| H7894 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a definition for "fuel oil terminal" and establish procedures for obtaining temporary suspensions from compliance when there is an inadequate supply of biobased product or when good cause is shown.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| S2278 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the number of municipal economic zones permitted by law to areas located in a municipality designated as a state-approved "growth center".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| S2703 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits class A liquor retail license holders to elect on four (4) occasions annually to serve unlimited samples of wine products which are available for purchase from the licensee's outlet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Committee heard |
| H7858 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes all criminal records, despite expungement, available to the department of children, youth and families, for any individual seeking certification as a child care or youth serving agency worker pursuant to §40-13.2 et seq.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2382 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits holders of manufacture's licenses to sell alcoholic beverages at retail for permits on-site and off-site consumption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Committee heard |
| S2782 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming March 23, 2016, To Be "athletic Trainers' Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Senate read and passed |
| S2813 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that houses, condominiums or other residential dwelling units, regardless of the number of rooms, which are used and/or advertised for rent for occupancy would be exempt from the state sales or hotel tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2329 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an annual minimum wage increase tied to inflation, based upon the Consumer Price Index for the region.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2555 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the number of cats per household to ten (10) without special permission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Committee heard |
| S2171 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes certain student privacy rights in regard to take-home technology devices from school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2798 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the director of the department of environmental management to promulgate and adopt rules and regulations pertaining to the use of pesticide products containing neonicotinoids.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2237 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals §25-3-7 of the general laws which gives the director of the department of labor and training the authority to exempt certain classes of employees form receiving overtime pay for Sunday and holiday work.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2818 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the council of economic advisors, the governor's commerce and workforce coordination cabinet, and would correct references in the executive office of commerce enabling act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2263 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants to each individual municipal school departments the power to determine whether their schedules would be open on a particular scheduled election day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2092 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes procedures/standards issued by milk commission for handling/sale of raw milk with civil fines for violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Committee heard |
| H7038 | Intro
Sine Die | Grant district courts and certain municipal courts created by §8-8-3(a)(4) the power to issue restraining orders and permanent injunctions in housing matters, and would include the power to order a building into receivership.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7685 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes those persons with certain convictions for driving on suspended licenses or driving without licenses eligible for expungement of other criminal offenses, provided that they were otherwise eligible under the law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7974 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming March 23, 2016, To Be "athletic Trainers' Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
House read and passed |
| S2847 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides inmates who are on work release reimburse the state for costs of confinement by paying no less than thirty percent (30%) of their net salary for room and board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2819 | Intro
Sine Die | Empowers the PFMB to advise/assist city/town or municipal/regional board/commission/agency relating to issuance/financial planning of general obligation notes/bonds without local entity request.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2812 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a long-term economic policy/strategic implementation plan to receive a public hearing by house/senate, but also a vote of approval with transmittal to the governor for signature before it takes effect.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7985 | Intro
Sine Die | Encourages those cities and towns that have failed to met their low and moderate housing unit minimum goals to meet those goals and establishes penalties for failing to meet those goals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| H7665 | Intro
Sine Die | Does away with the requirement that a retiring physician give public notice in a statewide newspaper at least ninety days before the closure of practice, of the disposition of their patients' medical records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2796 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any person from importing, selling, offering for sale, purchasing, bartering, or possessing with intent to sell, any ivory, ivory product, rhinoceros horn, or rhinoceros horn product, with limited exception & provides for fines for violatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2820 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the public finance management board be provided with a report of any debt issuance within 30 days of issuance, and that no debt issuance be incurred greater than $1,000,000 without prior approval of the public finance management board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7242 | Intro
Sine Die | Redefines the term "first-time offender" for purposes of expungement of criminal records, and permits individuals with a record of not more than 2 misdemeanor convictions to be eligible for expungement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2264 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows municipal or regional schools to be open on Columbus Day if their school department so decides.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2834 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the voter identification law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7361 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires registration of those individuals who provide personal care assistant services to a consumer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7755 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact that would regulate the practice of telepsychology (psychological services using a form of telecommunications) by psychologists across state boundaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7980 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes livable home tax credit granting credits for new resident purchases, retrofitting of existing residence, administered by Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| H7827 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that any person serving life in prison, will have the right to get married and the status of being civilly dead for life prisoners, would not apply to the bond of matrimony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7986 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of The Honorable Raymond E. Grimes
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
House read and passed |
| S2262 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public schools, including charter schools, begin the school year on the day after Labor Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| H7360 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires recipients of public assistance to provide a minimum of twenty (20) hours of community service per month, unless the recipient is gainfully employed and working not less than twenty (20) hours during the month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2072 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a wine direct shipper license to allow for shipment of limited amounts of wine through the mail to eligible customers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Committee heard |
| H7489 | Intro
Sine Die | Modernizes the statutes regulating physician assistants (PAs) by providing for collaboration between physicians and physician assistants,
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7686 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the total amount of damages the state can recover in a false claim act action from three times the actual damages to five times.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2522 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds hoarding of animals to the list of cruelty to animal offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Committee heard |
| S2525 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits outdoor school recess when temperatures fall below thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit (32ºF, 0ºC).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| H7659 | 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] | 2016-03-23
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7984 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the real estate conveyance tax the transfer of interests in any housing development financed in whole or in part by federal low income housing tax credits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| S2590 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Stephen P. Osella Plumbing, Ltd.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H7474 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health insurers to maintain accurate and up-to-date directories of all in-network providers, and provides that information to plan enrollees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7829 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals §14-1-61 regarding the placement for costs and expenses for certain complaints filed in family court, and chapter 4 of title 14, which establishes the O'Rourke Children's Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7852 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates that family court schedule hearing to modify or suspend child support orders for an obligor who is incarcerated and prohibits hearing to determine obligor's ability to pay sooner than forty-five (45) days after release from prison.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2379 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits employers from deducting from their employees' wages for spoilage, breakage, cash shortages, losses, fines or penalties for tardiness, misconduct or quitting by an employee without notice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H7851 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a judge of the family court to consider the wishes of a minor in making determinations regarding custody and visitation, provided the minor is of sufficient age and has the capacity to reason.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2244 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that on and after 7/1/16, any city or town council would have the authority to exempt said city or town from the prohibition against the issuance of certain alcoholic beverage licenses within 200' feet of a school or place of public worship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Committee heard |
| H7357 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that physicians, dentists, and other healthcare professionals who treat patients complete at least five (5) hours of training every two (2) years on the risks of addiction associated with medications prescribed for pain management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
