| S0350 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the amount of education aid determined for each school district with respect to high-need students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
To Senate Education Committee |
| S0186 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study The Impact Of The Trauma Inflicted On Children Who Are Exposed To Violence (creates A 13 Member Commission To Study The Impact Of The Trauma Inflicted On Children Exposed To Violenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0345 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an economic growth blockchain act, set regulations for the sale of hemp, regulate virtual and digital assets and establish depository banks for these purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H5153 | Intro
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] | 2021-02-25
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S0223 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the current law so that monthly payments of child support (and payment of any arrearages) be exempt from income in determining an applicant's qualifications for The Rhode Island Works Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H5949 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Charles Moran, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
House read and passed |
| H5948 | Pass | House Resolution Respectfully Requesting The Department Of Health To Establish Guidelines And Protocols For Administering Vaccines To A Maximum Of Two Parents/legal Guardians Of Children Undergoing Chemotherapy, And One Caregiver Of An Adult Undergoi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
House read and passed |
| H5946 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating "health Care Workers Appreciation Day" On March 1, 2021, In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
House read and passed |
| S0092 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for an appropriation of state funds to cities and towns who are members of the Narragansett Bay marine task force (NBMTF) for the maintenance of boats providing services to Narragansett Bay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0054 | Intro
Sine Die | Family Court to hear abuse allegations for immigrants up to 21 years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5256 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any city or town employee, including private contractors, removing trash from leaving trash receptacles in any condition or place so as to constitute a hazard on the street or highways, except private roads or driveways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| S0163 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "disabled", for the purposes of property tax relief, to include veterans who earn less than thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) annually and who receive disability benefits from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H5323 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the towns of Burrillville and Glocester to publish notices in any newspaper located within their municipalities. This act would also allow publication in other designated platforms selected by their city or town councils.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H5947 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating The 177th Anniversary Of Dominican Republic Independence On February 27, 2021
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
House read and passed |
| S0179 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the implementation of trauma-informed practices in schools throughout the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0093 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines as “disabled,” persons receiving veterans’ affairs disability benefits paid by the federal government for purposes of property tax relief.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0418 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state to use the actual residence of persons in government custody for redistricting purposes and residences would be collected by the department of corrections and forwarded to the secretary of state to be utilized for redistricting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5163 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the health services council from twelve (12) to twenty-four (24) members and amends the hospital conversion act relative to disclosure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H5111 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes state aide to RICAP for training/equipment for use during times of natural disaster/emergency as needed by state EMA/governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| H5121 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a tax credit for state community service hours provided by state residents to certain not-for-profit entities and municipal departments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| H5535 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a fund to be managed by the joint committee on legislative services, to make Rhode Island mementos available to visiting dignitaries and for gifts to hosting out-of-state officials, to be given by legislators' during official visits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| H5444 | Intro
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] | 2021-02-24
To House Education Committee |
| S0139 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines and recognizes the existence and potential liability of lead entities concerning the payment of wages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H5053 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that DOT, in conjunction with the RI turnpike and bridge authority, erect a safety barrier or safety netting on the Mount Hope Bridge, the Claiborne Pell Bridge, Verrazzano Bridge. Safety barrier or netting to be erected on or before 1/1/202...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| H5225 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of public works so that it would include any public works projects performed for any city or town or quasi-municipal entity and the state and any quasi-state entity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| H5619 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires children who seek a special limited work permit to successfully complete a training program which shall address workers' rights, workplace health and safety, and workers' compensation, to be established and funded by the DLT.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Labor Committee |
| H5360 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Ocean State Climate Adaptation and Resilience (OSCAR) trust fund which provides grants to fund projects that adapt infrastructure on public lands to address impacts of climate change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H5207 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amount of reimbursement funds required to be paid by the Rhode Island airport corporation to the city of Warwick for municipal services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| H5832 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that one third of all Rhode Island teachers, for the next three (3) years trained in the basic emergency and response skills curriculum ("BEARS"), specifically in hand-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Heimlich maneuver, and bleeding contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Education Committee |
| H5405 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the Central Coventry Fire District from the application of the firefighters' overtime law for five (5) years beginning on July 1, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Labor Committee |
| S0269 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the Central Coventry Fire District from the application of the firefighters' overtime law for five (5) years beginning on July 1, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H5476 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes issuance of limited HVAC service person's license upon examination for work on or repair of electric wiring/equipment located on heating/AC systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Labor Committee |
| H5401 | Intro
Sine Die | Deletes Portuguese (a person of Portuguese, Brazilian, or other Portuguese culture or origin, regardless of race), from those eligible to be considered as minorities for purposes of awarding public works projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Labor Committee |
| H5015 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $140,000 To Urban Ventures (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of One Hundred And Forty Thousand Dollars ($140,000) To Urban Ventures For Operations And To Implement Activities Assisting Small Business...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| H5403 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an individual employer to meet certain criteria in order to qualify for class exemption from the increased pay requirement for work on holidays and Sundays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Labor Committee |
| S0323 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows individuals employed in domestic service or in or about a private home to be included as an employee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S0138 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts certain executive, administrative, and professional employees from overtime pay if their weekly wages exceed one thousand thirty-six dollars ($1,036), an increase from the current two hundred dollars ($200).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H5315 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all responsible school districts to provide all of their students in need of IEP services to receive them, no matter which school they attend or if they are homeschooled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Education Committee |
| H5226 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the maximum small state purchase from $10,000 to $25,000 for construction projects and from $5,000 to $10,000 for all other small purchases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| H5263 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows individuals employed in domestic service or in or about a private home to be included as an employee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Labor Committee |
| H5314 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires screening for dyslexia and related disorders for public school students in grades kindergarten through grade four (K-4) and would provide for instruction in cursive writing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Education Committee |
| H5447 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an instant ticket scratch off game pilot program to raise funds for Rhode Island veterans and dependents of qualified service members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| H5532 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that ten (10%) percent of fines imposed for misdemeanor offenses resulting in a filing shall be provided to Justice Assistance to support the case management of persons receiving a filing with any sanctions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| H5233 | Intro
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] | 2021-02-24
To House Education Committee |
| H5143 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the definition of the word "perpetrator defendant" for purposes of bringing a civil action based upon sexual abuse or exploitation of a child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| S0271 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires state contracted human services providers to pay their employees a starting hourly wage of no less than 155% of the state minimum wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H5118 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for an appropriation of state funds to cities and towns who are members of the Narragansett Bay marine task force (NBMTF) for the maintenance of boats providing services to Narragansett Bay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| H5365 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a hiring freeze for all state positions within a classification, for which a competitive test is required, if no test is given within twelve (12) months of the vacancy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| H5455 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the prohibition on state appropriations to the municipal infrastructure grant program, and authorize the state planning council to evaluate, approve and issue such grants, subject to the appropriations provided to the program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| H5857 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the courts of Rhode Island to establish an Internet link and live-stream all proceedings, except those recognized as confidential.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
