| RI | H7301 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Allows the healthcare facility to conduct human-subject research on patients subject to 21 C.F.R. Pt 50 and/or 45 C.F.R. Pt 46 (relating to the informed consent of human subjects).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7350 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- SOCIAL WORK LICENSURE COMPACT - Adopts model legislation facilitating the interstate practice of regulated social workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8037 | Pass | House Resolution Recognizing March 8, 2024, As "international Women's Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
House read and passed |
| RI | H8030 | Intro
25% | PARKS AND RECREATIONAL AREAS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Adds to those persons exempt from payment of parking fees at any recreational facility owned and operated by the state those individuals determined by the executive office of HHS, or its designee, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8031 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT - Increases the state's share of supplementary assistance to individuals living in a state-licensed assisted-living residence from $332.00 to $352.00, of which $140.00 would be allocated to the personal needs a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7375 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTIONS -- DEATH BY WRONGFUL ACT - Expands the statute of limitations with respect to any wrongful act resulting in the death of a child in utero or within six (6) months after the birth of the ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7362 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Establishes general caseload limits for DCYF workers similar to those contained in the Council on Accreditation standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7370 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Criminalizes the knowing and intentional failure of a physician, nurse, or other licensed medical person to provide reasonable medical care and treatment to an infant born alive as a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7457 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES -- FREQUENCY OF PAYMENT - Eliminate all exceptions to the provision that all employees are to be paid weekly except for employees of the state and its political subdivisions, municipal governments, and no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7626 | 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] | 2024-03-05
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7627 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study The Feasibility Of Utilizing Federal Title Iv Dollars To Support And Enhance Enrollment In Social Work Education At Ric (creates A 12-member Commission To Study The Feasibility Of Ut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7823 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Requires the department of children, youth and families (DCYF) to conduct periodic comprehensive needs assessments to determine whether the department’s programs and servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7896 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - Increases the number of state child care licensing inspectors to meet the national recommended average of one inspector for every fifty (50) to sixty (60) child care providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7904 | Intro
25% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- SUPPORT OF CHILDREN - Repeals the law requiring a parent to pay support and maintenance to agencies having custody of their child
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7897 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUGS - Defines step therapy and prohibits certain groups and agreements from requiring prior authorization or a step therapy protocol when prescribing certain medications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7364 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-29
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7308 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- MAINTENANCE OF ORDER ON CAMPUS - Mandates arming campus police at public higher educational institutions and includes campus police in the definition of "law enforcement officer" for the purposes of the "Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7303 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION - Defines "public official" to include school personnel for purposes of the criminal prohibition against making threats to public officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7576 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT--- RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS OF MUNICIPAL POLICE CHIEFS - Provides protections to appointed police chiefs of cities and towns and provides they would be entitled to a hearing and due process before termination and provides f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7151 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- PHYSICAL THERAPY COPAY - Limits copays, coinsurance or office deductibles for services of a physical therapist to the amount authorized for the services of a primary care physician or osteopath...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7691 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $250,000 To The Substance Use And Mental Health Leadership Council Of Ri (sumhlc) (this Resolution Would Authorize An Appropriation Of The Sum Of $250,000 To The Substance Use And Mental Health Leadership C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7599 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Letitia Morrison Carter
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
House read and passed |
| RI | H7090 | Engross
50% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES - Providers of a club, facility, or services to a consumer must stop automatic deductions from the consumer's account or credit card within 30 calendar days of receiving a noti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | H7234 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- ANIMAL CARE - Prohibits a medical training program from using a live animal while teaching medical procedures if any other accredited training program does not use animals or there is an alternate method that teaches t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7363 | 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] | 2024-02-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7088 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- COUNCILS AND GOVERNING BODIES - Provides that municipal insurance corporations be subject to laws regulating insurance companies and be regulated by the Rhode Island department of business regulation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7358 | Intro
25% | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- DEER HUNTING - Modifies reporting requirements regarding collisions between vehicles and wildlife where the vehicle has been substantially damaged.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7504 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of The Honorable Harold L. Trafford, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
House read and passed |
| RI | H7068 | Pass | GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS - Provides that the center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences building at the University of Rhode Island be named as "Joseph '...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7056 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- FORCE-FED POULTRY PRODUCTS - Prohibits force-feeding to create a force-fed poultry product nor hire another to engage in force feeding of a poultry product. Violations would be subject to a civil penalty of $500.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7075 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Provides that the trapping and subsequent release of any unowned feral or free roaming cat for the purpose of spaying or neutering of the cat would not be considered abandonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7052 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7199 | Intro
25% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION - Permits family court to make orders of support and education of a child from ages eighteen (18) to twenty-one (21).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7237 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- JURY LISTS - Makes persons seventy (70) years of age or older eligible for exemption from jury service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7404 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Relocates certain provisions of the general laws relating to child care assistance from the Rhode Island Works Program to the chapter on child care state subsidies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7045 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS REQUIRED AT PUBLIC PLACES - Requires golfing facilities to have an automated external defibrillator on the premises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7081 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Protects and continues health insurance coverage for the dependent of an employee who wishes to change their health insurance coverage to Medicare or are currently on Medicare.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7150 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS - Expands the rights of physician assistants with regard to their practice and prohibits non-compete clauses that exceed five years with regard to the purchase and sale of a practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7298 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- LONG-TERM CARE SERVICE AND FINANCE REFORM - All Medicaid programs operated by EOHHS would not reimburse home care providers less than fee-for-service rates adopted by rate review recommendations of the office o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7084 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VEHICLE BARRIERS-THE CHARLOTTE A. VACCA ACT - Requires commercial property owners to install vehicle barriers at their retail establishment locations when construction/renovations are being done and permits insurers to consider t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7277 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales and use tax the sale of beer and malt beverages at retail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7119 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State-of Elections And Campaign Finance (proposes A Constitutional Amendment Authorizing Four (4) Year Terms For Members Of The G...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7065 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- HOTELS - Requires online posting of hotel rules and expand the authority of the innkeeper to eject a person for being verbally abusive or physically threatening to an employee or hotel guest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Small Business Committee |
| RI | H7156 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Write An Olmstead Plan For Rhode Island (this Resolution Creates A 28 Member Special Legislative Commission Whose Purpose Is To Write An Olmstead Plan For Rhode Island, And Reports Back To...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H7191 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming January Of 2024, To Be "firefighter Cancer Awareness Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
House read and passed |
| RI | H7187 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Exempts any individual who is aging out of foster care from the payment of any fee associated with the issuance of a operator's license as well as driver's education class fees. The fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7134 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Katherine E. Young
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
House read and passed |
| RI | H7005 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Kim A. Nardolillo
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-02
House read and passed |
| RI | H7002 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Chief Joseph P. Razza, Johnston Police Department, Retired
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-02
House read and passed |
| RI | H7004 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Deepest Sympathy On The Passing Of Madeline Montanaro
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-02
House read and passed |
