| S0705 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits pet shops from offering for sale cats or dogs that are not obtained from an animal shelter, dog pound or animal rescue. Further prohibits any person from selling, exchanging, trading, bartering or displaying any dog or cat in public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0167 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of wild or exotic animals in traveling animal acts and sets forth the penalties for violation of such prohibition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5341 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the timeframe within which to bring an action for an unlawful employment practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5256 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires motor vehicle dealers to disclose in writing that a vehicle being sold has a spare tire/ jack or is otherwise equipped in compliance with applicable law. There shall be a civil penalty of $100 for a violation under this subsection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-04
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H5561 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires state and municipal elected officials to attend a one-day biennial training seminar in emergency management for disaster emergencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5567 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the current law so that digital breast tomosynthesis (dbt) screenings are available wherever mammograms are conducted and to provide insurance coverage for such screenings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0408 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a 7 member commission to study of the merits and feasibility of a pyrolysis or gasification facility in the State, and who would report back to the Senate by March 7, 2020, and would expire on May 7, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| H5918 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the commuter transportation benefit act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Labor Committee |
| S0541 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the council on elementary and secondary education to waive certain provisions of the laws on elementary and secondary education for public schools but would prohibit the waiver of other listed provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| H5756 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires condo unit owners' association officers to verify management agents/companies retained by association are insured regarding services provided.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5653 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits more than two (2) members of the state police to be from the same family whether by blood, adoption or marriage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Labor Committee |
| H5547 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the commissioner of elementary and secondary education to adopt a course of study on the nation's founding and related documents, including the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and the Federalist Papers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5945 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits collection of biometric identifiers without consent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5513 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the state use the actual residences of persons in government custody for census and redistricting purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0015 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public schools, including charter schools, begin the school year on the day after Labor Day commencing in the school year 2020-2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| S0402 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires schools to comply with recycling and composting laws and promotes food donation and local food service contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| H5742 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits grand juries to issue reports to superior court as a public record and provide a process for review and acceptance by the superior court and allow the attorney general or any person or entity named in the report to challenge the court's decis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0375 | Intro
Sine Die | Electrical apprentices qualify for journeyperson "B" exam by successfully completing 288 hours of classroom training in a recognized trade school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H5546 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that teachers be trained and certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5574 | Intro
Sine Die | Restructures professional development investment fund to assume duties of dissemination of curriculum materials/frameworks/assessments/development plans with annual allocation of $200 per student.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5428 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that any person who is convicted of, or pleads nolo contendere to a charge of cruelty to animals shall be required to reimburse any adoptive owner for reasonable costs associated with treating the animals' injuries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0624 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the honorary, unpaid, position of the official state astronomer to be appointed by the secretary of state for a term of five (5) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S0549 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes certain student privacy rights in regard to take-home technology devices from school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| S0655 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a school committee to demonstrate a good faith effort to meet the required number of days in the school year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| H5879 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an exemption to the access to public records law for winners of lottery prizes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5463 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides consumer protection in eye care services by developing standards and enforcement protocols related to the utilization of emergent technologies in the provision of eye care services, as well as for the delegation of eye care services by provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5704 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows landlords to recover funds expended or fines associated with violations of local ordinances when such violations are due to actions of their tenants(s), provided that the lease clearly addresses the reimbursement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0381 | Intro
Sine Die | Names the traffic tribunal building on New London Avenue "The Albert E. DeRobbio Traffic Tribunal."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| H5655 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an equal opportunity unit within the division of state police to adopt an equal opportunity plan to increase the ranks of minorities and women among members of the state police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Labor Committee |
| H5562 | Intro
Sine Die | Precludes the disability of a parent from serving as a basis for denial or restriction in matters involving a child's welfare, foster care, family law, guardianship and adoption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0725 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds thermal systems insulation workers, apprentices, journeypersons, contractors and masters to the mechanical trades' regulation chapter of the general laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H5570 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes title of chapter 5-37.2 and replaces the word "Oriental" with "Chinese" and allows qualified and certified individuals to practice acupuncture and Chinese medicine using accepted medical diagnostic methods.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5426 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public schools to provide screening for dyslexia/related disorders/establish approp. treatment and/or education plan for students starting in school year 2020-2021/creates study comm. for 2 schools dedicated to instruction of dyslexic childr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0266 | Intro
Sine Die | Combine all public school districts into four school districts, based on counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| S0378 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the painting of a portrait of the president of the senate to be hung in the state house.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| H5654 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning June 30, 2019, requires 1 in 5 recruits to the Rhode Island State Police Training Academy be a person of color and also requires vigorous recruitment effort.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Labor Committee |
| S0114 | Intro
Sine Die | Council on elementary and secondary education to mandate libraries in high schools to be open one hour before, during and one hour after school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| H5917 | Intro
Sine Die | The wage fairness act prohibits employers from asking job applicants about salary history. It also prohibits discrimination in payment of wages, and allows employees to discuss their salary with co-employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Labor Committee |
| H5504 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes Rhode Island First Step requiring corrections to assist offenders with reintegration into society, counseling, medical care, education, early termination to pre-release confinement for elderly and terminally ill offenders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5851 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the lien and notice procedures for facility operators of dry dock facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5893 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes electronic data privacy act prohibiting any government entity from accessing electronic devices without search warrant. Consent, judicially recognized warrant exceptions, good faith and other exceptions would apply to the warrant requirem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0464 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines the term "ghost gun" and bans the manufacture, sale purchase or possession of a machine gun, a ghost gun or an undetectable firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5865 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the release of balloons inflated with lighter-than-air gas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0295 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the automatic phase out of the nursing facility reimbursement price based methodology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0469 | Intro
Sine Die | Enhances penalties for failure to report lost or stolen firearms to the police department, and specify penalties for making a false report of lost or stolen firearms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5757 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibit minors under the age of twenty-one (21) years old from engaging in any type of legal casino gambling and be subject to civil penalties for violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-02
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H5903 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits person/business entity from conditioning requiring offer for sale/lease of tangible personal property on purchase of ins. From any ins. producer/insurer or releasing consumer's personal identification info eff. 1/1/20.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5487 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows an owner or owners of real property to execute a deed that names one or more beneficiaries who will obtain title to the property at the owner's death without the necessity of probate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0578 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the rate of payment to licensed nursing facilities by the state to correspond with any increase in minimum wage as well as ensure that the rearray of the costs of the facility are performed as scheduled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H5839 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows courts discretion to grant an expungement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
