| S0105 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows students in public schools to possess and use sunscreen.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| H5393 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of a stingray cell-site simulator device by any law enforcement agency except upon application for its use and the granting of its order by the presiding justice of the superior court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5467 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides department of education shall not approve a new career and technical program or center in certain towns so long as a center is maintained by the Chariho regional school district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (03/01/2017) |
| H5533 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all public utilities to maintain a customer service facility within the state to perform services such as addressing customer inquiries and accepting bill payments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5026 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a commission to establish homeless shelter standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| S0173 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the requirement that the attorney general consent to a deferment of sentencing in a written deferral agreement and grant the superior court traditional discretion in sentencing matters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5544 | Intro
Sine Die | Codifies the public corruption and white collar crime unit within the Department of Attorney General.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5402 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds alcohol and alcohol-related overdoses and possession or transportation of alcohol by an underage person, to the Good Samaritan Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0186 | Intro
Sine Die | Redefines "first-time offender" and permits individuals with a record of up to two (2) misdemeanor convictions to be eligible for expungement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0149 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the health information exchange advisory commission to develop a strategic plan for interoperability of electronic health record systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H5537 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that vehicles towed because of state or municipal laws be towed to a towing-storage facility closest to where the offense or accident occurred.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5521 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensively regulates the use of unmanned aerial vehicles and the use of any information that they may generate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5451 | 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] | 2017-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5587 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of James Stevenson
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
House read and passed |
| H5485 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires TNC drivers maintain commercial automobile liability insurance 24/7 and to park no closer than two hundred feet (200') from marked taxi stands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5543 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits unauthorized access to confidential information from a computer, computer program, computer system, or computer network.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5585 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Congratulations
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
House read and passed |
| H5535 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the public utilities commission to review and approve the electric distribution company's use of real estate and other capital assets and expenditures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Corporations Committee |
| S0180 | Intro
Sine Die | Entitles criminal defendants charged with enumerated serious criminal offenses to a bail hearing within four (4) calendar days of initial court appearance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5516 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the sealing of an application for a search warrant unless the court issuing the warrant issues an order granting relief from the seal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5583 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming The Week Of March 11-19, 2017 As "brain Week Rhode Island" And Recognizing The Month Of March As "brain Injury Awareness Month"
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
House read and passed |
| S0216 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a special enrollment provision for pregnant women to obtain health insurance coverage at any time after the commencement of the pregnancy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H5584 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating Viola Davis For Winning Best Actress In A Supporting Role
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
House read and passed |
| S0340 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits stalking defined as a course of conduct by anyone who may cause a reasonable person to either fear for their own safety or the safety of a third person or cause a reasonable person to suffer emotional distress. Enumerates penalties for stal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0075 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes police/animal control officer to hold animal up to 72 hours pending court hearing as to costs, fees, charges, surrender of ownership of the animal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5440 | Intro
Sine Die | Distinguishes the criminal penalties for violations of final order of contractors' registration board based on the amount of the monetary amount on the final orders with orders in excess of $5,000 deemed felonies and less than $5,000 deemed misdemean...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5549 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes persons with misdemeanor or felony convictions eligible for expungement of convictions, provided they had no violent felony, or multiple domestic violence convictions. Eligibility 10 – 20 years respectively from completion of last sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0366 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming The Month Of February As "black History Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
Senate read and passed |
| H5518 | 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] | 2017-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5487 | Intro
Sine Die | Renders void/unenforceable motor transportation contract terms holding harmless indemnitee from or against its own negligence/intentional acts/omissions upon the effective date.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5586 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Condolences
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
House read and passed |
| H5534 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires cable television companies to give their customers the option to purchase, at its fair market value, a device which decodes their digital cable signals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Corporations Committee |
| S0069 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits a person who is convicted for a criminal offense that is later decriminalized, to petition the court for a hearing to have the criminal record expunged and sometimes without cost to the petitioner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5148 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Savings Of America, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5489 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes automobiles equipped with self-sealing tires to be exempt from having a spare tire and jack when sold.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| S0087 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Moslem Grotto Mystic Order Veiled Prophets Of The Enchanted Realm
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0018 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Kci Technologies, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-22
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0015 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Balloons Over R.i., Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-22
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0057 | Engross
Sine Die | Raises the jurors' fees for each day's attendance on the superior court to twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per day commencing July 1, 2018 and increases to thirty-five dollars ($35.00) per day commencing July 1, 2019 and thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| S0318 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a surtax on the business corporation tax for publicly traded corporations subject to SEC disclosure and reporting requirements, if corporation's ratio of compensation for its CEO to median worker is equal to or greater than 100 to 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0307 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulates the transport and sale of firewood into and within Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| H5557 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the junior/senior high/middle school student assistance program to include senior high school students and identify the student assistance program/project success as a recipient of the funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| S0360 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Michael Lepizzera
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
Senate read and passed |
| S0013 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Friends Association Of Pawtucket Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0359 | Pass | Senate Resolution Commemorating The 173rd Anniversary Of Dominican Republic Independence On February 27, 2017
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
Senate read and passed |
| H5558 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Respectfully Requesting That The United States Congress Adopt "an American Economic Recovery" Program
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| S0313 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a reduction to local per pupil funding for state-operated schools that do not have teachers who participate in the state teacher's retirement system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0361 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Sincere Condolences On The Passing Of Richard H. Colwell
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
Senate read and passed |
| S0316 | Intro
Sine Die | Enhances reimbursement rates paid by the departments of human services and children, youth and families for children in the child care assistance program, starting with infants and toddlers in 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0319 | Intro
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] | 2017-02-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
