| RI | S2185 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- REAL ESTATE SALES DISCLOSURES - Requires written acknowledgment from any buyer of oceanfront or shoreline property that they have been informed of the public's rights and privileges of the shore.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2316 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- RHODE ISLAND VETERANS' HOME - Reduces the assessment by the Rhode Island Veterans Home against a resident's net income from eighty percent (80%) to fifty percent (50%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2472 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WORKERS' COMPENSATION -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Amends the current law on workers' compensation to require any person who is considered an independent contractor to file annually with the director of labor and training and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
[Hearing: Apr 24]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | S2398 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- ANIMAL CARE - Prohibits a medical training program from using a live animal while teaching medical procedures if any other accredited training program does not use animals or there is an alternate method that teaches t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2777 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION - Allows victims of violent crime receiving awards under the state's crime victim compensation program to use up to $1,000 of their total award to make reasonable modification to their residence to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
[Hearing: Apr 25]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2897 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- BY POSSESSION AND PRESCRIPTION - Amends current law to make denial of a right of footway applicable only to a private right of footway and not to the public right of footway accrued under the doctrine of implied dedication.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2901 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LABOR AND PAYMENT OF DEBTS BY CONTRACTORS - Prohibits contractors and subcontractors from paying employees the cash equivalent of any applicable healthcare benefit in lieu of actually purchasing the healthcare benefit. Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
[Hearing: Apr 24]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | S2971 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- MECHANICS' LIENS - Provides the arbitrator in mechanics' lien actions submitted to arbitration the authority to make certain findings of fact regarding procedure compliance and amounts owed which findings would be binding in the mechanics...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2026 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSES - Requires that the license plates of a vehicle be confiscated by a police officer if the owner was arrested for driving while their license was suspended, revoked or cancelled for refu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 25]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2025 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSES - A judge would have discretion to allow a hardship exception to keep license plates of a person convicted of this offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 25]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2024 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Increases penalties for a variety of motor vehicle offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 25]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2023 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Extends the "lookback" period for repeat offenses involving driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs under § 31-27-2 and for repeat offenses related to failure or refusal to submit to chemi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 25]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2119 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT - Allows governmental employee union contracts to contain specific references to specific health insurance companies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | S2187 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- TOURISM AND DEVELOPMENT - Allows the department of business regulation to create an assigned registration number for any short-term rental property listed for rent on a third-party hosting platform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 25]
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2223 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Prohibits defendants who are serving probation for driving under the influence death resulting from earning good time off their probationary period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 25]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2317 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- SHERIFFS - Allows retired sheriffs and other retired law enforcement personnel to be recalled into service as a sheriff or deputy sheriff without any reduction in their pension benefit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 25]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2410 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- TOURISM AND DEVELOPMENT - Requires hosting platforms offering short-term rental of residential property for tourist or transient use to disclose on listings the current, valid registration number and its expiration dat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 25]
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2411 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- TOURISM AND DEVELOPMENT - Removes the municipal preemption on prohibiting the offering of residential units for tourist or transient use through a hosting platform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 25]
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2476 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | S2666 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Requires that any person convicted of a charge of DUI or refusal, have an ignition interlock before being eligible for license reinstatement. Also permits a first-time offender to have charges dism...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 25]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2641 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- QUALIFIED ABANDONMENT OF TOWN ROADS - Allows for a qualified abandonment of public town roads which grants a public easement over said road allowing it to be converted to a walking/hiking/biking trail as well as for access to parks, natur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2687 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | S2871 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PSYCHOLOGISTS - Includes licensed school psychologists under the provisions of the general laws governing the regulations of psychologists and expands the licensing of school psychologists for independent practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 25]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2947 | Intro
25% | MOTOR VEHICLES -- SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD LIMITS - Adds "loose material" to the contents of a vehicle that must be covered by a covering that must remain in place until the vehicle's contents are purged from the vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 25]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2989 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOBILE AND MANUFACTURED HOMES - Makes several amendments relative to manufactured homes, including adding a definition for manufactured home and a provision allowing for certain manufactured homes to be considered a single...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2991 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOCAL PLANNING BOARD OR COMMISSION - Provides amendments to the membership provisions of planning boards or commissions and would enable municipalities to establish "combined review boards" to replace separate planning and zoning ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2987 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Requires that present and former employees, active and retired members, and beneficiaries receiving any retirement, disability or death allowance receive a $2,000 incr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2983 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2992 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- ABANDONED PROPERTY - Requires towns and cities to publish a list of abandoned properties and makes various other amendments relative to the sale of abandoned property by a receiver.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2986 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Increases the real property exemptions of veterans and the elderly residing in the Town of West Warwick.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2994 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Amends provisions relative to the application of zoning ordinances pertaining to wetland buffers to projects for development, redevelopment, construction or rehabilitation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2309 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- LONG-TERM CARE SERVICE AND FINANCE REFORM - All Medicaid programs operated by EOHHS would not reimburse home care providers less than fee-for-service rates adopted by rate review recommendations of the office o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Committee continued |
| RI | S2353 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Increases personal needs allowance of nursing facility to $100.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Committee continued |
| RI | S2311 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- HEALTH CARE FOR ELDERLY AND DISABLED RESIDENTS ACT - Increases the income limits for elderly or disabled individuals to one hundred eighty percent (180%) of the federal poverty level to qualify for medical assistance coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Committee continued |
| RI | S2566 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Increases the daily rate of payments to nursing facilities by twenty percent (20%) for single occupancy rooms to include private bathrooms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Committee continued |
| RI | S2592 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- WAIVER REQUEST - Authorizes the executive office of health and human services to establish a program providing coverage for nutritional assistance and medically tailored meals for certain beneficiaries where th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Committee continued |
| RI | S2780 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Requires mail ballot drop boxes to be opened thirty-five (35) days prior to election day, and twenty (20) days prior to special elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2781 | Intro
25% | THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE - Provides amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code for emerging technologies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2782 | Intro
25% | CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS -- THE RHODE ISLAND LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ACT - Replaces the existing limited liability company act with a newer and updated model act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2821 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION -- THE RHODE ISLAND MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT PROGRAM - Provides minor technical changes, including an update to the membership of the state planning council to include the secretary o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2894 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- REGISTRATION OF VOTERS - Allows non-affiliated party voters to vote in party primaries, without becoming an affiliated party voter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2957 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- ADMINISTRATION - 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, for state and munic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | S2979 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2150 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- UNLAWFUL CONFINEMENT OF A COVERED ANIMAL - Exempts egg laying hens kept for commercial egg production purposes from the provisions of chapter 4-1.1 until January 1, 2034.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S2295 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- MILK SANITATION CODE - Permits and legalize the sale of raw milk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S2804 | Intro
25% | CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- PRISONER MADE GOODS - Allows correctional industries to conduct business for goods or services with any 501(c)(3) and would require customers of correctional industries to pay fifty present (50%) of an order ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S2950 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL EMERGENCY DRILLS ACT - Makes revisions to the number, timing, and procedures to be followed when schools grades K through 12 implement fire drills, evacuation drills, and crisis response drills, designed to protect the health and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2090 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- REAL ESTATE SALES DISCLOSURES - Requires radon testing within one year of any residential real estate transaction and the installation of a radon mitigation system if unsafe radon levels are present, at the seller's expe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2640 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- REGULATORY POWERS OF ADMINISTRATION - Prohibit rate charges in excess of rates applied if tenant of residential complexes with electrical master-meters receives electricity directly from a public utility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2683 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION - Defines "public official" to include school personnel for purposes of the criminal prohibition against making threats to public officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
