| S0340 | Pass | Allows Craig Pearson to join Danielle Parent and Matthew Puglise in marriage on or about March 15, 2019, within the City of Providence, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5829 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the cap on the maximum fee allowable for submitting an application for certification to the board of certifications of operators of public water supply facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H5645 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows residential only projects to remain minor and subject to the lesser time period for certification. Adds more time for cert. And resubmission at the master and preliminary plan phases on major projects but reducing such time for the final plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H5449 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a city or town to transfer responsibility and expenditures for school building maintenance to the municipal side of the local government.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H5640 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends definitions for minor land development and minor subdivision, reduces time periods for minor and major applications, requires public meeting/hearing for waiver/modification to plan, and changes decision time periods.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H5646 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the preservation of housing density within a community when a municipality situates alternative uses within a residential zone.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| S0162 | Intro
Sine Die | Revokes any beneficiary status of a spouse upon divorce or annulment of a marriage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0068 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health insurance contract plans or policies to provide coverage for certain licensed practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0314 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the term of office members and chair of the Kent County Water District board from seven (7) years to three (3) years, effective September 1, 2019 and limits the chair to three (3) consecutive terms.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| H5642 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the notice requirements relating to the use of explosives by requiring two (2) weeks' notice of blasting to the municipality and to owners of structures within five hundred feet (500') of the mutual property line.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| S0076 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the probate court to deny a parent of a child who dies intestate from inheriting a share of the decedent's estate if that parent did not contribute to the child's support.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5643 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that notice of application to owners of property within two hundred feet (200') of the site of a proposed liquor licensee be given by certified mail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H5668 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits solid waste landfill facilities and municipal waste management facilities from being located closer than one mile from any residential neighborhood in any city or town.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H5667 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes minimum energy and water efficiency standards for certain products sold or installed in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| S0148 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows mobile and manufactured homes which are a part of a mobile and manufactured home park to be counted as low and moderate income housing for purposes of compliance with the requirements of the city's or town's comprehensive land use plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S0290 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a universal, comprehensive, affordable single-payer health care insurance program .
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H5644 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a local review board of a city or town to provide reasonable conditions and limitations on any low and moderate income housing project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H5818 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that all camping fees remain at the current rate for the next two (2) camping seasons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| H5427 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the "Healthy Beverage Act" which would require that children's meals offered by restaurants include certain healthy beverage options if the beverage is automatically included in the meal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5248 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline to provide for reciprocal licensure of physicians from other jurisdictions under certain conditions, and in connection therewith, requires the board to promulgate applicable rules and regulations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5167 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes licensed advanced practice registered nurses (APRN), certified in psychiatric/mental health, as qualified to certify the need for mental health treatment in certain patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0268 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits retail sales establishments from providing plastic checkout bags and all retail establishments from providing expanded polystyrene disposable food containers and would be enforced by municipal designees, with an opt out provision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| H5422 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the requirement of proving willfulness, regarding physical or emotional abuse, or neglect, of an elderly person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5585 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides funding to Rhode Island department of environmental management, office of energy resources and to coastal resource management council from any offshore land lease fees associated with offshore wind systems that access state waters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H5269 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides health care employers with at least 18 employees, which receive certain state funding or pay an executive $1,000,000 or more annually, pay a minimum wage of $15.00.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To House Labor Committee |
| H5481 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows damages recovery for emotional stress, grief, loss of enjoyment of life resulting from wrongful death of a spouse, parent, child to all pending future claims.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0513 | Intro
Sine Die | For purposes of overtime pay on Sundays and holidays, removes health care and maintenance workers from the definition of employees not entitled to overtime pay, thereby enabling them to collect overtime pay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H5321 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes Alzheimer's disease awareness campaign to be administered by the director of the department of health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5067 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale and/or delivery of hearing aids directly to the consumer through the Internet or direct mail unless the consumer has a valid certificate of need, and would provide for criminal penalties for violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0079 | Pass | Allows Lucille Mary King to join Sara Elizabeth Rodgers and Benjamin Patrick King in marriage on or about June 15, 2019, within the Town of Bristol, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5338 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state to pay to employees of employers that hire persons with developmental disabilities, no less than $13.77 per hour commencing July 1, 2019 and $15.00 per hour commencing on July 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To House Labor Committee |
| S0088 | Pass | Allows Dina Spaziano to join Elizabeth Rose Colagiovanni and Michael Augustine D'Amore in marriage on or about July 26, 2019, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5097 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the existing minimum wage of ten dollars and fifty cents ($10.50) to eleven dollars and fifty cents ($11.50) on January 1, 2020, and then increase to twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12.50) on January 1, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To House Labor Committee |
| H5660 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the minimum wage for tipped workers by fifty cents ($.50) per year commencing on January 1, 2020 until the tipped minimum wage is not less than two-thirds (2/3) of the regular minimum wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To House Labor Committee |
| S0380 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds prepackaged cheeses to the items allowed for sale at Class A license holders premises in towns or cities of ten thousand (10,000) or more inhabitants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5247 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes hospital medical staff to elect whether or not to participate in a maintenance of certification program, to elect medical specialty board to implement the program and prohibits insurers from denying reimbursement based solely on this elect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0033 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Washington County Builders, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0506 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all non-supervisory classified employees to electronically record their daily work hours.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H5339 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts newspaper deliverers from the minimum wage laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To House Labor Committee |
| H5121 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) to two thousand dollars ($2,000), per ear, every three years. In addition, the amount of insurance coverage would no longer be based on the age of the recip...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0514 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a seasonal employment designation for purposes of unemployment benefits, which would allow employers hiring employees for less than twenty (20) weeks to apply for a seasonal determination by the director of the department of labor and trainin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H5658 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the city of Providence to pay its employees no less than fifteen dollars ($15.00) per hour commencing January 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To House Labor Committee |
| H5418 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a task force to assess the need, desirability, feasibility and cost of establishing a brain bank for Alzheimer's disease research.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5367 | Intro
Sine Die | Restores provisions of chapter 16.2 of title 23 as well as all of chapter 16.3 of title 23, which were repealed or deleted in the 2015 Budget Act, relating to definitions, licensing, and the operation of medical laboratories.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0063 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the dates of the R.E.C. meeting to the last ten (10) of April and the first ten (10) days of November of each year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H5333 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that prisoners who committed offenses prior to age eighteen (18) and were sentenced as adults would be eligible for parole after completing fifteen (15) years of their sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5491 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provision of the general laws declaring prisoners serving a life sentence civilly dead.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5673 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for service member business license reciprocity for applicant's who have recently established residence in Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5286 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an exemption from jury service to any breastfeeding mother.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5460 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires funeral directors to intern in RI prior to licensing. Photo IDs for funeral directors. Unlicensed practice punishable as felony. Funeral establishments shall maintain website for obituary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
To House Corporations Committee |
