| H7133 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the superior court or the family court in reviewing sex offender level determination by the sex offender board of review, to raise or lower the offender's community notification level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7559 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits beneficiary's out-of-pocket expenditures for prescription drugs to limits established for self-only and family coverage per year established in the Internal Revenue Code. Effective January 1, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2005 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the secretary of EOHHS, the secretary of commerce of the commerce corporation and the commissioners of elementary and secondary education and postsecondary education be appointed subject to the approval of the senate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7538 | Intro
Sine Die | Provide that the state would reimburse the school committees for the costs of providing student transportation services to public and private school pupils.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| H7536 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a modification reducing federal adjusted gross income by allowing up to fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) of income from individual retirement accounts (IRAs) to be subtracted from the gross income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| H7359 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes policy for regulation of occupations, specifying criteria for government regulation to increase opportunities, competition, protect consumers and create a process to review criminal histories to reduce offenders’ disqualifications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2110 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the importation, transportation, disbursement, distribution, sale, purchase, or possession of any species of non-native (exotic) invasive plants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2311 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special motor vehicle registration plates for the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RISPCA).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| H7548 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits campaign funds to be used to pay all childcare expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7134 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends child support obligations for non-custodial parents beyond emancipation if the children are attending a 2 or 4 year college and still reside with the custodial parent until 22 years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7132 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows school committees to add item(s) to their agendas for the purposes of discussion only without having to publish notice of the additional item(s).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7351 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows person who is public employee of any city or town or any organization representing a group persons to petition superior court pursuant to § 38-2-9, for determination that disclosing person’s residence poses a risk to person or their family.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7235 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes licensed advanced practice registered nurses (APRN), certified in psychiatric/mental health, as qualified to certify the need for mental health treatment in certain patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2194 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Ocean State Climate Adaptation and Resilience Fund. Enables municipalities and the state to apply for grants to improve public safety and community climate resilience for coastal habitats, as well as river and stream floodplains.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| H7138 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DCYF/family court to initially consider placement of a child under their care with immediate family members/next of kin before placement in foster care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2111 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the word diesel in regard to idling of engines and would pertain to idling of all engines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| H7273 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits clinical laboratories as defined in § 23-16.2-2 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] | 2020-02-12
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7533 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a tax payment shall be paid by midnight on the date in which the tax becomes due and payable, and reduces the amount of penalty for taxes unpaid from a maximum of twenty-one percent (21%) to ten percent (10%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| H7295 | Intro
Sine Die | Precludes a parent's disability from serving as the sole basis for the state to institute an investigation of the disabled parent's family.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7525 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a program for the importation of wholesale prescription drugs from Canada to provide cost savings to Rhode Island consumers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7325 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits certain social media companies from censoring users speech by either removal of the user's speech or using algorithms to prevent the user's speech.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7529 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts the sale of electronic nicotine delivery systems to individuals over the age of twenty-one (21) and regulates the way in which electronic nicotine delivery systems may be sold.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7137 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all foster parents to undergo sensitivity training regarding the culture of their foster child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2090 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a vehicle unlawfully parked in a properly marked "handicapped parking" space would be towed at the owner's expense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7357 | Intro
Sine Die | Administrative hearings to follow superior court rules of procedure and evidence. Provides for subpoena of witnesses and evidence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7530 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the rights of physician assistants with regard to their practice and prohibits non-compete clauses that exceed five years with regard to the purchase and sale of a practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2195 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds "cigarette butts" to the definition of "litter".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2088 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires initial, biennial, and continuing education in land use law and planning for local planning and zoning board members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2030 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes that manufacturers of devices capable of connecting to the Internet equip the devices with reasonable security features.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H7142 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides those persons who have previously been convicted of marijuana possession, which would now constitute a decriminalized offense, to have their records for those convictions automatically expunged regardless of their criminal history.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2252 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that upon a written request from an applicant a zoning enforcement officer provides a written determination of proposed use/allows an aggrieved party to appeal the decision regarding zoning or written determination to the zoning board of rev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7277 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires copies of auditor's documents relative to evaluation and opinion about fees to be filed with the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation and be considered public records pursuant to chapter 2 of title 38, access to public records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
Committee postponed at request of sponsor |
| H7184 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the dates of the R.E.C. meeting to the last ten (10) days of April and the first ten (10) days of November of each year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H7298 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all individuals testifying before the general assembly or any committee, subcommittee or commission thereof, to be sworn before testifying. Anyone testifying falsely shall be punished pursuant to § 11-33-6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7333 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows 288 hours of trade school training to qualify for the journeyperson "B" electrical exam. Increases the period of indentured apprenticeship with the department of labor and training and a licensed electrician master to 4 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7303 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires cable television companies to give their customers the option to purchase, at its fair market value, a device which decodes digital cable signals for their cable signal reception.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7091 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes those persons convicted of felony simple possession of a controlled substance eligible for expungement five years after completion of their sentence. The act also repeals the requirement that those seeking expungement pay a fee to the court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7414 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits delivery service from using merchant's likeness/trademark or intellectual property on its website or delivery vehicles without written merchant consent. Requires delivery service to register to do business in Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7087 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows expungement of multiple felony convictions for non-violent felonies 20 years after sentence completed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7296 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires returns of a marriage certificate to be filed within two (2) business days after the ceremony, and would validate the common practice of filing the return by mail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7326 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits prosecutions for violations in this state if violation arises from same facts or acts for which defendant has been acquitted in another jurisdiction, unless there exists new evidence substantially warranting prosecution in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7187 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that volunteer firefighters in the state be eligible to utilize the provisions of the state purchasing act, for the purpose of purchasing any motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H7332 | 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] | 2020-02-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7104 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits persons with felony records to petition the court to have their court records, where there has been dismissal/no true bill/no information or if the person has otherwise been exonerated from the offense, sealed by the clerk of the court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2229 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires hospital to incorporate consent for peer recovery specialist services into comprehensive patient consent form. Creates MAT program using meds and counseling and to create a comprehensive approach to the treatment of substance use disorders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2069 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the medication assisted treatment (MAT) program which uses medications, in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies, to create a comprehensive approach to the treatment of substance use disorders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2045 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires quasi-public corporations to use all funds and property to perform the function or service for which the quasi-public corporation was created.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7328 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the governor in his or her discretion to designate a justice of the peace in each town or city, as considered expedient, to solemnize marriages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7309 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the health services council from twelve (12) to twenty-four (24) members and amends the hospital conversion act relative to disclosure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2112 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the RI coastal adaptation trust fund. The trust enables the state and its cities and towns to apply for grants to fund projects that invest in measures that adapt infrastructure on public lands to address the impacts of climate change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (02/12/2020) |
