| RI | S2664 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- TRESPASS AND VANDALISM - Changes the community service requirements of a sentence related to the violation of § 11-44-21.1 relating to defacing private residences, offices, businesses or commercial property. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2667 | Intro 25% | PROBATE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE -- PRACTICE IN PROBATE COURTS - Outlines the process for a person petitioning to change their name in the probate court in the town or city where they reside. It also makes the statute regarding name change gender neutr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2938 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- INDICTMENTS, INFORMATIONS AND COMPLAINTS - Includes the offense of second-degree sexual assault among the offenses to which there shall be no statute of limitations and provides for a ten (10) year statute of limitations for thi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2824 | Intro 25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Provides that landlords would pay interest on security deposits in residential landlord-tenant matters. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: May 2] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2095 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES - Provides that parents and guardians of children with disabilities in private school have the same rights and remedies as parents/guardians of children in public school. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2211 | Intro 25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- FAMILY COURT - Only protective orders issued against adults are to be transmitted to A.G.'s B.C.I. for inclusion in the R.O.N.C.O. system. Protective orders against juveniles will be accessible to law enforceme... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2205 | Intro 25% | CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- PAROLE - Provides that prisoners who committed offenses prior to age 18 and sentenced as adults would be eligible for parole after completing 15 yrs of their sentence/does not lengthen their eligibility shoul... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2885 | Intro 25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE RHODE ISLAND CANNABIS ACT - Permits hybrid cannabis cultivators to advertise regarding cannabis products during the transitional period. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2912 | Intro 25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Amends the definition of a wayward offense in the family court to conform to current statutory penalties for possession of marijuana offenses, promulgated in chapter 28 of title 21 (t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2906 | Intro 25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT - Amends the statutory penalties for possession of marijuana offenses to conform to the penalties promulgated in the Rhode Island cannabis act. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2098 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- TRIAL - Requires prosecutorial consent in order for a defendant to waive a jury trial. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2230 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT -- SHERRY'S LAW - Increases minimum sentence for first degree sexual assault and provides first 10 years of a sentence for first degree sexual assault not be subject to a suspension or deferment of sentence. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2417 | Intro 25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Creates a tenant bill of rights to the right to counsel, the right to habitability, the right to organize free, the right to be free from discrimination, the right to first refusal if the landlord dec... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: May 2] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2921 | Intro 25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Recognizes tenants' unions and provides a procedure whereby the housing resources commission shall administer a hearing process for consolidated complaints filed by tenants' unions, pertaining to the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: May 2] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2907 | Intro 25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- TREATMENT OF JUVENILES FOR CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY - Amends the statute so as to conform to current statutory penalties for possession of marijuana offenses promulgated in the Rhode Island cannabis act allowing for po... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2923 | Intro 25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL TENANT'S RIGHT TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION ACT - Creates the division of civil representation within the department of housing and require civil representation by a Designated Legal Organization to provide legal representation to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: May 2] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2457 | Intro 25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Establishes concurrent jurisdiction between the Rhode Island Family Court and the Federal Government for the purposes of adjudicating minors who have allegedly committed a crime while... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2910 | Intro 25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT - Amends the statutory penalties for a second and third possession of marijuana offense to conform to the penalties promulgated in § 21-28-4.01. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2440 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- MOTOR VEHICLE REPLACEMENT PARTS - Prohibits insurance companies from refusing to use after market parts that are greater than 48 months and less than 72 months from the date of manufacture, provided the repairer has written consent from ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2197 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ARREST - Prohibits the civil arrest of any person who is attending court either on behalf of themselves or a family or household member. Any person who violates this act shall be subject to civil suit and for contempt of court. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2429 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- OBSCENE AND OBJECTIONABLE PUBLICATIONS AND SHOWS - Establishes, as an affirmative defense to the crimes of circulating obscene publications or shows and selling or exhibiting obscene publications to minors, the person's employmen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2892 | Intro 25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Prohibits use of algorithm or artificial intelligence to set residential rental amounts and prohibits landlord price fixing of residential rents. Violations constitute a deceptive trade practice and v... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: May 2] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2893 | Intro 25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Makes it a deceptive trade practice for landlords to conspire with each other to set rents or withhold rental dwelling units from the market in order to increase demand. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: May 2] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2110 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- INDICTMENTS, INFORMATIONS AND COMPLAINTS - Provides for a 10 year statute of limitations for the violation of second degree sexual assault. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2972 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Establishes general caseload limits for DCYF workers similar to those contained in the Council on Accreditation standards. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2922 | Intro 25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- HOUSING MAINTENANCE AND OCCUPANCY CODE -- NOTICE OF VIOLATIONS - Requires a housing code enforcement officer to give a copy of any housing code violation notice to all tenants of the building affected by a housing code violation a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: May 2] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S3001 | Intro 25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND - Makes amendments to various provisions relative to subdivision of land review, review stages, special provisions related to development and the procedures for approvals from various permitting authorities. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: May 2] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2887 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- CERTIFICATION OF CHILDCARE AND YOUTH-SERVING WORKERS AND OPERATORS - Repeals the provision that requires new applicants for employment under this section to pay the expense for their background checks. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2999 | Intro 25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Provides amendments to the requirements of the inclusionary zoning law for affordable housing development. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: May 2] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S3000 | Intro 25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND - Provides amendments relative to the permitting authority of, and acceptable forms of financial security permissible for construction and/or improvement guarantees relating to the completion of required public... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: May 2] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2920 | Intro 25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT -- JUST CAUSE EVICTIONS - Provides for just cause evictions for residential landlord tenancies. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: May 2] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2665 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THEFT, EMBEZZLEMENT, FALSE PRETENSES, AND MISAPPROPRIATION - Provides that two (2) or more individuals associated to accomplish an act or acts which constitute shoplifting, could be deemed "racketeer influenced and corrupt organi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2263 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ELECTRONIC MONITORING IN NURSING AND ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES - Allows electronic monitoring of residents or private living unit in nursing or assisted living facility with certain restrictions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2919 | Intro 25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Provides that landlords would pay interest on security deposits in residential landlord-tenant matters. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: May 2] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2437 | Intro 25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT - Amends the statutory penalties for a second and third possession of marijuana offense to conform to the penalties promulgated in the Rhode Island cannabis act. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 [Hearing: Apr 30] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2829 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- ELECTRIC BICYCLES - Defines 3 classes of electric bicycles, authorizes the DEM to determine allowable uses of electric bicycles at properties under the department’s jurisdiction, allows Class 1 electric bicycles to legal... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2024 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Increases penalties for a variety of motor vehicle offenses. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2023 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Extends the "lookback" period for repeat offenses involving driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs under § 31-27-2 and for repeat offenses related to failure or refusal to submit to chemi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2025 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSES - A judge would have discretion to allow a hardship exception to keep license plates of a person convicted of this offense. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2453 | Intro 25% | HIGHWAYS -- RHODE ISLAND TURNPIKE AND BRIDGE AUTHORITY - Extends the repayment period for toll violations, and requires the RI transit and bridge authority to notify frequent violators by certified mail that their driver's license may be in jeopardy ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2936 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- ACCIDENTS AND ACCIDENT REPORTS - Provides for a single, increased range of penalties for all driving offenses which result in serious bodily injury or death. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2937 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Extends the "lookback" period for repeat offenses involving driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs under § 31-27-2 and for repeat offenses related to failure or refusal to submit to chemi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2947 | Intro 25% | MOTOR VEHICLES -- SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD LIMITS - Adds "loose material" to the contents of a vehicle that must be covered by a covering that must remain in place until the vehicle's contents are purged from the vehicle. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2022 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SPEED RESTRICTIONS -- SCHOOL BUS SPEED LIMIT - Establishes a speed limit for school buses being driven on a limited access highway to ten miles per hour (10mph) less than the posted speed limit. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2911 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Clarifies and separates the different criminal penalties for first and subsequent convictions for reckless driving. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2904 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSES -- VIOLATIONS - Provides updates and clarifications to the current penalties for driving after denial, revocation, or suspension of an individual’s license. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2770 | Intro 25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- STATE AND MUNICIPAL COURT COMPACT - Authorizes the use of automated traffic violation monitoring systems for all traffic signal laws, including the "Don't Block the Box Statute" and allows for jurisdiction of t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2898 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- NOISE LIMITS FOR MOTOR VEHICLES - Enables municipalities to install and use automated systems to detect noise limit violations in order to enhance enforcement abilities and reduce noise violations state-wide. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2666 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Requires that any person convicted of a charge of DUI or refusal, have an ignition interlock before being eligible for license reinstatement. Also permits a first-time offender to have charges dism... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2026 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSES - Requires that the license plates of a vehicle be confiscated by a police officer if the owner was arrested for driving while their license was suspended, revoked or cancelled for refu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Judiciary Committee |