| H5824 | Pass | Allows Andrea Bolton to join Megan Elizabeth Chapman and Nicholas Jerome Leary in marriage on or about August 31, 2019, within the Town of Johnston, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-16
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6064 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes process to set maximum contaminate levels of polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-16
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H6063 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Study Commission To Study And Provide Recommendations On The Method And Necessary Procedures For The Implementation Of Rhode Island's Action Plan To Stand Up To Climate Change (creates A 16 Member Commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-16
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H5866 | Pass | Allows Evan Chernov to join Allison Chernov and Marland Hobbs in marriage on or about May 26, 2019, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-16
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5881 | Pass | Allows Andrew James Bucci to join Nicole Marie Bucci and Daniel Michael MacDonald in marriage on or about May 17, 2020, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-16
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5889 | Pass | Allows Samuel Dillavou to join Colleen Weber and Spencer Frenchman in marriage on or about June 29, 2019, within the City of Providence, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-16
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6100 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a provisional educator certification to be issued by the board of education to teachers who meet qualifications set by the board and who shall be subject to supervisory conditions set by the board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5877 | Intro
Sine Die | Helps expedite the payments made to subcontractors for work they perform on state contracts. It would also establish a new process to help minority business enterprises collect for their work on state contracts from their prime contractors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H5218 | Intro
Sine Die | Substitutes the office of health insurance commissioner for the director of business regulation as the overseer of health insurance claims and sets forth guidelines to use to determine whether substantial compliance has been met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H5875 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes CCRI, RIC, URI to sell obsolete/discarded/surplus technology to students at a discounted price with monies collected used to purchase updated electronic equipment/technology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H5385 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $185,000 To The Division Of Elderly Affairs In The Department Of Human Services To Fund Elder Respite Services (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $185,000 To The Division Of Elderly Affairs In The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H5370 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the reimbursement to a school district or municipality for the employment of a new hire school resource officer from a period of three (3) years to ongoing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H5402 | 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] | 2019-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H5582 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides the office of the health insurance commissioner with oversight of risk-bearing provider organizations and health care risk contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H5106 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the tiered-rate structure for childcare assistance program to meet federal benchmark for access to high-quality childcare for all age groups of children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H5011 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the status of pilot payments to the town of Exeter in view of its not presently having a police department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H5626 | Intro
Sine Die | Awards all pension system members 3% COLA applied to first $50,000 of retirement allowance annually exp. 1/1/20 provided prior year investment return gains 10% or more until fund is 80% funded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H5617 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "dependent child" and allows an additional year of vocational education upon successful completion of the first year of education at CCRI.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H5783 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a statewide real time threat notification system for schools administered by the department of public safety.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5916 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Rhode Island health insurance market stability and consumer protection act in order to update state law to reflect current insurance standards, practice and regulation to maintain market stability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H5858 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the general assembly to appropriate not less than $5,000,000 annually in capital financing for affordable housing development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H5933 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a restricted receipt account for all 911 funds and requires that they be used solely for the operation of the 911 system. Authorizes the PUC to reduce 911 surcharges to the extent they exceed the sums needed to operate the 911 system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H6099 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the council on elementary and secondary education to implement a teacher assessment and evaluation system which emphasizes the alignment of instruction delivered to the state's standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H6103 | Intro
Sine Die | This act would, upon its own motion or upon request of a parolee, enable the parole board to terminate a parolee's supervision and legal custody order. Prisoners with a life sentence for first and second degree murder are excluded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5403 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the rate for hospice providers, delivering hospice care in a skilled nursing facility, not exceed ninety-five percent (95%) of the rate paid for non-hospice care in a skilled nursing facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| H5437 | Pass | Provides for the extension of certain contractual provisions in a school teachers' collective bargaining agreement if the parties are engaged in negotiations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-14
Signed by Governor |
| H5913 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the executive office of health and human services to adopt a Medicaid fee for services and reimbursement rate for non-emergency medical transportation service providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| H5915 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for Medicaid reimbursement for therapeutic riding services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| H5579 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the executive office of health and human services to adjust the per diem reimbursement rate to nursing facilities every 3 years; and provides that any time state minimum wage is increased, the reimbursement rate increases by the same percent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| H6089 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides requirements for attorney client's records and file retention.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5621 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a Medicaid home nursing care and hospice base rate adjustment for services delivered by highly skilled nursing professionals to high-acuity or high medical necessity Medicaid beneficiaries that have tracheostomies or use ventilators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| H6065 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the conditions of bail and recognizance to permit the release of a person charged with a misdemeanor without financial conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H6066 | Intro
Sine Die | Entitles that past criminal misdemeanors and felonies for possession of marijuana may be expunged.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5571 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the executive office of health and human services (EOHHS) to conduct a study to assess the impact of using Medicaid funds to provide coverage for the treatment of the chronically homeless.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| H5387 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the automatic phase out of the nursing facility reimbursement price based methodology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| H5616 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for authorizations for services to developmentally disabled adults issued on or after July 1, 2019, be developed on an annual basis with funding for these services to be issued on an annual basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| H5609 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for medical assistance health care for expectant mothers and establishes medical assistance coverage and reimbursement rates for perinatal doula services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| H5204 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that enrollees in the Rhode Island best RX Prescription drug discount program for the uninsured are not charged a copay for their prescriptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| H6109 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Congratulations
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-14
House read and passed |
| H5623 | Intro
Sine Die | Expedites the Medicaid assistance application process and the recoupment process including interim Medicaid assistance payments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| H6104 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the owner of a vehicle be notified in writing that installation of an aftermarket glass will require re-calibration of safety related systems, for which cost the insurer is responsible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-14
To House Corporations Committee |
| H6108 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Condolences
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-14
House read and passed |
| H6081 | Pass | Validates and ratifies amendments to the home rule charter of the town of Coventry, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the town of Coventry on November 6, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Signed by Governor |
| H5604 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the income eligibility limit for medical assistance coverage for seniors and disabled individuals from one hundred percent (100%) to one hundred thirty-three percent (133%) of federal poverty level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H6107 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes office of adult education literarcy/employment advisory committee within GWBRI for adult education and literacy services/repeals adult education act and aid for evening schools eff. 12/1/19.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H5597 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides, for the tax year 2018 and thereafter, that any tax overpayment would be refunded with interest calculated at twelve percent (12%) compounded daily if not received by the thirtieth day of June in the subsequent year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| H6013 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits commercial motor trucks, with a gross weight rating of twenty-six thousand one pounds (26,001 lbs.) or more, from traveling on Limerock Road, in Smithfield and Lincoln.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H5526 | 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] | 2019-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| H5912 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases tax wage base for contributions to TDI /TCI, expands eligibility, increases benefit rates, adds sibling and grandchild in coverage benefits, increases temp caregiver weeks, and institutes fines for not reinstating an employee who uses progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| H6096 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating Tolman Boys Soccer Head Coach Dan Silva On Being Named The Rhode Island Interscholastic League 2018-2019 Male Coach Of The Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
House read and passed |
