| H7292 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates minority teacher recruitment by allowing the commissioner of education to implement strategies to reach a goal of two hundred (200) minority teachers in the state by 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7517 | Intro
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] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7096 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Respectfully Requesting The Governor To Designate A State-wide Broadband Coordinator And Establish A Rhode Island Broadband Advisory Council
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2147 | Pass | Increases the minimum wage gradually up to fifteen dollars ($15.00) per hour by the year 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Signed by Governor |
| H7511 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that violations of chapter 34 of title 31 pertaining to rental vehicles are civil violations subject to the jurisdiction of the Rhode Island traffic tribunal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7350 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the driver of a vehicle overtaking another vehicle proceeding in the same direction to use a directional signal and repeals the requirement that such signal be audible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2241 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts the interstate compact to award prizes for curing diseases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H7699 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires Medicare option after 11/1/21 allowing employee to elect Medicare coverage with family members retaining coverage under employer's policy plan only with employer's approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2166 | Intro
Sine Die | Prevents the consideration of an applicant's credit history in determining automobile insurance rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H7594 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits discrimination in housing against those persons who have a lawful source of income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7627 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the deceptive trade practices chapter to clarify the law's exemptions and enhances the attorney general's authority to seek civil penalties for violations of the law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2465 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes Children's Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund to provide finance assistance to families for medical expenses not covered by state or federal programs or insurance contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2374 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the usury rate to twelve percent (12%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H7589 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the jurisdiction of special police officers upon the land and buildings of educational institutions, and on roads adjacent to the educational institutions to instances where the officer notices that a person is in danger of bodily harm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7431 | Intro
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] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7157 | Pass | Raises the minimum wage to eleven dollars and fifty cents ($11.50) as of October 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Signed by Governor |
| S2768 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Sincere Condolences On The Passing Of Theodore A. Soly
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Senate read and passed |
| H7780 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes amendments necessary to use the term "trade name" rather than "assumed name", for purposes of the commercial law chapter on filing an assumed name, and provides for the administration and regulation of the use of trade names.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7545 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits person convicted of unnecessary cruelty to animals from owning or exercising control of an animal for a period of not less than twenty (20) years. Penalty for violation one thousand dollars ($1000) and forfeiture of animal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2484 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes crime of moral turpitude as cause to deny a variety of licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H7550 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the Human Trafficking Reporting and Prevention Act applicable to hotels requiring them to educate their employees about identifying, reporting and preventing human trafficking on their premises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Committee recommends passage |
| H7777 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows superior court judge to require a review of compliance that architectural plan services were performed by certified architects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7767 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates Consumer Protection in Eye Care Act which establishes standards for eye care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7475 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that financial security is required for any motor vehicle registered or required to be registered in the state of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7543 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it a misdemeanor for persons to carry, possess, or wear masks or protective clothing or equipment designed to minimize the risk of injury from deadly weapons, for the purposes of hindering law enforcement crowd control actions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7982 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming The Week Of March 9th Through 15th Of 2020 To Be "brain Injury Awareness Week" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
House read and passed |
| H7804 | Intro
Sine Die | Restores power of school committees to give advice and consent on appointment by the superintendent of all school personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (03/11/2020) |
| H7445 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts certain independent third-party contractors for right to privacy violations of appropriation of individual's name/portrait/picture/likeness pursuant to contract upon request of contracting party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7593 | Intro
Sine Die | Vests the traffic tribunal with jurisdiction over the adjudication of alleged violations of the harassment of hunters, trappers and fishers law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7322 | 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] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7983 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming The Week Of March 8th To March 14th Of 2020, To Be "multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
House read and passed |
| S2522 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a comprehensive system to promote and regulate the effective and competent administration of medical laboratories by focusing on the training, qualifications and licensure of their practitioners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H7775 | Intro
Sine Die | Replaces term multi-municipal with multi-party and defines it as combination of 2 or more eligible parties that enter into agreement for purpose of co-owning one or more eligible net-metering resources or entering into financing arrangement(s).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7946 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the NBC may not exercise its power to acquire land within the East Providence Waterfront Special Development District, without approval by the East Providence Waterfront Commission and from the mayor of East Providence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7981 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Robert Anthony Quattrocchi
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
House read and passed |
| S2168 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the ten (10) year period for secretary of state to withdraw a certificate of revocation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H7707 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the release of records relating to criminal injuries compensation by allowing for limited disclosure to be permitted personable and government officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2767 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming The Week Of March 9th Through 15th Of 2020 To Be "brain Injury Awareness Week" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Senate read and passed |
| H7553 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires Internet service providers to follow Internet service neutrality requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7824 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that any school teaching sexual education to students shall provide the sexual education curriculum to every parent or guardian of a student, and the parent or legal guardian shall consent to the teaching of such sexual education curriculum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (03/11/2020) |
| H7965 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows nonprofit corporations to merge pr consolidate with other business entities or to convert into an other business entity within or outside of this state. It allows other business entities to convert to domestic nonprofit corporations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7516 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the name of the drug court magistrate to the "Rhode Island superior court adult drug/recovery court magistrate and changes the name of the court to the "Rhode Island superior court adult drug/recovery court".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7984 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Congratulations
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
House read and passed |
| H7569 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates provisions establishing a legislative regulation committee, and would also repeal the provision that codes and standards adopted by the state building code standards committee subject to approval by the legislative regulation committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7220 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the division of motor vehicles to suspend the registration privileges of motor carriers upon receipt of notice from the department of labor and training that the motor carrier has not secured workers' compensation insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| H7245 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires conservation and preservation restrictions to be liberally interpreted in favor of the grants awarded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2171 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a person or persons who transact business under a trade name to register with a municipality, provide more extensive information when filing and to notify the municipality when the trade name is changed or discontinued.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2359 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate Resolution Respectfully Requesting That The United States Congress Adopt "an American Economic Recovery" Program
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H7985 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Condolences
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
House read and passed |
| H7515 | Intro
Sine Die | Sunsets provision allowing first-time violators to avoid fine by acquisition of hands-free device prior to imposition of fine effective 9/1/20.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
