| S2432 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits misrepresentation of pet as service dog. DOH to provide decals/signs and information to businesses. Penalty of $500 and/or 30 hours community service for violators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2207 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks weighing fourteen thousand pounds (14,000 lbs.) or less from sales and use tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2464 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides certain restrictions on the sale of tobacco products, enhances the definition of "tobacco products", and raises the legal minimum age to purchase tobacco products and nicotine-delivery systems from 18 to 21 years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2394 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the sales tax on pet care services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2306 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the penalties for a first offense of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death to a minimum five (5) years in incarceration, a minimum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) and a minimum license revocation of five (5) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2519 | Intro
Sine Die | Gives cities and towns the option of entirely exempting the homestead of a disabled veteran or their surviving spouse from taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2565 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the license plates of a vehicle be confiscated by a law enforcement officer if the owner was arrested for driving while their license was suspended, revoked or cancelled for refusing to submit to a chemical test.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2610 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the "Primary Care Trust Act" to require health insures to allocate a fair portion of medical spending for the delivery of primary care services and creates a trust for administration of the program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2396 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a credit against the Rhode Island estate tax of ninety-nine thousand six hundred dollars ($99,600) for decedents who have died after December 31, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2787 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of business regulation to determine the status of insurers for coordination of benefits purposes when there are two or more insurers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2064 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases compensation paid by the airport corporation to the city of Warwick for municipal services at the T.F. Green Airport.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2522 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a long-term economic policy/strategic implementation plan to receive a public hearing by house/senate, but also a vote of approval with transmittal to the governor for signature before it takes effect.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2465 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases penalties for driving offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2559 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the penalty for anyone found guilty of reckless driving while eluding police to a felony punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment and subject to a loss of license from 1 to 2 years and a possible forfeiture of their motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2451 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a new criminal offense of driving under the influence resulting in non-serious bodily injury.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2574 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all school buses to be equipped with ignition interlock systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2425 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the "lookback" period for third and subsequent offenses under § 31-27-2 ("Driving Under Influence of Liquor or Drugs") and § 31-27-2.1 ("Refusal to Submit to Chemical Test") from five (5) to ten (10) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2564 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases penalties for a variety of motor vehicle offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2273 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines any act of sexual penetration or contact performed by an individual with supervisory or disciplinary power, or who is in a position of authority, upon a person nineteen (19) years of age or younger, as sexual assault.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2561 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the "lookback period" for second and subsequent offenses involving driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs under § 31-27-2, and for offenses related to failure or refusal to submit to chemical tests under § 31-27-2.1 from 5 yrs to10...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2568 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires informed consent notice and hand-delivery of chemical test for drugs under the influence of liquor or drugs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2696 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate Resolution Urging Law Enforcement Officials To Recognize White Nationalist And Neo-nazi Groups As Terrorist Organizations
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2192 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the "Start-Up Rhode Island Act" to allow for the establishment of certain tax free zones in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2681 | Intro
Sine Die | Standardizes procedures for asset forfeitures for all crimes simplifying procedures and addresses counterproductive incentives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2195 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the income range and the maximum credit amount for the property tax relief extended to elderly and/or disabled persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2563 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the motor vehicle offense of "driving under the influence of liquor or drugs, resulting in physical injury", a felony punishable by up to three (3) years in prison and a license suspension of up to one year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2668 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes cities/towns to establish a property tax credit program in exchange for volunteer service by persons over age 60 up to $1,500 calculated by multiplying service hours by the state minimum wage per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2127 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires municipalities to exempt from taxation the real property of a surviving spouse of a law enforcement officer or firefighter killed in the line of duty, who occupies the real property as their principal place of residence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2474 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates repealed statute references and creates a mechanism for workers to enforce their existing right to continuation of medical benefits, reinstatement after returning from being a temporary caregiver and relating to Sunday pay wage laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To House Labor Committee |
| S2297 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the minimum penalty for first degree sexual assault from ten (10) to twenty (20) years. The act would also create a category of cases wherein the first ten (10) years of any sentence be ineligible for the benefits of deferment or suspension...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2197 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates restricted receipt account for all 911 funds and requires these funds to be used solely for operation of the 911 system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2376 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the department of transportation to lease state airport property for a period of fifty (50) years and requires one member of the airport corporation board of directors to have a pilot's license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2825 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a nineteen (19) member permanent joint oversight commission to study and evaluate property tax related issues.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-25
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2807 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all non-supervisory classified employees to electronically record their daily work hours.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-25
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2821 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the town of Jamestown to issue not more than $9,800,000 bonds and notes to finance various improvements and related equipment at the town of Jamestown's schools, golf course and library.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-25
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2810 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the entitlement for a special plate to all recipients of the top medals which may be awarded to members of the United States Armed Forces.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-25
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2674 | Intro
Sine Die | Qualifies mobile and manufactured homes as affordable housing when installed and affixed in mobile and manufactured home parks in groups of twenty (20) or more for a year or more.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-25
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2751 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows residential only projects to remain minor and subject to the lesser time period for certification. Adds more time for cert. And resubmission at the master and preliminary plan phases on major projects but reducing such time for the final plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-25
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2752 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates builders of new 1 and 2 family dwellings to provide written info to buyer about installation of automatic sprinkler system subject to civil penalties for violations/results of radon tests/certification of working smoke detector devices eff 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-25
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2780 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires pet shops to only sell cats or dogs obtained from an animal shelter, dog pound or animal rescue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-25
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2243 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows mobile and manufactured homes which are a part of a mobile and manufactured home park to be counted as low and moderate income housing for purposes of compliance with the requirements of the city's or town's comprehensive use plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-25
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2454 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts individuals validly licensed in their country and holding a validly issued study or work Visa from the state's licensing requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S2038 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes the majority leader of the senate as a member of the joint committee on legislative services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2417 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends several provisions relative to how the commission on judicial tenure and discipline provide discipline, hearings and discovery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2410 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline to provide for reciprocal licensure of physicians from other jurisdictions under certain conditions, and in connection therewith, requires the board to promulgate applicable rules and regulations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2547 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes aging/disability resource center within division of elderly affairs as part of long-term care system for elderly/disabled persons/family caregivers/providers and makes annual appropriation in the sum of $1,000,000 to establish the center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2141 | Intro
Sine Die | Entitles criminal defendants charged with enumerated serious criminal offenses to a bail hearing within four (4) calendar days of initial court appearance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2611 | Intro
Sine Die | Vests with the governor the sole authority to nominate, on the basis of merit, from a list submitted by the judicial nominating commission with the advice and consent of the senate, all judges and magistrates, to all courts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2599 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a mechanism for disqualification of parent(s) of a child who dies intestate upon petition to the probate court for denial or limitation of the right of the parent(s) to a share of the decedent's estate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2822 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the statute providing state preemption of laws pertaining to the ownership, possession, transportation, and sale of firearms and ammunitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
