| RI | H6266 | Intro | Enable the state lottery division of the department of revenue to enter into a contract extension with IGT Global Solutions Corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
Scheduled for hearing (10/03/2019) |
| RI | H6206 | Pass | Validates and ratifies amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the town of Tiverton, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the town of Tiverton on November 6, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-19
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H5678 | Pass | Prohibits nonregulated power producers from automatically renewing a contract. Mandates that the nonregulated power producer provide methods for the customer to cancel service and provide the customer with notice of the contract expiration date.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5141 | Pass | Allows some persons, who do not otherwise qualify to reside in a special care unit in an assisted living residence to get into that unit under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5365 | Pass | Provides that professional engineers who are registered and authorized to practice by the Rhode Island state board of registration for professional engineers be deemed to have met the qualifications for a designer's license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5572 | Pass | Updates the laws relating to physician assistants to reflect current standards and terminology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5765 | Pass | Mandates that polls in all cities and towns except New Shoreham open at 7 am and provides time for receipt of ballots cast outside the US.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6084 | Pass | Provides for greater school-based management at the school level and expands the duties of school improvement teams and establishes a new chapter on education accountability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6240 | Pass | Exempts those students in grade twelve (12) who are enrolled full-time in a dual enrollment program where the courses are taken on a higher education institution campus from the requirement that they complete health and physical education courses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5168 | Pass | Repeals requirement that persons between 16 and 21 who cannot speak, read or write English to attend classes until they learn (minimum 200 hours). Also repeals fines and institutional commitment for failure to take such classes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5401 | Pass | Requires Tricare to pay the healthcare services funding contributions for their contribution enrollees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5573 | Pass | Makes amendments providing for additional reporting duties and requirements for persons with knowledge of mistreatment or neglect of elders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5874 | Pass | Reduces the number of infractions for a person to be considered a "toll violator" from twenty (20) to ten (10). The act also reduces the number of infractions for a person to be considered a "toll evader" from one hundred (100) to twenty (20).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6033 | Pass | Makes sweeping changes to the law on massage therapy licensing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5116 | Pass | Requires retail establishments to accept cash in payment for goods and services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5113 | Intro | Creates the "animal abuser registry act" which would require all persons convicted of crimes involving animal abuse to register with an online registry to be established and maintained by the attorney general's office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Defeated by Senate |
| RI | H5383 | Pass | Amends current law so that, as part of a comprehensive discharge plan, a hospital would be allowed to try to contact the patient's emergency contact and the certified peer recovery specialists, in accordance with federal law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5470 | Pass | Classifies all vehicles used by the department of corrections in the performance official duties as authorized emergency vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5637 | Pass | Requires road and bridge contractors for the department of transportation to furnish a bond equal to at least 50% of the contract price on contracts in excess of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5864 | Pass | Allows local boards of canvassers to combine voting districts in special elections for approval/rejection of questions or when officials will be elected or in primary elections only with board of election approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5949 | Engross | Imposes a fee of one hundred sixty dollars ($160) for all domestic and foreign corporations for a certificate of authority to transact business in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | H6210 | Engross | Allows DEM to extend certain deadlines for required sewer construction in the replacement of cesspools, which deadlines would not extend beyond January 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | H6260 | Pass | House Resolution Creating A Legislative Study Commission To Examine And Recommend Guidelines For Step Therapy Prescription Drug Protocols
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
House passed as amended (floor amendment) |
| RI | H6263 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Jeffrey R. Henault
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
House read and passed |
| RI | H6264 | Pass | House Resolution Extending The Reporting And Expiration Dates Of The Special Legislative Commission Known As The "out Of School Time Learning Commission" (this Resolution Would Extend The Reporting And Expiration Dates Of The Special Legislative Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
House read and passed |
| RI | H6098 | Intro | Directs the council on elementary and secondary education to implement teacher licensure tests modeled after the Massachusetts tests for educator licensure, commencing on July 1, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H5892 | Engross | Expands definition of "employee" to include a caterer licensed by the department of health and division of taxation and food truck.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | H6004 | Intro | Permits division of motor vehicles to suspend registration privileges of motor carriers upon receipt of notice from the department of labor and training that motor carrier has not secured workers' compensation insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | H5863 | Intro | Creates a new process with standards to be utilized when deciding whether an applicant's past criminal contacts' convictions should disqualify them from receiving a government issued license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Meeting postponed (06/19/2019) |
| RI | H6231 | Intro | Limits the total amount that an insured person is required to pay for a covered prescription insulin drug at an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) per thirty (30) day supply.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H6224 | Intro | Makes it a felony to isolate an elder or dependent adult and would expand the persons entitled to notice when a guardianship or conservatorship petition is filed in the probate court for dependents or elderly adults.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6225 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring Colonel Thomas F. Lee On The Occasion Of His Retirement As Police Chief Of The Portsmouth Police Department
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
House read and passed |
| RI | H5794 | Engross | Requires that the department of environmental management to request proposals, every two years, to solicit procurement of a representative organization to operate the paint stewardship program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | H6193 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring And Recognizing Carole Dumont On The Occasion Of Her Retirement After More Than Thirty-three Years Of Dedicated Service To The General Assembly And The People Of The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-06
House read and passed |
| RI | H6136 | Intro | Requires elec. distribution co. to provide actual interconnection cost to customers within 90 days of modification/modifies application process with technical amendments approved by PUC not applicable to completed applications. eff. 30 days after pas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-04
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H6170 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating Molly Andrade On Being Named "miss Rhode Island 2019"
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-30
House read and passed |
| RI | H5219 | Intro | Prohibits the collection of a sales or use tax on that portion of a motor vehicle lease payment representing taxes payable by the lessor on the leased motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5062 | Engross | Provides that the trapping and subsequent release of any unowned feral or free roaming cat for the purpose of spaying or neutering of the cat shall not be considered abandonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5233 | Engross | Requires the driver of a vehicle overtaking another vehicle proceeding in the same direction to use a directional signal and repeals the requirement that such signal be audible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5907 | Engross | Provides that any women's business enterprise that is certified under the Federal Small Business Act shall be deemed certified by the department of administration as a women's business enterprise.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-22
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | H6140 | Pass | House Resolution Welcoming The Narragansett Council, Boy Scouts Of America To The Rhode Island State House For Their 2018 "report To The State" Presentation
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-22
House read and passed |
| RI | H5663 | Pass | Removes the overtime exemption for firefighters and rescue service personnel employed by the cities and towns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-17
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H5662 | Pass | Removes the overtime exemption for firefighters unless they are paid at the rate of one and one-half (1 1/2) times their regular rate for all hours worked in excess of forty-two (42) hours.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-17
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H5218 | Intro | Substitutes the office of health insurance commissioner for the director of business regulation as the overseer of health insurance claims and sets forth guidelines to use to determine whether substantial compliance has been met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5402 | Intro | Expands the health services council from twelve (12) to twenty-four (24) members and amends the hospital conversion act relative to disclosure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5582 | Intro | Provides the office of the health insurance commissioner with oversight of risk-bearing provider organizations and health care risk contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5858 | Intro | Requires the general assembly to appropriate not less than $5,000,000 annually in capital financing for affordable housing development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5204 | 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] | 2019-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5403 | Intro | Requires that the rate for hospice providers, delivering hospice care in a skilled nursing facility, not exceed ninety-five percent (95%) of the rate paid for non-hospice care in a skilled nursing facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5571 | Intro | Requires the executive office of health and human services (EOHHS) to conduct a study to assess the impact of using Medicaid funds to provide coverage for the treatment of the chronically homeless.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
