| RI | H7948 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Provides amendments to the requirements of the inclusionary zoning law for affordable housing development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
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| RI | H7631 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Extends the "lookback" period for repeat offenses involving driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs under § 31-27-2 and for repeat offenses related to failure or refusal to submit to chemi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
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| RI | H7949 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND - Makes amendments to various provisions relative to subdivision of land review, review stages, special provisions related to development and the procedures for approvals from various permitting authorities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
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| RI | H7630 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- ACCIDENTS AND ACCIDENT REPORTS - Provides for a single, increased range of penalties for all driving offenses which result in serious bodily injury or death.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
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| RI | S3002 | Intro
25% | SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES - Allows Patrick Sean Golden to join Catherine Amani Bhattacharya and John Joseph Golden in marriage on or about May 3, 2024, within the Town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
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| RI | H7586 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES GENERALLY - Authorizes Providence canteen vehicles to be equipped with sirens, whistles or bells and would require operators of any canteen vehicle to receive 5 hours of training in the operation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
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| RI | S3001 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND - Makes amendments to various provisions relative to subdivision of land review, review stages, special provisions related to development and the procedures for approvals from various permitting authorities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
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| RI | S2999 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Provides amendments to the requirements of the inclusionary zoning law for affordable housing development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
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| RI | H7950 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND - Provides amendments relative to the permitting authority of, and acceptable forms of financial security permissible for construction and/or improvement guarantees relating to the completion of required public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
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| RI | S3000 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND - Provides amendments relative to the permitting authority of, and acceptable forms of financial security permissible for construction and/or improvement guarantees relating to the completion of required public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
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| RI | H7747 | Engross
50% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION - Allows victims of violent crime receiving awards under the state's crime victim compensation program to use up to $1,000 of their total award to make reasonable modification to their residence to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
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| RI | S2782 | Intro
25% | CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS -- THE RHODE ISLAND LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ACT - Replaces the existing limited liability company act with a newer and updated model act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | S2935 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL - Allows the attorney general to investigate and bring an enforcement action against persistent fraud or illegality in the carrying on, conducting, or transaction of business or governmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | S2933 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- INTERLOCAL CONTRACTING AND JOINT ENTERPRISE - Removes the attorney general's oversight of interlocal agreements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | S2662 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Of Qualification For Office (proposes A State Constitutional Amendment To Provide No Person Could Hold Office As General Officer Unless ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | S2888 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- AUTOMATED DECISION TOOLS - Requires companies that develop or deploy high-risk AI systems to conduct impact assessments and adopt risk management programs, would apply to both developers and deployer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | S2214 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- FACILITATING BUSINESS RAPID RESPONSE TO STATE DECLARED DISASTER ACT OF 2024 - Exempts out-of-state businesses and their employees performing services, during declared state or federal disasters or emergencies, from state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | S2895 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Allows citizens of a city or town who are at least sixteen (16) years of age to register to vote and to vote in school committee elections in municipalities where school committees are elected entities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | S2780 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Requires mail ballot drop boxes to be opened thirty-five (35) days prior to election day, and twenty (20) days prior to special elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | S2779 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | S2772 | Intro
25% | CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS -- UNIFORM PARTNERSHIP ACT - Requires certain limited liability partnership providing professional services to carry liability insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | S2766 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC RECORDS -- PUBLIC RECORDS ADMINISTRATION - Updates public records administration act, modifies records control schedule, designates records officer, establishes procedures for retention of records. Provides administrator submit yearly reports,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | S2894 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- REGISTRATION OF VOTERS - Allows non-affiliated party voters to vote in party primaries, without becoming an affiliated party voter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | S2778 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Establishes a three (3) day transmittal period after the deadline for local boards to accept mail ballot applications, if delivered via the postal service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | S2670 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- PRIMARY ELECTIONS - Changes the process of nominating candidates for the general election, by replacing the political party primary with a primary general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | S2781 | Intro
25% | THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE - Provides amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code for emerging technologies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | S2971 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- MECHANICS' LIENS - Provides the arbitrator in mechanics' lien actions submitted to arbitration the authority to make certain findings of fact regarding procedure compliance and amounts owed which findings would be binding in the mechanics...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
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| RI | S2972 | 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] | 2024-04-05
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| RI | S2973 | Intro
25% | SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES - Allows the Honorable Gregory A. Mancini, Esq., to join Abigail Elizabeth Moretti and Jake Scott Owen in marriage on or about October 12, 2024, within the City of Warwick, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
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| RI | S2655 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT - Includes animal cruelty offenses to the domestic violence crimes committed by a family or household members against another.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
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| RI | S2934 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- COMMERCIAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY - Decriminalizes certain commercial sexual activity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
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| RI | S2683 | 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] | 2024-04-04
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| RI | S2771 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION - Considers election officials and poll workers "public officials" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
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| RI | S2441 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-04
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| RI | S2432 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THEFT, EMBEZZLEMENT, FALSE PRETENSES, AND MISAPPROPRIATION - Provides for tiered and reduced penalties for the offenses of larceny, and shoplifting, classifies certain shoplifting offenses as petty misdemeanors and repeals habitu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
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| RI | S2767 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION - Allows victims of sexual assault to submit a medical forensic exam performed by a licensed health care provider in lieu of a police report in order to establish eligibility for funds under the St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
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| RI | S2192 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- BURGLARY AND BREAKING AND ENTERING - Adds a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing robbery of the owner, lessor, or occupant of a motor vehicle and that the owner or occupant of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
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| RI | S2669 | Intro
25% | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- INCOMPETENCY TO STAND TRIAL AND PERSONS ADJUDGED NOT GUITLY BY REASON OF INSANITY - Requires any competency examinations of criminal defendants take place on an outpatient basis or at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
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| RI | S2777 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION - Allows victims of violent crime receiving awards under the state's crime victim compensation program to use up to $1,000 of their total award to make reasonable modification to their residence to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
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| RI | S2198 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- BURGLARY AND BREAKING AND ENTERING - Provides a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing any violent criminal offense that individual is lawfully in a place they have a right to be,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
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| RI | S2225 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-04
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| RI | S2661 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION - Considers state government caseworkers or investigators "public officials" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
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| RI | S2442 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES -- HIV/AIDS - Repeals the required HIV testing for an individual convicted under chapter 34.1 of title 11 and allows the option for HIV testing for any person convicted under this...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
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| RI | H7470 | Engross
50% | MOTOR VEHICLES -- SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD LIMITS - Adds "loose material" to the contents of a vehicle that must be covered by a covering that must remain in place until the vehicle's contents are purged from the vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
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| RI | H7568 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MISCELLANEOUS RULES - Provides additional exception to prohibition on usage of wireless communication device while driving and clarifies that use for purpose of navigation must be while the device is mounted or otherwise a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
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| RI | H7569 | Engross
50% | PROBATE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE -- UNCLAIMED INTANGIBLE AND TANGIBLE PROPERTY - Provides conditions which persons paid to recover or assist in recovering reported property must comply with.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
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| RI | H7239 | Engross
50% | PROBATE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE -- LIMITED GUARDIANSHIP AND GUARDIANSHIP OF ADULTS - Provides that supported decision-making pursuant to chapter 66.13 of title 42 be added to the Limited Guardianship and Guardianship of Adults forms section as one of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
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| RI | H7328 | Engross
50% | ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES - Includes the general assembly elections within the category of elections subject to the risk-limiting audits within the jurisdiction of the board of elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
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| RI | S2227 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS - Redefines misdemeanors for expungement purposes and make prior felonies, subsequently reclassified as misdemeanors, eligible for expungement pursuant to sections 12-1.3-2 and 12-1.3-3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| RI | S2826 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION - Allows the sexual offender board of review to use, in addition to applicable validated risk assessment tools, a structured professional judgment approach to determine the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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