| S2524 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands eligibility for elderly services assistance to persons under age 65 suffering from physician confirmed Alzheimer's disease related dementia with income not to exceed 250% of federal poverty level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2290 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a landlord from asking about the immigration status of a tenant, prospective tenant, occupant, or prospective occupant of residential rental property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2608 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a new and separate calendar within the superior court to expediently hear and decide land use matters concerning the development of renewable energy resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2513 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases threshold amount for contractor bonds to $100,000, allows for waiver of bond on projects up to $250,000, reduces time for payments to contractors and subcontractors and authorizes related regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2576 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates and funds a study on the impact of the use of marijuana in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2230 | Intro
Sine Die | Restores provisions of chapter 16.2 of title 23 as well as all of chapter 16.3 of title 23, which were repealed or deleted in the 2015 Budget Act, relating to definitions, licensing, and the operation of medical laboratories.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2569 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the joint committee on legislative services to make the record of the votes of the general assembly available to the public and the secretary of state electronically within thirty (30) minutes of the casting of said vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2514 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the appropriation of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) to the professional development investment fund for fiscal year 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2406 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes rights pursuant to pharmacist-patient relationship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2580 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes random drug screening as a condition for continued public assistance, and would provide a mechanism for retesting those who fail the test.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2326 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires every electric distribution company and natural gas distribution company to submit to the division of public utilities and carriers an emergency response plan for review and approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2431 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a penalty on a condominium association for failing to deliver a resale certificate within ten (10) days of a request by a unit owner, and establishes a maximum fee of $125 for compiling a resale certificate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2185 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends general laws to reference the new council on elementary and secondary education and makes teacher certification provisions for military personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2348 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a one-half (1/2) fee waiver to pay one-half (1/2) the costs of teachers in obtaining an International Dyslexia Association aligned graduate certificate in dyslexia knowledge and practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2260 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the division of motor vehicles to issue a "year of manufacture" courtesy registration plate for a vehicle more than twenty-five (25) years old.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-28
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2482 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the date for issuance of a new, fully reflective registration plate from January 1, 2019 to July 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-28
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2324 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the public utilities commission to implement a purchase of receivables program where the electric distribution company purchases the receivables of a nonregulated power producer at a discount rate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-27
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2174 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires motor vehicle dealers to disclose in writing that a vehicle being sold has a spare tire and jack or is otherwise equipped in compliance with applicable law. There shall be a civil penalty of $100 for a violation under this subsection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-27
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| S2227 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes limits on the maximum number of patients that may be assigned to a unit’s registered nurses in particular health care situations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2438 | Intro
Sine Die | Revokes beneficiary status of a spouse upon the divorce or annulment to the designor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2459 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the family court to award custody of household pets to the plaintiff in a domestic abuse complaint.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2303 | Intro
Sine Die | Enacts Uniform Parentage Act dealing with parent-child relationship, genetic testing, assisted reproduction, surrogacy agreements, adjudication proceedings/registry of paternity eff. 1/1/19.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2370 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies depreciation relating to new books value calculation company's tangible personal property to include physical deterioration/functional/economic obsolescence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-27
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| S2403 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes limits on the maximum number of patients that may be assigned to a unit’s registered nurses in particular health care situations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2384 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases motion picture and musical and theatrical production tax or rebate incentives from 25% to 30% of the state-certified production costs, and eliminates the sunset clauses for the incentives granted for those productions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2277 | Intro
Sine Die | Protects individuals from internet disclosure of personally identifiable information by commercial websites/online service operators and creates right of action for violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2386 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a residential renewable energy systems tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2434 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the number of permits for medical marijuana compassion centers from three (3) to twelve (12).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2401 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the "Neil Fachon Terminally Ill Patient's Right To Try Act of 2018," which establishes the conditions for the use of experimental treatments for terminally ill patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2222 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires written notice to certain plan purchasers of rule changes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2349 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits students with necessary educational background to participate in career and technical internships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2365 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a charitable food donation tax credit to encourage donations of food to nonprofit organizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2380 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a public entity, educational institution, hospital, nonprofit, or multi-municipal collaborative to participate in net metering without having to own the land on which the net metering resource is situated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2275 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulates fiduciary and designated recipient access to digital assets relating to probate practice and procedure by creating the "Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act" to promote uniformity of the law among states that enact it.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2146 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases marital estate deduction if proper election made by decedent spouse's estate allowing decedent to transfer unused portion of estate tax exemption to spouse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2391 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies depreciation by taking into account physical deterioration and functional and economic obsolescence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2147 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits settlor of trust to provide for person other than trustees to direct trustee's actions/clearly establishes legal responsibilities of trust advisors/protectors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2378 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the total aggregate amount of tax credits for a business entity not to exceed $5,000,000 in fiscal year 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2393 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the rental period from thirty (30) days to six (6) days in regard to the exclusion from the definition of occupancy for any home, condominium or other residential dwelling rented.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2367 | Intro
Sine Die | Suspends the imposition of the minimum business corporation tax of four hundred dollars ($400) for a period of three (3) years from the date of incorporation with the secretary of state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2379 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Rhode Island resource recovery corporation to annually pay six million dollars ($6,000,000) to the town of Johnston in addition to any other monies paid to the town by the corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2368 | Intro
Sine Die | Addresses the age-related disparate treatment of state employees who were eligible to retire by reason of age on June 30, 2012. The act exempts these employees from the 401(a) plan, and returns them to the traditional defined benefit plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2387 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the council on postsecondary education to assess a transportation fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) per semester to students attending a Rhode Island public institution of higher learning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2327 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires sealers of weights and measures appointed by the cities and towns to receive the same fees as charged by state sealers who perform the same inspecting/testing services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2131 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires insurers to let enrollees align the refill dates for most drugs at in-network pharmacies at least once during their insurance plan year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2235 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a dispute resolution process for emergency services and surprise bills for medical services performed by nonparticipating (out-of-network) health care providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2366 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amount from eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) that retired state educators could earn in yearly compensation in their post-retirement, before their retirement benefits would be reduced.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2395 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the Resource Recovery Corporation tipping fee from three dollars ($3.00) to five dollars ($5.00) per vehicle to be paid to the town of Johnston on a biannual basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2372 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes and direct the board of governors for higher education to assess a transportation fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) per semester to students attending a RI public institution of higher learning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2229 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes pharmacies to dispense prescriptions of less than a thirty (30) day supply for the purpose of synchronizing a patient's medications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
