| RI | S2277 | Pass | Provides that the members of the board of the Block Island Utility Commission be reimbursed for the actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-06
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S2652 | Pass | Eliminates the requirement that a member of the labor relations board not be a holder of any other public office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S2838 | Pass | Requires the commissioner to update the status of Providence school district and requires the commissioner to update the turnaround plan released June 23, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-02
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S2083 | Pass | Provides for consumer protection in eye care services by developing standards and enforcement protocols in the provision of eye care services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2294 | Pass | Amends dam safety standards to require the state building code standards committee to take into account climate change effect on inundation areas below dams classified as high, significant, or low hazard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2295 | Pass | Authorizes DEM to assess penalties for non-compliance with emergency plans for significant/ high hazard dams with DEM/EMA developing system to issue severe weather advisories/watches/warnings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2586 | Pass | Requires any request for proposal issued by the state may not be changed unless the request for proposal is cancelled and reissued as a master price agreement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2771 | Pass | Amends the formula used to reimburse a utility facility or company for the cost of relocation necessitated by highway construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2855 | Pass | Increases the current levy on construction costs for residential building permits to be deposited into an exempt restricted receipts account to be used for training grants, including programs for local and state building officials and minority busine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2006 | Pass | Allows the division of motor vehicles to issue driving privilege cards and driving privilege permits, to applicants unable to establish their lawful presence in the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2249 | Pass | Extends from twenty (20) days to thirty (30) days, the period of time that a newly purchased motor vehicle may be temporarily operated, using the purchaser's current licenses plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2412 | Pass | Requires that janitors and security guards employed, pursuant to state contracts worth more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) of janitorial or security services, be paid a standard compensation rate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2511 | Pass | Requires online posting of hotel rules. Allows ejection of person for verbally abusing or physically threatening a hotel employee or guest. Permits refusal of service to anyone under the age of 18, unless accompanied by an adult.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2814 | Pass | Revises the manner in which complaints against contractors are made, processed, investigated, and resolved in a more efficient and expeditious manner and makes various technical and grammatical corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2977 | Pass | This act is the annual workers' compensation omnibus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2215 | Pass | Allows a classified employee to seek elected office provided that they resign their position upon being elected.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2279 | Pass | Establishes a process for CCRI, RIC and URI to accept for college credit an advanced placement subject test score of three (3) ("qualified") or better in an advanced placement course.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2411 | Pass | Requires school lunch service contracts to provide for payment to school-lunch workers and aides for one hundred eight (180) days or the length of the contract for the school year, whichever is longer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2485 | Pass | Exempts retired police officers from the seventy-five (75) day rule which restricts employment for retirement purposes, when they work private details for a nongovernmental entity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2770 | Pass | Transfers all responsibility for oversize/overweight permitting to the department of transportation and amends and increases fines for all oversize and overweight infractions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2689 | Engross
50% | Modifies the application process for interconnection projects to require greater transparency/greater clarity through an 8 member committee and independent ombudsman with prospective application.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-23
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S2321 | Pass | Authorizes the city of Providence to finance a contribution towards the unfunded pension liability of the employee retirement system of the city of Providence by the issuance of bonds in the principal amount of $515,000,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2585 | Engross
50% | Creates the Governor’s Clean Energy Workforce Transition Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-22
Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| RI | S3025 | Intro
25% | Amends the net metering statute to exclude net-metering systems from a residential zone.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-22
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2167 | Pass | Decreases the number of OSHA training hours from three (3) hours to one hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-21
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2812 | Pass | Enacts the Rhode Island Limited Partnership Act to govern the law of limited partnerships in this state and repeal chapter 12 of title 7 entitled "Limited Partnerships".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-21
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2813 | Pass | Enacts the Uniform Partnership Act to govern the law of partnerships in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-21
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2496 | Pass | Prohibited gaming patrons forfeit winnings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-20
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2856 | Pass | Amends and updates the qualifications for state and local building inspectors and officials aligning state law with federal law and also makes several technical corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-20
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2876 | Pass | Amends the law pertaining to tax classifications in the town of Johnston to allow it to enact tax classifications in accordance with the nature of the real and personal property to be taxed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-17
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S3023 | Pass | Senate Resolution Celebrating June 16, 2022, As "essential Worker Appreciation Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-16
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2242 | Pass | Repeals § 28-12-9 of the general laws which provides that the director of labor and training may approve of wages below the minimum wage for those persons whose earning capacity is impaired due to physical or mental disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-15
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2434 | Pass | Modernizes the Rhode Island credit card lending statute by amending the definition of “credit card plan”.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-15
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2480 | Pass | Provides the standards for reviewing applications for plans or work for the extension of supply or distribution mains or pipes. It also adds an appeal of a denial by a public water supply facility pursuant to the administrative procedures act § 42-3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-15
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2819 | Pass | Extends the renewal period for lottery sales agent's license from one year to two (2) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-15
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2822 | Pass | Creates a name for the Rhode Island Convention Center Boardroom as the James P. McCarvill Boardroom.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-15
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2262 | Engross
50% | Exempts from sales and use taxes: burial containers, urns, urn liners, urn vaults, grave liners, grave vaults, burial liners, burial vaults, burial tent setups, and prayer cards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2489 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the role of a workers' cooperative to allow it to operate as a hiring hall under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S3010 | Intro
25% | Allows the Narragansett Bay Commission to engage in public purpose projects that will have a positive impact on the economic, environmental, and social welfare of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-09
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2788 | Engross
50% | Adds advanced recycling as a definition for refuse disposal. Adds the advanced recycling facility that means a facility that receives, stores and converts post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks using advanced recycling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-08
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2978 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the types of electrical services that require an electrical contractor's license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-08
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2119 | Pass | Allows the board of elections to begin the certification of mail ballots twenty (20) days prior to election day. It also establishes a new and more comprehensive mail ballot voter signature verification process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-07
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2125 | Engross
50% | Exempts full-time members of divisions of the state police, including the capitol police and the sheriff's department from the requirements of § 11-47-35.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2535 | Engross
50% | Modifies the summons for eviction for reasons other than nonpayment of rent with the district court, to add a certificate of service section, and provides the option to post the summons/complaint conspicuously on door of the defendant/tenant's dwelli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2875 | Pass | Grants the town of Johnston a one year extension to complete the revaluation due in 2022. The revaluation would be based on valuations as of December 31, 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-07
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S3001 | Pass | Senate Resolution Memorializing And Commemorating The 78th Anniversary Of The D-day Landings In Normandy, France, And The Eventual Liberation Of Europe
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-07
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2386 | Intro
25% | Provides equal medicare for infants born-alive as a result of abortion procedure/natural delivery with violations subject to criminal penalties for medical personnel/loss of license/civil action for damages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2387 | Intro
25% | Criminalizes the knowing and intentional failure of a physician, nurse, or other licensed medical person to provide reasonable medical care and treatment to an infant born alive as a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2982 | Pass | Senate Resolution Honoring Paul J. Agatiello, M.d., F.a.c.p. On The Occasion Of His Retirement
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-24
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2297 | Engross
50% | Establishes an orphan and insolvent dam fund for the repair or removal of high hazard or significant hazard dams with the right of subrogation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
