| S2679 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes "early learning hubs" to serve as an intermediary among regional partners in order to coordinate support for early learning providers in the delivery of early childhood care and education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
| S2486 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Dignity at Work Act, to provide workers with more protection from bullying and harassment in the workplace.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
To House Labor Committee |
| S2664 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides identity theft protections by requiring reporting of breaches by certain municipal and state agencies, and requires notice to collective bargaining agents where required and requires an explanation of remediation services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| S2667 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the division of motor vehicles to develop a form for registration of and a license plate for commercial fishing motor vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
| S2750 | Engross
Sine Die | Eliminates the Rhode Island Underground Storage Tank financial advisory board and include the cleanup of residential heating oil tanks under the eligibility for reimbursement from the cleanup fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
| S2929 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that qualification to vote in elections of the Kingston Fire District extends to those residents of the District qualified to vote in the town of South Kingstown elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| S2681 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that childcare is part of an early learning program and is an essential program supporting the state’s workforce and a strong state economy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
| S2680 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates public, high quality pre-kindergarten education programs which are available to all children ages three (3) and four (4) throughout Rhode Island to increase children’s school readiness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
| S2678 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the office of early childhood development and learning to manage a statewide early learning system for children from birth through age five (5), and ensure all children enter school ready to learn.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| S2297 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an orphan and insolvent dam fund for the repair or removal of high hazard or significant hazard dams with the right of subrogation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
| S2601 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes review requirements for request for proposals by chief purchasing officer with duty to ensure no conflicts or appearance of conflicts of interest exist between members of technology evaluation committee/state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-13
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| S2818 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the non-Keno lottery prize awards from a maximum of sixty-five percent (65%) to seventy-one percent (71%) of the total revenue accruing from the sale of lottery tickets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-13
To House Finance Committee |
| S2879 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the town council of New Shoreham to adopt a tax classification plan in accordance with the provisions of this section, to be applicable to taxes on or after the assessment date of December 31, 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| S2815 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a real job Rhode Island program, which is an industry-led system to advance the skills of the state's workforce to grow the state's economy and increase sustainable employment for middle-class families.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| S2202 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the benefits given to eligible women under title XIX state plan through the last day of the month in which their twelve-month post-partum period ends.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| S2862 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds the Workers' Compensation Administrative Fund, Rhode Island Uninsured Employers Fund and the Rhode Island Uninsured Protection Fund to those restricted receipt accounts not subject to indirect cost recoveries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| S2413 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends "Former Spouse Divorced" to include married for ten or more years and required by court order to support post divorce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| S2187 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the Rite Track Program to provide health care coverage to children up to age nineteen (19) funded by federal funds, if available, or if not available, by state funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| H7299 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes the definition of collaboration for physician assistants/increases continuing education to 50 hours/adds licensed nurse practitioners and physician assistants to the School and Youth concussion act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H7767 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes the definition of "street rod" motor vehicle to reference its registration certificate and not its title. It would also change the meaning of "custom vehicle" by adding a reference to its registration certificate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-26
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| H7134 | Engross
Sine Die | Collects and disaggregate data on childhood cancer within the state’s cancer registry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2416 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that all contractual provisions in a firefighters collective bargaining agreement would continue until a successor agreement has been reached or an interest arbitration award has been rendered.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-22
To House Labor Committee |
| S2079 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the executive office of health and human services (EOHHS) to conduct a study to assess the impact of using Medicaid funds to provide coverage for the treatment of the chronically homeless.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-22
To House Finance Committee |
| S2244 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes new factors for the interest contract arbitration board for municipal employee unions to consider in rendering a decision the board power to render an award over all negotiated matters, including the expenditure of money.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-22
To House Labor Committee |
| S2204 | Engross
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] | 2022-04-22
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S2280 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that scholarships received directly from the College Crusade Scholarship Program would not be considered financial aid pursuant to the Rhode Island Promise Scholarships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-22
To House Finance Committee |
| S2078 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires coverage for residential/inpatient mental health services for detox/stabilization/substance abuse disorders without preauthorization or be subject to concurrent review during the first 28 days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-22
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S2832 | Engross
Sine Die | Names the Newport campus of the Community College of Rhode Island the M. Teresa Paiva Weed campus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-22
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| S2409 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that if state employee unions are engaged in contract negotiations and/or utilizing the dispute resolution process, all terms and conditions in the collective bargaining agreement shall continue to remain in effect.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-22
To House Labor Committee |
| S2417 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends provisions of an existing collective bargaining agreement for municipal police arbitration purposes until a successor agreement is reached or an interest arbitration award is rendered.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-22
To House Labor Committee |
| S2048 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts reusable bags from the state sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-08
To House Finance Committee |
| S2672 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the city of Providence board of licenses to grant exemption from restrictions relating to the issuance of a Class BL license or Class BV alcoholic beverage retail licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-08
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| S2698 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the public law creating the Johnston/Smithfield Regional Juvenile Hearing board to allow a board member to serve more than two terms if no other person seeks appointment to the board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-08
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| S2243 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the amount of parental or family leave available to an employee from thirteen (13) weeks to twenty-four (24) weeks in any two (2) calendar years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-08
To House Labor Committee |
| S2235 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the children’s cabinet, to develop a strategic plan to retain early childhood educators by creating a cross-departmental target wage scale of early educators and that of public school teaching staff or individuals with similar credentials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H7675 | Engross
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Amending The Joint Resolution Creating A Permanent Legislative Commission On Child Care In Rhode Island (this Joint Resolution Would Amend The Membership And Purpose Of Said Commission, Allow For Funding With Approval, And Require Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-07
House read and passed |
| S2343 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the number of members of the transit authority from eight (8) to ten (10) and makes the mayor of Providence or designee an ex officio member with voting privileges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2367 | Engross
Sine Die | Further delineates the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor and violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7392 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires retail establishments with 3 or more employees on the premises without accessible public restroom to allow customers suffering from eligible conditions access to their employee restrooms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-05
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2080 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires individual health insurers, large group health insurers and small employer health insurers to provide coverage for ten (10) categories of essential health benefits listed in the act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-25
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7346 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes a pharmacist to prescribe and dispense FDA-approved 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] | 2022-03-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H7429 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the maximum number of voters that a polling place can accommodate from three thousand (3,000) to three thousand five hundred (3,500)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7087 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a custody procedure for pets in divorce and separation proceedings based on the best interests of the animal. This act would not apply to assistance/service animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7393 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates the "Neil Fachon Terminally Ill Patients' Right To Try Act of 2022," which establishes the conditions for the use of experimental treatments for terminally ill patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H6659 | Engross
Sine Die | Same as 21H-5769 Sub A --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] | 2022-03-24
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2077 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the dept of behavioral healthcare/developmental disabilities/hospitals to coordinate with the DOH to propose revisions to chapter 1.10 and 10.1 of title 23, including updates and revisions of statutory language and evidence-based best practi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-23
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S2095 | Engross
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve, Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Right To An Adequate Education (amends The Constitution To Guarantee Rhode Island Residents With Equal Opportunity To Receive An Educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| S2087 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of environmental management to create environmental justice areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H6636 | Engross
Sine Die | 21H-5694 Sub A/3) --Authorizes municipalities to regulate the use of quadricycle passenger vehicles within their borders, provided there is approval by the local police chief.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2400 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires conservation and preservation restrictions to be liberally interpreted in favor of the grants awarded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
