| RI | S2125 | Engross 50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES - Provides employees with civil administrative remedies against contractors, subcontractors involved in the contract with joint/severable liability imposed on contractors or subcontractors. Effective 9/1/... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13 Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S2536 | Engross 50% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET METERING - Prohibits utility companies from limiting the eligibility of a net metering site based on prior consumption and requires excess energy not consumed under the net metering system to be credited to the co... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13 Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S2773 | Engross 50% | PROPERTY -- BY POSSESSION AND PRESCRIPTION - Denies the right of footway, except within one hundred (100) yards of the Pawtuxet River in the cities of Warwick and Cranston and except in connection with a right to pass with carriages to be acquired by... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13 Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2090 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-06-12 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2597 | Engross 50% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATIONAL EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Provides for an appropriation by the general assembly in the amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000) to the various school districts and municipalities to employ additional social w... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12 Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2952 | Engross 50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BUILDING DECARBONIZATION ACT OF 2024 - Establishes a program for the energy benchmarking of large buildings in Rhode Island and a standard for their energy performance. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12 Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| RI | S2084 | Engross 50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS IN CHILDREN RELIEF FUND - Establishes Children's Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund to provide finance assistance to families for medical expenses not covered by state or federal programs or insuran... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2229 | Engross 50% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- EVIDENCE - Provides that statements by a health care provider regarding the unanticipated outcome of a patient's medical care and treatment shall be inadmissible as evidence of an admission of liab... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S2332 | Engross 50% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- OIL SPILL PREVENTION, ADMINISTRATION AND RESPONSE FUND - Provides funds to support Executive Climate Change Coordinating Council to reduce climate emissions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S2429 | Engross 50% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- OBSCENE AND OBJECTIONABLE PUBLICATIONS AND SHOWS - Establishes, as an affirmative defense to the crimes of circulating obscene publications or shows and selling or exhibiting obscene publications to minors, the person’s employm... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S2404 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-06-11 Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2716 | Engross 50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PRIMARY CARE TRAINING SITES PROGRAM - Establishes the primary care training sites program to provide training for physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants within the DOH. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S2717 | Engross 50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STAY INVESTED IN RI WAVEMAKER FELLOWSHIPS - Adds a definition for "primary care" to the general law regarding the Stay Invested in RI Wavemaker Fellowships. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S2713 | Engross 50% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Provides that services provided by graduate student interns who work under a supervisory protocol would be eligible to be paid from Medicaid reimbursement. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2853 | Engross 50% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RHODE ISLAND UTILITY FAIR SHARE ROADWAY REPAIR ACT - Requires that public utilities plan utility work in accordance with the state transportation improvement program schedules when working on state roads. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2388 | Engross 50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HOME CARE PATIENTS RIGHTS - Provides that all home health care patients receive home health care services regardless of their permanent or temporary residence. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-05 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2726 | Engross 50% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Prohibits insurance companies from paying a rate that is less than the approved Medicaid rate set by the executive office of health and human services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-05 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2281 | Engross 50% | LIBRARIES -- STATE AID TO LIBRARIES -- FREEDOM TO READ - Encourages and protects the freedom of public libraries to acquire materials without limitations and prohibits materials being removed from public libraries due to partisan or doctrinal disappr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31 To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | S2400 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-05-29 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2608 | Engross 50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Requires executive office of health and human services to establish an early childhood mental health hub program focused on improving access to infant and early childhood mental he... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2013 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-05-24 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2075 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-05-24 To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | S2607 | Engross 50% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires coverage for acute mental health crisis mobile response and stabilization services to eligible individuals enrolled as plan beneficiaries. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2606 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-05-24 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2719 | Engross 50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- RHODE ISLAND DRUG COST REVIEW COMMISSION - Creates the Rhode Island drug cost review commission. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2818 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-05-23 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2872 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-05-23 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2519 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-05-17 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2945 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-05-17 To House Judiciary 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | S2007 | Engross 50% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Prohibits the declawing of cats by any surgical procedure to amputate or modify a portion of a cat's paw in order to remove the cat's claws. Does not apply to any procedure performed for a therapeu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2082 | Engross 50% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Caps amount payable for 30 day supply of equipment/supplies for insulin administration/glucose monitoring at $25 or equipment designed to last more than 30 days with no deductible commencing Jan... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2720 | Engross 50% | INSURANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS - Includes any costs paid by an enrollee or on behalf of the enrollee by a third party when calculating an enrollee's overall contribution to any out-of-pocket maximum or cost sharing requirement under a health... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2467 | Engross 50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- RHODE ISLAND PARENTAL AND FAMILY MEDICAL LEAVE ACT - Increases the amount of parental or family leave available to an employee from thirteen (13) weeks to twenty-four (24) weeks in any two (2) calendar years. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To House Labor Committee |
| RI | S2076 | Engross 50% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Removes the sunset provision of all statutory law requiring coverage for the treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To House Health & Human Services Committee |