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Current trends in Rhode Island legislation over the last 72 hours as measured by public interest and activity.
| Position | Bill | Status | Summary | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | H7100 | Introduced | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LILA MANFIELD SAPINSLEY COMPASSIONATE CARE ACT - Establishes the process to provide a legal mechanism whereby a terminally ill patient may choose to end their life using medications prescribed by a physician. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 |
| #2 | S2281 | Engrossed | LIBRARIES -- STATE AID TO LIBRARIES -- FREEDOM TO READ - Encourages and protects the freedom of public libraries to acquire materials without limitations and prohibits materials being removed from public libraries due to partisan or doctrinal disappr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31 |
| #3 | H7165 | Engrossed | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- COMMERCIAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY - Under certain circumstances, provides immunity from arrest and prosecution for prostitution, procurement of sexual conduct for a fee, loitering for prostitution and soliciting from motor vehicles for ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 |
| #4 | H7719 | Passed | INSURANCE -- LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES AND RESERVES - Replaces the term "the drug naloxone" with the term "opioid antagonist" in chapters regulating life insurance policies and group life insurance policies. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-17 Signed by Governor |
| #5 | H7781 | Introduced | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PARENTS BILL OF RIGHTS ACT - Provides for a parents' bill of rights related to the health, education and welfare of their minor children. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10 |
| #6 | S2113 | Introduced | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF POLICE ROBOT TECHNOLOGY - Prohibits on-duty/off-duty law enforcement officer from utilizing any robot/police robot dog/UAV, whether armed/unarmed, within the scope of their employment as well ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 |
| #7 | S2181 | Passed | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT - Repeals the July 1, 2025, sunset provision of the interstate medical licensure act. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25 Signed by Governor |
| #8 | H7684 | Introduced | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts urban and small farmers from sales taxes, real, tangible and personal property taxes and income taxes. It also defines urban and small farmers and urban farmland. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10 |
| #9 | H7041 | Introduced | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- THE PRESCRIPTION DRUG SALES REPRESENTATIVE DISCLOSURE ACT - Requires prescription drug manufacturers to file a detailed, updated list of each pharmaceutical sales representative engaged by the manufacturer and to pay an ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13 House passed as amended (floor amendment) |
| #10 | H7787 | Passed | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- RHODE ISLAND DATA TRANSPARENCY AND PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT - Creates the Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protect Act for data privacy protections for the personal data of the citizens of Rh... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-29 Effective without Governor's signature |
| #11 | S2886 | Introduced | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND COMMERCE CORPORATION - Requires one of the seven (7) directors of the Rhode Island airport corporation be appointed by the mayor of the city of Warwick. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| #12 | S2828 | Passed | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Allows law enforcement to utilize mufflers, silencers, or other devices for deadening or muffling the sound of a firearm while acting within the scope of their official duties under the supervision of the police chief o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25 Signed by Governor |
| #13 | H7356 | Passed | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CONSUMER PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024 - Enacts the Consumer PFAS Ban Act of 2024, prohibiting the intentional addition of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances of PFAS in products offered for sale or manufactured in the state as ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26 Signed by Governor |
| #14 | H7474 | Introduced | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Of Suffrage (would Propose To The Voters Of The State A Constitutional Amendment Regarding Eligibility To Vote And To Be A Candidate.... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 |
| #15 | H7520 | Introduced | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RIGHTS OF NURSING HOME PATIENTS - Repeals a 2021 law that mandated minimum staffing levels and standards for quality care for nursing homes and their residents with violations subject to monetary penalties. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 |
| #16 | S2353 | Introduced | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Increases personal needs allowance of nursing facility to $100. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11 Committee continued |
| #17 | H7435 | Engrossed | INSURANCE -- PET INSURANCE ACT - Enacts a chapter to regulate pet insurance. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 |
| #18 | S2870 | Introduced | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MEDICAL SPAS SAFETY ACT - Provides that the performance of cosmetic medical services is the practice of medicine and surgery. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 |
| #19 | S2753 | Introduced | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- COMPOSTING AND ORGANIC WASTE DIVERSION - Establishes Compost Fund to award grants related to reducing the amount of solid waste generated in the state. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 |
| #20 | H7181 | Introduced | PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Makes changes to the access to public records act, including clarifying various provisions, increasing the sanctions for knowing and willful violations of the law, and making certain traffic accident data ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 |
| #21 | H7960 | Introduced | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT -- JUST CAUSE EVICTIONS - Provides for just cause evictions for residential landlord tenancies. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 |
| #22 | H7619 | Passed | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- TOXIC PACKAGING REDUCTION ACT - Updates the existing Toxic Packaging Act by delaying the ban on PFAS in food packaging until January 1, 2025, and in processing agents until July 1, 2027. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-17 Signed by Governor |
| #23 | H7082 | Introduced | INSURANCE -- NONPROFIT DENTAL SERVICE CORPORATIONS -- THE RHODE ISLAND FAIR SHARE FOR DENTAL CARE ACT - Requires carriers offering dental benefit plans to annually submit information which includes the current and projected medical loss ratio for cla... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11 |
| #24 | S2126 | Passed | HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE -- DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE - Provides that the fifth day in April in each year be designated as "Rhode Island Gold Star Spouses Day" with appropriate exercises in public places and with flags flown at half-s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-10 Signed by Governor |
| #25 | S2118 | Introduced | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- JUDICIAL SELECTION - Requires individuals seeking a judicial nomination to reapply to JNC every 5 years and make those individuals selected as finalists, eligible only for the court in which they applied and we... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 |
| #26 | S2217 | Introduced | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- BAIL AND RECOGNIZANCE - Provides for release of misdemeanor arrestees without financial conditions, except for domestic violence or flight risk or obstruct of justice risk. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 |
| #27 | H7452 | Introduced | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Repeals provisions that assess costs for women in the community corrections program for women offenders and repeals the crime of loitering for prostitution. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 |
| #28 | H7493 | Introduced | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Increases the daily rate of payments to nursing facilities by twenty percent (20%) for single occupancy rooms to include private bathrooms. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 |
| #29 | H7486 | Introduced | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX -- CAPITAL GAINS - Amends the capital gains tax rates and holding period from 5 years to 1 year. Imposes a non-owner occupied tax on homes assessed at more than $1,000,000. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14 |
| #30 | H7512 | Engrossed | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PUPIL TRANSPORTATION VEHICLES - "Pupil Transportation Vehicle" to be and constructed to seat not more than ten (10) passengers including the operator, rather than the existing limit of eight (8) passengers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03 |
| #31 | H7537 | Passed | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- SMALL BUSINESS ADVOCACY COUNCIL - Amends the composition of the small business advisory council. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25 Signed by Governor |
| #32 | H7539 | Engrossed | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Authorizes the division of motor vehicles to issue special license plates in recognition and support of The Preservation Society of Rhode Island. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29 |
| #33 | H7559 | Passed | EDUCATION -- DISTRICT CHARTER SCHOOL - Requires that certain quarterly reports required to be filed by district charter schools, mayoral academies and independent charter schools be submitted to the commissioner of elementary and secondary education. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26 Signed by Governor |
| #34 | S2407 | Passed | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - 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] | 2024-06-28 Effective without Governor's signature |
| #35 | S2469 | Passed | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- ELECTRICIANS - Amends the state's apprenticeship laws to make them more consistent with applicable federal regulations and makes said laws more comprehendible and consistent with each other. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25 Signed by Governor |
| #36 | S2449 | Introduced | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES GENERALLY - Adds the Providence Canteen vehicles to the authorized emergency vehicles equipped with a siren, whistle or bell. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 |
| #37 | H7625 | Passed | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR PREVENTION OF HIV INFECTION - Eliminates prior authorization or step therapy requirement for prescriptions for any HIV prevention drug/prohibits the requirement of any co... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-17 Signed by Governor |
| #38 | H7741 | Engrossed | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- FRAUD AND FALSE DEALING - Criminalizes the filing of a false lien, instrument, or encumbrance against a federal, state, or municipal judge or magistrate or his or her immediate family, and permits the court to take action to miti... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 |
| #39 | S2625 | Passed | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF MASSAGE THERAPISTS - Relocates the chapter relating to licensing of massage therapists from the health and safety title to the businesses and professions title with multiple amendments. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26 Signed by Governor |
| #40 | S2677 | Engrossed | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS - Allows expungement of multiple felony convictions for non-violent felonies10 years after sentence completed. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Senate read and passed |
| #41 | S2648 | Introduced | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Makes all sexual abuse or exploitation of a child causes of action not subject to statute of limitations whether lapsed or time-barred. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 |
| #42 | S2658 | Introduced | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Replaces state marshals with capitol police as to those law enforcement officers being exempt from certain firearm restrictions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 |
| #43 | H7972 | Engrossed | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- PUBLIC UTILITIES - Expands the crime of false reporting to include shootings or other dangerous events. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-10 |
| #44 | S2862 | Passed | Enabling act required by ยง 16-7-44 in order for the principal of, and interest on bonds issued by the Town of Burrillville in support of school housing projects to be eligible for state housing aid reimbursement. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31 Signed by Governor |
| #45 | H8109 | Introduced | TAXATION -- STATEWIDE TANGIBLE PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION - Repeals the language that eff. 2025 fiscal year all cities/towns/fire districts would receive a reimbursement equal to the tangible property levy for the 12/31/22 assessment date less the tangib... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 |
| #46 | H8152 | Passed | House Resolution Proclaiming April Of 2024 To Be "bilingual And Multilingual Learner Month" In The State Of Rhode Island [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 House read and passed |
| #47 | S2983 | Engrossed | EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION -- STUDENT SUCCESS ACT - Reduces the time, from three (3) years to one year, required for a nonimmigrant foreign national student, who has resided in Rhode Island, to be eligible to pay the same in-stat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-07 |
| #48 | S3004 | Passed | TAXATION -- MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION TAX CREDITS - Clarifies that all costs of goods used and services performed in Rhode Island shall qualify as state-certified production costs. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24 Signed by Governor |
| #49 | S3005 | Passed | Senate Resolution Proclaiming April 24, 2024, As "armenian Genocide Remembrance Day" To Commemorate The Armenian Genocide Of 1915 To 1923, And In Honor Of Armenian-americans [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Senate read and passed |
| #50 | S3010 | Passed | THE NORTH PROVIDENCE CHARTER -- THE SALVATORE MANCINI CENTER ON AGING - Amends the charter of the Town of North Providence to create a new department entitled the "Salvatore Mancini Center on Aging." [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28 Signed by Governor |
