| S2606 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "recycling" and "recyclable materials" in several chapters of the general laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-05
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| S2595 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires movie theaters to provide open captioning for persons who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-05
Committee continued |
| S2412 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the E-Verify compliance act which would require all non-governmental employers within the state with three (3) or more employees to apply to participate in the federal E-Verify program and to agree to participate in the program, if accept...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2321 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits landlords from inquiring about immigration status of a tenant, prospective tenant, occupant, or prospective occupant of residential rental property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2320 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires most employers in Rhode Island to participate in the E/Verify employment authorization program and establishes deadlines to do so.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2825 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires state department of elementary and secondary education to ensure the development of language skills for all deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-04
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2538 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the responsibility of making appointments to certain advisory and exchange commissions from the lieutenant governor to the senate president.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2124 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends certain definitions relative to workers compensation and classifications of temporary and leased employees and amends certain benefits thereto.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-04
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2635 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the scope of protections and remedies available to employees who are discriminated against in their wages due to their sex.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-04
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2377 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a cause of action against employers and employees for workplace bullying, harassment and other abusive conduct that is tolerated by employers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-04
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2672 | Intro
Sine Die | Enables children with significant speech impediments to attend the Rhode Island School for the Deaf.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-04
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2586 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the designation of a worker as an "independent contractor" form to be filed annually, with a ten dollar ($10.00) filing fee with the director of revenue, and not the director of labor and training.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-04
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2794 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a restricted receipt account for all 911 funds and requires that they be used solely for the operation of the 911 system. Authorizes the PUC to reduce 911 surcharges to the extent they exceed the sums needed to operate the 911 system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2518 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows classified employee to be a candidate for elective state office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2744 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that beginning in FY 2017, the state would pay the local share of charter public school tuition for certain students in high density charter public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
Committee heard |
| S2704 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that legally appointed guardians, whether temporary or permanent, file a durable power of attorney for health care and/or a living will on behalf of their ward within 30 days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2824 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the "Rhode Island Health Care Reform Act of 2004 – Health Insurance Oversight" as well as the "Rhode Island Health Benefit Exchange, and establishes the Rhode Island comprehensive health insurance program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2021 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires selection of 1 member of a budget commission by the RI Dept. of Ed. when a school system is involved and exempts from removal the school superintendent and certain responsibilities of school committee and superintendent from commission's pow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
Senate held on desk |
| S2411 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides immunity to any person that provides food or wild game to a food pantry, food bank or DEM for ultimate distribution to needy individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2019 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides the creation of a new charter public school or the expansion of an existing charter public school would require approval from the city or town council of each sending school district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
Committee heard |
| S2739 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides new rules and procedures regarding the funding of charter public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
Committee heard |
| S2026 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates provisions of §16-7-34.3 re: reimbursement by the state for conventional public housing students and adds language to §16-7.2-6 providing permanent foundation education aid funding for services for students residing in such housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
Committee heard |
| S2037 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the calculation of the permanent foundation education aid to school districts and makes an adjustment based upon students residing in qualified low-income housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
Committee heard |
| S2742 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that beginning in FY 2017, the state would pay the local share of charter public school tuition for school districts with charter public school enrollments that total more than five percent (5%) all students in those districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
Committee heard |
| S2674 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires livestock dealers to follow standards adopted by the livestock welfare and care standards advisory council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2637 | Intro
Sine Die | Accelerates the transition plan for calculation of state aid to education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
Committee heard |
| S2222 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a chief innovation officer to the governors list of appointments to be made following an election to office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2671 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes district-charter compacts between charter schools and traditional public schools. Would establish a compact fund from appropriations by the general assembly as well as grants, gifts and bequests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
Committee heard |
| S2308 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises access to public records charter re: definitions of public body public record, right to inspect, copy records, arrest logs, compliance, costs, court jurisdiction, remedies, claims settlement, violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2690 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits opticians to sell or dispense contact lenses when presented with a prescription from a licensed optometrist or physician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2873 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a charging hospital from charging a risk bearing hospital, or the insurer(s) for the cost of an unduplicated service provided at the charging hospital, more than (110%) of the lowest rate the charging hospital accepts from any insurer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2684 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes for the purposes of Rhode Island state income taxes, the first ten thousand dollars ($10,000) of military retirement income, paid by the state or federal government, to persons sixty (60) years or older.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| S2882 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for an expedited procedure for zoning variances to help manage various states of emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2027 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes from the state income tax the amount resulting from the receipt of a veteran's disability pension from the United States government for a service-connected disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| S2451 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts governmental pensions and military pensions from state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| S2445 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for property tax and motor vehicle tax exemption for veterans and their spouses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| S2345 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the right to property tax relief to any veteran honorably discharged by eliminating references to particular conflicts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| S2048 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies federal adjusted gross income for state income tax purposes by deducting military/federal pension income including survivorship annuities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| S2047 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the portion of a military pension which is included in federal adjusted gross income from the state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| S2149 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the amount of military pension which is included in federal adjusted gross income from the state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| S2354 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds honorably discharged disabled veterans who purchase a new motor vehicle to the category of certain veterans exempt from sales and use taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| S2417 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the charters of the Coventry Fire District and Central Coventry Fire District to provide that no vote at a meeting of either the district would have effect unless at the time of the vote not less than 2% of those eligible are present and votin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2768 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals §14-1-61 regarding the placement for costs and expenses for certain complaints filed in family court, and chapter 4 of title 14, which establishes the O'Rourke Children's Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2769 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends various statutes in connection with the administrative powers of the department of business regulation in order to provide consistency with respect to the penalty – related provisions governing the businesses subject to the statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2715 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the state board of elections be subject to the rule-making provisions of the "administrative procedures act".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2572 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to promulgate rules and regulations regarding graduation requirements for public school students fourteen (14) years of age or older who are under the care and control of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-27
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2357 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provisions of the general laws which authorized housing authorities and redevelopment agencies to loan money for constructing low income housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-27
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2736 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits students with necessary educational background to participate in career and technical internships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-27
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2876 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the definition of low or moderate income housing existing, in the case of an urban city or town, from 5,000 to 3,000 occupied year-round rental units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-27
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| S2695 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes limits on the maximum number of patients that may be assigned to a unit’s registered nurses in particular health care situations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
