| H8293 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the turnpike and bridge authority to the list of state agencies and/or entities entitled to exemptions from certain administrative procedures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7156 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates the "Rhode Island Terminally Ill Patient's Right to Try Act of 2016," which establishes the conditions for the use of experimental treatments for terminally ill patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H8290 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the president of the Rhode Island Brotherhood of Correctional Officers as a member of the criminal justice policy board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8258 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the family court to accept a waiver of financial information in uncontested divorces with no children or dependents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8257 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the possession of a stun-gun under the same license conditions which apply to possession of a pistol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8275 | Intro
Sine Die | Enables New Shoreham to present to voters the questions of creation of utility association and, if approved, its form as a district or cooperative to be called New Shoreham Utility Association.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7966 | Pass | Repeals the section which created the commercial fishing license review board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-06
Signed by Governor |
| H7835 | Pass | Amends the composition of the governor's workforce board by adding one employer seat and one seat representing the office of rehabilitation services, a division within the department of human services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-06
Signed by Governor |
| H7014 | Pass | 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] | 2016-06-06
Signed by Governor |
| H7005 | Pass | Creates a cause of action for employees who are discharged or otherwise sanctioned by an employer on account of being required to attend court or other hearing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-06
Signed by Governor |
| H8147 | Pass | Allows Jonah Michael David to join Cassandra Leigh Jendzejec and Avram Joseph David in marriage on or about July 9, 2016, within the City of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-06
Signed by Governor |
| H8082 | Pass | Requires that school bus drivers' annual training include the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's school bus driver in-service training series.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-06
Signed by Governor |
| H7469 | Pass | Creates retailer Class WB license to purchase 500 to 2,000 gallons of wine from wholesaler for use in wholesale manufacture of wine biscuits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-06
Signed by Governor |
| H7551 | Pass | Permits cities and towns to borrow any amount from the School Building Authority Capital Fund to fund the LEA's share of total project costs without voter approval prior to July 1, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-06
Signed by Governor |
| H7406 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines confidential information and prohibits the intentional and unauthorized access to another's computer, computer system or network with the intent to view, save or copy confidential information contained therein.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-03
Placed on House Calendar (06/14/2016) |
| H7606 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits encroachment of open space land and allows for a civil action in superior court to remedy any encroachment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H8174 | Pass | Allows the Honorable Jean L. Gagnier to join Meghan Pilkington and Justin Moreau in marriage on or about June 11, 2016, within the Town of Narragansett, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-01
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8164 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Iglesia Pentecostal El Calvario
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-01
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8099 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of N E F L, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-01
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8107 | Pass | Allows the Honorable Georgianna Jordan to join Stacy Pentz and Christopher Bernard Brule in marriage on or about June 4, 2016, within the Town of Barrington, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-01
Signed by Governor |
| H8146 | Pass | Allows Robert E.P. Elmer, III, to join Kelly Elizabeth Joyce and Robert Taylor Ingraham in marriage on or about June 11, 2016, within the Town of Westerly, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-01
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8269 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the state, general contractors, and construction managers from withholding more than five percent (5%) as a retainer with respect to any sewer, water main, or other public works construction contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-01
To House Finance Committee |
| H8249 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Honorable Edith H. Ajello to join Caroline Armistead Gordon Covington and Donald Patrick Ford in marriage on or about June 15, 2016, within the City of Providence, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (05/31/2016) |
| H7981 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for temporary increases in the state's share of foundation education aid to regional school districts for FY 2017 and FY 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7590 | Pass | Repeals the chapter of the general laws regulating itinerant vendors and their various licensing requirements, responsibilities, and duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| H7950 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the cost to operate all lighting equipment located on state roads would be the responsibility of the state and not the municipality where the lighting equipment is located.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H8243 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the lottery to conduct an instant game known as the "Heritage Hall of Fame Lottery Game" with proceeds to go toward the construction of a Hall of Fame and Rhode Island History Center in Bristol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7120 | Pass | Changes the name of the Central Bridge in the town of Barrington to the "Barrington Veterans' Memorial Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| H7555 | Pass | Renames the Pawtucket River Bridge to "The Mayor James E. Doyle Pawtucket River Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| H8237 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the requirement that the owner of a self-storage facility, in the absence of personal service upon any occupant who has defaulted, notify the occupant of the default and the owner's enforcement of its lien by publication.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Corporations Committee |
| H8242 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that for the fiscal year 2017 only, the distribution of hotel tax made to the various regional tourism districts be in amounts equal to the distributions made to such districts in fiscal year 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H8057 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the eligibility period for cash assistance under the Rhode Island Works Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7544 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs auditor general to assign a special auditor whose sole function is to perform regular/forensic audits of DOT and all construction projects put out to bid/managed/supervised by DOT.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7982 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the sales and use tax, commencing July 1, 2016, from the current level of seven percent (7%) in yearly increments of one quarter percent (.25%), until the level of six and one quarter percent (6.25%) is reached.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H8089 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts trade-in value of trucks up to 10,000 lbs. gross vehicle weight from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7002 | Pass | Restricts the installation, concealment, placement or use of an electronic tracking device in or on a motor vehicle, and adds electronic tracking devices to the definition of "domestic violence" under state law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| H8183 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the sunset provision regarding the historic preservation tax credit program, and provides that any taxpayer who has obtained a tax credit certification prior to the enactment of this act would be eligible to claim the tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7463 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes portability of the estate tax credit and allows a deceased spousal unused credit against the Rhode Island estate tax of a surviving spouse for the unused estate tax credit of the first spouse to die.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7830 | Pass | Removes the 30 day mail notice requirement to those owing overdue court fees currently received prior to their names being published.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H7015 | Pass | Permits the town of Lincoln to grant a proposed Class B liquor license within two hundred feet (200') of a church.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8230 | Intro
Sine Die | Renames the Albion Bridge in the City of Warwick the Gordon R. Archibald Memorial Bridge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H7253 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the grandfather clause pertaining to licensing of underground utility contractors granted without examination to July 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7772 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes school district approval from the enrollment process for recovery high school students and requires the transfer of the core instructional amount per pupil.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To House Finance Committee |
| H7536 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows those persons with less than 6 misdemeanor convictions to file a motion for the expungement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H8219 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the period of time that a state employee, under contract, could receive benefits (including salary) after termination from six (6) months to two (2) weeks and would also reduce maximum severance pay from one year to two (2) weeks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To House Labor Committee |
| H7811 | Pass | Allows Ronald Crudele to join Bethany Lee Crudele and John Darryl Jones, Jr., in marriage on or about August 12, 2016, within the Town of Bristol, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-25
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H7908 | Pass | Allows the Honorable Doreen M. Costa to join Rosella Ann Nappi and Richard A. Patenaude in marriage on or about July 24, 2016, within the Town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-25
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H7909 | Pass | Allows Richard Frank Ruggiero, Jr., to join Abby Rose Paon and Matthew James Sutton in marriage on or about July 2, 2016, within the Town of Johnston, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-25
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8158 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits certain Cranston fire department union employees to enroll in a defined contribution plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-25
To House Finance Committee |
| H7906 | Pass | Allows Charles Tsonos to join Stacey L. Doyle and Seth A. Mandeville in marriage on or about October 2, 2016, within the Town of Burrillville, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-25
Effective without Governor's signature |
