| RI | H8343 | Intro | Exempts property located at 161 Douglas Avenue, Providence, from prohibition of sale of alcoholic beverages within two hundred feet (200') of any school or church.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-21
[Hearing: Jun 21]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2008 | Intro | Requires Internet service providers to follow Internet service neutrality requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2208 | Engross | Entitles correctional officers with twenty-five (25) years of service and who are at least fifty-five (55) years of age to a non-Medicare-eligible retiree health care insurance benefit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7676 | Intro | Prevents credit history or score from being used to determine insurance rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-16
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2332 | Engross | Requires pub. utilities/electric distribution co. to provide prompt/adequate service to ratepayers for new service/ upgrades w/penalty of up to $1,000 with electric distribution co. to provide written estimates/itemized bill for work in excess of $50...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-13
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2330 | Engross | Requires the public utilities commission to implement a purchase of receivables program where the electric distribution company purchases the receivables of a nonregulated power producer at a discount rate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-13
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8306 | Intro | Requires the DOT to establish a schedule of all maintenance, including landscaping and mowing of lawns on state roads, and provide a copy of said schedule to the department of public works in any city or town where the state road is located.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-12
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8253 | Intro | Provides that any minority business enterprise that is certified under the Federal Small Business Act shall be deemed certified by the department of administration as a minority business enterprise.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-12
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8090 | Intro | Permits the taking of domesticated and undomesticated game birds on a shooting preserve subject to certain requirements on licensing, shooting area and records required to be kept.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-04
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2870 | Engross | Prevents credit history or score from being used to determine insurance rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8234 | Intro | Creates the "Travel Insurance Act" to establish a comprehensive and uniform regulatory framework to clarify current applicable law applicable to travel insurance policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-29
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8192 | Intro | Extends DOT authority to lease airport property to 50 years. Increase to 9 the directors on the airport corporation board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-23
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2851 | Engross | Requires sealers of weights and measures appointed by the cities and towns to receive the same fees as charged by the sealers who perform the same inspecting/testing services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2679 | Intro | Provides that insurance companies may not mandate the use of aftermarket parts without the owner's consent on motor vehicles less than 48 months beyond manufacture date.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8165 | Intro | Adds thermal systems insulation to the regulation and licensing of mechanical trades.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8136 | Intro | Provides for a two year certificate of inspection for any non-commercial vehicle with a gross vehicle weight of less than eleven thousand eight hundred pounds (11,800 lbs.).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2652 | Engross | Expands the definition of eligible net metering resources by including "eligible biomass fuels" as defined in § 39-26-2(6).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7808 | Intro | Caps the system benefit charge at the annual published Consumer Price Index or two and one-half percent (2.5%), whichever is greater.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-01
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7674 | Intro | Establishes the Rhode Island public power utility council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-30
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7654 | Intro | Defines "private entities" and would add private entities to those entities as institutions that are considered eligible net-metering resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7661 | Intro | Requires the public utilities commission to periodically review the advertising expense, passed through in utility rates, to determine whether the expense should be deemed allowable or should be excluded from the utility's rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7823 | Intro | Prohibits any health plan with a pharmacy benefit from requiring the insured to order from a particular pharmacy in order to have payments applied to their deductible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7619 | Intro | Provides for the establishment of limited liability companies having one or more designated series of members, managers, limited liability company interests or assets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7548 | Intro | Reassesses any utility rate increase after January 1, 2017, and evaluate whether the increase in rate results in excessive profits to the utility company.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8003 | Intro | House Resolution Expressing Disappointment In National Grid For Its Increasing Rates And Service Concerns And Recommending That The Responsibility For Energy Distribution Be Transferred To Not-for-profit Entities
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7345 | Intro | House Resolution Recognizing National Grid For Committing Federal Tax Savings Towards A Reduction In The Increase Facing Rhode Island Ratepayers
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7684 | Intro | Establishes audit requirements for pharmacy benefit managers, and annual reporting requirements for health insurers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7671 | Intro | Raises the maximum check cashing fee from fifty cents ($.50) to six dollars ($6.00) per check, for persons cashing checks incidental to the retail sale of goods or services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7628 | Intro | Requires all public utilities regulated by the PUC to file a rate request for a decrease in their base rates to reflect any federal tax savings as a result of the enactment of federal tax legislation commencing May 1, 2019, and every May 1 thereafter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8068 | Intro | Permits cities and towns to issue special events liquor licenses to permit the equivalent of one-day licenses one day each month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8060 | Intro | Requires the issuance of utility bill credits to customers of electrical or cable television providers when the customer's service is interrupted for a period of one hundred sixty-eight (168) hours within a thirty (30) day period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7931 | Intro | Requires the health insurance commissioner to make recommendations to the general assembly to ensure compliance with mental health parity provisions required by existing law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7971 | Intro | Ticket resellers required to provide refund for counterfeit, misrepresented and unusable tickets. Ticket issuers would offer optional transferable tickets and eliminates criminal penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2489 | Engross | Adds prepackaged cheeses to the items allowed for sale at Class A license holders premises in towns or cities of ten thousand (10,000) or more inhabitants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-06
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7871 | Intro | Provides that the board of directors of the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation shall include a senior manager of a business which derives a majority of its revenue from the defense industry and has facilities located in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7777 | Intro | Creates a wine direct shipper license and a wine gift basket license allowing for the shipment of certain amounts of wine both in and out-of-state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7785 | Intro | Specifically authorizes the governor and the reciprocity board to enter into motor vehicle and disability parking reciprocity agreements with the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7876 | Intro | Includes the East Providence Waterfront District Commission's appointment process within its subsidiary creation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7970 | Intro | Amends several processes relative to the termination of a time-share agreement and the division of the ownership interests thereto.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7874 | Intro | Requires cable television companies to give their customers the option to purchase, at its fair market value, a device which decodes digital cable signals for their cable signal reception.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7675 | Intro | Prohibits any entity or individual from advertising the sale, purchase, receipt, transport, delivery or salvage of any auto wrecking or discarded automobile unless the advertiser is a licensed junk or salvage yard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7932 | Intro | Includes licensed school psychologists under the provisions of the general laws governing the regulations of psychologists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7782 | Intro | Provides that jurisdiction of all use of agricultural and vegetable seeds is vested exclusively in the director of the department of environmental management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7789 | Intro | Creates the "Insurance Data Security Act" which would adopt the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Model Act regarding data security.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7564 | Intro | Imposes a penalty on a condominium association for failing to deliver a resale certificate within ten (10) days of a request by a unit owner, and establishes a maximum fee of $125 for compiling a resale certificate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7781 | Intro | Limits damages to $100,000 in any tort action against the public transit authority, except by a special act, authorized by the general assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7008 | Intro | Provides for a dispute resolution process for emergency services and surprise bills for medical services performed by nonparticipating (out-of-network) health care providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7130 | Intro | Exempts the town of New Shoreham from the jurisdiction of the division of public utilities and carriers for purposes of regulating transportation network companies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7660 | Intro | Clarifies that interconnection and standby transformer costs incurred by any electric distribution co. For BI be charged in transmission rates and socialized across RI and provides for the reimbursement of BI Power Co. By National Grid for such costs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7875 | Intro | Requires all public utilities to maintain a customer service facility within the state to perform services such as addressing customer inquiries and accepting bill payments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
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