| S2843 | Pass | Allows Joseph I. Macy to join Tanya Whitney Zilewicz and Gilbert Curt Oliveira, III, in marriage on or about June 2, 2018, within the city of Newport, Rhode Island. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-23 Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2759 | Pass | Allows Anne M. Moniz to join Martha M. Rodriguez and Eric Flanders in marriage on or about June 16, 2018, within the Town of Jamestown, Rhode Island. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-23 Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2773 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases school aid by 5% for safety/security projects. Non-appropriated funds remitted for safety/security as determined by board of education. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-23 To Senate Education Committee |
| S2796 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the safe school program which provides a revenue source for various safety provisions designed to make schools safer. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-23 To Senate Education Committee |
| S2543 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for authorizations for services to developmentally disabled adults issued on or after October 1, 2018, be developed on an annual basis with funding for these services to be issued on an annual basis. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-23 To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2927 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the contractual provisions contained in an otherwise expired collective bargaining agreement with certified school teachers and municipal employees would continue until a successor agreement has been reached between the parties. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-23 To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2774 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the safe school program which provides a revenue source for various safety provisions designed to make schools safer. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-23 To Senate Education Committee |
| S2778 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a procedure for the seizure of any animal found to be abandoned, neglected, or hazardously accumulated as well as a procedure for the disposition of seized animals that are so injured or diseased that said seized animals should be destroyed. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-22 To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2829 | Pass | Allows the city of Pawtucket to fill a vacancy on the Pawtucket City Council by combining councilmatic voting districts for a special primary election and special election in 2018. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18 Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2439 | Pass | Increases the amount of purchases the North Providence's purchasing agent may purchase an item, without bid, from $1,500 to $2,500. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18 Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2120 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a tiered-rate structure for the child care assistance program, with higher rates paid to licensed child care centers and family child care homes that have achieved higher quality ratings in "BrightStars". [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-17 To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2069 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the child care provider reimbursement rate by five percent (5%). [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-17 To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2201 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a one time tax credit up to two hundred fifty dollars ($250) per dependent child for certain Rhode Island households who contribute to an account under the Rhode Island college bound tuition savings program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-17 To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2901 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that only those juveniles over the age of fourteen (14) be required to register as sex offenders and that the offense be comparable or more severe than those defined in 18 U.S.C. § 2241. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-17 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2122 | Intro
Sine Die | Enhances reimbursement rates paid by the departments of human services and children, youth and families for children in the child care assistance program, starting with infants and toddlers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-17 To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2098 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts volunteer fire companies under the supervision, control, or jurisdiction of another public body from certain posting requirements of the open meetings act. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16 To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2025 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands drug awareness programs to high schools, directs funding from certain civil fines and mandates establishment of criteria for funding. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16 To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2538 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for a nurse to delegate tasks to certified nursing assistants and authorizes the department of health to promulgate regulations that delineate delegable tasks. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16 To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2895 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a system for the regulation and taxation for adult use and cultivation of marijuana. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2301 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits discrimination in housing against those persons who have a lawful source of income. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16 To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2528 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants flexibility to enterprise fund entities, by allowing for the waiver of certain state purchasing requirements. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15 To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2567 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows DMV to issue driving privilege licenses/permits to applicants unable to establish lawful presence in US which are not valid for ID purposes effective July 1, 2018. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2515 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes state agencies to allow vendors to withhold a commission for developing electronic filing systems. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15 To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2781 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the "refundable investment tax credit act" to provide for a refundable investment tax credit for certain investments in the construction of facilities, acquisition of tangible property, and the training of employees in the state. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15 To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2694 | Intro
Sine Die | Protects communications between language interpreters appointed under this chapter and limited-English-proficient persons. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2660 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires verification of computer hours worked by contractors for professional technical services rendered to depts of transportation, health, human services, administration and commerce in excess of $100,000 for bids/proposals issued on/after 7/1/18... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15 To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2858 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that any person who has a retail sales permit not be required to pay a separate registration fee to make sales at flea markets; provided, however, the person remains responsible to pay all taxes due as a result of sales at a flea market. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15 To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2467 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that parties to a hospital conversion be subject to a review of any defined pension plan. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-11 To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2863 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes the general assembly elections in the risk-limiting audits within the jurisdiction of the board of elections. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-10 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2866 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires initial and continuing education in land use law and planning for local planning and/or zoning board and commission members. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-10 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2521 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts from sales and use taxes specialized packaging equipment such as kegs and barrel containers for alcoholic beverages. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-09 To House Finance Committee |
| S2104 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes office of inspector general which would be charged with preventing fraud and mismanagement of public funds, regardless of their source and would oversee all state programs and operations. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-09 To Senate Rules, Government Ethics and Oversight Committee |
| S2480 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to investigate, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the expenditure of public funds. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-09 To Senate Rules, Government Ethics and Oversight Committee |
| S2018 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds urns and shrouds, prayer cards and other items customarily sold or provided by a funeral director to those funeral items which are already exempt from sales and use taxes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-09 To House Finance Committee |
| S2551 | Engross
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. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-09 To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2263 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to prevent and detect fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the expenditure of public funds. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-09 To Senate Rules, Government Ethics and Oversight Committee |
| S2861 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the residents of New Shoreham who earn up to one hundred forty percent (140%) of area median income to qualify for affordable housing. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-09 To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2869 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the proof of financial responsibility requirement for certain motor vehicle offenses and operating privileges and increases the reinstatement fee for suspended privileges. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2017 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "disabled", for the purposes of property tax relief, to include veterans who earn less than $30,000 annually, and who receive disability benefits from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-04 To House Finance Committee |
| S2068 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates micro zones in distressed areas to stimulate economic revitalization/employment opportunities/business development through redevelopment of abandoned industrial/commercial structures. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-04 To House Finance Committee |
| S2294 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the election laws concerning state or municipal vendors who are disqualified from making political contributions due to their business dealings with the state. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2419 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an in-person early voting process and amends the mail ballot requirements. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2786 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes audit requirements for pharmacy benefit managers, and annual reporting requirements for health insurers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2486 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the existing disability business enterprises program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03 To House Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2600 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the statute of limitations for injuries suffered as a result of sexual abuse by any person including a child. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2347 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a permanent joint commission to improve and increase the number of quality out of school time learning programs in the state. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03 To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2707 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends certain campaign contribution and expenditure reporting requirements and would provide for forfeiture of campaign contributions upon a conviction or plea of nolo contendere to specified felony crimes relating to public office. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2652 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the definition of eligible net metering resources by including "eligible biomass fuels" as defined in § 39-26-2(6). [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03 To House Corporations Committee |
| S2764 | Pass | Allows The Honorable Scott Avedisian to join Christy Lee Angell and Matthew Stephen Moretti in marriage on or about May 4, 2018, within the City of Cranston, Rhode Island. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03 Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2448 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the voter identification law. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03 To Senate Judiciary Committee |