| S3117 | Pass | Allow new employers to receive the new employer rate, and existing employers to maintain their current rate, when taking over an existing business if there is no common ownership, management or control of the two employers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S2094 | Pass | Allow the release of patient records for investigation and prosecution if a healthcare provider believes, after providing healthcare services to an elder patient, that the patient is or has been physically, psychologically or sexual abused
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S2639 | Pass | Create a sentencing enhancement for anyone convicted of being involved in criminal street gang activity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S3060 | Pass | Amend the provisions of the charter of River Bend Cemetery Company pertaining to the board of trustees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S3063 | Pass | Provide that for purposes of assessing property values in the town of Bristol, the period for the 2013 statistical update would be extended one year to 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S2957 | Pass | Authorize the city of Cranston to issue not more than $1,200,000 general obligation bonds and temporary notes to finance the improvement, renovation, repair, upgrading and equipping of the public library system in the city.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S2410 | Pass | Change the penalties for a first violation from $500 to $1,500 and for a second violation from $950 to $2,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S3103 | Pass | Requires that for the next general election, certain questions regarding bonds and expenditures of funds, be prepared by the secretary of state with only the caption and financial obligation, but that the question be listed in the voting booth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S2591 | Pass | Prohibit the use of personal wireless communication devices, in lieu of cell phones, while driving a motor vehicle, or school bus. This act would align state law with federal guidelines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S2956 | Pass | Authorizes the city of Cranston to issue not more than $2,000,000 general obligation bonds and temporary notes for the acquisition, construction, improvement, renovation, repair, alteration and equipping of playgrounds and athletic fields in the city...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S2709 | Pass | Make the use of a hand-held mobile phone while driving a commercial motor vehicle a traffic violation in accordance with federal regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S2104 | Pass | Require municipal recreation departments to obtain written authorization to perform a background check on a volunteer or employee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S2164 | Pass | Designate April 12 of each year as "RI Patriot Guard Riders Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S2355 | Pass | Joint Resolution Respectfully Requesting The Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council Examine And Refine Its Current Policies And Practices For The Adults With Developmental Disabilities Protection And Advocacy Systems (would Create A Developm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S2091 | Pass | Delete the option of straight party voting by means of a single mark in non-primary elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S2249 | Pass | Provide an increase in the minimum wage and would establish a framework for calculating the Rhode Island minimum wage from 2017 forward
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S2832 | Pass | Prohibit motor vehicle rental companies from using salvage title vehicles as rental vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S3113 | Pass | Authorize the city of Woonsocket to adopt by ordinance tax amnesty periods during its 2015 fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S3146 | Pass | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Joint Commission To Study R.i.g.l. 39-14.1, The Public Motor Vehicle Act, And The Impact Of Innovative Technologies On The Market For Transportation Services
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S2418 | Pass | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Be Known As "the 1696 Historical Commission" Of Rhode Island And The United States (creates A 15 Member Legislative Study Commission To Develop Curriculum Guidelines Teaching About The Afr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S2526 | Pass | Establish the Rhode Island Access to Medical Technology Innovation Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S2137 | Pass | Expand the powers of the department of environmental management relating to agriculture and farming by creating a new division of agriculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S2287 | Pass | Specify that the surviving custodial parent(s) of the deceased person would have the authority to make funeral arrangements for any deceased child in the event that no agent, surviving spouse, domestic partner are living at the time of death.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S2662 | Pass | Provide a procedure for removal of abandoned mobile or manufactured homes under the jurisdiction of the district court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S3053 | Pass | Provides for various changes to the jurisdiction, procedure, and administration of the Rhode Island workers' compensation court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S2645 | Pass | Increase the statute of limitations for exploitation of an elder from three (3) years to ten (10) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S3080 | Pass | Extends by one year the time a person's name may remain on a list for judicial candidates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S2142 | Pass | Authorize the Warwick city council, by ordinance, to increase the veterans’ tax exemption to four thousand dollars ($4,000)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S2272 | Pass | Permit publication of foreclosure notices for properties in the counties of Bristol, Kent and Washington in newspapers published or distributed in those counties respectively
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| S3076 | Pass | Allow Gary K. Belcher to join Roger Robitaille and LouAnn Ledoux in marriage on or about October 4, 2014, within the Town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| S2928 | Pass | Allow John M. Kelly to join Charles Robert Mallery and Wallace Raymond Demary, Jr., in marriage on or about August 16, 2014, within the City of Providence, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| S2357 | Pass | Provide guidelines for the registration of music therapists by the department of health
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| S3049 | Pass | Allow Chief Richard Nicholas Ramsay to join Lauren Nicole Iasimone and Paul Richard McAtee in marriage on or about September 6, 2014, within the City of Providence, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| S3029 | Pass | Further define the purposes of and the services to be provided by the Exeter Fire District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| S3129 | Pass | Allow the Honorable John J.J. Jones, Jr., to join June Friedmann and Allen Smith in marriage on or about September 4, 2014, within the Town of New Shoreham, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| S2308 | Pass | Create the Unclaimed Life Insurance Benefits Act. The act would require a good faith effort by insurers to seek out claimants under life insurance policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| S2706 | Pass | Establish a (65) day time period from the date of filing an appeal with a zoning board of review to hear and decide appeals. It would also require a zoning board of review to render a decision within fifteen (15) days after the public hearing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| S2315 | Pass | Create a food residuals recycling program to establish a safe and environmentally sound method to dispose of food residuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| S2513 | Pass | Establishes the circumstances and parameters under which a physician licensed to practice in another state could be licensed to practice in Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| S2964 | Pass | Authorizes the city of Pawtucket to issue up to $2,600,000 in general obligation bonds for the renovation and repair of the senior center, public library, police and fire stations, city hall and other public buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| S2391 | Pass | Establish qualifications and procedures to license underground utility contractors. It would also enlarge the contractor's registration and licensing board from 15 to 17 members to administer and to oversee the licensees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| S3093 | Pass | Allow John Raymond Picerne Pariseault, Esq., to join Kendra Ann Picerne Pariseault and William James Doyle, III in marriage on or about November 15, 2014, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| S2931 | Pass | Allow Jane C. Kratsch to join Robert J. Andrews and John D. Barton, Jr., in marriage on or about August 31, 2014, within the City of Warwick, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| S3092 | Pass | Allow Virginia A. DePasquale to join Meagan Leinhauser and Timothy Raymond O’Brien, Jr., in marriage on or about September 26, 2014, within the City of Warwick, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| S2925 | Pass | Clarify the exemption that allows the sale by non-professionals of so called “reading” glasses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| S2690 | Pass | Create a tariff-based renewable energy distributed generation financing program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| S3095 | Pass | Prohibit the sale of electronic nicotine delivery systems to persons under eighteen (18) and would require a business selling, dealing or distributing an electronic nicotine delivery system to obtain a license from the department of health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| S3075 | Pass | Allow Barbara A. Barrow, Esq., to join Brittany J. Gomes and Nicholas H. Mastrostefano in marriage on or about November 10, 2014, within the Town of Bristol, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| S2148 | Pass | Amend the provisions of the general laws relating to state car tax in order that the assessment of used motor vehicles would be based on the average trade-in price, rather than retail price & would also extend the appeal period from 30 to 45 days
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| S2095 | Pass | Establishes a social media privacy policy for students and employees, and prohibits the use of data in certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-30
Signed by Governor |
