| S0795 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for the issuance of a court order to secure cell phone location information and changes the notice requirements needed to be provided for that type if court orders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0691 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes cities and towns to tax certain real and/or nonprofit tangible properties owned by nonprofit educational and hospital institutions commencing with assessment performed 12/31/17 and every year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0799 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the minimum penalty for first degree sexual assault from ten (10) to twenty (20) years. The act would also create a category of cases wherein the first ten (10) years of any sentence be ineligible for the benefits of deferment or suspension...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0309 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the provisions of the general law, establishing the public finance management board to include more types of public agencies and expands the types of financing the board can oversee, including GARVEE bonds and financing leases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0310 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates that every town and city consolidate certain functions by July 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0841 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that it is not a violation if the installation or use of an electronic tracking device in or on a motor vehicle is by, or at the direction of a licensed private detective or a licensed bail bondsman in the scope of their lawful duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0026 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires reimbursement payments from the general fund to volunteer fire departments responding to emergencies on or along Route 95.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0569 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provision for annual increases for children's residential programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0032 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state to reimburse Central Coventry Fire District for all costs associated with compliance with Pub L. 2014, ch. 31, which brought all fire districts in the state within the purview of the state laws on budget commissions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0453 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides appropriation of state funds to cities and towns who are members of NBMTF for maintenance of boats servicing Narragansett Bay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0764 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines any act of sexual penetration or contact performed by an individual with supervisory or disciplinary power, or who is in a position of authority, upon a person nineteen (19) years of age or younger, as sexual assault.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0579 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the percentage of out-of-state patients of a RI healthcare facility specializing in domestic medical tourism and in certain cases, authorizes the director and the attorney general to order the facility to stop offering health services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0766 | Intro
Sine Die | Enacts uniform recognition of Canadian domestic violence protection orders act to conform law to other enacting states.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0589 | 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] | 2017-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0039 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates restricted receipt account for all 911 funds and requires these funds to be used solely for operation of the 911 system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0590 | Intro
Sine Die | Codifies the public corruption and white collar crime unit within the Department of Attorney General.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0209 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a community senior services grant program to provide financial assistance to municipalities and nonprofit organizations which operate senior centers and/or senior programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0315 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state to pay a lighting district's energy bill, if the lighting district fails to pay it.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0592 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits unauthorized access to confidential information from a computer, computer program, computer system, or computer network.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0035 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases state's share to support local public library services in distressed communities by the amount paid by the distressed community for ocean state libraries (OSL) charges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0397 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the requirement that independent candidates for political office be listed in a vertical column on the ballot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0801 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the reporting requirements imposed on persons and campaign treasurers for expenditures made to support or defeat a candidate by persons or groups not acting in concert with the candidate's campaign.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0796 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes numerous changes to the campaign finance report law concerning exemptions, filing paper copies of statements, and maximum late filing fines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0800 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the requirement of identifying the name or names of the author of a circular, flier, or poster designed to injure or defeat any candidate for election to public office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0339 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the period of time required for occupancy for transient lodging accommodations from 30 days to 6 days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0134 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that applicants for historic tax credits shall have ninety (90) days after the date of the commission's written determination certifying the rehabilitation to pay the required three percent (3%) non-refundable fee to the division of taxation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0343 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the period of time a voter may have to change their party affiliation from the 90th day preceding any primary election for which the voter is eligible to the 29th day preceding any primary election for which the voter is eligible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0418 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of corrections to provide certain nonprofit organizations with a list containing information about formerly incarcerated inmates who have become eligible to vote to assist in their efforts in registering former felons to vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0205 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a residential renewable energy systems tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Committee heard |
| S0641 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows those individuals who pay part or all of the cost of a renewable energy system to carry over the tax credit, if not used for the year of installation, to the next year for a maximum of three (3) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0130 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a long-term economic policy/strategic implementation plan to receive a public hearing by house/senate, but also a vote of approval with transmittal to the governor for signature before it takes effect.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Committee heard |
| S0214 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates tax incentives for the installation of alternative fuel facilities. Takes effect upon passage and this chapter would be repealed on January 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Committee heard |
| S0136 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the sunset provision of chapter 33.6 of title 44 which grants tax credits to individuals or companies redeveloping historic structures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Committee heard |
| S0346 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the month in which candidates for public office are required to declare their candidacy from June to April.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0619 | Intro
Sine Die | Ends the voting of mail ballots at local board of canvassers. It also authorizes in-person early voting effective July 1, 2018, with the actual procedures to be established by rules promulgated by the state board of elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0335 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes one of the eligibility requirements to vote by mail ballot from an elector who "may" not be able to vote at a polling place to and an elector who will not be able to vote at a polling place.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0598 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any person voting by mail or emergency ballot to provide proof of identity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0229 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the state board of elections would be subject to the rule-making provisions of the "administrative procedures act".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0051 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State -- Referendum On Line Item Veto (submits To The Electors A Constitutional Amendment Granting The Governor The Power To Util...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To Senate Rules, Government Ethics and Oversight Committee |
| S0100 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits students with necessary educational background to participate in career and technical internships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| S0102 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires state board of education approval of driver education courses for new drivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| S0827 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State-line Item Veto (this Proposed Amendment To The Constitution Would Provide The Governor With A Line-item Veto On The Budget ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To Senate Rules, Government Ethics and Oversight Committee |
| S0828 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State -- Referendum On Line Item Veto
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To Senate Rules, Government Ethics and Oversight Committee |
| S0382 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State Of Rhode Island (this Proposed Constitution Amendment, If Adopted, Would Give The Governor A Line-item Veto.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To Senate Rules, Government Ethics and Oversight Committee |
| S0258 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Rhode Island municipal infrastructure grant program to issue public infrastructure grants to municipalities and other public instrumentalities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0389 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a cause of action may be brought for encroachment upon open space land.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0787 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Quonset development corporation to borrow up to one million dollars ($1,000,000) for operational purposes, the debt would not be a debt of the state and would be secured only by the Quonset development corporation's assets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| S0154 | 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] | 2017-05-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0031 | Intro
Sine Die | Reinstates free RIPTA bus fares for elderly and disabled riders who meet means test criteria.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Committee heard |
| S0033 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of one million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($1,250,000) to the Westerly Higher Education and Job Skills Center, for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Committee heard |
