| 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 |
| H7595 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes compliance/certification procedure for criminal pre-trial discovery/creates a 9 member task force to investigate/make recommendations, pre-trial discovery with report due 1/1/20 and dissolution on 1/1/22.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| 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 |
| H7486 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Restriction On Tolling (this Joint Resolution Would Propose A Constitutional Amendment Providing That Any New Highway Or Bridge Tolli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-17
To House Finance Committee |
| H7627 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provisions of the general laws which created the "Rhode Island Bridge Replacement, Reconstruction, and Maintenance Fund Act of 2016" ("Rhode Works"), which would have imposed tolls on large commercial trucks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-17
To House 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 |
| H7886 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds three (3) new income tax brackets for purposes of Rhode Island state income taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-17
To House Finance Committee |
| H8209 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Thanking And Congratulating The Honorable Donald J. Trump For His Role In Securing The Release Of Three American Detainees From North Korea
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-17
To House Judiciary 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 |
| H7558 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the Rhode Island earned income credit from fifteen percent (15%) to fifteen and one-half percent (15.5%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-17
To House Finance Committee |
| H7837 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of toll collection facilities to toll collection only and not for issuing any other motor vehicle violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-17
To House Finance 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 |
| S2119 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $300,000 To The Department Of Health For Evidenced-based After School Programming For Youth To Decrease Mental Health Concerns In Children And Teens Served Through The State's Health Equity Zones (authorize...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7399 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Restriction On Tolling (proposes A Constitutional Amendment Providing That Any New Highway Or Bridge Toll On Passenger Vehicles Would...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-17
To House Finance Committee |
| H7403 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts veterans and active duty military from paying a toll on the Newport Bridge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-17
To House Finance Committee |
| H7148 | 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] | 2018-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7514 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that persons ages sixty-five (65) years and over who have a surcharge applied to water supplied to them for personal use and consumption would receive a twenty-five (25%) discount on such surcharge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7172 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7096 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a special motor vehicle registration plate for the Friends of the Rose Island Lighthouse Foundation, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7098 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes community senior services grant program providing financial assistance to municipalities/nonprofit organizations operating senior centers/programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7221 | Intro
Sine Die | Approval and funding of drug awareness programs for minors placed with the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16
To House 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 |
| H7483 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires active duty military personnel receive daycare services for their dependents at state expense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7824 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes Rhode Island rivers/coastal adaptation fund; enables cities, towns and state to apply for grants to fund projects that invest in measures to address the impacts of climate change. Trust to be funded by fees on barrels of petroleum product...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16
To House Finance 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 |
| H7618 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the maximum reimbursement rate for licensed child care providers by five percent (5%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7013 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes rules and procedures for licensing emergency shelters, including setting minimum standards and prohibits the charging of fees to the residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7430 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes 100% tax credit for disabled/elderly drivers age 65 and older for vehicle modification costs/training fees incurred necessary to retain their license/registration per rules/regs of tax administrator eff. 1/2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7555 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that for the purpose of determining income limitations for receiving general public assistance, child support that is in arrears for thirty (30) days or more would not be considered to be income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7352 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making Appropriations Of $175,000 To The Rhode Island Community Food Bank (this Joint Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of An Additional One Hundred Seventy-five Thousand Dollars ($175,000) To The Rhode Island Community Fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7140 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows small business employers to purchase health insurance for its employees through the state employee group plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H8168 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all students to perform a minimum amount of community service each school year and grants them the option to perform certain forms of community service for academic credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7911 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for authorizations for services to developmentally disabled adults issued on or after July 1, 2018 be developed on an annual basis with funding for these services to be issued on an annual basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7881 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the creation of the position of student loan ombudsman within the office of the commissioner of postsecondary education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7666 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a tax-credit for the amount in excess of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) contributed to a public school district for the express purpose of making physical improvement to a school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7400 | 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] | 2018-05-15
To House Finance 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 |
| H7089 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Approving Project Status For Remediation And/or Monitoring Of The Truk-away Landfill Suspected Hazardous Waste Disposal Site Located In The City Of Warwick
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7052 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the authorized holdings of Jewish Seniors Agency of Rhode Island to two million dollars ($2,000,000.00) and exempt the same from taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7204 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits veterans' benefits for members discharged based on sexual orientation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7489 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a ten (10) year phase out to the personal property tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7655 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits municipal tipping fees paid by municipalities to rate increases of no more than four percent (4%) per year over the base rate of forty-seven dollars ($47.00) a ton beginning in July of 2019 for fiscal year 2020-2021, and all years thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7617 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits nonprofit hospitals from real and personal property tax exemptions if nonprofit converts to a for-profit and then back to a nonprofit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
To House 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 |
