| H5318 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits certain volunteer firefighters to purchase motor vehicles by utilizing state purchasing provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
House read and passed |
| H5919 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the expiration provisions that major facility projects or other public improvements comply with green building standards, thereby requiring major facility projects of state agencies to be construed to LEED standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
House read and passed |
| H5641 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of neonicotinoids which are a class of insecticides.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
House passed Sub A |
| H5204 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires every electric distribution company and natural gas distribution company to submit to the division of public utilities and carriers an emergency response plan for review and approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
House read and passed |
| H6484 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the general assembly to provide race, ethnicity and gender impact statements as to all legislation, addressing the disproportionate impact of the legislation on people of color and gender.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H6482 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale or transfer of ammunition unless the purchaser successfully undergoes a background check.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5962 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a lessee of a motor vehicle who purchases the vehicle within one year of the lease inception or any renewal thereof shall be exempt from certain registration transfer provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
House passed Sub A |
| H6483 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a registry of veterans exposed to airborne hazards open burn pits while serving in southwest Asia theaters of operations after August 2, 1990 and September 11, 2011.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
To House Veterans Affairs Committee |
| H5485 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows school committees to add item(s) to their agendas for the purposes of discussion only without having to publish notice of the additional item(s).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H6370 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the director of the department of business regulation to license the cultivation and sale of marijuana.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
To House Finance Committee |
| H6464 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the sealing and unsealing of court files in residential eviction proceedings and provides that any eviction for nonpayment of rent, in which the rent arrearage is paid through a rent relief program, shall remain sealed permanently.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H6396 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale of certain flavored tobacco products and electronic nicotine delivery systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H6209 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires coverage for treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome, including, but not limited to, the use of intravenous immunoglobin therap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| H5191 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the board of medical licensure and discipline from requiring specialty board certification as a condition of licensure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
House passed Sub A |
| H6327 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises Rhode Island Medicaid primary care payment rates to not less than federal Medicare rates for the same service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
To House Finance Committee |
| H5806 | Engross
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] | 2021-06-29
House passed Sub A |
| H5783 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes a special license plate for MASONIC GRAND LODGE CHARITIES OF RHODE ISLAND, specify the minimum order, and govern the amount and distribution of the fee surcharge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-28
House passed Sub A |
| H6470 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers all responsibility for oversize/overweight permitting to the department of transportation and amends and increases fines for all oversize and overweight infractions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-28
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H6366 | Pass | Allows Jennifer Crawford to join Kathleen Twomey and Christopher Healy in marriage on or about July 3, 2021, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| H5183 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates special motor vehicle registration plates for the nonprofit entity Rhode Island Fire Chiefs Honor Flight Hub.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-28
House read and passed |
| H5210 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that Medicare supplement policies be made available to Medicare eligible disabled individuals under the age of sixty-five (65).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-28
Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence |
| H6289 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the production of special motor vehicle registration plates for the Alzheimer's Association, Rhode Island Chapter so long as six hundred (600) have been ordered.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-28
House read and passed |
| H5782 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of veteran plates with decals affixed to the top left corner for veterans who are recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Distinguished Flying Cross, Silver Star and Bronze medal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-28
House passed Sub A |
| H5553 | Intro
Sine Die | Felony to store firearms unlocked.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-28
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H5147 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides a statutory framework for the licensing and regulation of genetic counselors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-28
House passed Sub A |
| H6044 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a special license plate for the not for profit Atlantic Shark Institute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-28
House read and passed |
| H5254 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes administrator DMV to issue special license plates to Friends of Pomham Rocks Lighthouse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-28
House passed Sub A |
| H5588 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the percentage of area median income from one hundred twenty percent (120%) to one hundred forty percent (140%) only for New Shoreham residents to make more households eligible for affordable housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-26
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H6021 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires district and independent charter schools to use a random selection process to select eligible public school students who would be invited to attend the charter school and allows a parent to decline the invitation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
To Senate Education Committee |
| H6476 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes incentives for property sales and use tax exemptions for qualified data centers located in Rhode Island upon a minimum qualified investment of $50,000,000 in a designated enterprise zone and $200,000,000 in a non-enterprise zone.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
To House Finance Committee |
| H5779 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies surplus lines licensing and eliminate an unnecessary bond requirement, eliminate the need for an "in person" hearing in an appeal of a classification and add additional lines of insurance to the Commercial Special Risks statute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H5909 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulates the distribution of food products containing the drug kratom, a drug of concern for its stimulant and sedative effects, to consumers by the department of health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| H5093 | Pass | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5327 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the maximum aggregate amount of community remote net-metering systems from 30 MW to 90 MW and requires the allocation of a minimum of twenty percent (20%) of the generated power to low- or moderate-income households commencing July 1, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
House passed Sub A |
| H5154 | Pass | Changes title of chapter 37.2 of title 5 and throughout, replacing the words "Oriental medicine" with "Chinese medicine". Allows individuals who are otherwise certified, to practice acupuncture & Chinese medicine using Chinese medical diagnostic meth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5034 | Pass | Allows the governor to designate any person to solemnize a marriage within the state of Rhode Island on a particular day and within a particular city or town.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| H5763 | Pass | Prohibits insurance companies from varying the premium rates charged for a health coverage plan based on the gender of the individual policy holder, enrollee, subscriber, or member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| H5392 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires initial, biennial, and continuing education in land use law and planning for local planning and zoning board members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5276 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows DEM to extend certain deadlines for required sewer construction in the replacement of cesspools, which deadlines would not extend beyond January 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| H6001 | Pass | 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] | 2021-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| H5769 | Engross
Sine Die | A provider of a club, facility, or services to a consumer must stop automatic deductions from the consumer’s account or credit card within thirty (30) calendar days of receiving a notice to stop from the consumer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H6349 | Pass | Allows Martin Jeffry Schanck to join Kaleena Lynn Roch and Jason Timothy Machan in marriage on or about July 8, 2021, within the Town of Glocester, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6254 | Intro
Sine Die | Codifies in the general laws the standards of conduct for notaries public in the state of Rhode Island by the secretary of state which came into effect on April 3, 2020. Takes effect on July 1, 2021; sunsets and expires on July 1, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H6354 | Pass | Allows Charles Joseph, III, to join Abby Mergenmeier and Drew Todd in marriage on or about November 20, 2021, within the Town of Bristol, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6348 | Pass | Allows Thomas Edward Back to join Jessica Marie Willis and Scott Michael Laviolette in marriage on or about July 15, 2021, within the Town of New Shoreham, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6377 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows for a summary of a mammography report be provided to the patient by mail, electronically or otherwise with abnormal result provided only upon approval by the referring provider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
House read and passed |
| H5710 | Pass | Adds medical directors or their designees to those individuals to whom disclosure of information contained in any prescription-drug-database is allowed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| H6274 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends from twenty (20) days to thirty (30) days, the period of time that a newly purchased motor vehicle may be temporarily operated, using the purchaser's current licenses plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| H6332 | Pass | Allows Robert D. Oster, Esq., to join Jessica Rincon and Michael Dunk in marriage on or about August 28, 2021, within the Town of North Providence, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6430 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes sale of dealership as good cause to terminate relations with dealerships/allows 5 days to cure contract deficiency/violation/vests exclusive jurisdiction in RI courts to settle any disputes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
To House Corporations Committee |
