| 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 |
| 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 |
| S2356 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate Resolution Creating The Rhode Island Senate Commission On Economic And Climate Benefits Of Direct Air Carbon Capture
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Environment and Agriculture 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 |
| S2509 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate Resolution Creating The Rhode Island Senate Commission On Economic And Climate Benefits Of Renewable Energy (this Resolution Creates A 21 Member Commission To Study And Make Recommendations Concerning The Development, Use And Economic Benefits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2558 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the term of office members and chair of the Kent County Water District board from seven (7) years to three (3) years, effective September 1, 2018 and limits the chair to three (3) consecutive terms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2132 | Intro
Sine Die | Places a 20% cap on increases in consecutive real property revaluations commencing 12/31/18 and thereafter with a 3 year waiting period for new construction/additions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2555 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of transportation to clear sidewalks of snow and ice on state roads for school bus stops along routes approved by the respective school committees and chief of police for each city and town.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2054 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires carbon-emissions-reduction goals be considered in energy plant siting proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2084 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the town of Smithfield to charge interest on delinquent water payments at a rate of not more than twelve percent (12%) per annum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2188 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a fee on companies that sell fossil fuels in Rhode Island and also establishes a receipt account to disburse the funds from.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2338 | Intro
Sine Die | Council on elementary and secondary education to mandate libraries in high schools to be open one hour before, during and one hour after school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2687 | Intro
Sine Die | Voids any provision of a settlement that prohibits disclosure of the factual information related to a claim of sexual harassment, retaliation for reporting sexual harassment, and stalking as against public policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| S2450 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the electronic dissemination of images, without consent, of another engaged in sexually explicit conduct or the intimate parts of another, where a reasonable person knows or understands that the image was to remain private.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2321 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that interconnection and standby transformer costs incurred by any electric distribution co. For BI be charged in transmission rates and socialized across RI and provides for the reimbursement of BI Power Co. By National Grid for such costs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2407 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes in the practice of physical therapy ordering diagnostic images and studies provided they are performed and interpreted by other licensed health care professionals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2584 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires Internet service providers to provide digital blocking of sexual content and patently offensive material. It would allow consumers to deactivate digital block upon payment of a twenty dollar ($20.00) fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (03/27/2018) |
| S2090 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of electro shock therapy on children under the age of sixteen (16).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2535 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires prescription drug manufacturers to file a detailed, updated list of each pharmaceutical sales representative and to pay an annual fee for each name listed with the department of business regulation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2076 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the licensing and regulation of central service technicians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2542 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits payments to parents who serve as certified nursing assistant caregiver for their children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2544 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits copays, coinsurance or office deductible for services of a physical therapist to the amount authorized for medical osteopathic physician office visits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2404 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for consumer protection in eye care services by developing standards and enforcement protocols related to the utilization of emergent technologies in the provision of eye care services and for the delegation of eye car services by providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2323 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts natural hair braiders from the requirement to be licensed as hairdressers or cosmeticians, and defines the practice of natural hair braiding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2605 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all persons or entities caring for or having custody of an animal to report animal abuse, cruel neglect or abandonment to the police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2536 | Intro
Sine Die | Renders participating provider contracts between health insurance carriers/health plans with health care providers covered by group/facility agreements binding on all licensed providers without need for individual contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2101 | Intro
Sine Die | Redefines "first-time offender" and would permit individuals with a record of up to two (2) misdemeanor convictions to be eligible for expungement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2583 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals section 12-7-9 ("conditions justifying force dangerous to life").
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2398 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows small business employers to purchase health insurance for its employees through the state employee group plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2416 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the conditions of bail and recognizance to permit the release of a person charged with a misdemeanor without financial conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2117 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds electronic nicotine-delivery systems to the definition of "Tobacco" for tax purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2337 | Intro
Sine Die | Deletes the phrase "crime of moral turpitude" as a cause for denying or revoking a license of various businesses and professions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2590 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the requirement that the attorney general consent to a deferment of sentencing in a written deferral agreement and grant the superior court traditional discretion in sentencing matters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2296 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the practice of declawing cats (onychectomy) or any partial or complete phalangectomy(s) or tendonectomy(s) on cats.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2121 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires little cigars tax be imposed in the same manner as cigarette tax with twenty-five percent (25%) of revenue applied to smoking cessation programs and that little cigars be sold in packs of twenty (20) or more.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2445 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate Resolution Respectfully Requesting That The State Of Rhode Island Adopt A Mandatory Child Abuse/domestic Violence And Animal Abuse Cross Reporting System
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2622 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a credit reporting agency may not charge a consumer any fee in connection with the placement, temporary lifting or permanent removal of a credit security freeze.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2331 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the co-operation requirement public utilities have by law with contractors involved in state construction projects to municipal, political subdivisions and other quasi-governmental agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2501 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state to pay the energy costs necessary to supply public street lighting if the local utility district fails to do so.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2498 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public utilities or its contractors to reimburse excavators for lost time expense incurred as a result of incorrect markings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2684 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State Of Rhode Island (this Proposed Amendment To The State Constitution Would Provide For A Budget Reconciliation Process And Wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2647 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public schools, including charter schools, to begin the school year after Labor Day commencing in the school year 2019-2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2708 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires most employers in Rhode Island to participate in the E/Verify employment authorization program and establishes deadlines to do so.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2650 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study The Effect Of Wind Turbines On All Marine Life (creates A 5 Member Legislative Commission To Study The Effect Of Wind Turbines On All Marine Life, And Who Would Report Back To The H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
