| S2442 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates enabling legislation for cities and towns relative to new real estate construction and property with damaged buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7385 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the issuance of bonds when the general assembly has adjourned, and further bars the issuance of "moral obligation" bonds not secured by the full faith and credit of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To House Finance Committee |
| S2621 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the interest charged by cities and towns on delinquent taxes to 12% per year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2501 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines coinsurance and prohibits insurance contracts or policies from using coinsurance to calculate and collect additional funds from patients, including mental health and substance abuse patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2290 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits each of the Coventry Fire Districts tax levy increases to the consumer price index, but not to exceed five percent (5%) in any one year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2281 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes office of inspector general which would be charged with preventing fraud and mismanagement of public funds, regardless of their source and would oversee all state programs and operations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7384 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the commerce corporation to facilitate the development of industrial parks located in any city or town by assisting in the pre-approval process for permitting on vacant parcels.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To House Finance Committee |
| H8179 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the merger of the Lonsdale and Saylesville Fire Districts in Lincoln if the electors of both fire districts approve that merger.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| S2509 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a ($1.00) fee per covered life per month to be paid when filing the annual report required of third party administrators of pharmacy benefit plans. The funds will go into a restricted receipt account and would be spent on opioid disorders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2053 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the interval of time within which a municipality must conduct an update of its last real property revaluation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2654 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits electric distribution companies from requiring security deposits from commercial customers who have maintained accounts for more than one year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7294 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the creation of a new position in the fish and wildlife division of the department of environmental management, and places oversight of freshwater lakes, streams, and ponds, in the fish and wildlife division.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To House Finance Committee |
| H7597 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of transportation to disclose information regarding the award and contract amount for road construction or repair projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To House Finance Committee |
| H7101 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates transitioning veterans' small business loan program under commerce corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To House Finance Committee |
| H7008 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the director of the department of transportation to complete snow removal on state sidewalks and walkways within twenty-four (24) hours after the end of a snowstorm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To House Finance Committee |
| H8185 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires state contractors, that are paid by the state, to pay monthly interest to its subcontractors that it had not timely paid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-12
To House Labor Committee |
| H7433 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that only corporate entities in existence for three (3) years or longer be taxed under this section.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| H7378 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the additional fee for registration renewal of courtesy (vanity) plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| H8170 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the privileged nature of communications to interpreters of that communications as long as the interpreters are officially working for the state office of court interpreters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7075 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Division of Racing and Athletics to implement online games of skill, including so-called fantasy sports.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| H7917 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a process by which the operators of fantasy contest businesses are to be registered and regulated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| S2343 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows municipalities to award bids for contracts in an amount less than $500,000 to a business located within its municipality if it is current on all taxes, its bid is within 10% of the lowest bid and it is willing to match the lowest bid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7938 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the "Fantasy Contest Act" which imposes various consumer protection practices upon fantasy contest operators and requires them to register with the department of business regulation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| H7372 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the office of management and budget to develop a plan to implement a centralized administrative hearing agency on or before December 31, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| S2970 | Intro
Sine Die | Restores certain provisions of chapter 16.2 as well as all of chapter 16.3 of title 23 repealed/deleted in 2015 Budget Act pertaining to definitions/licensing/operation of medical laboratories.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2878 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds and includes marijuana concentrates into the definition of marijuana and clarifies the weight equivalent of marijuana and marijuana concentrates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2113 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a primary caregiver cardholder to possess a reasonable amount of unusable marijuana, including up to twelve (12) seedlings that would not be counted toward the limits provided by law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2420 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the state's prohibition on adults using, possessing, and cultivating marijuana for personal use. Establishes a system of regulated marijuana retail distribution to adults 21 and older and imposes taxes at both the wholesale and retail level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2975 | Intro
Sine Die | Make an assault or battery upon a dwarf resulting in bodily injury a felony and would be punishable by up to three (3) years imprisonment and an assault resulting in serious bodily injury punishable by to twenty (20) years imprisonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7429 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state to pay a lighting district's energy bill, if the lighting district fails to pay it.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H7180 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the purpose of preventing and detecting fraud, waste and abuse, and mismanagement in the expenditure of public funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H8169 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any pet shop owner from confining any animal in a sales display window in a manner that places the animal in direct sunlight, without providing some form of cover or shade.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7430 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to prevent and detect fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the expenditure of public funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H7594 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a veteran's preference in the issuance of state contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To House Finance Committee |
| S2194 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for additional appropriations by the general assembly to promote the capability of URI in the areas of environmental and agricultural research and education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H8125 | Intro
Sine Die | 2016) (Regulates fiduciary designated recipient access to digital assets relating to probate practice and procedure by creating a uniform act to conform to law of other adopting states.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7107 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits state guide plan from requiring any city or town from adopting a housing ordinance that exceeds laws of Rhode Island or city or town's zoning laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To House Finance Committee |
| S2350 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the town of Narragansett to establish a tangible business property tax exemption for local small business owners in an amount not to exceed thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7721 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a restricted receipt account for beach and park user fees, and direct the department of environmental management to report receipts and disbursements annually to the general assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To House Finance Committee |
| S2840 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases number of permits for medical marijuana compassion centers from 3 to 6 with certain geographical limitations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7071 | Intro
Sine Die | Implement the provisions of the Lean government initiative, which has been adopted in the private business community and governments throughout the country, to eliminate waste and inefficiency in the operation of government.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H7213 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the atomic energy commission to the list of entities that are exempt from the state purchases competitive bidding process in circumstances when federal funds are involved.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H7073 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a hardship relief fund for business owners showing financial hardship resulting from past due completion of road or bridge projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H7119 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a veteran's preference in the issuance of state contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To House Finance Committee |
| S2545 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the manufacture of marijuana using a certain process using compressed flammable gas would not be subject to the protections of the medical marijuana statute, excerpt of a compassion center cardholder complies with regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2227 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes the cultivation or production of marijuana from the definition of "plant agriculture".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H8187 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits minor victims of sex trafficking to seek compensation under the criminal injuries compensation act and would establish immunity from prosecution, for sexually exploited children and require sexually exploited children to be reported to DCYF.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8188 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the fine motorists pay for not driving reasonable and prudent speeds, emergency break-down lane travel, and right-of-way violations, if the violation caused bodily injury to someone other than themselves.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7290 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a chief innovation officer to the governors list of appointments to be made following an election to office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To House Finance Committee |
| S2954 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all school districts to designate an athletic trainer to be available for high school athletic practices and games.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
To Senate Education Committee |
