater Hospital-zambarano Campus On The Recognition Of "zambarano Day" On May 16, 2024
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Senate read and passed |
| S2998 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Amends several sections of law relating to zoning ordinances to provide uniform zoning standards for accessory dwelling units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S3076 | Pass | Senate Resolution Celebrating May Of 2024, As "older Americans Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Senate read and passed |
| S3036 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND - Requires that municipalities implement electronic permitting for all development applications pursuant to zoning and the subdivision of land.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2995 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION - Requires, by January 1, 2026, the creation of an online, publicly available, comprehensive statewide geographic information system of land related resources to include information from al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2994 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Amends provisions relative to the application of zoning ordinances pertaining to wetland buffers to projects for development, redevelopment, construction or rehabilitation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2408 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES -- PROMOTION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTER AND SMART GROWTH - Amends several sections of chapter 24 of title 45, entitled "zoning ordinances," also known as the "Rhode Island zoning enabling act of 1991," with the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2409 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE -- RHODE ISLAND INCLUSIVE HOME DESIGN ACT - Establishes a new article in the state building code that provides that certain new housing construction contain at least one floor that meets the requirements for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2695 | Engross
50% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES - Allows for the holder of a manufacturer's license to be able to sell one one-sixth (1/6) barrel key of malt beverage, produced on the premises, per day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Small Business Committee |
| S2633 | Enroll
75% | IN AMENDMENT OF AND IN ADDITION TO THE ACT, PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 1883, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE UNION FIRE DISTRICT OF SOUTH KINGSTOWN", AS AMENDED - Amends charter of the Union Fire District of South Kingstown by renaming '...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
House passed in concurrence |
| S2470 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Creates new definition for the term "employee", for purposes of wages, workers' compensation, temporary disability and unemployment insurance benefits, which deems a worker to be an employee, as opposed to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2237 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Commencing January 1, 2025, this act would increase the minimum wage for employees receiving gratuities from the current $3.89 to $6.75 per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2693 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL CODE PROVISIONS - Includes "Kei cars" or "Kei trucks" as having restricted public highway use and those vehicles validly registered as of August 1, 2021, would not be denied renewal of that registra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| S2694 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION FEES - Disabled veteran license plate may be transferred to veterans' spouse or issued to veteran or veterans spouse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| S2368 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PUBLIC HEALTH AND WORKPLACE SAFETY ACT - Repeals the exemption granted to pari mutual facilities and casinos from the smoke free workplace requirement contained in the Public Health and Workplace Safety Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S3072 | Pass | Senate Resolution Commemorating May 12 Through May 18, 2024, As "national Police Week" In The State Of Rhode Island, In Remembrance Of All The Police And Law Enforcement Officers Who Have Lost Their Lives In The Line Of Duty
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
Senate read and passed |
| S3073 | Pass | Senate Resolution Declaring May Of 2024 To Be "brain Tumor Awareness Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
Senate read and passed |
| S2638 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING AND CONSERVATION TRUST FUND ACT - Restructures RI Housing and Conservation Trust Fund, increase its membership to 15 members, 11 of whom are to be from the general public and reallocate the percent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2584 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation To Higher Ground International To Provide Support To Complete The Initial Phase Of Higher Ground International's New Headquarters (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $450,000 To Higher Ground Internati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S3075 | Pass | Senate Resolution Celebrating "national Hospital Week" On May 12th Through May 18th, 2024, In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
Senate read and passed |
| S2126 | Enroll
75% | HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE -- DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE - Provides that the fifth day in April in each year be designated as "Rhode Island Gold Star Spouses Day" with appropriate exercises in public places and with flags flown at half-s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
House passed in concurrence |
| S2993 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 - Provides that mobile and manufactured homes be included as affordable housing under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S3074 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming May Of 2024, To Be "rhode Island Pharmacy Advocacy Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
Senate read and passed |
| S2879 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Provides that only residential properties and new or rehabilitated residential affordable housing units would be subject to the tax under § 44-5-13.1 relating to taxation of low-income housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2991 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOCAL PLANNING BOARD OR COMMISSION - Provides amendments to the membership provisions of planning boards or commissions and would enable municipalities to establish "combined review boards" to replace separate planning and zoning ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2755 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- MERIT SYSTEM - Creates separate and distinct employment positions and salaries under the unclassified pay plan for the board of elections employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2760 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING LAND BANK PROGRAM - Establishes a housing land bank program with the goal of creating affordable housing in the State of Rhode Island. The housing land bank would have the authority to buy, receiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2761 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Establishes building safety code standards for multi-dwelling buildings and requires the development of recommendations for resolving any conflicts between fire safety codes and the building codes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
