| H7935 | Intro
Sine Die | Subtracts from the federal adjusted gross income, income attributable to the recovery during the tax year of any amount deducted in any prior tax year for the purposes of the calculation of the state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
To House Finance Committee |
| 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 |
| H8293 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the turnpike and bridge authority to the list of state agencies and/or entities entitled to exemptions from certain administrative procedures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7156 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates the "Rhode Island Terminally Ill Patient's Right to Try Act of 2016," which establishes the conditions for the use of experimental treatments for terminally ill patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| 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 |
| H8290 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the president of the Rhode Island Brotherhood of Correctional Officers as a member of the criminal justice policy board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To House Judiciary 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 |
| H8258 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the family court to accept a waiver of financial information in uncontested divorces with no children or dependents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8257 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the possession of a stun-gun under the same license conditions which apply to possession of a pistol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8275 | Intro
Sine Die | Enables New Shoreham to present to voters the questions of creation of utility association and, if approved, its form as a district or cooperative to be called New Shoreham Utility Association.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To House Corporations 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 |
| H7966 | Pass | Repeals the section which created the commercial fishing license review board.
[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 |
| H7835 | Pass | Amends the composition of the governor's workforce board by adding one employer seat and one seat representing the office of rehabilitation services, a division within the department of human services.
[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 |
| H7014 | 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 |
| H7005 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-06
Signed by Governor |
| H8147 | Pass | Allows Jonah Michael David to join Cassandra Leigh Jendzejec and Avram Joseph David in marriage on or about July 9, 2016, within the City of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
[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 |
| H8082 | 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 |
| H7469 | 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.
[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 |
| H7551 | Pass | Permits cities and towns to borrow any amount from the School Building Authority Capital Fund to fund the LEA's share of total project costs without voter approval prior to July 1, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-06
Signed by Governor |
| H7406 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines confidential information and prohibits the intentional and unauthorized access to another's computer, computer system or network with the intent to view, save or copy confidential information contained therein.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-03
Placed on House Calendar (06/14/2016) |
| 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 |
| H7606 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits encroachment of open space land and allows for a civil action in superior court to remedy any encroachment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H8174 | Pass | Allows the Honorable Jean L. Gagnier to join Meghan Pilkington and Justin Moreau in marriage on or about June 11, 2016, within the Town of Narragansett, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-01
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8164 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Iglesia Pentecostal El Calvario
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-01
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8099 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of N E F L, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-01
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8107 | Pass | Allows the Honorable Georgianna Jordan to join Stacy Pentz and Christopher Bernard Brule in marriage on or about June 4, 2016, within the Town of Barrington, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-01
Signed by Governor |
| 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 |
| H8146 | Pass | Allows Robert E.P. Elmer, III, to join Kelly Elizabeth Joyce and Robert Taylor Ingraham in marriage on or about June 11, 2016, within the Town of Westerly, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-01
Effective without Governor's signature |
| 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 |
| H8269 | 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] | 2016-06-01
To House Finance Committee |
| 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 |
