| RI | H8124 | Intro | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study Ensuring Racial Equity And Optimizing Health And Safety Laws Affecting Marginalized Individuals (creates A 13 Member Commission To Study The Health And Safety Impact Of Optimizing He...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-30
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H8113 | Intro | Designates physical, occupational, speech, and music therapies and behavioral health services as essential special services to be provided to students with disabilities during times of a declared emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-17
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H8114 | Intro | Requires school districts to provide for alternative programs within the school to reduce the number of out-of-school suspensions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-17
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | S2317 | Intro | Prohibits cost sharing for persons forty-five (45) years or older for colorectal screening examinations, laboratory tests and colonoscopies covered by health insurance policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H8087 | Intro | Requires all school districts to provide students enrolled in grades Kindergarten through twelve (K-12) access to high-speed Internet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H8080 | Intro | Permits Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings during a declared disaster emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-19
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H8067 | Intro | Provides for the "Suicide Treatment Improvement Act" to improve the delivery of suicide treatment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-18
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H8012 | Intro | Adds a definition to the term "manufacture" in the medical marijuana chapter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7996 | Intro | Allows teachers in all grades to provide the opportunity for students to observe a brief moment of silence on every September 11.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7997 | Intro | Prohibits the use of a school district's listserv to distribute any political advertisement, invitation, and/or propaganda.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7998 | Intro | Waives the adoption fee to adopt a dog or cat from a public animal shelter for a veteran that presents a current and valid driver’s license or identification card with the word “veteran” printed on its face.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7581 | Intro | Requires school districts to maintain classroom temperatures and humidity levels within targeted levels.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7825 | Intro | Provides that the public schools shall be responsible for attendance data monitoring and detection of emergent truant behavior.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7818 | Intro | Updates Access to Advanced Placement Courses for All Students Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7822 | Intro | Allows charter schools to engage in nontraditional approaches to learning and for student enrollment for new charter schools in transportation districts to be the same as other charter schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7826 | Intro | Requires the council of elementary and secondary education take into consideration the time and cost of transporting students across municipal boundaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7811 | Intro | Provides an exception to required school immunizations for pupils whose personal, philosophical, or religious beliefs are contrary to immunization and/or testing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7814 | Intro | Directs the DOE and sec. ed. to promulgate rules/regulations/establish minimum accountability standards/school districts would be required to meet in order to be in compliance with an individualized education program for students with disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7049 | Intro | 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] | 2020-03-11
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7397 | Intro | Removes the requirement to have a person trained in first aid in close proximity to operate a swimming pool without a lifeguard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7507 | Intro | Requires schools to comply with recycling and composting laws and promotes the donation of unspoiled nonperishable food by schools. Requires the use of share tables at all schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7797 | Intro | Directs school districts experiencing high rates of student absenteeism to establish attendance review teams to address this absenteeism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7291 | Intro | Requires elementary/secondary schools to have at least 1 school employee trained to administer/assist with the self-administering of seizure rescue medication prescribed to treat seizure disorder systems and the use of prescribed electrical stimulati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7508 | Intro | Requires the department of education to establish a program for all students in grades kindergarten through 12 to receive education and training regarding the prevention of relationship abuse, sexual violence, and sexual harassment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7821 | Intro | Requires all responsible school districts to provide all of their students in need of IEP services to receive them, no matter which school they attend or if they are homeschooled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7800 | Intro | Makes explicit that parents and guardians of children with disabilities in private school have the same rights and remedies as parents of children in public school. It also provides a procedure in superior court to enforce these rights and remedies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7292 | Intro | Creates minority teacher recruitment by allowing the commissioner of education to implement strategies to reach a goal of two hundred (200) minority teachers in the state by 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7442 | Intro | Creates a moratorium on the creation of any new charter public schools until there is a revision in the school funding formula to better reflect ELL and special education services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7607 | Intro | Establishes the implementation of trauma-informed practices in schools throughout the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7810 | Intro | Requires all students in kindergarten to grade twelve (K-12) to perform a minimum amount of community service each school year and would grant them the option to perform certain forms of community service for academic credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7975 | Intro | Provides that home and community based services for developmentally disabled persons would be person-centered and support services consistent with their plan of care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7974 | Intro | 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] | 2020-03-06
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7968 | Intro | Provides that the general assembly would appropriate $50,000 annually for teacher training in Orton-Gillingham classroom educator program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7966 | Intro | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Provide Recommendations For The Development And Implementation Of An Anti-littering Education Program For Rhode Island Public Elementary School Students
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7967 | Intro | Provides that if a school district establishes an Orton-Gillingham certified school, the program would be available to all students statewide who qualify.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | S2179 | Engross | 2) (Mandates public school classroom size be limited to twenty (20) students for kindergarten through grade two (2).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7338 | Intro | Directs that services provided by school social workers and certified school psychologists would be included as health care related services eligible for federal Medicaid reimbursement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7441 | Intro | Restricts the creation or expansion of charter schools and mayoral academies for the school years 2021-22 through 2023-2024, to be waived upon revision to charter school funding formula in § 16-7.2-5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7444 | Intro | Broadens the definition of "teacher" and create a comprehensive bill of rights for school teachers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7605 | Intro | Provides that the council on elementary and secondary education be encouraged to maintain, publish and update statewide standards for instruction of personal finance in public high schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7577 | Intro | Requires the implementation of the civic literacy act for all students between the eighth and twelfth grades.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7047 | Intro | Requires school committees to provide transportation for any student who resides two (2) or more miles from school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7232 | Intro | Establishes Alzheimer's disease/related disorders ombudsperson program in DOH to advocate for/assist individuals in coordinating medical/social services care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7271 | Intro | Establishes the Rhode Island Early Educator Investment Act to develop and implement strategies to improve the compensation of early educators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7045 | Intro | 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] | 2020-03-04
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7341 | Intro | Requires that commencing with the graduating class of 2022 all high school students attending public schools demonstrate proficiency in computer science.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | S2224 | Engross | Requires hospitals to adopt protocols for the early detection and treatment of patients with sepsis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7471 | Intro | House Resolution Respectfully Requesting That The Rhode Island Department Of Education Develop A Set Of Key Environmental And Climate Principles And Concepts To Be Infused In All Subjects For K-12 Public School Students
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7439 | Intro | Allows schools to suspend students, in and out of school, if in grades six or above, and prohibit school committees or principal from suspending students in grade 5 or below unless possessed weapons, narcotics or were found to be a danger.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7509 | Intro | Establishes student privacy in take-home technology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
