| S0219 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Motor And Other Vehicles - Comprehensive Racial Profiling Prevention Act Of 2010
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-05
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0240 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Motor And Other Vehicles - Rhode Island Protection From Secondhand Smoke For Children Act Of 2011
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-05
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0941 | Pass | Senate Resolution Recognizing And Congratulating Mrs. Judy Travis For Myriad Contributions As Facilitator Of The Alzheimer's Caregiver's Support Group In Portsmouth, Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-05
Senate read and passed |
| S0669 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Motor And Other Vehicles - Passing, Use Of Lanes, And Rules Of The Road: would provide a penalty for failing to exercise due care to avoid colliding with a vulnerable road user
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-05
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0242 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Motor And Other Vehicles -- Mobile Telephone Use: would make unlawful the use of a non-hands-free mobile telephone while operating a motor vehicle, except for public safety personnel
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-05
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0650 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Motor And Other Vehicles - Equipment And Accessories Generally: would expand the type of commercial carrier subject to federal motor carrier safety regulations by removing the gross vehicle weight rating and hazardous transportatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-05
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0734 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Motor And Other Vehicles -- Motor Vehicle Offenses: would require the use of an ignition interlock system and would be applicable to individuals convicted of various driving offenses involving drugs or alcohol
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-05
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0235 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Motor And Other Vehicles - Motor Vehicle Offenses: would increase the penalties for driving under the influence of liquor or drugs and refusal to submit to a chemical test
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-05
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0269 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Motor And Other Vehicles -- Passing, Using Of Lanes, And Rules Of The Road
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-05
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0118 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Motor And Other Vehicles -- Accidents And Accident Reports: would provide for a mandatory two year revocation of an operator's license when convicted of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in serious bodily injury
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-05
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0028 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Motor And Other Vehicles - Motor Vehicle Offenses: would increase the penalties for refusing to submit to a chemical test, extends the period for subsequent offenses to ten (10) years and prohibits the sealing of records until ten ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-05
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0698 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To State Affairs And Government - Human Resource Investment Council: would require the Human Resource Investment Council to include a funding plan in its biennial plan commencing January 1, 2012
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0319 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Education -- Board Of Governors For Higher Education: would require the advice and consent of the senate on the appointment of the commissioner of higher education
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0415 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Labor And Labor Relations - Labor Relations Act: would limit the ability of public school teachers to engage in labor strikes
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0935 | Pass | Senate Resolution Congratulating Alexis Dupre-harnois On Receiving The 2011 Quotarian Of The Year Award
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-04
Senate read and passed |
| S0201 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Businesses And Professions -- Confidentiality Of Health Care Communications And Information Act: would prevent disclosure of a patient's health care information through ex parte contacts with a health care provider by persons other...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-04
Committee continued |
| S0850 | Pass | Senate Resolution Respectfully Urging Congress To Support The Marketing Of Rhode Island Seafood
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-04
Senate read and passed |
| S0432 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Education - Board Of Regents: would grant the board of regents for elementary and secondary education the power to grant relief from educational mandates in response to petitions from school districts
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0526 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Waters And Navigation - The Coastal Resources Management Council: would require that all planning and management programs of the coastal resources council shall permit structural shoreline facilities in Matunuck when the proposed p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-04
Committee heard |
| S0521 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Education -- Kindergarten: would provide an increase in the hours per day kindergarten students would be required to attend class. It also directs schools and school districts to design their curriculum for kindergarten so as to me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0848 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Fish And Wildlife - Fur-bearing Animals: would eliminate any references in the general laws relating to the use of steel jawed leghold traps, and instead references foothold traps as a means of use through a special permit for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-04
Committee heard |
| S0847 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Fish And Wildlife - Hunting And Hunting Safety: would exempt from the disqualification of obtaining a bow and arrow license a person solely seeking an archer's permit
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-04
Committee heard |
| S0413 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Labor And Labor Relations - Certified School Teachers' Arbitration: would provide that if a successor collective bargaining agreement has not been agreed to by the parties, then the terms and conditions of the old teachers' contrac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0433 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Education -- The Paul W. Crowley Rhode Island Student Investment Initiative: would provide that the annual state assessment program would include the results of alternate assessments for up to 1% students from a school district who...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0846 | Pass | Senate Resolution Respectfully Urging The Rhode Island Congressional Delegation To Give Rhode Island Representation On The Mid-atlantic Fisheries Council
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-04
Senate read and passed |
| S0361 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Health And Safety -- Vital Records: would permit adult adoptees to obtain a non-certified copy of their original, unaltered birth certificate
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-04
Committee continued |
| S0524 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Education -- Kindergarten: would provide that kindergarten would need to include a minimum of at least five and one half (5 ½ ) hours of instruction per day to constitute a school day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0938 | Pass | Senate Resolution Congratulating Thomas A. Barbieri On Being Named 2011 Rhode Island Middle School Principal Of The Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-04
Senate read and passed |
| S0936 | Pass | Senate Resolution Congratulating The Republic Of China (taiwan) On The 100th Anniversary Of Its National Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-04
Senate read and passed |
| S0937 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming May 4, 2011 As "charter Public School Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-04
Senate read and passed |
| S0679 | Engross
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Criminal Offenses - Obstruction Of Justice
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0835 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Motor And Other Vehicles: would lengthen the periods of revocation of a license upon a conviction where there was a duty to stop in an accident resulting in personal injury
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0827 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Criminal Offenses - Crimes Against Public Trust: would create a new chapter within title 11, entitled "crimes against the public trust" defining and punishing specific criminal offenses
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0932 | Pass | Senate Resolution Congratulating Eagle Scout Nicholas Cinquegrana
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
Senate read and passed |
| S0929 | Pass | Senate Resolution Congratulating Vikram Simha Murthy On Attaining The Rank Of Eagle Scout
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
Senate read and passed |
| S0744 | Engross
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Domestic Relations - Solemnization Of Marriages: would include administrative clerks, as officials empowered to join persons in marriage
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0934 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming May As "better Speech And Hearing Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
Senate read and passed |
| S0933 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Sincere Condolences On The Passing Of Ernest B. Marot
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
Senate read and passed |
| S0830 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Commercial Law - General Regulatory Provisions - Deceptive Trade Practices: would give the dept of attorney general supplemental jurisdiction under the Deceptive Trade Practices Act where the regulatory agency does not have the aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0674 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Courts And Civil Procedure - Procedure Generally - Foreign Judgments - Uniform Foreign-country Money Judgments Recognition Act: would be a revision of the Uniform Foreign-Money Judgments Recognition Act of 1962
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
To House Corporations Committee |
| S0545 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Criminal Offenses -- Highways: would extend to wind turbines the statutory provisions with respect to windmills and would define the required setback from traveled streets and roads
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
Committee transferred to Senate Environment & Agriculture |
| S0833 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Criminal Offenses -- Sexual Offender Registration And Notification: would implement the Federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0828 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Human Services: provides for licensure of personal care service agencies and personal care attendants. The act also provides for national background checks for all those seeking employment in health care, assisted living and nursin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0928 | Pass | Senate Resolution Congratulating Dr. Douglas Wardwell On Being Chosen As Winner Of The Communitas Award For Leadership In Individual Community Service
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
Senate read and passed |
| S0832 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Criminal Offenses - Fraud And False Dealing: would increase the penalties for residential mortgage fraud, and would extend the statute of limitations for certain offenses
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0760 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Insurance: would provide the authority necessary to allow RI enter into a multistate surplus lines agreement. The Nonadmitted and Reinsurance reform Act of 2010 ("NRRA") enacted as part of the Dodd/Frank Wall Street Reform and Cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0779 | Engross
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Courts And Civil Procedure--procedure Generally -- Service Of Process: would add penalties to the provisions of Rhode Island general law 9-5-35 regarding interference with service of process in the workplace
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0215 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Public Records -- Access To Public Records: would require individual employment contracts of public employees to be made part of the public record
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0339 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Criminal Offenses -- Community Obligations And Banking Offenses --theft, Embezzlement, False Pretenses, And Misappropriations: would amend the larceny and unlawful conversion provisions of the general laws pertaining to when a crim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0659 | Engross
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Towns And Cities - Health And Educational Building Corporation: would provide that appointments to the Rhode Island health and education building corporation board shall be made with the advice and consent of the senate, and are re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
