| S0498 | 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] | 2017-06-20
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0649 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the insurance coverage for hearing aids from $1,500 to $2,000, per ear, every three years. In addition the amount of insurance coverage would no longer be based on the age of the recipient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-20
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0645 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires movie theaters to provide open captioning for persons who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-20
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0169 | Intro
Sine Die | Ends Rhode Island's adoption of the "employment-at-will" legal doctrine and would provide some job protection for employees that satisfactorily perform their duties. The act would also provide specific remedies for wrongful discharge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0056 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the marking of all underground utility facilities when the underground utility is under a public right-of-way.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0452 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a tax on sugary drinks for the purpose of reducing the demand for those beverages, and discouraging the excessive consumption of, sugary drinks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
Committee heard |
| S0282 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of restraints on pregnant prisoners 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] | 2017-06-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0565 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the alcoholic beverage manufacturing tax the first fifty thousand (50,000) gallons of wine produced by a winery in this state for distribution in RI in any calendar year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
Committee heard |
| S0183 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows DMV to issue driving privilege licenses/permits to applicants unable to establish lawful presence in US which are not valid for ID purposes effective July 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
Defeated in Committee |
| S0744 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a process for payment to long-term care providers furnishing care and services to person applying for Medicaid assistance pending review for an application.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| S0237 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that prisoners who were sentenced as adults for offenses committed prior to age eighteen would be eligible for parole after fifteen years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0947 | Intro
Sine Die | Addresses the age-related disparate treatment of state employees who were eligible to retire by reason of age on June 30, 2012. The act exempts these employees from the 401(a) plan, and return them to the traditional defined benefit plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0769 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends various sections of the "Energy Facility Siting Act" relative to their procedures and host community considerations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-13
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| S0756 | Intro
Sine Die | Prevents the energy facility siting board from proceeding to final hearing or issuing a final decision if one or more of the designated agencies inform the siting board that they are unable to form an advisory opinion due the conduct of the applicant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0437 | 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] | 2017-06-09
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0584 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates repealed statute references and creates a mechanism for workers to enforce their existing right to continuation of medical benefits, reinstatement after returning from being a temporary caregiver and Sunday pay wage laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-09
To House Labor Committee |
| S0710 | Intro
Sine Die | Penalizes driving any motor vehicle required to be registered in this or any state without insurance or proof of insurance and abolish requirement that operator knew the vehicle was uninsured or unregistered making them strict liability offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0941 | Intro
Sine Die | Subjects TNC vehicle owners to the regulation of transportation network companies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S0276 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes standardized methods and appeals procedures for the calculation of fair and reasonable compensation for parts and labor used in warranty services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0144 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for an increase in the marital estate deduction in certain instances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0943 | Intro
Sine Die | Promotes the development and utilization of solar energy systems by reducing local burdens on the development process thereto.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S0643 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all hospitals and freestanding ambulatory surgical facilities to adopt policies to use a smoke evacuation system for surgical procedures that generate surgical smoke.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
Senate passed Sub A |
| S0262 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the surviving spouse's right regarding elective shares against the decedent's will as to real and personal estate for decedents dying on and after January 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0778 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an assault or battery upon a dwarf resulting in bodily injury a felony and would be punishable by up to three (3) years imprisonment and an assault resulting in serious bodily injury punishable by to twenty (20) years imprisonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0044 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies depreciation with respect to the net book value of a company's tangible personal property, by providing that the accumulated depreciation reduction takes into account physical deterioration and functional and economic obsolescence
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0929 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an applicant for any license or registration issued by the contractors’ registration and licensing board to undergo a national criminal records check.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0924 | Intro
Sine Die | Subject for-profit hospitals seeking approval of an acquisition pursuant to the hospital conversion act, to the review conducted by the attorney general and the department of health and also makes some technical amendments to the chapter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0428 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the entity advertising the purchase and sale of junk motor vehicles to have an Auto Wrecking Yard Auto Salvage Yard license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0935 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the reduction and elimination of the motor vehicle excise tax. Also provides that cities, towns, and fire districts would be reimbursed for the revenues lost by the reduction and elimination of the excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0763 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes the owner of any vehicle not inspected as required by §§31-38-3 or 31-38-4 responsible for any fines or penalties imposed as a result of non-inspection and prohibits any law enforcement officer from citing the operator of said vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0270 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes aging/disability resource center within division of elderly affairs as part of long-term care system for elderly/disabled persons/family caregivers/providers and makes annual appropriation in the sum of $1,000,000 to establish the center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
To House Finance Committee |
| S0820 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes certain discovery obligations/procedural changes upon judicial tenure/discipline commission regarding removal of judges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0416 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the insurance commissioner to issue regulations prohibiting the use of credit histories, credit scores, occupation or educational level in setting auto insurance rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0467 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the value of all net taxable estates for the purpose of the estate and transfer tax from six hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($675,000) to two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0412 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines imitation firearm and makes it unlawful to change or remove certain markings required to be on an imitation firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0399 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines a firearm silencer and permit the use of such a device on any firearm with an overall length of seventeen inches or greater and would permit the use of such a device for lawful hunting activity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0587 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires applicants for a license or carry permit for firearms to undergo a national BCI.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0404 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it unlawful to carry a rifle or shotgun in a vehicle, except under limited circumstances and enhances the penalty to anyone who transfers a firearm as a minor which is then used in a crime of violence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0664 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes numerous changes to the procedures regarding the issuance of concealed carry permits, the fees associated with their issuance, and the public records accessible by the public in relating thereto.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0367 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the state to take certain actions in regard to state gaming as a result the recent referendum authorizing the establishment of a new casino gaming facility in the town of Tiverton.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
Committee recommends passage |
| S0038 | Intro
Sine Die | Enacts a 10 year statute of limitations on tax assessment or collection action for sales/use/estate/personal income/business corp. tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0594 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the statute for possession of firearms by minors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0379 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the attorney general to report annually to the general assembly on the incidence and disposition of crimes involving guns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0689 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the local hotel tax rate from one percent to two and one-half percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0878 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts residential property from vacancy definition provided property owner in process of rehabilitation/renovation pursuant to the issuance of building permits by local municipality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0837 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any person who sustains an injury to themselves or causes an injury to another while hunting or trapping to report the injury to the department of environmental management immediately.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0223 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminalizes the manufacture, import, possession, purchase, sale or transfer of any ammunition feeding device capable of accepting more than ten (10) rounds known as high capacity magazines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0376 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes those persons convicted of an offense punishable as a misdemeanor offense under §12-29-2 (domestic violence) to those persons prohibited from possessing a firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0840 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the issuances of pistol and revolver carry permits to the office of the attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0374 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides the attorney general with the authority to enter into reciprocal agreements with other states concerning carrying of concealed weapons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
