| S2539 | Pass | Establishes a procedure for individuals to file a revocable voluntary non-opiate directive form with the person's licensed health care practitioner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2158 | Pass | Relieves municipal police bargaining representatives from their obligation to represent employees in grievances/arbitrations if they were not members of the bargaining unit within the ninety (90) days prior to the events that caused the grievance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2033 | Pass | Expands and clarifies what constitutes disability entitling disabled veterans to the waiver of motor vehicle registration fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2285 | Pass | Clarifies the right of a surviving spouse of a decedent regarding elective shares taken against the decedent's will relating to real and personal estate to the estates of decedents dying on and after July 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2361 | Pass | Provides that jurisdiction of all use of agricultural and vegetable seeds is vested exclusively in the director of the department of environmental management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2980 | Pass | Requires educational institutions using dogs or cats for medical research to make animals no longer useful for research available for adoption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2412 | Pass | Requires written notice of public hearing to all real property owners when proposed zoning amendment seeks to merge lots of those owners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2552 | Pass | Establishes a public scorecard system to show how long-term care reform is meeting its goals of rebalancing the way services are delivered and moneys are spent on various service types.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2777 | Pass | Prohibits the sale of dogs until fully weaned unless approval for sale in writing is obtained from a licensed veterinarian. Violations are punishable by imprisonment not to exceed 12 months or $1,000, or both. Pounds and shelters are exempt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2341 | Pass | Removes the requirement that a student with disabilities be a college student in order to be eligible to participate in the Mary Brennan fellowship fund program and also removes the requirement that the fellowship program take place in Providence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2055 | Pass | Defines the term "adequate shelter" where dogs may be kept. It would limit the weight of any dog chain or tether to one-eighth (1/8) of the dogs total body weight. In addition it would limit the time dogs may be tethered outdoors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2019 | Pass | Authorizes RI Health Exchange to seek waiver under Affordable Care Act to allow small business owners/sole proprietors to purchase health plans offered by RI Health Exchange.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2789 | Pass | Permits the substitution by a developer of sprinklers in new developments instead of cisterns or water reservoirs for fire suppression, if allowed by ordinance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2308 | Pass | Excludes evaluations or other personnel records of public school employees from being deemed public records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2288 | Pass | Renames title to be called Uniform Voidable Transaction Act/amends definition of "person"/adds substantive/procedural changes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2823 | Pass | Protects communications between language interpreters appointed under this chapter and limited-English-proficient persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2695 | Pass | Eliminates the penalty of abating rent in cases where a non-resident landlord fails to designate an agent for service of process and would clarify that the fine for violating this section is civil.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2811 | Pass | Authorizes that the building at 4 Howard Avenue in the city of Cranston would hereafter be named and known as the "Attorney General Julius C. Michaelson Customer Service Center."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2013 | Pass | Provides for a voluntary deduction from any refund from the Rhode Island personal income tax for a contribution to the substance use and mental health leadership council of RI.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2952 | Pass | Amends the criminal offense for placing bombs or falsely reporting bomb threats and criminalizes the possession of materials readily convertible to a bomb or explosive device.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2824 | Pass | Authorizes the advisory committee on historical cemeteries to revive the program for marking governors' graves. The department of administration would administer the funding for the plaque.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2224 | Pass | Requires individual or group policy insurance to cover mastectomies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2254 | Pass | Creates an additional surcharge of $10 for subsequent registration renewals for holders of the Plum Beach Lighthouse license plate, with the funds distributed to Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse Inc. for the protection and upkeep of Plum Beach Lighth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2447 | Pass | Entitles person to have criminal conviction records expunged if the offense is decriminalized subsequent to the conviction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2251 | Pass | Reduces the alcoholic beverage manufacturing and wholesale licensing fee from three thousand dollars ($3,000) to five hundred dollars ($500).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2086 | Pass | Requires DOT to identify the impact of Rhode Works projects and the realignment of the Newport Bridge ramps on Rhode Island small business commercial areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2413 | Pass | Amends the "building height" definition in chapter 24 of title 45 (zoning ordinances) for property in special flood hazard areas. The building height would be measured from the base flood elevation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2531 | Pass | Provides that any person, including, but not limited to, a minor who is pregnant, could give effective consent for medical, dental, health and hospital services relating to prenatal, delivery, and post-delivery care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2182 | Pass | Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to incorporate substance abuse prevention and suicide prevention into the health education curriculum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2359 | Pass | Requires easement benefited property owners to pay costs to maintain easements or rights-of-way of property of another.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2556 | Pass | Allows the I-195 Redevelopment commission to make certain alterations to the boundaries of a portion of the I-195 redevelopment called "Parcel P4".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2048 | Pass | Requires that the department of business regulation provide a mandatory disclosure notice, at no cost to insurers, to certain life insurance policy holders regarding their rights and alternatives to lapse or surrender.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2435 | Pass | Allows cities and towns to issue violations to vehicles which are used for illegal dumping of materials, pursuant to city and town ordinances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2693 | Pass | Eliminates the waiting period for the granting of a complaint/divorce/separation following the filing of the complaint would shorten the waiting period for the filing of a final judgment for divorce following the hearing at which the divorce is grant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2346 | Pass | Have each public institution of postsecondary education establish a plan for addressing the mental health needs of its students. Each institution shall develop policies aimed at identifying a student exhibiting suicidal behavior or tendencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2135 | Pass | Increases the penalty for repeat convictions for animal cruelty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2570 | Pass | Amends the State False Claims Act to reflect amendments to the Federal False Claims Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2484 | Pass | Allows the division of motor vehicles to issue a courtesy registration plate for a vehicle that is registered as street rod or custom vehicle pursuant to § 31-3-31.1
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2529 | Pass | Provides full year insurance coverage for contraceptives and would provide coverage thereto. Section 9 of this act, pertaining to Medicaid, would take effect July 1, 2019. The remaining sections would take effect April 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2896 | Pass | Allows distribution and utilization of narcotic testing products to assist persons in determining whether drugs contain toxic substances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2971 | Pass | Authorizes commercial low speed vehicles of 8 persons or less to operate on roadways of the city of Newport as a commercial jitney service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2983 | Pass | Requires health director/attorney general to conduct hospital conversion investigations with stenographic record of the proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2353 | Pass | Requires representatives of educational programs to notify their leadership of all reports of sexual abuse who shall notify the department of children, youth and families and the school superintendent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2154 | Pass | Eliminates the need of filing an SR 22, standard form with the department of motor vehicles or its divisions, in order for an individual to get their operator’s license reinstated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2228 | Pass | 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] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2009 | Pass | Allows school committees and the Rhode Island Society of Technology Educators ("RISTE") to enter into joint purchase agreements for the purchase of technology and IT infrastructure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2231 | Pass | Further defines the duties of the department of elderly affairs with regard to elder caregiver respite services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2586 | Pass | Implements several provisions of the federal sex offender registration and notification act, to include registration for a litany of federal or military offenses, and specifies what information can or cannot be shared on a public registry website.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2754 | Pass | 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] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2540 | Pass | Includes behavioral health counseling visits and medication maintenance visits as primary care visits for patient cost-sharing requirements under the provisions of a health plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
