| S0623 | Pass | An Act Relating To Sports, Racing And Athletics - Boards And Commissions: would increase the weigh-in time for fighters from twenty-four (24) hours to thirty-six (36) hours and also impose an admission tax on ticket prices
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| S0735 | Pass | An Act Relating To General Assembly - Lobbying: would strengthen the secretary of state's authority to regulate legislative lobbyists
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| S0943 | Pass | An Act Relating To Criminal Procedure -- Arrest: would add Rhode Island School of Design police officers to the definition of peace officer
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| S1101 | Pass | An Act Creating A Legislative Commission To Study And Advise On The Need For New Health Care Equipment And New Institutional Health Services
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| S1081 | Pass | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Be Known As The Nfpa 1500 Implementation Plan Review Commission In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| S0727 | Pass | An Act Relating To Probate Practice And Procedure - Unclaimed Intangible And Tangible Property: would allow the administrator to dispose of property with a value of less than fifty dollars ($50.00) if said property has been held by the administrator ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| S1037 | Pass | An Act Relating To Taxation - Town Of Johnston - Tax Amnesty Period: would establish a forty-five (45) day waiver period within which a taxpayer in the town of Johnston may request a waiver of overdue interest and penalties under certain specified co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| S1050 | Pass | An Act Authorizing The Town Of Jamestown To Finance The Costs Of Closure Of The Town Landfill And To Issue Not More Than $1,000,000 Bonds And Notes Therefor
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| S1095 | Pass | An Act Relating To Courts And Civil Procedure -- Courts
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| S1061 | Pass | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation To Pay Certain Claims
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| S0515 | Pass | An Act Relating To Insurance: would repeal the chapter entitled administrative supervision act and correct typographical errors in the credit and group life chapters
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| S0342 | Pass | An Act Relating To Education -- Maintenance Of Voter Registration Files: would require all institutions of higher education to maintain and electronically transmit a file or database of names and addresses annually of those students who have graduate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| S0614 | Pass | An Act Relating To Towns And Cities - Indebtedness Of Towns And Cities: would enhance capital market access for cities/towns/districts by providing that general obligation bonds, notes and other financing obligations of cities/towns/districts have a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| S0733 | Pass | An Act Relating To Criminal Offenses - Computer Crime: would create various criminal offenses relating to Internet activity
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| S0725 | Pass | An Act Relating To Probate Practice And Procedure - Unclaimed Intangible And Tangible Property: would amend the notice and publication requirements for abandoned property
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| S0907 | Pass | An Act Relating To Health And Safety -- Cesspools: would extend the date a cesspool must be abandoned under the Rhode Island cesspool act from January 1, 2013 to January 1, 2018
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| S0615 | Pass | An Act Relating To Public Utilities And Carriers -- Regulatory Powers Of Administration: would transfer the costs associated with fire hydrants from property tax payers to water rate payers by allowing municipalities that pass an appropriate ordinanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| S0829 | Pass | An Act Relating To Criminal Offenses - Children: would amend the definition of second degree child abuse by eliminating the word "serious" therefrom
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| S0513 | Pass | An Act Relating To Motor And Other Vehicles: would eliminate the requirement that insurers file reports concerning liquor liability insurance, workers' compensation insurance, casualty insurance rating and assigned risk plans
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| S0633 | Pass | An Act Relating To Taxation - Tax Sales: would require forty (40) days notice to the department of elderly affairs prior to property tax sales of property owned by persons sixty-five (65) years of age or older
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S0720 | Pass | An Act Relating To Education - Family Engagement Advisory Council: would amend Title 16 by adding a new chapter 93 to create the Rhode Island Family Engagement Advisory Council. The purpose of the council would be to promote family engagement with ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S0301 | Pass | An Act Relating To Human Services - Health Care Assistance For Working People With Disabilities: would change the determination of eligibility, premiums and co-sharing of workers with disabilities enrolled into the Sherlock Medicaid Buy-In program
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S1062 | Pass | An Act Relating To Education -- School Committees And Superintendents: would provide that all school committee members would be elected.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S1019 | Pass | An Act Relating To Domestic Relations -- Uniform Interstate Family Support Act -- General Provisions: would update the uniform interstate family support act of 2006 to implement the convention of the international recovery of child support and other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S0872 | Pass | An Act Relating To Businesses And Professions -- Orthotics And Prosthetics: would create a licensing board within the health department to determine that the applicants for orthotic and prosthetic licensing meet the statutory requirements
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S0236 | Pass | An Act Relating To State Affairs And Government -- Department Of Children, Youth, And Families: would require the dept. of children, youth, and families to apply to the bureau of criminal identification, the state police, or local police department f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S0772 | Pass | An Act Relating To Public Property And Works: would create a vocational rehabilitation purchasing program to provide employment opportunities, and to enhance the independence of people with disabilities
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S0454 | Pass | An Act Relating To Health And Safety -- Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation: would authorize the central landfill to accept recyclable materials originating out-of-state for the purpose of further separation and/or sale, and to accept processe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S0656 | Pass | An Act Relating To Businesses And Professions - Nurses: would require all applicants for license to practice nursing under chapter 5-34 of the general laws and those already licensed but seeking employment, to first undergo a federal and state crimin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S0770 | Pass | An Act Relating To State Affairs And Government: would require that the health insurance commissioner develop and implement standards of certification for patient-centered medical home facilities
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S1082 | Pass | An Act Relating To Solemnization Of Marriages: would allow The Honorable David Delgado to join Niccola Iovino and Andrew Nelson in marriage within the Town of Narragansett, Rhode Island, on or about September 2, 2011
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S0537 | Pass | An Act Relating To Towns And Cities: would allow cities and towns by ordinance to assess users a reasonable charge for use of master alarm fire box systems of the fire departments of the cities and towns
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S0692 | Pass | An Act Relating To State Affairs And Government - Corrections Department: would require the department of corrections to furnish certain medical records of present or former prisoners without charge if such records are required for social security or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S0474 | Pass | An Act Relating To Insurance -- Nonprofit Dental Service Corporations: would require dental plans to give participating dentists 30 days notice of any changes in coverage or payment for dental services
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S1042 | Pass | An Act Relating To Health And Safety - Mercury Reduction And Education Act: would provide certain exemptions to the ban on the sale or distribution of mercury-added cell batteries or mercury-added button cell batteries and would provide for time limi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S0114 | Pass | An Act Relating To Public Property And Works
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S1087 | Pass | An Act Relating To Solemnization Of Marriages: would allow Windsor Friar Bowden to join Dorothea A. Dunlap and Jason P. Baker in marriage within the Town of Bristol, Rhode Island, on or about October 9, 2011
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S0603 | Pass | An Act Relating To Taxation -- Cigarette Tax
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S0233 | Pass | An Act Relating To Elections -- Rhode Island Campaign Contributions And Expenditures Reporting: would eliminate the additional qualification requirements of independent candidates who wish to participate in the matching public funds program/clarify t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-07
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S1075 | Pass | An Act Relating To Motor And Other Vehicles - Registration Of Vehicles: would create a special motor vehicle plate for the Bristol Fourth of July Committee
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-04
Signed by Governor |
| S0488 | Pass | An Act Relating To Alcoholic Beverages -- Licenses Generally: would require liquor licenses to pay police detail bills in full before they are allowed to operate and would also make the transferee of a liquor license assume all previous penalties imp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S0400 | Pass | An Act Relating To Elections - Voter Identification: would provide that any person claiming to be a registered and eligible voter who desires to vote at a primary election, special election or general election, shall provide proof of identity
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S0969 | Pass | An Act Relating To The Town Of Coventry: would ratify certain amendments to the Coventry town charter
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S1016 | Pass | An Act Relating To The City Of Pawtucket: would authorize the city of Pawtucket to use money in its Fire Prevention Fund and its Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund for deficit reduction purposes in Fiscal Year 2011
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S0959 | Engross
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Taxation -- Levy And Assessment Of Local Taxes
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-01
House voted to recommit to House Committee on |
| S0119 | Pass | An Act Relating To Domestic Relations -- Divorce And Separation: would allow that if child support has been terminated, suspended or expired the court can re-establish child support if the child has severe mental impairment or a severe impairment if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S0997 | Pass | An Act Relating To Fish And Wildlife -- The Rhode Island Seafood Marketing Collaborative Of 2011: would create the Rhode Island Seafood Marketing Collaborative of 2011 whose purpose would be to support local fisherman and small businesses and to crea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S0399 | Pass | An Act Relating To Elections - Primaries For Election Of Delegates To National Conventions And For Presidential Preference: would make changes relating to the primaries for election of delegates to national conventions and for presidential preference
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S0200 | Pass | An Act Relating To Health And Safety -- Newborn Screening Program
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S0691 | Pass | An Act Relating To Education - Certification Of Personnel: would require certain people who work in child or youth services to apply and pay for a criminal records check from the Rhode Island bureau of criminal identification
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-01
Signed by Governor |
