| 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 |
| H8249 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Honorable Edith H. Ajello to join Caroline Armistead Gordon Covington and Donald Patrick Ford in marriage on or about June 15, 2016, within the City of Providence, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (05/31/2016) |
| H7981 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for temporary increases in the state's share of foundation education aid to regional school districts for FY 2017 and FY 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7590 | 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 |
| 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 |
| H7950 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the cost to operate all lighting equipment located on state roads would be the responsibility of the state and not the municipality where the lighting equipment is located.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H8243 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the lottery to conduct an instant game known as the "Heritage Hall of Fame Lottery Game" with proceeds to go toward the construction of a Hall of Fame and Rhode Island History Center in Bristol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7120 | 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 |
| H7555 | Pass | Renames the Pawtucket River Bridge to "The Mayor James E. Doyle Pawtucket River Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| 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 |
| H8237 | Intro
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 |
| 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 |
| H8242 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that for the fiscal year 2017 only, the distribution of hotel tax made to the various regional tourism districts be in amounts equal to the distributions made to such districts in fiscal year 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Finance 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 |
| H8057 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the eligibility period for cash assistance under the Rhode Island Works Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7544 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs auditor general to assign a special auditor whose sole function is to perform regular/forensic audits of DOT and all construction projects put out to bid/managed/supervised by DOT.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7982 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the sales and use tax, commencing July 1, 2016, from the current level of seven percent (7%) in yearly increments of one quarter percent (.25%), until the level of six and one quarter percent (6.25%) is reached.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H8089 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts trade-in value of trucks up to 10,000 lbs. gross vehicle weight from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7002 | Pass | Restricts the installation, concealment, placement or use of an electronic tracking device in or on a motor vehicle, and adds electronic tracking devices to the definition of "domestic violence" under state law.
[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 |
| H8183 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the sunset provision regarding the historic preservation tax credit program, and provides that any taxpayer who has obtained a tax credit certification prior to the enactment of this act would be eligible to claim the tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7463 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes portability of the estate tax credit and allows a deceased spousal unused credit against the Rhode Island estate tax of a surviving spouse for the unused estate tax credit of the first spouse to die.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| 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 |
| H7830 | Pass | Removes the 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 |
| 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 |
| H7015 | Pass | Permits the town of Lincoln to grant a proposed Class B liquor license within two hundred feet (200') of a church.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
Effective without Governor's signature |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| H8230 | Intro
Sine Die | Renames the Albion Bridge in the City of Warwick the Gordon R. Archibald Memorial Bridge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H7253 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the grandfather clause pertaining to licensing of underground utility contractors granted without examination to July 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To House Corporations 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 |
| H7772 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes school district approval from the enrollment process for recovery high school students and requires the transfer of the core instructional amount per pupil.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To House Finance Committee |
