| 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] | 2018-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 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] | 2018-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 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] | 2018-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 25]
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| 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] | 2018-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 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] | 2018-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary 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] | 2018-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 25]
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7625 | Intro | Requires individual/group health ins. Contracts eff. 1/1/19 to provide insured/spouse/dependents 12 month contraceptive coverage/voluntary sterilization/patient education/counseling/follow-up services and Medicaid recipient coverage for a 12 month su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-17
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8025 | Intro | 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] | 2018-04-17
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (04/24/2018) |
| 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] | 2018-04-12
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 | H7002 | Intro | Requires individual or group policy insurance to cover mastectomies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To House Corporations 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] | 2018-04-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7699 | Intro | Requires schools to comply with recycling and composting laws and promotes food donation and local food service contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| 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 |
| RI | H7412 | Intro | Requires that all menstrual products sold in the state bear a label listing the name of each ingredient or component of the device in order of the most predominant ingredient to the least predominant ingredient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| 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] | 2018-03-27
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7702 | Intro | Prohibits insurance companies from penalizing pharmacies or medical providers from disclosing information regarding the cost of medication or the availability of therapeutically equivalent alternative medications or methods of purchasing the medicati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7765 | Intro | Requires that a death certificate reflect the decedent’s gender identity, as reported by the next of kin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7115 | Intro | Prohibits an employer from seeking salary history information, including compensation and benefits, concerning an applicant for employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (03/22/2018) |
| RI | H7422 | Intro | Requires net neutrality by fixed or mobile broadband Internet access services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7117 | Intro | Defines and recognizes the existence and potential liability of lead entities concerning the payment of wages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-15
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7398 | Intro | Prohibits employers from receiving any portion of the tips given by customers to their tipped employees, with limited exceptions for credit card service charges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-15
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7428 | Intro | Exempts certain executive, administrative, and professional employees from overtime pay if their weekly wages exceed one thousand thirty-six dollars ($1,036), an increase from the current two hundred dollars ($200).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-15
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7952 | Intro | Eliminates the tax exemption for the sale of bibles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7159 | Intro | Allows a classified employee, whose position is not fully funded through federal loans and/or grants to seek the nomination of or to be a candidate for elective state office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7342 | Intro | Repeals the voter identification law, which required voters to prove their identity with written documents before they would be allowed to vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7613 | Intro | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study The Impact Of The Trauma Inflicted On Children Who Are Exposed To Violence (creates A 13 Member Commission To Study The Impact Of The Trauma Inflicted On Children Who Are Exposed To ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-14
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7530 | Intro | Establishes a process to ensure persons in government custody are counted as their actual residence for purposes of redistricting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7198 | Intro | Requires that the contractual provisions contained in and an otherwise expired collective bargaining agreement with certified school teachers and municipal employees continue until a successor agreement has been reached between the parties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To House Labor 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] | 2018-02-28
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] | 2018-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| 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] | 2018-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7363 | Intro | Prohibits insurance companies from varying the premium rates charged for a health coverage plan based on the gender of the individual policy holder, enrollee, subscriber, or member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-27
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7479 | Intro | Creates additional restrictions on the times for which caterers with a Class P license may serve alcohol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-27
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7193 | Intro | Allows a pregnant person to provide consent to receive certain types of medical care related to a pregnancy, regardless of the person's age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7077 | Intro | Provides that no pregnant applicant for medical insurance coverage be denied coverage due to her pregnancy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7150 | Intro | Provides students attending public or private schools enrolled in grades K-12 with a student's bill of rights prohibiting discrimination based on race, sex, gender, economic status or mental, physical, developmental or sensory disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
