| H6367 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits redevelopment agencies to finance the construction of projects for residential, recreational, commercial, industrial, institutional, public, or other purposes contemplated by a redevelopment plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-10-18
To House Finance Committee |
| H6366 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Authorizing The State To Enter Into A Financing Lease And Payment Agreements In Connection The Construction Of A Ballpark In The City Of Pawtucket
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-10-18
To House Finance Committee |
| H5490 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires auto manufacturers to compensate dealers for vehicles subject to "stop-sale" or "do-not-drive" orders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-19
Senate passed Sub B |
| H5881 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a work disabling presumption for any firefighter who passed a physical examination upon entry into service and who later contracts disabling hypertension, stroke, or heart disease.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-19
House passed Sub A |
| H5825 | Intro
Sine Die | Insurance coverage for rental motor vehicles without regard to negligence, would include loss of use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-19
House passed Sub B in concurrence |
| H5685 | Intro
Sine Die | At no cost to the state, allows a person who is bilingual or not proficient in the English language, to be assisted in their road test by a translator of their native language who is at least eighteen (18) years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-19
Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| H6375 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a release of a joint tortfeasor in a judicially approved settlement of claims relating to the St. Joseph Health Services of Rhode Island Retirement Plan shall not discharge other joint tortfeasors unless it so provides.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-19
To House Finance Committee |
| H6011 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study The Establishment Of Procedures To Regulate And License The Intentional Manipulation Of The Global Environment Through Geoengineering (creates A 5 Member Commission To Study And Prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-19
House passed Sub A |
| H5340 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study The Effects Of Enacting A Line Item Veto, Potential Rhode Island Constitutional Amendments For A Governor Runoff, And Requirements For The Election Of The Governor (creates A 12 Memb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-19
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| H5486 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides full year insurance coverage for all forms of FDA-approved contraceptives and would provide coverage thereto.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-19
House passed Sub A |
| H5531 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an electronic automobile and commercial vehicle liability insurance confirmation and compliance system in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-14
Placed on Senate Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| H5772 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts gross receipts from the sale of seeds and plants used to grow food and food products from sales and use taxes. The act would specifically exclude from the definition marijuana seeds or plants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-30
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| H5344 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the rights and obligations of property owners concerning the maintenance of private easements and rights-of-way.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5229 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires persons who provide volunteer services with youth serving agencies to get a national criminal records check.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-29
Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence |
| H6190 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires pub. utilities/electric distribution co. to provide prompt/adequate service to ratepayers for new service/ upgrades w/penalty of up to $1,000 with electric distribution co. to provide written estimates/itemized bill for work in excess of $50...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-29
Committee recommends passage of Sub B |
| H5908 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a fee of one hundred sixty dollars ($160) for all domestic and foreign corporations for a certificate of authority to transact business in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-29
Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence |
| H5215 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the family court, after a fact-finding hearing establishing paternity, to terminate the parental rights of a person convicted of sexual assault which resulted in the birth of a child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5628 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the department of business regulation provide a mandatory disclosure notice, at no cost to insurers, to certain policy holders regarding their rights and alternatives to lapse or surrender.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-29
Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence |
| H6203 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the Cumberland Town Council to establish limits on the number of students from the Cumberland school district who may enroll in any charter public school subject to a collective limit of not less than 8% of the average daily membership.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H5551 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study The Effects Of Legalizing Marijuana (creates A 19 Member Commission To Review And Make Recommendations On The Effects Of Legalizing Marijuana, And Who Would Report Back To The Genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-29
Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence |
| H6171 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the public utilities commission to implement a purchase of receivables program where the electric distribution company purchases the receivables of a nonregulated power producer at a discount rate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-29
Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence |
| H6327 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits a borrower and a licensee to agree to interest and fees charged by the licensee if disclosure is made pursuant to 12 CFR Part 1026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-28
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H6051 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Relating To State Affairs And Government - Energy Facilities Siting Act (creates A 14 Member Special Legislative Study Commission Whose Purpose It Would Be To Make A Comprehensive Study/review Of The Energy Facility Siting Act, And R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-28
House passed Sub A |
| H5640 | Intro
Sine Die | Places an energy efficiency charge cap on the 2018 state energy efficiency program plan and require the office of energy resources to conduct a study to verify the energy savings measures from the state energy efficiency programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-28
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H5783 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DOT to identify impact of Rhode Works projects on affected small businesses and provide DOC with information to minimize the economic financial impact.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-28
Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence |
| H5212 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires "No Right Turn on red" signs posted at "Don't Block the Box" intersections and extends warning period from January 1, 2017 to May 31, 2017 and delays enforcement period until June 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-27
Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence |
| H6355 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows users of telecommunications services to retain, within the same area code, existing phone numbers without impairment of quality, reliability, or convenience when switching from one telecommunications service provider to another.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-27
To House Corporations Committee |
| H6172 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines secondary agricultural operations and would provide that municipalities may limit and regulate secondary agricultural use if it is determined that the use is harmful to public safety, but may not prohibit such agricultural operations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-27
House passed Sub A |
| H6274 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Explore Construction Of A Veterans' Of Invisible Wounds Memorial (creates A 7 Member Special Legislative Commission To Study The Creation Of A Permanent Veterans' Of Invisible Wounds Memor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-27
House passed Sub A |
| H6261 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the exception to the $100,000 limitation of damages when the state is engaged in a proprietary function in the commission of a tort or the state has agreed to indemnify the federal government or any agency for any tort liability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-27
To House Finance Committee |
| H5606 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study The Efficacy And Cost Of Implementing A Recycling Program For All Multi-family Residential Units, Including Condominium Complexes (creates A Nine Member Commission To Study Of Effica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-27
House passed Sub A |
| H5821 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definitions of "smoking" and "retail tobacco store" to include electronic smoking devices, electronic nicotine delivery system products and other products that rely on vaporization or aerosolization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H5692 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study The Towing Storage Act's Provisions Relative To Police Seizures Of Vehicles (creates A Seven Member Commission To Study The Towing Storage Act's Provisions Relative To Police Seizure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-27
House passed Sub A |
| H5139 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes cities and towns to tax real and/or personal property owned, leased or operated in whole or in part by any nonprofit institution of higher education currently exempt by charter, general, or public law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-27
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| H5874 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the city of Woonsocket to establish a municipal housing court to consider potential violations of city zoning ordinances and applicable state laws and code provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5243 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study Rhode Island's Minimum Pricing Statutes (creates A Nine (9) Member Study Commission To Study Rhode Island's Minimum Pricing Statutes, And Report Back No Later Than April 6, 2017, And...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-26
House passed as amended (floor amendment) |
| H5740 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends and make a number of changes to the legislative charter of Central Coventry Fire District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-26
House passed Sub A |
| H6156 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts the Health Insurance Market Stabilization and Consumer Protection Act of 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-26
To House Corporations Committee |
| H6299 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the health insurance commissioner to make recommendations to the general assembly to ensure compliance with mental health parity provisions required by existing law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-25
To House Corporations Committee |
| H6358 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of restraints on pregnant prisoners in their third trimester during transport to and from court proceedings by sheriffs and/or incarceration at the ACI with annual reports to the general assembly effective January 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H6329 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the department of education would develop a funding formula for school districts sending students to career and technical programs outside the district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-21
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H6328 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits an employer, employment agency, labor organization, or employee, to commit any act declared to be an unlawful employment practice; individuals would be held personally liable for such conduct.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-21
To House Labor Committee |
| H6216 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the rental, lease, or finance of any sale of a cat or dog, with exceptions for animals used for breeding, shows and work.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5238 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for increases in the amount of foundation level school support that a community would receive, based upon a community's ability to meet and surpass its minimum low and moderate income housing requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-21
To House Finance Committee |
| H5237 | 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] | 2017-06-21
To House Finance Committee |
| H5946 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits retail sales establishments from making available to their customers, plastic checkout bags, or plastic water bottles or expanded polystyrene disposable food containers at the point of sale.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-21
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H5107 | Intro
Sine Die | Commencing on January 1, 2018, require that all developmental disabilities organizations that employ five (5) employees or more and who are reimbursed for such services by the state, to pay their employees at least fifteen ($15.00) dollars per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-21
To House Finance Committee |
| H6344 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires driver education programs to teach applicants prohibitions/obligations relating to traffic stops and procedure for filing complaint for any violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-21
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5089 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows drivers' licenses and state-issued identification cards to contain medical information to assist medical personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-20
To House Finance Committee |
| H6294 | Intro
Sine Die | Not allow health insurers to make mastectomies subject to annual deductibles and mandates that procedures for mastectomies be covered under individual and group health policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-20
To House Corporations Committee |
