| 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 |
| 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 |
| S3007 | Pass | Senate Resolution Respectfully Requesting That The Coastal Resources Management Council And The Rhode Island Department Of Environmental Management Streamline The Permitting Process For Aquaculture And Identify Areas Suitable For Aquaculture
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-01
Senate read and passed |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| S3039 | Pass | Senate Resolution Commemorating The 226th Anniversary Celebration Of "hope Day: Birth Of Our Nation"
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
Senate read and passed |
| 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 |
| S3040 | Pass | Senate Resolution Honoring And Congratulating "sail To Prevail" For Its Thirty-five Years Of Exemplary And Distinguished Service To Physically And Developmentally Disabled Sailors In Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
Senate read and passed |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| S3041 | Pass | Senate Resolution Recognizing The Providence Center For Embodying Innovation In Behavioral Health Care
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
Senate read and passed |
| 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 |
| S2130 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the income eligibility limit for the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) to 200% of the federal poverty level (from 180%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
Committee heard |
| S2207 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires hospitals to provide within two (2) business days, a written estimate for medical services over five thousand dollars ($5,000), including facility fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2028 | Intro
Sine Die | Direct 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] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2195 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from personal income tax the first twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) received from pensions, interest income, 401k plans and individual retirement accounts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2471 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases from three (3) to six (6) years the interval of time within which a city or town must conduct an update of its last real property revaluation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S3035 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the position of a state-designated ombudsperson for services for intellectually/developmentally disabled individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S3029 | Intro
Sine Die | Insures access to chiropractic physicians for opioid treatment and health providers access to nurse anesthetists of their choice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S3028 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a developmental disabilities ombudsman program to be attached to the department of administration. The ombudsman would advocate for developmentally disabled adults and would be selected by the governor from a list of 3-5 candidates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
