| H7481 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the permissive use of a wireless communication device for the purpose of navigation of a motor vehicle shall only be applicable in cases where the device is mounted or otherwise affixed to the vehicle and not held in the motorist's hand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7514 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the rules and unauthorized practice of law committee would be approved and promulgated by the supreme court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7337 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of environmental management to solicit procurement of a representative organization to operate the paint stewardship program every two (2) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
House read and passed |
| S2532 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health insurers to accommodate the request for communication in the form and format requested by the insured.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H7513 | Intro
Sine Die | Invests the chief justice of the supreme court with the explicit authority to address issues affecting the conduct of judicial business and order whatever response(s) he or she deems necessary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7776 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires third-party hosting platforms to register short-term rental units with DBR, if not registered a fine would be imposed. Creates database for short-term rental units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7632 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits all Rhode Island police departments including police departments of higher education institutions to enter into non-emergency mutual aid agreements regardless of any geographical boundary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7910 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates "The Terminally Ill Patients' Right To Try Act of 2020," which establishes the conditions for the use of experimental treatments for terminally ill patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H7442 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a moratorium on the creation of any new charter public schools until there is a revision in the school funding formula to better reflect ELL and special education services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7607 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the implementation of trauma-informed practices in schools throughout the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2448 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates within the district court a dedicated calendar offering treatment and sentencing alternatives to eligible defendants deemed to suffer from serious and persistent mental illness to be known as the "Mental Health Treatment Calendar".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2073 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes tax assessors in the cities and towns to use the last statutory update or revaluation as the assessed valuation upon which to levy taxes regarding their real property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| H7785 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the maximum allowable capacity for net metering systems in the Block Island Utility District and Pascoag Utility District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7770 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes rules and regulations concerning the use and registration of personal delivery devices and mobile carrying devices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7782 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a comprehensive statutory scheme to fund, address and support the amelioration of human trafficking and child exploitation by regulating online pornographic related websites.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (03/10/2020) |
| S2160 | Pass | Allows the Honorable Stephen R. Ucci to join Darlene M. Boudreau and the Honorable Michael A. Morin in marriage on or about July 30, 2020, within the City of Warwick, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
Signed by Governor |
| H7615 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Rhode Island Community Resiliency and Preservation Act to provide cities and towns with the authority to propose, for consideration and decision by their voters, a reliable source of capital funding for investing in their community.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H7810 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all students in kindergarten to grade twelve (K-12) to perform a minimum amount of community service each school year and would grant them the option to perform certain forms of community service for academic credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7976 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants judge/magistrate discretion to impose blood/urine testing/ignition interlock system for persons seeking conditional hardship license after DUI conviction/chemical test refusal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7954 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an election systems cybersecurity review board and a cybersecurity incident response group to establish protocols for cybersecurity threats.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7980 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a full tax exemption for any real property that is owned by or held in trust for the benefit of disabled veterans of the United States Armed Services if that property serves as the "disabled veteran's" primary residence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
To House Finance Committee |
| H7872 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates voluntary, no charge program for caterers/mobile food vendors/restaurants for reduction of plastic/other disposal waste with successful completion resulting in2 year exemption from payment for litter control permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H7975 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that home and community based services for developmentally disabled persons would be person-centered and support services consistent with their plan of care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7974 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a health plan to cover clinically appropriate and medically necessary residential or inpatient services, including detoxification and stabilization services, for the treatment of mental health and substance use disorders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7978 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases medical assistance coverage for medical assistance coverage/income eligibility for Medicaid cost-sharing for individuals with incomes not to exceed 135% of the federal poverty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
To House Finance Committee |
| H7977 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that motor vehicle accident reports be transmitted by the law enforcement agency or their contract agent within 14 days of preparing the report and may maintain a copy locally.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7601 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows holders of a Class P license to purchase alcoholic beverages from either a retail or wholesale establishment in the state of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| H7962 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows John Austin Murphy to join Sabrina R. Araujo and James A. Chamberlain in marriage on or about March 23, 2020, within the City of Providence, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7979 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts active members of the retirement system employed as state public safety professionals from the cost to purchase credit for military service and interest charges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
To House Finance Committee |
| S2321 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the Wholesale Prescription Drug Importation Program which allows for the wholesale importation of prescription drugs from Canada by or on behalf of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H7848 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that any municipal contract modifications, change orders or supplemental agreements to an existing contract in excess of $1,000,000 be subject to the procurement procedures required for the initial award of the contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| S2726 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of William Stringfellow
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Senate read and passed |
| H7399 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a statewide greenhouse gas emission reduction mandate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H7215 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the lien and notice procedures for facility operators of dry dock facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H7969 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the general assembly and the governor from authorizing persons, not expressly empowered to perform solemnization of marriage, to perform marriages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| S2750 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates “The Stop Guilt by Accusation Act” which would preclude the media from engaging in defamation in-kind through selective reporting on cases and controversies that cultivate false narratives so that it unduly injures the accused.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| S2762 | Pass | Senate Resolution Recognizing March 8, 2020, As "international Women's Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Senate read and passed |
| H7558 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that taxes assessed for mobile or manufactured homes in the town of Richmond would constitute a lien on the mobile or manufactured home.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| S2727 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the Honorable Adam J. Satchell to join Casey Lynn O'Malley and Daniel Michael Nuebler in marriage on or about April 25, 2020, within the Town of East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| H7970 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires municipalities to tax renewable energy resources as tangible property without affecting the real property on which it is located. Excepts farmland, which shall be reassessed at the predated farmland classification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| S2415 | 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] | 2020-03-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2322 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits health insurance carriers that provide coverage for prescription insulin drugs used to treat diabetes to fifty ($50) dollars copayment for a thirty (30) day supply of medically necessary insulin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2320 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a prescription drug affordability board composed of representatives of affected stakeholders designated to investigate and comprehensively evaluate drug prices for Rhode Islanders and possible ways to reduce them to make them more affordable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H7885 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that all persons serving on boards and commissions appointed by the governor have a connection to the state through residence or licensure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| S2765 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of The Honorable Thomas L. Ucci
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Senate read and passed |
| H7867 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides alternative procedures if the department of environmental management (DEM) fails to adhere to statutory time limits by utilizing registered professional engineers to be paid by DEM.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| S2763 | Pass | Senate Resolution Congratulating Retired United States Army First Sergeant Dora Vasquez-hellner On Being Named The Rhode Island Department Of Veterans Affairs "female Veteran Of The Year"
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Senate read and passed |
| S2269 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a licensed buyer of certain precious metals or articles, tools, and electronics to take a digital photograph of their purchase and upload it to the attorney general's license sales tracking system database.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2364 | Intro
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] | 2020-03-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2049 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the state earned-income credit as of January 1, 2021, to eighteen percent (18%) of the federal earned-income credit, not to exceed the amount of state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
