| S2210 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health care facilities to use licensed Rhode Island Nurses to satisfy staffing needs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2602 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows RI bridge/turnpike authority to hold all proceedings without reasonable notice, disregard the rules of evidence, negate holding decisions/necessity of written final orders in all proceedings relating to toll amounts/fees toll violators/evaders...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2125 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates references to now deleted provisions and substitutes the revised statutory references and provide a mechanism to enforce the right to continuation of medical benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-01
To House Labor Committee |
| S3043 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a bond referendum which would authorize the issuance of bonds, refunding bonds, and temporary notes of the state in the aggregate amount of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2976 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates "The Good Samaritan Overdose Prevention Act of 2016" which would exempt from liability any person who administers an opioid antagonist to another person to prevent a drug overdose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
Committee recommends passage |
| S2137 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the sales tax on pet care services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2807 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the ability of municipal and governmental units of this state to contract with governmental units of this or other states with respect to matters which they are authorized by law to perform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2434 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the sales tax on taxi services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S3002 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that motor vehicles lawfully seized by police officers for investigation or for lack of registration not be released to their owners until the towing charges are paid or valid registration certificates are produced.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2899 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the Student Journalists' Freedom of Expression Act protecting student journalists' right to exercise freedom of speech in school-sponsored media.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S3031 | Intro
Sine Die | Terminates parental rights of the father when a child is conceived as a result of sexual assault.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| S2991 | 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] | 2016-05-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2869 | Intro
Sine Die | Conforms the amount of the fees for the reinstatement of operating privileges and registration rights suspended under this section to the amount of the fees for the reinstatement after suspension pursuant to other sections of title 31.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2827 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits "conversion therapy" by licensed health care professionals with respect to children under eighteen (18) years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| S2681 | Intro
Sine Die | Enables the Foster-Glocester Regional School District to set tax rates and levy taxes to pay for the district's local share of educational aid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2964 | Intro
Sine Die | Community Requirements - Adequate Minimum Budget Provision
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2987 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes Newport and Middletown to collect an additional one percent meal and beverage tax to fund road and sewer repairs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2465 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health insurers to maintain accurate and up-to-date directories of all in-network providers, and to provide that information to plan enrollees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2574 | Intro
Sine Die | Enhances the reimbursement rates for infants and toddlers enrolled in licensed child care centers and family child care homes that have achieved a quality rating of 2 to 5 stars in Bright Stars, the state's quality rating system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
Committee heard |
| S2131 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the September 30, 2016 termination of the child care subsidy transition program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
Committee heard |
| S2277 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows retired state employee nurses to work as professors in the nursing program at a state college. It would allow them to work seventy-five (75) days or one hundred fifty (150) half days before their pension payments would be suspended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2593 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts tangible personal property used in agricultural operations from taxation effective 7/1/16,
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2437 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes in the definition of food and food ingredients, for purposes of the sales tax exemption, seeds and plants used to grow food and food ingredients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2130 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the income eligibility limit for the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) to 200% of the federal poverty level (from 180%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
Committee heard |
| S2207 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires hospitals to provide within two (2) business days, a written estimate for medical services over five thousand dollars ($5,000), including facility fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2028 | Intro
Sine Die | Direct the office of management and budget to develop a plan to implement a centralized administrative hearing agency on or before December 31, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2195 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from personal income tax the first twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) received from pensions, interest income, 401k plans and individual retirement accounts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2471 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases from three (3) to six (6) years the interval of time within which a city or town must conduct an update of its last real property revaluation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S3035 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the position of a state-designated ombudsperson for services for intellectually/developmentally disabled individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S3029 | Intro
Sine Die | Insures access to chiropractic physicians for opioid treatment and health providers access to nurse anesthetists of their choice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S3028 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a developmental disabilities ombudsman program to be attached to the department of administration. The ombudsman would advocate for developmentally disabled adults and would be selected by the governor from a list of 3-5 candidates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2955 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the climate change coordinating council to study a carbon pricing program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-25
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2549 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds foster care to the definition of parental care for purpose of the "Parental and Family Medical Leave Act".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-25
Meeting postponed (05/25/2016) |
| S2648 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the law concerning the amount of notice required to be provided to a tenured teacher to be dismissed for good and just cause. Reasonable notice and hearing are required.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S2191 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the director of the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals to adopt a state reimbursement system for community and nonprofit agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2814 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the "Rhode Island Livable Home Tax Credit Act", and provide for its administration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2055 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all aspects relating to connected car vehicle electronic data from generation to sharing and provides consumer rights relating to access and sharing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2670 | Intro
Sine Die | Enables and encourages school committees to make unused and underused school buildings available to other public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2461 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health care practitioners and health plan coverage to support clinical practices fostering the appropriate use of abuse-deterrent opioid analgesic drug product formulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-20
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2693 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows students who are diagnosed with substance use disorder or dependency to be referred to a Rhode Island recovery high school by a licensed clinician funded by at least $500,000 per year subject to state appropriations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-20
To House Finance Committee |
| S2995 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits a motor fuel sales business with full service gas dispensers and also engaged in auto repair to obtain a limited dealers' license allowing the display and sale of not more than two (2) vehicles at a time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2046 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under six thousand pounds (6,000 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2977 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a prohibition on parking in electric vehicle charging stations without using the charging apparatus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2754 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides the state with the flexibility to engage up to three (3) authorized companies to administer its deferred compensation plans rather than the current statutory mandate to hire three (3) companies to do this task.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Committee heard |
| S2749 | Intro
Sine Die | Enhances the reporting requirements related to the transfer or conveyance of transferable tax credits and would increase the level at which the state would redeem transferable credits to one hundred percent (100%) of the value of the tax credits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Committee heard |
| S2826 | Intro
Sine Die | Include licensed advanced practice registered nurses (APRN), certified in psychiatric/mental health, as qualified to certify the need for mental health treatment in certain patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2797 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates waste recycling findings to reflect technological advances/empowers DEM to assess up to $1,000 penalty for violations/place RIRRC in charge of violation enforcement and design/implementation of statewide recycling programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Senate held on desk |
| S2202 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes motor vehicle tax assessments from clean retail to average trade-in value over a 3-year period, and indemnifies cities and towns for any loss.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S3027 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $40,000 For The Department Of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities And Hospitals (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $40,000 For The Department Of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S3006 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all school districts to designate an athletic trainer to be available for high school athletic practices and games.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
To Senate Education Committee |
