| H5784 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a new motor vehicle registration for "forestry vehicles"/provides that forest product operations are permitted uses within all zoning districts of a municipality except where prohibited.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| H6049 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes the term "assumed name" to "trade name". This act would also centralize the filing, administration and regulation process to the secretary of state. This act would also require trade an annual renewal of the trade name.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H5348 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires retail establishments with 3 or more employees on the premises without accessible public restroom to allow customers suffering from eligible conditions access to their employee restrooms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H5089 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that when a person causes an injury requiring medical assistance to a human by firearm, archery, or crossbow while hunting or trapping, the initial responding entity must immediately make a report to DEM.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0368 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the comprehensive community-police relationship act of 2015 to require an annual study by an outside agency chosen by the department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
Senate read and passed |
| H5490 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires public meetings related to utility rates increases be conducted Monday-Thursday after 5:30 pm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S0144 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the minimum required awarded to minority business enterprises to 20% and of that, require a minimum of 10% be awarded to minority owned businesses and that a minimum of 10% be awarded to women owned businesses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
Senate passed Sub A |
| H6204 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes it easier for candidates for the presidential preference primaries to obtain a place on the ballot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0139 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes siblings/grandchildren/care recipient for temporary caregiver benefits of 12 weeks/Increases weekly dependent's allowances from $10 to $20 or 7% of benefit rate whichever is greater. Effective January 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
Senate read and passed |
| H5075 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts used vehicles sold "for parts only" or purchased at end of their lease term by the current lessee that have a valid certificate of inspection affixed to the windshield, from the requirement that dealers of used vehicles conduct a new inspecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0538 | Engross
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $5,000,000 To Eleanor Slater Hospital, Zambarano Unit (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $5,000,000 To Eleanor Slater Hospital, Zambarano Unit For The Purpose Of Re-building A ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
Senate read and passed |
| H5713 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the waiver of interest on overdue taxes for commercial properties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H5176 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires group health plans and health insurance issuers that provide prescription benefits to cover at least one type of prescribed epinephrine auto-injectors and cartridges without copay or deductible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence |
| H5328 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires food service establishments to add an additional warning to their menus relative to food allergens and impose a civil penalty on those establishments that fail to include the required warnings on its menus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S1132 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the town of Richmond's town council to partially exempt qualifying real estate from the payment of property taxes or to determine a stabilized amount of taxes to be paid on qualifying real property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
Senate read and passed |
| H6400 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the law revision director to report to the general assembly, sections of law that are amended by multiple bills and which amendments are unable to be conflated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| H5667 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the council on elementary and secondary education to adopt standards which take into consideration the time and cost of transporting students across municipal boundaries and promotes maximum efficiency in other programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| S0148 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides issuance of an occupational license, certificate and permit for military service members licensed in other states and relocated to Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| H5617 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes the service requirement for admissions to RI Veterans' Home from 90 days to 2 years, and gives priority to veterans defined as war veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| H5333 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the provisions for prompt payment of monies owed by the department of administration to their contractors or subcontractors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S1060 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends LEOBOR to a five (5) member committee and extends summary punishment to fourteen (14) days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| H5538 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals requirement that at least one of the insurer's semiannual reviews be an on-site audit of the operations of the administrator of benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S1061 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the maximum number of unrelated persons living together that could be designated by a local zoning ordinance as constituting an individual household could not be less than one person per bedroom.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| H5423 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the composition of the Urban Collaborative and provide that the collaborative be governed by a board of trustees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| H5033 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits utility companies from limiting eligibility of net metering site based on prior consumption and requires excess energy not consumed to be credited to consumer. Also amends definition of excess renewable net-metering credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| H5496 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that any insurer refusing to honor a "direction to pay" executed by an insured for payment on a property damage benefit would constitute an unfair claims practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5350 | Engross
Sine Die | Limits the copayment or coinsurance requirement on specialty drugs to one hundred fifty dollars ($150) for a thirty (30) day supply.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
House passed Sub A |
| S0559 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to establish a program to expand the issuance of teaching certificates to bilingual dual language and world language teachers in urban and urban ring schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
Senate passed Sub A |
| H5741 | Engross
Sine Die | Incorporates the department of elementary and secondary education’s SurveyWorks school climate indicators for evaluating the performance of LEAs and individual public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| H6028 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for a single, increased range of penalties for all driving offenses which result in serious bodily injury or death.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5167 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the date to June 30, 2027 for local education agencies to select identified high quality curricula and materials for science and technology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| S0888 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits noncompetition agreements except for noncompetition agreements between a seller and buyer of a business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| S0877 | Engross
Sine Die | Promotes a more efficient way to enforce tax liens on mobile and manufactured homes in the town of Coventry by allowing the town to enforce the lien in the same manner as used to collect real estate taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| S0764 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires all public schools to screen students for behavioral health concerns by June 30, 2024, and thereafter, all students in the third grade, eighth grade, and students who enroll from a district outside of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| H5955 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2023-06-14
Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence |
| S0371 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2023-06-14
Senate passed Sub A |
| H5495 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a workgroup of health care providers and health insurers convened by the office of the health commissioner, to make recommendations regarding prior authorization policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
House passed Sub A |
| S0965 | Engross
Sine Die | Defines a patient-provider relationship as when the healthcare professional agrees to undertake diagnosis and treatment of the patient and the patient agrees to be treated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| H5831 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that liability insurance coverage would be provided for loss of the use of a rental motor vehicle, with limitations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
House read and passed |
| S0304 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds grass/grass clippings to the items prohibited from being deposited or blown onto a highway or roadway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| S0098 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the state, ERISA or any health plans to purchase referenced drugs for a cost higher than the referenced rate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate passed Sub A |
| S1011 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of children, youth and families (DCYF) to conduct periodic comprehensive needs assessments to determine whether the department’s programs and services meet the needs of children and families
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate passed Sub A |
| S0592 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that water utility companies be responsible for all costs associated with maintenance, operation and delivery of water pumping stations to individual parcels of land and schools with no pumping stations on the property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| S0258 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for an appropriation by the general assembly in the amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000) to the various school districts and municipalities to employ additional social workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| S0385 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits the substitution of advertising the voter registration deadline in a newspaper by posting notice of designations on the municipality's website, continuously, for at least 10 days leading up to the last day prescribed by law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| S0064 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the permanent foundation educational aid program would provide state funding for school-based mental health services pursuant to specified conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| S0561 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates $1,875,000 for the creation of a 9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline within the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals (BHDDH).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| S0571 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the personal needs allowances of nursing facility residents from fifty dollars ($50.00) to one hundred dollars ($100) per month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate passed Sub A |
| S0725 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a safe and reasonable regulatory framework for companies and drivers providing non-emergency medical transportation services to a population of vulnerable passengers through coordination with the state's health and human service agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0080 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the state earned-income credit as of January 1, 2024 to sixteen percent (16%) of the federal earned-income credit, not to exceed the amount of state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
