| S2102 | Pass | Allows conveyances to and from nominee trusts pursuant to certain requirements regarding the preparation and recording of a memorandum of trust.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2865 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds "transportation network companies", which use a digital network to connect riders with transportation, to the list of services subject to sales and use taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
Meeting postponed (06/09/2016) |
| S2978 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Burrillville Cesspool Cleaning, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2810 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the town of East Greenwich to issue not more than $5,000,000 bonds and notes to finance the construction, renovation, rehabilitation, repair, improvement, and landscaping of roads, sidewalks and drainage facilities in the town.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| S2774 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the laws governing Rhode Island health insurance coverage to bring them into compliance with federal laws, with emphasis on compliance with The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2607 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts feminine hygiene and some home health care products from sales tax, and reduces the clothing exemption from $250 to $240.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2283 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the percentage of state beach fees payable to the city or town where the facility is located from sixteen percent (16%) to twenty percent (20%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2423 | 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 pursuant to a validly issued subpoena.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-06
Signed by Governor |
| S2853 | Pass | Amends the composition of the governor's workforce board by adding one additional employer seat and one seat representing the office of rehabilitation services, department of human services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-06
Signed by Governor |
| S2051 | 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 |
| S2803 | Pass | Repeals the section which created the commercial fishing license review board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-06
Signed by Governor |
| S2075 | 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. Said license-holder provides DBR the actual amount of wine purchased annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-06
Signed by Governor |
| S2253 | 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 |
| S3025 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that taxes assessed for mobile or manufactured homes in the town of Richmond would constitute a lien on the mobile or manufactured home.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S3045 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the delivered fuels energy efficiency program, the purpose of which would be to facilitate and promote energy efficiency services for Rhode Island residents, businesses, and customers who rely on delivered fuels.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-03
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| S2713 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes requirement that information contained in any prescription drug monitoring database be provided to law enforcement only pursuant to a search warrant, if in connection with a specific investigation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| 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 |
| S2926 | Pass | Allows John-Paul Anthony Verducci to join Deborah Hope Lavoie and Leonard Raymond Cotnoir in marriage on or about September 25, 2016, within the Town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-01
Effective without Governor's signature |
| 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 |
| S2927 | Pass | Allows Daniel R. Baker to join Regina Galvin and Jeffrey Veitenheimer in marriage on or about September 29, 2016 within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-01
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2928 | Pass | Allows Christopher Edward Buonanno to join Nancy Ann Thibault and Donnell Edward Smith in marriage on or about July 30, 2016, within the City of Cranston, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-01
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2929 | Pass | Allows Kevin John Higham to join Melissa Ann Ferreira and Andrew Ryan Beauregard in marriage on or about August 19, 2016, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-01
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2086 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires sealers of weights and measures appointed by the cities and towns to receive the same fees as charged by state sealers who perform the same inspecting/testing services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-01
To House Corporations 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 |
| S2909 | Pass | Allows Diana Grimes to join Scott Hotaling and Jennifer Roberts in marriage on or about June 18, 2016, within the Town of West Warwick, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-01
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2596 | Pass | Restricts the installation, concealment or placement of an electronic tracking device in or on a motor vehicle, and adds electronic tracking devices as a form of domestic violence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| S2057 | Engross
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 |
| S2887 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes the title of the "division of racing and athletics" to the "division of gaming and athletics licensing".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Corporations 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 |
| S2971 | Pass | Allows the Honorable Ann Marie Gioia to join Alexandria Milot and Michael Conway in marriage on or about June 4, 2016, within the City of Providence, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| 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 |
| S2073 | 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 |
| S2330 | Pass | Renames the Pawtucket River Bridge to "The Mayor James E. Doyle Pawtucket River Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| 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 |
| S2751 | 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 |
| S2089 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to consider incorporating media literacy education in the basic education program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-27
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2063 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires law enforcement agencies to provide the attorney general a report identifying and describing any untested sexual assault evidence collection kits; requires laboratories to complete their testing of such kits within 180 days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2018 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for establishment of a virtual education plan by school districts for days of inclement weather subject to approval of the commissioner of elementary and secondary education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-27
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2505 | Pass | Removes the thirty (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 |
| 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 |
| S2701 | Pass | Allows the town of East Greenwich to grant a retailer's Class B license to be located on plat/lot 085 001 212 0000 of the applicable town of East Greenwich tax assessment map.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
Effective without Governor's signature |
