| RI | S2213 | Intro
25% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION - Allows for child support payments when a child is domiciled in the home of the custodial parent and principally dependent on parent until the child is 21, or 23 if child is enrolled in an educational pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
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| RI | S2118 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- JUDICIAL SELECTION - Requires individuals seeking a judicial nomination to reapply to JNC every 5 years and make those individuals selected as finalists, eligible only for the court in which they applied and we...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
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| RI | S2914 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- COUNTY GRAND JURIES - Permits grand juries to issue reports and would provide for a process for review and acceptance by the superior court for dissemination to the public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
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| RI | S2913 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- JURY LISTS - Amends the jury list and jury qualification statutes to add individuals receiving public assistance benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
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| RI | S2905 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Allows retired state employees who worked as certified or qualified court interpreter to be employed or re-employed for a limited period of time in a given year to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
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| RI | S2116 | Intro
25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Prohibits any questioning of a juvenile who is suspected of delinquent or criminal behavior, unless the parent of guardian of the juvenile is present, or unless an attorney is present...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
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| RI | S2671 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTIONS -- ARBITRATION - Spells out additional notice provisions, fees and costs of the arbitration process, from initiation to default provisions and potential court sanctions for breach of the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
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| RI | S2679 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Provides for free APRA records, DOA manages all APRA Records, and uses an online database for records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
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| RI | S2835 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CASINO GAMING - Amends the law relating to casino crimes to be consistent with the advent of iGaming and the relevant age restrictions to participate in iGaming.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
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| RI | S2890 | Intro
25% | Senate Resolution Respectfully Requesting The Rhode Island Congressional Delegation To Support House Resolution 54 Of The 2023-2024 Congress To Amend The United States Constitution To Prove That The Rights Protected And Extended By The Constitution A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
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| RI | S2899 | Intro
25% | Senate Resolution Respectfully Calling For Publication And Affirmation Of The Equal Rights Amendment (requests That The President, Joseph R. Biden, Publish Without Delay The Equal Rights Amendment As Our Twenty-eighth Amendment To The Constitution Of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
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| RI | S2463 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- CODE OF ETHICS - Requires appointments to the Ethics Commission obtain the advice and consent of the senate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
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| RI | S2445 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State -- Referendum On Line Item Veto (this Proposed Amendment To The Constitution Would Provide The Governor With A Line Item Ve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
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| RI | S2657 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PARKING FACILITIES AND PRIVILEGES - Includes the governor's commission on disabilities in the decision making process for the disability parking enforcement enhancement program and requires an annual report be submitted to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
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| RI | S2455 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES -- FOSTER PARENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS - Requires DCYF to prepare an annual report of all findings of suspected and/or verified violations of this chapter and share report on its w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
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| RI | S2433 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ACTIONS BY AND AGAINST TOWNS - Requires a municipality to disclose on their official website the specific issues, details and costs of any legal action of which the town or city is a named defendant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
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| RI | S2675 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND CIVIL RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT ACT - Provides a remedy for any harm caused due to a deprivation or violation of rights by the State of Rhode Island or its political and/or administrative units or subdivision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
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| RI | S2427 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- 2024 REAPPOINTMENT OF PERSONS SERVING IN POSITIONS REQUIRING ADVICE AND CONSENT ACT - Directs the governor to annually provide the senate with names of appointees to boards whose terms are expiring and who require advi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
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| RI | S2684 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- STATE IDENTIFICATION CARDS FOR MINORS WITHOUT RESIDENCE ACT - Allows a minor between the ages of 14 - 17 without a permanent residence/in custody of the DCYF to get state identification card without a signature from parent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
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| RI | S2444 | Intro
25% | CITIES AND TOWNS -- COUNCILS AND GOVERNING BODIES - Provides that the Interlocal Risk Management trust would be subject to the department of business regulation and the attorney general conducting investigations of trust practices in the areas of hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
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| RI | S2221 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RHODE ISLAND FAIR HOUSING PRACTICES ACT - Amends the Rhode Island Fair Housing Practices Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| RI | S2203 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES - Prohibits an employer, employment agency, labor organization, or employee from directly or indirectly committing any act declared to be an unlawful employment practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| RI | S2672 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- IDENTIFICATION AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS - Prohibits any employer from denying any person employment based on a prior criminal conviction and prohibits state from disqualifying any person from any occupation for which a lice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| RI | S2438 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY - Limits the use of certain criminal records and credit history reports in denying housing to prospective applicants, and provides for fines for failure to comply, and requires notices of denials to be sent to the prospective tenants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| RI | S2448 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Modifies the summons for eviction for reasons other than nonpayment of rent with the district court, to add a certificate of service section, and provides the option to post the summons/complaint cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| RI | S2674 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COMPENSATION FOR STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS - Allows college athletes and prospects to enter into contracts receive compensation for use of their name, image and likeness rights and would prohibit colleges and at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| RI | S2461 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Defines a "consumer accessible fair market value" for a vehicle valuation figure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
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| RI | S2682 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Provides that any insurer refusing to honor a "direction to pay" executed by an insured for payment of a property damage benefit constitutes an unfair claims practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
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| RI | S2428 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Provides that any benefit that a beneficiary is entitled to shall be exempt from lien, attachment or garnishment and would not be transferable or assignable and provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
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| RI | S2681 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Provides that any insurer refusing to honor a "direction to pay" executed by an insured for payment on a property damage benefit would constitute an unfair claims practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
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| RI | S2210 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Clarifies the definitions of unfair claims practices pertaining to insurers with regard to appraisals and total losses and corrects a citation regarding salvage and reconstructed titles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
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| RI | S2206 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- REAL ESTATE SALES DISCLOSURES - Allows a homebuyer to void a purchase and sales agreement prior to the transfer if the seller fails to provide a written sales disclosure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
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| RI | S2450 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- SELF-SERVICE STORAGE FACILITIES - Amends notice requirements for self-storage facility before perfecting lien, to wit; 7 consecutive days of publication on a publicly accessible website or subsequent written notice to lessee, or publicati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
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| RI | S2218 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Requires purchasers of firearms, to take and pass a basic firearm safety test and requires the firearm test administered by DEM be updated every two years, as deemed appropriate and repeals § 11-47-35.2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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| RI | S2451 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits any city or town or licensing authority from charging more than forty dollars ($40.00) for any license or permit to carry a concealed weapon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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| RI | S2788 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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| RI | S2446 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Defines "crime gun" and requires law enforcement to submit crime gun or 2 fired cartridge cases seized to state crime laboratory or the BATF for testing and tracing and also requires 2 test-fired cartridge cases to be e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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| RI | S2653 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ASSAULT WEAPONS - Bans the possession, sale, and transfer of assault weapons. Possession of assault weapons owned on the effective date of this act to be "grandfathered". Violations are punishable by a fine or imprisonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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| RI | S2103 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Provides the review and appeal process for individuals applying for a permit or license to carry a handgun with the licensing authority or attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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| RI | S2219 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits purchases of more than one firearm in any thirty (30) day period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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| RI | S2201 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Defines suitable person, establishes reasons for applying for concealed carry permit, establishes what information is required on applications, establishes appeal process for denials, provides that records are not publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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| RI | S2108 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Permits Rhode Island residents, 21 years of age or older, to carry a concealed handgun, without a permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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| RI | S2111 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Provides for a cause of action against an individual or entity that prohibits the possession of firearms on real property, except residences, by an individual that is authorized ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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| RI | S2734 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Specifies that it is unlawful for any person under the age of eighteen (18) to possess a firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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| RI | S2199 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Allows an individual to lawfully possess a device that would silence the sound of a natural report of a rifle or shotgun to hunt game, as long as the host rifle or shotgun is allowed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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| RI | S2107 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Allows reciprocal concealed carry permits from out of state to be valid in Rhode Island, which is either authorized by the attorney general or subject to other reciprocal restrictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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| RI | S2658 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Replaces state marshals with capitol police as to those law enforcement officers being exempt from certain firearm restrictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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| RI | S2216 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits the sale or possession of firearm silencers unless the person complies with federal law in the sale, possession and use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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| RI | S2733 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Disqualifies individuals with prior felony convictions from purchasing or possessing a firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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| RI | S2685 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING - Prohibits an insurance carrier from assessing a premium surcharge against an insured for making an inquiry regarding the terms of their policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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