| S2320 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a deduction from federal adjusted gross income for interest payments on outstanding student loans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2408 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the criminal penalties for wage theft and employee misclassifications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2322 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits certain volunteer firefighters to purchase motor vehicles by utilizing state purchasing provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2344 | 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] | 2022-02-15
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2253 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the maximum number of voters that a polling place can accommodate from three thousand (3,000) to four thousand (4,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2278 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a new educational program that would allow students to enroll public and private schools of their choice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| H7243 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows health insurance plans to provide coverage for accessible residence modifications determined to be medically necessary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-14
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7347 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health insurance plans to provide coverage for accessible residence modifications, where those modifications are medically necessary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-14
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7298 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that all COVID-19 testing, inclusive of rapid antigen testing and/or PCR testing are covered by insurance regardless of whether such testing is ordered by a doctor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-14
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7345 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a two (2) year pilot program to provide insurance coverage for neurofeedback therapy for members of the military and veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and for individuals under the age of twenty-one (21).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-14
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7242 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for establishment of the rare disease medication reinsurance program to be funded by insurer contributions that would be administered by the secretary of health and human services based on recommendations from a 15 member advisory council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-14
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7403 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an accident compensation fund to provide payments and benefits to those injured by uninsured motorists, to be administered by the department of human services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| S2143 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an agreement to limit corporate incentives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7453 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits an individual’s co-pay for any diagnostic imaging tests, inclusive of magnetic resonance imaging tests (MRIs), computed tomography scans (CT), ultrasound or x-ray, to forty dollars ($40).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-14
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7256 | Pass | E
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-11
Signed by Governor |
| H7473 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes state support for school-based mental health services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| S2154 | Pass | E
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-11
Signed by Governor |
| H7084 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that payment orders issued by the court would not enter unless certain procedures required by the court regarding determining a defendant's ability to pay are considered.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7085 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes Rhode Island First Step program requiring DOC to assist offenders with reintegration into society, counseling, medical care, education, early sentence termination or pre-release confinement for elderly and terminally ill offenders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7431 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Congratulations
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
House read and passed |
| S2170 | Pass | Senate Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of The Honorable Paul J. Harvey
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Senate read and passed |
| H7247 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a new criminal offense of harassment and allow victims to file for a protective order in district court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7248 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the penalties for driving so as to endanger, death resulting, by increasing the maximum term of imprisonment from ten (10) years to twenty (20) years, and the maximum term of license suspension from five (5) years to ten (10) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H6637 | Intro
Sine Die | Same as 21H-6049 --Establishes criteria for the criminal offense of sexual assault when the victim is in the custody of a peace officer/provides that a person convicted of custodial sexual assault would face imprisonment for not more than 3 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7141 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals court costs against all defendants who plead nolo contendere, guilty or are found guilty of certain crimes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7086 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows expungement of multiple felony convictions for non-violent felonies 20 years after sentence completed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7430 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of The Honorable Mr. Everett E. Hudson, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
House read and passed |
| H7138 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a parents' bill of rights related to the health, education and welfare of their minor children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7192 | Intro
Sine Die | Standardizes and makes uniform the applicability, assessment, collection, waiver, and ultimately the extinguishment of court costs, fees, fines and assessments required in connection with all criminal cases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7092 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces excess interest rate chargeable by the Warwick Sewer Authority from a maximum rate of one and twenty-five hundredths percent (1.25%) to a maximum rate of one-half of one percent (.5%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H7432 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Condolences
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
House read and passed |
| H7016 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows businesses that had an insurance policy in place for business interruption as of March 9, 2020 or thereafter to recover from their insurance companies for a COVID-19 business impact.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7160 | Intro
Sine Die | Property insurance policies issued beginning January 1, 2023, shall not void or exclude coverage to an "innocent co-insured" for intentional loss caused by another co-insured.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7018 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires school committees to provide transportation for any student who resides two (2) or more miles from school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To House Education Committee |
| H7120 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to develop and make available for school use a mental health curriculum. Schools would be required to provide four (4) hours of mental health instruction to seventh grade students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To House Education Committee |
| H7083 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the twelve (12) member broadband council to create a plan to increase the use of broadband service in the state. A broadband administrator is to be designated in RI Commerce Corporation to access federal funds and coordinate with the coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| H7187 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires Internet service providers to follow net neutrality requirements serving consumers/state as well as awarding of state contracts with violations resulting in penalty provisions for deceptive trade practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| H7119 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the council on elementary and secondary education to develop recommendations for a high school curriculum to prepare students for successful postsecondary education and careers in computer science.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To House Education Committee |
| H7230 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of certain information sources, and algorithms and predictive models that use external data, to unfairly discriminate based on race and other matters in regard to any insurance practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7114 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends property damage coverage for a rented motor vehicle to under seventeen thousand, nine hundred pounds, without regard to negligence for a period not to exceed ninety consecutive days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7168 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs all school districts to prepare district recovery plans by September 1, 2022 which would include strategies and targets for students, to address losses in both academic and social-emotional learning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To House Education Committee |
| H7015 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that any rate increase with respect to electric distribution companies would be no greater than the increase in the Consumer Price Index or 5.5%, whichever is greater, unless there is approval of a higher rate by the general assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7364 | Pass | House Resolution Recognizing And Congratulating Joseph J. Flaherty On Being The 2022 Rodli Award Recipient
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
House read and passed |
| S2247 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to investigate, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the expenditure of public funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Rules, Government Ethics and Oversight Committee |
| S2226 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes licensed auto body shops to sell or dispose of motor vehicles that have been abandoned and located on their premises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2189 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the "Medicaid Employer Assessment."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7132 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the state board of pharmacy from nine (9) to eleven (11) members by adding two (2) pharmacy technicians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7365 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating "national School Counseling Week" On February 7-11, 2022, In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
House read and passed |
| S2237 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers with 50 or more employees to pay "hazard pay" to employees involved in providing essential services during a declared public health emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H7366 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming The Week Of February 7th Through The 14th Of 2022, To Be "congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
House read and passed |
