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RIH7650Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES -- EXTREME TEMPERATURE EMPLOYEE PROTECTION - Directs employers to take certain actions to protect their employees who are exposed to extreme hot and cold temperatures and failure to implement or ...
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2024-03-05
To House Labor Committee
RIH7626Intro
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BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- THE PRACTICE OF ACUPUNCTURE AND CHINESE MEDICINE - Broadens the definition of a "qualified individual" in acupuncture and Chinese medicine to include any person trained and certified in auricular acudetox.
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2024-03-05
To House Health & Human Services Committee
RIH7799Intro
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY PROGRAM - Allows a licensed health care provider, who is assaulted in the workplace, to use the address of the department of health as the person's substitute address for all purposes, including...
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2024-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee
RIH7043Intro
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INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Prohibits health benefit plans reviewing prescriptions for opioid addiction treatment.
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2024-02-29
To House Health & Human Services Committee
RIH7794Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- ARBITRATION OF LABOR CONTROVERSIES - Reduces disruptive labor disputes with municipal police and firefighter unions during the transition to a new collective bargaining agreement by extending the existing collective barga...
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2024-02-29
To House Labor Committee
RIH7805PassHouse Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Arthur Robbins
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2024-02-29
House read and passed
RIH7807PassHouse Resolution Recognizing The Theta Psi Omega Chapter Of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, For Their Service, Sisterhood, And Scholarship Nationally And In The State Of Rhode Island
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2024-02-29
House read and passed
RIH7308Intro
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EDUCATION -- MAINTENANCE OF ORDER ON CAMPUS - Mandates arming campus police at public higher educational institutions and includes campus police in the definition of "law enforcement officer" for the purposes of the "Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of...
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2024-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee
RIH7369Intro
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MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Prohibits the division of motor vehicles from placing on a motorist's driving record, a traffic violation which fine has been paid no longer than thirty (30) days after its issuance. This procedure...
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2024-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee
RIH7072Intro
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Joint Resolution To Approve, Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State -- Four Year Terms For Representatives And Senators (proposes An Amendment To The State Constitution, Article Iv, Section 1, T...
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2024-02-15
Withdrawn at sponsor's request
RIH7151Intro
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INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- PHYSICAL THERAPY COPAY - Limits copays, coinsurance or office deductibles for services of a physical therapist to the amount authorized for the services of a primary care physician or osteopath...
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2024-02-15
To House Health & Human Services Committee
RIH7320Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WAREHOUSE WORKER PROTECTION ACT - Requires employers to provide each employee of a warehouse distribution center, upon hire, with written description of quotas applicable to the employee within defined time periods and ad...
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2024-02-14
To House Labor Committee
RIH7599PassHouse Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Letitia Morrison Carter
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2024-02-14
House read and passed
RIH7153Intro
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INSURANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS - Caps the total amount that a covered person is required to pay for a covered prescription asthma inhaler to twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per thirty (30) day supply.
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2024-02-09
Withdrawn at sponsor's request
RIH7099Intro
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MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY -- POLICE RELATIONSHIP ACT OF 2015 - Amends the comprehensive community-police relationship act of 2015 to require an annual study by an outside agency chosen by the department.
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2024-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee
RIH7300Intro
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FOOD AND DRUGS -- RHODE ISLAND FOOD, DRUGS AND COSMETICS ACT - Prohibits the manufacture, sale and distribution for sale a food product containing brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben and red dye 3.
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2024-02-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee
RIH7296Intro
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HIGHWAYS -- CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF STATE ROADS - Authorizes and empowers the department of transportation to plant pollinator-friendly species of trees, shrubs, grasses and plants.
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2024-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee
RIH7295Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLEAN AIR PRESERVATION ACT - Establishes regulations to prohibit stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), solar radiation modification (SRM) experimentation, and other hazardous weather engineering activities.
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2024-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee
RIH7126Intro
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Authorizes the City of Cranston to issue not to exceed $40,000,000 general obligation bonds.
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2024-02-05
Withdrawn at sponsor's request
RIH7488Intro
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TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under fourteen thousand pounds (14,000 lbs.) gross weight.
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2024-02-02
To House Finance Committee
RIH7499Intro
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PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Allows retired public safety officers to seek secondary employment with the state or any municipality without any reduction or forfeiture of retirement benefits.
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2024-02-02
To House Finance Committee
RIH7056Intro
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FOOD AND DRUGS -- FORCE-FED POULTRY PRODUCTS - Prohibits force-feeding to create a force-fed poultry product nor hire another to engage in force feeding of a poultry product. Violations would be subject to a civil penalty of $500.
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2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee
RIH7059Intro
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PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LABOR AND PAYMENT OF DEBTS BY CONTRACTORS - Amends the definition of public works so that it would include any public works projects performed for any city or town or quasi-municipal entity and the state and any quasi-sta...
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2024-02-01
To House Labor Committee
RIH7047Intro
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FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT - Amends the current law on controlled substances to permit a person to be in possession of less than one ounce of psilocybin and permits psilocybin to be securely cultivated within a person's resid...
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2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee
RIH7104Intro
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PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- CORROSION PREVENTION AND MITIGATION WORK REQUIREMENTS - Gives authority to the DLT to enforce violations of the laws relating to corrosion prevention and mitigation work requirements. Also adds civil monetary penalties fo...
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2024-02-01
To House Labor Committee
RIH7199Intro
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DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION - Permits family court to make orders of support and education of a child from ages eighteen (18) to twenty-one (21).
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2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee
RIH7413PassHouse Resolution Proclaiming February 4, 2024, As "transit Equity Day" In The State Of Rhode Island In Honor Of Rosa Parks And Her Historic Fight For Equitable Public Transit
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2024-02-01
House read and passed
RIH7081Intro
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INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Protects and continues health insurance coverage for the dependent of an employee who wishes to change their health insurance coverage to Medicare or are currently on Medicare.
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2024-01-30
To House Corporations Committee
RIH7083Intro
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BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICIAN ASSISTANCE LICENSING COMPACT ACT - Adopts the model compact for the physician assistant's licensure compact in Rhode Island.
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2024-01-30
To House Corporations Committee
RIH7150Intro
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BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS - Expands the rights of physician assistants with regard to their practice and prohibits non-compete clauses that exceed five years with regard to the purchase and sale of a practice.
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2024-01-30
To House Health & Human Services Committee
RIH7347PassHouse Resolution Celebrating The 10th Annual "physician Anesthesiologists Week" On January 28th Through February 3, 2024, In The State Of Rhode Island
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2024-01-30
House read and passed
RIH7119Intro
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Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State-of Elections And Campaign Finance (proposes A Constitutional Amendment Authorizing Four (4) Year Terms For Members Of The G...
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2024-01-23
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7156Intro
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Joint Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Write An Olmstead Plan For Rhode Island (this Resolution Creates A 28 Member Special Legislative Commission Whose Purpose Is To Write An Olmstead Plan For Rhode Island, And Reports Back To...
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2024-01-17
Withdrawn at sponsor's request
RIH7192PassHouse Resolution Recognizing And Thanking Sean Carey For His Heroic Efforts In Saving A Young Woman's Life
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2024-01-16
House read and passed
RIH7076PassHouse Resolution Celebrating "national Law Enforcement Appreciation Day" On January 9, 2024
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2024-01-09
House read and passed
RIH7008PassHouse Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Stephen Nardelli, Sr.
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2024-01-04
House read and passed
RIH7001PassHouse Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of The Honorable James F. Davey
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2024-01-02
House read and passed
RIH7000PassHouse Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of The Honorable Neil A. Corkery
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2024-01-02
House read and passed
RIH7003PassHouse Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Daniel L. Beardsley, Jr.
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2024-01-02
House read and passed
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