| S2594 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines electric arm as a firearm and subjects it to various regulations under chapter 47 of title 11 and removes stun gun from the list of prohibited weapons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2569 | Intro
Sine Die | Allow a release by the injured person of one joint tortfeasor to relieve that tortfeasor from liability to make contribution to another joint tortfeasor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2507 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires free lunches to be provided for all elementary and secondary students attending public schools, to the extent state and federal funds are available.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2596 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines rifle and shotgun and makes it unlawful to possess a loaded rifle or shotgun in public subject to various exceptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7086 | Engross
Sine Die | Enables innocent persons who have been wrongfully convicted of a crime to petition the presiding justice of the superior court for an award of compensation and damages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2512 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any person, business or establishment that provides or sells pesticides for home use to post the pesticide consumer protection warning or notice produced by the department of environmental management in a prominent place to protect consumers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2284 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the definition of firearms to include taser. Permits any person over the age of eighteen (18) to possess a stun gun.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| S2127 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of the practice of pharmacy to include the authority to prescribe drugs and devices. The act also provides the conditions for which a pharmacist may prescribe an indicated drug or device.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2563 | Intro
Sine Die | Definef nondisclosure agreement and identifies mandatory and permissible nondisclosure agreements' language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2602 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that inactive voters and mail ballot voters be indicated on the e-pollbooks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2505 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that only certified nurse-teachers may be employed as school nurses in elementary and secondary schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2570 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires attorney general to issue report of all charges involving a firearm, and if said charges were disposed for that calendar year. Included in report details of firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2554 | Intro
Sine Die | Limit liability of a tortfeasor for damages to several only and not joint, if it is found that the defendant’s act or omission caused no more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the damages sustained by the plaintiff.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2508 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the "Nathan Bruno and Jason Flatt Act" which would require training of teachers and school personnel regarding suicide awareness and prevention and establishment of a conflict resolution process between teachers or school personnel and studen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2582 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amount of parental or family leave available to an employee from thirteen (13) weeks to twenty-six (26) weeks in any two (2) calendar years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2541 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of firearms to include taser. Permits any person over the age of eighteen (18) to possess a stun gun. Enacts the review and appeal process of applying for a license to carry with the licensing authority or attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7344 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amount of malt beverages that a manufacturer can sell for offsite consumption from twenty-four 12 oz. And Twenty-four 16 oz. bottles or cans to Fifty-five 12 oz. and forty-one 16 oz. bottles and cans respectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To House Small Business Committee |
| S2591 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the public schools shall be responsible for attendance data monitoring and detection of emergent truant behavior.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2551 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the operation of privately run detention facilities. Those currently in operation may continue to do so until January 1, 2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2580 | Intro
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] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2500 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides New Shoreham has the exclusive authority to prescribe rules and regulations pertaining to the operation, licensing, and regulation of transportation network service companies and their services when TNCs are operating in the town of New Shor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2530 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health, in conjunction with the department of environmental management, to conduct indoor and outdoor air quality tests in all public and private schools throughout the state on an annual basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2515 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the provisions for prompt payment of monies owed by the department of administration to their contractors or subcontractors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2537 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the legal age for persons to purchase or be sold or delivered certain tobacco products, electronic nicotine- delivery systems and liquid nicotine containers from eighteen (18) years of age to twenty-one (21) years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2575 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends protection to persons employed in domestic service and include retaliation as an unlawful employment practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2288 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the conditions of bail and recognizance to permit the release of a person charged with a misdemeanor without financial conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7363 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a process for insurers who wish to utilize receivership rather than the other processes of liquidation or rehabilitation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7280 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows new applicants who apply after August 1, 2020, for net-metering systems and community remote-net-metering systems and any person that is a renewable self-generator to increase the maximum mega wattage from 30 MW to megawatts (60 MW).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2558 | Intro
Sine Die | Places limits on the terms that can be included in an agreement that settles a claim of sexual harassment, retaliation for reporting sexual harassment and stalking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2579 | Intro
Sine Die | Relieves regulatory burden by authorizing submission of certified payroll using federal forms for all public works.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2605 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies language to specify that election officials shall permit the voter to affix their mark at the polling place.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2571 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes portability of unused estate tax credit of predeceasing spouse by surviving spouse for decedents dying after 12/31/19.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2581 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensively amend the state’s apprenticeship statutes to make them more consistent with applicable federal regulations and to make them easier to understand and more consistent with each other.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2612 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend several chapters regarding the operation of bikes on state highways and interaction with motor vehicles, aggressive honking, regulation of E-bikes, reckless driver accountability program & speed limits in thickly settled areas/business district...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2564 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a two hundred fifty dollar ($250) substance abuse education assessment for any conviction of driving under the influence or a violation for refusal to submit to a breathalyzer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2608 | Intro
Sine Die | Bans the sale of cosmetics developed/manufactured using animal testing. A violation would be a $1,000 fine for each offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2513 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a refundable five cent ($0.05) deposit for non-reusable beverage containers. A one cent ($0.01) handling fee would be paid by distributors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2029 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes municipal and government bodies that aggregate electrical loads for residential retail customers from the requirement that a new contract is required when there is a change of terms for electric-generation services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2544 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates hardship designation for patients on SSDI, Medicaid, establishes discount medicine program, eliminates plant tagging, allows unlimited compassion center licenses, redefines debilitating condition, reduces compassion center license fee to $500...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2583 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that if state employee unions are engaged in contract negotiations and/or utilizing the dispute resolution process, all terms and conditions in the collective bargaining agreement shall continue to remain in effect.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2503 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes courses that include instruction in career and technical education programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2610 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates Consumer Protection in Eye Care Act which establishes standards for eye care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2599 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes the chairperson of a political action committee or political party committee responsible for fines levied by the board of elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2609 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the age of children able to utilize a recorded forensic interview for cases of sexual abuse in grand jury testimony -- child assault from age fourteen (14) to age eighteen (18).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2560 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes procedures for employees to file complaints with hospital or director of department of health, for assaultive behavior or other violation of law occurring on hospital grounds and require hospitals to institute safety training for employee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7174 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds climate change/sea-level rise/coastal resiliency to data analysis. Changes number of members of the economic development planning council from 17 to 19 by adding the directors of environmental management and coastal resources council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To House Small Business Committee |
| S2566 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires emergency service providers providing counseling to other providers to be certified by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, Inc. and requires the counselors to keep privileged the information received, with several exceptio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7366 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a safety barrier or safety netting would be erected on the Mount Hope Bridge, the Claiborne Pell Bridge, and the Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge, no later than January 1, 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| S2151 | Pass | Allows the Honorable Adam J. Satchell to join Casey Lynn O'Malley and Daniel Michael Noobler in marriage on or about April 25, 2020, within the Town of East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H7604 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any single-user toilet facility in a public building or place of public accommodation that exists or is constructed on or after July 1, 2020, be available to persons of any gender.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-14
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
