| S2353 | Pass | Requires representatives of educational programs to notify their leadership of all reports of sexual abuse who shall notify the department of children, youth and families and the school superintendent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7002 | Pass | Requires individual or group policy insurance to cover mastectomies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2154 | Pass | Eliminates the need of filing an SR 22, standard form with the department of motor vehicles or its divisions, in order for an individual to get their operator’s license reinstated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2228 | Pass | Amends the definitions of "smoking" and "retail tobacco store" to include electronic smoking devices, electronic nicotine delivery system products and other products that rely on vaporization or aerosolization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2009 | Pass | Allows school committees and the Rhode Island Society of Technology Educators ("RISTE") to enter into joint purchase agreements for the purchase of technology and IT infrastructure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H8351 | Pass | Establishes the Rhode Island reinsurance program that will provide reinsurance to insurance carriers that offer health insurance coverage on the individual market, to mitigate the impact of high-risk individuals on health insurance rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7193 | Pass | Provides that any person, including, but not limited to, a minor who is pregnant, could give effective consent for medical, dental, health and hospital services relating to prenatal, delivery, and post-delivery care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7414 | Pass | Requires educational institutions using dogs or cats for medical research to make animals no longer useful for research available for adoption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2231 | Pass | Further defines the duties of the department of elderly affairs with regard to elder caregiver respite services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2586 | Pass | Implements several provisions of the federal sex offender registration and notification act, to include registration for a litany of federal or military offenses, and specifies what information can or cannot be shared on a public registry website.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2754 | Pass | Establishes standardized methods and appeals procedures for the calculation of fair and reasonable compensation for parts and labor used in warranty services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H8338 | Pass | Eliminates the requirement that a service person serving in conflicts or undeclared wars receive a campaign ribbon or expeditionary medal in order to receive a property tax exemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2540 | Pass | Includes behavioral health counseling visits and medication maintenance visits as primary care visits for patient cost-sharing requirements under the provisions of a health plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7102 | Pass | Creates a municipal infrastructure grant program within the DOA relating to municipal and other public infrastructure projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2683 | Pass | Establishes the Rhode Island chapter of the children’s advocacy center, a community based organization that would provide a child-friendly, safe and neutral location from which a multidisciplinary team would act in response to child abuse allegatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2426 | Pass | Mandates each motor vehicle policy insurer provide a weekly record of each policy to the department of motor vehicles. A vehicle owner not insured for four (4) reporting periods must be notified to meet certain requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H8352 | Veto | Criminalizes isolation of an elder or dependent adult and would provide that certain notification requirements be fulfilled on behalf of elder persons or dependent adults.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| S2682 | Pass | Prohibits encroachment upon open space land and allows the owner of open space land or holder of a conservation restriction to bring a civil action in superior court to remedy the encroachment of that land, and to recover damages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2985 | Pass | Sets aside the second Saturday in the month of April annually to be known as Historical Cemetery Restoration/Awareness Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7223 | Pass | Increases the fines and penalties of operating under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance with a child under thirteen (13) years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2225 | Pass | Provides that the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals with the power and duty to certify a list of chemical dependency professionals for use by state agencies and for referral of individuals for treatment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H8188 | Pass | Renames the domestic violence prevention fund as the Deborah DeBare domestic violence prevention fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H8313 | Pass | Requires the director of the department of health to develop best practices for co-prescribing opioid antagonists to patients who are prescribed opioid analgesics.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2987 | Pass | Directs the department of administration to add the names of Rhode Island residents who were killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, to be added to the 9/11 Memorial located in the state house.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7607 | Pass | Mandates each motor vehicle policy insurer provide a weekly record of each policy to the department of motor vehicles. A vehicle owner not insured for four (4) reporting periods must be notified to meet certain requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2934 | Pass | Establishes the Rhode Island reinsurance program and restricted receipt account, from federal funding, administered by the director of the Rhode Island health benefits exchange, to mitigate the impact of high-risk individuals on health insurance rate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H8232 | Pass | Requires representatives of educational programs to notify their leadership of all reports of sexual abuse who shall notify the department of children, youth and families and the school superintendent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7578 | Pass | Establishes a web-based caregiver support information center and adds certain elder services to those which are subject to training and support from the elderly affairs department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2442 | Veto | Requires that any use of a premises for marijuana cultivation be disclosed in any real estate transaction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| H7182 | Pass | Prohibits the use of restraints on pregnant prisoners in their third trimester during transport to and from court proceedings by sheriffs and/or incarceration at the ACI with annual reports to the general assembly effective January 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2179 | Pass | Requires that effective January 1, 2019, all school buildings where students are in attendance would be required to have carbon monoxide detectors installed and maintained therein.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2579 | Pass | Enables the Rhode Island Public Rail Corporation to lower the self-insured retention amount required of the state and would provide indemnification statewide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S3003 | Pass | Directs the department of education to utilize the federal government's Troops to Teachers program, and would further provide that the implementation of the program would be contingent on federal funding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2268 | Pass | Prohibits the use of restraints on pregnant prisoners during transport to and from court proceedings by sheriffs and/or incarceration at the ACI with annual reports to the general assembly effective January 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S3004 | Pass | Requires the director of the department of health to develop best practices for co-prescribing opioid antagonists to patients who are prescribed opioid analgesics.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H8122 | Pass | Simplifies the process of doing business in Rhode Island by eliminating unnecessary licensing requirements of various business entities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2689 | Pass | Grants the district and family courts the explicit statutory authority to issue equitable orders incidental to their adjudication of matters falling within their jurisdiction under this chapter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2239 | Pass | Creates a municipal infrastructure grant program within the DOA relating to municipal and other public infrastructure projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7235 | Pass | Directs the department of education to utilize the federal governments troops to teachers program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2609 | Pass | Allows for security deposits on furniture when a furnished apartment is leased.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2541 | Pass | Allows a pharmacist to dispense a partial fill of a Schedule II controlled substance at the request of the patient or the prescriber.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2930 | Pass | Requires the director of the department of health to develop best practices for co-prescribing opioid antagonists to patients who are prescribed opioid analgesics.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7011 | Pass | Creates an additional surcharge of $10.00 for subsequent registration renewals for holders of the Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse license plate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7062 | Pass | Provides for a voluntary deduction from any refund from the Rhode Island personal income tax for a contribution to the substance use and mental health leadership council of RI.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7305 | Pass | Adds alcohol and alcohol-related overdoses and possession or transportation of alcohol by an underage person, to the Good Samaritan Overdose Prevention Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7496 | Pass | Establishes a procedure for individuals to file a revocable voluntary non-opiate directive form with the person's licensed health care practitioner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7987 | Pass | Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to incorporate substance abuse prevention and suicide prevention into the health education curriculum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H8356 | Pass | Allows the I-195 Redevelopment commission to make certain alterations to the boundaries of a portion of the I-195 redevelopment called "Parcel P4".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H8357 | Pass | Amends the definitions of "smoking" and "retail tobacco store" to include electronic smoking devices, electronic nicotine delivery system products and other products that rely on vaporization or aerosolization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H8354 | Veto | Requires that any use of a premises for marijuana cultivation be disclosed in any real estate transaction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Vetoed by Governor |
