| H6131 | Intro
Sine Die | Have local district payments to charter public schools made only for those periods during which a student is enrolled and attending the charter school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
To House Finance Committee |
| H6116 | 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] | 2017-05-04
To House Finance Committee |
| H5752 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of education and the DCYF to develop a procedure to ensure that the municipalities where group homes or other residential facilities are located are reimbursed for the educational expenses above the cost allocated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
To House Finance Committee |
| H6147 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows municipalities with a population density greater than two thousand (2,000) people per square mile to exempt from taxation real property used for agricultural operations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H6143 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants unpaid pregnancy leave to part-time workers, clarifies their access to unpaid sick leave during their pregnancy, and provides additional protections for pregnant workers who work in the medical field.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
To House Labor Committee |
| H5798 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the department of administration to study using the bonding authority of the state to consolidate the bonded indebtedness of the towns and cities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
To House Finance Committee |
| H5462 | Intro
Sine Die | Moves state employee public safety professionals from the state retirement system to the municipal retirement system, effective July 1, 2017. It sets their retirement contribution to 10% of their compensation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H5775 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the appropriation and separate accounting of additional state funds to provide a dedicated state match required to receive annual federal funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H5505 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the state investment commission from investing in any companies that are involved in the construction of a border wall between the United States and Mexico.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H6145 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes school committees to appoint one designee to the board of directors of the governing body of certain charter public schools which students from the district attend.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5750 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a 2% reduction in student loan interest program to be administered by the student loan authority for college graduates who live and work in Rhode Island for a period of at least 2 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H6027 | Intro
Sine Die | Proves that correctional officers with twenty-five (25) years of service and who are at least fifty-five (55) years of age, shall be entitled to a non-Medicare-eligible retiree health care insurance benefit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H5566 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides up to thirty (30) paid days in a calendar year to serve as an organ donor for state and municipal employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H5329 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows any teacher or athletic coach, who has retired to substitute at state schools and public schools for a period of no more than one hundred twenty (120) days in one school year without forfeiture or reduction of retirement benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H5367 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that adjunct faculty members at any state college or university who teach at least 50% of the hours regularly worked by full-time faculty in a semester would be eligible for the same medical benefits as other state employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H5361 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that, effective September 1, 2017, all Central Falls retirees covered by the Central Falls retirees' settlement agreement would have their pension benefits gradually increased from 75% to 100% of their base pension benefit amount as of 7/31/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H5070 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Examine Procedure And Parameters For Creating A Rhode Island Scholarship Fund (creating An Eleven Member Commission To Study The Creation Of A Rhode Island Scholarship Fund, And Who Would ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H5169 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes "The Get On Your Feet Loan Forgiveness Program" in Rhode Island, to assist recent college and university graduates in the repayment of their student loans, by providing a grace period for the first 2 years after graduation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H5992 | Intro
Sine Die | Awards all state retirement members a 3% annual COLA applied to first $50,000 of retirement allowance on or after 1/1/18, provided prior year investment return yields gain of 10% or more until pension system funding ratio exceeds 80%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H5494 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes some of the restrictions on post-retirement re-employment of public employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H5877 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a prudent investor rule for trustees, directors and retirement system employees of state and municipal retirement systems who invest and manage or delegate the approval of investment or management of retirement system assets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H5745 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the number of days a retired teacher may substitute teach or be otherwise employed by a school system from ninety (90) days to one hundred (100) days without a reduction or forfeiture of retirement benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H5924 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that, effective September 1, 2017, all Central Falls retirees covered by the Central Falls retirees' settlement agreement would have their pension benefits gradually increased from 75% to 100% of their base pension benefit amount as of 7/31/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H5889 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the “Get On Your Feet Loan Forgiveness Program" in Rhode Island, to assist recent college and university graduates in the repayment of their student loans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H5925 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that all city employees covered by Central Falls retirees' settlement agreement would have benefits gradually increased over five years from 75% base to 87.5% base pension benefit amount.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H5330 | Intro
Sine Die | Implements provisions of the Lean government initiative to eliminate waste and inefficiency in the operation of state government.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| H5764 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an emergency management director emeritus license plate for Thomas F. Senerchia of West Warwick.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| H6140 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a licensed individual sewage disposal system installer may, without further licensing, connect an existing sewer lateral pipe to a municipal or public sewer system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5091 | 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] | 2017-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| H5768 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the Community College of Rhode Island provide traffic safety education at each public high school in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| H5891 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all the money collected for various billed services, by each telecommunications provider be deposited in a restricted receipt account, not the general fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| H6057 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that failure to record a notice of lien by the real estate broker in accordance with chapter 49 of title 34, the commercial estate broker lien act, would result in dismissal of a complaint pursuant to the act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5075 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals all surcharges levied on residence/business telephone lines and wireless telecommunications services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| H6060 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the state from suspending or otherwise disqualifying a person from the privilege of maintaining a commercial driver license based on certain traffic violations arising from the operation of a non-commercial vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5793 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the division of racing and athletics to implement online games of skill, including so-called fantasy sports.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| H6139 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires many consumer contracts to be translated from English to Spanish or Japanese under some circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| H6010 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the crimes against public trust act to punish crimes committed by public officers, provide restitution for the crimes, and extend the statute of limitations for wrongful conversion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5767 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the state traffic commission to permit the use of break-down lanes for travel and erects signs indicating when and where travel is permitted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| H6006 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the operation of low speed vehicles on certain Rhode Island roads under specific conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5762 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands and clarifies what constitutes disability entitling disabled veterans to the waiver of motor vehicle registration fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| H5140 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the maximum weekly unemployment benefit rate to the higher of fifty-seven and one-half percent (57.5%) of the average weekly wages paid to workers in the prior calendar year or six hundred sixteen dollars ($616) per week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| H6122 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Rhode Island cooperative water authority. The authority would have the power to acquire, lease, manage, sell, and otherwise deal with land and water supply systems and authorized to issue bonds and notes in furtherance of its mission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| H6009 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes driving under the influence with any child under thirteen (13) years of age in the vehicle a felony punishable by up to five (5) years imprisonment, a five thousand dollar ($5,000) fine, and a loss of license of up to two (2) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5913 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes state departments and agencies to allow a vendor to withhold a commission for developing and implementing a web-based system for filing of applications for licenses and permits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| H6021 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits federal immigration authorities from access to certain identified sensitive locations, except unless very limited circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5864 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes litigation loan agreements subject to state usury statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H6175 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates $10,000,000 in additional education aid over the next three (3) years to public school districts for vocational education and charter school tuition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H5461 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for an annual appropriation to be given to the state conservation committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| H5491 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the contracting with criminal justice reform services which provide Pay for Success criminal justice reform programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| H6077 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes minimum energy efficiency standards for certain products sold or installed in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-27
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
