| RI | S2134 | Pass | Directs the attorney general to report annually to the general assembly on the incidence and disposition of crimes involving guns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-10
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S2453 | Pass | Raises the minimum attorneys' fee awarded to a claimant from fifty dollars ($50) to two hundred fifty dollars ($250) in certain instances in unemployment compensation matters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-10
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S2677 | Pass | Authorizes up to $40,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance school construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S2679 | Pass | Provides that insurance companies may not mandate the use of aftermarket parts without the owner's consent on motor vehicles less than 48 months beyond manufacture date.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-04
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S2055 | Pass | Defines the term "adequate shelter" where dogs may be kept. It would limit the weight of any dog chain or tether to one-eighth (1/8) of the dogs total body weight. In addition it would limit the time dogs may be tethered outdoors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2154 | Pass | Eliminates the need of filing an SR 22, standard form with the department of motor vehicles or its divisions, in order for an individual to get their operator’s license reinstated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2285 | Pass | Clarifies the right of a surviving spouse of a decedent regarding elective shares taken against the decedent's will relating to real and personal estate to the estates of decedents dying on and after July 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2226 | Pass | Requires hospitals to offer immunization against influenza virus to all inpatients sixty-five (65) years of age or older from October to March of the following year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2182 | Pass | Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to incorporate substance abuse prevention and suicide prevention into the health education curriculum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2258 | Pass | Eliminates the requirement that a service person serving in conflicts or undeclared wars receive a campaign ribbon or expeditionary medal in order to receive a property tax exemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2412 | Pass | Requires written notice of public hearing to all real property owners when proposed zoning amendment seeks to merge lots of those owners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2413 | Pass | Amends the "building height" definition in chapter 24 of title 45 (zoning ordinances) for property in special flood hazard areas. The building height would be measured from the base flood elevation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2359 | Pass | Requires easement benefited property owners to pay costs to maintain easements or rights-of-way of property of another.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2683 | Pass | Establishes the Rhode Island chapter of the children’s advocacy center, a community based organization that would provide a child-friendly, safe and neutral location from which a multidisciplinary team would act in response to child abuse allegatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2754 | Pass | Establishes standardized methods and appeals procedures for the calculation of fair and reasonable compensation for parts and labor used in warranty services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2896 | Pass | Allows distribution and utilization of narcotic testing products to assist persons in determining whether drugs contain toxic substances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2983 | Pass | Requires health director/attorney general to conduct hospital conversion investigations with stenographic record of the proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2249 | Pass | Creates a special registration plate for holders of the Eagle Scout badge. The forty dollar ($40.00) surcharge for the plates shall be divided between the general fund and the Narragansett Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2607 | Pass | Distinguishes the criminal penalties for violating a final order of the Contractors' Registration Board. Judgments less than $5,000 are misdemeanors; judgments $5,000 or more are felonies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S2112 | Pass | Applies to settlement of St. Joseph Hospital Retirement Plan settlements/joint tortfeasors' releases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2377 | Intro | Establishes the RI airport and aviation fund to be managed by the Rhode Island airport corporation and funded by an aviation jet fuel excise tax in the amount of 7% of the gross sales of aviation jet fuel sold and used in the propulsion of aircraft.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-23
Committee heard |
| RI | S2533 | Engross | Expands certain rights of persons with developmental disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2617 | Intro | Renames the state airport in Warwick to "Rhode Island International Airport."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2998 | Pass | Senate Resolution Honoring Senator Daniel Da Ponte For His Service To The People Of The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-22
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2997 | Pass | Senate Resolution Honoring Senator Marc A. Cote For His Service To The People Of The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-22
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2999 | Pass | Senate Resolution Honoring Senator Paul W. Fogarty For His Service To The People Of The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-22
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2030 | Intro | Repeals requirement that law enforcement officers issue only warnings of the risks to persons leaving child under 7 years unattended in motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2045 | Intro | Authorizes the implementation and operation of sports wagering at the Twin River and Tiverton gaming facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2091 | Intro | Expedites the foreclosure procedure on vacant property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
Defeated by Senate |
| RI | S2208 | Engross | Entitles correctional officers with twenty-five (25) years of service and who are at least fifty-five (55) years of age to a non-Medicare-eligible retiree health care insurance benefit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2760 | Intro | Allows a judge to impose blood or urine testing and the use of an ignition interlock system upon persons seeking a conditional hardship license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2967 | Pass | Senate Resolution Amending The Rules Of The Senate
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2557 | Pass | Amends several provisions relative to truck size and weight limitations to be compatible with federal law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-18
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2678 | Pass | Continues status quo for licensing of approved recipients under DACA program; however, issuance of license does not confer right to vote eff. 12/3/18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-18
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2891 | Pass | Allows Kathleen Nee to join Julia McDowell and the Honorable Seth Magaziner in marriage on or about July 28, 2018, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2969 | Pass | Senate Resolution Recognizing "juneteenth National Freedom Day" On June 19, 2018
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2968 | Pass | Senate Resolution Congratulating Jamestown Teacher Charlene Tuttle For Being Named The 2019 Rhode Island Teacher Of The Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2782 | Intro | Adds department of corrections' correctional officers to the list of public safety employees that are entitled to their full salary if they are injured and become disabled as a result of performance of their job duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2307 | Intro | Requires the registration, certification, and regulation of those individuals who provide personal care assistant services to a consumer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2300 | Intro | Creates a new chapter and make several amendments to existing statutes providing for penalties for crimes against the public trust.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2295 | Intro | Codifies the public corruption and white-collar crime unit within the department of attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2186 | Intro | Authorizes school committees to appoint one designee to the board of directors of the governing body of certain charter public schools which students from the district attend.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| RI | S2929 | Intro | Permits the taking of domesticated and undomesticated game birds on a shooting preserve subject to certain requirements on licensing, shooting area and records required to be kept.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-05
Senate held on desk |
| RI | S2581 | Pass | Prohibits the dissemination of any indecent image of another person without authorization for the purpose of harassing, intimidating, threatening another person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-04
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2639 | Pass | Requires that school district safety assessments be provided to the Rhode Island school safety committee every three (3) years for review and recommendations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-04
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2492 | Pass | Authorizes the supreme court to issue "extreme risk protections orders" requiring the surrender of all firearms from persons determined to be capable of causing personal injury.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-01
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2604 | Intro | Delineates the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2554 | Intro | Establishes the Rhode Island Livable Home Modification Grant allowing individuals to retrofit their residence to nationally recognized accessibility standards and receive fifty percent (50%) of the total sum spent, up to five thousand dollars ($5,000...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2585 | Intro | Defines and would regulate, and in some cases, would prohibit dismemberment abortions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
Committee heard |
| RI | S2936 | Pass | Senate Resolution Honoring And Thanking Joanne Maceroni On The Occasion Of Her Retirement From The Narragansett Bay Commission
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
Senate read and passed |
