| S2718 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the owner of open space land or holder of an interest in a conservation easement to bring an action in superior court to prevent encroachment of the land and to recover damages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2646 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends fines for failing to file a foreclosure deed and requires that a notice of intent to foreclose be filed in the city or town where the property is located.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2510 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires insurance coverage of at least ninety (90) days of residential or inpatient services for mental health and/or substance-use disorders for American Society of Addiction Medicine levels of care 3.1 and 3.3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2409 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of eminent domain powers for economic development purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2324 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires dogs to be leashed on cemetery property and owners of the dog to clean up upon completion of the visit. Any violation would be punishable by a fine of ten dollars ($10.00).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2598 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits liability arising from agritourism activities, unless it can be demonstrated that there was a failure to exercise due care, gross negligence, or willful or intentional misconduct.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2520 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes the transfer of any interest, in housing development's financed in whole or in part with federal low income housing tax credits, amongst partners or members of certain business organizations, from real estate conveyance taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2706 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits discrimination in housing against those persons who have a lawful source of income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2284 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds electronic nicotine-delivery systems to the definition of "Tobacco" for tax purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2743 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the state investment commission to create an "Emerging Manager Program" to promote investment with newer, smaller and more diverse asset managers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2746 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the interest rate on delinquent tax payments to between 4% and 7%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2748 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation of two hundred ninety-five thousand dollars ($295,000) for the Mental Health consumer Advocates of Rhode Island and the Oasis Wellness and Recovery Center for fiscal year 2016-2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2288 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the tax imposed on little cigars be imposed in the same manner as the tax imposed on cigarettes, that 25% of such revenue would be applied to smoking cessation programs, would provide that little cigars be sold in packs of (20) or more.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2400 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the settlor of a trust to provide for a person other than the trustee to direct actions of the trustee, and clearly establishes the legal responsibilities of trust advisors and trust protectors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2365 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates issues with respect to title to real property where certain issues are otherwise capable of resolution by investigation, preparation and execution of corrective instruments and recording thereof.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2626 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the family court to create and implement a pilot juvenile restorative justice program to address the manner in which juveniles charged with crimes have their cases adjudicated
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2747 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the green energy revolving fund for the purpose of providing loans for green energy projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2418 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a civil action against persons who file frivolous patent infringement claims.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2539 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the criminal penalty for violating a contractors' board final order by the amount of the monetary judgment imposed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2738 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that certain Cranston firefighters in Local 1363 would be exempt from the municipal employee's retirement system and would allow the city of Cranston to consider all such employees for a city-sponsored defined contribution plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2741 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the city of Cranston to allow Colonel Michael Winquist to participate in the city of Cranston's 401(k) retirement plan in lieu of the Rhode Island Municipal Employees' Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2569 | Intro
Sine Die | Prevents funds from the worker's compensation administrative fund restricted receipts account from being transferred to the general fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2649 | Intro
Sine Die | Relieves any party who files a workers' compensation petition alleging an employee's recurrence of decrease of capacity to work of their former obligation to document a comparative change of their medical condition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2068 | Intro
Sine Die | State purchasing law amended to make explicit the inclusion of costs for labor and benefits of programs mandated by a workers' compensation insurer as a reimbursable cost.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2603 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows an employer or workers' compensation insurer to recover any overpayments of benefits made to the injured employee by set-off against future payments due to an employee for loss of use or of disfigurement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2212 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows mobile and manufactured homes which are a part of a mobile and manufactured home park to be counted as low and moderate income housing for purposes of compliance with the requirements of the city or town's comprehensive use plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2395 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires school districts, on an annual basis, make public and furnish to the department of education a comprehensive assessment matrix detailing and summarizing the district's assessment system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2078 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits a veteran to request a "Courtesy Plate" with their choice of letters and numbers consistent with present availability with the veteran plate format.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2732 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state to pay for the education of students placed in group homes outside of their municipality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2234 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provision of the general laws relating to continuation of workers' compensation benefits for partial incapacity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2074 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits a courtesy plate to be issued on the "veteran" plate design.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2339 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a process for the department of education collection and organization of information concerning the workload and scope of the duties and responsibility performed by school social workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2381 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits passenger and commercial Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Foundation plates to be issued and sets pre-orders at 900 of all types.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2238 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the spendable base wage calculation from seventy-five percent (75%) to eighty-five percent (85%) under the workers' compensation law and makes additional changes relating to partial incapacity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2493 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the council of elementary and secondary education take into consideration the time and cost of transporting students and other programs that impact the education of students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2470 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes rules and procedures for licensing emergency shelters including setting minimum standards and prohibiting the charging fees to the residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2734 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the administrator of motor vehicles to enter into agreements to recognize foreign drivers' licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2551 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to pay the reasonable transportation costs for employees that travel round-trip to receive workers' compensation related health care services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2650 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a doctor of acupuncture and Oriental medicine to the medical advisory board at the workers' compensation court, and respects patient choice in the selection of treatment therapies for certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2242 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the additional fee for registration renewal of courtesy (vanity) plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2617 | Intro
Sine Die | Broadens the definition of "suitable alternative employment". It also expands the circumstances under which an earning capacity can be set by the workers' compensation court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2689 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a statewide uniform motor vehicle excise tax rate and would establish a fund to reimburse the cities and towns that will financially lose taxes due to the enactment of the statewide motor vehicle excise tax rate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2183 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a lease agreement between the town of Coventry and the water resources board for a portion of the Big River reservoir property to be used as a compost facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2600 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the time a person or government agency who stores personal information has to disclose a breach of that information security to 14 days; breaches affecting more than 500 people must be reported to the AG and major credit bureaus within 24 hrs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2580 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides guidelines for the delegation by physicians of laser or energy-based procedures to a properly trained and qualified individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2630 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it unlawful to post a message through the use of any medium, without the intended recipient’s consent, if the contact would amount to 2 or more incidents of unconsented contact and such contact would cause the recipient to feel frightened.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2349 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the refundable state earned income credit from ten percent (10%) to thirty-five percent (35%) for the 2017 taxable year, and each taxable year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2332 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that municipal insurance corporations be subject to laws regulating insurance companies and be regulated by the Rhode Island department of business regulation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2515 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminalize injuries to cell/radio towers and increases penalties for injury to electric and communication lines from $3,000 to $50,000; imprisonment from 2 years to 10 years, or both and requires restitution for economic harm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2709 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates Sapinsley Compassionate Care Act to provide mechanism for terminally ill patient to choose to end their life using physician prescribed drugs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
