| S2737 | Intro
Sine Die | Replaces the American Arbitration Association, as the selector of labor arbitrators, in non-grievance contract matters, with the director of the department of labor and training.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2160 | Intro
Sine Die | Relieves municipal employee bargaining representatives from their obligation to represent employees in grievances/arbitrations if they were not members of the bargaining unit in the ninety (90) days prior to the events that caused the grievance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2645 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that pupil transportation vehicles with four (4) or more pupils have a school bus monitor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
Committee recommends passage |
| S2325 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts the town of New Shoreham from the jurisdiction of the division of public utilities and carriers for purposes of regulating transportation network companies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| S2475 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the protections and remedies for employees against employers who pay wage differentials based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability; age or country of ancestral origin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
To House Labor Committee |
| S2159 | Intro
Sine Die | Relieves state employee bargaining representatives from their obligation to represent employees in grievances/arbitrations if they were not members of the bargaining unit in the ninety (90) days prior to the events that caused the grievance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2354 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits large retail establishments from providing plastic checkout bags/all retail establishments providing polystyrene food containers with enforcement by municipalities with opt out election effective January 1, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2619 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a legal process to aid employees in collecting their unpaid wages from their employer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
To House Labor Committee |
| S2654 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits PFAS, a class of fluorinated organic chemicals, from being used in food packaging.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2651 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires major public facility projects meet green globe and ANSI standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| S2644 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes certain student privacy rights in regard to take-home technology devices from school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2618 | Intro
Sine Die | Ticket resellers required to provide refund for counterfeit, misrepresented and unusable tickets. Ticket issuers would offer optional transferable tickets and eliminates criminal penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2736 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts volunteer firefighters providing services as volunteer firefighters for nonprofit fire districts from the minimum wage requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2344 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of elementary and secondary education, pursuant to rules promulgated by the commissioner of elementary and secondary education, to develop curricular material on financial literacy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2157 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the last day for a request for municipal police arbitration agreement to 120 days before the expiration of the current collective bargaining agreement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2345 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the commissioner of elementary and secondary education to adopt a course of study on the nation's founding and related documents, including the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and the Federalist Papers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2749 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides procedures relative to contractor/subcontractor retainage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2050 | Intro
Sine Die | Refines the law on guidelines for concussions at school and youth programs so that an adult trained in recognizing the symptoms of a concussion is required to be present during all events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2362 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes minimum energy and water efficiency standards for certain products sold or installed in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2638 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an employer of 100 or more employees to report information as to compensation/hours worked by age/gender/race/ethnicity/job category/occupation/title to DLT eff. 1/1/19.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
To House Labor Committee |
| S2114 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires board of education approval of new driver driver education courses with online institutions available for parents/guardians/designees in addition to classroom setting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2775 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all new school buses purchased or leased on or after January 1, 2020, for use in the state to be equipped with a combination pelvic and upper torso 3-point passenger seat belt system for the operator and each passenger seat.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2613 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the real estate conveyance tax certain low-income and affordable housing developments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2183 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the benefits of the dual enrollment equal opportunity act to cover home schooled students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2452 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes portability of the estate tax credit and allow a deceased spousal unused credit against the Rhode Island estate tax of a surviving spouse for the unused estate tax credit of the first spouse to die.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2537 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires medical insurance procedures to furnish coverage for non-opioid pain treatment and/or management performed by licensed massage therapists when referred by a physician, registered nurse practitioner or physicians' assistant, effective 1/1/19.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2758 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that § 34-7-4 ("right of footway denied") applies only to private rights of footway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2409 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires prospective reimbursement for state-licensed facilities providing mental health, substance abuse treatment and/or prevention services with an annual reconciliation for any underpayment or overpayment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2784 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for physician/patient discussion regarding addiction and alternate treatment prior to initial and third opioid prescription.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2411 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides group health plan or insurers cover clinically appropriate residential services, including detoxification for treatment of mental health or substance-abuse disorders and the patient remain presumptively covered during the assessment review.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2489 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds prepackaged cheeses to the items allowed for sale at Class A license holders premises in towns or cities of ten thousand (10,000) or more inhabitants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-06
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2646 | Engross
Sine Die | Commissioner of elementary and secondary education would be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate and serves at the pleasure of the governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-06
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2304 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the inclusion of noncompete agreements in broadcast industry employment contracts that are entered into after January 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2795 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits residential landlords from terminating period tenancies from December 1 to February 1 and requires sixty (60) days written notice to the elderly or disabled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2779 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts school construction projects from green energy requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2578 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates legislative employee whistleblower protection to report criminal and ethics violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2805 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides specific language for signs posted at establishments notifying people of contact information to national human trafficking resource center and deletes provision enabling department of labor and training to impose fines for failure to post si...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2602 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires notice of claims of common law right to be given to an employer and the employer's workers' compensation insurance carrier and clarifies liability of employers and their insurers for workers' compensation claims.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2594 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the effective date of the Rhode Island uninsured employers fund to July 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2797 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the lawful age to purchase a rifle/shotgun to from 18 years of age to 21 years of age. Also requires a person complete a basic rifle/shotgun safety course before they can legally purchase a rifle/shotgun.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2804 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides uninsured and/or uninspected vehicles not operated within this or any state may avoid suspension/revocation registration if plates removed. Violators subject to fine up to $150.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2499 | Intro
Sine Die | Caps the system benefit charge at the annual published Consumer Price Index or two and one-half percent (2.5%), whichever is greater.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2286 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines and recognizes the existence and potential liability of lead entities concerning the payment of wages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2776 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires elementary schools to provide instruction in cursive penmanship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2790 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes procedures to notify individuals of any breaches of their unencrypted personal information and penalties for any violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2800 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires audio and video recordings of all open meetings of state and quasi-public agencies and bodies be transmitted to the secretary of state's office for posting on its website to be available for public access.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2593 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for employers, in workers' compensation actions, to shift the legal burden to employees to prove they were not intoxicated at the time of injury or death, after a showing that the employee had a positive test for intoxicating substances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2706 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any contractual clause in a contract for home repairs which would limit the homeowners ability to initiate legal proceedings against the contractor for breach of contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2265 | Intro
Sine Die | Ends Rhode Island's "employment-at-will" legal doctrine, provides job protection for employees that satisfactorily perform their duties provides specific remedies for wrongful discharge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2808 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides immunity to any person or organization that provides food or wild game to a food pantry, food bank or DEM for ultimate distribution to needy individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
