| RI | H7002 | Pass | Requires individual or group policy insurance to cover mastectomies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7182 | Pass | Prohibits the use of restraints on pregnant prisoners in their third trimester during transport to and from court proceedings by sheriffs and/or incarceration at the ACI with annual reports to the general assembly effective January 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7193 | Pass | Provides that any person, including, but not limited to, a minor who is pregnant, could give effective consent for medical, dental, health and hospital services relating to prenatal, delivery, and post-delivery care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7625 | Pass | Provides full year insurance coverage for contraceptives and would provide coverage thereto. Section 9 of this act, pertaining to Medicaid, would take effect July 1, 2019. The remaining sections would take effect April 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H8273 | Pass | Requires RIPTA to hold public hearing at least 30 days prior any bus route change in the affected neighborhood and provide a neighborhood impact statement to local and state officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7765 | Pass | Requires that a death certificate reflect the decedent’s gender identity, as reported by the next of kin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H8364 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring Representative Aaron Regunberg For His Service To The People Of The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-23
House read and passed |
| RI | H7699 | Intro | Requires schools to comply with recycling and composting laws and promotes food donation and local food service contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-21
House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| RI | H8130 | Intro | Amends procedures regarding local liquor license appeals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-21
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8348 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring Representative Joy Hearn For Her Service To The People Of The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-21
House read and passed |
| RI | H7570 | Intro | Permits students to possess and use over-the-counter products to treat menstrual cramps or vaginal yeast infections during school activities without a doctor's or parent's note.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H8321 | Intro | Directs the department of health to establish and inspection and evaluation program and establish rules and regulations regarding air quality in elementary and secondary schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H8025 | Pass | Allows Homer Darrell Callicutt to join Toni Lee Courvilee and Joseph Michael Doiley in marriage on or about July 3, 2018, within the Town of Narragansett, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H8277 | Intro | Mandates sexual harassment training for employees and supervisors of employers of fifty (50) or more employees. It would recommend an annual climate survey for employers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H8279 | Intro | Expands and clarify the definition of employees for purposes of the fair employment practices chapter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H8261 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating Diane Rich On Being Named Head Of The Rocky Hill School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-30
House read and passed |
| RI | H7873 | Intro | Directs council on postsecondary education to assess $50.00 per semester transportation fee on RI public college students with student ID cards serving as pass for services furnished/operated by RI public transit authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7352 | Intro | Joint Resolution Making Appropriations Of $175,000 To The Rhode Island Community Food Bank (this Joint Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of An Additional One Hundred Seventy-five Thousand Dollars ($175,000) To The Rhode Island Community Fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7531 | Intro | Adds individuals receiving public assistance to the list of persons liable and qualified for jury service and mandates the director of human services to provide the jury commissioner with a list of those people on public assistance on a yearly basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7356 | Intro | Requires that the division of planning create a checklist of environmental and energy issues that certain state construction projects which cost in excess of $10,000,000 would need to consider and address.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7095 | Intro | Exempts from the sales tax products used for feminine hygiene in connection with the menstrual cycle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7832 | Intro | Creates a tax on sugary drinks for the purpose of reducing the demand for those beverages, and discouraging the excessive consumption of, sugary drinks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8158 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring Robert Donovan On May 3, 2018, For Twenty-five Years Of Dedicated Service As Executive Director Of The Rhode Island Health And Education Building Corporation
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03
House read and passed |
| RI | H8157 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring And Thanking Arthur P. Sousa For 80 Consecutive Years Of Dedicated Service As A Volunteer Fireman With Defiance Hose Company No. 1 In Bristol, Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03
House read and passed |
| RI | H7094 | Intro | Directs the executive office of health and human services to increase income disregards for certain Medicare programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7285 | Intro | Establishes a universal, comprehensive, affordable single-payer health care insurance program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7811 | Intro | Requires that enrollees in the Rhode Island best RX Prescription drug discount program for the uninsured are not charged a copay for their prescriptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7137 | Intro | Creates the "Student Equal Economic Opportunity Act" which would identify those students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition at public universities, colleges or community colleges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7357 | Intro | Requires the yearly state contribution to the pension system not be reduced until the fund ratio meets or exceeds eighty percent (80%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7284 | Intro | House Resolution Respectfully Urging The United States Congress To Pass Legislation Establishing An Improved "medicare For All" Single Payer Program That Would Provide Universal Comprehensive Affordable Health Care
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-25
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H8045 | Intro | Requires the health insurance utilization review process include the use of physicians and dentists who are licensed, or otherwise formally recognized as specialists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-25
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H8116 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming May 24, 2018, To Be "age Friendly Rhode Island Day"
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-25
House read and passed |
| RI | H7591 | Intro | Provides that only peace officers and persons approved by the school authorities for the purposes of educational instruction may carry firearms or other weapons on school grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7766 | Intro | Restricts possession and sale of new assault weapons. Limits magazine capacity to 10 rounds or less. Grandfathers current possession/ownership.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7636 | Intro | Gradually increases the hourly minimum wage from $9.60 to $15.00 on January 1, 2022, as well as gradually increasing the hourly minimum wage for employees receiving gratuities from $3.89 an hour to $15.00 an hour on January 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-12
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7732 | Intro | Prohibits PFAS, a class of fluorinated organic chemicals, from being used in food packaging.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-11
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7340 | Intro | Prohibits the state from restricting persons from terminating pregnancy prior to fetal viability. Would repeal laws regulating abortion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7135 | Intro | Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) to two thousand dollars ($2,000), per ear, every three years. In addition, the amount of insurance coverage would no longer be based on the age of the recip...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7297 | Intro | Creates Sapinsley Compassionate Care Act to provide mechanism for terminally ill patient to choose to end their life using physician prescribed drugs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7368 | Intro | Requires health insurance to provide coverage for communication access between deaf patients and their physicians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7466 | Intro | Repeals the provision declaring prisoners serving a life sentence civilly dead.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7708 | Intro | Includes in the practice of physical therapy ordering diagnostic images and studies provided they are performed and interpreted by other licensed health care professionals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H8049 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming April, 2018, As "autism Awareness Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
House read and passed |
| RI | H7764 | Intro | Deletes the phrase “crime of moral turpitude” as a cause for denying or revoking a license of various businesses and professions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7726 | Intro | Extends child support for children attending college and living with custodial parent; restricts the court's power to modify existing orders of child support regarding arrearages owed to custodial parent even if the parties agree to waive.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7467 | Intro | Requires returns of a marriage certificate to be filed within two (2) business days after the ceremony, and would validate the common practice of filing the return by mail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7475 | Intro | Ensures appropriate disability language is used in job descriptions and statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7749 | Intro | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Reapportionment
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7878 | Intro | Includes the general assembly elections in the risk-limiting audits within the jurisdiction of the board of elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7369 | Intro | Prohibits the use of containers, or food packaged in containers, that contain bisphenol A.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
