| RI | S0846 | Pass | Raises aggregate reporting to $200, individual/PAC contributions to $2,000. Defines FMV/accounts payable. Prohibits financing to candidates owing fines to BOE. Exempts candidates from aggregate reporting. Provides public financing for primaries in 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S1074 | Pass | Authorizes North Smithfield to issue 18,000,000 of general obligation bonds and notes to finance the construction of a new police station or the renovation, improvement, alteration and repair of an existing building to be used as a police station.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S1069 | Pass | Authorizes the town of Lincoln to issue bonds and notes up to $25 million dollars to finance the construction, renovation, rehabilitation, repair, improvements, furnishing and equipping of and/or additions to Lincoln elementary schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-20
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S1070 | Pass | Authorizes the town of Lincoln to issue bonds and notes up to $14 million dollars to finance the development and construction of a new town-wide centralized rescue station and the furnishing and equipping thereof and all costs related thereto.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S1133 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Anthony F. Guglielmi, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S1110 | Pass | Senate Resolution Recognizing And Celebrating June 14, 2023 As "national Flag Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S1122 | Pass | Senate Resolution Congratulating Aimee Couto On Being Named The 2024 "rhode Island Teacher Of The Year" By The Rhode Island Department Of Education
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S1117 | Pass | Senate Resolution Congratulating Coach Brian Allen Of Burrillville On Being Inducted Into The National Wrestling Hall Of Fame
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0403 | Engross
50% | 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 therapeutic purpose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S1103 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming June 1-7, 2023, To Be "national Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation And Automated External Defibrillator Week" In Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-08
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0961 | Intro
25% | Requires certain candidates for state and municipal political office and political action committees designate a financial institution as a depository for campaign funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0332 | Intro
25% | Increases the penalty for anyone found guilty of reckless driving while eluding police to a felony punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment and subject to a loss of license from 1 to 2 years and a possible forfeiture of their motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0260 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of Approximately $30,000,000 To Rhode Island's Public Schools For Safety And Security Improvements (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $100,000 To Each Public School In Rhode Islan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0416 | Intro
25% | Establishes a speed limit for school buses being driven on a limited access highway to ten miles per hour (10mph) less than the posted speed limit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0250 | Intro
25% | Refunds the minimum tax paid by corporations with annual gross income of less than four hundred dollars ($400); but caps the amount refunded at four hundred dollars ($400).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0251 | Intro
25% | Establishes a statewide limit of twelve percent (12%) per year on interest charged by cities and towns on delinquent taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0143 | Intro
25% | Increases the number of days a retired municipal employee could work in a calendar year without interruption of pension benefits to ninety (90) days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | S0421 | Intro
25% | Requires the employer's workers’ compensation insurance carrier to cover all of an employee’s associated medical expenses from any adverse medical event resulting from the employer mandating that the employee receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | S0192 | Intro
25% | Allows the taking of any wild bird by using a crossbow in addition to the weapons spelled out in this section.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0265 | Intro
25% | Mandates that any surplus state tax revenue received in any fiscal year would be refunded to the taxpayers of this state on a proportional basis in relation to the personal income tax liability incurred by the taxpayers in that fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0174 | Intro
25% | Requires that all sales representatives selling or leasing solar panels are licensed by the department of business regulation and that a statement be provided to homeowners setting forth pertinent information pertaining to the solar panels.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S0261 | Intro
25% | Establishes a new program where the per pupil funding, calculated annually by RIDE, would be transferred into a newly created educational funding account run by the children's scholarship fund to pay for educational expenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0221 | Intro
25% | Establishes a new fund, with 50% of the collected state motor vehicle registration fees, to be administered by the director of the department of transportation, and earmarked for municipal road and bridges maintenance and construction projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0259 | Intro
25% | Increases the net taxable estate exemption to three million six hundred thousand dollars ($3,600,000) on January 1, 2024. Also increases the exemption by one million dollars ($1,000,000) on January 1 per year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S1024 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming May 10th, 2023, To Be "lupus Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0975 | Pass | Senate Resolution Celebrating The Week Of May 6th Through May 12th As "national Nurses Week" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0976 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming May Of 2023, To Be "brain Tumor Awareness Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0151 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Corona Corp.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-10
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S0588 | Intro
25% | Provides another method for municipalities to identify and calculate private residences as low and moderate income housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-10
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0266 | Intro
25% | Exempts from the sales and 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] | 2023-05-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0298 | Intro
25% | Requires healthcare facilities that perform abortions meet the license requirements of similar healthcare facilities and allows the department of health to conduct unannounced inspections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0347 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0172 | Intro
25% | Allows the commission to defer or suspend any fees/charges collected for demand-side management or renewables and notifies the governor, speaker of the house, and the senate president of the commission's decision to suspend any fees/charges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S0974 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of John J. Monaghan, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0954 | Pass | Senate Resolution Congratulating Police Chief Brian Sullivan On His Retirement And Thanking Him For More Than Thirty-four Years Of Exemplary And Devoted Service To The Town Of Lincoln
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0113 | Intro
25% | Requires that all maintenance of sidewalks along state highways, with the exception of snow and ice removal, be the responsibility of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-27
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0142 | Intro
25% | Senate Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Review Rhode Island's Minimum Wage (creates An Eleven (11) Member Special Legislative Study Commission Whose Purpose It Would Be To Study Rhode Island's Minimum Wage, And Who Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | S0199 | Intro
25% | Changes the fine for any person convicted of a first violation of this chapter from eighty-five dollars ($85.00) to one hundred dollars ($100).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0356 | Intro
25% | Requires that whenever a person is charged with possession of a firearm with alteration of identification marks, the alteration would create a rebuttable presumption that the person is a danger to the safety of the community.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0383 | Intro
25% | Allows an individual to lawfully possess a device that would silence the sound of a natural report of a rifle or shotgun to hunt game, as long as the host rifle or shotgun is allowed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0346 | Intro
25% | Defines suitable person and establishes reasons for applying for carry permit, establishes what information is required on applications, establishes appeal process if application denied and provides that records are not public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0354 | Intro
25% | Allows reciprocal concealed carry permits from out of state to be valid in Rhode Island, which is either authorized by the attorney general or subject to other reciprocal restrictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0394 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale or possession of firearm silencers unless the person complies with federal law in the sale, possession and use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0348 | Intro
25% | Defines suitable person, establishes reasons for applying for concealed carry permit, establishes what information is required on applications, establishes appeal process for denials, provides that records are not public permits hunting with suppress...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0350 | Intro
25% | Provides for a cause of action against an individual or entity that prohibits the possession of firearms on real property, except residences, by an individual that is authorized and licensed to carry a firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0220 | Intro
25% | Secures general assembly appropriations in lieu of property taxes for state-owned properties within the town of Exeter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0398 | Intro
25% | Allows for the extension of child support obligations for non-custodial parents beyond emancipation if the children are attending a two or four year college and still live with the custodial parent until such children reach the age of 21.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0848 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming March Of 2023, To Be "brain Injury Awareness Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-30
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0836 | Pass | Senate Resolution Thanking Basketball Star, Veronica Dawson, For Hosting A Basketball Clinic For Pawtucket Elementary School Youngsters
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0838 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming Wednesday, March 29, 2023, To Be "developmental Disabilities Awareness Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Senate read and passed |
