| S0026 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the uniform natural gas leaks classification act which classifies gas leaks into different grades and identifies the steps and procedures to be taken and provides a reporting requirement for a gas company subsequent to a leak.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-27
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S0498 | Intro
Sine Die | Create 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0608 | Intro
Sine Die | Sets the daily pay for election supervisors at fifteen dollars ($15.00) per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-24
Committee continued |
| S0395 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a comprehensive scheme to help the department of corrections make appropriate least restrictive placements of prisoners within its facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0732 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for standardized procedures for asset forfeitures across all crimes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0927 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the city of Providence to finance a contribution towards the unfunded pension liability of the employee retirement system of the city of Providence by the issuance of $750,000,000 bonds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0341 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the usury rate to twelve percent (12%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-20
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S0880 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a medical assistance rate review process. Further provides for a twenty-four (24) member advisory committee. Pursuant to the act, each provider rate would be reviewed at least once every five (5) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-20
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0719 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "authorized representative" in the confidentiality of health care communications and information act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0882 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that any arbitration award issued shall be binding in the mechanics' lien action and shall be res judicata. The court may award reasonable attorneys' fees in its discretion to the prevailing party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0743 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that only RI attorneys can act as title insurance agents and determine insurability and marketability. Limits discount title insurance premiums and restricts sharing premiums.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0678 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates within the district court a dedicated calendar offering treatment and sentencing alternatives to eligible defendants deemed to suffer from serious and persistent mental illness to be known as the "Mental Health Treatment Calendar".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0741 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a contractor to submit an affirmative action and equal employment opportunity plan or program prior to the award of any contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0739 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires dismissal of complaints filed after the statute of limitations to set aside the final decree of a tax sale foreclosure and award defense costs. Establish additional standards for abandoned and blighted properties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0914 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes baseline shellfish harvest targets and a timeline to accomplish the restoration targets of quahog, oyster, and bay scallop populations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-20
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S0878 | 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] | 2021-05-20
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0260 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires 25% of price of cemetery lot be deposited in perpetual care fund (PCF). PCF to file annual report with AG.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0453 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provisions of the general laws allowing deferred deposit providers, also known as "payday lenders."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-20
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S0918 | Intro
Sine Die | Classifies internal affairs units' reports as public records with redactions allowed to prevent invasion of personal privacy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0925 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulates the imposition of surcharges on any consumer when using a credit card to make a purchase or other business transaction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-20
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S0722 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows recovery of damages for the emotional distress, grief, and loss of enjoyment of life as a result of the wrongful death of a spouse, a parent or a son or daughter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0770 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates consumer legislation designed to limit in-application payments for software applications and purchases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0356 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires elementary/secondary schools to have at least 1 school employee trained to administer/assist with the self-administering of seizure rescue medication prescribed to treat seizure disorder systems and the use of prescribed electrical stimulati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| S0510 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the "residential landlord and tenant act" to require a landlord, prior to agreement, to deliver a valid certificate of rental suitability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0394 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a safety inspection of the Wyatt Detention Facility twice a year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0399 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the operation of private detention facilities and private public partnerships within the state and prohibits the housing of Rhode Island prisoners in other states as well as hold out-of-state prisoners in Rhode Island facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0248 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits financial institutions from investing in private detention centers or continuing to invest with any institution, company or subsidiary of a company that owns or contracts with a government entity to manage or run a prison.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0539 | Intro
Sine Die | Protects hairstyle discrimination by expanding the definition of race to include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0542 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that for parole violations that don't involve a new criminal offense, the right to a final parole revocation hearing not involving new criminal offenses may be waived if the violator admits to the violation and accepts the sanctions imposed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0400 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits contracts with private, for profit, prison facilities or with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0772 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes tablets for prisoners program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0902 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires towns and cities to allow tiny homes to be used as an accessory dwelling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0797 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the title and text of the immunity from legal repercussions for emergency overdose care to include the furnisher of assistance for medical emergencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0662 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that only the mail ballot voter, their spouse, court appointed guardian, cohabitant, or any adult person related to the voter by blood or marriage, be allowed to physically mail the voted mail ballot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0238 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits a municipality, in which twelve percent (12%) of the housing in a municipality qualifies for low-income housing, to charge a tax up to ten percent (10%) of the current year's gross scheduled rental income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S0666 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any person voting by mail ballot or emergency mail ballot to provide proof of identity, exempting those who are hospitalized or residents in a hospice or skilled nursing facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0653 | Intro
Sine Die | Qualifies mobile and manufactured homes as affordable housing when installed and affixed in mobile and manufactured home parks in groups of twenty (20) or more for a year or more.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S0835 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the secretary of state and board of elections to conduct an extensive cybersecurity assessment of our election systems and facilities and to establish a cybersecurity review board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0589 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a licensed pharmacist, who successfully completes a course on tobacco cessation therapy, to prescribe and dispense tobacco cessation drug products to a qualified patient pursuant to rules adopted by the board of pharmacy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0830 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the board of medical licensure and discipline from requiring specialty board certification as a condition of licensure and prohibits the denial of reimbursement for refusal to participate in national board certification program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0663 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- General Assembly To Review Regulations
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0738 | Intro
Sine Die | Entitles disabled and military voters to utilize electronically transmitted ballots.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0886 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the reopening of a dissolved campaign account and fund upon notice to the board of elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0488 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a pharmacist to prescribe and dispense hormonal contraceptive patches and self-administered oral hormonal contraceptives, provided that the pharmacist has completed a training program approved by the state board of pharmacy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0640 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Rhode Island secure choice retirement savings program. Establishes a board which is a public corporation. Allows for creation of IRA-type retirement investments managed by the board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0598 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires notification of the name and address of the deceased on a death certificate with the office of secretary of state and the chairperson of the board of canvassers for the purpose of removal from the rolls of registered voters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0490 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of the practice of pharmacy to include the authority to prescribe drugs and devices. The act also provides the conditions for which a pharmacist may prescribe an indicated drug or device.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0665 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the penalty provisions for disorderly conduct, willful trespass, and shoplifting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0740 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the "intentional" element in the definition of "abuse" and "neglect" in the abuse in health care facilities' law..
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0667 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines any act of sexual penetration or contact perpetrated by an individual with a position of authority upon a person over the age of fourteen (14) and under the age of eighteen (18) as third degree sexual assault.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
