| H7996 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating The Celebration Of Saint Patrick's Day And Recognizing The Cultural And Historic Links Between Ireland And Rhode Island And The Establishment Of The American-irish State Legislators Caucus
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
House read and passed |
| H7684 | Intro
Sine Die | Deletes all uses of the word master as it relates to courts and replace it with the word arbiter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7809 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the summons for eviction for reasons other than nonpayment of rent with the district court, to add a certificate of service section, and provides the option to post the summons/complaint conspicuously on door of the defendant/tenant's dwelli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7808 | Intro
Sine Die | Corrects an erroneous statutory citation found in § 12-12-9, which inaccurately referred to § 12-9-8 (extradition), rather than the correct statute § 12-19-8 (suspension of sentence and probation by superior or district court).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2474 | Intro
Sine Die | Redefines the term "covered services" as used to describe applicable subscriber agreements between a health care entity and a dentist.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H7997 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating The Honorable Nick Perry On Being Confirmed As The 1st Jamaican-born Person To Be Named Ambassador Extraordinary And Plenipotentiary Of The United States Of America To Jamaica
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
House read and passed |
| H7683 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a residential tenant, if they wish, to pay their security deposit in twelve (12) equal installment payments at the same time they pay their monthly rent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2682 | Pass | Senate Resolution Honoring Steven J. Arthurs On The Occasion Of His Retirement
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
Senate read and passed |
| H7998 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating The University Of Rhode Island Women's Basketball Team On Their Outstanding 2021-2022 Season And Wishing Them Continued Success In The 2022 Women's National Invitation Tournament (wnit)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
House read and passed |
| H7954 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all municipalities in Rhode Island to provide residents twenty-four (24) hours notice of all snowstorm cancellations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H7698 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the name of the title of chapter 12-30 of the general laws to be "The Jennifer Rivera Witness Protection Act".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7893 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires landlords to complete the landlord portion of an application for federal emergency rental assistance before starting an action for eviction against a residential tenant for nonpayment of rent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7765 | Intro
Sine Die | Effective January 1, 2023, increases the minimum hourly wage to fourteen dollars and fifty cents ($14.50) to sixteen dollars and seventy-five cents ($16.75) the next year, the next year to nineteen dollars ($19.00).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Labor Committee |
| H7720 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows individuals employed in domestic service or in or about a private home to be included as an employee, for purposes of minimum wages law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Labor 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 |
| S2081 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that nonprofit dental service corporations shall have the power to provide for the administering and/or insuring of vision and optometric programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H7802 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires insurance coverage for a minimum of ninety (90) days of residential or inpatient services for mental health and/or substance use disorders for American Society of Addiction Medicine levels of care 3.1 and 3.3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7670 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "covered services".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7878 | Intro
Sine Die | Caps the total amount that a covered person is required to pay for a covered prescription asthma inhaler to fifty dollars ($50.00) per thirty (30) day supply.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7858 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7667 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the laws of the state where the medical services are rendered shall be the state law that applies to reimbursement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7671 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that dental services rendered to patients in Rhode Island would be governed by the general laws of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S2484 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the number of days a retired municipal employee could work in a calendar year without interruption of pension benefits to 90 days
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H7666 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the copayment or coinsurance requirement on specialty drugs to one hundred fifty dollars ($150) for a thirty (30) day supply.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7988 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Respectfully Requesting The Rhode Island Department Of Human Services To Use Its Regulatory Authority To Immediately Reduce Family Copayments For The Child Care Assistance Program
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7987 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes and requires the department of human services to hire an administrator for the refugee assistance program on a full-time basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7575 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the law that prevented municipalities from establishing their own minimum wage for their employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Labor Committee |
| S2487 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds active firefighters and police officers or officers from their respective union to the retirement board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H7348 | Intro
Sine Die | Commencing 1/1/23, gradually increases the minimum wage for employees receiving gratuities from the current ($3.89) to ($14.95) by 1/1/2027 and on 1/1/2028 the minimum wage shall be no less than the minimum wage established by the minimum wage law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Labor Committee |
| H7627 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a community mental health services revolving fund, to help fund the construction and renovation of facilities to provide mental health services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7389 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a core state behavioral health crisis services system, to be administered by the director of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7098 | Pass | Allows the Honorable Mary A. Orfanello to join Marge M. Urquhart and Matthew P. Orfanello in marriage on or about April 2, 2022, within the City of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H7673 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all persons granted a foster care license to undertake ongoing training to promote their sensitivity to their foster child's culture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7721 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employer to furnish items and conditions of employment and a pay stub explaining how wages were calculated/reasons for deductions/allows the employee to file a court action against employer for violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Labor Committee |
| H7618 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7901 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates repealed statute references and create a mechanism for employees to enforce their existing right to continuation of medical benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Labor Committee |
| H7030 | Pass | Allows Cynthia A. Chester, Justice of the Peace in the State of Connecticut, to join Kacie Ann Chester and Cole Whitehead in marriage on or about July 3, 2022, within the Town of Narragansett, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H7980 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating The Bryant University Men's Basketball Team On Winning The 2022 Northeast Conference Championship And Wishing Them Continued Success In The 2022 Ncaa Basketball Tournament
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-15
House read and passed |
| S2040 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the departments of elementary and secondary education and health to adopt policies/ rules/regulations for the administration of seizure rescue medications for children who have been medically identified as having epilepsy/seizure disorder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| H7648 | Intro
Sine Die | Temporarily removes the cap on the number of days that retired teachers and administrators can work, without penalty, from July 1, 2022 to July 1, 2024 when the provisions of this act would sunset.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-15
To House Finance Committee |
| S2173 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that one third of all Rhode Island teachers, each year for the next 3 years, be trained in the basic emergency and response skills curriculum ("BEARS"), specifically in hand-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation/Heimlich maneuver/bleeding contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2611 | Intro
Sine Die | DOH to develop and publish opioid alternative pamphlet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H7821 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the division of motor vehicles from refusing to re-register any vehicle for the current registrant, which has previously been registered in Rhode Island as prescribed in title 31.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-15
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H7644 | Intro
Sine Die | Effective July 1, 2022, entitles environmental police officers to the benefits provided by chapter 45-21.2 entitled "Optional retirement for members of police force and firefighters."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7291 | Intro
Sine Die | Gradually increase the amount of the pension benefits of all Central Falls Retirees covered by the retirees' settlement agreement to one hundred percent of their base pension benefit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-15
To House Finance Committee |
| S2197 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes within the EOHHS a rare disease medication reinsurance program fund in consultation with an advisory council, to assure equitable financing and facilitate access to medication for rare diseases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H7386 | Intro
Sine Die | SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT) (Prevents state from reducing retirement benefits due teachers, by the amount they received for workers' compensation specific compensation and Medicare set aside allocations, thereb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-15
To House Finance Committee |
| S2615 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an intellectual/developmental disabilities ombudsperson program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H7958 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes driver education schools to offer the driver training curriculum in an instructor-led virtual format.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-15
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
