| S2822 | Engross
50% | HIGHWAYS -- SCENIC HIGHWAYS - Amends the composition of the scenic roadways board reducing the number of members from eleven (11) to nine (9).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Senate read and passed |
| S2407 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-06-04
Senate read and passed |
| S2202 | Engross
50% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Requires safe storage of firearms/provides civil and criminal penalties for violations/adds rifles and shotguns to the types of firearms requiring a trigger lock to be included with purchase/requires firearms dealers po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Placed on Senate Calendar (06/06/2024) |
| S2255 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-06-04
[Hearing: Jun 4]
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| S2227 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-06-04
[Hearing: Jun 4]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2714 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires all hospitals to screen uninsured patients for eligibility for public health programs and financial assistance under Medicare and Medicaid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Senate passed Sub A |
| S2185 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- REAL ESTATE SALES DISCLOSURES - Requires information on the public's rights and privileges of the shore to be included in disclosure forms for the sale of vacant land or real property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Senate passed Sub A |
| S2472 | Engross
50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WORKERS' COMPENSATION -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Amends the current law on workers' compensation to require any person who is considered an independent contractor to file annually with the director of labor and training and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
House passed Sub A in concurrence |
| S2698 | Engross
50% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Adds the month of August to the dates a Class A retail alcoholic beverage establishment can offer unlimited free samples of wine, beer and distilled spirits products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Senate read and passed |
| S3091 | Engross
50% | Approving the issuance of $3,500,000 bonds by the town of Scituate to finance capital projects at the Scituate schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Senate read and passed |
| S3092 | Engross
50% | Authorizes Newport to issue not more than $98,500,000 general obligation bonds and notes to finance all costs relating to the design, construction, repair, rehabilitation, replacement and improvement of infrastructure and municipal facilities
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Senate read and passed |
| S3044 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CONFIDENTIALITY OF HEALTH CARE COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ACT - Amends definition of "authorized representative" in the confidentiality of health-care communications/information act provides that an authorized repres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
[Hearing: Jun 6]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S3093 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the town of Narragansett to issue not more than $3,000,000 general obligation bonds and notes to finance affordable housing in the Town of Narragansett, including but not limited for appropriations to the town’s affordable housing trust.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Senate read and passed |
| S2538 | Engross
50% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- REGULATION OF VICIOUS DOGS - Permits euthanization of vicious dogs upon finding that dogs condition warrants euthanasia or after determination that there is no reasonable placement for the dog/provides any municipality...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Senate passed Sub A |
| S2241 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Authorizes the division of motor vehicles to issue special license plates in recognition and support of the Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Senate read and passed |
| S2151 | Engross
50% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET METERING - Modifies the definition of "core forest" to refer to unfragmented forest blocks or single or multiple parcels totaling 250 acres or greater and at least 25 yards from mapped roads.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence |
| S2153 | Engross
50% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- FRESHWATER LAKE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - Establishes the Rhode Island lake management program and a restricted receipt account as a fund within the department of environmental management to aid with lake and pond management issue...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
[Hearing: Jun 5]
Proposed Substitute |
| S2901 | Engross
50% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LABOR AND PAYMENT OF DEBTS BY CONTRACTORS - Prohibits contractors and subcontractors from paying employees the cash equivalent of any applicable healthcare benefit in lieu of actually purchasing the healthcare benefit. Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Senate passed Sub B in concurrence |
| S3024 | Engross
50% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts 30% of the lessor’s assessed real property tax expense over $19,500 for each calendar year remaining on the 10 year lease dated July 27, 2021, of Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Senate read and passed |
| S2697 | Engross
50% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Exempts the Downtown Overlay District from the provisions of this section allowing for the city of Woonsocket shall, after application, to have the authority to exempt from the provisions of this section any p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
[Hearing: Jun 6]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| S2763 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- CITY HOUSING AUTHORITIES - Allows RIHMFC and related organization to administer allocations of funds for low-income housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Senate read and passed |
| S2382 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- LIFETIME LIMITS - Repeals the authority of the health insurance commissioner to enforce any act of Congress/decision of federal court invalidating or repealing the prohibition of annual lifetim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
[Hearing: Jun 4]
Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence |
| S2322 | Engross
50% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION -- LIFE ESTATE - Entitles holders of a life estate to real property to use any veteran's tax exemptions available to them.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Senate read and passed |
| S2378 | Engross
50% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT - Requires the department of health to amend its rules and regulations that allow for DEA-registered pharmacies to transfer electronic prescriptions at a patient's request.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
[Hearing: Jun 6]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S2778 | Engross
50% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Eliminates requirement of signing with an "X" for voters who cannot sign their name due to blindness, disability, or inability to read/write and establishes a timeframe for local boards to accept mail ballot applications d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Senate passed Sub A |
| S2096 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS' BILL OF RIGHTS - Creates the law enforcement officer's due process accountability and transparency act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Placed on Senate Calendar (06/06/2024) |
| S2270 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- INSURERS' REHABILITATION AND LIQUIDATION ACT - Provides that no person, for over ten days, shall be restricted from enforcing a right under any pledge, security, credit, guarantee agreement, arrangement or other agreement credit enhancem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Senate read and passed |
| S2821 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION -- THE RHODE ISLAND MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT PROGRAM - Provides minor technical changes, including an update to the membership of the state planning council to include the secretary o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Senate read and passed |
| S2235 | Engross
50% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES - Gives authority to the department of labor and training to enforce violations relating to the performance of glazing work. Also adds civil monetary penalties for violations of the chapter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
[Hearing: Jun 5]
Proposed Substitute |
| S2693 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL CODE PROVISIONS - Includes "Kei cars" or "Kei trucks" as having restricted public highway use and those vehicles validly registered as of August 1, 2021, would not be denied renewal of that registra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
[Hearing: Jun 4]
Proposed Substitute |
| S2529 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- EDUCATIONAL SERVICES TO VERY YOUNG CHILDREN - Removes private schools from the provisions of the general laws relating to educational services to very young children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
[Hearing: Jun 5]
To House Education Committee |
| S2516 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Requires RIDE to develop type 1 diabetes informational materials for the parents and guardians of students that will be posted publicly on RIDE's website.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/06/2024) |
| S2850 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-31
Placed on House Calendar (06/05/2024) |
| S2801 | Engross
50% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RESIDENTIAL SOLAR ENERGY DISCLOSURE AND HOMEOWNERS BILL OF RIGHTS ACT - Repeals the "Residential Solar Energy Disclosure and Homeowners Bill of Rights Act." Amends title 5 "Businesses and Professions" to include a new...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Placed on House Calendar (06/04/2024) |
| S2667 | Engross
50% | PROBATE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE -- PRACTICE IN PROBATE COURTS - Outlines the process for a person petitioning to change their name in the probate court in the town or city where they reside. It also makes the statute regarding name change gender neutr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
[Hearing: Jun 4]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2858 | Engross
50% | Authorizes Providence to issue not more than $400,000,000 general obligation bonds & notes to finance the construction, related demolition, renovation, improvement, alteration, repair, landscaping, furnishing and equipping of schools throughout the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
[Hearing: Jun 4]
Scheduled for consideration (06/04/2024) |
| S2931 | Engross
50% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Provides a four (4) year expiration period on any certificate of exemption pursuant to this section for writers, composers and artists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| S3041 | Engross
50% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- DECISIONS, SPECIAL FINDINGS AND ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGES - Adds the doctrine of assumption of risk to the current comparative negligence statute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2469 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-31
[Hearing: Jun 5]
To House Labor Committee |
| S2115 | Engross
50% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- VICTIM'S RIGHTS - Amends the current requirement of payment of initial filing fee/service of process costs when the victim of crime is still owed restitution at the expiration of the case/seeks to enforce the civil judgment ente...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
[Hearing: Jun 4]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2805 | Engross
50% | INCORPORATING THE RHODE ISLAND COMMISSION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE - Reduces the number of commissioners on the board of commissioners to no less than fifteen and would add a d/b/a Serve RI designation after commissions name.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/06/2024) |
| S2154 | Engross
50% | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- BIRDS - Allows the taking of wild turkeys by using a crossbow in compliance with rules and regulations promulgated by DEM.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
[Hearing: Jun 5]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| S2807 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- SHEILA C. "SKIP" NOWELL ACADEMY - Provides for changes to the operating structure of the Nowell Academy establishing a cooperative agreement among school districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/06/2024) |
| S2127 | Engross
50% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES - Allows manufacturer-wineries to sell up to three (3) drinks of wine for on-site consumption or three (3) bottles of wine for off-site consumption or three (3) bottles of wine for off-site ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Placed on House Calendar (06/05/2024) |
| S2240 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Authorizes the division of motor vehicles to issue special license plates in recognition of The Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/06/2024) |
| S2767 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-31
[Hearing: Jun 4]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2281 | Engross
50% | 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
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| S2043 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LONG-TERM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Adds climate change, sea-level rise and coastal resiliency to the analysis of data of the strategic plan for economic development policy. Adds director of DEM and executive director of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Placed on House Calendar (06/04/2024) |
| S2997 | Engross
50% | AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE HARRISVILLE FIRE DISTRICT AND ESTABLISHING THE CLEAR RIVER ELECTRIC AND WATER DISTRICT - Amends the Harrisville Fire District Charter allowing the district to provide rescue services, fire suppression, medical and ambulanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
[Hearing: Jun 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| S2501 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- LAND SURVEYORS - Grants a right of entry for professional land surveyors to enter upon or cross any lands, air space or water resources necessary to perform surveying services except public utility and/or wastewater trea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Placed on House Calendar (06/06/2024) |
