| H7889 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the apprenticeship program fee which shall be paid by each program sponsor and it would also repeal the apprenticeship registration fee which shall be paid by each indentured apprentice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| S2027 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes from the state income tax the amount resulting from the receipt of a veteran's disability pension from the United States government for a service-connected disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| H7556 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits state from reducing its yearly contribution to the pension system until fund ratio meets or exceeds 80%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| S2451 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts governmental pensions and military pensions from state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| H7108 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases education aid to a community based on community's meeting and surpassing minimum low and moderate income housing requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| S2445 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for property tax and motor vehicle tax exemption for veterans and their spouses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| H7234 | 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] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| S2345 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the right to property tax relief to any veteran honorably discharged by eliminating references to particular conflicts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| S2048 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies federal adjusted gross income for state income tax purposes by deducting military/federal pension income including survivorship annuities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| S2047 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the portion of a military pension which is included in federal adjusted gross income from the state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| H7181 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the monthly minimum benefits of spouses and domestic partners of retired teachers, and authorizes additional yearly non-compounded adjustments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| S2149 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the amount of military pension which is included in federal adjusted gross income from the state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| H7265 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for payment responsibility of sending district to school department of East Providence for any child attending Bradley Hospital.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7345 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) to the Westerly Higher Education and Job Skills Center, for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7460 | Intro
Sine Die | Legalizes the taking of wild migratory birds by crossbow.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H7725 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits retired teachers to exceed earnings limits if the department of education determines there is a shortage of teachers in their subject.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7182 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds tutoring to a list of occupations that may be performed without impairment of state retirement benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7595 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows retired nurses to be employed at state colleges for up to 75 days or 150 half days before their pension payment would be suspended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7235 | 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] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| S2354 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds honorably discharged disabled veterans who purchase a new motor vehicle to the category of certain veterans exempt from sales and use taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| H7439 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state to pay for the education of students placed in group homes outside of their municipality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7374 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the "Student Equal Economic Opportunity Act" which would identify those students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition at public universities, colleges or community colleges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7428 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes "The Performance Funding Act of 2016" that would provide that new, unrestricted funding, for Rhode Island's postsecondary state schools be based upon certain performance measures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| S2417 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the charters of the Coventry Fire District and Central Coventry Fire District to provide that no vote at a meeting of either the district would have effect unless at the time of the vote not less than 2% of those eligible are present and votin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2768 | 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] | 2016-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7211 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates twenty million dollars to the School Building Authority Capital Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7546 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the auditor general to perform a ten (10) year forensic audit of the state's retirement system concerning the rate of return, expenses paid, the relationship between the return and expenses and the transparency of the fee agreements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| S2769 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends various statutes in connection with the administrative powers of the department of business regulation in order to provide consistency with respect to the penalty – related provisions governing the businesses subject to the statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H8006 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that any non-recurring capital expenses shall not be included in the annual budget or in the maintenance of effort of any school district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| S2715 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the state board of elections be subject to the rule-making provisions of the "administrative procedures act".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7367 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the town of Coventry to enact ordinance granting $1,000 exemption to any person who was a member of the National Guard for not less than 5 consecutive years of who served in a National Guard unit that was called to active duty by the Presi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H7545 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts state employees, who were eligible to retire on June 30, 2012 from inclusion in the defined contribution retirement plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7743 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides guidelines for the delegation by licensed health care professionals of non-ablative laser or energy-based treatments to a properly-qualified delegate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-27
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| H7098 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) for the registration of a camping recreational vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| H7115 | 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] | 2016-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| H8067 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits commercial vehicles from using park and ride lots to transport passengers to out-of-state casinos.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7227 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows drivers' licenses and state-issued identification cares to contain medical information to assist medical personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| H7123 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the executive office of health and human services to increase income disregards for certain Medicare programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| H7381 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the "Rhode Island Health Care Reform Act of 2004 – Health Insurance Oversight" as well as the "Rhode Island Health Benefit Exchange, and establishes the Rhode Island comprehensive health insurance program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| H7117 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals to certify recovery housing facilities and programs for residential substance abuse treatment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| H7490 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires establishments selling drinks or food via drive-through windows to install at the ordering station serving each such window, equipment to be used to assist the deaf and hard-of-hearing in ordering, and train its personnel to use such equipme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-27
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2572 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to promulgate rules and regulations regarding graduation requirements for public school students fourteen (14) years of age or older who are under the care and control of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-27
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7823 | 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] | 2016-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| H7723 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a special license plate for Gold Star Parents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| H7368 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a restricted receipt account for the purchase and distribution of the naloxone overdose treatment drug to the cities and towns, and funds medication-assisted treatment delivery, including the use of methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| H7979 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires movie theaters to provide open captioning for persons who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-27
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H8047 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any general agents or special agents for Rhode Island Society for the prevention of cruelty animals to apply and have a permit to carry a concealed firearm before doing so in the execution of their duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8081 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits smoking on public beaches in the state of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8049 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides the process for the production and sale of raw milk cheese in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-27
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7291 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the service and transfer fees currently required to obtain or transfer a "veteran" or "war veteran" license plate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
