| H5806 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a thirteen (13) member commission to review and recommend guidelines for step therapy protocols, and who would report back to the House by March 7, 2020, and would expire on May 7, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
Meeting postponed (06/27/2019) |
| H5314 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a food service establishment from providing a consumer with a single-use plastic straw unless requested by the consumer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H5217 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the number of ounces a manufacturer of malt beverages is allowed to sell on their premises as twenty-four (24) twelve ounce (12 oz.) bottles or cans, or twenty-four (24) sixteen ounce (16 oz.) bottles or cans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
Committee postponed at request of sponsor (06/27/2019) |
| H6098 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the council on elementary and secondary education to implement teacher licensure tests modeled after the Massachusetts tests for educator licensure, commencing on July 1, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5179 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the state board of pharmacy from nine (9) to eleven (11) members by adding two (2) pharmacy technicians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5892 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands definition of "employee" to include a caterer licensed by the department of health and division of taxation and food truck.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H5434 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes chronic intractable pain from the definition of "acute pain management", for purposes of prescribing, administering and dispensing controlled substances by a practitioner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| H6062 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires retail establishments with 3 persons or more on premises without public restrooms to allow customers to use employee restrooms for certain medical conditions upon presentation of documentary proof with violators fined $250. Effective 1/1/20
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H5880 | Engross
Sine Die | Public utilities posting rate changes for retail service to notify PUC same day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H6197 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds two (2) additional members to the Woonsocket housing authority to be appointed by the mayor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| H6255 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the minimum reporting campaign contribution amount that needs to be reported to the board of elections from over $100 to $25.00 for purposes of Campaign Contributions and Expenditures Reporting and the Ballot Question Advocacy and Reporting A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5448 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts recoverable plastics from materials classified as solid waste/provides for converting of recoverable plastics into valuable raw materials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Meeting postponed (06/27/2019) |
| H6252 | Pass | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Review And Provide Recommendations For The Establishment Of A Rhode Island Parentage Act (creates An 11 Member Commission To Review And Provide Recommendations For The Establishment Of A R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
House read and passed |
| H5072 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits pet shops from offering for sale cats or dogs that are not obtained from an animal shelter, dog pound or animal rescue. Further prohibits any person from selling, exchanging, trading, bartering or displaying any dog or cat in public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H6004 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits division of motor vehicles to suspend registration privileges of motor carriers upon receipt of notice from the department of labor and training that motor carrier has not secured workers' compensation insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H5033 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates that a program of financial literacy be taught to all students in the public high schools throughout the state of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
To Senate Education Committee |
| H6239 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the required minimum number of special plates ordered from the DMV to 150 sets upon payment of $3,000 conditionally refundable fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-24
To House Finance Committee |
| H5816 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits clinical laboratories as defined in § 23-16.2-2(2) to conduct its own analysis of specimens for the detection of HIV/AIDS instead of sending the specimens to the department of health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-24
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H6159 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a limited license to be issued to HVAC service personnel to work on electrical wiring, equipment and components when servicing HVAC systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-24
Meeting postponed (06/24/2019) |
| H6245 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Condolences
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-24
House read and passed |
| H6244 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Congratulations
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-24
House read and passed |
| H6248 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating Providence Schools Superintendent Mr. Christopher N. Maher For His Exemplary Public Service
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-24
House read and passed |
| H6247 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Joseph N. Cugini
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-24
House read and passed |
| H6249 | Pass | House Resolution Joyously Celebrating The 50th Anniversary Of The Opening Of The Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-24
House read and passed |
| H6246 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Profound Sympathy On The Passing Of Jim Taricani
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-24
House read and passed |
| H5701 | Pass | Extends the effective date of Chapters 157 and 259 of the 2018 Public Laws from July 1, 2019 to July 1, 2020 in regards to Chapter 11-37.1 ("Sexual Offender Registration and Community Notification").
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-21
Signed by Governor |
| H5549 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes a pharmacist to prescribe and dispense hormonal contraceptive patches and self-administered oral hormonal contraceptives, provided that the pharmacist has completed a training program approved by the state board of pharmacy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H5443 | Pass | Provides a petition process to have a discharge from service recorded as honorable for members of the armed services separated from service with a general or other than honorable discharge due solely to their sexual orientation/gender identity/expres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-21
Signed by Governor |
| H5036 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the existing disability business enterprises program by allowing Veterans' Affairs, the Social Security Administration and others to verify that a business owner has a disability and is eligible for the current program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-21
To House Finance Committee |
| H6048 | Pass | Allows Arnold Haskins Campbell, Esq., to join Alexandra Campbell Swoyer and Jeffrey Michael Carbone in marriage on or about August 9, 2019, within the Town of Middletown, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-20
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6093 | Pass | Allows James Frank Duryea, II, to join Katherine Harris Adams and Edward Joseph Donovan, Jr., in marriage on or about September 28, 2019, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-20
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6047 | Pass | Allows Calden B. Collins to join Alyssa Beth Collins and Joshua Ernest Rogers in marriage on or about November 30, 2019, within the City of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-20
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6233 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating The Honorable Raymond L. Votto, Jr., Cranston Public Schools Chief Operating Officer, On His Retirement After Fifteen Years Of Distinguished And Meritorious Service
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
House read and passed |
| H5125 | Pass | Serves to codify the privacy rights guaranteed by the decision reached in the United States Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) and its progeny.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| H6211 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a hiring freeze for all state positions within a classification, for which a competitive test is required, if no test is given within twelve (12) months of the vacancy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
To House Finance Committee |
| H5863 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a new process with standards to be utilized when deciding whether an applicant's past criminal contacts' convictions should disqualify them from receiving a government issued license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Meeting postponed (06/19/2019) |
| H6231 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the total amount that an insured person is required to pay for a covered prescription insulin drug at an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) per thirty (30) day supply.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H6232 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the city of Providence to adopt by ordinance a homestead exemption for local taxation on owner-occupied residential real property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H6234 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Germaine G. Picard
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
House read and passed |
| H6228 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Congratulations
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
House read and passed |
| H6225 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring Colonel Thomas F. Lee On The Occasion Of His Retirement As Police Chief Of The Portsmouth Police Department
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
House read and passed |
| H6226 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating Crossroads Rhode Island On 125 Years Of Helping Rhode Islanders In Need
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
House read and passed |
| H6224 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it a felony to isolate an elder or dependent adult and would expand the persons entitled to notice when a guardianship or conservatorship petition is filed in the probate court for dependents or elderly adults.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H6227 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Condolences
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
House read and passed |
| H5978 | Pass | Ratifies amendments to the Home Rule charter of the town of North Kingstown adopted and approved by the electors of the town of North Kingstown on November 6, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-14
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5951 | Pass | Allows Mary Beth Hauser to join Julie Shellard and Anthony Marino in marriage on or about July 13, 2019, within the town of Middletown, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6017 | Pass | Allows Roger Kroha to join Jennifer Nasser and Daniel Rubino in marriage on or about October 12, 2019, within the Town of Narragansett, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5977 | Pass | Allows Jason Grabowski to join Danielle Baron and Shaun Darigan in marriage on or about July 27, 2019, within the Town of Glocester, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6037 | Pass | Allows Alison S. Carcieri-Cassidy to join Nicole Elaine Russo and Sean Dominic Carlino in marriage on or about August 17, 2019, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6018 | Pass | Allows John Austin Murphy to join Catherine K. DeVoe and Kurt R. Worell in marriage on or about July 27, 2019, within the Town of Jamestown, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
Effective without Governor's signature |
