| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| S0295 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Taxation - Sales And Use Taxes - Liability And Computation: would impose a tax on distributors, manufacturers and wholesalers of a soft drink at a rate of one cent ($0.01) per ounce
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
Committee heard |
| S0831 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Criminal Offenses - Weapons: would make the possession of ammunition and firearms by a minor unlawful unless the minor holds a valid permit and is in the presence of a parent, guardian or supervising adult, or falls into other lega...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-03
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0843 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Public Utilities And Carriers -- Public Motor Vehicles: would allow the division of public utilities and carriers to set a minimum charge for public motor vehicles services in the amount of not less than thirty-five dollars ($35.00
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0052 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Towns And Cities -- Audit Of Accounts And Installation Of Systems: would create a uniform system of auditing for municipal finances
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
Committee heard |
| S0564 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Towns And Cities - State Aid: would allow cities and towns to receive state aid in lieu of taxes not paid by federal government facilities located in their jurisdictions
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
Committee heard |
| S0845 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate Resolution Requesting The Rhode Island Department Of Administration To Switch To Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs By July 1, 2012
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0318 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Commercial Law--general Regulatory Provisions: would establish penalties for unfair practices by electronic payment systems
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0272 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Public Property And Works
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
To House Labor Committee |
| S0854 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Towns And Cities -- Rhode Island Interlocal Regional Services Commission: would establish a public corporation to be known as "The Rhode Island Interlocal Regional Services Commission."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
Committee heard |
| S0006 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Public Utilities And Carriers -- Excavation Near Underground Utility Facilities -- Costs: would require public utilities to incur all costs incurred by municipal corps associated with the temporary or permanent relocation of utilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0250 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Businesses And Professions -- Electricians: would increase the administrative penalties the director of labor and training may assess for violations of the general la ws which regulate electricians
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0425 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Labor And Labor Relations - Mechanical Trades - Master Pipefitters: would provide that only licensed master pipefitters may install boilers and other water heaters
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0800 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Alcoholic Beverages - Manufacturing And Wholesale Licenses: allow holder of a manufacturer's license to sell not to exceed 375 ml per visitor of distilled spirits and 72 oz per visitor of malt beverages to visitors for off-premise ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0876 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Insurance - Medical Copayments: would require deductibles, copayments and other forms of patient financial responsibility for hospital services to be collected by insurers
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0074 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Public Property And Works -- Labor And Payment By Contractors: would provide that each bidder, prior to the award of a contract for public works, would submit to the proper authority a list of his or her subcontractors for any part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0434 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Education - School Committees And Superintendents - Newport School Committee: would allow the school committee for the city of Newport to adopt a dress code for elementary, middle, and high school students
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0479 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Insurance -- Establishing Minimum Physician Reimbursement Rates For Payments From Commercial Health Insurers: would require health insurers to reimburse eligible physicians not less the 140% of the amount medicare would provide for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0251 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Public Officers And Employees - Merit System: would provide that highway maintenance operators shall be eligible for overtime work despite being granted sick leave during the same payroll period
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0134 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To State Affairs And Government -- State Lottery: would direct the state lottery division to conduct an instant game known as the "Scratch-A-Tick Game" during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0873 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Insurance - Contract With Healthcare Providers: provide that any contract that includes rate of payment for service that exceeds a percentage, be established annually by the health insurance commission, of rate paid for the same se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0140 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Animals And Animal Husbandry - Dogs: would provide guidelines/penalties for any person that keeps a dog outside tethered/penned/caged/fenced/confined without adequate shelter from the elements and would add definitions to the chapt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
Committee heard |
| S0124 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Businesses And Professions -- Electricians: would require an applicant for journeyperson's Certificate B to have completed one hundred forty-four (144) hours per year for four (4) years of electrical related classroom instruction
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0182 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Education -- School Committees And Superintendents: would allow school districts to use longer school days to educate students during the school year, and to do so in less than 180 days, so long as the total amount of school hours ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0354 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Health And Safety -- Litter: would mandate that retail establishments give their customers who provide their own reusable bags a five cent ($.05) per bag instant rebate and to post written notice of the credit to their customers
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0470 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Insurance: would provide that a health benefit plan issued to a small employer with an aggregate number of at least 100 insured individuals is exempt from the provisions of the small employer Health Insurance Availability Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0464 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Insurance - Services For Children: would provide mandated coverage for home care, home nursing care, or community-based services for children with disabilities and/or chronic illness
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0746 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Businesses And Professions - Plumbers And Irrigators: would permit municipalities or water districts, to hire employees or other qualified contractors for the purpose of replacing meters
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0411 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act Relating To Businesses And Professions -- Plumbers And Irrigators: would provide that the provisions of chapter 5-20 will not prohibit employees or contractors with municipalities and water districts from replacing water meters, even if such e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
