| S2383 | Pass | Allows Tiverton to prorate tax due and payable upon sale of tax exempt property to purchaser holding no tax exempt status for that calendar year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8178 | Pass | Authorizing The Town Of North Kingstown To Finance Construction, Renovations, Remediation, Alterations, Additions And Other Improvements And/or Related Equipment And To Issue Not More Than $27,000,000 Bonds And Notes Therefor, Of Which Up To $13,500,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2686 | Pass | Authorizes the Middletown municipal court to impose fines not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for the violation of the town's short-term residential leases ordinance. Such violation shall be considered a civil violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-04
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2679 | Pass | Provides that insurance companies may not mandate the use of aftermarket parts without the owner's consent on motor vehicles less than 48 months beyond manufacture date.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-04
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8013 | Pass | Amends provisions of law relative to motor vehicle replacement parts specifications time limits for using aftermarket body parts, and notification to the vehicle owner of the intention to use aftermarket body parts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-04
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H7950 | Pass | Authorizes the Middletown Municipal Court to impose fines not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-04
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H7186 | Pass | Provides that nomination papers for certain candidates for citywide nonpartisan office in the city of Woonsocket would require at least one hundred (100) signatures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-03
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H7337 | Pass | Requires that the cost of maintaining an easement or right-of-way be the responsibility of the owner(s) of the property that the easement benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7685 | Pass | Creates a process for the department of education relating to the collection and organization of information concerning the workload and scope of the duties and responsibilities performed by school social workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2539 | Pass | Establishes a procedure for individuals to file a revocable voluntary non-opiate directive form with the person's licensed health care practitioner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7855 | Pass | Provides procedures relative to contractor/subcontractor retainage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2158 | Pass | Relieves municipal police bargaining representatives from their obligation to represent employees in grievances/arbitrations if they were not members of the bargaining unit within the ninety (90) days prior to the events that caused the grievance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H8273 | Pass | Requires RIPTA to hold public hearing at least 30 days prior any bus route change in the affected neighborhood and provide a neighborhood impact statement to local and state officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7794 | Pass | Ensures compliance with the National Shellfish Sanitation Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7157 | Pass | Encourages the public schools of this state, beginning in kindergarten and continuing through and including grade 12, to use best efforts annually provide access to every student to at least one field trip to a nature preserve, reserve, or conservato...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2033 | Pass | Expands and clarifies what constitutes disability entitling disabled veterans to the waiver of motor vehicle registration fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2285 | Pass | Clarifies the right of a surviving spouse of a decedent regarding elective shares taken against the decedent's will relating to real and personal estate to the estates of decedents dying on and after July 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7481 | Pass | Establishes a public scorecard system to show how long-term care reform is meeting its goals of rebalancing the way services are delivered and moneys are spent on various service types.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7324 | Pass | Directs the department of administration to add the names of Rhode Island residents who were killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, to be added to the 9/11 Memorial located in the state house.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2361 | Pass | Provides that jurisdiction of all use of agricultural and vegetable seeds is vested exclusively in the director of the department of environmental management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7767 | Pass | Requires that when a proposed text amendment to a zoning ordinance would cause a conforming lot of record to become nonconforming by lot area and/or frontage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2980 | Pass | Requires educational institutions using dogs or cats for medical research to make animals no longer useful for research available for adoption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2412 | Pass | Requires written notice of public hearing to all real property owners when proposed zoning amendment seeks to merge lots of those owners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7511 | Pass | Eliminates the penalty of abating rent in cases where a non-resident landlord fails to designate an agent for service of process and would clarify that the fine for violating this section is civil.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7682 | Pass | Allows cities and towns to issue violations to vehicles which are used for illegal dumping of materials, pursuant to city and town ordinances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2552 | Pass | Establishes a public scorecard system to show how long-term care reform is meeting its goals of rebalancing the way services are delivered and moneys are spent on various service types.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2777 | Pass | Prohibits the sale of dogs until fully weaned unless approval for sale in writing is obtained from a licensed veterinarian. Violations are punishable by imprisonment not to exceed 12 months or $1,000, or both. Pounds and shelters are exempt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7309 | Pass | Designates the Class A Tall Ship commonly known as the "SSV Oliver Hazard Perry" as the official flagship and tall ship ambassador of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7377 | Pass | Relieves municipal police and firefighter bargaining representatives from their obligation to represent employees in grievances/arbitrations if they were not members of the bargaining unit within the 90 days prior to the events that caused the grieva...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7194 | Pass | Requires driver's instruction courses and tests to include instruction information on driver's responsible conduct and rights during a traffic stop.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7066 | Pass | Restricts the use of a victim's gender or sexual orientation as a defense by any defendant claiming provocation, diminished capacity or self-defense and prohibits the court from allowing such information into evidence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7416 | Pass | Allows a pharmacist to dispense a partial fill of a Schedule II controlled substance at the request of the patient or the prescriber.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H8212 | Pass | Provides that the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals with the power and duty to certify a list of chemical dependency professionals for use by state agencies and for referral of individuals for treatment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7367 | Pass | Allows school committees and the Rhode Island Society of Technology Educators ("RISTE") to enter into joint purchase agreements for the purchase of technology and IT infrastructure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2341 | Pass | Removes the requirement that a student with disabilities be a college student in order to be eligible to participate in the Mary Brennan fellowship fund program and also removes the requirement that the fellowship program take place in Providence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7230 | Pass | Allows the division of motor vehicles to issue a courtesy registration plate for a vehicle more than twenty-five (25) years old.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7894 | Pass | Eliminates the waiting period for the granting of a complaint/divorce/separation following the filing of the complaint would shorten the waiting period for the filing of a final judgment for divorce following the hearing at which the divorce is grant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7334 | Pass | Renames title to be called Uniform Voidable Transaction Act/amends definition of "person"/adds substantive/procedural changes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7426 | Pass | Permits the substitution by a developer of sprinklers in new developments instead of cisterns or water reservoirs for fire suppression, if allowed by ordinance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7041 | Pass | Requires that effective January 1, 2019, all school buildings where students are in attendance would be required to have carbon monoxide detectors installed and maintained therein.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2055 | Pass | Defines the term "adequate shelter" where dogs may be kept. It would limit the weight of any dog chain or tether to one-eighth (1/8) of the dogs total body weight. In addition it would limit the time dogs may be tethered outdoors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H8289 | Pass | Establish a uniform election day for all local and special elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2019 | Pass | Authorizes RI Health Exchange to seek waiver under Affordable Care Act to allow small business owners/sole proprietors to purchase health plans offered by RI Health Exchange.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7383 | Pass | Prohibits encroachment upon open space land and allows the owner of open space land or holder of a conservation restriction to bring a civil action in superior court to remedy the encroachment of that land, and to recover damages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2789 | Pass | Permits the substitution by a developer of sprinklers in new developments instead of cisterns or water reservoirs for fire suppression, if allowed by ordinance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2308 | Pass | Excludes evaluations or other personnel records of public school employees from being deemed public records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H7813 | Pass | Enables the Rhode Island Public Rail Corporation to lower the self-insured retention amount required of the state and would provide indemnification statewide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2288 | Pass | Renames title to be called Uniform Voidable Transaction Act/amends definition of "person"/adds substantive/procedural changes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2823 | Pass | Protects communications between language interpreters appointed under this chapter and limited-English-proficient persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S2695 | Pass | Eliminates the penalty of abating rent in cases where a non-resident landlord fails to designate an agent for service of process and would clarify that the fine for violating this section is civil.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-02
Signed by Governor |
