| S2204 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provisions of the Stay Invested in RI Wavemaker Fellowship, and establish the Stay Invested in RI Tax Credit to provide eligible taxpayers with a tax credit for educational loan repayment expenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2292 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it unlawful for any level 3 sex offender to reside within one quarter mile of the site of any offense committed and would make it unlawful for them to live within 1500 feet of any recreational grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2226 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the licensing and regulation of central service technicians, i.e., any person who decontaminates, inspects, assembles, packages, and sterilizes reusable medical instruments or devices in a freestanding, emergency care facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2221 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amount of exemption from sales tax for clothing including footwear from two hundred fifty dollars ($250) to one thousand dollars ($1,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2216 | Intro
Sine Die | Would, through the office of management and budget, implement the Lean government initiative and include a mandatory yearly progress report by departments, agencies, boards and commissions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Rules, Government Ethics and Oversight Committee |
| S2272 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits dogs or cats as security for failure to pay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2250 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides immunity from liability for school employees whose position involves work with students for accidental injury or damage. Provides compensation for certain injuries received by school employees whose position involves work with students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2259 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases penalties for a variety of motor vehicle offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7212 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the replacement of original equipment from manufacturer front light lamps that project a beam of light greater than the intensity of the original lamps.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2265 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes detailed steps and safeguards to create the Lila Manfield Sapinsley Compassionate Care Act, to provide a legal mechanism whereby a terminally ill patient may choose to end their life using drugs prescribed by a physician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2303 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates repealed statute references and create a mechanism for employees to enforce their existing right to continuation of medical benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2219 | Intro
Sine Die | Refunds the minimum tax paid by corporations with annual gross income of less than four hundred dollars ($400); but caps the amount refunded at four hundred dollars ($400).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2185 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the department of elementary and secondary education, in consultation with a workgroup composed of various stakeholders, develop a funding formula for school districts sending students to career and technical programs outside their dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2286 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the license plates of a vehicle be confiscated by a police officer if the owner was arrested for driving while their license was suspended, revoked or cancelled for refusing to submit to a chemical test or for operating under the influe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7407 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires state to reimburse the city/town for any costs associated with transporting children placed in foster care by RI-licensed child-placing agency or RI governmental agency to an educational facility outside the regional transportation district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7400 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the RI Early Childhood Innovation Act and authorizes department of human services to fund programs for at-risk kindergarten children of $1,000,000 annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7150 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows retired police officers to work specifically for traffic details, only where the traffic detail is not covered by current police officers, for an unlimited amount of days with no interruption of pension benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7395 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the nurse licensure compact and adopts an enhanced version of the act, to allow nurses to hold a multi-state license which would allow them to practice across state lines without having to obtain multiple licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-31
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7402 | Intro
Sine Die | Facilitates state departments/agencies to implement electronic filing of applications for licenses/permits/ registrations/certificates by allowing state vendor to withhold commission for developing and implementing electronic filing web-based system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7401 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts self-employed sole practicing investigators operating independently from any partnership, corporation, limited liability company or association from the sales tax imposed on services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7404 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an agreement to limit corporate giveaways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7412 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all candidates for office to file the same number of campaign finance reports, all due at the same times, whether or not they have contested primary elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7394 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts the interstate compact to award prizes for curing diseases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-31
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7405 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes "chaplain's fund" to collect donations for use in activities to enhance morale/welfare/recreation of veterans' home residents maintained and operated by the advisory council of veterans' affairs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7172 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates special motor vehicle registration plates for vehicles based on the entity Rhode Island Fire Chiefs Honor Flight Hub.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-31
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| H7406 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows real property owner a one-time non-refundable tax credit for the actual costs of connecting a single family or multi-family dwelling to a municipal sewer system credited to the owner's personal or corporate income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7403 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands educational benefits to active reservists in the armed forces.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7077 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the amount of tuition for any child attending school in an adjoining city or town shall not exceed the local per pupil funding amount of the adjoining city or town.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-31
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H7367 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows health insurance plans to provide coverage for accessible residence modifications determined to be medically necessary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7083 | Intro
Sine Die | Enables cities and towns to provide property tax relief to individuals who take resiliency measures to rehabilitate their property because of flood hazards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H7373 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the trade-in values of motorcycles from sales tax and would exempt from state sales tax the trade-in value of any pickup under eight thousand one hundred pounds (8100 lbs.) gross weight.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Finance Committee |
| H7314 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the required minimum number of special plates ordered from the DMV to 150 sets upon payment of $3,000 conditionally refundable fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| H7374 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the general assembly and any governmental or quasi-governmental entity created by it, from issuing moral obligation bonds not secured by the full faith and credit of the state or revenues.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Finance Committee |
| H7369 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the Lila Manfield Sapinsley Compassionate Care Act, to provide a legal mechanism whereby a terminally ill patient may choose to end their life using drugs prescribed by a physician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7113 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a special license plate for MASONIC GRAND LODGE CHARITIES OF RHODE ISLAND, specifies the minimum order and governs the amount and distribution of the fee surcharge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| H7173 | 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] | 2020-01-30
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| H7372 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of public works so that it would include any public works projects performed for any city or town or quasi-municipal entity and the state and any quasi-state entity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Finance Committee |
| H7158 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any city or town employee, including private contractors, removing trash from leaving trash receptacles in any condition or place so as to constitute a hazard on the street or highways, except private roads or driveways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H7075 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a special motor vehicle registration plate for The Rose Island Lighthouse Foundation, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| S2128 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a pilot program to prevent drug overdoses through the establishment of harm reduction centers, and requires the director of the department of health to promulgate rules and regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| H7376 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to investigate, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the expenditure of public funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Finance Committee |
| S2025 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Fred's Autohaus, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H7375 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that legislative grants would be awarded by senators and representatives in equal prorated shares, one half (1/2) in each chamber.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Finance Committee |
| S2083 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the definition of "elder person" for purposes of exploitation of elders from a person sixty-five (65) years of age or older to a person sixty (60) years of age or older.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7368 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes appropriate disability language and allows for the law revision director to replace inappropriate disability language in the general law with appropriate disability language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7371 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the title of chapter 37.2 of title 5 and throughout, replacing "Oriental medicine" with "Chinese medicine" and allows certified individuals to practice acupuncture and Chinese medicine using Chinese medical diagnostic methods.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7193 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the town of Bristol to regulate live entertainment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H7256 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the preservation of housing density when a municipality allows alternative uses within a residential zone. Transferal of the residential density would be to locations at the discretion of the municipality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H7043 | 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] | 2020-01-29
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7048 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to develop and make available for school use a mental health curriculum. Schools would be required to provide four (4) hours of mental health instruction to seventh grade students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
