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RIS2811Engross

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WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Provides that the legislature would be the body that negotiates on behalf of the state for all activities occurring in, on and over state submerged land extending beyond twenty-five (25)...
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2024-06-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIS2283Engross

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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- GOVERNOR'S WORKFORCE BOARD RHODE ISLAND - Creates a civic apprenticeship program for recent Rhode Island high school graduates to gain work experience working in Rhode Island state departments.
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2024-06-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIS2019Engross

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HIGHWAYS -- SIDEWALKS - Requires that all maintenance of sidewalks along state highways, with the exception of snow and ice removal, be the responsibility of the state.
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2024-06-05
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIS2281Engross

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LIBRARIES -- STATE AID TO LIBRARIES -- FREEDOM TO READ - Encourages and protects the freedom of public libraries to acquire materials without limitations and prohibits materials being removed from public libraries due to partisan or doctrinal disappr...
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2024-05-31
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIS2766Engross

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PUBLIC RECORDS -- PUBLIC RECORDS ADMINISTRATION - Updates public records administration act, modifies records control schedule, designates records officer, establishes procedures for retention of records. Provides administrator submit yearly reports,...
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2024-05-31
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIS2075Engross

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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Requires the secretary of the executive office of health and human services to present to the general assembly a plan for the realignment of state hospitals into a department of ho...
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2024-05-24
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH8240Intro

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PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- PUBLIC BUILDINGS - Provides that public gatherings on state house grounds be regulated to protect the participants and their right to attend public gatherings.
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2024-05-03
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH8225Intro

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MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- DRIVER PRIVILEGE CARDS AND PERMITS - Prohibits driver privilege cards and state identification cards from containing any bar codes on the card that can be scanned and used for voting purposes.
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2024-05-01
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH8178Intro

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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION - Redefines the groups included in "minority community-based organizations" for purposes of them making recommendations for appointments to state boards, commissions, public author...
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2024-04-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH8159Intro

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PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- PUBLIC BUILDINGS - Authorizes and funds the painting of a portrait of the president of the senate and former presidents of the senate who may be living to be hung in the state house.
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2024-04-10
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7638Intro

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CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- STATE COMMISSION ON PARDONS - Establishes a nine (9) member commission on pardons to provide recommendations to the governor as to who should receive executive pardons per the state constitution.
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2024-04-09
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH8107Intro

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PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- MERIT SYSTEM - Creates separate and distinct employment positions and salaries under the unclassified pay plan for the board of elections employees.
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2024-04-09
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7389Intro

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MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- ORGANIZATION AND COMMAND OF MILITARY AND NAVAL FORCES - Requires an official declaration of war or an action to call forth the state militia by the United States Congress before members of the National Guard may be rel...
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2024-04-09
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH8148Intro

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WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Replaces the coastal resources management council with a state department of coastal resources and transfers all of the powers and duties between the two (2) authorities.
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2024-04-09
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7968Intro

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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DETENTION FOR FEDERAL CIVIL IMMIGRATION VIOLATIONS - Prohibits state or municipality from contracts to detain individuals for civil immigration violations, and if such contract exists, it must end by July 1, 2025 and p...
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2024-04-09
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH8008Intro

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MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT - Limits the governor to one thirty (30) day renewal of a declaration of emergency without a joint resolution of the general assembly.
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2024-04-09
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH8007Intro

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MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- TRANSFER OF VEHICLES - Allows temporary vehicle registration and plates issued to Rhode Island residents by another state to be valid; provided that, the plates and registration issued to an out-of-state resident by a Rhod...
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2024-04-02
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH8118Intro

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ELECTIONS -- RHODE ISLAND CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENDITURES REPORTING - Amends various sections of law relating to campaign contributions and expenditures including prohibitions on self-dealing with committee funds and would prohibit donation m...
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2024-04-02
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH8015Intro

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INSURANCE -- MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT AND MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE FRAUD REPORTING -- IMMUNITY ACT - Prohibits the release of customers personal information compiled by the department of motor vehicles to any private company, nonprofit organization or thir...
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2024-04-02
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7765Intro

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ELECTIONS -- THE INFORMED VOTER ACT - Requires entity such as a nursing home, elder care facility that receives governmental funding post a notice that political candidates are not permitted to solicit residents and visits would be maintained in a bo...
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2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7847Intro

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ELECTIONS -- RHODE ISLAND CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENDITURES REPORTING - Includes political action committees that register with the Federal Election Commission within the definition of political action committees for the Rhode Island elections.
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2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7766Intro

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ELECTIONS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Redefines "Political Party" and defines and distinguishes between "major parties" and "minor parties" based on the total number of votes a party's candidate received in the previous election.
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2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7848Intro

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ELECTIONS -- REGISTRATION OF VOTERS - Amends the current law so that it would no longer mandate, but rather simply allows local boards to annually conduct a voter registration drive at each high school within the city or town.
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2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7850Intro

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ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Establishes election day as a day of special observation in the State of Rhode Island. The act would also restrict the use of mail ballots in elections.
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2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7585Intro

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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND COMMERCE CORPORATION - Removes nuclear plant projects from seeking the approval from the general assembly for the construction of said nuclear plant.
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2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH8046Intro

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ELECTIONS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Allows citizens of a city or town who are at least sixteen (16) years of age to register to vote and to vote in school committee elections in municipalities where school committees are elected entities.
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2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7540Intro

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ELECTIONS -- PRIMARIES FOR ELECTION OF DELEGATES TO NATIONAL CONVENTIONS AND FOR PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE - Establishes the Ranked Choice Voting for Rhode Island Presidential Primaries and provides for new sections on Ranked Choice Voting Tabulation a...
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2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7115Intro

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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Provides that public bodies not be required to hold open-forum sessions on any topic not on the meeting notice and limits comment on any topic not previously posted.
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2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH8011Intro

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STATE PURCHASES -- CHANGE ORDERS - Prohibits the extension of contracts by any state or municipal department or agency by the utilization of change orders if the additional work or services exceeds ten percent (10%) of the original value of the contr...
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2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7181Intro

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PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Makes changes to the access to public records act, including clarifying various provisions, increasing the sanctions for knowing and willful violations of the law, and making certain traffic accident data ...
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2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7763Intro

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PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Provides for free APRA records, DOA manages all APRA Records, and uses an online database for records.
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2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH8012Intro

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PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES - Makes all documents and information related to any bid proposal relative to state purchases public records and available for inspection and review by any person seeking the records under chapter 2 of tit...
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2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7764Intro

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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Requires public bodies to offer translation services for all open meetings of said bodies.
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2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7327Intro

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PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Requires a member of the public to pay any outstanding balances due and owing for previous requests before being provided copies of records and documents on a new request from law enforcement agencies.
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2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH8010Intro

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PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES - Establishes the Rhode Island purchasing cooperative for procurement of public service and municipal vehicles for all state and municipal agencies to participate in procurement opportunities of zero-emiss...
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2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7846Intro

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PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Makes any record of any person, firm, or corporation that successfully competes for state contract or business, a public record, including those records that are considered proprietary or otherwise confide...
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2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7761Intro

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PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- NARRAGANSETT TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY ACT - Exempts all Narragansett Indian Tribe members owning real estate, whether privately, commercially, in nonprofit corporations or in land trusts, from all real estate taxes imposed by t...
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2024-03-14
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7760Intro

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TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts all Narragansett Indian Tribe homeowners from real estate taxes and real estate tax liens, imposed by the state or any municipality. Also declares the Tribe as the sole sovereign federally recognized...
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2024-03-14
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7180Intro

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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Requires the secretary of the executive office of health and human services to present to the general assembly a plan for the realignment of state hospitals into a department of ho...
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2024-03-14
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7762Intro

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PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- NARRAGANSETT INDIAN LAND MANAGEMENT CORPORATION - Repeals sections of the Narragansett Indian Land Management Corporation Act and acknowledges the Narragansett Indian Tribe as the sole aboriginal people sovereign to the t...
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2024-03-14
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7845Intro

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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION -- HUMAN SERVICES FTE ACCOUNTABILITY PORTAL - Directs the department of administration to establish a human services transparency FTE portal.
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2024-03-14
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH8006Intro

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WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Provides that the legislature would be the body that negotiates on behalf of the state for all activities occurring in, on and over state submerged land extending beyond twenty-five (25)...
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2024-03-14
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7473Intro

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PUBLIC RECORDS -- PUBLIC RECORDS ADMINISTRATION - Updates public records administration act, modifies records control schedule, designates records officer, establishes procedures for retention of records. Provides administrator submit yearly reports,...
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2024-03-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7388Intro

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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- RIGHT TO EARN A LIVING ACT - Establishes procedures to ensure agency regulations don't restrict individuals from businesses and professions, including home-based businesses, barbers, hairdressers and manicurists.
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2024-03-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7665Intro

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PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- APPOINTMENT, QUALIFICATION, AND TENURE OF OFFICERS - Requires letters of appointment of public officers and employees be sent to the secretary of state's office.
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2024-03-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7390Intro

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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND LOBBYING REFORM ACT - Expands the lobbying reform act to apply to persons who lobby municipal government executives and legislative bodies, as well as local fire districts.
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2024-03-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7584Intro

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PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES - Reduces the required number of members present to constitute a quorum from three (3) to two (2) members.
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2024-02-29
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7386Intro

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LIBRARIES -- STATE AID TO LIBRARIES -- FREEDOM TO READ - Encourages and protects the freedom of public libraries to acquire materials without limitations and prohibits materials being removed from public libraries due to partisan or doctrinal disappr...
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2024-02-29
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7070Intro

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ELECTIONS -- RESIDENCE OF INDIVIDUALS IN GOVERNMENT CUSTODY ACT - Requires state use actual residences of persons in government custody for redistricting purposes. Information would be collected by the department of corrections and forwarded to the s...
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2024-02-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7248Intro

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ELECTIONS -- VOTING DISTRICTS AND OFFICIALS -- POLLING PLACE CAP - Increases the maximum number of voters that a polling place can accommodate from three thousand (3,000) to three thousand five hundred (3,500).
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2024-02-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee
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