| H7076 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires patient contact employees, personal care attendants and high-risk providers to undergo a national criminal records check and disqualifies those individuals, if they have a criminal record for crimes of violence or other offenses listed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S2168 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale of gasoline-powered leaf blowers in this state after July 1, 2023 and prohibit their use in this state after July 1, 2024. Violations would be punished by a civil fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2164 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming February Of 2022, To Be "children's Dental Health Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
Senate read and passed |
| S2172 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires free lunches to be provided for all elementary and secondary students attending public schools, to the extent state and federal funds are available.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2193 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to promulgate rules and regulations to determine whether a nursing home facility shall be granted an exception from the minimum staffing level requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H7184 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes licensed school psychologists under the provisions of the general laws governing the regulations of psychologists and provides specific qualifications applicants for licensing as a school psychologist must meet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S2214 | 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] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2241 | 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] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2240 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the minimum hourly wage commencing January 1, 2027, by an amount equal to the total percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the Northeast Region for the calendar year 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2191 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs department of administration to promulgate regulations giving preferences in the awarding of state contracts to certain business enterprises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7186 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that any law or regulation which protects a person from exposure to secondhand smoke would also provide protection from exposure to secondhand tobacco and marijuana smoke, regardless of how the smoke was generated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S2225 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State-line Item Veto (this Proposed Amendment To The Constitution Would Provide The Governor With A Line-item Veto On The Budget ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2175 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides local education agencies (LEAs) hiring site-based specialists for reading and math to receive state reimbursement based on enrollment and specific guidelines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2239 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines and recognize the existence and potential liability of lead entities concerning the payment of wages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2165 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of David R. Narodowy
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
Senate read and passed |
| H6646 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Respectfully Urging The United States Congress To Pass Legislation Establishing An Improved "medicare For All" Single Payer Program That Would Provide Universal, Comprehensive And Affordable Health Care (same As 21h-6078--)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7082 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires mandatory training standards for police officers and trainees, in identifying, responding, and handling all incidents involving any person with a developmental disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7131 | Intro
Sine Die | DOH to develop and publish opioid alternative pamphlet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S2177 | Intro
Sine Die | SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97--THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT) (Requires district and independent charter schools to use a random selection process to select eligible public school students who would be invited to attend the charter school and all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2184 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a surtax on the business corporation tax for publicly traded corporations subject to SEC disclosure and reporting requirements, if corporation's ratio of compensation for its CEO to median worker is equal to or greater than 100 to 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2163 | Pass | Senate 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
Senate read and passed |
| H7028 | Pass | Authorizes the town of Johnston to issue bonds and notes in an amount not exceeding $215,000,000 to finance construction, additions, renovation, improvement, alteration, repair, furnishing and equipping of schools and school facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-07
Signed by Governor |
| S2020 | Pass | Authorizes the town of Johnston to issue bonds and notes in an amount not exceeding $215,000,000 to finance construction, additions, renovation, improvement, alteration, repair, furnishing and equipping of schools and school facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-07
Signed by Governor |
| H7075 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a dog can only be declared vicious if it is involved in a physical attack.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7330 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Condolences
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
House read and passed |
| H7326 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Rhonda Ann Vespia
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
House read and passed |
| H7135 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits copays, coinsurance or office deductible for services of a physical therapist to the amount authorized for the services of a primary care physician or osteopath.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7327 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of John Garofalo, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
House read and passed |
| H7020 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the current law so that digital breast tomosynthesis (dbt) screenings are available wherever mammograms are conducted and to provide insurance coverage for such screenings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7081 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that all cosmetics manufactured, sold, delivered, or held for offering to be sold contain a label that completely and accurately lists all of its component ingredient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7329 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Congratulations
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
House read and passed |
| H7077 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that a participant or beneficiary of a health insurance plan incur no greater out-of-pocket costs for emergency services than they would have incurred with an in-network provider other than in-network cost sharing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7183 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the authority of the health insurance commissioner to enforce any act of Congress/decision of federal court invalidating or repealing the prohibition of annual lifetime limits on health insurance in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7210 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Review The Impact Of Existing Rules And Regulations On The Creation Of New Businesses, And Provide Recommendations To Revise Laws In Order To Eliminate Barriers (creates A 17 Mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
To House Small Business Committee |
| H7078 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a health plan to cover clinically appropriate and medically necessary residential or inpatient services, including detoxification and stabilization services, for the treatment of mental health and substance use disorders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7328 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Mario A. Mancieri
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
House read and passed |
| H7325 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating The 252nd Anniversary Of The Ratification Of The Fifteenth Amendment On February 3, 2022
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
House read and passed |
| H7121 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits discrimination in postsecondary education of students who are granted medical or religious vaccine exemptions by a sponsoring university or college.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-02
To House Education Committee |
| H7027 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires bidders on public school construction contracts of $5,000,000 or more to have an apprenticeships program compliant with chapter and truthful reporting of program data to DOLT effective July 1, 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-02
To House Labor Committee |
| H7198 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizes that municipal employees have the opportunity to utilize interest arbitration and would establish new factors for the arbitrators to consider. These factors include comparisons of wages/hourly conditions of employment in similarly skilled ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-02
To House Labor Committee |
| H7089 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that all contractual provisions in a firefighter's collective bargaining agreement would continue until a successor agreement has been reached or an interest arbitration award has been rendered.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-02
To House Labor Committee |
| H7090 | Intro
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] | 2022-02-02
To House Labor Committee |
| H7111 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the percentage of retail electricity sales from renewable energy sources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-02
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H7166 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires courses in family life or sex education be taught in grades 6 -12 and be appropriate for students of all races, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-02
To House Education Committee |
| H7163 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides students attending public schools enrolled in grades K-12 with a students' bill of rights prohibiting discrimination based on race, sex, gender, economic status or mental, physical, developmental or sensory disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-02
To House Education Committee |
| H7162 | Intro
Sine Die | SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT) (Allows schools to impose an out-of-school suspension for students in grade 6 or above, if they are found to be a threat to the physical safety of school occupants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-02
To House Education Committee |
| H7116 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the state board of pharmacy to annually identify up to fifteen prescription drugs with increased costs and provide the list to the attorney general to obtain reasons for the cost increases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-01
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7258 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Timothy Alan Jackson
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-01
House read and passed |
| S2159 | Pass | Senate Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of The Honorable Julian P. Forgue, Iii
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-01
Senate read and passed |
| S2157 | Pass | Senate Resolution Honoring And Thanking Dr. Nicole Alexander-scott
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-01
Senate read and passed |
