| H6083 | Pass | Reclassifies simple possession of ten grams (10g) or less of a controlled substance classified in Schedules I, II, III, IV, V of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act to a 2 year misdemeanor instead of a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| H6064 | Pass | Amends the Rhode Island Nonprofit Corporation Act regarding consolidation and merger.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| H5268 | Pass | Requires applicants to pass test to include topics on fair housing and requires 24 hours of continuing education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| H5650 | Pass | Creates the Holocaust and genocide education commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| H5836 | Pass | SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT) (Amends the career and technical education program laws to provide the process by which students could access career and technical education programs outside of their home school dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| H5573 | Pass | Requires a landlord to obtain and have in full force and effect a general liability policy of at least one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for those persons injured on the premises due to the negligence of the landlord.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| H6142 | Pass | Penalty of $10,000 for violating Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| H6408 | Pass | Authorizes the Central Falls to issue bonds in an amount not to exceed $5,760,000 to finance the construction, renovation, improvement, alteration, repair, furnishing and equipping of schools and school facilities in the city.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| H6118 | Pass | Prohibits school committees from entering into a school bus service contract unless the contract provides for payments to school bus drivers, monitors and aids for one hundred and eighty (180) days or the length of the contracted for school year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| H5270 | Pass | Creates the Human Trafficking Reporting and Prevention Act applicable to hotels, requiring them to educate their employees about identifying, reporting and preventing human trafficking, on their premises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| H6438 | Pass | Creates a statewide body-worn camera program for police departments in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Signed by Governor |
| H6084 | Pass | Provides for minimum qualifications for court constable to include education, military, or law enforcement experience and drug and psychological screening.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Signed by Governor |
| H5079 | Pass | Allows a school district to assess or request a voluntary contribution of money from a student or the student's parent or legal guardian to make a donation, in whole or in part, for the cost of district-sponsored field trips, dances, and clubs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Signed by Governor |
| H6189 | Pass | Reduces age from 25 to 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Signed by Governor |
| H5688 | Pass | Prohibits the town of Coventry from assessing the costs of repaving the roadway upon the completion of any sewage works upon the land owners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6119 | Pass | Imposes one year moratorium on enforcement of municipal ordinance or zoning requirement that penalizes owners of food service establishments/bars for modifications/alternations to their premises in response to an emergency declaration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Signed by Governor |
| H5470 | Pass | Creates an action authorizing any person who has been sentenced to imprisonment greater than one year subsequent to being wrongfully convicted of a criminal offense to petition court for an award of compensation and damages, including attorney’s fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Signed by Governor |
| H6144 | Pass | Requires submission of a triennial system reliability/energy efficiency/conservation procurement plan until 9/1/2036 and continues a charge on gas/electricity to fund energy efficiency/conversation programs until 9/1/2035.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Signed by Governor |
| H5127 | Pass | Authorizes the town of Middletown, upon receiving a request for the abandonment of a highway from an abutting property owner, to buy the abandoned highway from the abutting owner, at fair market value.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6434 | Pass | Authorizes the department of transportation to impose a weight restriction or close any state, local or privately-owned bridge, in the interest of public safety.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Signed by Governor |
| H5126 | Pass | Prohibits the operation of through commercial vehicles on Turner Road in Middletown.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5856 | Pass | Relieves regulatory burden by authorizing submission of certified payroll using federal forms for all public works.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5780 | Pass | Updates the Credit for Reinsurance, Risk Based Capital and Insurance Holding Company statutes to the current National Association of Insurance Commissioners standard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Signed by Governor |
| H5376 | Pass | Prohibits the intentional simultaneous release of ten (10) or more balloons inflated with lighter-than-air gas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Signed by Governor |
| H5149 | Pass | Authorizes the Exeter town sergeant or designees to conduct division of motor vehicles vehicle identifying number and odometer inspections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5028 | Pass | Requires the implementation of the civic literacy act for all students between the 8th and 12th grades.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Signed by Governor |
| H6423 | Pass | Authorizes the town of West Warwick to join the State Employees' Retirement System of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Signed by Governor |
| H5760 | Pass | Creates a forest conservation commission, to be coordinated with the department of environmental management, to seek new funding and identify incentives for landowners to maintain their land as forest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Signed by Governor |
| H5370 | Pass | Requires health insurers to accommodate the request for communication in the form and format requested by the insured.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Signed by Governor |
| H5571 | Pass | Raises the legal age for persons to purchase or be sold or delivered certain tobacco products, electronic nicotine-delivery systems and liquid nicotine containers from eighteen (18) years of age to twenty-one (21) years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Signed by Governor |
| H6420 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Diversified Roofing Systems, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6426 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Taylor & Sons, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5131 | Pass | Prohibits a food service establishment from providing a consumer with a single-use plastic straw, unless the consumer requests such a straw.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Signed by Governor |
| H6032 | Pass | Amends the provisions of the telemedicine coverage act and provide coverage for telemedicine under Rhode Island Medicaid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| H6122 | Pass | Making Appropriations For The Support Of The State For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2022
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| H6477 | Pass | Bars health insurance plans from prohibiting pharmacists discussing reimbursement criteria with individuals presenting prescriptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| H6090 | Pass | Increases temporary caregiver benefits to six (6) weeks in a benefit year starting January 1, 2022 and would increase temporary caregiver benefits to eight (8) weeks in a benefit year beginning January 1, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| H6432 | Pass | Permits the dockside sale of allowable live lobsters, crabs and live whelk upon issuance of a direct sale dealer license by the department of environmental management to a commercial fishing license holder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| H5261 | Pass | Comprehensively addresses wage discrimination, based on sex by expanding employee protections and the scope of the remedies available to employees who have experienced wage discrimination.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| H6371 | Pass | Increases the annual flat fee given to Lincoln and Tiverton by their respective sports wagering facilities to two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| H5094 | Pass | Grants a judge or magistrate the discretion to impose the requirement of blood and/or urine testing or the use of the ignition interlock system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| H6222 | Pass | Creates an eighteen (18) member special commission on reapportionment whose purpose is to draft and to report to the general assembly to reapportion the districts of the general assembly and the state's United States Congressional districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| H5585 | Pass | Repeals § 5-3-7 of the general laws which gives the director of the department of labor and training the authority to exempt certain classes of employees from receiving overtime pay for Sunday and holiday work.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| H6126 | Pass | Entitles dairy farms to the exemptions from taxation granted to farmland, forestland, or open space.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| H6066 | Veto | Requires the electric distribution company to report interconnection studies and not charge more than actual costs for the studies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-06
Vetoed by Governor |
| H5437 | Pass | 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] | 2021-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| H5228 | Pass | Raises the 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, 2022, and increase to $35.00 per day commencing July 1, 2023, and thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| H5084 | Pass | Allows for the sealing of records pertaining to cases for which a person is acquitted or otherwise exonerated from a charged offense and eliminates the one hundred dollar ($100) fee for the expungement of a criminal record.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H6173 | Pass | Updates and modernizes the department of environmental management’s ability to enforce environmental laws, and more specifically modifies practices regarding a notice of violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H6283 | Pass | Establishes a process for the donation of unused medications for use by nonprofit, state and local facilities by owners of animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-03
Signed by Governor |
