| RI | S0194 | Intro | Senate Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Evaluate Rhode Island's Electric And Natural Gas Transmission And Distribution System Infrastructure (creates A 22 Member Commission To Study And Evaluate Rhode Island's Electri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2019) |
| RI | S0262 | Engross | Removes the condition that there needs to be a reasonable expectation that a 19 year old will complete a program in secondary school in order to qualify as a dependent child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0433 | Intro | Protects seniors and qualified disabled adults from financial exploitation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2019) |
| RI | S0409 | Intro | Requires private/public schools provide/maintain opioid antagonists on-site including elementary schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
[Hearing: Jun 19]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | S0563 | Intro | Requires that retirement contributions be deposited or remitted to the retirement system within three (3) days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2019) |
| RI | S0538 | Intro | Requires that plans for natural gas infrastructure be built to a set of design standards approved by a certified engineer if the work poses a material public safety risk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2019) |
| RI | S0837 | Engross | Provides a petition process to have a discharge from service recorded as honorable for members of the armed services separated from service with a general or other than honorable discharge due solely to their sexual orientation/gender identity/expres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-14
Placed on House Calendar (06/19/2019) |
| RI | S0936 | Engross | Exempts Woonsocket properties with a Main Street address, located between 2 Main Street (Plat 14, Lot 284) and 194 Main Street (Plat 14, Lot 139), from prohibition of the sale of alcoholic beverages within 200 feet of any school or church.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-14
[Hearing: Jun 20]
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0479 | Engross | Requires real estate sellers to provide buyers with an annual building energy cost estimate and imposes a duty on sellers to conduct real estate condition inspections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S0434 | Intro | Provides for increases in the amount of foundation level school support that a community would receive, based upon a community's ability to meet and surpass its minimum low and moderate income housing requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0674 | 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] | 2019-06-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0780 | Intro | Eliminates the marital sexual assault exception when a victim is incapacitated, disabled, or helpless.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0762 | Intro | Exempts from the sale or use tax that portion of a motor vehicle lease payment collected for tangible personal property tax, municipal property tax, excise, or any other similar tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0763 | Intro | Pension benefits that originate from and were taxed in another state are exempted from Rhode Island state taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0964 | Pass | Senate Resolution Joyously Celebrating And Commemorating Pride Month In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-11
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0789 | Intro | Repeals current state law regarding paternity and replaces it with a more comprehensive parentage act that provides procedures establishing parentage, genetic testing, surrogacy agreements and assisted reproduction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0825 | Intro | Allows state employees the ability to make an after tax contribution to a qualified Roth contribution program as a part of a deferred compensation plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0946 | Pass | Senate Resolution Congratulating Thundermist Health Center On 50 Years Of Providing Rhode Islanders With Quality Service And Health Care
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-05
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0775 | Engross | Permits clinical laboratories as defined in ยง 23-16.2-2(2) to conduct its own analysis of specimens for the detection of HIV/AIDS instead of sending the specimens to the department of health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-31
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | S0222 | Pass | Ratifies the Home Rule Charter amendments adopted and approved by the electors of North Smithfield on November 6, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-30
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S0598 | Intro | Forbids an employer to require an employee to execute a nondisclosure agreement; or non-disparagement agreement regarding alleged violations of civil rights or criminal conduct as a condition of employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0050 | Intro | Provides that a nonprofit hospital facility converted from for-profit hospital facility would have a payment in lieu of tax agreement with the applicable city or town or subject to a municipal payment equal to sixty-five percent (65%) of the tax due.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0665 | Intro | Requires the tax administrator to remit eighteen percent (18%) of all hospital licensing fees to the city of Woonsocket collected from any hospital located in the city of Woonsocket.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0826 | Intro | Amends the definition of the practice of pharmacy to include the authority to prescribe drugs and devices and would provide the conditions for which a pharmacist may prescribe an indicated drug or device.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0454 | Intro | Requires every health insurance contract to provide coverage for all FDA-approved contraceptive drugs, voluntary sterilization procedures, patient education and counseling as well as Medicaid coverage for a 12 month supply for Medicaid recipients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0043 | Intro | Requires the state to reimburse the city or town for any costs associated with transporting children placed in foster care to an educational facility outside the regional transportation district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0711 | Pass | Senate Resolution Respectfully Requesting The Governor's Workforce Board To Work With The Rhode Island Department Of Labor And Training To Develop A Report On The Feasibility Of Expanding Non-trade Registered Apprenticeship Programs In Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0368 | Intro | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Reapportionment
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0497 | Intro | Provides for a process for married and unmarried parents, to complete adoption to confirm their parentage of children born into their relationships with mutual intent and through assisted reproduction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0678 | Intro | Provides for medical assistance health care for expectant mothers and establishes medical assistance coverage and reimbursement rates for perinatal doula services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-25
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0623 | Intro | Provides regulations for the reselling of tickets for entertainment events including regulations for refunds, counterfeit ticket sales, delivery of tickets and deceptive ticket sales websites.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-24
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S0784 | Intro | Permits those other residents of a residential dwelling unit to extend the term of the rental agreement for a period not to exceed three (3) months after the death of the lessee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0330 | Engross | Extends protection to domestic servants/includes retaliation as unlawful practice and requires employers of 4 or more employees to conduct sexual harassment programs for new employees within 1 month of the date of hire/all employees by September 1, 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-11
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | S0038 | Pass | Exempts property located at 122 North Main Street in the city of Woonsocket from the provision requiring it to be located a certain distance from objectors/schools/churches regarding the issuance of retail liquor licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S0383 | Intro | Allows business vehicles which are owned by an entity which a veteran owns, and registered and authorized to conduct business in the state of Rhode Island, to register such business vehicles with veteran plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S0659 | Intro | Senate Resolution Respectfully Requesting An Assessment Of The Benefits To Rhode Island Of Enactment Of A Green New Deal, Including, But Not Limited To, Findings And Recommendations For State Legislation Based On Green New Deal Principles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0402 | Intro | Requires schools to comply with recycling and composting laws and promotes food donation and local food service contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0745 | Pass | Senate Resolution Joyously Celebrating The Forthcoming 100th Anniversary Of The League Of Women Voters In 2020
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0251 | Pass | Extends requirement to collect sales tax to remote sellers in a way that conforms to a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision making it easier for states to compel collection of the sales tax from retailers who do not have a physical presence in their st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-29
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S0098 | Intro | Permits cities and towns to issue special events liquor licenses to permit the equivalent of one-day licenses one day each month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-27
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S0374 | Intro | Incrementally increases from the $3.89 per hour subminimum wage for tipped workers to $9.00 per hour on January 1, 2023, Starting on January 1, 2024, the minimum hourly wage for tipped workers would be equal to the state's regular minimum hourly wage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-27
To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | S0339 | Intro | Repeals the state voter identification law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0319 | Intro | Allows an individual who is eligible to vote and turns eighteen (18) years of age on or before the date of a general election to vote in the primary election immediately preceding that general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0457 | Intro | Creates public funding for legislative candidates, would limit contributions of public funds for all candidates for governor, statewide office holders and legislators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0584 | Intro | Senate Resolution Respectfully Requesting The Rhode Island State Auditor General To Conduct Or Oversee A Study Or Audit On The Privatization Of Rhode Island's Medicaid Programs
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0214 | Intro | Expands the health services council to twenty-four (24) members and amends disclosure provisions of the hospital conversion act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0565 | Intro | Provides a one time tax credit up to two hundred fifty dollars ($250) per dependent child for certain Rhode Island households who contribute to an account under the Rhode Island college bound tuition savings program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0366 | Intro | Senate Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study The Impact Of The Trauma Inflicted On Children Who Are Exposed To Violence (creates A 13 Member Commission To Study The Impact Of The Trauma Inflicted On Children Exposed To Violenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0255 | Intro | Removes the 10 year period within which time the secretary of state's office is authorized to withdraw a certificate of revocation for all Rhode Island business corporations, foreign corporations, nonprofit corporations and limited liability companie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S0290 | Intro | Establishes a universal, comprehensive, affordable single-payer health care insurance program .
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
