| S0316 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to give their employees, who make a timely request, two (2) hours of paid leave to vote. This act would be enforced by the department of labor and training.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0704 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows non-affiliated party voters to vote in party primaries without becoming an affiliated party voter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0703 | 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] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0600 | Intro
Sine Die | Sets an earlier deadline for the filing of declaration of candidacy and nomination papers while also moving the party primary from September to August.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0670 | Intro
Sine Die | Places twelve percent (12%) per annum interest rate on delinquent tax payments for business corporation, sales and use, estate and personal income taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0631 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the current election laws to facilitate mail ballot voting and early in-person voting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0486 | Intro
Sine Die | Require that a person mailing a mail ballot be either the spouse, guardian or relative by blood or marriage of the person voting by mail ballot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0478 | Intro
Sine Die | Assigns financial responsibility for late filings of campaign finance reports to the treasurer of political action committees or political party committees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0446 | Intro
Sine Die | Sets forth the application process for Medicaid coverage and the review procedures to be utilized in reviewing such applications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0482 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits emergency mail ballots at any time prior to any election and would require that electors sign an electronic poll book containing a certificate of facts relating to the circumstances necessitating the emergency application.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0489 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires funeral directors/agents to notify secretary of state and the chairperson of the board of canvassers upon filing death certificate for the purpose of removal from the roles of registered voters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0604 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends provisions of the election laws relative to self-funding campaign contributions, the paperwork to be filed upon dissolution of a campaign account and liabilities imposed upon political action committee treasurers for late filings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0612 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Senate Terms For Four (4) Years (this Proposed Amendment To The State Constitution Provides For A Four (4) Year Term For Members Of T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0584 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate Resolution Respectfully Requesting The Rhode Island State Auditor General To Conduct Or Oversee A Study Or Audit On The Privatization Of Rhode Island's Medicaid Programs
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0457 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates public funding for legislative candidates, would limit contributions of public funds for all candidates for governor, statewide office holders and legislators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0501 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows voters to file state form designating party affiliation rather than in person and change affiliation within 30 days prior to primary election with local canvassing board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0339 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the state voter identification law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0485 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State Of Rhode Island (four Year Terms And Term Limits For Senators And Representatives) (proposes An Amendment To The Constituti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0647 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provision that provides the corder of wood be paid per cord of wood.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0488 | Intro
Sine Die | Require any person voting by mail ballot or emergency mail ballot to provide proof of identity, exempting those in a hospital, hospice, or skilled nursing facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0648 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provision that requires city and town councils appoint one or more surveyor and measurer of boards, plank, timber, joint and scantling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0312 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends several sections of the Rhode Island Zoning Enabling Act of 1991 with the intent of preserving neighborhood character and promoting smart growth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S0643 | 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] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0721 | 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] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0326 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that on all primaries, the candidate's names would be listed in an order chosen by lot under the direction of the secretary of state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0319 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows an individual who is eligible to vote and turns eighteen (18) years of age on or before the date of a general election to vote in the primary election immediately preceding that general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0442 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends process and timing of filing a complete application for Medicaid benefits and provides coverage while application is pending.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0649 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement that the town council of every town shall annually appoint a commissioner of wrecks and shipwrecked goods.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0477 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the board of elections to report all votes received by declared write-in candidates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0487 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes one of the eligibility requirements to vote by mail ballot from an elector who "may" not be able to vote at a polling place to and an elector who will not be able to vote at a polling place.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0723 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new process and standard to be utilized concerning whether an applicant's past criminal conviction should disqualify them from receiving a government issued license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0318 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows individuals, who have not reached the age of eighteen (18) years, to vote in a primary election, as long as the voter will be eighteen (18) as of the date of the general or special election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0269 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the RI coastal adaptation trust fund. The trust would enable cities and towns and the state to apply for grants to fund projects that invest in measures that adapt infrastructure on public lands to address the impacts of climate change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S0412 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes OSACR, a fund which provides grants to fund projects that adapt infrastructure to address climate change; assess eligibility of projects, allocation, disbursements and the fund's financing. Effective July 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S0403 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires elementary schools to provide instruction in cursive penmanship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| S0505 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows employers to shift the legal burden of proof to employees in certain workers' compensation actions where intoxicating substances may be involved.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S0545 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the "Nathan Bruno and Jason Flatt Act" which requires training of teachers and school personnel regarding suicide awareness and prevention and establishment of a conflict resolution process between teachers or school personnel and students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| S0396 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any entity or individual from advertising the sale, purchase, receipt, transport, delivery or salvage of any junk or discarded automobile unless the advertiser is a licensed auto wrecking or salvage yard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S0214 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the health services council to twenty-four (24) members and amends disclosure provisions of the hospital conversion act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0575 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits copays, coinsurance or office deductible for services of a physical therapist to the amount authorized for medical osteopathic physician office visits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0579 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the current law so that digital breast tomosynthesis (dbt) screenings are available wherever mammograms are conducted and to provide insurance coverage for such screenings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0192 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a new program which would assist federal employees who have been affected by a federal government shutdown by making available state-backed loans in an amount not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S0565 | 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] | 2019-03-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0556 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that for FY 2020, the state pays the local share or contribution of charter public school tuition for its students in excess of 5% of the average of all pupils within school districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0546 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the student populations of mayoral academies to reflect the combined demographics of the sending district(s) in terms of the number of students in special education, who are English language learners and who qualify for free and reduced meal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| S0554 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the requirement that the rate of interest could not be less than eighteen percent (18%) per annum for any delinquent state tax payment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0609 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for the extension of child support obligations for non-custodial parents beyond emancipation if the children are attending a two (2) or four (4) year college and still live with the custodial parent until such children reach the age of (21).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0569 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an exemption for taxable retirement income from certain pension plans or annuities of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) beginning on or after January 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0566 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that payments by an employer, whether paid to an employee or lender, of principal and interest on a qualified education loan incurred by an employee shall be subtracted from the calculation of federal adjusted gross income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0557 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates senior center building capital fund to provide cities and towns with financial assistance up to thirty percent of the construction cost of the project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
