| H5133 | Pass | Requires retail establishments within the state offering a veteran's preference or discount to honor the Rhode Island operator's license designation as proof of military service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| H6001 | Pass | Allows employers to make voluntary contributions to their unemployment account, in order to lower their unemployment insurance tax rate for the following calendar year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0973 | Pass | Authorizes DEM to lease state property for 40 years for public recreation or natural resource board industry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0455 | Pass | Establishes regulations and standards for distance learning educational programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| H5364 | Pass | Raises the minimum wage for tipped workers to three dollars and thirty-nine cents ($3.39) per hour beginning January 1, 2016, and to three dollars and eighty-nine cents ($3.89) per hour, beginning January 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| H5407 | Pass | Authorizes connection to existing sanitary sewer lines from facilities across city and town lines under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| H5047 | Pass | Requires all public middle schools, junior high schools and high schools to maintain opioid antagonists on school premises for administration by school personnel in an emergency to pupils or staff suspected of having an opioid-related drug overdose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| H5929 | Pass | Increases the permissible funeral expense for a veteran who dies at the veterans' home from $5,000 to $10,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0535 | Pass | Allows self service gas stations to use delivery nozzles with latch-open device when equipped with safeguards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| H5550 | Pass | Establishes a formula for the assessment of municipal construction permit fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0697 | Pass | Expands the definition of public motor vehicles to include transportation services licensed home care nursing care providers and facilities, assisted living providers, licensed adult day services as well as programs for inclusive care for the elderly...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0696 | Pass | Eliminates requirement that taxicabs can be operated only by owners or employees during the first twelve (12) month period that the vehicle is in service and allows for leasing of such vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0168 | Pass | Prohibits a group health plan and a health insurance issuer from discriminating with respect to participation under plan or coverage against any health care provider acting within scope of provider's license or certification under state law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0754 | Pass | Increases from 300 ft to 1,000 ft the distance within which a registered sex offender may not reside near a school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| H5819 | Pass | Requires all police departments to submit annual reports to the office of highway safety regarding racial disparities in traffic stops.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| H6025 | Pass | Increases from 300 ft to 1,000 ft the distance within which a registered sex offender may not reside near a school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0560 | Pass | Establishes a formula for the assessment of municipal construction permit fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0737 | Pass | Amends the general laws relative to regulation of freshwater wetlands by establishing state standards for freshwater buffers and setbacks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0285 | Pass | Requires retail establishments within the state offering a veteran's preference or discount to honor the Rhode Island operator's license designation as proof of military service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0099 | Pass | Extends low income childcare benefits indefinitely by repealing the June 30, 2015 sunset provision from the law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| H6034 | Pass | Adopts the "Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act" in Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| H5786 | Pass | Exempts public motor vehicles providing services to passengers through a program funded by the federal government or the state from both the requirement that service be provided in unmarked vehicles and the provisions of the minimum allowable charge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| H5926 | Pass | Permits both parents in two parent families to contribute toward the weekly work requirement for TANF eligibility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| H5348 | Pass | Extends low income childcare benefits indefinitely by repealing the June 30, 2015 sunset provision from the law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0490 | Pass | Provides coverage for seven (7) days of residential or inpatient services for opioid treatment to be included within the appropriate classification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| H5046 | Pass | Prohibits a group health plan and health insurance issuer from discriminating regarding participation under the plan or coverage against any health provider acting within scope of provider's license or certification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0154 | Pass | Requires schools educating pupils in grades 6-12 to maintain opioid antagonists on school premises to treat an opioid overdose. Also provides immunity to school personnel for the administration of an opioid antagonist in a school setting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0797 | Pass | Increases the permissible funeral expense for a veteran who dies at the veterans' home from $5,000 to $10,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| H5776 | Pass | Encourages that public secondary schools, managed or controlled by the state, provide courses in musical performing arts as part of their curriculum effective July 1, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0525 | Pass | Adopts the "Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act" in Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0669 | Pass | Amend the racial profiling act to require searches to be documented, to set rules regarding the recordation of stops, the maintenance of any recordings, the completion of reports and prohibits the search of juveniles without probable cause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| H5353 | Pass | Allows self service gas stations to use delivery nozzles with latch-open device when equipped with safeguards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| H6343 | Pass | Authorizes DEM to lease state property for 40 years for public recreation or natural resource board industry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| H5837 | Pass | Provides coverage for seven (7) days of residential or inpatient services for opioid treatment to be included within the appropriate classification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| H5812 | Pass | Eliminates requirement that taxicabs can be operated only by owners or employees during the first twelve (12) month period that the vehicle is in service and allows for leasing of such vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0537 | Pass | Authorizes connection to existing sanitary sewer lines from facilities across city and town lines under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0709 | Pass | Permits both parents in two parent families to contribute toward the weekly work requirement for TANF eligibility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0459 | Pass | Requires public schools to offer courses in musical performing arts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0813 | Pass | Allows employers to make voluntary contributions to their unemployment account, in order to lower their unemployment insurance tax rate for the following calendar year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0465 | Pass | Establishes private savings (ABLE) account for qualifying disabled persons wherein monies grow tax free and used for qualifying expenses per Section 529A of Internal Revenue Service Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| H5668 | Pass | Amend the Rhode Island cesspool act of 2007 by phasing out cesspools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| H5769 | Pass | Defines a mortgage trigger lead for the purposes of consumer privacy in mortgage applications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S0347 | Pass | Require that any dog seized as a result of dog fighting or unprovoked attacks upon human beings be placed in the care of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S0348 | Pass | Allows the display of religion-related items on condominium and apartment doors despite restrictive covenants to the contrary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| H6093 | Pass | Designates the American burying beetle to be the official state insect.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| H5491 | Pass | Creates two (2) classifications of full collision licensees for auto body repair facilities with the requirements for each. It would also clarify the auto body rate survey requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-09
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0740 | Pass | Requires state agencies and public corporations to establish and maintain adequate internal control structures, and financial reporting policies and procedures, in order to reduce fraud and errors in state programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S0749 | Pass | Allows qualifying veterans/spouses/children under 25 years old to pay resident tuition/fees at state colleges upon filing a letter of intent to reside in the state while so enrolled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| H5954 | Pass | Prohibits land trust/municipality from imposing transfer tax/free on state land purchases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| S0969 | Pass | Defines a mortgage trigger lead with regard to consumer privacy in mortgage applications, and specifies prohibited acts or practices which may result from solicitations based upon information contained in a mortgage trigger lead.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-09
Signed by Governor |
