| S3048 | Pass | Provide the Bristol County Water Authority with the authority to appoint a secretary and treasurer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2730 | Pass | Authorize the use of an antique motor car or motor cycle twenty-five (25) years or older for limited enjoyment in addition to use in exhibitions, club activities, parades, and other functions of public interest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2764 | Pass | Joint Resolution Respectfully Requesting Immediate Safety Improvements To The Claiborne Pell Bridge In Honor Of The Memory Of Kathy Meunier, Kenny Prior, And Elijah Swift
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2516 | Pass | Provides that health insurers could not require optometrists to provide services at a fee set by the insurer unless the insurer covered the fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2702 | Pass | Lower the minimum acceptable ratio of severely disabled employees that a habilitation facility must employ from sixty percent (60%) to forty percent (40%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2999 | Pass | Allow the town of North Smithfield to exempt and stabilize tax assessments for Rankin Estates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2721 | Pass | Raise the maximum penalties for littering from five hundred dollars ($500) to one thousand dollars ($1000) for the first offense and from five hundred dollars ($500) to five thousand dollars ($5,000) for a subsequent offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2182 | Pass | Require the board of education to consider several factors in determining which high school equivalency test would be recognized by the state. Such facts would include cost, the recognition of the test by other states, and other criteria.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2673 | Pass | Increase the penalties for failing to pay employees wages as the law requires.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2947 | Pass | Encourages school districts to train their school counselors on collaborating with business, industry and other community organizations to help create internships and apprenticeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2606 | Pass | Create an advisory committee to the office of the child advocate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S3073 | Pass | Joint Resolution Ratifying An Amendment To The Constitution Of The United States Concerning The Elections Of Senators
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2977 | Pass | Make revisions to the state work immersion program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S3065 | Pass | Joint Resolution Extending The Reporting And Expiration Dates Of The Special Legislative Commission To Be Known As "the Rhode Island Civil War Sesquicentennial Commemoration Commission" (this Resolution Extends The Reporting And Expiration Dates Of T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2539 | Pass | Allows persons honorably discharged from the military or members of the National Guard to use acquired classroom and workplace training towards apprenticeship requirements for certain skilled trades.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2804 | Pass | Allows optometrists to prescribe hydrocodone-containing medications despite the fact that hydrocodone is a schedule II Substance. This act would also limit the prescription of hydrocodone-containing medications to no more than 72 hours.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2951 | Pass | Empowers DEM to enforce laws, rules and regulations pertaining to facilities and properties leased, managed or utilized by the department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2059 | Pass | Amend method by which the state assessment program would be implemented in public schools. The act would provide that no state assessment conducted pursuant to chapter 16-97 and prior to 7/1/17, would be used to determine student's eligibility to gra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S3112 | Pass | Create a new electricians license called the "sign renovation electrical license" limited to the removal or installation of signs only if the removal or installation of the sign requires removing or installing three (3) wires.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S3139 | Pass | Authorize the Quonset Development Corporation to establish a stormwater management and conveyance system and regulate connections, user fees, charges and assessments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2682 | Pass | Allow barbers, hairdressers, cosmeticians, manicurists and estheticians to provide their services outside of their salon as part of a special occasion event such as a wedding or prom.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2562 | Pass | Amend The Lead Poisoning Prevention Act to provide for a longer licensing period, making the licensing process less labor intensive by eliminating the requirement for annual refresher courses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S3140 | Pass | Establish a procedure for the initial payment and renewal registration fees for the operation of a food business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S3094 | Pass | Add an additional member, the executive director of operation stand down, to the housing resources commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2712 | Pass | Requires firefighter applicants to undergo state and federal criminal background checks and fingerprinting prior to hire. Fingerprint records would be destroyed after the completion of the background check.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S3120 | Pass | Creates a youth pregnancy and at-risk prevention services program to be administered by the department of human services. The director of the department will make an annual allocation of $250,000 through federal funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2791 | Pass | Requires the prioritizing of state aid for the funding of full-day kindergarten programs. The commissioner of elementary and secondary education would rank all eligible school districts to ensure the quality and sustainability of each program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2291 | Pass | Name the Boston Neck Road Bridge over Route 138 in North Kingstown the “Second Lieutenant Matthew Coutu Memorial Bridge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2774 | Pass | Requires district court to provide information to the NCIS database of those persons subject to civil commitment for mental health treatment. Creates an appeal board for persons denied the right to firearms ownership by the commitment process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2519 | Pass | Authorize the director of the department of health to establish rules for the licensing of lactation consultants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2610 | Pass | Make it a felony to knowingly disseminate the electronic transmission of indecent materials to minors and would subject those offenders to the Sexual Offender Registration and Community Notification Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S2575 | Pass | Provide that boards or commissions with governing powers over mobile and manufactured homes offer fair and impartial elections and would require that matters which need conflict resolution be referred to the department of business regulation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2326 | Pass | Authorize the city of Newport to increase the cruise ship fees by one dollar ($1.00) per passenger for landing and one dollar ($1.00) per passenger for embarking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2183 | Pass | Expand the board of education membership from eleven (11) members to twelve (12) by adding an employer community member of the state workforce investment board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2648 | Pass | Allows probate estates or administrations to be reopened without probate court approval for the distribution of newly discovered asset(s) ($5,000) or less by executors or administrators and would provide a hearing for any objecting beneficiary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2215 | Pass | Establish and create a fund within the department of elderly affairs to assist the elderly population to remain living in their homes and communities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2652 | Pass | Expand the type of criminal records check required for persons applying to be routine contact patient employees in a long-term facility or provider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S3051 | Pass | Name the Pocasset River Bridge No. 23 as “The Honorable Raymond M. Durfee Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2307 | Pass | Require insurers to send insureds a notice captioned "Insurance Coverage Reduction Notice" itemizing and describing any coverage elimination, reduction, diminution or increased deductible not at the request of the insureds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2871 | Pass | Exempt from taxation the real and personal property located, in the City of Cranston, of the Comprehensive Community Action Program, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S3027 | Pass | Authorizes Coventry to $5,500,000 in bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness to finance the purchase of equipment and facilities for the automated Town-wide collection, storage and handling of refuse and recyclables in town.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2555 | Pass | Make available motor vehicle registration plates for the Boston Bruins Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2298 | Pass | Grant cities and towns the right to tax or enter into a stabilization agreement with a for-profit hospital facility that had not been converted from a nonprofit hospital facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2970 | Pass | Postpones the date of the next Warren property revaluation until 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2120 | Pass | Create a special registration plate for electric powered vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2476 | Pass | Eliminate the six (6) month limit for adult education work readiness from the requirements for cash assistance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2292 | Pass | Provide for the issuance of a special plate for Olympic Medal winners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2086 | Pass | Allow inclusionary zoning ordinances to provide that affordable housing must be built on-site or, in the alternative, be produced off-site, by donation of land and/or by payment of a fee-in-lieu of the construction or provision of affordable housing
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2238 | Pass | Permit notices of probate hearings to be published in a newspaper published or distributed in the county in which the hearings are to be held.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2419 | Pass | Allow dealers, manufacturers, distributors and leasing companies to renew their licenses every three (3) years instead of every year. License fees remain unchanged but are allowed to be paid in yearly installments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
