| S2571 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the month in which candidates for public office are required to declare their candidacy from June to April.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2704 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any person voting by mail ballot or emergency mail ballot to provide proof of identity, excepting those in a hospital, hospice, or skilled nursing facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2756 | Intro
Sine Die | Deletes the requirement that a political circular or flier contain the name of its author.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2573 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the date of party primaries from the second Tuesday after the first Monday in September in each even numbered year to the first Tuesday in June in each even numbered year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2690 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the statute of limitations and penalty sections for violations of the campaign contributions and expenditures reporting requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2757 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all candidates seeking to be elected by write-in ballots to file a declaration of intent with the secretary of state no later than four (4:00) p.m. on the day before the election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2806 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the maximum weekly unemployment benefit rate to the higher of fifty-seven and one-half percent (57.5%) of the average weekly wages paid to workers in the prior calendar year or six hundred sixteen dollars ($616) per week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03
To House Labor Committee |
| S2705 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires penalty and restitution payments for larceny and campaign violations by a candidate to be made to the general fund when the victim of the larceny is the candidate's campaign account.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| S2755 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes several changes to the campaign finance report requirements to promote their regularity and accuracy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2671 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the health services council from twelve (12) to twenty-four (24) members and amends the hospital conversion act relative to disclosure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2802 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that a person mailing a mail ballot be wither the spouse, guardian or relative by blood or marriage of the person voting by mail ballot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2572 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows non-affiliated party voters to vote in party primaries without becoming an affiliated party voter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2305 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the period of time a voter may have to change their party affiliation from the 90th day preceding any primary election for which the voter is eligible to the 29th day preceding any primary election for which the voter is eligible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2803 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Narragansett Bay Commission to enter into agreements with various entities for the acquisition, merger or consolidation of water treatment facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-02
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2250 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates user fees for access to any state beach.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-02
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2351 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of elementary/secondary education and DCYF to each pay fifty percent (50%) of out-of-district transportation costs for children remaining enrolled in school at time of placement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-02
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2184 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the department of education, in consultation with a workgroup composed of various stakeholders, develop a funding formula for school districts sending students to career and technical programs outside the district
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-02
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2697 | Pass | Allows David Aptaker to join Rosanne Somerson and Jonathan Cherneff in marriage on or about August 17, 2018, within the Town of Tiverton, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-02
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2701 | Pass | Allows Russell J. Cornelia to join Danielle La Torre Cornelia and Mohammed El Ayate in marriage on or about June 30, 2018, within the Town of Burrillville, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-02
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2553 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DHS to seek Medicaid section 1115 waivers to provide caregiver support services for family caregivers, and provides for the creation of annual reports by DHS to track the number of caregiver assessments given by the department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-02
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2546 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the directors of BHDDH to develop and implement a program to offer financial incentives to hospitals and emergency facilities that achieve Level 1 certification in level of care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-02
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2566 | Pass | Allows Patrick James Quinlan to join Teri Lynn Stifano and Jonathyn Albert Arioste Pirolli in marriage on or about July 7, 2018, within the City of East Providence, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-02
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2591 | Pass | Allows Rachel Anne Hampton to join Jacqueline Alexis John and Charles Patrick McCabe, IV, in marriage on or about July 28, 2018, within the Town of Bristol, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-02
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2794 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises the hospital conversions act and would set additional guidelines for the department of health to consider when considering conversions of either for profit or nonprofit hospitals or their affiliates which is defined within this act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2056 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the trade-in values of motorcycles from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2437 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires hospitals closing ER dept/primary care services to pay expenses for special master/financial consultant/submit written plan dealing with employees/establish ad hoc community leader group/offset closure effect on municipality for 5 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2405 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows parents or guardians of a child to opt out of vaccines for non-casual contact diseases transmitted by sexual contact.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-01
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2658 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the gross receipts of nonprofit municipal government employee associations from the sales and use taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2130 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits a registered nurse who is enrolled in an accredited nurse anesthesia program to practice as a nurse anesthetist under the personal supervision of a certified registered nurse anesthetist or an anesthesiologist.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-01
Senate held on desk |
| S2744 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an exception to required school immunizations for pupils whose personal, philosophical, or religious beliefs are contrary to immunization and/or testing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-01
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2461 | Intro
Sine Die | Provided that any law or regulations which prohibits or protects a person from exposure to second-hand smoke would include second-hand marijuana smoke or vapor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| 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 |
