| S0462 | Engross | Grants instate tuition status at state operated schools to active duty and reserve members stationed in Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-18
[Hearing: Sep 19]
To House Finance Committee |
| H6326 | Engross | Increases the upper gross weight limit for vehicles eligible for a combination plate from eleven thousand four hundred pounds (11,400 lbs.) to eleven thousand eight hundred pounds (11,800 lbs.).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-18
Placed on Senate Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S1011 | Engross | Requires the director the department of revenue to file annual reports, beginning on January 1, 2021 with the general assembly. Making recommendations and findings concerning the financial feasibility of the motor vehicle excise tax phase-out.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-18
[Hearing: Sep 19]
To House Finance Committee |
| S0202 | Engross | Requires DEM to issue regulations requiring any dock or pier longer than twenty feet (20') and located on a freshwater lake or pond to be equipped with reflective material such that it can be seen by watercraft operators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0949 | Engross | Subjects toll violators of out-of-state tolled projects to license and registration denial under certain circumstances
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0897 | Engross | Prevents registered sex offenders from forming more than ten percent (10%) of the population of residential facilities receiving state funding or assistance, with certain exceptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0009 | Engross | Amends certain provisions of the general laws pertaining to parole, medical parole, and community confinement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0893 | Engross | Specifies that adversely affected members of formulary change removing/making preferred or tiered status change of covered prescription drug receive required statutory notice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0605 | Engross | Allows those individuals with prior convictions for possession with intent to deliver or crimes of violence, to be eligible for the drug court program in Superior Court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S1003 | Engross | Repeals multiple sections of the general laws related to insurance, including §27-9-57 and chapter 75 of title 27 ("Surplus Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact").
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0166 | Engross | Prohibits the manufacture, sale, and distribution of residential upholstered children's products that contain certain amounts of bromide or chlorine bonded to carbon that is added to a plastic, foam, or textile.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0968 | Engross | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation To Pay Certain Claims
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on House Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0115 | Engross | Requires that five million dollars ($5,000,000) be appropriated to the Rhode Island public transit authority between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S1001 | Engross | Gives the city of Woonsocket the power to license and regulate peddlers selling or offering flowers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0979 | Engross | Creates a 25 member RI commission for national community service in the department of education to work with a nonprofit corporation of the same name created in 1994 to prepare and implement a 3 yr. community service plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on House Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0782 | Engross | Eliminates continuing education board (CEB) service of process by certified mail and prohibits claim negotiation with unlicensed public adjusters from excluding coverage to volunteer drivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S1005 | Engross | Requires that members of local planning boards and commissions receive two (2) hours of training on issues related to development in flood plains and the effects of sea level rise once every two (2) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S1004 | Engross | Changes the recognition of Viet Nam Veterans' Day from May 15 to March 29 in order to correspond to the federal observance of this day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S1000 | Engross | Designates October 23 of each year as a day to commemorate the nine Rhode Island marines killed in the 1983 terrorist attack in Beirut, Lebanon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| H5977 | Engross | Further delineates the ability of the town of Burrillville to tax electrical power generation facilities, regulated or otherwise and for private consumption on resale.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on House Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0383 | Engross | Establishes guidelines for the family court to use to decide petitions for visitation by grandparents based on a best interest of the grandchild standard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0146 | Engross | Adds two (2) requirements that a hospital provide to a prospective patient, the requested cost estimate of their requested anticipated hospital services within five (5) business days of request and the cost of any facility fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0575 | Engross | Updates the definition of visually impaired persons to conform to the federal standard based upon medical advances and to assure a uniform application by all municipalities in granting the exemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0392 | Engross | Empowers certain municipal housing courts to order a building into receivership pursuant to the provisions of chapter 44 of title 34, "abandoned property."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0927 | Engross | Authorizes the Warren town council, by ordinance, to administratively issue and renew all licenses the council is authorized to issue pursuant to state law, except those licenses that require a public hearing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on House Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0299 | Engross | Removes the exception to qualification for a broker's license previously granted those with a baccalaureate in real estate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0563 | Engross | Allows a pound or animal shelter to put an animal up for adoption after ten (10) days if it has a tag or after five (5) days if it has no tag.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on House Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0923 | Engross | Permits the department of health to designate hospitals as "acute stroke ready hospitals."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0005 | Engross | Joint Resolution Respectfully Requesting That All Branches Of State Government Continue To Collaborate On Policy Actions And Investments To Implement The Findings And Recommendations Of The Justice Reinvestment Initiative Facilitated By The Council O...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on House Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| H5218 | Engross | Provides that a payor may not deny continued residential or inpatient treatment coverage due to medical necessity and appropriateness of treatment under RI law .
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
[Hearing: Sep 19]
Scheduled for reconsideration (09/19/2017) |
| S0925 | Engross | Adds certain federal requirements to the selection of architects and engineers and permits prequalification of architects and engineers by cities and towns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0153 | Engross | Authorizes operators of developmental disability agencies acting as a group acting as a group, to self-insure health care costs for employees, retirees and other beneficiaries, and allows a qualified third-party administrator to administer said progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0777 | Engross | Requires an automated external defibrillator (AED) and qualified person to administer an AED at all public places capable of holding three hundred (300) people or more.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| H5709 | Engross | Provides additional guidance concerning the proposed disposition of remaining campaign funds of a deceased candidate or officeholder, former candidate or former officeholder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on House Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0006 | Engross | Creates a batterers intervention program fund and also adopts evidence-based probation and parole supervision systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0239 | Engross | Each individual violating law governing electricians, plumbers, and other trades constitutes a separate offense for firms/corporations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0721 | Engross | Imposes size and weight restrictions on through traffic on Forest Avenue, Middletown.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on House Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| H5206 | Engross | Upon defendant's violation of terms of bail, the amount forfeited by court is limited to10% of surety deposited.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
[Hearing: Sep 19]
Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (09/19/2017) |
| S0381 | Engross | Excludes weekends and state holidays from the calculation of the forty-eight (48) hour public notice requirement, and requires all public bodies to keep minutes of open meetings and file their minutes with the secretary of state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| S0349 | Engross | Imposes on breeders requirements already in place on other pet custodial agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| H5921 | Engross | Gives the city of Woonsocket the power to license and regulate peddlers selling or offering flowers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-14
Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| H6073 | Engross | Permits the town of Scituate to provide a tax credit to disabled veterans in lieu of a tax exemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-14
Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| H5818 | Engross | Amends the definition of "Patient safety work product" to conform with the federal "Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-14
Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| H6279 | Engross | Amends from ten (10) years to twelve (12) years the period which the city of Central Falls may authorize a stabilization of taxes on qualifying property located in the city of Central Falls.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-14
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| H6292 | Engross | Places time requirements on the implementation of projects authorized by the state traffic commission excluding geometric improvements, roundabouts and new signals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-14
Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| H6357 | Engross | Imposes on breeders requirements already in place on other pet custodial agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-14
Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| H6293 | Engross | Each individual violating law governing electricians, plumbers, and other trades constitutes a separate offense for firms/corporations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-14
Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| H6308 | Engross | Requires an automated external defibrillator (AED) and qualified person to administer an AED at all public places capable of holding three hundred (300) people or more.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-14
Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| H6185 | Engross | Enables the town of Bristol to provide tax relief to volunteer firefighters based upon certain qualifying criteria.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-14
Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
| H6259 | Engross | Authorizes the city council of Pawtucket to exempt from taxation, to the extent it may from time to time determine, the real and personal property of The Samaritans, Inc., located at 67 Park Place in Pawtucket, a RI §501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-14
Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (09/19/2017) |
