| S0260 | Pass | Exempts natural hair braiders from licensing requirements for hairdressers or cosmeticians, defines natural hair braiding and imposes fines for violations. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0872 | Pass | Names the URI College of Engineering Building as the "Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering." [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H6153 | Pass | Authorizes state and local incremental tax revenues generated in the arts district, the growth center district and the ballpark district in the city of Pawtucket to be allocated to finance improvements in the districts. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0981 | Pass | Restricts the initial prescription to an adult and all prescriptions to a minor patient for an opiate to a seven (7) day supply with exceptions for certain conditions and medicines designed for substance abuse or opioid dependence treatment. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0689 | Pass | Extends the effective date for the application of the new definition section relative to zoning ordinances and would also extend the current definitions section relative to zoning ordinances. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0570 | Pass | Requires Tricare to pay the healthcare services funding contributions for their contribution enrollees. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0673 | Pass | Authorizes state and local incremental tax revenues generated in the arts district, the growth center district and the ballpark district in the city of Pawtucket to be allocated to finance improvements in the districts. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0327 | Pass | Amends the definition of "public body" to include the board of directors of any library which has funded at least twenty-five percent (25%) of its operational budget in the prior budget year with public funds. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0779 | Pass | Provides special protection to public safety canines and horses that are intentionally or maliciously subjected to cruelty, injuries, or death, by increasing the potential criminal and civil penalties for the offenders. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0699 | Pass | Pet shops shall provide records to DEM including breeder info, health cert., license and inspection information for each dog or cat offered for sale. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H5887 | Pass | Creates the Right to Read Act to require certain licensed teachers to be proficient in scientific reading instruction. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0799 | Pass | Prohibits insurer from denying application/exclude/limit coverage under any life insurance policy based solely on prescription to carry or possess naloxone. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H6033 | Pass | Makes sweeping changes to the law on massage therapy licensing. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H6203 | Pass | Allows Dr. Charles A. Steinberg to join Jaclyn Marie Dempsey and Brent Crawford Wilks in marriage on or about October 13, 2019, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0384 | Pass | Provides an honorary name to a portion of highway on Chopmist Hill Road from Route 44 in Chepachet to Route 6 in Scituate, now known a Hartford Pike, as the Gold Star Family Highway. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H5700 | Pass | Allows voters to file state form designating party affiliation rather than in person and change affiliation within 30 days prior to primary election with local canvassing board. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H6168 | Pass | Pet shops shall provide records to DEM including breeder info, health cert., license and inspection information for each dog or cat offered for sale. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H6218 | Pass | Assents to the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, and empowers the director of DEM to perform those acts necessary, to be in compliance with the provisions of the act for the modernization of the safety of the food supply. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H5537 | Pass | Restricts the initial prescription to an adult and all prescriptions to a minor patient for an opiate to a seven (7) day supply with exceptions for certain conditions and medicines designed for substance abuse or opioid dependence treatment. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H5322 | Pass | Repeals the current chapter of the general laws regarding immunity for food donors to food banks, and would adopt a new chapter with comprehensive immunity provisions for persons involved in donating food to food banks. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0589 | Pass | Removes the requirement that party primary voters automatically change their party affiliation to that party and reduces from 90 to 30 days the time before an election that a non-candidate can change their affiliation. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H5131 | Pass | Provides an honorary name to a portion of highway on Chopmist Hill Road from Route 44 in Chepachet to the southern boundary of the town of Glocester, as the Gold Star Family Highway. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H5874 | Pass | Reduces the number of infractions for a person to be considered a "toll violator" from twenty (20) to ten (10). The act also reduces the number of infractions for a person to be considered a "toll evader" from one hundred (100) to twenty (20). [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H5455 | Pass | Provides that Class F and F-1 liquor licenses may be issued to corporations, LLCs, and political organizations. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H6043 | Pass | Provides special protection to public safety canines and horses that are intentionally or maliciously subjected to cruelty, injuries, or death, by increasing the potential criminal and civil penalties for the offenders. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H6085 | Pass | Allows teachers to obtain fast-track certification as a principal. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H6165 | Pass | Authorizes Woonsocket city council to exempt Class BV/BM license retailers' from 200 feet prohibition from the sale of alcohol from school/religious entity between 2 Main Street and 194 Main Street. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0265 | Pass | Repeals requirement that persons between 16 and 21 who cannot speak, read or write English to attend classes until they learn (minimum 200 hours). Also repeals fines and institutional commitment for failure to take such classes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H5431 | Pass | Includes any "licensed public health dental hygienist" among persons eligible to conduct dental screenings for children in kindergarten, third, and ninth grade. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H5453 | Pass | Exempts from taxation the real property of the surviving spouse of any law enforcement officer or firefighter killed in the line of duty with the provisions applied only prospectively and not retroactively. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H5355 | Pass | Amends the definition of "public body" to include the board of directors of any library which has funded at least twenty-five percent (25%) of its operational budget in the prior budget year with public funds. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0603 | Pass | Makes amendments providing for additional reporting duties and requirements for persons with knowledge of mistreatment or neglect of elders. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0869 | Pass | Allows teachers to obtain certification as a principal in an expedited period of time. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H5119 | Pass | Increases amount of flame retardant chemicals contained in residential upholstered bedding/furniture manufactured/ sold in state from 100 ppm to 1,000 ppm effective January 1, 2020. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H5677 | Pass | Exempts natural hair braiders from the requirement to be licensed as hairdressers or cosmeticians, and would define the practice of natural hair braiding. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0781 | Pass | Reduces the number of infractions for a person to be considered a "toll violator" from twenty (20) to ten (10). The act also reduces the number of infractions for a person to be considered a "toll evader" from one hundred (100) to twenty (20). [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H5008 | Pass | Provides for the review of existing and the development of new statewide academic standards by the commissioner of education. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H5457 | Pass | Allows disability insurance with a benefit limit in excess of a benefit limit available from an admitted insurer to be written in the surplus lines market. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H5299 | Pass | Prohibits misrepresentation of the status of an animal as a service animal in order to acquire any right or privilege afforded disabled persons. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0712 | Pass | Clarifies the rights and options of government employees who decide not to join their employer's exclusive bargaining unit. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0292 | Pass | Establishes procedures regulating the delegation of non-ablative laser hair removal treatments. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0027 | Pass | Repeals the current chapter of the general laws regarding immunity for food donors to food banks, and would adopt a new chapter with comprehensive immunity provisions for persons involved in donating food to food banks. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H5168 | Pass | Repeals requirement that persons between 16 and 21 who cannot speak, read or write English to attend classes until they learn (minimum 200 hours). Also repeals fines and institutional commitment for failure to take such classes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0574 | Pass | Adds the multi-disciplinary maternal mortality review committee to the review of the office of state medical examiners and extend certain immunities and confidentiality agreements to multi-disciplinary teams. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0576 | Pass | Makes sweeping changes to the law on massage therapy licensing. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H5909 | Pass | Establishes the supported decision-making act which is a less restrictive alternative to guardianship for utilization of the probate courts. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0863 | Pass | Requires the commissioner of education to develop statewide academic standards and curriculum frameworks for the core subjects of mathematics, English language arts, science and technology, history and social studies, world languages, and the arts. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| S0291 | Pass | Requires pharmacies display warning notice regarding use of opioids/schedule II controlled substances compiled by DOH relating to overuse/misuse/mixing with other drugs/alcohol effective 9/1/19. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H5259 | Pass | Clarifies the rights and options of government employees who decide not to join their employer's exclusive bargaining unit. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |
| H5484 | Pass | Revises the definition of building height by including in special flood hazard zones those areas identified by the CRMC. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-08 Signed by Governor |