| S2514 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the use of vehicles equipped with autonomous technology on Rhode Island roads.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2708 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the motor vehicle offense of "driving under the influence of liquor or drugs, resulting in physical injury", a felony punishable by up to three (3) years in prison and a license suspension of up to one year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2629 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the division of motor vehicles to suspend or revoke the registration of any motor vehicle in this state due to the cancellation or non-renewal of the motor vehicle liability insurance coverage maintained by the owner of the motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2524 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public hearing or meeting, for all insurers or health maintenance organizations who propose rate increases for health or dental insurance coverage in the individual market.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2719 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes extensive changes to the election laws including the definition of what a vote is and how to store ballots in cases of disputed results.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2278 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the number of municipal economic zones permitted by law to areas located in a municipality designated as a state-approved "growth center".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| S2703 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits class A liquor retail license holders to elect on four (4) occasions annually to serve unlimited samples of wine products which are available for purchase from the licensee's outlet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Committee heard |
| S2382 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits holders of manufacture's licenses to sell alcoholic beverages at retail for permits on-site and off-site consumption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Committee heard |
| S2813 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that houses, condominiums or other residential dwelling units, regardless of the number of rooms, which are used and/or advertised for rent for occupancy would be exempt from the state sales or hotel tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2329 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an annual minimum wage increase tied to inflation, based upon the Consumer Price Index for the region.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2555 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the number of cats per household to ten (10) without special permission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Committee heard |
| S2171 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes certain student privacy rights in regard to take-home technology devices from school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2798 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the director of the department of environmental management to promulgate and adopt rules and regulations pertaining to the use of pesticide products containing neonicotinoids.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2237 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals §25-3-7 of the general laws which gives the director of the department of labor and training the authority to exempt certain classes of employees form receiving overtime pay for Sunday and holiday work.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2818 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the council of economic advisors, the governor's commerce and workforce coordination cabinet, and would correct references in the executive office of commerce enabling act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2263 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants to each individual municipal school departments the power to determine whether their schedules would be open on a particular scheduled election day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2092 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes procedures/standards issued by milk commission for handling/sale of raw milk with civil fines for violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Committee heard |
| S2847 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides inmates who are on work release reimburse the state for costs of confinement by paying no less than thirty percent (30%) of their net salary for room and board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2819 | Intro
Sine Die | Empowers the PFMB to advise/assist city/town or municipal/regional board/commission/agency relating to issuance/financial planning of general obligation notes/bonds without local entity request.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2812 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a long-term economic policy/strategic implementation plan to receive a public hearing by house/senate, but also a vote of approval with transmittal to the governor for signature before it takes effect.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2796 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any person from importing, selling, offering for sale, purchasing, bartering, or possessing with intent to sell, any ivory, ivory product, rhinoceros horn, or rhinoceros horn product, with limited exception & provides for fines for violatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2820 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the public finance management board be provided with a report of any debt issuance within 30 days of issuance, and that no debt issuance be incurred greater than $1,000,000 without prior approval of the public finance management board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2264 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows municipal or regional schools to be open on Columbus Day if their school department so decides.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2834 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the voter identification law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2262 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public schools, including charter schools, begin the school year on the day after Labor Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2072 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a wine direct shipper license to allow for shipment of limited amounts of wine through the mail to eligible customers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Committee heard |
| S2522 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds hoarding of animals to the list of cruelty to animal offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Committee heard |
| S2525 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits outdoor school recess when temperatures fall below thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit (32ºF, 0ºC).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2379 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits employers from deducting from their employees' wages for spoilage, breakage, cash shortages, losses, fines or penalties for tardiness, misconduct or quitting by an employee without notice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2244 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that on and after 7/1/16, any city or town council would have the authority to exempt said city or town from the prohibition against the issuance of certain alcoholic beverage licenses within 200' feet of a school or place of public worship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Committee heard |
| S2497 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes Rhode Island’s membership in the interstate medical licensure compact. It details the procedure to be followed in order to allow physicians to become licensed in multiple states, while ensuring the safety of patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2597 | Intro
Sine Die | Codifies the public corruption and white collar crime unit within the department of attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2121 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes violations of operating a motor vehicle with a susp./exp. license from the definition of convictions in the expungement statute; a non-1st time offender may apply for an evidentiary hearing by the court unless convicted for crime(s) of viole...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2644 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an applicant for any license or registration and licensing board to undergo a mechanical criminal records check, and disqualifies any person previously convicted or certain enumerated felony and misdemeanor offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Committee continued |
| S2615 | Intro
Sine Die | Disqualifies certain state vendors from making political contributions, based on their business with the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2106 | Intro
Sine Die | Redefines "first-time offender" and permits individuals with a record of up to two (2) misdemeanor convictions to be eligible for expungement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2459 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that all genetically engineered food offered for retail sale in this state contain a label with the disclosure that the food is genetically engineered food.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2573 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) to the Westerly Higher Education and Job Skills Center, for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2141 | Intro
Sine Die | Expedites the foreclosure procedure on vacant property, and amends the general laws on tax sales in order to establish priorities of tax liens, clarify the effect of late recordings and simplify procedures in the event of a void sale.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2122 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the provisions of §12-19-19 and make those persons who complete a deferred sentence agreement immediately eligible for expungement of all arrest records if they have complied with all terms and conditions of the deferred sentence agreement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2064 | Intro
Sine Die | Make individuals with two (2) or less convictions, regardless of whether the convictions were for felonies or misdemeanors, or a combination of each, eligible to have their criminal records expunged.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2458 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that all genetically engineered food offered for retail sale in this state have a label disclosing that the food is genetically engineered food upon the occurrence of 4 other states adopting similar labeling laws as specified in this act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2634 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminalizes residential mortgage fraud and extends the statute of limitations for certain criminal offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2521 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a supplemental rate add on to the Medicaid payment rates for nursing facilities in the amount of $2,005,978 of which not less than 95% shall be used to increase wages for direct care workers. Unused monies subject to repayment to state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2698 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires manufacturers to fully disclose all ingredients of their cosmetics on their product label, as well as on their website. Failure to do so would result in a substantial fine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2682 | Intro
Sine Die | Bases the composition of the Chariho Regional School on more recent population schedules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Committee recommended indefinite postponement |
| S2639 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the law regarding physician assistants regarding collaboration with physicians; allow physician assistants to volunteer at public events without a collaborating physician; and repeal continuing medical education requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2712 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows those persons with less than 6 misdemeanor convictions to file a motion for the expungement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2261 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes municipalities to require parking lots to have a person on site during operational hours to accept cash payments. The proceeds from the fine for failure to comply would be split between the municipality and the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2697 | Intro
Sine Die | Promotes the use and management of behavioral health care services which increases insurance coverage for health-related behavioral services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
