| S0934 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the town council of the town of South Kingstown to create a municipal court and housing court and defines the respective jurisdiction of those two courts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0540 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the registration requirements for persons who transact business using a trade name.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0263 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires charter public schools include on their board of governors or trustees, one member from host community to be appointed by the school committee of said community.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0780 | Engross
Sine Die | Eliminates the marital sexual assault exception when a victim is incapacitated, disabled, or helpless.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0028 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement that law enforcement officers issue only warnings of the risks to persons leaving a child under the age of seven (7) unattended in a motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0610 | Engross
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] | 2019-06-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0209 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts persons with a retail sales permit from requirement of paying a registration fee for making sales at a flea market.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
To House Finance Committee |
| S1004 | Engross
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] | 2019-06-27
Senate read and passed |
| S0283 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the existing disability business enterprises program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
To House Finance Committee |
| S0938 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the board of education to conduct a comprehensive study of the Massachusetts Education Reform Act and report yearly to the governor, the senate and the house of representatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0941 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to create a model policy/timeline to assist school districts in implementing a dual language immersion program. This model policy and timeline would be sent to the president of the senate and the speaker of the ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
To House Finance Committee |
| S0939 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires all high school students graduating in 2021 and thereafter attending public or any schools managed and controlled by the state to demonstrate proficiency in one course in computer science education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0338 | Engross
Sine Die | Excludes the possession of buprenorphine from those controlled substances that can result in criminal penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0940 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates an 11 member commission to study of Rhode Island's Education Funding Formula, and who would report back to the Senate by January 2, 2020, and bi-annually thereafter, and whose life would expire on March 2, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0547 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the commissioner of elementary and secondary education would be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. The commissioner of elementary and secondary education would serve at the pleasure of the governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0890 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that only certified nurses-teachers may be employed as school nurses in elementary and secondary schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0817 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes a licensed physical therapist to perform physical therapy services to a student while in school without a prescription or referral, in accordance with the student's IEP or IFSP.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0345 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the inclusion of noncompete agreements in broadcast industry employment contracts that are entered into after January 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
To House Labor Committee |
| S0775 | Engross
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 |
| S0299 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows pregnant women with an annual family income above applicable Medicaid income limit to be eligible to purchase health insurance through one of the Medicaid managed care plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-21
To House Finance Committee |
| S0910 | Engross
Sine Die | Eliminates requirement to pay attorney fees from employment security (unemployment) administrative fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
To House Labor Committee |
| S0657 | Engross
Sine Die | Mandates that the state seal of biliteracy be awarded by the commissioner beginning with the class of 2020 and a report be given to the general assembly no later than 8/1/20 of students who have been awarded a state seal of biliteracy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0199 | Engross
Sine Die | 2) (Limits public school K through 2 class size to twenty (20) students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0198 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes and requires funding for a world language and dual language immersion program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
To House Finance Committee |
| S0119 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that all high school students attending public schools fulfill at least one-half credit or course requirement in civics education, commencing with the graduating class of 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0262 | Engross
Sine Die | Removes the condition that there needs to be a reasonable expectation that a 19 year old will complete a program in secondary school in order to qualify as a dependent child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
To House Finance Committee |
| S0115 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides increased school housing aid for communities that utilize resident architectural firms, for the architectural services included in a new school or school renovation project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
To House Finance Committee |
| S0727 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the holder of a valid master mechanical trade license to perform repair or renovation work on certain large air conditioning equipment but must subcontract the work if it includes new construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
To House Corporations Committee |
| S0653 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes courses that include instruction in career and technical education programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0740 | Engross
Sine Die | Entitles correctional officers with twenty-five (25) years of service and who are at least fifty-five (55) years of age to receive a non-Medicare-eligible retiree health care insurance benefit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-14
To House Finance Committee |
| S0495 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds the administrator of the supreme court as an individual authorized to perform marriages and would clarify that the current administrators of the superior court, family court, district court, or traffic tribunal are empowered to perform marriages...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-14
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| S0788 | Engross
Sine Die | Adopts a portion of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) model act with respect to receiverships, specifically with regards to how derivative contracts are treated in cases of insurance receiverships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-14
To House Corporations Committee |
| S0365 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes the owner of any vehicle not inspected as required by §§ 31-38-3 or 31-38-4 responsible for any fines or penalties imposed as a result of non-inspection and would prohibit any law enforcement officer from citing the operator of said vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0054 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds urns and shrouds, prayer cards and other items customarily sold or provided by a funeral director to those funeral items which are already exempt from sales and use taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-14
To House Finance Committee |
| S0568 | Engross
Sine Die | Enables cities and towns to provide property tax relief to individuals who take resiliency measures to rehabilitate their property because of flood hazards
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-14
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| S0675 | Engross
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Relating To Debt Management Act (authorizes Approval Of $50,000,000 Rhode Island Turnpike And Bridge Authority Revenue Bonds Secured By Toll, Transfers Of Motor Fuel Taxes And Other Revenues To Provide Funds To Maintain And Improve C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-14
To House Finance Committee |
| S0855 | Engross
Sine Die | Renames the state airport in Warwick from "T.F. Green state airport" to "Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-14
To House Corporations Committee |
| S0448 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits a person who is under the age of eighteen (18) to work or volunteer in the medical settings including mental health and behavioral health care facilities for any deaf and hard of hearing clients or patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-14
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0679 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits cost sharing for persons forty-five (45) years or older for colorectal screening examinations, laboratory tests and colonoscopies covered by health insurance policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-14
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0272 | Engross
Sine Die | Raises the earned income tax credit from fifteen percent (15%) to twenty percent (20%) for the tax years 2020 and beyond.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-14
To House Finance Committee |
| S0059 | Engross
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Respectfully Urging The Department Of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities And Hospitals And The Executive Office Of Health And Human Services To Increase Certain Direct Worker Wages
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
To House Finance Committee |
| S0479 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires real estate sellers to provide buyers with an annual building energy cost estimate and imposes a duty on sellers to conduct real estate condition inspections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
To House Corporations Committee |
| S0086 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows jurors to donate their juror fees to the state. Any such donation would be deposited into the general fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0029 | Engross
Sine Die | Raises the juror's fees for each day's attendance on the superior court from $15.00 per day to $25.00 per day commencing July 1, 2020, and increase to $35.00 per day commencing July 1, 2021 and thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
To House Finance Committee |
| S0453 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires initial, biennial, and continuing education in land use law and planning for local planning, zoning, or historic board and commission members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-07
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| S0468 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes the general assembly elections in the risk-limiting audits within the jurisdiction of the board of elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0590 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires an owner or developer of a project valued at or above $5,000,000 or more to attest by sworn affidavit that the properties have no outstanding liens and to file a surety bond conditioned upon payment for labor and materials of the project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-07
To House Finance Committee |
| S0172 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires employers with 100 employees to yearly submit a form to the department of labor and training, which contains information regarding the compensation and hours worked of employees by age, gender, race, ethnicity, job category and occupation ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-07
To House Labor Committee |
| S0509 | Engross
Sine Die | Comprehensively addresses wage discrimination by expanding employee protections and the scope of the remedies available to employees who have experienced wage discrimination.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-07
To House Labor Committee |
| S0496 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits any questioning of a juvenile who is suspected of delinquent or criminal behavior, unless the parent of guardian of the juvenile is present, or unless an attorney is present or the juvenile and their parents have waived their presence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
