| RI | S2013 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG COST PROTECTION - Prohibits the state, participating ERISA or any health plan from purchasing referenced drugs for a cost higher than the referenced rate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 16]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2073 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Provides a special enrollment period for applicants for Medicare Part B. Also prohibits state insurance carriers from denying/imposing conditions on new enrollees or discriminate on price based up...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2075 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Requires the secretary of the executive office of health and human services to present to the general assembly a plan for the realignment of state hospitals into a department of ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 16]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2087 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ALCOHOLISM - Requires the dept of behavioral healthcare/developmental disabilities/hospitals to coordinate with the DOH to propose revisions to chapter 1.10 and 10.1 of title 23, including updates and revisions of statutory langu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2181 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT - Repeals the July 1, 2025, sunset provision of the interstate medical licensure act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2177 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Prohibits health benefit plans reviewing prescriptions for opioid addiction treatment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2378 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT - Requires the department of health to amend its rules and regulations that allow for DEA-registered pharmacies to transfer electronic prescriptions at a patient's request.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 16]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2516 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Requires RIDE to develop type 1 diabetes informational materials for the parents and guardians of students that will be posted publicly on RIDE's website.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 14]
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2630 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Amends several sections of law relating to zoning ordinances to provide uniform zoning standards for accessory dwelling units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 16]
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2607 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires coverage for acute mental health crisis mobile response and stabilization services to any individual enrolled as a plan beneficiary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 16]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2606 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires insurance coverage for all community health workers' services to include health and promotion coaching, health education and training, health system navigation and resource coordination...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 14]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2541 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE AGENCY EMISSION REPORTING - Requires executive climate change coordinating council (EC4) to develop a template to be used by all agencies of the state to track their climate emissions to uphold the pathway to Rho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | S2719 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- RHODE ISLAND DRUG COST REVIEW COMMISSION - Creates the Rhode Island drug cost review commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 14]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2760 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING LAND BANK PROGRAM - Establishes a housing land bank program with the goal of creating affordable housing in the State of Rhode Island. The housing land bank would have the authority to buy, receiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 14]
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2820 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT - Substitutes the current lists of controlled substances in the general laws with the current version of title 21 of the code of federal regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 14]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2858 | Engross
50% | Authorizes Providence to issue not more than $400,000,000 general obligation bonds & notes to finance the construction, related demolition, renovation, improvement, alteration, repair, landscaping, furnishing and equipping of schools throughout the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
Placed on House Calendar (05/14/2024) |
| RI | S2859 | Engross
50% | This act serves as the enabling act required by § 16-7-44 of the general laws in order for the principal and interest on bonds issued in support of school housing projects to be eligible for state housing aid reimbursement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
Placed on House Calendar (05/14/2024) |
| RI | S2818 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires the disclosure of the transfer of certain assets of healthcare facilities and would provide penalties for failing to file healthcare facility ownership information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 14]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2872 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMPREHENSIVE DISCHARGE PLANNING - Requires coverage for residential/inpatient mental health services for detox/stabilization/substance abuse disorders without preauthorization or be subject to concurrent review during the first ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 14]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2945 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CONFIDENTIALITY OF HEALTH CARE COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ACT - Amends provisions relative to confidentiality of health care communications and the process for requesting records and/or confidential health care infor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
Placed on Senate Calendar (05/16/2024) |
| RI | S2233 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Repeals 42-56-38.1 and requires the department of corrections to provide free communication services to inmates and juveniles held in residential placement or detention centers and requires tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2194 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Establishes a program within the adult correctional institution to permit medication assisted treatment approved by the FDA to be provided for the treatment of opioid use disorder to any incarc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2293 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RENEWABLE READY PROGRAM - Establishes the renewable ready program and fund to promotes the responsible siting/development of renewable energy generating resources in locations where it would be an ancillary beneficial ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Placed on Senate Calendar (05/16/2024) |
| RI | S2404 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- THE PRACTICE OF ACUPUNCTURE AND CHINESE MEDICINE - Broadens the definition of a "qualified individual" in acupuncture and Chinese medicine to include any person trained and certified in auricular acudetox.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2625 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF MASSAGE THERAPISTS - Relocates the chapter relating to licensing of massage therapists from the health and safety title to the businesses and professions title with multiple amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| RI | S2850 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- TOXIC PACKAGING REDUCTION ACT - Updates the existing Toxic Packaging Act by delaying the ban on PFAS in processing agents, until July 1, 2027. The act also grants DEM additional time to write rules and regulations that ban PFAS i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Placed on Senate Calendar (05/16/2024) |
| RI | S2963 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Provides state employee public safety professionals with parity to municipal public safety employees in the state/municipal retirement systems eff. 7/1/24 with 10% contri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2519 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PREKINDERGARTEN EDUCATION ACT - Allows municipalities participating in the state prekindergarten program to accept students from outside the municipality under certain conditions and establishes a lottery for enrollment in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Placed on Senate Calendar (05/16/2024) |
| RI | S2976 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Allows for the surviving spouse of a National Guard member to have the spouses National Guard plates transferred to them upon their spouses death.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Placed on Senate Calendar (05/14/2024) |
| RI | S2161 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN - Provides children from birth through age five (5) with continuous coverage eligibility for RIte Track/RIte Care so that they are not at risk of losing coverage at the yearl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2375 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND FAMILY CAREGIVER TAX CREDIT ACT - Establishes a tax credit against income tax based on eligible expenses incurred for care and support of an eligible family member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2768 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN -- VLOGS - Establishes a statutory framework designed to protect minors who are engaging in the business of vloging on social media and the Internet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2115 | Engross
50% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- VICTIM'S RIGHTS - Amends the current requirement of payment of initial filing fee/service of process costs when the victim of crime is still owed restitution at the expiration of the case/seeks to enforce the civil judgment ente...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2262 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTHCARE PROVIDER SHIELD ACT - Creates a protective legal shield for healthcare providers, precluding any civil/criminal action by other states/persons against healthcare providers involving persons seeking access to transgende...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S3047 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE - Requires insurance coverage for at a minimum up to ninety (90) days of residential or inpatient services for mental health and/or substance use disorders for American Society of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2320 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- FEDERAL AID - Establishes new programs for free breakfast and lunch meals in all public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2401 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires insurance coverage for all services provided by a pharmacist provided coverage of such services would have been covered if provided by a physician, advanced practice nurse, or physician...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2390 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RARE DISEASE ADVISORY COUNCIL - Establishes a rare disease advisory council within the department of health and provides guidance and recommendations to educate health care providers and the citizens of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2400 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-05-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2605 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Restricts audits of pharmacists conducted by insurers and their intermediaries, limiting audits to 1 per year unless fraud or misrepresentation is reasonably suspected. The Rhode Island attorney would have t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2611 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Limits the use by insurers of step therapy, a protocol that establishes a specific sequence in which prescription drugs for a specified medical condition are covered by an insurer, by al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2614 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF 2004 -- HEALTH INSURANCE OVERSIGHT - Requires a report to be produced that focuses on prescription drug prior authorizations by January 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S3014 | Pass | Senate Resolution Commemorating May Of 2024, As "national Skin Cancer Awareness Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S3017 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming May 5th Through May 11th Of 2024, To Be "tardive Dyskinesia (td) Awareness Week" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S3038 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- PUBLIC AUCTIONS BY ELECTRONIC OR REMOTE PROCEDURES - Brings greater public scrutiny to the public auction sales of real estate in Rhode Island by requiring public auctions by any city or town of real estate or an interest therein shall on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S3018 | Pass | Senate Resolution Celebrating May 2, 2024, As "rhode Island College Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2396 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Mandates insurance policies, provides coverage to diagnose & treat infertility for women between 25 & 42 years, including pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in conjunction with in vitro fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2306 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- VEGETATION MANAGEMENT FOR ELECTRIC SYSTEM RELIABILITY - Requires an electric distribution company to develop and act pursuant to a vegetation management plan approved by the DPUC to carry out vegetation management act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S2535 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ACT - Establishes requirements which would have to be met by an applicant prior to the issuing of permits for an activity that would have an environmental impact on or would increase the cumulativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S2808 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- SOLAR DECOMMISSIONING PLANS - Requires that developers of ground-mounted solar systems submit a plan for decommissioning to be held on file by the municipality and requires DEM, with the office of energy resources, ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
