| S0720 | Pass | Authorizes the directors of the departments of environmental management and health to enforce the Federal Food Safety Modernization Act as it pertains to commercial growers of fruits and vegetables.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-19
Signed by Governor |
| S0711 | Pass | Provides persons under limited guardianship, guardianship conservatorship with rights designed to protect them from mental, physical and financial abuse by guardians and conservators retroactively and prospectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-19
Signed by Governor |
| S0458 | Pass | Requires that an information technology project manager be assigned for all requests for proposals for information technology projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-19
Signed by Governor |
| S0656 | Pass | Allows information contained in the prescription drug monitoring database to be disclosed to a certified law enforcement drug diversion investigator of a qualified law enforcement agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-19
Signed by Governor |
| S0790 | Pass | Authorizes RIPTA to provide an open-door service to all passengers to and from Rhode Island to locations within five (5) miles of the Rhode Island boarder into Massachusetts and Connecticut.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-19
Signed by Governor |
| H5593 | Veto | Requires that the contractual provisions contained in and an otherwise expired collective bargaining agreement with certified school teachers and municipal employees continue until a successor agreement has been reached between the parties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-19
Vetoed by Governor |
| H6055 | Pass | Reduces the items which must be monitored by the air-quality monitors at T.F. Green Airport to particles less than 0.1 microns, and black carbon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5947 | Pass | Defines the terms "conduit" and "earmarked" for purposes of reporting campaign contributions and eliminates the aggregate contribution limits and adds a prohibition of earmarked funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5618 | Pass | Makes educational institutions and nonprofit corporations established pursuant to chapter 6 of title 7 eligible for net-metering financing arrangements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5903 | Pass | Establishes guidelines for the family court to use to decide petitions for visitation by grandparents based on a best interest of the grandchild standard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H6302 | Pass | Creates a prohibition on parking in electric vehicle charging stations without using the charging apparatus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5837 | Pass | Authorizes RIPTA to provide an open-door service to all passengers to and from Rhode Island to locations within five (5) miles of the Rhode Island boarder into Massachusetts and Connecticut.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H6297 | Pass | Makes changes to the licensing procedures for health care facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5424 | Pass | Creates a special fundraising license plate for the Gaspee Days committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H6305 | Pass | Directs the climate change coordinating council to study a carbon pricing program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H6313 | Pass | Defines and declares the purpose of child opportunity zones and would provide for annual reporting from the commissioner of elementary and secondary education to the general assembly on each zone.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H6307 | Pass | Requires health care professionals upon issuance of initial opioid prescription to discuss with patient/parent/guardian risk of developing dependence/addiction/potential of overdose/death/adverse risks of concurrent use of alcohol/other psychoactive ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H6324 | Pass | Alters the membership, reporting protocol, and meeting requirements of the civic education commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5934 | Pass | Repeals multiple sections of the general laws related to insurance, including §27-9-57 and chapter 75 of title 27 ("Surplus Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact").
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H6310 | Pass | Directs the department of health to obtain an annual estimate of the number of children born to Rhode Island families who face significant risk factors known to impair child development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5766 | Pass | Creates and expands eligibility for a special license plate for Gold Star Families.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H6323 | Pass | Excludes weekends and state holidays from the calculation of the forty-eight (48) hour public notice requirement, and requires all public bodies to keep minutes of open meetings and file their minutes with the secretary of state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H6146 | Pass | Requires a city or town to utilize qualification based selection for the procurement of program managers, construction managers, or construction managers at risk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5199 | Pass | Allows recovery for the past due balance of any PACE assessment on a transfer of commercial property ownership at a tax sale by a PACE lien against the transferee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H6296 | Pass | Requires the office of regulatory reform, in consultation with various state departments and plant-based and agriculture industry representatives, work to facilitate economic growth within plant-based industries and agriculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H6306 | Pass | Requires medical treatment facilities to provide discharge plans for patients with nonsubstance abuse related mental health disorders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5474 | Pass | Establishes procedures for the licensing of doctors of naturopathy, who provide health care utilizing natural substance and therapies. Doctors of naturopathy would be subject to oversight by the director of the Rhode Island department of health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5824 | Pass | Requires that an information technology project manager be assigned for all requests for proposals for information technology projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5277 | Pass | Prohibits "conversion therapy" by licensed health care professionals with respect to children under eighteen (18) years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5761 | Pass | Adds the class of combination vehicles to the list of vehicles eligible for New England Patriots Charitable Foundation registration plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5840 | Pass | Allows physician practices to maintain their license standards, even if a hospital system owns the practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H6158 | Pass | Creates an exception to the registration requirements and registration fees for minor use pesticides.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5937 | Pass | Eliminates continuing education board (CEB) service of process by certified mail and prohibits claim negotiation with unlicensed public adjusters from excluding coverage to volunteer drivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5702 | Pass | Provides that persons who apply to the DMV for a driver's license, its renewal or personal identification document shall simultaneously register to vote, unless they expressly decline to do so.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5975 | Pass | Expands the type of pharmaceuticals which may be prescribed using electronic prescriptions and would also provide for protection of patient privacy in regard to electronic prescriptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H6336 | Pass | Provides that if the Rhode Island housing and mortgage finance corporation is a tax title purchaser, it shall not be liable for violations in connection with the tax title property, prior to the expiration of five (5) years from the date of the tax s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H6225 | Pass | Permits the department of health to designate hospitals as "acute stroke ready hospitals."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H6341 | Pass | Names one of the two (2) new conference rooms at the Rhode Island Veterans Home as the "S. Michael Minutelli Memorial Conference Room".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5219 | Pass | Requires a health care entity or health plan to issue a decision regarding the credentialing of a health care provider within forty-five (45) calendar days of receiving a complete credentialing application.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5951 | Pass | Prohibits domestic and foreign insurance companies from any distinction or discrimination against individuals in a domestic partner relationship regarding policies issued or renewed in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H6088 | Pass | Benefits for students with disabilities continue until the end of the public school calendar semester when the student turns 21 or when the student’s program ends in accordance with the student’s (IEP), whichever occurs earlier.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5805 | Pass | Creates a division of marine fisheries within DEM to manage salt water fish and plant harvesting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5550 | Pass | Creates the Student Journalists' Freedom of Expression Act protecting student journalists' right to exercise freedom of speech in school-sponsored media.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H6342 | Pass | Provides that one of the two (2) conference rooms in the new Rhode Island Veterans Home shall be named and known as the "Sergeant P. Andrew McKenna US Army 7th Special Forces Group Memorial Conference Room."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5710 | Pass | Provides persons under limited guardianship, guardianship conservatorship with rights designed to protect them from mental, physical and financial abuse by guardians and conservators retroactively and prospectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5743 | Pass | Facilitates the sharing of information between the treasury, state retirement system, division of taxation, and the department of labor and training concerning unclaimed property, taxation collection, and pension benefit monitoring.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5664 | Pass | Requires the department of education to consider incorporating media literacy education in the basic education program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5300 | Pass | Creates the "Uniform Act on the Prevention and Remedies for Human Trafficking" which would establish penalties and remedies for human trafficking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5777 | Pass | Removes video games from the definition of "motion picture" for the purposes of the Motion Picture Credit Tax Act, extending from 7/1/2021, to 7/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| H5207 | Pass | Provides that sex offenders register their presence with any homeless shelter at which they may temporarily stay and provides that said shelters notify the local law enforcement agency of the presence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-18
Signed by Governor |
