| S2443 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates Sapinsley Compassionate Care Act to provide mechanism for terminally ill patient to choose to end their life using physician prescribed drugs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2388 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the minimum corporate tax by calculating the tax based on gross income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2240 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits development of land contiguous to State House unless approved by general assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2241 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the town of Foster to enact an ordinance banning gravel operations from agricultural, forest management, or residential areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2190 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the tax imposed on hard-to-dispose materials such as lubricating oils, glycol-based antifreeze and tires used on motor vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2189 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits trout fishing in waters at any time of year without seasonal restriction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2267 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state to use the actual residence of persons in government custody for redistricting purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2272 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that prisoners who committed offenses prior to age eighteen (18) and were sentenced as adults would be eligible for parole after completing fifteen (15) years of their sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2089 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a law enforcement or animal control officer to hold an animal confined in a motor vehicle up to 72 hours pending a district court hearing as to medical costs, fees, charges, and/or surrender of physical possession and ownership of the anim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2151 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds campus police officers to group of public safety officials eligible to collect salary, wages, and benefits during periods of whole/partial incapacitation incurred while on-duty, or while providing emergency assistance within the state while off-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2281 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an applicant for any license or registration issued by the contractors’ registration and licensing board to undergo a national criminal records check, including fingerprints.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2269 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provision declaring prisoners serving a life sentence civilly dead.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2280 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires federal national criminal records check for applicants for a hackney's operator license or a transportation network operator or driver.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2266 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes police departments/local drug control divisions to keep confiscated property with any derived income available for community/law enforcement purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2092 | Intro
Sine Die | Prevents the director of the department of corrections from restricting in-person visitation of inmates in the event that the department implemented electronic visitation or contact, such as skype, between inmates and visitors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2096 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that assaults on police officers and other officials be punished by no less than one year but no more than three years' incarceration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2257 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it easier for military service members and their spouses to obtain certifications and licenses issued by the department of labor and training.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2051 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the board of elementary and secondary education adopt a competency-based/proficiency-based learning policy whereby students can earn credits through demonstration of competency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2032 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes state higher education institutions to waive application and transcript fees for veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2079 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the income eligibility limit for medical assistance coverage for seniors and disabled individuals from one hundred percent (100%) to one hundred thirty-three percent (133%) of federal poverty level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2176 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Rhode Island public power utility council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2080 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "individualized program plan" for purposes of the state's division of developmental disabilities to include evaluation of skill sets taught by outside sources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2140 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a rebuttable presumption that an owner or operator of a motor vehicle is in noncompliance with financial security if they have been previously been charged with the same violation within six (6) months preceding the new charge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2172 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that all costs incurred by municipal corporations associated with the temporary or permanent relocation public utility poles during public works projects within municipal rights-of-way be borne by the public utility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2093 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorize a city or town clerk/recorder of deeds, at the clerk's/recorder's option, to accept electronic documents for recording real property and land records and to index and store those documents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2136 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the department of motor vehicles from placing on a motorist's driving record, no more than twice yearly, a traffic violation which fine has been paid no longer than thirty (30) days after its issuance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2156 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an accident compensation fund to provide payments and benefits to those injured by uninsured motorists, to be administered by the automobile accident compensation corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2138 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the fine imposed for a first offense for failure to maintain financial security, to a maximum of one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2150 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that vehicles towed because of state or municipal laws be towed to a towing-storage facility closest to where the offense or accident occurred.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2236 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds elder caregiver respite services to the web-based caregiver support information center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2078 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates ombudsperson program for developmental disabilities attached to department of administration with ombudsperson selected by committee named by governor to advocate on behalf of affected adults.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2202 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the minimum corporate tax from four hundred dollars ($400) to two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for the year beginning on July 1, 2018, and abolishes the minimum tax for tax years beginning on or after July 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2177 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that any minority business enterprise that is certified under the Federal Small Business Act shall be deemed certified by the department of administration as a minority business enterprise.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2206 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the "Student Equal Economic Opportunity Act" which would allow students who meet certain requirements to be exempt from paying nonresident tuition at Rhode Island universities, colleges or community colleges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2204 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes cities and towns to tax certain real and/or nonprofit tangible properties owned by nonprofit educational and hospital institutions commencing with assessment performed 12/31/18 and every year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2209 | Intro
Sine Die | Deletes the provisions regarding reimbursement by the state for conventional public housing students. Provides permanent foundation education aid funding for services and instructional services for students residing in conventional public housing uni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2211 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the executive office of health and human services to increase income disregards for certain Medicare programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2081 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals to make or cause to be made annual unannounced inspections and investigations of community residences.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2194 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provisions of the Stay Invested in RI Wavemaker Fellowship, and establish the Stay Invested in RI Tax Credit to provide eligible taxpayers with a tax credit for educational loan repayment expenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2223 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) to two thousand dollars ($2,000), per ear, every three years. In addition, the amount of insurance coverage would no longer be based on the age of the recip...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2214 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates taxable retirement exemption of $25,000 for certain pension plans/annuities beginning on 1/1/2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2221 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides school housing aid for certain projects approved by the state including funding for payment of interest on certain bonds and leases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2213 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the sunset provision of the Rhode Island New Qualified Jobs Incentive Act 2015 from December 31, 2018 to January 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2283 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that when an agency publicly proposes for notice and comment or otherwise promulgates a new rule or regulation, it would identify at least one existing rule or regulation to be repealed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2232 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires movie theaters to provide open captioning for persons who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2205 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises the timing and process for calculating a foundation education aid bonus to regionalized school districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2175 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the definition of a net-metering financing arrangement and changes the crediting of net-metered accounts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2233 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health insurance to provide coverage for communication access between deaf patients and their physicians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2128 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires insurance coverage for at least ninety (90) days of residential or inpatient services for mental health and/or substance-use disorders for American Society of Addiction Medicine levels of care 3.1 and 3.3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2193 | Intro
Sine Die | Incorporates bonds issued by the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank into the computation of school housing aid assistance and school housing project costs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
