| S2587 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the maximum weekly unemployment benefit rate to the higher of fifty-seven and one-half percent (57.5%) of the average weekly wages paid to workers in the prior calendar year or six hundred sixteen dollars ($616) per week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-13
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2293 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits use of electronic nicotine-delivery system products in enclosed public places and places of employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2624 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits smoking in all areas of public housing authority units/common areas and requires a designated smoking space at least 50 feet from all doors, windows, mailboxes, and parking areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2885 | Intro
Sine Die | Reclassifies shoplifting from a crime to a violation for a first offense, punishable by a fine, also punishes 2nd offense as a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not a prison sentence if the merchandise is less than $100.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2884 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the penalty provision for the crime of willful trespass and would provide for a fine not exceeding $500 for a first or second conviction and by a fine not exceeding $1,000 for a third or subsequent conviction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2716 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that any applicant for employment or volunteer activity of a religious organization, undergo a national background check at the request of said religious organization, as a condition of employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2705 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits stalking defined as a course of conduct by anyone who may cause a reasonable person to either fear for their own safety or the safety of a third person or cause a reasonable person to suffer emotional distress. Enumerates penalties for stal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2523 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminalizes certain behaviors, including bribery, selling political endorsements and theft of honest services, by public employees,
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2843 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an animal abuser registry and provides for penalties for failure to register.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2535 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines any act of sexual penetration or contact performed by an individual with supervisory or disciplinary power, or who is in a position of authority, upon a person 19 years of age or younger, as sexual assault.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2901 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State-state Ethics Commission (authorizes A Proposition To Amend The Provisions Of Article Iii, Section 8, Of The State Constitut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2896 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health insurance contracts, plans, and policies to provide coverage for all insulin medications used to control type-1 diabetes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2895 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $250,000 For The Trinity Repertory Company Project Discovery Program (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $250,000 To The Trinity Repertory Company Project Discovery Program.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2694 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for a step therapy exception determination when coverage of a prescription drug for the treatment of a medical condition is restricted for use by an insurer, health plan, or utilization review organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2883 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides heightened penalties, including imprisonment, for certain actions deemed lascivious or those in violation of The Domestic Violence Prevention Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2880 | Intro
Sine Die | Promulgates standards of probable cause or reasonable suspicion before a person in custody could be subjected to strip/body cavity searches.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2795 | Intro
Sine Die | Bars any person, entity and its members or shareholders, members or affiliates from being issued a certificate of necessity for selling electricity or gas by the PUC if a prior certificate for such person, association, or corporation has been revoked...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2800 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a definition for "fuel oil terminal" and establish procedures for obtaining temporary suspensions from compliance when there is an inadequate supply of biobased product or when good cause is shown.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2759 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the office of administrative hearings to adjudicate contested state agency cases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2677 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the establishment of a task force to report on the development of alternative fuel markets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-05
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2836 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits court to order child support for children up to 21 years of age if said children are principally dependent on a parent and to 23 years of age if the child is principally dependent on the parent and is enrolled in an educational program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2414 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows school committees to add items to their agenda by majority vote and amends notice requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2641 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires attachments/executions of real estate to describe same with particularity by the recorded legal description, plat and lot number, and any legal description recognized/accepted by title industry for levy to be sufficient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2454 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts state employees, who were eligible to retire on June 30, 2012 from inclusion in the defined contribution retirement plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2764 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires duly admitted members of the bar of this state to acquire and maintain malpractice insurance in the minimum amount of one million dollars ($1,000,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2235 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a procedure for employees to secure liens against employers for unpaid wages. Contested claims would be decided by the Superior Court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-01
To House Labor Committee |
| S2765 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes police officers to provide a verbal warning to a person who is smoking in a vehicle containing a child who is restrained or required to be restrained.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2881 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes various consumer protection practices upon fantasy contest operators and requires them to register with the department of business regulation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2868 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of bullhooks or similar devices on elephants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2871 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to file state copies of federal form w-2 (wage and tax statement) with the division of taxation on or before January 31st following the close of the calendar year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2842 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes inspectors of the public utilities commission and division of motor carriers in the definition of peace officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2699 | Intro
Sine Die | Enables any city or town by ordinance to regulate the opening, the presence, the location, and operation of any massage business or parlor within the municipality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2292 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts the department of health's authority to impose and/or change the current mandated vaccinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2230 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits law enforcement from using unmanned aerial vehicles without a proper warrant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2846 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits prisoners sentenced as adults to life or to lengthy sentences for offenses committed prior to age eighteen eligible for parole after completing fifteen years of their sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2832 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that any person serving life in prison, will have the right to get married and the status of being civilly dead for life prisoners, would not apply to the bond of matrimony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2318 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the time an inmate can spend in segregated confinement, prohibits the segregated confinement of certain vulnerable persons, and creates more humane and effective methods of instituting such confinement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2317 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of restraints on pregnant female prisoners during transport to court during the third trimester of pregnancy, and would require DOC to submit annual reports to the general assembly regarding the number of pregnant women at the ACI.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2050 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes procedures for the licensing of naturopathic physicians, and defines the practice of naturopathic medicine. The practice of naturopathic medicine would be subject to oversight by the director of the Rhode Island department of health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2310 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires persons in government custody use actual residence for census and redistricting purposes as determined by department of corrections and secretary of state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
Committee recommends passage |
| S2196 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a procedure for the timely payment to contractors and subcontractors in connection with state contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2837 | Intro
Sine Die | Enables the violating authority to inform the attorney general whenever any person who has been placed on a filing violates the terms and conditions of the probation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2419 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds juvenile program workers and shift coordinators of the department of children, youth, and families to the definition of peace officer so long as they are engaged in the performance of their official duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2119 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the jurisdiction of special police officers upon the land and buildings of educational institutions, and on roads adjacent to the educational institutions to instances where the officer notices that a person is in danger of bodily harm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2295 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts the authority of the department of health to set minimum immunization standards for diseases not transmitted in a school environment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2243 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State (general Assembly)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2077 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State (governor And Lieutenant Governor To Appear Jointly On The Ballot) (would Amend The Constitution So That In The Year 2018 A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2071 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides candidates for governor and lieutenant governor would run on a joint ticket.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2605 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a producer responsibility program for printed paper and packaging.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2327 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds campus police officers to the group of public safety officials eligible to collect salary, wages, benefits during periods of whole/partial incapacitation incurred while on-duty or while providing emergency assistance within the state while off-d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
To Senate Labor Committee |
