| S0431 | Pass | Requires all defined pension plans not covered by ERISA having 200 or more members comply with ERISA's annual reporting provisions, excluding government plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H5470 | Pass | Classifies all vehicles used by the department of corrections in the performance official duties as authorized emergency vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S0139 | Pass | Amends current law so that, as part of a comprehensive discharge plan, a hospital would be allowed to try to contact the patient's emergency contact and the recovery coach, in accordance with federal law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H6209 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds the house and senate minority leaders, or their designees, to the E-911 advisory commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5163 | Pass | Permits applicants for commercial driver's licenses to carry over parts of the required examinations that they passed for a period of two years and require them to retake those portions not passed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S0785 | Pass | Provides no person may use wireless handset/personal wireless device for texting while driving.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H5116 | Pass | Requires retail establishments to accept cash in payment for goods and services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H5207 | Pass | Creating the travel insurance act to establish comprehensive/uniform regulatory framework for travel insurance. Clarifying/bolstering enforcement authority over participants in the travel insurance industry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H5745 | Pass | Updates the language required to be given by police officers when responding to domestic abuse calls.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S0483 | Pass | Requires the child advocate to review case records of fatalities or near fatalities when there is abuse or neglect present and the family had prior department contacts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H5289 | Pass | Ensures appropriate disability language is used in all job descriptions and statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H6210 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows DEM to extend certain deadlines for required sewer construction in the replacement of cesspools, which deadlines would not extend beyond January 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| H5864 | Pass | Allows local boards of canvassers to combine voting districts in special elections for approval/rejection of questions or when officials will be elected or in primary elections only with board of election approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S0606 | Pass | Classifies all vehicles used by the department of corrections in the performance official duties as authorized emergency vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H5485 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a voluntary mutual consent sibling adoption registry where adult adopted children and adult siblings can identify each other.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5648 | Pass | Allows license holders to restrict any person who has not reached his or her twenty first birthday from entering the licensed establishment after ten o'clock (10:00) pm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H5697 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that planning board votes for approval requires a majority vote of the members present at the time of the vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0225 | Pass | Expands family court jurisdiction to enter protective orders to provide for the safety and welfare of household pets in domestic abuse situations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H5489 | Pass | Allows plaintiffs seeking a domestic abuse protective order in family court to include any of their minor children who are not related to the defendant by blood or marriage within the same complaint and restraining order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S0778 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the towing storage act and clarifies issues related to the towing and storage of vehicles. Non-certified towers must have “Not for hire” lettered on their vehicle and provides increased fine and penalties for violators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5989 | Pass | Allows a contractor or builder to hire a qualified third-party inspector or state inspector to perform an inspection if a building official fails to perform an inspection within forty-eight (48) hours after notification, excluding weekends/holidays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S0518 | Pass | Allows license holders to restrict any patron who has not reached his or her twenty first birthday from entering the licensed establishment after ten o'clock (10:00) pm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S0171 | Pass | Ensures appropriate disability language is used in all job descriptions and statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H5383 | Pass | Amends current law so that, as part of a comprehensive discharge plan, a hospital would be allowed to try to contact the patient's emergency contact and the certified peer recovery specialists, in accordance with federal law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S0256 | Pass | Creates the travel insurance act to establish comprehensive/uniform regulatory framework for travel insurance. Clarifying/bolstering enforcement authority over participants in the travel insurance industry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H5709 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends several election statutes to require votes received by declared write-in candidates to be reported, requires a declaration to be filed by candidates to be elected by write-in and considers ballots cast for no office to be "irregular ballots".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0678 | 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] | 2019-06-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H5696 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a quorum of the zoning board of review shall be a majority of members authorized to vote which may include alternate members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5773 | Pass | Precludes the department of business regulation from pursing any administrative action against a certified appraiser more than five (5) years after the certified appraised issues a certified appraisal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S0253 | Pass | Creates a process that provides affected employees an opportunity to purchase the business that employs them, but is in danger of being sold or going out of business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S0741 | Pass | Names the intersection of Hartford and Reservoir Avenue in the town of Johnston as "The Bernard Frezza, Jr. Corner."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S0065 | Pass | Enables city/town council to grant tax relief from payment of real estate/property tax during periods of federal/state government cessation of operations to state/federal employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H5705 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the towing storage act and clarifies issues related to the towing and storage of vehicles. Non-certified towers must have “Not for hire” lettered on their vehicle and provides increased fine and penalties for violators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5430 | Pass | Adds the requirement that in DCYF cases resulting in a fatality or near fatality of a child, one of the requirements for the office of the child advocate to investigate the case would be the child or the child's family had prior contact with the DCYF...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S0611 | Pass | Provides that a voter may use proof of identity which expired no more than six (6) months prior to voting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S0585 | Pass | Requires road and bridge contractors for the department of transportation to furnish a bond equal to at least 50% of the contract price on contracts in excess of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S0687 | Pass | Allows a contractor or builder to hire a qualified third-party inspector or state inspector to perform an inspection if a building official fails to perform an inspection within forty-eight (48) hours after notification, excluding weekends/holidays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S0154 | Pass | Imposes a penalty against a condominium association that fails to deliver a resale certificate within ten (10) days of a request by a unit owner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H5023 | Pass | Expands family court jurisdiction to enter protective orders to provide for the safety and welfare of household pets in domestic abuse situations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H5461 | Pass | Provides that any minority business enterprise certified by the Federal Small Business Act shall be deemed certified by the department of administration as a minority business enterprise.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H5884 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a person twenty-one (21) years of age or older may purchase or possess a stun gun, and makes it a felony to use a stun gun in certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0459 | Pass | Updates the language required to be given by police officers when responding to domestic abuse calls.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H5817 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a school teacher or employee that engages in sexual penetration of a student over fourteen (14) and less than eighteen (18) shall be guilty of third degree sexual assault.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5988 | Pass | Names the intersection of Hartford Avenue and Reservoir Avenue in the town of Johnston as "The Bernard 'Bernie' Frezza, Jr. Junction."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H5714 | Pass | Provides that a voter may use proof of identity which expired no more than six (6) months prior to voting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H5287 | Pass | Requires that all defined pension plans, excluding certain governmental plans, which are not covered by the ERISA and have at least two hundred (200) members, comply with ERISA's annual reporting provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H5113 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the "animal abuser registry act" which would require all persons convicted of crimes involving animal abuse to register with an online registry to be established and maintained by the attorney general's office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Defeated by Senate |
| H5129 | Pass | Imposes a penalty against a condominium association that fails to deliver a resale certificate within ten (10) days of a request by a unit owner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H5769 | Pass | Creates a process that provides affected employees an opportunity to purchase the business that employs them, but is in danger of being sold or going out of business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| S0109 | Pass | Provides that any minority business enterprise that is certified under the Federal Small Business Act shall be deemed certified by the department of administration as a minority business enterprise.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
