| S2030 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires Internet service providers to follow Internet service neutrality requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H8151 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires school committee/governing body of charter/private school to notify RIDE of athletic coaches/trainers terminated for cause with RIDE required to maintain/allow access to non-public record list by hiring authority for any school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To House Education Committee |
| S2350 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the number of signatures that a candidate may submit for certification, to seventy-five (75) if fifty (50) signatures are required and to one hundred twenty-five (125) when one hundred (100) signatures are required.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2512 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the lobbying reform act to apply to persons who lobby municipal government executives and legislative bodies, as well as local fire districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2597 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Katie Beckett Program pursuant to federal guidelines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2607 | Intro
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] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H7178 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that enrollees in the Rhode Island best RX Prescription drug discount program for the uninsured are not charged a copay for their prescriptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| S2744 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Model Act regarding data security.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2858 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an Address Confidentiality Program for persons subjected to abuse or domestic violence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2517 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the process of removing a deceased person from the registered voter rolls.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7789 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the life-time limit for RI Works benefits to 60 months, increases the monthly cash benefit to 50% of the federal poverty level, and includes participation in a post-secondary education program for two years as an allowable work activity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7650 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the general assembly to appropriate necessary funds for the furnishing of in-house occupational and physical therapy services for all residents of the Bristol Veterans' home.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| S2598 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the daily rate of payments to nursing facilities by twenty percent (20%) for single occupancy rooms to include private bathrooms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2803 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the division of taxation, division of motor vehicles and department of revenue to those agencies who receive lists of reported deaths.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7647 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes for the purposes of Rhode Island state income taxes, the first $25,000 of eligible military retirement income, paid by the state or federal government to persons 60 years or older received in the 2023 tax year, and thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| S2627 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases role of the DMV in the voter registration/address verification process, by imposing specific/comprehensive obligations. Protects from disclosure to federal government, any documents produced, pursuant to these new voter registration procedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| H7860 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the executive office of health and human services to adjust, once every three (3) years the per diem reimbursement to nursing facilities, by taking into consideration increases in direct and indirect care costs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| S2853 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows licensed podiatrists to administer botox injections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2877 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that for cities and towns holding elections every 4 years, the terms of the members of the school committee expire on election day and the vote taken for the whole number of members on the same date, except for the city of Central Falls.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2530 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that only the mail ballot voter, their spouse, court appointed guardian, cohabitant, or any adult person related to the voter by blood or marriage, be allowed to physically mail the voted mail ballot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7641 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows families to continue to receive state and federal tax credits and any stimulus funds provided for the well-being of children or adults without jeopardizing the family's RI Works cash benefit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| S2635 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it easier for eligible incarcerated inmates to vote and creates the title of a "jail voting coordinator" within the department of corrections to help facilitate inmate voting from start to finish.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2353 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all campaign schedules of contributions submitted to the board of elections expressly indicate whether the contributor is a registered lobbyist.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7816 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines as "disabled," persons receiving veterans' affairs disability benefits paid by the federal government for purposes of property tax relief.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7986 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes and allocates the sum of $8,000,000 to the Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, to be used towards the Hospital's renovation of its Labor and Delivery Unit. The allocation comes from American Rescue Plfunds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| S2108 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provision of the general laws declaring prisoners serving a life sentence civilly dead.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H8102 | Intro
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] | 2022-04-28
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H7070 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands eligibility for elderly services assistance to persons under age 65 suffering from Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia confirmed by a licensed physician provided that the person's joint income not exceed 250% of the federal poverty leve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7382 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for an income tax deduction for a taxpayer serving in the national guard at an amount up to fifty percent (50%) of the taxpayer's income earned for medically related service during a pandemic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7791 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an intellectual/developmental disabilities ombudsperson program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7380 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for an income tax deduction for military service pension benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| S2464 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes home care nursing assistants licensed by the department of health to work exclusively in home care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H8140 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the department of business regulation from substituting judgment made by local boards and authorities unless not improper, clearly erroneous, or otherwise arbitrary or capricious.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H7446 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides Medicaid home care base rate adjustments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| S2354 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the mailing of any mail ballots or mail ballot applications to any voters who did not request them.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7799 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits contracts with private, for-profit prison facilities or with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the purposes of housing and detaining people.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| H6650 | Intro
Sine Die | Same as 21H-5795 -- 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] | 2022-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| S2749 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definitions of a "Pupil Transportation Vehicle" to be and constructed to seat not more than ten (10) passengers including the operator, rather than the existing limit of eight (8) passengers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| H7864 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the collection unit sunset provision of June 30, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| S2673 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows cottage food manufacturers upon registration with the DOH and directs the department to permit home food manufacture and sales direct to consumers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| H7241 | 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] | 2022-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| H7331 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes during declared emergency the issuance of emergency rules for corporate filings and minimum taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| H7796 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends IOD benefits to police officers/firefighters suffering from post-traumatic stress injuries/provides municipal police/firefighters retiring due to PTSI accidental disability retirement allowance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| H7892 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the sealing and unsealing of court files in residential eviction proceedings and provides that any eviction for nonpayment of rent, in which the rent arrearage is paid through a rent relief program, shall remain sealed permanently.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7449 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the amount of life insurance the state would provide at no charge to Rhode Island National Guard members called up for federal duty to five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| S2574 | Intro
Sine Die | SEE TITLE 19 CHAPTER 97 - THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT) (Amends and revises the minimum standard for the public education system's basic education program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| H8167 | Intro
Sine Die | Disruptive students to serve suspension in school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
To House Education Committee |
| H7073 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the dates of the Revenue Estimating Conferences meeting to the last ten (10) days of April and the first ten (10) days of November of each year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| H7922 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the retailer competitive grants revolving fund to award grants, through a competitive process, to local on the ground businesses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| H7620 | Intro
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] | 2022-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
