| H5120 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits a petition for adoption, and if necessary, termination of parental rights, to be filed by a grandparent(s) without the noncustodial parents' consent, when the child is in the sole custody of the grandparent(s).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-25
Committee continued |
| H5882 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a special registration plate to honor César E. Chávez.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-25
House read and passed |
| H5681 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies Warren need not perform update until 2019, and every three years thereafter until revaluation in 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-25
House read and passed |
| H5930 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows mail ballot applications and emergency mail ballot applications to also serve as an affirmation form for inactive voters, as long as the voter's application address is where the voter is currently registered.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-25
Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/25/2015) |
| H6124 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends and repeals certain provisions of Chapter 3235 of the 1953 Public Laws pertaining to elections in the City of Woonsocket.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-25
House read and passed |
| H6307 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes any individual, whose name was publicly submitted to the governor by the judicial nominating commission, eligible for subsequent nomination by the governor until June 30, 2016, for any vacancy or prospective vacancy of a judge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-25
Committee continued |
| H5534 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the department of transportation to set up a pothole report toll-free telephone line.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-25
House read and passed |
| H6026 | Engross
Sine Die | Removes the thirty (30) day mail notice requirement to those owing overdue court fees currently received prior to their names being published.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-25
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| H5570 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes a special license plate for the Rocky Point Foundation, Inc., and would specify the fees and other conditions for issuance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-25
House read and passed |
| H5791 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of a special license plate for Lupus Foundation New England.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-25
House read and passed |
| H5383 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs school superintendents to review and respond to discipline data where there is an unequal impact on students based on race, ethnicity, or disability. No out of school suspensions unless student's conduct meets certain standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-25
House read and passed |
| H5895 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits children under eighteen (18) years of age who are attending career and technical education schools, to participate in career and technical internships or teacher supervised job site training program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H6366 | Engross
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Congratulating Susan Donovan On Receiving The 2015 Bristol 4th Of July Hattie Brown Award
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-25
House read and passed |
| H5863 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits title examiners, attorneys, and members of genealogical societies to examine death certificates. No fees would be charged for searching or viewing said records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-25
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| H5292 | Engross
Sine Die | Grants authority in the state of Rhode Island, to the exclusion of municipalities, to regulate unpiloted aerial vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-25
House read and passed |
| H6345 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the Honorable Arthur M. Diamond to join Brian Benjamin McDevitt Goldberger and Kimberly Frances Morse in marriage on or about June 27, 2015, within the Town of Middletown, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-24
House read and passed |
| H5859 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the court, to consider certain new standards, when deciding whether or not to grant amendments to conservation restrictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-24
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| H5963 | Engross
Sine Die | Converts from a review to an advisory board of 7 members, removes $50,000 from removal/replacement grants for underground tanks, makes changes to hearing/claim procedures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-24
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| H5450 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the sealing and destruction of all arrest records and indices of arrest for those persons who are wrongfully arrested or detained by any law enforcement agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-24
House read and passed |
| H6210 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits dogs in outdoor dining of restaurants under certain circumstances and does not affect the rights of an individual to use a service animal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-24
House read and passed |
| H5033 | Engross
Sine Die | Revises procedure for expungement of records after completion of a deferred sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-24
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| H5600 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that dissolved, terminated or revoked limited liability companies would have five (5) years after the date of the dissolution, termination, or revocation for the purpose of enabling it to wind up and close its affairs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-24
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| H6022 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriate public education made available to a disabled child until their twenty-first birthday or completion of program in which they are enrolled as of their twenty-first birthday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-24
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| H5162 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that the shelter and nourishment of dogs conform to standards set by Tufts Animal Care and Conditions Scale.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-24
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| H6062 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires purchaser of tax sale property, not the redeeming party, to pay collector's deed recording fee with reimbursement by any redeeming party, if any.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-24
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| H5685 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes wireless telephones in the adaptive telephone equipment loan program that services the needs of persons who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, severely speech impaired, or those with neuromuscular impairments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-23
House read and passed |
| H5949 | Engross
Sine Die | Eliminates the statutory reference to the 50 Branch Ave., Providence address on mail ballot envelopes provided by the secretary of state, and would instead require the address of the board of elections be placed on return envelopes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-23
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| H5337 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifically empowers the Rhode Island Student Loan Authority to refinance and consolidate existing eligible loans. Authorizes the authority to purchase and invest in its own bonds and notes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-23
House read and passed |
| H6226 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits the current Cranston police chief to enroll in a defined contribution retirement plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-23
House read and passed |
| H5093 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates the "Rhode Island Terminally Ill Patient's Right to Try Act of 2015," which establishes the conditions for the use of experimental treatments for terminally ill patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-23
Committee continued |
| H6276 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts from taxation the real and personal property at 415 Tower Hill Road, North Kingstown of South County Community Action, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-23
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| H5136 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds dyslexia-targeted assistance as a required aspect of the literacy program for students at the elementary grade level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-23
House read and passed |
| H5504 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds hoarding of animals to the list of cruelty to animal offenses. This act would take effect upon passage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-23
House read and passed |
| H6317 | Engross
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Proclaiming September 13th Of 2015 As "national Grandparents Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-17
House read and passed |
| H5409 | Engross
Sine Die | Grants the director of the department of environmental management the authority to issue emergency temporary refuse transfer licenses to existing collection stations or recycle centers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-17
Committee heard |
| H5100 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows self service gas stations to use delivery nozzles with latch-open device when equipped with safeguards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-16
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| H5613 | Engross
Sine Die | Removes the requirement of an affidavit of ownership or occupancy by an entity with tax exempt status by a mortgagee for an offer to purchase a mortgage or residential property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5687 | Engross
Sine Die | Modifies the dense breast notice sent to patients advising of the more reliable and much less costly 3D tomosynthesis test related to supplementary screening.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-11
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5950 | Engross
Sine Die | Eliminates the need for certified envelope containing mail ballot be placed in outer envelope, requires certified envelope be delivered to election board by poll closing time, and allows voter who applied for mail ballot to cast a provisional ballot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-28
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5375 | Engross
Sine Die | Eliminates the need for city/town special election to create an opt-out municipal energy aggregation plan subject to PUC approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-26
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H5246 | Engross
Sine Die | Enables the general assembly in grand committee to fill a vacancy in the office of the lieutenant governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
