| H8136 | Pass | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study Broadband Services And Accessibility (creates A Fourteen (14) Member Special Legislation Commission To Study Broadband Services And Accessibility Throughout The State.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-08
Signed by Governor |
| H8171 | Pass | Creates a Class B-C liquor license allowing 24 hour casinos to expand their service of alcohol on Fridays, Saturdays and nights before legal holidays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-08
Signed by Governor |
| H8273 | Pass | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation To Pay Certain Claims
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8289 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Audette Realty Corporation
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-04
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8320 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of K & K Realty, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-04
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H7974 | Pass | Amending The Charter Of North Providence
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-04
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H7985 | Pass | Amending The Charter Of North Providence
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-04
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8271 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Nefl, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-04
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8291 | Pass | Provide that the costs of a municipality's receivership and bankruptcy would be waived if its officers certify that it was in conformity with and had completed the plan order by US Bankruptcy Court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-04
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8204 | Pass | Establishes a board and trust to promote career and technical education in Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-04
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8153 | Pass | Allow the town of North Smithfield to exempt and stabilize tax assessments for Rankin Estates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H8177 | Pass | Raise the maximum penalties for littering from five hundred dollars ($500) to one thousand dollars ($1000) for the first offense and from five hundred dollars ($500) to five thousand dollars ($5,000) for a subsequent offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H7663 | Pass | Lower the minimum acceptable ratio of severely disabled employees that a habilitation facility must employ from sixty percent (60%) to forty percent (40%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H7766 | Pass | Make it a felony to knowingly disseminate the electronic transmission of indecent materials to minors and would subject those offenders to the Sexual Offender Registration and Community Notification Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H8294 | Pass | Authorizes a voter referendum on the approval of state-operated casino gaming at Newport Grand and expansion thereto which expansion shall be subject to state and local voter approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H7839 | Pass | Empowers DEM to enforce laws, rules and regulations pertaining to facilities and properties leased, managed or utilized by the department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H8354 | Pass | Name the Boston Neck Road Bridge over Route 138 in North Kingstown the "Second Lieutenant Matthew Coutu Memorial Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H7624 | Pass | Increase the penalties for failing to pay employees wages as the law requires.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H7939 | Pass | Establishes relief from disqualifiers board to consider petitions for relief from firearms prohibitions due to commitment adjudications and authorizes transmittal of mental disability information to NCIS by district court effective January 1, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H8219 | Pass | Requires the prioritizing of state aid for the funding of full-day kindergarten programs. The commissioner of elementary and secondary education would rank all eligible school districts to ensure the quality and sustainability of each program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H8284 | Pass | Establish a procedure for the initial payment and renewal registration fees for the operation of a food business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H7542 | Pass | Provides that health insurers could not require optometrists to provide services at a fee set by the insurer unless the insurer covered the fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H8037 | Pass | Requires firefighter applicants to undergo state and federal criminal background checks and fingerprinting prior to hire. Fingerprint records would be destroyed after the completion of the background check.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H7937 | Pass | Allows optometrists to prescribe hydrocodone-containing medications despite the classification of hydrocodone as a schedule II Substance. Would also limit the prescription of hydrocodone-containing medications to no more than seventy-two hours.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H8363 | Pass | Amend the method by which the state assessment program would be implemented in public schools & would provide that no state assessment conducted pursuant to chapter 16-97 & prior to 7/1/19, would be used to determine a student's eligibility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H7991 | Pass | Provides a declaration that the state's policy will be to make strategic investments in the region's energy resources and infrastructure. PUC to approve proposals to advance this policy
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H8313 | Pass | Creates a youth pregnancy and at-risk prevention services program to be administered by the department of human services. The director of the department will make an annual allocation of $250,000 through federal funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H8327 | Pass | Encourages school districts to train their school counselors on collaborating with business, industry and other community organizations to help create internships and apprenticeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H7564 | Pass | Authorize the department of education to waive fees associated with the high school equivalency test and appropriates the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) each year commencing July 1, 2014 to cover administrative costs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H8339 | Pass | Joint Resolution Respectfully Requesting Rhode Island's Congressional Delegation To Continue Its Support For The Defense Industry In Rhode Island And To Assist The Rhode Island Defense Economy Planning Commission's Efforts To Secure Additional Federa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H7927 | Pass | Allows persons honorably discharged from military service, or transferred to reserve status in the National Guard, to use their classroom and workplace training to fulfill the apprenticeship/journey persons requirements for the enumerated skilled tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H8250 | Pass | Authorize the town of Scituate to adopt tax rates for different tax classifications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H7914 | Pass | Authorize the director of the department of health to establish rules for the licensing of lactation consultants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H8368 | Pass | Create an advisory committee to the office of the child advocate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H7151 | Pass | Joint Resolution Ratifying An Amendment To The Constitution Of The United States Concerning The Elections Of Senators
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H8158 | Pass | Streamlines licensing and certification procedures for environmental lead inspectors and contractors. Revises factors to be considered for imposing a civil fine for violations of Lead, Poisoning, Prevention Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H7801 | Pass | Create and establish the Tiverton Wastewater District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H7793 | Pass | Create a new electricians license called the "sign renovation electrical license" limited to the removal or installation of signs only if the removal or installation of the sign requires removing or installing three (3) wires.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H8278 | Pass | Provide the Bristol County Water Authority with the authority to appoint a secretary and treasurer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H7696 | Pass | Increase the membership composition of the state career pathways task force from fifteen (15) members to seventeen (17) members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H8139 | Pass | Allow barbers, hairdressers, cosmeticians, manicurists and estheticians to provide their services outside of their salon as part of a special occasion event such as a wedding or prom.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H7637 | Pass | Joint Resolution Extending The Reporting And Expiration Dates Of The Special Legislative Commission To Be Known As "the Rhode Island Civil War Sesquicentennial Commemoration Commission"
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H8176 | Pass | Adds an additional member, the executive director of operation stand down, to the housing resources commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H8266 | Pass | Makes a minor revision to the state work immersion program to include recent college graduates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H7760 | Pass | Joint Resolution Respectfully Requesting Immediate Safety Improvements To The Claiborne Pell Bridge In Honor Of The Memory Of Kathy Meunier, Kenny Prior, And Elijah Swift
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| H8118 | Pass | Make available motor vehicle registration plates for the Boston Bruins Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H8292 | Pass | Grant cities and towns the right to and the method by which they may: (1) Tax the real and personal property of a for-profit hospital facility; and/or (2) Enter into a stabilization agreement with a for-profit hospital facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7234 | Pass | Define various farm enterprise uses that are recognized as a valuable and viable means of contributing to the preservation of agricultural operations
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H8117 | Pass | Eliminate the daily amount a C&D facility may receive and process from the definitions and would require such a facility, located within a 1000 radius of a residential zone, conduct all operations within an enclosed structure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7776 | Pass | Provides that the state would appropriate sufficient funds to the city of Central Falls for payments to Central Falls' city retirees of seventy-five percent (75%) of their base pension benefit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-02
Signed by Governor |
