| RI | H8040 | Pass | I) AN ADDITION TO THE CLAIBORNE PELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, CLASSROOMS AND ASSOCIATED SUPPORT SPACE, SITE IMPROVEMENTS, AND PARKING AND (II) A NEW SCHOOL FACILITY FOR THE WILLIAM S. ROGERS HIGH SCHOOL, PROVIDED THAT THE AUT...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-25
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H8112 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Deepest Sympathy On The Passing Of The Honorable Paul L. Gaines, Sr., The First African American Mayor In New England
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
House read and passed |
| 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 | H7868 | Intro | Requires certain businesses and educational facilities that produce at least 52 tons of organic-waste yearly and are located within 30 miles of an authorized composting facility to use authorized methods of recycling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7291 | Intro | Requires elementary/secondary schools to have at least 1 school employee trained to administer/assist with the self-administering of seizure rescue medication prescribed to treat seizure disorder systems and the use of prescribed electrical stimulati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7507 | Intro | Requires schools to comply with recycling and composting laws and promotes the donation of unspoiled nonperishable food by schools. Requires the use of share tables at all schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7814 | Intro | Directs the DOE and sec. ed. to promulgate rules/regulations/establish minimum accountability standards/school districts would be required to meet in order to be in compliance with an individualized education program for students with disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7776 | Intro | Requires third-party hosting platforms to register short-term rental units with DBR, if not registered a fine would be imposed. Creates database for short-term rental units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7872 | Intro | Creates voluntary, no charge program for caterers/mobile food vendors/restaurants for reduction of plastic/other disposal waste with successful completion resulting in2 year exemption from payment for litter control permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7082 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Alidade Incorporated
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H7399 | Intro | Establishes a statewide greenhouse gas emission reduction mandate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7871 | Intro | Allows the director to appoint a representative of the division of parks and recreation to the Fort Adams Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7850 | Intro | Authorizes cities and towns to classify residential property that is rented for more than thirty (30) non-consecutive days in a calendar year as a Class 2 property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | H7903 | Intro | Adds "cigarette butts" to the definition of "litter".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7972 | Pass | House Resolution Recognizing March 8, 2020, As "international Women’s Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
House read and passed |
| RI | H7354 | Intro | Requires initial, biennial, and continuing education in land use law and planning for local planning and zoning board members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7506 | Intro | Permits students in grades nine (9) through twelve (12) to possess/use over-the-counter medication and products without a doctor's or parent's note during school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| 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 | H7570 | Intro | Increases the minimum wage by using an annual fixed amount until January 1, 2024, where it reaches to fifteen dollars ($15.00) per hour, then raised annually thereafter by using the (CPI-W). It also raises the cash wage by using a similar scale.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7956 | Intro | Allows DOT to lease airport property up to 50 years for substantial improvement/building and increases RI airport corporation directors from 7 to 9 with one appointment (RIPA) and (RIGABOA).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7628 | Intro | Requires the DOT to establish a schedule of all maintenance, including landscaping and mowing of lawns on state roads, and provide a copy of said schedule to the department of public works in any city or town where the state road is located.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7612 | Intro | Provides that the authority of the CRMC shall include specific areas designated in "special area management plans" (SAMP).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7786 | Intro | Requires electric transmission and distribution companies to conduct periodic equipment inspections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7681 | Intro | Requires the department of education and the DCYF to develop a procedure to ensure that the municipalities where group homes or other residential facilities are located are reimbursed for the educational expenses above the cost allocated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7729 | Intro | Allows an owner or owners of real property to execute a deed that names one or more beneficiaries who will obtain title to the property at the owner's death without the necessity of probate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7832 | Intro | Creates the "Nathan Bruno and Jason Flatt Act" which would require training of teachers and school personnel regarding suicide awareness and prevention and establishment of a conflict resolution process between teachers or school personnel and studen...
[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 | H7705 | Intro | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study The Entire Area Of Land Use, Preservation, Development And Regulation
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7738 | Intro | Eliminates the requirement of a stenographic record and allow an electronic recording to be taken at the local board of canvassers proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Judiciary 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 | H7819 | Intro | Authorizes a licensed physical therapist to perform physical therapy services to a student while in school without a prescription or referral, in accordance with the student's IEP or IFSP.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7724 | Intro | Establishes the "student cloud computing privacy and protection act".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7861 | Intro | Reduces time to certify minor development plans. Increases time to certify master/prelim plans. Reduces time to certify/resubmit final plan phase. Increases time for master plan decision. Restores preliminary plan decision to 120 days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | H7685 | Intro | Establishes a board and appropriates funds from the legislature to create a local cannabis equity program to allow those people who want to enter the business of selling marijuana with state funding and technical assistance to do so.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7815 | Intro | Creates a comprehensive system to promote and regulate the effective and competent administration of medical laboratories by focusing on the training, qualifications and licensure of their practitioners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7934 | Intro | Defines employee to include persons under appointment/contract of hire/apprenticeship/volunteer/upaid intern.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7174 | Intro | Adds climate change/sea-level rise/coastal resiliency to data analysis. Changes number of members of the economic development planning council from 17 to 19 by adding the directors of environmental management and coastal resources council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
To House Small Business Committee |
| RI | H7643 | Pass | House Resolution Recognizing The Rhode Island Slave History Medallion Statewide Education Program
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
House read and passed |
| RI | H7366 | Intro | Provides that a safety barrier or safety netting would be erected on the Mount Hope Bridge, the Claiborne Pell Bridge, and the Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge, no later than January 1, 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7619 | Intro | Expands drug awareness programs to high schools, directs funding from certain civil fines and mandates establishment of criteria for funding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7533 | Intro | Provides that a tax payment shall be paid by midnight on the date in which the tax becomes due and payable, and reduces the amount of penalty for taxes unpaid from a maximum of twenty-one percent (21%) to ten percent (10%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7500 | Intro | Allows any tax payments to be paid by midnight of the date the tax is due and also provides for a twenty-four (24) hour extension of time to pay the tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7216 | Intro | Department of health to establish maximum PFAS levels in water.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7075 | Intro | Creates a special motor vehicle registration plate for The Rose Island Lighthouse Foundation, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| RI | H7083 | Intro | Enables cities and towns to provide property tax relief to individuals who take resiliency measures to rehabilitate their property because of flood hazards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | H7261 | Intro | Prohibits the release of balloons inflated with lighter-than-air gas subject to $250 fine effective October 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7290 | Intro | Directs the department of health to establish an inspection and evaluation program and establish rules and regulations regarding air quality in elementary and secondary schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | H7116 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring And Congratulating Earl J. Croft, Iii, Executive Director Of The Rhode Island Turnpike And Bridge Authority, On His Retirement After Thirty-seven Years Of Distinguished Public Service
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
House read and passed |
