| S0990 | Veto | Requires utilities to follow STIP project schedules. Requires permits for non-road repairs. Prohibits expenses and penalties to be paid with rate payer increases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-26
Vetoed by Governor |
| S1126 | Pass | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Provide Recommendations On The Issues Relating To The Reduced Catch Of Quahogs In Narragansett Bay (creates A 13 Member Joint Commission To Study And Provide Recommendations On T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-30
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0182 | Pass | Adds the Rhode Island teacher of the year as an additional ex officio member of the council on elementary and secondary education as well as the board of education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0912 | Pass | Provides for the sealing of court files in residential eviction proceedings upon the filing of a motion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0443 | Pass | Exempts any proposed retailers’ Class BV license to be located at 225 Waterman Street, Plat 14, Lot 508 in the city of Providence from the two hundred feet (200’) requirement from the premises of schools or places of worship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0992 | Pass | Increases the total amount of all flat tax credits from three percent (3%) to four percent (4%) of the prior year's tax levy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0137 | Pass | Allows the presumption of in-the-line-of-duty illness unless contrary evidence is presented.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0669 | Pass | Allows Providence board of licenses to grant an exemptions relating to issuance of a Class BL or Class BV alcoholic beverage retail licenses for 566 Plainfield Street & 777 Elmwood Avenue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0038 | Pass | Authorizes the city of East Providence to grant a retailer's Class B license to property located at 136 Taunton Avenue, Map 106, Block 6, Parcel 15 of the applicable city of East Providence tax assessment map.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0812 | Pass | Allows persons who are on parole, a suspended sentence or on probation to serve on juries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0366 | Pass | Requires default notices to lessees of self-service storage facilities to be sent to the lessee’s last known address, would repeal the necessity of certified mail for three and repeal the necessity of publication for 3 weeks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0589 | Pass | Revises and updates the public law on the Kingston fire district in the town of South Kingstown.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0111 | Pass | Validates and ratifies amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the town of Richmond, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the Town of Richmond on November 4, 2008 and November 8, 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0302 | Pass | Allows town of Narragansett to sell highway or driftway to abutting owner at fair market value.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0983 | Pass | Exempts the real and personal property of the Little Flower Home in Tiverton, Rhode Island from taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S1120 | Pass | Concurrent Resolution Relating To Approval For A Submerged Land Lease In Connection With The Revolution Wind Project
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| 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 |
| S1104 | Pass | Extend the dates for statistical updates following revaluations for the city of Woonsocket.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S1112 | Pass | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation To Pay Certain Claims (makes Appropriation To Pay Certain Claims.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S1106 | Pass | Provides that if liability is accepted by causing a total loss of the other party’s vehicle, coverage for a rental vehicle for no less than an additional seven (7) days be provided.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0489 | Pass | Require public school districts to take certain actions to promote notice and disseminate information regarding the district’s special education local advisory committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| S0879 | Pass | Enables all municipalities to offer tax amnesty for two (2) separate sixty (60) day periods during fiscal years 2024 or 2025 for the waiver of interest and penalties on overdue tangible tax payments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| S0738 | Pass | Provides that Schedules I through V of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act consist of drugs and other substances, by whatever official name, common or usual name, chemical name or name designated by the director of the department of health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| S0620 | Pass | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Task Force To Improve The Long-term Outcomes And Reduce Recidivism Of Females Within The Criminal Justice Population (creates A 19 Member Task Force Whose Purpose It Would Be To Improve Outcomes And Red...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| S1135 | Pass | Requires a public official or employee to disclose any and all unsatisfied default judgments of credit card debt, in excess of one thousand dollars ($1,000), on their financial statement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| S0925 | Pass | Amends the definition of unfair claims settlement practices by insurers & motor vehicle damage appraisers, and creates a chapter providing for the appraisal of damaged motor vehicles, when the insurer & the insured cannot agree on the amount of the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| S0417 | Pass | Provides rights/privileges of shore may be exercised, where shore exists, on wet/dry sand/rocky beaches up the natural vegetation line to be determined by CRMC with limited liability for abutters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| S0699 | Pass | Amends applicability and operational requirements of the chapter on Education Services to Very Young Children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| S0671 | Pass | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Joint Legislative Commission To Study And Provide Recommendations To Protect Our Environment And Natural Resources From Plastic Bottle Waste (creates An 18 Member Special Joint Legislative Commission Whose Purpose ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| S0666 | Pass | Renames bridges 00201, 17801 and 17601 in South Kingstown after 3 Medal of Honor recipients, to wit, Sgt. William G. Fournier, Sgt. William J. Babcock, Cpl. David B. Champagne, respectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| S0097 | Pass | Requires department of health to establish an informal dispute resolution to address any changes to department of health violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| S0483 | Pass | Provides that school policies which provide for excused absences for participation in a sport or other extracurricular activity be amended and deemed to include attending agricultural fairs as an excused absence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| S0583 | Pass | Provides all Medicare recipients over sixty-five (65) years of age applying for Medicare supplement plan guaranteed issue rights regardless of medical or health or receipt of health care by the applicant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| S0767 | Pass | Requires every school district/local education agency/city/town to report each fiscal year relating to funding/ administrative/program information from the American Rescue plan, elementary/secondary school emergency relief, and state/local recovery f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| S0630 | Pass | Requires the state crime laboratory to conduct an audit of DNA samples in the DNA databank to ascertain the rate of compliance with DNA recording requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| S1031 | Pass | Validate and ratify amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the town of Coventry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S1134 | Pass | - Accident And Sickness Insurance Policies -- Mammograms And Pap Smears -- Coverage Mandated
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| S1097 | Veto | Prohibits commercial motor trucks, with a gross weight rating of twenty-six thousand one pounds (26,001 lbs.) or more, from traveling on Route 114 A, East Providence between Pawtucket Avenue and the Massachusetts state line.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Vetoed by Governor |
| S1050 | Pass | Amends several sections of law relating to low-and moderate-income housing and the application, appeal, and judicial review process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| S1034 | Pass | Amends the provisions relative to the subdivision of land and the application process requesting relief from zoning ordinances and the review process thereof.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| S0077 | Pass | Establishes the Rhode Island hope scholarship pilot program to provide two-year scholarships to junior and seniors at Rhode Island college.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| S0787 | Pass | Allows Bristol to adopt tax classification plan for tax relief for taxes assessed on 12/31/23 and any tax year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0924 | Pass | Subjects to taxation real property owned by non-profit institutions of higher education/nonprofit hospitals also amends charters issued by the general assembly to non-profit institutions/hospitals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| S0275 | Pass | Amends the interstate nurse licensure compact and adopts an enhanced and more comprehensive version of the compact, to allow nurses to hold a multi-state license allowing them to practice across state lines without having to obtain multiple licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| S0684 | Pass | Defines core forest and preferred sites and provides that any net metering resource owned or operated by a renewable energy developer be treated as an eligible net metering system provided it is not in a core forest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| S1129 | Pass | For purposes of teachers' retirement benefits, amends the definition "former spouse divorced" to include someone who was married to a deceased member 10+ yrs & deceased member was required by court order to contribute support post-divorce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| S1053 | Pass | Establishes a land use court within the superior court, effective January 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| S1052 | Pass | Creates the transit oriented development pilot program to encourage residential housing near convenient public transportation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| S0311 | Pass | Prohibits the requirement that a fee be paid for a rental application for real property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| S0002 | Pass | Establishes a lead water supply replacement program for public and private service lines and requires disclosure to tenants and buyers of real property of the presence of lead service lines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Signed by Governor |
