| S2439 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from state taxation certain pension benefits that originate from another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7564 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the Rhode Island Tax Amnesty Acts of 1986, 1996, 2006, and 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| H7558 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any law authorizing a tax preference enacted after January 1, 2017 to contain specific goals and objectives and provides for detailed performance indicators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| H7411 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the director of the department of environmental management to issue violations and penalties for violations of provisions of the general laws regarding the Rhode Island infrastructure bank.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| S2433 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 For The Graduate School Of Oceanography Center For Ocean Exploration At The University Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7280 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires, prior to the award of authority, that all bidders for public works contracts provide a list of the subcontractors to be utilized.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Labor Committee |
| S2452 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates tax incentives for the installation of alternative fuel facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7355 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds siblings to class of workers who can receive temporary disability for caregiver services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Labor Committee |
| S2398 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides parents of K-12 students with opportunity to enroll their child in an educational program of their choosing with designated public monies to follow the student to school selected by parent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2432 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the imposition of a two percent (2%) tax increase on personal income over two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) commencing January 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7549 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a procedure for the timely payment to contractors and subcontractors in connection with state contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| S2347 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from taxation open air structures that are used for the sheltering and/or feeding and watering of animals utilized in connection with agricultural operations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2090 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to use separate collection categories and tabulations for specified Asian ethnic groups in every demographic report on ancestry or ethnic origins of residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2334 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Profound Sympathy On The Passing Of Joanne Coia
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Senate read and passed |
| H7548 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state and municipalities to award bids for the purchase of goods or services to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| S2344 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 For The Station Fire Memorial Foundation (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 For The Station Fire Memorial Foundation, A Rhode Island Nonprofit Corporation.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7553 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates that health employees working for state operated community and residential facilities receive a minimum of $13.97 per hour and that such rate would be adjusted annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| S2348 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts qualified plug-in electric drive vehicles from excise taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2258 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Vincent Albert "buddy" Cianci, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Senate read and passed |
| S2352 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the tax increment financing act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2363 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts some political contributions by state vendors and prohibits state vendors from making political contributions to candidates for the office responsible for awarding those state vendor contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2353 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires municipalities to include a 20 year amortization schedule with its annual report every 3 years and provides an alternative funding critical status funding plan to state officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7550 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies depreciation with respect to the net book value of a company's tangible personal property, by providing that the accumulated depreciation reduction takes into account physical deterioration and functional and economic obsolescence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H7135 | Pass | Allows Dan E. Blackstone to join Teresa Garcia and Jeffery Perez in marriage on or about February 13, 2016, within the town of Westerly, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| S2346 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the tax per gallon on all taxable gallons of gasoline sold or used in this state from thirty-two cents ($0.32) per gallon to twenty-eight cents ($0.28) per gallon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2355 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provisions of the general laws which authorize cities, towns, and redevelopment agencies to make rehabilitation loans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7255 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all food businesses, with the exception of restaurants, that have gross sales of over $500,000 to post a sign informing their customers that all their food products contain modified organisms, unless their labels say otherwise.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2285 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the "Start-Up Rhode Island Act" to allow for the establishment of certain tax free zones in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7082 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that any genetically-engineered foods be labeled as such.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2232 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that operators of motor vehicles use only hands-free mobile electronic communication devices and provides for monetary penalties for violations of said requirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7088 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes operators of developmental disability agencies, acting as a group, to self-insure health care costs for employees, retirees and other beneficiaries and allows a third-party administrator to administer said program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7415 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the secretary of state to the board of elections as a nonvoting ex officio member. It also requires the board of canvassers to clearly mark the fifty foot (50') buffer zone at each polling place, where political campaigning is prohibited.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2275 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds enterprise zone tax credits to list available to taxpayers in computing state personal income tax liability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2289 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals authorization for various cities and towns to enter into tax stabilization agreements and provides for certain tax exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7314 | Intro
Sine Die | Subjects the state board of elections to the provisions of the administrative procedures act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2270 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes from Rhode Island state taxation portions of pension benefits that originate in and were subject to taxation in another state
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7400 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires persons in government custody use their actual residence for census and redistricting purposes as determined by the department of corrections and the secretary of state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2164 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Energy Facility Siting Board to establish an enforceable schedule for the completion of the Capital City Underground Utility Initiative on or before July 30, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2257 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Robert M. Sangrey, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Senate read and passed |
| H7303 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for the sale of alcoholic beverages on the premises of a manufacturer of said beverages and the sale of said beverages for off-premises consumption. It would also amend the fee schedule for licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2252 | Intro
Sine Die | Sets new weight restrictions on vehicles traveling over the Ten Mile River Bridge in Pawtucket.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2067 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the penalties and fines for the various motor vehicle offenses involving leaving the scene of an accident.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7274 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the labeling of all raw and packaged food that is entirely or partially produced with genetic engineering, commencing January 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2279 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires reimbursement payments from the general fund to volunteer fire departments responding to emergencies on or along Route 95.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7507 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Condolences
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
House read and passed |
| H7304 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires cable television companies to give their customers the option to purchase, at its fair market value, a device which decodes their digital cable signals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2291 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a bridge works restricted receipt account to fund the maintenance and repair of bridges located within the state with various source of funding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7035 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes public entity budgets available in digital form through the secretary of state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2323 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale of electronic nicotine-delivery systems without having a license to sell cigarettes and/or tobacco products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7508 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating Robert Martin , Chief Of The Bristol Fire Department, On His Retirement After Many Years Of Faithful Service To The Citizens Of Bristol
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
House read and passed |
