| H7156 | Intro
Sine Die | Allow individuals employed in domestic service or in or about a private home to be included as an employee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To House Labor Committee |
| H7046 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that all cosmetics manufactured, sold, delivered, or held for offering to be sold contain a label that completely and accurately lists all of its component ingredient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7244 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Fred’s Autohaus, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H7208 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning June 30, 2020 requires 2 in 5 recruits to the Rhode Island State Police Training Academy be a person of color and also requires vigorous recruitment effort.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To House Labor Committee |
| H7029 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes Rhode Island First Step requiring corrections to assist offenders with reintegration into society, counseling, medical care, education, early termination to pre-release confinement for elderly and terminally ill offenders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7231 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the application of eyelash extensions and the use of chemicals in the area of the eyelids to the definition of the "practice of hairdressing and cosmetic therapy".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7262 | Intro
Sine Die | Enables a married couple to have both their names listed as co-owners with right of survivorship on a certificate of title issued by the division of motor vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7437 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the reimbursement to a school district or municipality for the employment of newly hired school resource officers only.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| H7434 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a fee increase for filing an action in district court, superior court and family court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| H7199 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes persons seventy (70) years of age or older eligible for exemption from jury service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7438 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes physical therapists to order diagnostic imaging (x-rays). Authority sunsets December 31, 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7139 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an equal opportunity unit within the division of state police to adopt an equal opportunity plan to increase the ranks of minorities and women among members of the state police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To House Labor Committee |
| S2006 | Pass | Establishes certain limitations on regulations promulgated by the department of health and the department of business regulation in regard to medical marijuana.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
Signed by Governor |
| H7299 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a person convicted of unnecessary cruelty on an animal from owning an animals for 5 years, and a violator of this act is subject to a fine of $1,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| S2262 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a comprehensive resolution scheme for cities and towns to follow concerning the sale and control of tobacco in their communities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7358 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires law enforcement agencies to obtain search warrants for electronic information, data, location information and other identifying information of subscribers and customers, except in specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2198 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an exemption for taxable retirement income from certain pension plans or annuities of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) beginning on or after January 1, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2307 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires state contracted human services providers to pay their employees a starting hourly wage of no less than one hundred forty-four percent (144%) of the state minimum wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2197 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the exemption for retirement income from state income tax from $15,000 to $20,000 commencing in 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2200 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Pawtucket-Central Falls station redevelopment district and provides that tax credits may be available for certain projects located in the district for an amount not to exceed 50% of the project cost.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7204 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of children, youth and families (DCYF) and the family court to initially consider the placement of a child under their care with the child's immediate family members or next of kin before placement in foster care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2281 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a law enforcement or animal control officer to hold an animal confined in a motor vehicle up to 72 hours pending a district court hearing as to medical costs, fees, charges, and/or surrender of physical possession and ownership of the anim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2199 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks weighing fourteen thousand pounds (14,000 lbs.) or less from sales and use tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2213 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates senior center building capital fund to provide cities and towns with financial assistance up to thirty percent of the construction cost of the project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2201 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts federally financed housing developments and state nonprofit affordable housing programs from the real estate conveyance tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2174 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the student populations of mayoral academies to reflect the combined demographics of the sending district(s) in terms of the number of students in special education, who are English language learners and who qualify for free and reduced meal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2304 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the fair employment practices act by clearly establishing that employees of a defendant employer may be individually liable for unfair employment practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2206 | 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] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2299 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement from the pay plan regulations adopted for unclassified employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2178 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a procedure for the certification of educators with specialty skills.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2230 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires insurance coverage for at least ninety (90) days of residential or inpatient services for mental health and/or substance-use disorders for American Society of Addiction Medicine levels of care 3.1 and 3.3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2173 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the commissioner of elementary and secondary education would be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the governor with the advice and consent of the senate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2279 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes the owner of any vehicle not inspected as required by §§ 31-38-3 or 31-38-4 responsible for any fines or penalties imposed as a result of non-inspection and prohibits any law enforcement officer from citing the operator of said vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2202 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the state's share to support local public library services in distressed communities, by an amount equal to the amount paid by the distressed city or town into the ocean state libraries (OSL) annual assessment charges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7276 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires PUC to find municipal aggregation plan would be a cost efficient system for affected customers over a 20 year period prior to approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2274 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the state voter identification law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2261 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that applications to purchase firearms be sent by the seller to the police department the city or town where the purchaser lives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2294 | Intro
Sine Die | This act would, upon its own motion or upon request of a parolee, enable the parole board to terminate a parolee's supervision and legal custody order. Prisoners with a life sentence for first and second degree murder are excluded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2190 | Intro
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] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2238 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides patients opportunity to opt out of information disclosure under HIE.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H7382 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an exemption, for private detectives and private security guards, from the law banning nontransparent windshields and windows.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2187 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides students attending public schools enrolled in grades K-12 with a student's bill of rights prohibiting discrimination based on race, sex, gender, economic status or mental, physical, developmental or sensory disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2182 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the condition that there needs to be a reasonable expectation that a 19 year old will complete a program in secondary school in order to qualify as a dependent child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2249 | 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] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2289 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes the general assembly elections within the category of elections subject to the risk-limiting audits within the jurisdiction of the board of elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2215 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a one-time non-refundable tax credit to the owner of the real property for the costs of connecting to a municipal sewer system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7155 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health insurance providers to provide coverage for medical services for injuries received in motor vehicle or other accident regardless of whether the policy holder is seeking or may seek damages from a third party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2234 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a person who is under the age of eighteen (18) to work or volunteer in the medical settings including mental health and behavioral health care facilities for any deaf or hard-of-hearing clients or patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2184 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows parents to be asked for funding of school sponsored field trips as long as the district provides funding to any student whose family cannot afford the trip.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2282 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the "lookback" period for third and subsequent offenses involving driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs under § 31-27-2 and for offenses related to failure or refusal to submit to chemical tests under § 31-27-2.1 from 5 years to 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
