| RI | H8096 | Pass | Authorizes the town of Portsmouth to issue bonds and notes to finance the construction, additions, renovation, improvement, alteration, repair, furnishing and equipping of schools and school facilities throughout the town.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-25
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H8105 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Migrant, Llc
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-25
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H7613 | Pass | Allows William Francis O'Brien to join Heidi Elizabeth Regan and Christopher Joseph Leo O'Brien in marriage on or about July 24, 2020, within the Town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-22
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7947 | Pass | Creates a new process with standards to be utilized when deciding whether an applicant's past conviction of a crime should disqualify the applicant from receiving an occupational license, permit, certificate, or registration issued by the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-22
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H8049 | Engross | Authorizes the Stone Bridge fire district to borrow up to $100,000 in funds to meet specific short-term financial obligations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
House read and passed |
| RI | H7523 | Intro | Enables the state lottery division of the department of revenue to enter into a contract extension with IGT Global Solutions Corporation and contract extensions with Twin River and affiliates of Twin River.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-14
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| RI | H7022 | Pass | Enables the town council of Portsmouth to transfer and/or convey parcels of land owned by the town on Prudence Island to the Prudence Island School Foundation to be used for educational purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-26
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H7532 | Pass | Expands the definition of sales to include any license, lease, or rental of prewritten or vendor-hosted computer software and specified digital products. This act would also define "end-user" for specified digital products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H8015 | Pass | Allows city/town/fire district to continue operations in state/local emergency when financial budget process is interrupted and to conduct virtual meetings during emergencies retroactive to March 9, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H8062 | Intro | Establishes licensing procedure for persons seeking to engage in geoengineering activity from DEM to protect health/safety/environment of state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-18
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H8067 | Intro | Provides for the "Suicide Treatment Improvement Act" to improve the delivery of suicide treatment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-18
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H8073 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of The Honorable Dorothy B. Edwards
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-18
House read and passed |
| RI | H8007 | Intro | Joint Resolution Relating To A Lease Agreement For Leased Exhibition, Office And Vault Storage Space (this Joint Resolution Would Authorize A Lease Agreement For Exhibition, Office And Vault Storage Space For The Department Of State.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-11
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7247 | Pass | Authorizes motion picture tax credits for a production that does not have its primary location within the state, provided a minimum of ten million dollars in state certified production costs are incurred and paid within a twelve (12) month period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7930 | Intro | Increases membership from 3 to 5 members/revises siting process to mandate public/municipal participation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H8003 | Intro | Creates the offense of criminal harassment to prosecute persons who willfully and maliciously engage in a pattern of conduct which seriously alarms another person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7384 | Intro | Expands the definition of "employee" to add any individual employed in a food service establishment, which would include a caterer licensed by the department of health and division of taxation, and a food truck.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Committee recommends passage |
| RI | H7591 | Intro | Allows law enforcement officers to utilize mufflers, silencers, or other devices for muffling sound of firearm while acting within scope of official duties while training as tactical teams and under supervision of police chief, colonel of state polic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7881 | Intro | Provides that benefits under the Rhode Island works program would be conditional on the participation in certain requirements to be supervised by the department of human services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7322 | 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] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7337 | Engross | Requires the department of environmental management to solicit procurement of a representative organization to operate the paint stewardship program every two (2) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
House read and passed |
| RI | H7350 | Intro | 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] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7475 | Intro | Provides that financial security is required for any motor vehicle registered or required to be registered in the state of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7627 | Intro | Amends the deceptive trade practices chapter to clarify the law's exemptions and enhances the attorney general's authority to seek civil penalties for violations of the law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7974 | Intro | Requires a health plan to cover clinically appropriate and medically necessary residential or inpatient services, including detoxification and stabilization services, for the treatment of mental health and substance use disorders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7488 | Intro | Authorizes municipalities to adopt ordinances restricting vaping in public places and areas near schools, day care and hospitals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | H7556 | Intro | Makes permanent the tax exemption for certain residential property developments which have either not been completed or, if completed, have not been sold/occupied which would have expired on December 31, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | H7610 | Intro | Prohibits the importation, transportation, disbursement, distribution, sale, purchase, or possession of any species of non-native (exotic) invasive plants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7846 | Intro | Prohibits more than two (2) communities from combining to appoint a shared building official.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | H7122 | 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] | 2020-03-04
House read and passed |
| RI | H7577 | Intro | Requires the implementation of the civic literacy act for all students between the eighth and twelfth grades.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7433 | Intro | Establishes a speed limit for school buses being driven on a limited access highway to ten (10) miles per hour less than the posted speed limit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7479 | Intro | Removes the $25.00 limit on tuition for a motorist to attend a driver education course, and would allow a judge or magistrate to delay the imposition of a suspension or revocation of a driver's license or registration for a period up to 30 days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7476 | Intro | Imposes three hundred dollar substance abuse education assessment for any conviction of driving under the influence or refusal to submit to breathalyzer. Funds would be allocated to department of behavioral health and used for substance abuse program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7542 | Intro | Makes it a traffic offense for a motorist to fail to yield the right-of-way when leaving a public roadway to enter or cross a private road or driveway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7779 | Intro | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Make Recommendations Regarding The Licensing Of Residential Builders And Contractors (creates A 13 Member Commission To Study And Provide Recommendations Regarding The Licensing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7931 | Intro | Adds a parking lot as a requirement to a contractor agreement to a construction indemnity agreement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7305 | Intro | Prohibits the practice of importing a wild animal into the state, which animal is not native or indigenous to the state, for the purpose of conducting canned hunting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7331 | Intro | 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] | 2020-02-27
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7348 | Intro | Creates a voluntary mechanism for municipalities to use to dedicate a park, conservation or other land they own as public trust land in perpetuity to protect and preserve its future use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | H7352 | Intro | Creates new standards for determining whether a state work license applicant's past criminal contacts/convictions should disqualify them from receiving a government-issued license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H7486 | Intro | Reduces the required number of Narragansett Council, Boy Scouts of America plates to three hundred (300) sets before the division of motor vehicles is authorized to produce said plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| RI | H7126 | 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] | 2020-02-26
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7660 | Intro | Increases the maximum small state purchase from $10,000 to $25,000 for construction projects and from $5,000 to $10,000 for all other small purchases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7673 | Intro | Increases the annual flat fee given to Lincoln and Tiverton by their respective sports wagering facilities to two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7801 | Intro | Requires the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline to provide for reciprocal licensure of physicians from other jurisdictions under certain conditions, and in connection therewith, requires the board to promulgate applicable rules and regulations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7844 | Intro | DOH to develop and publish opioid alternative pamphlet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7778 | Intro | Creates "Rhode Island Transparency and Privacy Act" which mandates websites that collect or store personal info to disclose practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7723 | Intro | Regulates data brokers. Data brokers would be required to annually register; to provide substantive notifications to consumers; and to adopt comprehensive data security programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7687 | Intro | Requires that the division of planning create a checklist of environmental and energy issues that certain state construction projects which cost in excess of $10,000,000 would need to consider and address.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
