| S2193 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that the tax imposed on little cigars be imposed in the same manner of the tax imposed on cigarettes, and that little cigars be sold in packs of twenty (20) or more.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-18
Senate read and passed |
| S2936 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a batterer’s intervention program fund and also adopts evidence-based probation and parole supervision systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2934 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the provisions of the general laws pertaining to parole, medical parole, community confinement, and replaces prison impact statements with correctional impact statements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2229 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the penalties which public works contractors can be assessed for failing to properly pay persons for the services they provide to them.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-18
House passed Sub A |
| H7065 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that municipal animal control officers be certified by the National Animal Care & Control Association.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-18
House read and passed |
| S2653 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides 5 years for LLC to wind up and close its affairs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-18
Senate read and passed |
| S2337 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds dyslexia-targeted assistance as a required aspect of the literacy program for students at the elementary grade level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-18
Senate read and passed |
| S3012 | Engross
Sine Die | Updates the premium tax statute to provide for a reduction in the premium tax paid by insurance companies if sufficient specific insurance related jobs are created in Rhode Island to make the reduction revenue neutral.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-18
House passed Sub A |
| H7051 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires local support in form of ordinance for proposed charter schools and requires council on elementary or secondary education to place weight on impact of sending districts when considering proposed charter or expansion of charter schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-17
Senate passed Sub A |
| S2174 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an office of regulatory reform task force to make recommendations for a statewide solar permitting process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-17
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| H7382 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the nine thousand pounds (9,000 lbs.) gross weight limitation for the issuance of vanity plates to be used in lieu of other number plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-17
House read and passed |
| H7820 | Engross
Sine Die | Places the current Cranston police chief in a defined contribution retirement plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-17
House read and passed |
| H7302 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides 5 years for LLC to wind up and close its affairs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S3083 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends certain provisions in the agreement forming the Exeter-West Greenwich School District regarding the required quorum to transact business, referenda for the District's annual budget and timing for the payment of apportioned costs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-17
Senate read and passed |
| H7615 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the moratorium on nursing facilities and prohibit the licensing of new facilities through July 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-17
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| H8229 | Engross
Sine Die | Names the roundabout at the intersection of Division Road and New England Tech Boulevard in East Greenwich the "Michael B. Isaacs Roundabout".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-16
House read and passed |
| H7955 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the town of Exeter to enter into tax stabilization agreements, including agreements for payments in lieu of taxes with respect to renewable energy facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-16
House read and passed |
| H8285 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Providence Country Day School, a Rhode Island nonprofit corporation, located in East Providence, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-16
House read and passed |
| H7519 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a process for the department of education collection and organization of information concerning the workload and scope of the duties and responsibility performed by school social workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-16
House read and passed |
| S2042 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates micro zones in distressed areas to stimulate economic revitalization, employment opportunities, and business development through the redevelopment of obsolete, dilapidated and abandoned industrial and commercial structures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7061 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that the sheltering and nourishment of dogs conform to the industry standards established by the Tufts Animal Care and Conditions Scale regarding outside sheltering, proper nourishment, sanitary conditions, and physical condition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-16
House read and passed |
| H8311 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires DCYF to promulgate rules and a plan to continue the adoption/subsidy for a special needs child upon the death of both adoptive parents or single parent for subsequent eligible foster parent(s) or adoptive parent(s).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-16
House read and passed |
| H7554 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides the state with the flexibility to engage up to three (3) authorized companies to administer its deferred compensation plans rather than the current statutory mandate to hire three (3) companies to do this task.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-16
House read and passed |
| H7258 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds hoarding of animals to the list of cruelty to animal offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-16
House read and passed |
| S3076 | Engross
Sine Die | - Property Subject To Taxation
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-16
Senate read and passed |
| H7204 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an arbitration process to resolve certain condominium disputes, in accordance with "The Arbitration Act" chapter 3 of title 10.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2757 | Engross
Sine Die | Modifies types of healthy foods/beverages sold to students per federal law with exceptions for career/technical schools with culinary arts/food service programs based on new definitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-15
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| S2678 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the director of DEM to waive registration fees and surcharges upon a finding of limited, special, local need for the product.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7999 | Engross
Sine Die | Upon defendant's violation of terms of bail, the amount forfeited by court is limited to 10% of surety deposited. Bondsperson has extra time to return fugitive before further forfeiture. If fugitive isn't returned, there is forfeiture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S3044 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits grandfathering the licensing of barbers, hairdressers, cosmeticians, manicurists and estheticians on the basis of work experience or work in another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-15
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2547 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that information provided to the attorney general pursuant to an investigative demand not be made public beyond the extent necessary to enforce fair trade practices. Would negate requirement that such material be filed in superior court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-15
Senate read and passed |
| S2969 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a property tax exemption of up to $250,000 and for totally disabled veterans residing in the city of Cranston and would also apply to any surviving spouse of that veteran.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| H7988 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires state board of education approval for driver education courses for new drivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-14
House read and passed |
| S3050 | Engross
Sine Die | Transfer jurisdiction over estate investments from the superior court to the probate court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2668 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes the director and other positions of the state crime laboratory employees of the council on postsecondary education as opposed to limited appointments positions of the board of governors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7143 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the imposition of up to a $500 fine on a motor vehicle lessor or secured party for failing to follow proper procedures in the event of a default by a lessee or purchaser.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2206 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of the term "disabled", for purposes of property tax relief, to include persons receiving veterans' affairs disability benefits paid by the federal government.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
To House Finance Committee |
| S2152 | Engross
Sine Die | Reduces the interest rate on delinquent tax payments to between fifteen percent (15%) and not less than ten percent (10%) and provides for a reduced interest rate for persons on approved payment plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H7156 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates the "Rhode Island Terminally Ill Patient's Right to Try Act of 2016," which establishes the conditions for the use of experimental treatments for terminally ill patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2810 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the town of East Greenwich to issue not more than $5,000,000 bonds and notes to finance the construction, renovation, rehabilitation, repair, improvement, and landscaping of roads, sidewalks and drainage facilities in the town.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| H7536 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows those persons with less than 6 misdemeanor convictions to file a motion for the expungement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2256 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that all new school buses purchased or leased for use in the state be equipped with seat belt assemblies for each passenger and operator seat.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-25
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7482 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits the settlor of a trust to provide for a person other than the trustee to direct actions of the trustee, and clearly establishes the legal responsibilities of trust advisors and trust protectors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7202 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes the use of display or aerial fireworks after 12:00 a.m. or before 7:00 a.m. a civil violation with a fine of $75.00.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
