| S2676 | Pass | Prohibits the possession of shark fins by all persons except during the ordinary course of preparing the shark for consumption or sale, or with a permit for noncommercial scientific research.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| S2804 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants the Quonset Development Corporation the ability to purchase potable water from the Providence Water Supply Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-13
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2516 | Pass | Adds sexual trafficking to registerable offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| H7048 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants the Quonset Development Corporation the authority to purchase and obtain water supply and water service from any city, town, water district, or other water supply authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-13
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| H7440 | Pass | Prohibits the possession sale or trade of shark fins by those without a permit and would make those in violation of this act guilty of a misdemeanor. Permits for limited purposes would be issued by DEM.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| S2898 | Pass | Permits specifically designated and authorized persons to access confidential health care information of the designating individual from the health information exchange.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| H7388 | Pass | Repeals chapter 10 of title 22, lobbying, and chapter 139 of title 42, executive branch and public corporation lobbying, and enacts the Rhode Island lobbying reform act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| H7949 | Pass | Expands the number of pharmacists eligible to engage in collaborative pharmacy practice with physicians by including all licensed pharmacists and provides for biennial review of collaborative practice agreements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| H7318 | Pass | Adds sexual trafficking to registerable offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| S2361 | Pass | Repeals chapter 10 of title 22, lobbying, and chapter 139 of title 42, executive branch and public corporation lobbying, and would enact the Rhode Island lobbying reform act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| H7866 | Pass | Permits specifically designated and authorized persons to access the confidential health care information of the designating individual from the health information exchange.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| S2368 | Pass | Requires posting in every public school of a sign providing the telephone number of the child abuse hotline.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| S2309 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes weekends and state holidays from the calculation of the 48 hour public notice requirement for a meeting of a public body.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2023 | Pass | Makes various modifications to the enabling act for the Warwick Sewer Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-10
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2576 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health care entities to issue a decision regarding credentialing of a health care provider within 20 days of receiving a credentialing application and establishes a billing effective date.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7349 | Pass | Makes various modifications to the enabling act for the Warwick Sewer Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-10
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S3050 | Engross
Sine Die | Transfer jurisdiction over estate investments from the superior court to the probate court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2686 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the definition of an "eating or drinking establishment" for purposes of determining whether it would be subject to the meals and beverage tax and include supermarkets, coffee shops and convenience stores.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H8222 | Pass | Allows Soraya Een Hajji to join Erica Lynne Braverman and Steven Kyle Betit in marriage on or about June 11, 2016, within the City of Providence, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
Signed by Governor |
| S2668 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes the director and other positions of the state crime laboratory employees of the council on postsecondary education as opposed to limited appointments positions of the board of governors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2014 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends provisions relative to renewable energy resources and interconnection standards and/or charges related thereto.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H7625 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits insurers from denying continued coverage for residential or inpatient services for mental health or substance abuse treatment if such services are medically necessary and if continued treatment is recommended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H7143 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the imposition of up to a $500 fine on a motor vehicle lessor or secured party for failing to follow proper procedures in the event of a default by a lessee or purchaser.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H8284 | 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] | 2016-06-09
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H8287 | 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] | 2016-06-09
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (06/09/2016) |
| S2526 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Household Hazardous Waste Management Act to create a comprehensive system for the disposal of hard-to-dispose hazardous household materials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| S3070 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the town of Smithfield to charge interest on delinquent water payments at a rate of not more than twelve percent (12%) per annum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2495 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines and declare the purpose of child opportunity zones and provides for annual reporting from the commissioner of elementary and secondary education to the general assembly on each zone.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7703 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulates the phase-out of wood stoves without EPA certification in densely populated residential areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| H7021 | Pass | Allows Catherine Tobin to join Trevor Charles Horn and Jessica Elizabeth Simas-Morin in marriage on or about July 30, 2016, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8301 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the termination of the parental rights of a person who murders or commits manslaughter on the other parent of his or her child/children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8063 | Pass | Allows Alison S. Carcieri-Cassidy to join Jocelyn Chiappone and Dr. Michael Hulstyn in marriage on or about July 17, 2016, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2756 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires insurance policies to provide coverage for the use of telecommunication services rendered to subscribers who reside on islands located within the state that are not connected to the mainland by any bridge or other structure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
To House Corporations Committee |
| H8106 | Pass | Allows Myron J. Raisner to join Shira Beth Raisner and Michael Paul Christensen in marriage on or about June 24, 2017, within the Town of Bristol, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8114 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the period from thirty (30) days to six (6) days in regard to the exclusion from the definition of occupancy for any home, condominium or other residential dwelling rented.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H8102 | Pass | Allows the Honorable Judge Ellen F. Gesmer to join Anna G. Lubiner and David T. Hoffman in marriage on or about January 14, 2017 within the City of Providence, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8112 | Pass | Allows Robert Gutheil to join Stephen Allen Berenson and Brian Richard McEleney in marriage on or about July 2, 2016, within the Town of Lincoln, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8126 | Pass | Allows the Honorable Peter F. Kilmartin to join Liane McCarthy and Thomas Neville in marriage on or about August 24, 2016, within the Town of Narragansett, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8104 | Pass | Allows the Honorable Georgianna Jordan to join Donna Marie Buonanni and Randall Clark Reed in marriage on or about July 9, 2016, within the Town of Tiverton, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8105 | Pass | Allows Lynn Regan to join Rachael M. Staab and Daniel F. Mattson in marriage on or about June 18, 2016 within the Town of Narragansett, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2206 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of the term "disabled", for purposes of property tax relief, to include persons receiving veterans' affairs disability benefits paid by the federal government.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
To House Finance Committee |
| S2152 | Engross
Sine Die | Reduces the interest rate on delinquent tax payments to between fifteen percent (15%) and not less than ten percent (10%) and provides for a reduced interest rate for persons on approved payment plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H8195 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of W.d. Schock Co., Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8050 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows applicant to obtain "year of manufacture plate" from DMV/receive approval to display plate in possession on vehicle more than 25 years old.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H8196 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Jamestown Estates Homeowner's Association
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2550 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the state, general contractors, and construction managers from withholding more than five percent (5%) as a retainer with respect to any sewer, water main, or other public works construction contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H7719 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the minimum business corporation tax from $450 to $399.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
To House Finance Committee |
| 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 |
| H7445 | 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 |
| H7496 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the department of environmental management from charging parking fees to Rhode Island residents or motor vehicles registered in the state at state beaches between July 2, 2016 and July 8, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
To House Finance Committee |
