| RI | S0232 | Intro | Includes in the practice of physical therapy the ordering of diagnostic imaging (x-ray imaging) to be performed by other health care professionals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-16
Placed on Senate Calendar (04/27/2021) |
| RI | S0255 | Intro | Limits the governor to one thirty (30) day renewal of a declaration of emergency without a joint resolution of the general assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0363 | Enroll | Allows North Smithfield historic residence owners to become eligible for state historic residence tax credits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-15
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | S0444 | Intro | Establishes a statewide limit of twelve percent (12%) per year on interest charged by cities and towns on delinquent taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0512 | Intro | Requires that all meetings closed to the public be audio recorded by audio tape or other audio recording device.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0526 | Intro | Exempts from "public records" availability, all those documents, evidence and records of proceedings considered by the "relief from disqualifiers board and appellate courts" involving request for relief from firearm prohibitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0119 | Intro | Requires the office of the attorney general to issue a report containing the total cases charged with a firearm in all Rhode Island courts and a list of cases charged with a firearm which have been disposed during the calendar year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0176 | Intro | Amends the definition of firearms to include tasers, as well as define taser and stun gun.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0191 | Intro | Provides for a cause of action against an individual or entity that prohibits the possession of firearms on real property, except residences, by an individual that is authorized and licensed to carry a firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0508 | Intro | Allows an individual to lawfully possess a device that would silence the sound of a natural report of a rifle or shotgun to hunt game, as long as the host rifle or shotgun is allowed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0456 | Intro | Creates Rhode Island School Security Committee for school security.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0517 | Intro | Prohibits the sale or possession of firearm silencers unless the person complies with federal law in the sale, possession and use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0509 | Intro | Allows reciprocal concealed carry permits from out of state to be valid in Rhode Island, which is either authorized by the attorney general or subject to other reciprocal restrictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0507 | Intro | Permits Rhode Island residents, twenty-one (21) years of age or older, to carry a concealed handgun, without a permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0522 | Intro | Amends various laws related to firearms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0410 | Intro | Prohibits the state, municipalities, or courts from attempting to collect any motor vehicle violation fines or costs, after more than seven (7) years of the fine becoming final.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0403 | Intro | Extends the "lookback" period for third and subsequent offenses involving driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs under § 31-27-2 and for offenses related to failure or refusal to submit to chemical tests under §31-27-2.1 from 5 years to 10...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0525 | Intro | Allows driving and/or operating an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) on public lands that are designated trails for all-terrain vehicle (ATV) as provided in the department of environmental management regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0790 | Intro | Amends the composition of the joint committee on legislative services by adding the senate majority leader to the committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-08
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S0056 | Engross | Precludes a parent's disability from serving as the sole basis for the state to institute an investigation of the disabled parent's family.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0651 | Intro | Allows individuals to be sent breast cancer screening results by mail, electronically or otherwise.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-01
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0764 | Intro | Excludes from income up to ten thousand two hundred dollars ($10,200) of unemployment compensation paid in tax year 2020 for any individual or married couple with an adjusted gross income less than one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0432 | Intro | Establishes an occupational regulatory framework by authorizing the issuance of occupational licenses and government certifications by recognition for qualified worker applicants from other states.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | S0455 | Intro | Establishes an education savings account program to assist and support the parents, guardians and caretakers of students with the materials, tutors, technology and other educational support for learning at-home or at any other remote-learning site.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0690 | Intro | Senate Resolution Raising Awareness About And Combating Anti-semitism In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | S0752 | Pass | Senate Resolution Designating April Of 2021, As "parkinson's Awareness Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0600 | Intro | Raises the juror's fees for each day's attendance on the superior court from $15.00 per day to $25.00 per day commencing July 1, 2022, and increases to $35.00 per day commencing July 1, 2023, and thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0533 | Intro | Provides a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing any violent criminal offense that individual is lawfully in a place they have a right to be, and acted in self-defense and reasonable belief of harm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0530 | Intro | Adds a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing robbery of the owner, lessor, or occupant of a motor vehicle and that the owner or occupant of the vehicle acted in self defense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0557 | Intro | Name the portion of the Blackstone River Bike path within the city of Woonsocket the Albert P. Valliere Bike Path.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-24
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S0691 | Pass | Senate Resolution Joyously Celebrating The 150th Anniversary Of The Town Of North Smithfield On March 24, 2021
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-23
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0125 | Intro | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State -- Referendum On Line Item Veto (this Proposed Amendment To The Constitution Would Provide The Governor With A Line Item Ve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0390 | Engross | Incorporates Oakland--Mapleville Number 4 Fire District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | S0423 | Intro | Requires that the primary election date, typically the eighth Tuesday preceding the biennial state elections, shall be held on the Wednesday immediately following Labor Day, only if the eighth Tuesday immediately follows Labor Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0427 | Intro | Joint Resolution To Approve, Publish And Submit To The Electors -- A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State (majority Vote Requirement For General Officers' Election) (amends The Constitution To Require Elections Of General Officer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0608 | Intro | Increases the minimum daily pay for election supervisors from sixty dollars ($60.00) to one hundred fifty dollars ($150).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0666 | Intro | Requires any person voting by mail ballot or emergency mail ballot to provide proof of identity, exempting those who are hospitalized or residents in a hospice or skilled nursing facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0630 | Intro | LIABILITY-FREE) PRODUCTS (Prohibits mandating indemnified products to consumers in certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S0644 | Intro | Provides medical assistance coverage for medical services provided qualifying eligible recipients for community based care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0663 | Intro | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- General Assembly To Review Regulations
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0645 | Intro | Requires health care facilities that perform abortions to meet the license requirements of similar health care facilities and allows the department of health to conduct unannounced inspections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0669 | Intro | Creates the Rhode Island Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, prohibiting the performance or induction of an abortion of an unborn child capable of feeling pain, unless necessary to prevent serious health risk to the unborn child’s mother.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0638 | Intro | Categorizes women by their biological identity at birth rather than their gender identity for purpose of organized sports.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0667 | Intro | Defines any act of sexual penetration or contact perpetrated by an individual with a position of authority upon a person over the age of fourteen (14) and under the age of eighteen (18) as third degree sexual assault.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0664 | Intro | Enacts the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act and provides for the duties and obligations of medical personnel in certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0194 | Intro | Increases membership from 3 to 5 members/revises siting process to mandate public/municipal participation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0254 | Intro | Exempts post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks used in advanced recycling processes from the definition of solid waste.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0337 | Intro | Suspends minimum tax imposition upon corporations/limited-liability companies in tax years where corporate charter/certificate of organization is revoked by secretary of state until tax year of reinstatement in good standing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S0598 | Intro | Requires notification of the name and address of the deceased on a death certificate with the office of secretary of state and the chairperson of the board of canvassers for the purpose of removal from the rolls of registered voters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0614 | Intro | Authorizes the division of motor vehicles to issue special license plates in recognition of "Choose Life."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
