| H5656 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates voluntary retirement IRA savings program for workers requiring employers to make available to employees if no employer retirement plan offered.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Labor Committee |
| H5512 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the judicial nominating commission be composed of at least three (3) members of color.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0269 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the RI coastal adaptation trust fund. The trust would enable cities and towns and the state to apply for grants to fund projects that invest in measures that adapt infrastructure on public lands to address the impacts of climate change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| H5542 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulates the distribution of food products containing the drug kratom, a drug of concern for its stimulant and sedative effects, to consumers by the department of health. Effective September 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5716 | Intro
Sine Die | Classifies the names, applications and resumes submitted to the judicial nominating commission as public records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5675 | Intro
Sine Die | Expedites a victim of domestic abuse eligibility for and receipt of unemployment benefits by removing the waiting period and other impediments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Labor Committee |
| H5725 | Intro
Sine Die | Vests with the governor the sole authority to nominate, on the basis of merit, from a list submitted by the judicial nominating commission with the advice and consent of the senate, all judges and magistrates, to all courts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5357 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires state and municipal authorities to return forfeited property 90 days after the underlying substantive matter is concluded in the owner's favor unless the property seized is a forfeitable controlled substance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5564 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the "Nathan Bruno and Jason Flatt Act" which requires training of teachers and school personnel regarding suicide awareness and prevention and establishment of a conflict resolution process between teachers or school personnel and students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5721 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a new chapter to standardize procedures for asset forfeitures for all crimes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5735 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the judicial nominating commission to consider a nominee's unique background and overall competence in all areas of practice of laws rather than emphasizing trial and courtroom experience in selecting nominees for the judiciary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5477 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes litigation loan agreements subject to state usury laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5849 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes shooting preserves of five hundred (500) acres or greater to allow hunting deer, elk, or other animals in addition to domestic game birds as regulated by the department of environmental management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| S0412 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes OSACR, a fund which provides grants to fund projects that adapt infrastructure to address climate change; assess eligibility of projects, allocation, disbursements and the fund's financing. Effective July 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| H5706 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a process for married and unmarried parents, to complete adoption to confirm their parentage of children born into their relationships with mutual intent and through assisted reproduction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5699 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the exception to the ($100,000.00) limitation of damages when the state is engaged in a proprietary function in the commission of a tort, and would exempt the state and any city or town or fire district from interest awards in civil actions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5545 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the establishment of harm reduction centers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5825 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires temporary disability contributions and benefits to be calculated based upon an employee's wages and salaries, that shall also include any sales commissions earned.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Labor Committee |
| S0403 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires elementary schools to provide instruction in cursive penmanship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| H5661 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits employers from receiving any portion of the tips given by customers to their tipped employees, with limited exceptions for credit card service charges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Labor Committee |
| H5551 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public places to have naloboxes or naloxone on the premises for access and use during emergencies by trained employees or the general public with "Good Samaritan" protections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5510 | Intro
Sine Die | Promotes more diversity in the composition of the judicial nominating commission and would require that each list of qualified judicial candidates it submits to the governor for nomination include a person of color.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0505 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows employers to shift the legal burden of proof to employees in certain workers' compensation actions where intoxicating substances may be involved.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H5848 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases penalties for violations of certain wage and hour laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Labor Committee |
| H5514 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the judicial nominating commission to actively solicit an attorneys of color who practice in Rhode Island but live in border states and to adopt regulations to promote that objective.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5568 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an emergency telephone system call review and quality improvement and would require at least one 911 system operator trained in telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation be on duty at all time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5707 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals current state law regarding paternity and replaces it with a more comprehensive parentage act that provides procedures establishing parentage, genetic testing, surrogacy agreements and assisted reproduction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5744 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the rules and regulations pertaining to the unauthorized practice of law committee would be approved and promulgated by the supreme court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0545 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the "Nathan Bruno and Jason Flatt Act" which requires training of teachers and school personnel regarding suicide awareness and prevention and establishment of a conflict resolution process between teachers or school personnel and students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| H5799 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any entity or individual from advertising the sale, purchase, receipt, transport, delivery or salvage of any junk or discarded automobile unless the advertiser is a licensed auto wrecking or salvage yard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5692 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any public utility or its contractor to reimburse an excavator for lost time expense incurred, including manpower and equipment from the utilities incorrect marking of underground utilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5703 | 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] | 2019-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5775 | Intro
Sine Die | Add a definition for "industrial and commercial" to be included in the net metering chapter of the general laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5723 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of firearms to include taser. Permits any person over the age of eighteen (18) to possess a stun gun. Enacts the review and appeal process of applying for a license to carry with the licensing authority or attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5841 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public utilities and electric distribution companies to provide prompt and adequate service to its ratepayers relating to new service and service upgrades, subject to a penalty of up to ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5688 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a process for insurers who wish to utilize receivership rather than the other processes of liquidation or rehabilitation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5740 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires firearms to be stored securely when not in use and enhances penalties for failure to store firearms in a secure manner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5752 | 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] | 2019-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5680 | Intro
Sine Die | Enacts a new all-encompassing registration and regulation procedure relating to barbers, hairdressers, cosmeticians, manicurists and estheticians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5497 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the open and concealed carry of weapons by any person in the act of evacuating the area pursuant to an order of the governor or local authority under chapter 15 of title 30.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0396 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any entity or individual from advertising the sale, purchase, receipt, transport, delivery or salvage of any junk or discarded automobile unless the advertiser is a licensed auto wrecking or salvage yard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H5728 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the age from eighteen to twenty-one years for lawful possession, sale, or transfer of firearms or ammunition. Full-time law enforcement, fire marshals and member of U.S. military would be exempt from these prohibitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5747 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes the chief inspector and inspector as those exempt from carrying a firearm without a permit and would define them as peace officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0214 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the health services council to twenty-four (24) members and amends disclosure provisions of the hospital conversion act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H5332 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits schools from offering employment incentives or bonuses to teachers on the condition that the teacher either is or becomes licensed to carry a weapon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0575 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits copays, coinsurance or office deductible for services of a physical therapist to the amount authorized for medical osteopathic physician office visits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H5810 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires issuers of gift certificates to deposit and hold funds used to purchase the gift certificate in escrow for three (3) years, or until the gift certificate is redeemed and would restrict certain redemption terms in the event of bankruptcy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5739 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits sale/possession of feeding device holding more then 10 ammunition rounds punishable by up to $5,000 fine or up to 5 years imprisonment with law enforcement/military personnel exceptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0579 | 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] | 2019-03-19
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H5021 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminalizes possession of a firearm by a minor, except when the minor is engaged in certain activities and when accompanied by a parent, guardian, or qualified adult.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
