| RI | S2125 | Engross 50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES - Provides employees with civil administrative remedies against contractors, subcontractors involved in the contract with joint/severable liability imposed on contractors or subcontractors. Effective 9/1/... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13 Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S2979 | Engross 50% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT -- PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM - Reduces the number of years from five (5) to three (3), when calculating for retirement purposes, the average of the highest consecutive years of compensation, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13 Senate read and passed |
| RI | S3127 | Engross 50% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- MOTOR PASSENGER CARRIERS -- NON-EMERGENCY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION - Establishes a safe and reasonable regulatory framework for companies and drivers providing non-emergency medical transportation services to a populati... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12 Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| RI | S2853 | Engross 50% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RHODE ISLAND UTILITY FAIR SHARE ROADWAY REPAIR ACT - Requires that public utilities plan utility work in accordance with the state transportation improvement program schedules when working on state roads. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Senate read and passed |
| RI | S3122 | Engross 50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM - Establishes a seven (7) member public-private partnership infrastructure oversight commission to approve all requests for proposals submitted for public-private partn... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2687 | Engross 50% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- COURT CLERKS' INCENTIVE PAY - Extends the incentive pay plan to all full-time court clerks who meet the eligibility requirements. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-10 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2688 | Engross 50% | BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS -- ELECTRICIANS - Establishes an examination on proficiency in solar technology upon renewal of certificate, adds $72.00 fee. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-07 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2983 | Engross 50% | EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION -- STUDENT SUCCESS ACT - Reduces the time, from three (3) years to one year, required for a nonimmigrant foreign national student, who has resided in Rhode Island, to be eligible to pay the same in-stat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-07 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2931 | Engross 50% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Provides a four (4) year expiration period on any certificate of exemption pursuant to this section for writers, composers and artists. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2400 | Engross 50% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- WHOLESALE PRESCRIPTION DRUG IMPORTATION PROGRAM - Establishes the Wholesale Prescription Drug Importation Program for the importation of wholesale prescription drugs from Canada to provide savings to Rhode Island consumers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S3039 | Engross 50% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Allows for the issuance of Class BV liquor licenses for the properties located at 94 Carpenter Street and 1023 Broad Street, both in the city of Providence. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24 To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | S2618 | Engross 50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND OLMSTEAD PLAN COMMISSION ACT - Creates an Olmstead Plan for people vulnerable to unnecessary institutionalization to update a continuum of care to receive services and supports in the least restrictive env... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2146 | Engross 50% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL AND YOUTH PROGRAMS CONCUSSION ACT - Requires all school districts to designate an athletic trainer to be available for high school athletic practices and games. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17 To House Education Committee |
| RI | S2695 | Engross 50% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES - Allows for the holder of a manufacturer's license to be able to sell one one-sixth (1/6) barrel key of malt beverage, produced on the premises, per day. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15 To House Small Business Committee |
| RI | S2486 | Engross 50% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GAMES OF CHANCE - Repeals the statute regulating games of chance. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2736 | Engross 50% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- OPERATION OF RAILROADS GENERALLY - Provides that no train or light engine would be used in connection with the movement of freight could be operated unless it had a crew consisting of at least 2 persons, would also in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2454 | Engross 50% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS - Permits those persons with felony convictions to have up to six misdemeanor offenses expunged from their criminal record. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2123 | Engross 50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES - Requires employer to furnish items and conditions of employment and a pay stub explaining how wages were calculated/reasons for deductions/allows the employee to file a court action against employer for... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Labor Committee |
| RI | S2122 | Engross 50% | CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS -- WORKERS' COOPERATIVES - Clarifies the role of a workers' cooperative to allow it to operate as a hiring hall under certain circumstances. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Labor Committee |
| RI | S2119 | Engross 50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT - Allows governmental employee union contracts to contain specific references to specific health insurance companies. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Labor Committee |
| RI | S2473 | Engross 50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WORKPLACE PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY ACT - Protects bullying/psychological abuse in workplace inflicted upon employees by employers/co-employees/provides civil remedies to affected employees/fines against employers/imprisonment... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Labor Committee |
| RI | S2476 | Engross 50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS ARBITRATION - Expands the definition of correctional officer, to include any bargaining unit, in which correctional officers constitute a majority of the bargaining unit's membership. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Labor Committee |