| H5506 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires copies of auditor's documents relative to evaluation and opinion about fees to be filed with the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation and be considered public records pursuant to chapter 2 of title 38, access to public records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-16
House passed Sub A |
| S0209 | Engross
Sine Die | Updates Access to Advanced Placement Courses for All Students Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-16
To House Finance Committee |
| S0344 | Engross
Sine Die | Omnibus act regarding caterers, hide and leather inspection, constables, sterilization of bedding, mixed-martial arts and pool halls.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-16
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5067 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs that services provided by school social workers and certified school psychologists would be included as health care related services eligible for federal Medicaid reimbursement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-15
House read and passed |
| H5283 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires all foster parents to undergo sensitivity training regarding the culture of their foster child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0591 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases reimbursement rates for behavioral health providers over a five (5) year period. The minimum increase per year would be four percent (4%) resulting in a total increase of twenty-three and four tenths percent (23.4%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-10
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S0462 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that scholarships received directly from the College Crusade Scholarship Program would not be considered financial aid pursuant to the Rhode Island Promise Scholarships and provides the program with access to certain student data.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-10
To House Education Committee |
| S0430 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the benefits given to eligible women under title XIX state plan commencing for twelve (12) months after one month post-birth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-10
To House Finance Committee |
| S0085 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that benchmarks specific to each local education authority (LEA) be developed by the department of education to improve cost controls, efficiencies and program effectiveness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-10
To House Education Committee |
| S0729 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands and creates civil causes of action for certain protected groups who experience threats or intimidation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0611 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the amount of parental or family leave available to an employee from thirteen (13) weeks to twenty-six (26) weeks in any two (2) calendar years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-10
To House Labor Committee |
| S0286 | Engross
Sine Die | Direct the council on elementary and secondary education to provide professional support and assistance to LEAs regarding effective ways to use data such as the LEA’s budget and demographics, school culture, and assessments to improve student perfo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-10
To House Education Committee |
| S0898 | 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] | 2021-06-10
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S0541 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes special requirements for fiscal impact statements relative to the department of corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H5827 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the RIDE in coordination with the department of the attorney general to collect all public data concerning the use of force, arrest, and referrals to law enforcement or courts in different categories with a reasonable explanation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-09
Committee heard |
| H5177 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes the service requirement for admissions to RI Veterans' Home from 90 days to 2 years, and gives priority to veterans defined as war veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-09
Committee heard |
| H5823 | Engross
Sine Die | Military personnel ordered to Rhode Island may register their children for school remotely.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-09
Committee heard |
| H5522 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a process for CCRI, RIC and URI to accept for college credit an advanced placement subject test score of three (3) ("qualified") or better in an advanced placement course.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-09
Committee heard |
| H5669 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Administration to amend lease to Providence Marine Corps of Artillery to use hall for promotion of the arsenal and to sublease the rented space.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-08
Committee heard and continued |
| H5600 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes the general assembly elections within the category of elections subject to the risk- limiting audits within the jurisdiction of the board of elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5888 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows URI board of trustees to make small procurements up to $50,000 for construction/$10,000 for all other purchases with annual increases in the federal CPI.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-04
To Senate Education Committee |
| H5148 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the 11 member broadband council to create a plan to increase the use of broadband service in the state. A broadband coordinator is to be designated in Commerce RI to access federal funds and coordinate with the council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-04
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S0632 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Quonset development corporation to borrow up to one million dollars ($1,000,000) for operational purposes; however, the debt would not be a debt of the state and would be secured only by the Quonset development corporation's assets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-02
To House Finance Committee |
| S0833 | Engross
Sine Die | Transfers all responsibility for oversize/overweight permitting to the department of transportation and amends and increases fines for all oversize and overweight infractions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-02
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| S0203 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes department of insurance, within the DBR, in lieu of passing in-state licensing examination, to recognize the competence of an applicant for an insurance claims adjuster license, through an out-of-state proctored examination. Eff. date 1/1/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| S0629 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the percentage of retail electricity sales from renewable energy sources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| S0169 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a comprehensive system to promote and regulate the effective and competent administration of medical laboratories by focusing on the training, qualifications and licensure of their practitioners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-02
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S0485 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires health insurance contract plans or policies to provide coverage for a backup battery for at-home medical devices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-02
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S0631 | Engross
Sine Die | Updates the credit for reinsurance chapter of the general laws to conform to the current standard set by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| S0283 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that school construction projects approved after July 1, 2021, that fail to utilize a project's architectural services and project educational design services would only be eligible to receive five (5) incentive points.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-02
To House Education Committee |
| S0391 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the number of members of the transit authority from eight to nine and would make the mayor of Providence or designee an ex officio member with voting privileges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| S0235 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes a licensed physical therapist to perform physical therapy services to a student while in school without a prescription or referral, in accordance with the student's IEP or IFSP.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-02
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S0647 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the health insurance commissioner to adopt a uniform set of medical criteria for prior authorization and create a required form to be used by a health insurer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| S0769 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires coverage for residential/inpatient mental health services for detox/stabilization/substance abuse disorders without preauthorization or be subject to concurrent review during the first 28 days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-02
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S0547 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides all provisions in collective bargaining agreement continue until successor agreement reach or interest arbitration award rendered.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-27
To House Labor Committee |
| S0322 | 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] | 2021-05-27
To House Labor Committee |
| S0033 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that the board of education incorporate additional questions into its annual assessment of schools and related surveys and provide annual reports to the house of representatives and the senate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-27
To House Education Committee |
| S0887 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that if state employee unions are engaged in contract negotiations and/or utilizing the dispute resolution process, all terms and conditions in the collective bargaining agreement shall continue to remain in effect.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-27
To House Labor Committee |
| S0213 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates the Apprenticeship Pathways to Earning a Bachelor’s Degree Act, to enable an individual to earn a bachelor’s degree at public higher education institutions throughout the state by earning credits through apprenticeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-27
To House Education Committee |
| S0187 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the governor with the advice and consent of the senate, to appoint an executive director of coastal resources management to act as a liaison to the director of the department of environmental management to plan and manage coastal resources...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-27
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| S0066 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the children’s cabinet, in conjunction with the department of education, to develop and implement strategies to improve the compensation of early educators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-27
To House Education Committee |
| S0151 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows a school district to conduct instruction through virtual education up to five (5) days when schools have been closed due to inclement weather, emergency or any nonscheduled school closings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-27
To House Education Committee |
| S0282 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides students attending public schools enrolled in grades K-12 with a students' bill of rights prohibiting discrimination based on race, sex, gender, economic status or mental, physical, developmental or sensory disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-27
To House Education Committee |
| S0544 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides all provisions in collective bargaining agreement continue until successor agreement reach or interest arbitration award rendered.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-27
To House Labor Committee |
| S0687 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes new factors for the interest contract arbitration board for municipal employee unions to consider in rendering a decision the board power to render an award over all negotiated matters, including the expenditure of money.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-27
To House Labor Committee |
| S0200 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a special motor vehicle registration plate for recipients of the United States Bronze Star Medal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-19
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| S0734 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a military family advocacy program to address child abuse and neglect in military families.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0211 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes courses that include instruction in career and technical education programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-19
To House Education Committee |
| H5890 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the board of elections to begin the certification of mail ballots 20 days prior to election day and requires notice of such certification sessions and establishes a new and more comprehensive mail ballot voter signature verification process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0015 | Engross
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State -- Procedure To Fill Vacancy In Office Of The Secretary Of State, Attorney General Or General Treasurer (this Joint Resolut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
