| S0560 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows state employees who had also been a correctional officer to elect to combine their service time earned from each job, for the determination of their retirement eligibility date and calculation of retirement benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0173 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires children who seek a special limited work permit to successfully complete a worker rights' training program established and funded by the department of labor and training.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-11
To House Labor Committee |
| H5187 | Pass | Ratifies and validates the amendments to the Barrington Home Rule Charter which were approved by the electors of the town of Barrington at the polls on November 6, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-11
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5117 | Pass | Validates and ratify amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the town of Middletown, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the town of Middletown on November 6, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-11
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0090 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates the "Healthy Workplace Act of 2019" and would establish a cause of action against employers and employees for workplace bullying, harassment and other abusive conduct.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-11
To House Labor Committee |
| S0371 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows an employee to establish a lien against an employer's property to aid the employee in collecting unpaid wages from the employer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-11
To House Labor Committee |
| S0370 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the maximum weekly unemployment benefit rate to the higher of fifty-seven and one-half percent (57.5%) of the average weekly wages paid to workers in the prior calendar year or six hundred thirty-six dollars ($636) per week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-11
To House Finance Committee |
| S0451 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires state/city/town to install solar panels supplying at least 50% of the electrical needs within five (5) years of the completion date for any new public buildings, including schools, prior to the issuance of a construction permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-11
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| H5451 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the percentage of area median income from one hundred twenty percent (120%) one hundred forty percent (140%) only for New Shoreham residents to make more households eligible for affordable housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-11
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| S0342 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires all candidates for United States President and Vice President file copies of their last five (5) years of federal income tax returns with the state board of elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0070 | Pass | Validates and ratify amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the town of Middletown, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the town of Middletown on November 6, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-11
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5450 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows New Shoreham to regulate transportation network company services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-11
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| S0072 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a vehicle unlawfully parked in a properly marked "handicapped parking" space would be towed at the owner's expense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5840 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends provisions of the election laws relative to self-funding campaign contributions, the paperwork to be filed upon dissolution of a campaign account and liabilities imposed upon political action committee treasurers for late filings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5923 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes minimum qualifications for providers of covered home- and community-based services and direct support services and grants certain rights, and a complaint process to participants who receive direct-support services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5814 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows health care providers to refuse to accept payment by virtual credit card payment (a single-use digital credit card) at least once each health insurance contract year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5974 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows law enforcement officers to utilize mufflers, silencers, or other devices for muffling sound of firearm while acting within scope of official duties or while training as tactical teams and under supervision of police chief, colonel of state po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5292 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a process for in-person early voting to be conducted at locations determined by local boards and approved by the state board and would amend provisions related to mail ballots.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0663 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and implements woodland stewardship and preservation programs managed by the department of environmental management administered by cities and towns through local comprehensive planning and zoning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| H5921 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines the educational requirements necessary to qualify an individual as a social worker, and further exempts social workers from the license procedures for licensed clinical social workers and licensed independent clinical social workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0550 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the tax imposed on hard-to-dispose materials such as lubricating oils, glycol-based antifreeze and tires used on motor vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S0091 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes office of inspector general which would be charged with preventing fraud and mismanagement of public funds, regardless of their source and would oversee all state programs and operations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To Senate Rules, Government Ethics and Oversight Committee |
| H5559 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the RIDE, within the next three years, to create a plan where all RI teachers would be trained in the BEARS curriculum (BEARS training includes hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Heimlich maneuver, and bleeding control).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0619 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the joint committee on legislative services to make the record of the votes of the general assembly available to the public and the secretary of state electronically within thirty (30) minutes of the casting of said vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To Senate Rules, Government Ethics and Oversight Committee |
| S0024 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the executive office of health and human services (EOHHS) to conduct a study to assess the impact of using Medicaid funds to provide coverage for the treatment of the chronically homeless.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| S0552 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes minimum energy and water efficiency standards for appliances and specified equipment purchased or installed after July 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| H5753 | Intro
Sine Die | Assigns financial responsibility for late filings of campaign finance reports to treasurer of committees and authorizes board of elections to institute civil action or refer matter to attorney general and authorizes candidates name kept off the ballo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5552 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of seclusion in schools except to prevent immediate injury to the pupil or others.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5878 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public schools, including charter schools, to begin the school year on the day after Labor Day commencing in the school year 2020-2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5053 | Pass | Exempts property located at 122 North Main Street in the city of Woonsocket from the provision requiring it to be located a certain distance from objectors/schools/churches regarding the issuance of retail liquor licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0257 | Engross
Sine Die | Prevents the consideration of an applicant's credit history in determining automobile insurance rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| S0176 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to investigate, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the expenditure of public funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To Senate Rules, Government Ethics and Oversight Committee |
| H5726 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates public funding for legislative candidates, would limit contributions of public funds for all candidates for governor, statewide office holders and legislators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5557 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts both single/multiple entity physician-owned ambulatory surgical centers from CON requirements treating them as a physicians' practice extension governed by DOH.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0385 | Intro
Sine Die | Entitles all honorably discharged veterans to a waiver of the motor vehicle registration fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S0038 | Pass | Exempts property located at 122 North Main Street in the city of Woonsocket from the provision requiring it to be located a certain distance from objectors/schools/churches regarding the issuance of retail liquor licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
Signed by Governor |
| S0243 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the owner of motor vehicles, which is between ten (10) and twenty (20) years old and cannot locate a title certificate obtain a registration certificate with the name of the current registered owner(s).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S0058 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the participation and input of the EOHHS, DHS, DCYF and BHDDH in medical assistance and public assistance caseload estimating conferences and the generation of monthly data to the members of the caseload estimating conference.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H5905 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates that the state seal of biliteracy be awarded by the commissioner beginning with the class of 2020 and a report be given to the general assembly no later than 8/1/20 of students who have been awarded a state seal of biliteracy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5737 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the installation of video surveillance cameras and equipment in any classroom which has an enrolled child with a disability, who as a result of such disability is unable to communicate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5815 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health insurance contract to provide coverage for all FDA-approved contraceptive drugs, devices and products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5698 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the state board of elections would be exempt from the "administrative procedures act" except for certain rule-making provisions of the "administrative procedures act".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5565 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits PFAS, a class of fluorinated organic chemicals, from being used in food packaging.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5712 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits emergency mail ballots at any time prior to any election and would require that electors sign an electronic poll book containing a certificate of facts relating to the circumstances necessitating the emergency application.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0383 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows business vehicles which are owned by an entity which a veteran owns, and registered and authorized to conduct business in the state of Rhode Island, to register such business vehicles with veteran plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S0057 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates micro zones in distressed areas to stimulate economic revitalization/employment opportunities/business development through redevelopment of abandoned industrial/commercial structures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H5973 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the city council of the city of Newport to levy an additional tax upon real property transfers within the city, not to exceed the amount of two percent (2%) of the purchase price.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| S0341 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that juveniles sentenced as adults parole eligible after completing 15 years of their sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0212 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a stipend to be paid to certain retired state employee, municipal employees, and teachers or their beneficiaries during years when a cost of living adjustment is not scheduled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H5823 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that child support garnishment be paid first before any other garnishment including a garnishment for the payment of taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
