| S0336 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that before a person can be remanded by the RI family court for out-of-state residential placement or treatment, they will first be assessed by the DCYF or the department of corrections and found to be a security risk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Meeting postponed (03/26/2015) |
| H5499 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the use of environmentally preferable cleaning supplies in all elementary and secondary schools. The state department of elementary and secondary education would be placed in charge of implementation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5948 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows federal and state officials or employees to serve as primary officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5711 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the division of planning create a checklist of environmental and energy issues that all state construction projects which cost in excess of two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) must consider and address.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5696 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each city and town school administration to file an annual report commencing September 30, 2015, providing the names of persons responsible for 504 and individualized education plans along with information regarding those plans with the RIDE...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5971 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the time period for fire districts to certify tax rolls and adopt budgets and requires quarterly and semi-annual budgets be submitted to the fire district clerk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| H5699 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public schools to maintain and have available on school grounds emergency epinephrine auto-injectors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5500 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Review Current Rules And Regulations Pertaining To The Rhode Island Board Of Medical Licensure & Discipline (creates A Nine (9) Member Special Legislative Study Commission Whose ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
House passed Sub A |
| H5622 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the secretary of state to create and administer an electronic voter registration system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5493 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale of liquid used by humans in electronic delivery systems unless packaged in child-resistant packaging.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0723 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes campus police officers appointed by the Rhode Island Board of Education for purposes of injured on duty benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended indefinite postponement |
| S0339 | Intro
Sine Die | Guarantees the constitutional, personal property, and civil rights of every child placed or treated under the supervision of the department of children, youth, and families in any public or private facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Meeting postponed (03/26/2015) |
| S0531 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends any existing collective bargaining agreements for firefighters and municipal police until a successor agreement has been reached or an interest arbitration award has been rendered.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5567 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes municipal performance management program funded by the department of administration to improve services in the government sector.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5621 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Respectfully Urging Congress To Restore Free And Fair Elections In The United States
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5372 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes extensive changes to the election laws, including the definition of what a vote is, how to store ballots in cases of disputed results; allows a voter to take political paraphernalia into polling place and makes the Board decision subject to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5304 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the secretary of state to the board of elections as a nonvoting ex officio member. Requires board of canvassers to clearly mark the fifty foot (50') buffer zone at each polling place where political campaigning is prohibited.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5614 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study Ballot Integrity And Security (creates A 5 Member Study Commission To Study Ballot Integrity And Security, And Who Would Report Back To The House By March 3, 2016, And Would Expire O...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5941 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the position of economic ambassador in Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0533 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes platoon structure and/or shift schedule as items covered by collective bargaining for firefighters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5878 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the governor to call the National Guard into service for public safety or memorial service purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5860 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits members of the general assembly from holding other offices under municipal government.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (03/25/2015) |
| H5836 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the state's share to support local public library services in distressed communities, by an amount equal to the amount paid by the distressed city or town into the ocean state libraries (OSL) annual assessment charges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5225 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the minimum age to buy and sell tobacco products from eighteen (18) years to twenty-one (21) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5462 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve, Publish And Submit To The Electors--a Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State (majority Vote Requirement Through Instant Runoff Voting For General Officers And General Assembly Members' Election) (propos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0445 | Intro
Sine Die | Entitles airport corporation rescue and firefighters to obtain injured in the line of duty benefits, if so qualified and would include injuries sustained while performing services for the executive military staff.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended indefinite postponement |
| H5155 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a process to ensure persons in government custody are counted as their actual residence for purposes of redistricting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5689 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires smoking bar owners to register with division of taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0353 | Intro
Sine Die | Gives the contractor's registration and licensing board jurisdiction over pump installers, and/or water filtration/treatment system contractors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5865 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all candidates for public office who receive or expend more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) in any one election cycle to maintain a separate campaign checking account which shall solely contain campaign contributions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5749 | Intro
Sine Die | Implements the provisions of the Lean government initiative, which has been adopted in the business community and governments throughout the country to eliminate waste and inefficiency in the operation of state government.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5783 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of the term "aftermarket part" to refer to all motor vehicle replacement parts, and amends the title of chapter 10.2 to reference the change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5418 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts the tort liability of city, town or fire district employees or officials to those acts or omissions not performed within the scope of their employment or if actual fraud, malice or willful misconduct is involved.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5866 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a new criminal offense for driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor and/or drugs which results in the physical injury of anyone other than the operator.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5811 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that taxicabs, limited public motor vehicles, and public motor vehicles be considered common carriers and public utility companies. Also eliminates administrative expense assessment exemption to utilities and carriers with revenue under $100...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5609 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires criminal background check for issuance of a hackney license
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5762 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes litigation loan agreements subject to state usury statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5090 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits retired teachers to perform service as a juror or an election polling place worker and receive payment for such service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5759 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a civil cause of action against physicians or optometrists for failing to report a patient's condition which would significantly impair the patient's ability to operate a motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0755 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the acquisition or delivery of a firearm by straw purchaser or straw seller.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0400 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes from the calculation of gross receipt taxes for public service corporations, the energy charge that exceeds the standard rate offer in effect on December 31, 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5808 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the operator of a public motor vehicle from transporting any passenger unless the pickup time is prearranged at least two (2) hours before the actual pickup.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0179 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits law enforcement from using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles without a proper warrant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5760 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that an original tortfeasor is liable for a victim's enhanced injury from negligent third party treatment, subject to a right of contribution against a subsequent third person for the amount of the negligently enhanced injury.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5761 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that an open and obvious danger or defect is not a complete bar to recovery of damages in personal injury or property damage actions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0716 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines inspectors of the public utilities commission and division motor carriers as peace officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0488 | Intro
Sine Die | A moratorium on the licensing of home health care agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (03/26/2015) |
| S0039 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the increases in rates that electric distribution companies may impose without general assembly approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5140 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs fifty percent (50%) of any state surplus to be distributed to the general fund and the remaining fifty percent (50%) to the cities and towns in accordance with the state aid formula.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5880 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases imprisonment penalties for driving so as to endanger, resulting in death and driving so as to endanger resulting in personal injury. This act would also create a new criminal offense of driving under the influence resulting in personal inju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
