| S0936 | Pass | Allows school committees to budget funds for field trips when creating a school budget.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Signed by Governor |
| S0175 | Pass | Allows the town of Middletown to sell an abandoned highway or driftway to the abutting property owner making the abandonment request at fair market value.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0672 | 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 |
| S0607 | Pass | Extends the long-term air-quality monitoring program at T.F. Green Airport to July 31, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Signed by Governor |
| S0346 | 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 |
| S0794 | 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 |
| S0654 | 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 |
| S0155 | 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 |
| S0934 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Tricycle, Llc
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0263 | Pass | Raises the legal age for individuals to be sold or delivered certain tobacco products, including electronic nicotine-delivery systems products from eighteen (18) years of age to twenty-one (21) years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Signed by Governor |
| S0413 | Pass | Requires applicants to pass test to include topics on fair housing and requires 24 hours of continuing education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Signed by Governor |
| S0473 | Pass | Allows the twenty-one coastal communities to adopt the CRMC's coastal hazard application process applicable to local overlay districts for applicants seeking local building permits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Signed by Governor |
| S0484 | Pass | Provides for medical assistance health care for expectant mothers and would establish medical assistance coverage and reimbursement rates for perinatal doula services. Effective 7/1/22.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Signed by Governor |
| S0718 | 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] | 2021-07-07
Signed by Governor |
| S0232 | Pass | Includes in the practice of physical therapy the ordering of diagnostic imaging (x-ray imaging) to be performed by other health care professionals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Signed by Governor |
| S0076 | Pass | Requires that commencing with the graduating class of 2022 and all subsequent graduating classes thereafter, all high school students attending public schools shall fulfill at least one-half credit or course requirement in civics education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Signed by Governor |
| S0470 | 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 |
| S0945 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Shuster Realty, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0946 | Pass | Allows Daniel R. Baker to join Sarah Brousseau and Joshua Hayes in marriage on or about September 18, 2021, within the Town of Middletown, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0944 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Bay Spring Realty Company
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0684 | Pass | Penalty of $10,000 for violating Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Signed by Governor |
| S0062 | 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 |
| S0686 | 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 |
| S0497 | Pass | Pharmacists may discuss reimbursement criteria with individuals presenting prescriptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| S0364 | 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 |
| S0206 | 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 |
| S0314 | 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 |
| S0273 | Pass | Repeals § 25-3-7 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 |
| S0004 | 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 |
| S0600 | 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 increases to $35.00 per day commencing July 1, 2023, and thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| S0688 | 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 |
| S0270 | 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 |
| S0852 | 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 |
| S0903 | Pass | Provides for minimum qualifications for court constable to include education, military, or law enforcement experience and drug and psychological screening.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| S0016 | Pass | Creates pilot program to establish harm reduction centers where use of pre-obtained controlled substances may occur under supervision of health care professionals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| S0966 | Pass | Increases flat fee paid to Lincoln and Tiverton as host communities from $100,000 to $200,00 for FY 2022/2023 with rates of increase for FY 2024 and thereafter based on rate of increase in combined sports/online sports wagering revenue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| S0489 | 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 |
| S0877 | Pass | Prohibits insurance carriers from charging out-of-pocket expenses to the insured for expenses related to the COVID-19 pandemic and mandates that all COVID-19 testing or vaccination is free.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S0321 | Pass | Updates and modernize 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 |
| S0881 | Pass | Includes East Providence in the Northern Rhode Island regional tourism district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S0133 | Pass | Increases the maximum amount to be recovered in civil court action as a small claims from two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) to five thousand dollars ($5,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S0434 | Pass | Grants paid sick leave and safe leave benefits to construction employees who work under multi-employer collective bargaining agreements, provided that certain conditions are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S0735 | Pass | Invests the chief justice of the supreme court with the explicit authority to address issues affecting the conduct of judicial business and order whatever response(s) he or she deems necessary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S0172 | Pass | Creates a voluntary mechanism for municipalities to use to dedicate a park, conservation or other land they own as public trust land in perpetuity to protect and preserve its future use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S0789 | Pass | Requires that annual reports of domestic and foreign business corporations, nonprofit corporations, and limited liability companies be filed with the secretary of state between February 1 and May 1 of each year. Effective January 1, 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S0801 | Pass | Establishes the policies and procedures required for the recognition and enforcement of Foreign-Country Money Judgments and Registration of Canadian Judgments by the superior court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| S0503 | 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 |
| S0086 | Pass | Provides that feminine hygiene products be provided in all public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S0170 | Pass | Limits health insurance carriers that provide coverage for prescription insulin drugs used to treat diabetes to forty dollars ($40) for a copayment for a thirty (30) day supply of medically necessary insulin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S0459 | Pass | Requires all new school buildings and those undergoing major renovations or substantial repair or replacement to plumbing systems to install water bottle filling stations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-02
Signed by Governor |
