| S2155 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a retired member of the teachers, state employees, or municipal retirement system to serve as an elected town treasurer without a suspension of their retirement benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2399 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits insurance companies from varying the premium rates charged for a health coverage plan based on the gender of the individual policy holder, enrollee, subscriber, or member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2739 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the "Healthy Beverage Act" and requires children's meals provided by restaurants include certain healthy beverage options if the beverage comes with the meal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2479 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the fair employment practices act by clearly establishing that employees of a defendant employer may be individually liable for unfair employment practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2735 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that anytime the state increases the required minimum wage, the direct care and indirect care of Medicaid rates paid by the state to nursing facilities would be increased by the same percentage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2329 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits, rather than requires, electricity and gas revenues to be decoupled from sales and require submission of a full rate filing every three (3) years by electric and gas distribution companies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (04/05/2018) |
| S2477 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals § 25-3-7 of the general laws which gives the director of the department of labor and training the authority to exempt certain classes of employees from receiving overtime pay for Sunday and holiday work.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2083 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes HHS to apply for waivers to ensure for housing, healthcare, and mental and behavioral health care services for the homeless.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
To House Finance Committee |
| S2129 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the executive office of health and human services (EOHHS) to conduct a study to assess the impact of using Medicaid funds to provide coverage for the treatment of the chronically homeless.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
To House Finance Committee |
| S2103 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts certain executive, administrative, and professional employees from overtime pay if their weekly wages exceed one thousand thirty-six dollars ($1,036), an increase from the current two hundred dollars ($200).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2245 | Intro
Sine Die | For purposes of overtime on Sundays and holidays, remove the exemption in the definition of employees for health care and maintenance workers, thereby entitling them to overtime pay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2470 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the computation formula relative to temporary disability insurance and adds siblings and caregivers to those workers eligible to receive temporary caregiver insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2714 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals several criminal offenses pertaining to three (3) bridges, including the Crawford Street Bridge, the Apponaug River Bridge, and the Pawtuxet Falls Bridge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2718 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals sections of the general laws dealing with grading of various qualities of mackerel and the sale or export of pickled fish not approved or branded
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2713 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals § 11-12-1 of the general laws that prohibits engaging in a duel with a dangerous weapon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2021 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any entity or individual from advertising the sale, purchase, receipt, transport, delivery or salvage of any auto wrecking or discarded automobile unless the advertiser is a licensed junk or salvage yard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2711 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provision of the general laws that require baskets of charcoal be sealed by the sealer of weights and measures of the town where the person so using the basket resides, or of the town where the charcoal is measured for sale.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2730 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the licensing requirements for certain shows or exhibitions occurring on Sundays with certain designated cities and/or towns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2716 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes auctioneers, corders of wood and fence viewers as subjects of this violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2732 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals § 11-12-3 of the general laws that prohibits a Rhode Island resident from engaging in a duel outside the state that results in a mortal wound.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2723 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement that city and town councils appoint an inspector or saleratus, bicarbonate of soda, and cream of tartar in order to test for adulterated product, and eliminates the fine for any person selling such adulterated product.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2721 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals § 11-12-2 of the general laws that prohibits a person from challenging another to a duel with a dangerous weapon and from accepting such a challenge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2727 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals § 11-12-4 of the general laws that prohibits a person from being a second at a duel that results in the infliction of a mortal wound.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2724 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the section of the law prohibiting the testing of the speed of a horse on a public highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2720 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the section of the law imposing a fine of up to five dollars ($5.00) for every person guilty of profane swearing and cursing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2237 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a universal, comprehensive, affordable single-payer health care insurance program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2731 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the prohibition of the general laws regarding the removal of gravel or the deposit of debris from Easton's Beach, the enforcement provisions, and the bounds of Easton's Beach.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2728 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the section of general law that require phone books containing a "Warning" that refusal to relinquish, or damage a phone in certain circumstances a crime.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2322 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the usury rate to twelve percent (12%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2726 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the authority of the city or town council, bureau of licenses or board of police commissioners to revoke any license issued for amusements, performances and/or movies on Sunday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2729 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the restrictions on the use of the waters off Goat Island which are no longer needed since the closing of the torpedo station there.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2722 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals § 11-6-2 of the general laws wherein any individual who commits adultery shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2715 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals requirement that persons between 16 and 21 who cannot speak, read or write English to attend classes until they learn (minimum 200 hours). Also repeals fines and institutional commitment for failure to take such classes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2672 | Intro
Sine Die | Redefines the term "covered services" as used to describe applicable subscriber agreements between a health care entity and a dentist, to exclude waiting period and alternate benefit provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2717 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals several sections of the general laws regarding the packaging and branding of pickled fish.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2725 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the statute imposing a fine not to exceed twenty dollars ($20.00) on a person robbing or drawing a fishpot, weir or net belonging to another person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2733 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals Chapter 46-11 which prohibits the taking of seaweed by anyone not a resident of the town of Barrington and imposes fines for doing so.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2719 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the section of the law authorizing the impoundment of at large animals in private ways in Newport.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2750 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the current law so that digital breast tomosynthesis (dbt) screenings are available wherever mammograms are conducted and to provide insurance coverage for such screenings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2282 | Pass | Allows John Driscoll to join Kaitlin E. Twomey and Johnathan M. Clabbers in marriage on or about October 6, 2018, within the City of East Providence, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2293 | Pass | Allows David P. Raiche to join Jillian Marie Rainville and Kevin James Nesbitt in marriage on or about October 12, 2018, within the Town of Bristol, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2310 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Broadway Gas, Llc
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2149 | Pass | Allows Janet McCarthy to join Carrie Pamela Mitchell and Joseph Everett Kolb in marriage on or about May 19, 2018, within the Village of Wickford, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2508 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires fossil fuel facilities to also invest in renewable energy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2116 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulates activities of offshore drilling for oil and gas in federal waters to minimize adverse effects resulting therefrom within the state's territorial waters and coastline.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2504 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the commissioner of elementary and secondary education to issue regulations restricting cell phone use by students in the public schools during the school day unless they are being used in connection with an assignment or curriculum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2342 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes school committees to appoint one designee to the board of directors of the governing body of certain charter public schools which students from the district attend.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2355 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the RI coastal adaptation trust fund. The trust would enable cities and towns and the state to apply for grants to fund projects that invest in measures that adapt infrastructure on public lands to address the impacts of climate change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2414 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases from three (3) to six (6) years the interval of time within which a city or town must conduct an update of its last real property revaluation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2256 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a transitioning veterans' small business loan program through the commerce corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
