| S2987 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes Newport and Middletown to collect an additional one percent meal and beverage tax to fund road and sewer repairs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2465 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health insurers to maintain accurate and up-to-date directories of all in-network providers, and to provide that information to plan enrollees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2574 | Intro
Sine Die | Enhances the reimbursement rates for infants and toddlers enrolled in licensed child care centers and family child care homes that have achieved a quality rating of 2 to 5 stars in Bright Stars, the state's quality rating system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
Committee heard |
| S2131 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the September 30, 2016 termination of the child care subsidy transition program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
Committee heard |
| S2277 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows retired state employee nurses to work as professors in the nursing program at a state college. It would allow them to work seventy-five (75) days or one hundred fifty (150) half days before their pension payments would be suspended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2593 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts tangible personal property used in agricultural operations from taxation effective 7/1/16,
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2437 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes in the definition of food and food ingredients, for purposes of the sales tax exemption, seeds and plants used to grow food and food ingredients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2130 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the income eligibility limit for the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) to 200% of the federal poverty level (from 180%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
Committee heard |
| S2207 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires hospitals to provide within two (2) business days, a written estimate for medical services over five thousand dollars ($5,000), including facility fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2028 | Intro
Sine Die | Direct the office of management and budget to develop a plan to implement a centralized administrative hearing agency on or before December 31, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2195 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from personal income tax the first twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) received from pensions, interest income, 401k plans and individual retirement accounts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2471 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases from three (3) to six (6) years the interval of time within which a city or town must conduct an update of its last real property revaluation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S3035 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the position of a state-designated ombudsperson for services for intellectually/developmentally disabled individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S3029 | Intro
Sine Die | Insures access to chiropractic physicians for opioid treatment and health providers access to nurse anesthetists of their choice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S3028 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a developmental disabilities ombudsman program to be attached to the department of administration. The ombudsman would advocate for developmentally disabled adults and would be selected by the governor from a list of 3-5 candidates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2955 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the climate change coordinating council to study a carbon pricing program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-25
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2256 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that all new school buses purchased or leased for use in the state be equipped with seat belt assemblies for each passenger and operator seat.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-25
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2549 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds foster care to the definition of parental care for purpose of the "Parental and Family Medical Leave Act".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-25
Meeting postponed (05/25/2016) |
| S2648 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the law concerning the amount of notice required to be provided to a tenured teacher to be dismissed for good and just cause. Reasonable notice and hearing are required.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-25
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S2191 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the director of the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals to adopt a state reimbursement system for community and nonprofit agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2814 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the "Rhode Island Livable Home Tax Credit Act", and provide for its administration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2055 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all aspects relating to connected car vehicle electronic data from generation to sharing and provides consumer rights relating to access and sharing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2670 | Intro
Sine Die | Enables and encourages school committees to make unused and underused school buildings available to other public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2096 | Pass | Establishes the RI Family Home Visiting Act. The department of health would develop and coordinate the system of early childhood visiting services to meet the needs of vulnerable families with young children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-23
Signed by Governor |
| S2740 | Pass | Mandates tax collectors conducting tax sales provide the required notices to the Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corporation as well as the department of elderly affairs, and that such notices could be provided electronically.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-23
Signed by Governor |
| S2854 | Pass | Gives the contractor's registration and licensing board jurisdiction over pump installers and residential water filtration/treatment system contractors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-23
Signed by Governor |
| S2484 | Pass | Renames commissions as Rhode Island Commission on Women and Girls, allows partnerships with other entities with common concerns, designates any money received from any source as restricted revenues.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-23
Signed by Governor |
| S2770 | Pass | Establishes limited licenses for commercial water filtration/treatment system work to be governed under the authority of the board of examiners of plumbers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-23
Signed by Governor |
| S2461 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health care practitioners and health plan coverage to support clinical practices fostering the appropriate use of abuse-deterrent opioid analgesic drug product formulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-20
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2693 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows students who are diagnosed with substance use disorder or dependency to be referred to a Rhode Island recovery high school by a licensed clinician funded by at least $500,000 per year subject to state appropriations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-20
To House Finance Committee |
| S2995 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits a motor fuel sales business with full service gas dispensers and also engaged in auto repair to obtain a limited dealers' license allowing the display and sale of not more than two (2) vehicles at a time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2046 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under six thousand pounds (6,000 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2977 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a prohibition on parking in electric vehicle charging stations without using the charging apparatus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2754 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides the state with the flexibility to engage up to three (3) authorized companies to administer its deferred compensation plans rather than the current statutory mandate to hire three (3) companies to do this task.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Committee heard |
| S2749 | Intro
Sine Die | Enhances the reporting requirements related to the transfer or conveyance of transferable tax credits and would increase the level at which the state would redeem transferable credits to one hundred percent (100%) of the value of the tax credits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Committee heard |
| S2826 | Intro
Sine Die | Include licensed advanced practice registered nurses (APRN), certified in psychiatric/mental health, as qualified to certify the need for mental health treatment in certain patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2797 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates waste recycling findings to reflect technological advances/empowers DEM to assess up to $1,000 penalty for violations/place RIRRC in charge of violation enforcement and design/implementation of statewide recycling programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Senate held on desk |
| S2202 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes motor vehicle tax assessments from clean retail to average trade-in value over a 3-year period, and indemnifies cities and towns for any loss.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S3006 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all school districts to designate an athletic trainer to be available for high school athletic practices and games.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2685 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the Rhode Island Transit Authority's bus fare adjustments enacted in fiscal year 2016 budget.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2772 | Pass | Allows class A liquor retail license holders to serve unlimited samples of wine products available for purchase on one occasion each year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2041 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under eight thousand one hundred pounds (8,100 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2503 | Pass | Creates an avenue to challenge the legal viability of a recorded commercial real estate broker's notice of lien for their unpaid and owing commercial real estate sales commission bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2622 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the excise tax assessed against vehicles and trailers may be determined by a non-binding recommendation of the vehicle value commission, or by the assessor's combination of the published retail and trade-in values.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2431 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts automobiles from the imposition of applicable sale and use taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S3014 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes that membership on a fire committee be considered a "public office".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2687 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the eligibility period for cash assistance under the Rhode Island Works Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2844 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies the responsibilities of the director of office of regulatory reform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-18
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| S2932 | Pass | Allows Daniel R. Baker to join Lisa Beardwood and Brian Buck in marriage on or about May 25, 2016, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-18
Signed by Governor |
| S2276 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the minimum business corporation tax shall not be imposed upon any corporation for a period of three (3) years from the date of its incorporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
