| S2188 | Pass | Grants the town council of the town of Narragansett the authority to adopt a homestead exemption ordinance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-29
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2254 | Pass | Authorizes department of transportation and municipalities to operate automated school zone speed enforcement systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-29
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H7052 | Pass | Adds dyslexia-targeted assistance as a required aspect of the literacy program for students at the elementary grade level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| H8224 | Pass | Requires pharmacies to transmit prescription information to the prescription monitoring data base within twenty-four hours of dispensing an opioid. Provides limits on amounts of opoids to be prescribed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S2874 | Pass | Allows for electronic system data transmission of Schedule V prescriptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S2875 | Pass | Allows nursing and related professionals to practice under supervision of an RN without certain registration requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H7056 | Pass | Directs school superintendents to review discipline data to determine unequal impact on students based on race/ethnicity/disability status and respond to any disparity and sets out of school supervision standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S2822 | Pass | Directs health insurers to provide prescription drug coverage for prescriptions of less than a thirty (30) day supply for the treatment of chronic conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H8326 | Pass | Improves the usefulness and value of the prescription drug monitoring database program by adding analytical functions, requiring program updates at least weekly, and incorporating data from similar programs in other states.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S2356 | Pass | Requires comprehensive discharge planning for patients treated for substance use disorders, opioid overdoses and chronic addiction and would require insurers to cover expanded medication-assisted addiction treatment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S2823 | Pass | Requires pharmacies to transmit prescription information to the prescription monitoring data base within twenty-four hours of dispensing an opioid. Provides limits on amounts of opoids to be prescribed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H8100 | Pass | Permits holders of a manufacture's license to sell at retail alcoholic beverages manufactured by them known for on/off-site consumption in an amount not in excess of 288 oz per visitor/per day, to be sold in bottles that hold no more than 72 oz each.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S2168 | Pass | Directs school superintendents to review discipline data to determine unequal impact on students based on race/ethnicity/disability status and respond to any disparity and sets out of school supervision standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S2577 | Pass | Requires health insurance policies to reimburse telemedicine services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H8022 | Pass | Directs health insurers to provide prescription drug coverage for prescriptions of less than a thirty (30) day supply for the treatment of chronic conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H7330 | Pass | Changes the definition of vote to accommodate the new computer voting machine, it authorizes the BOE to promulgate rules concerning the process by which irregular ballots with write-in candidates are maintained and changes how printout tapes are hand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H7160 | Pass | Requires health insurance policies to reimburse telemedicine services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H7637 | Pass | Allows nursing and related professionals to practice under supervision of an RN without certain registration requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S2415 | Pass | Changes the definition of vote to accommodate the new computer voting machine, it authorizes the BOE to promulgate rules concerning the process by which irregular ballots with write-in candidates are maintained and changes how printout tapes are hand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S2948 | Pass | Allows licensed chemical dependency professionals with the proper training to use treatment known as auricular acudetox effective 1/1/2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S2476 | Pass | Requires the governor's workforce board to expand job and career opportunities for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S2460 | Pass | Requires health insurance providers providing prescription coverage to include overdose preventative medicine/devices coverage, including prior authorization as well as HMOs/Nonprofit medical service/hospital service corps.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H7710 | Pass | Requires all health insurance providers that provide prescription coverage to provide coverage for opioid antagonists (overdose preventive medicine), and all related devices and services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H7847 | Pass | Authorizes any vendor, agent, contractor, or designee who operates an electronic medical health record (EMR) or clinical management system to have access to the prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H7050 | Pass | Appropriate public education made available to a disabled child until their twenty-first birthday or completion of program in which they are enrolled as of their twenty-first birthday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H7849 | Pass | Allows for electronic system data transmission of Schedule V prescriptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S2755 | Pass | Adds biological/interchangeable biological products to the category of medications pharmacies may dispense, and regulates the procedures for dispensation/substitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H8035 | Pass | Requires the governor's workforce board to expand job and career opportunities for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H7816 | Pass | Adds biological/interchangeable biological products to the category of medications pharmacies may dispense, and regulates the procedures for dispensation/substitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H7130 | Pass | Allows licensed chemical dependency professionals with the proper training to use treatment known as auricular acudetox effective 1/1/2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H7616 | Pass | Requires comprehensive discharge planning for patients treated for substance use disorders, opioid overdoses and chronic addiction and would require insurers to cover expanded medication-assisted addiction treatment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S3053 | Pass | Authorizes the holder of an alcoholic beverage manufacturer license to sell a limited amount of malt beverages and distilled spirits for consumption on and off the licensed premises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S2391 | Pass | Appropriate public education made available to a disabled child until their twenty-first birthday or completion of program in which they are enrolled as of their twenty-first birthday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S2669 | Pass | Requires public schools to provide student in grades kindergarten through five (5) with at least twenty (20) minutes of free-play recess each school day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| H7510 | Pass | Requires public hearing or meeting, for all insurers or health maintenance organizations who propose rate increases for health or dental insurance coverage in the individual market.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| S2802 | Pass | Exempts certain individuals from liability for costs associated with a release of hazardous materials where ownership was acquired after January 11, 2002 under certain enumerated conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| S2209 | Pass | Creates a uniform rate review procedure for rating formula/rate changes by non-profit hospital/medical service corps. And catastrophic health plans requiring public hearings/meetings paid by applicant with no effect on appeal rights effective 1/1/17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| S2450 | Pass | Extends the Renewable Energy Development Fund (REF) program for ten years, from 2017 to 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| H7413 | Pass | Extends the 2004 Renewable Energy Standard Schedule Program, which required the suppliers of retail electricity to purchase increasing minimum amounts of renewable energy from 2019 to 2035.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| H8319 | Pass | Requires health care providers to provide veterans copies of their medical records at no charge if the records are used to apply for benefits of any kind.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| S2296 | Pass | Requires healthcare providers to provide veterans copies of their medical records at no charge if the records are used to apply for benefits of any kind.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| S2316 | Pass | Allows the department of children, youth and families to process nationwide criminal record checks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| H7913 | Pass | Renames the Rhode Island storage tank financial responsibility review board to the Rhode Island storage tank financial responsibility advisory board and claims process and oversight of the underground storage tank fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| H8354 | Pass | Establishes renewable energy polices to streamline the state's clean energy economy, allow virtual net metering, third party financing and a predictable tax process for commercial systems in host communities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| H7644 | Pass | Requires public schools to provide student in grades kindergarten through five (5) with at least twenty (20) minutes of free-play recess each school day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| S2095 | Pass | Requires manufacturers of mercury-containing lamps to establish and implement a statewide collection for the recycling of mercury-containing lamps.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| S2185 | Pass | Extends the 2004 Renewable Energy Standard Schedule Program, which required the suppliers of retail electricity to purchase increasing minimum amounts of renewable energy from 2019 to 2035.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| H7867 | Pass | Amends the statutes regarding securities and franchises in order to allow for electronic filings and to remove the filing fee for advertising.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| H7773 | Pass | Provides a definition for long term care provider (LTC) and provide that after sixty days of uncompensated care of a patient, the LTC can apply to the state for relief.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| H7034 | Pass | Allows the department of children, youth and families to process nationwide criminal record checks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-27
Signed by Governor |
