| S2599 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes up to nine (9) grants to hire a community schools coordinator and establishes up to eighteen (18) grants to distribute funds for the expansion of community schools programs established pursuant to the African America history education act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H8306 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the CRMC Council to conduct a public review and update of regulations/“Red Book,” at least every five (5) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H8244 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all aquaculture leases granted by the coastal resources management council (CRMC) to be located at least one thousand feet (1,000') from the median high tide/tide line.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-07
To House Corporations Committee |
| H8307 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits public testimony at administrative hearings of the coastal resources management council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H8216 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it an unfair claims practices act violation for an insurer to fail to have an appraisal performed by a licensed appraiser when a vehicle sustains damage in excess of $5,000. Also corrects a citation regarding salvage and reconstructed titles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-07
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2592 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the “Rhode Island Hard-Hit Emergency Liquidity Program Act” to provide up to twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) to businesses adversely affected by the Coronavirus pandemic by providing aid for drop in sales.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H8322 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the executive director of the coastal resources management council to have at least one full-time staff attorney to represent the executive director and staff at council hearings and agency matters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H8323 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that future appointment of members to the coastal resources management council receive due consideration to those individuals possessing qualifications in specified areas and limits the members to serving three (3) successive appointments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H6664 | Intro
Sine Die | Same as 21H-5772 -- Requires the health insurance commissioner to adopt a uniform set of medical criteria for prior authorization and create a required form to be used by a health insurer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-07
To House Corporations Committee |
| H8288 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the town of Glocester to tax the real and tangible property of Factory Mutual Insurance Company and would allow the town of Glocester to increase their tax levy by 12.46% for the fiscal year 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-07
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| S2980 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a contractor, subcontractor or public body to include offsite fabrication work in weekly certified prevailing wage records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H8279 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes and ratifies the action of the North Providence town council which reapportioned and redistricted three (3) voting districts based on the most recent federal decennial census.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H8318 | Intro
Sine Die | Strengthens school security measures/established 8 member school emergency response committee/rapid response teams/SWAT teams/requires annual appropriation of $1,000,000 to achieve these goals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
To House Finance Committee |
| S2973 | Intro
Sine Die | Prevents insurance companies from treating widowed persons differently than married persons when establishing or maintaining an insured’s rate or classification respecting the operation of a personal motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2992 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends certain provisions relative to the application for absentee mail ballots, including a process to be included on a permanent mail voter list.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2965 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Central Coventry Fire District Charter to provide for purchasing, installing, operating and maintaining street lighting and the funding for its debt. Provides for the appointment of an Assistant Treasurer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-02
Senate held on desk |
| S2981 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides certain benefits to members of the Hmong Laotian special guerilla units who served in the secret war in the Kingdom of Laos during the Vietnam War in conjunction with the United States armed forces as granted to Rhode Island veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-01
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| H8305 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Honorable Marvin L. Abney to join Kerry-Ann Edmondson and Paris McGee in marriage on or about June 25, 2022, within the Town of Bristol, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-01
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| H8304 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the application or removal of eyelash extensions and the use of chemicals in the area of the eyelids to the definition of the "practice of hairdressing and cosmetic therapy".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-01
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S2948 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes maximum rate for services provided to client by a nurse may not exceed 200%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-01
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H8297 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that professionals authorized to prescribe opioid drugs discuss addiction risks with the patient or the patient’s parent or guardian if the patient is under eighteen (18) years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-01
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H8266 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes eligible nonimmigrant visa holders from paying the same in-state tuition as any other Rhode Island student.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7283 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Rhode Island Early Educator Investment Act to develop and implement strategies to improve the compensation of early childhood educators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7284 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the state to appropriate the sum of $250,000,000 from federal COVID relief funds to establish virtual online learning programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H8169 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits prior authorization or step therapy protocol for the prescription of medication to assess or treat an enrollee's serious mental illness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| S2626 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health care facilities that perform abortions to meet the license requirements of similar health care facilities and allows the department of health to conduct unannounced inspections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2089 | Intro
Sine Die | Spells out the responsibilities of both the landlord and tenant with respect to the inspection and treatment of bed bugs in residential premises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-31
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2340 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits single-family residential zoning in municipalities with populations of over twenty-thousand (20,000) and mandate that those municipalities adopt zoning regulations for middle housing in single-family residential zones.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-31
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2625 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the Rhode Island Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, prohibiting the performance or induction of an abortion of an unborn child capable of feeling pain, unless necessary to prevent serious health risk to the unborn child’s mother.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7756 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the EOHHS to submit to the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services a state plan amendment to Medicaid dental and chiropractic rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| S2549 | Intro
Sine Die | Provide fors abortion coverage in the Medicaid program and repeals the abortion coverage exclusion for state employee insurance plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2386 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides equal medicare for infants born-alive as a result of abortion procedure/natural delivery with violations subject to criminal penalties for medical personnel/loss of license/civil action for damages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2520 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires written consent by recipient or parent before vaccine and prohibits discrimination against those who don't vaccinate and fines up to $25,000 for violation. Also prohibits DCYF from investigating for failure to vaccinate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2387 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminalizes the knowing and intentional failure of a physician, nurse, or other licensed medical person to provide reasonable medical care and treatment to an infant born alive as a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H8178 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates $1.0 million in state funds to nonprofit hospitals serving large governmentally insured populations with a primary care focused (internal medicine and/or family practice) program that started after January 1, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H7731 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the continuance of the remote notarization following the expiration of the executive emergency order currently in effect and requires a certificate of any notarial act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-28
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H8298 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the requirement that taxicabs and public motor vehicles obtain a chauffeurs license under chapter 10 of title 31 relating to operators' and chauffeurs' licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H8296 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Make Recommendations Regarding Rhode Island’s Old Growth Forests (creates An 11 Member Commission Whose Purpose Would Be To Study And Make Recommendations Regarding Ri's Old Gr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H8286 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits new high-heat waste processing facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-26
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H7623 | Intro
Sine Die | Promotes the use of state surplus property by permitting the department of administration to obtain an appraisal and sell property to be used for housing development purposes where appropriate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-26
To House Finance Committee |
| S2954 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes local education agency (LEA) to supply a community-based organization (CBO), with individual-level student data, provided certain criteria are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-25
To Senate Education Committee |
| H8283 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $5,000,000 To The Rhode Island Department Of Human Services To Provide Baby Food And Infant Formula Through The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program And Other Means (this Resolution Would Authorize The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-25
To House Finance Committee |
| S2964 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a Foster Fire District with authority to levy taxes, for the purpose of providing fire and rescue services to the town of Foster, subject to its approval by qualified electors within the town of Foster, at the November 8, 2022, general electi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-24
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| H7543 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates that all lawn care devices have zero-emissions by 2027, and a plan for such would be submitted to the house and senate by 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-24
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H8277 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes failure to report child abuse/neglect/sexual assault/battery of child by coach/teacher/school administrator a felony punishable by a fine up to $5,000/imprisonment up to 5 years or both.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8278 | Intro
Sine Die | Owners of animals in RISPCA custody to pay for animal's care or animal may be forfeited.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2801 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates public records administration act, modifies records control schedule, designates records officer, establishes procedures for retention of records. Provides administrator submit yearly reports, establishes public reporting compliance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7179 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides medical assistance coverage for medical services provided to qualifying eligible recipients for community-based care. The department of human services on EOHHS would seek federal approval to implement the provisions of the act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-19
To House Finance Committee |
| S2738 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that surcharges on credit card transactions may only be permitted when certain notice requirements are adhered to and provides for a misdemeanor penalty of five hundred dollars ($500) and/or one year in jail in any violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-19
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H7626 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates that health insurance companies and Medicaid provide coverage for FDA approved COVID-19 home testing kits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-19
To House Finance Committee |
