| RI | S2125 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | S2047 | Engross
Sine Die | TOWNS AND CITIES -- REDEVELOPMENT PROJECTS - Adds the city of Central Falls as exempt from taxation for property acquired by an agency for redevelopment purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12 Placed on House Calendar (06/13/2024) |
| RI | S2600 | Engross
Sine Die | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Adds the administrator of community confinement and the home confinement coordinator to the state retirement system. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12 Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2084 | Engross
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 | S2654 | Engross
Sine Die | ELECTIONS -- REGISTRATION OF VOTERS - Increases role of division of motor vehicles in voter registration and addresses verification process, by establishing very specific obligations and responsibilities that must be followed before offering an indiv... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S2268 | Engross
Sine Die | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- GROCERY STORES - Requires grocery stores to specifically limit the number of self-service checkout units to six (6) units per location. The consumer protection unit of the department of attorney gene... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-07 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2388 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | S2608 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | S2273 | Engross
Sine Die | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES - Requires businesses that offer automatic subscription renewals/continuous service offers to provide consumers with notice to the consumer prior to their engagement in the con... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2607 | Engross
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 | S2397 | Engross
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Provides the state would cover dialysis for the treatment of end stage renal disease ("ESRD") and kidney transplants for persons who do not qualify for full Medicaid due to their i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2530 | Engross
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Supporting Continued Focus And Actions For Improved Coordination Between Agencies Responsible For Early Childhood And Early Learning Programs [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2148 | Engross
Sine Die | EDUCATION -- THE KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE TWO - 2) MAXIMUM CLASS SIZE ACT (Mandates 20 students per classroom for kindergarten through second grade. Exceptions for emergencies and temporary situations, not to exceed 3 days and mid-year enrollments. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17 To House Education Committee |
| RI | S2519 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | S2843 | Engross
Sine Die | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PREKINDERGARTEN EDUCATION ACT - Establishes guidelines for the continued implementation and expansion of high quality public prekindergarten education programs in the state. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2289 | Engross
Sine Die | EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION - Prohibits colleges and universities from withholding a student's transcript due to the student failing to pay any expenses owed to the college or university but permits the withholding of a student's ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10 To House Education Committee |
| RI | S2541 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | S2459 | Engross
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Removes the requirement that families consent to, and cooperate with the department of human services in establishing paternity and enforcing child and medical support orders as a condition of eligib... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2123 | Engross
Sine Die | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES - Requires employer to furnish items and conditions of employment and a pay stub explaining how wages were calculated/reasons for deductions/allows the employee to file a court action against employer for... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Labor Committee |
| RI | S2122 | Engross
Sine Die | CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS -- WORKERS' COOPERATIVES - Clarifies the role of a workers' cooperative to allow it to operate as a hiring hall under certain circumstances. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Labor Committee |
| RI | S2396 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | S2100 | Engross
Sine Die | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - This act would further delineate the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2467 | Engross
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 |
| RI | S2137 | Engross
Sine Die | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY -- POLICE RELATIONSHIP ACT OF 2015 - Amends the comprehensive community-police relationship act of 2015 to require an annual study by an outside agency chosen by the department. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To House Judiciary Committee |