| H7172 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits eligible recipients of direct cash assistance from using said funds to purchase alcoholic beverages, lottery tickets, tobacco products or other prohibited transactions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7423 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that special police officers have limited jurisdiction on public streets and highway corridors between an educational institution buildings and land areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7502 | Intro
Sine Die | Caps certain hospital employees' compensation at a rate not exceeding one hundred ten percent (110%) of the northeast regional average for comparable personnel at comparable hospitals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7527 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes penalties and remedies for human trafficking and makes human trafficking and human trafficking for purposes of sexual servitude, forced labor, commercial sexual activity felonies punishable by imprisonment and fines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7364 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires small employer insurers to allow small employers, collectively as a group, to purchase group health insurance plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7484 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes crimes against the public trust and criminal penalties and civil damages for illegal trust offenses. It would set a 10 year criminal statute of limitations and provide for possible pension revocation or reduction for any job-related felon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7301 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that no pregnant applicant for medical insurance coverage would be denied coverage due to her pregnancy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7245 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the court to permit residents of Block Island to complete a court-approved counseling program in domestic violence cases with a provider on Block Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7246 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that any inmate in a correctional facility to be gainfully employed and to have their pay garnished, provided they owe child support.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7419 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes certain disorderly conduct offenses subject to a fine of $500 only, while maintaining the current sanctions for disorderly conduct cases involving domestic violence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7321 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an electronic automobile and commercial vehicle liability insurance confirmation and compliance system in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7420 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminalize injuries to cell/radio towers and increases penalties for injury to electric and communication lines from $3,000 to $50,000; imprisonment from 2 years to 10 years, or both and requires restitution for economic harm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7335 | Intro
Sine Die | Reclassifies the offense of shoplifting from a crime to a violation for a first offense conviction punishable by a fine only, and would punish a second offense as a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine only without the possibility of a prison sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7501 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits health care providers from sending collection letter or reporting failure of patient to pay debt requiring credit card number before rendering medical treatment if the patient has HSA as part of employer-offered insurance coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7316 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminalizes residential mortgage fraud and extends the statute of limitations for certain criminal offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7467 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals provisions of general laws that prohibit health insurance coverage for induced abortions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7485 | Intro
Sine Die | Codifies the public corruption and white collar crime unit within the department of attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7513 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits insurance companies from varying the premium rates charged for a health coverage plan based on the gender.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7418 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a five hundred dollars ($500) fine for first and second convictions for willful trespass, in addition to fines of one thousand dollars ($1000) for third or subsequent convictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7247 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires persons convicted of crimes of violence to serve half their sentence before being eligible for parole.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (02/23/2016) |
| H7638 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the thirty (30) day mail notice requirement which must be provided to those owing overdue court fees due prior to their names being published.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7593 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the state fire marshal, chief deputy state fire marshals, director of the Rhode Island fire academy, and deputy state fire marshals, be considered members of the Rhode Island state police for purposes of retirement benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| H7562 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the excise tax any vehicle or trailer with a valuation of five thousand dollars ($5,000) or less.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| H7354 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that individuals employed in medical/dental healthcare practices other than hospitals are subject to the Sunday/holiday pay with DLT director prohibited from granting exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Labor Committee |
| H7366 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows street light customers paying for lighting services to make investments use purchased equipment with access agreements provided by electric distributors and net metering based on total billed consumption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H7356 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits employees who are covered by employer-sponsored disability insurance programs to elect to be exempt from the state TDI program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Labor Committee |
| H7409 | Pass | Authorizes the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority to enter into contracts to operate and manage toll facilities on state roads and imposes tolls on such roads.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Signed by Governor |
| H7564 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the Rhode Island Tax Amnesty Acts of 1986, 1996, 2006, and 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| H7558 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any law authorizing a tax preference enacted after January 1, 2017 to contain specific goals and objectives and provides for detailed performance indicators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| H7411 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the director of the department of environmental management to issue violations and penalties for violations of provisions of the general laws regarding the Rhode Island infrastructure bank.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H7280 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires, prior to the award of authority, that all bidders for public works contracts provide a list of the subcontractors to be utilized.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Labor Committee |
| H7355 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds siblings to class of workers who can receive temporary disability for caregiver services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Labor Committee |
| H7549 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a procedure for the timely payment to contractors and subcontractors in connection with state contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H7548 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state and municipalities to award bids for the purchase of goods or services to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H7553 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates that health employees working for state operated community and residential facilities receive a minimum of $13.97 per hour and that such rate would be adjusted annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H7550 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies depreciation with respect to the net book value of a company's tangible personal property, by providing that the accumulated depreciation reduction takes into account physical deterioration and functional and economic obsolescence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H7135 | Pass | Allows Dan E. Blackstone to join Teresa Garcia and Jeffery Perez in marriage on or about February 13, 2016, within the town of Westerly, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| H7255 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all food businesses, with the exception of restaurants, that have gross sales of over $500,000 to post a sign informing their customers that all their food products contain modified organisms, unless their labels say otherwise.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7082 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that any genetically-engineered foods be labeled as such.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7088 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes operators of developmental disability agencies, acting as a group, to self-insure health care costs for employees, retirees and other beneficiaries and allows a third-party administrator to administer said program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7415 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the secretary of state to the board of elections as a nonvoting ex officio member. It also requires the board of canvassers to clearly mark the fifty foot (50') buffer zone at each polling place, where political campaigning is prohibited.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7314 | Intro
Sine Die | Subjects the state board of elections to the provisions of the administrative procedures act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7400 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires persons in government custody use their actual residence for census and redistricting purposes as determined by the department of corrections and the secretary of state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7303 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for the sale of alcoholic beverages on the premises of a manufacturer of said beverages and the sale of said beverages for off-premises consumption. It would also amend the fee schedule for licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7274 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the labeling of all raw and packaged food that is entirely or partially produced with genetic engineering, commencing January 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7304 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires cable television companies to give their customers the option to purchase, at its fair market value, a device which decodes their digital cable signals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7035 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes public entity budgets available in digital form through the secretary of state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7312 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires motor vehicle operator and chauffeur licenses valid for motorcycle operation, to state so conspicuously.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7401 | Intro
Sine Die | Penalizes operating a motor vehicle with any significant amount of snow or ice with a fine of one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7310 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires drivers of motor vehicles to stay at least three feet (3') away from pedestrians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
