RI Legislation | 2020 | Regular Session

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S2047Intro

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Establishes a nineteen percent (19%) carried interest fairness fee for investment management services in order to tax the carried interest income of hedge fund and private equity investors as traditional ordinary earned income.
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2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee
S2010PassSenate Resolution Wishing The Honorable Shelby Maldonado Well In Her New Position As The Hispanic Outreach Director Of The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (aipac) And Thanking Her For An Extraordinary Record Of Public Service To The Citizen...
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2020-01-21
Senate read and passed
S2015PassSenate Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of The Honorable Justice Donald Francis Shea, Retired Associate Justice Of The Rhode Island State Supreme Court
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2020-01-21
Senate read and passed
S2082Intro

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Provides for specific fines and sanctions to operators of motor vehicles who fail to exercise due care to avoid colliding with a vulnerable road user causing injury, serious injury, or death to the vulnerable road user.
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2020-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee
S2064Intro

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Gradually increases the state's contribution to the teachers' retirement system, while reducing the municipal contribution, eventually resulting in the contributions being shared equally.
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2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee
S2063Intro

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Repeals the provisions of § 16-7-34.3 reimbursing state for conventional public housing students and adds similar language to § 16-7.2-6 providing permanent foundation education aid funding for services to students in conventional public housing.
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2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee
S2016PassSenate Resolution Expressing Condolences To The Cardi Family On The Passing Of Nicholas Cardi, Jr.
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2020-01-21
Senate read and passed
S2079Intro

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Makes sweeping changes to the motor vehicles laws by repealing the many sections that require the filing of security or bond with the DMV following a motor vehicle accident.
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2020-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee
S2059Intro

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Adds three (3) new income tax brackets at rates of 7,99%, 8.49% and 8.99% for taxable income from $275,000 to over $1,000,000 effective January 1, 2021.
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2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee
S2062Intro

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Amends the method for the calculation of the permanent foundation education aid to school districts, and would make an adjustment based upon students residing in qualified low-income housing. Applies to all school years commencing on or after 7/1/20.
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2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee
H7176PassHouse Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Raymond J. Spooner
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2020-01-21
House read and passed
S2042Intro

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Defines small, large and residential wind energy systems and establishes zoning requirements for these systems.
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2020-01-21
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
S2076Intro

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Senate Resolution Relating To Solemnization Of Marriages (allows Daniel Baker To Join Emily Jeanne Lewis And Brian Patrick Hartley In Marriage On Or About July 4, 2020, Within The Town Of Middletown, Rhode Island.)
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2020-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee
S2014PassSenate Resolution Expressing Sincere Condolences On The Passing Of Shirley A. Forte
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2020-01-21
Senate read and passed
S2043Intro

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Establishes minimum energy and water efficiency standards for appliances and specified equipment purchased or installed after July 1, 2021.
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2020-01-21
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
S2058Intro

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Creates micro zones in distressed areas to stimulate economic revitalization, employment opportunities, and business development through the redevelopment of obsolete, dilapidated and abandoned industrial and commercial structures.
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2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee
S2050Intro

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Subtracts state tax refunds, paid to an individual in the previous year, from federal adjusted gross income, for purposes of the state income tax for tax years beginning January 1, 2021, and thereafter.
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2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee
S2098Intro

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Provides a special motor vehicle registration plate honoring the New York Yankees for their 27 World Championships and the New York Yankees Universe Fund for the benefit of Rhode Island based charitable organizations.
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2020-01-21
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee
S2040Intro

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Requires state reimburse city or town for any costs transporting children placed in foster care by a Rhode Island-licensed child-placing agency or a Rhode Island governmental agency to an educational facility outside the regional transportation distr...
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2020-01-21
To Senate Education Committee
S2022PassSenate Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of The Honorable Superior Court Justice, John E. Orton, Iii
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2020-01-21
Senate read and passed
S2044Intro

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Increases the maximum tax on qualifying low-income property from eight percent (8%) of the previous year's gross scheduled rental income to ten percent (10%) of the prospective year's gross scheduled rental income.
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2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee
S2060Intro

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Exempts from the sales and use tax that portion of a motor vehicle lease payment collected for tangible personal property tax, municipal property tax, excise, or any other similar tax.
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2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee
S2023PassSenate Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Julie Lynn Cardinal
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2020-01-21
Senate read and passed
S2038Intro

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Redefines extraordinary costs associated with the education of special education students to be costs that are above the core foundation amount.
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2020-01-21
To Senate Education Committee
H7124Intro

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Authorizes emergency medical service providers to transport and provide first aid to police dogs injured in the line of duty.
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2020-01-16
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee
H7129Intro

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Requires that only certified nurse-teachers may be employed as school nurses in elementary and secondary schools.
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2020-01-16
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee
H7167Intro

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Provides that Medicare supplement policies be made available to Medicare eligible disabled individuals under the age of sixty-five (65).
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2020-01-16
To House Finance Committee
H7168Intro

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Increases the state medical assistance payments made to nursing homes to cover any increased costs resulting from a hike in the minimum hourly wage, benefitting some of its employees.
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2020-01-16
To House Finance Committee
H7121Intro

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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.
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2020-01-16
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee
H7166Intro

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Permits the town of Tiverton to be prospectively reimbursed at the forty percent (40%) floor of the housing aid share ratio on projects completed before June 30, 2010.
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2020-01-16
To House Finance Committee
H7169Intro

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Includes a book of fiction or non-fiction within the definition of a "work" which is original or creative and for "one-of-a-kind, limited production" thus qualifying item for exemption from the sales tax.
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2020-01-16
To House Finance Committee
H7128Intro

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Requires drug manufactures to establish fund and manage state approved drug take back programs, free of charge to the consumer and pharmacy.
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2020-01-16
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee
H7165Intro

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Establishes Ocean State Climate Adaptation and Resilience Fund (OSCAR) which provides grants to fund projects that adapt infrastructure on public lands to address impacts of climate change.
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2020-01-16
To House Finance Committee
H7107Intro

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Requires the state, including all its agencies and departments, to purchase one hundred percent (100%) of their energy needs from renewable sources by January 1, 2031.
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2020-01-15
To House Finance Committee
S2008PassSenate Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Colonel Gordon Mitchell Bruce Livingston (usmc, Retired)
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2020-01-15
Senate read and passed
H7116PassHouse Resolution Honoring And Congratulating Earl J. Croft, Iii, Executive Director Of The Rhode Island Turnpike And Bridge Authority, On His Retirement After Thirty-seven Years Of Distinguished Public Service
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2020-01-15
House read and passed
H7108Intro

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Requires that all vehicles owned and operated by a governmental body be electric powered within ten (10) years, exclusive of trucks and law enforcement vehicles.
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2020-01-15
To House Finance Committee
H7118PassHouse Resolution Extending Sincere Condolences On The Passing Of Patricia A. Fogarty
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2020-01-15
House read and passed
H7115PassHouse Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Mr. Francis P. O'donnell
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2020-01-15
House read and passed
H7119PassHouse Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Daniel P. Murphy
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2020-01-15
House read and passed
S2009PassSenate Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Dorothy M. Ruggerio
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2020-01-15
Senate read and passed
H7106Intro

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Provides that individuals who do not qualify for social security benefits and receive pension income may exclude up to fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) of income from taxation under the same circumstances that social security income is excluded.
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2020-01-15
To House Finance Committee
H7099PassHouse Resolution Extending Congratulations
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2020-01-14
House read and passed
H7100PassHouse Resolution Expressing Condolences
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2020-01-14
House read and passed
H7098PassHouse Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Sergeant Edmond F. Malloy
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2020-01-14
House read and passed
H7072Intro

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Allows certified nurse practitioners (CNPs) to prescribe medical marijuana to patients in the normal course of their practice.
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2020-01-13
Withdrawn at sponsor's request
H7078Intro

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Raises juror's fees for each day's attendance on the superior court from $15.00 per day to $25.00 per day commencing July 1, 2020, and increases to $35.00 per day commencing July 1, 2021 and thereafter.
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2020-01-10
To House Finance Committee
H7053Intro

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Exempts home health care products from taxation.
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2020-01-09
To House Finance Committee
H7044Intro

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Establishes rules and procedures for licensing emergency shelters, including setting minimum standards and prohibiting the charging of fees to the residents.
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2020-01-09
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee
H7063PassHouse Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Thomas A. Drennan, Jr.
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2020-01-09
House read and passed
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