| S2779 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires development of benchmarks specific to each LEA and incentive fund structure for state share of LEA's non-core costs. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Education Committee |
| S2816 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all hotels to make a good faith effort to post human trafficking awareness signage and provide all employees with human trafficking awareness training. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2777 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an economic growth blockchain act, set regulations for the sale of hemp, regulate virtual and digital assets and establish depository banks for these purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2773 | Intro
Sine Die | Create the electronic book licenses to libraries act which requires a publisher who offers to license electronic books and digital audiobooks to the public shall offer to license such books to libraries in the state on reasonable terms. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2827 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an exemption to the access to public records law for winners of lottery prizes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2784 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates Access to Advanced Placement Courses for All Students Act. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Education Committee |
| S2795 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires electronic filing of returns and remittance of payments for certain larger business registrants. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2826 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires third-party hosting platforms to register short-term rental units with DBR, if not registered a fine would be imposed. Creates database for short-term rental units. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2804 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the classification of manufacturing machinery that is eligible for a property tax exemption. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2789 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a review by the department of the formula components used to compute the aid needed to support high need students. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Education Committee |
| S2798 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the general treasurer to withhold state aid to municipalities which do not meet certain requirements regarding locally-administered pension plans and, if applicable, funding improvement plans. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2823 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits dismemberment abortions unless there is serious health risk to the unborn child's mother. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2817 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals court costs against all defendants who plead nolo contendere, guilty or are found guilty of a crime. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2815 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts a portion of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) model act with respect to receiverships, specifically with regards to how derivative contracts are treated in cases of insurance receiverships. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7998 | Intro
Sine Die | Waives the adoption fee to adopt a dog or cat from a public animal shelter for a veteran that presents a current and valid driver’s license or identification card with the word “veteran” printed on its face. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2774 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires national and state background checks for certain drivers transporting passengers for hire. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2453 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the permissive use of a wireless communication device for the purpose of navigation of a motor vehicle shall only be applicable in cases where the device is mounted or otherwise affixed to the vehicle and not held in the motorist's hand... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2810 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the personal care product industry to more fully disclose the ingredients they use and, where applicable, identify ingredients that have been published as a chemical of concern on one or more designated list included in the act. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2785 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits total education paid to any local education agency from being reduced by more than one percent of the municipal education appropriation in the previous year. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Education Committee |
| S2830 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes numerous changes to the merit system. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2797 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from taxes school meals sold to school staff. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2813 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent the tax exemption for certain residential property developments which have either not been completed or, if completed, have not been sold/occupied which would have expired on December 31, 2021. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2831 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases temporary caregiver benefits to six weeks starting January 1, 2021 and then to eight weeks starting January 1, 2022. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2802 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a seven percent (7%) minimum markup for cigarettes sold by a retailer, changes increases cost to retailers and wholesalers for cigarettes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7282 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the Honorable Raymond A. Hull to join Kristy Medrano and John Antonio in marriage on or about April 11, 2020, within the City of Warwick, Rhode Island. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To House Special Legislation Committee |
| S2811 | Intro
Sine Die | DOH to develop and publish opioid alternative pamphlet. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2607 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the administrator of the supreme court as an individual authorized to perform marriages and would clarify that the current administrators of the superior court, family court, district court, or traffic tribunal are empowered to perform marriages... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2822 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the department of health to provide information regarding the passive voluntary adoption reunion registry on the department of health's website and in the division of vital records. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2800 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the rate of interest for underpayments of tax to prime rate plus six percent (6%). It would also limit the assessment of interest to four (4) calendar years. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2778 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of elementary and secondary education in collaboration with the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation to make educational resources available regarding litter prevention and recycling awareness to elementary school studen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Education Committee |
| H7930 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases membership from 3 to 5 members/revises siting process to mandate public/municipal participation. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| S2806 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires municipalities to tax renewable energy resources as tangible property without affecting the real property on which it is located. Excepts farmland, which shall be reassessed at the predated farmland classification. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2821 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits partial-birth abortions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2239 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the executive office of health and human services (EOHHS) to study and report to the general assembly the impact of using Medicaid funds for treatment of chronically homeless individuals. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 Committee recommends passage |
| H7870 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a program for mosquito/tick control by DOH/DEM to coordinate state response to stop the spread of mosquito/tick-borne diseases. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| S2833 | Intro
Sine Die | Names the traffic tribunal building on New London Avenue "The Albert E. DeRobbio Traffic Tribunal." [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2472 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits cities and towns from performing spot assessments that increase the assessment value of properties that have sold, except in accordance with their revaluation or update schedule. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 Committee heard |
| S2803 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the maximum small state purchase from $10,000 to $25,000 for construction projects and from $5,000 to $10,000 for all other small purchases. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2835 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that baby changing tables are provided in the ladies' and men's rooms of the Rhode Island State House and be included in new or substantially renovated construction of all publicly accessible buildings. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2790 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes funding requirement from department of elementary and secondary education. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Education Committee |
| S2445 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that financial security is required for any motor vehicle registered or required to be registered in the state of Rhode Island. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2820 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows an owner or owners of real property to execute a deed that names one or more beneficiaries who will obtain title to the property at the owner's death without the necessity of probate. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2791 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the computation of relative wealth of municipalities for the purpose of distributing state aid by eliminating the requirement that certain exemptions include tax treaty's that are conditioned on being in force on May 15, 2005. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Education Committee |
| S2781 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that 80% of all teachers, in the next three (3) years, be trained in the basic emergency and response skills curriculum ("BEARS"), specifically, in hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Heimlich maneuver, and bleeding control. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Education Committee |
| S2786 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds to the determination of the need to support high-need students the following factor: Whether the student is an English language learner as defined by the department of education's regulations. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Education Committee |
| H7999 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the continuing education requirements of registered contractors to ten (10) hours every two (2) years. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To House Corporations Committee |
| S2818 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a defendant's qualification for the services of public defender constitutes prima facie evidence of indigency and limited ability to pay court costs and no costs shall be ordered unless procedures for determining ability to pay are foll... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2794 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits food service establishments providing single-use plastic straws unless requested or from self-service dispenser. First and second violation results in notice of violation and $25 fine thereafter up to $300 annually. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| H7893 | Intro
Sine Die | Enables military service members and their spouses and those individuals certified or licensed in another state to obtain certifications and licenses issued by the department of labor and training subject to certain conditions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To House Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2829 | Intro
Sine Die | Credits those people detained in the adult correctional institution the amount of one hundred fifty dollars ($150) per day toward any fines or costs they owe to the court when held for lack of bail for failure to appear for a costs review hearing. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |