| H7725 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows cities and towns to create ordinances to regulate use and sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-12
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H7931 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the law enforcement officers' bill of rights to provide greater accountability in the disciplinary process over law enforcement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7846 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows DEM to extend certain deadlines for required sewer construction in the replacement of cesspools, which deadlines would not extend beyond January 1, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-12
To House Corporations Committee |
| H8027 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the PUC to establish a performance-based incentive plan that allows coordinated efforts between each electric distribution company and gas company based on the level of its success in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-12
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7624 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates $100,000 annually to Fuerza Laboral for the purposes of the development and management of a business cooperative located in Central Falls to increase economic development, assists with job creation and a path to business ownership.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-12
To House Finance Committee |
| H8038 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits an employer, employment agency, labor organization, or employee, to commit any act declared to be an unlawful employment practice; individuals would be held personally liable for such conduct.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-12
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H7545 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts drive-through and take-out establishments from providing a plastic straw only upon request by the consumer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H7544 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the taking of any wild bird by using a crossbow in addition to the weapons spelled out in this section.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H7165 | Intro
Sine Die | SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT) -- CHARTER SCHOOLS (Allows charter schools to engage in nontraditional approaches to learning, which must be approved by the department of education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
To House Education Committee |
| H7610 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the departmental of environmental management or any other licensing authority issuing hunting or fishing licenses, from requiring any applicant to provide their social security number or other tax identification number.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (04/11/2022) |
| H7848 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires school districts to provide for alternative programs within the school to reduce the number of out-of-school suspensions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
To House Education Committee |
| H7606 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that all school districts shall incorporate cursive handwriting into elementary school curriculum in order to be proficient by third grade.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
To House Education Committee |
| H7539 | Intro
Sine Die | Require that both curriculum and teaching practices in Rhode Island schools protect and respect the civil rights of all members of the school community
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
To House Education Committee |
| H7608 | 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] | 2022-04-11
To House Education Committee |
| H7854 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DEM to request proposals every 2 years to solicit representative organization to operate paint stewardship program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H7853 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes the Mill Damn Act subject to the provisions of the Freshwater Wetlands Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H7541 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of firefighting foam containing PFAS chemicals during training exercises and would prohibit firefighter turnout gear containing PFAS chemicals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H7811 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the crime of stolen valor, for falsely representing himself or herself as a member of the military or armed forces, which is punishable by imprisonment of not more than one year, a fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-08
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H8111 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts new entities in the first two (2) years of existence from paying the minimum tax if annual net taxable income is less than five thousand dollars ($5,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H7906 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits an employer, employment agency, labor organization, or employee from directly or indirectly committing any act declared to be an unlawful employment practice or the employee or employer may be held personally liable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-07
To House Labor Committee |
| H7306 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminalizes the knowing and intentional failure of a physician, nurse, or other licensed medical person to provide reasonable medical care and treatment to an infant born alive as a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7458 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Recognizing The Fetus As A Human Life Upon The Existence Of A Heartbeat
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7189 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the Rhode Island Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, prohibiting the performance or induction of an abortion of an unborn child capable of feeling pain, unless necessary to prevent serious health risk to the unborn child’s mother. Eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H6600 | Intro
Sine Die | Same as 21H-5572--Creates the Lila Manfield Sapinsley Compassionate Care Act, to provide a legal mechanism whereby a terminally ill patient may choose to end their life using drugs prescribed by a physician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7718 | Intro
Sine Die | Classifies as an occupational disease any disability or quarantine resulting from COVID-19 or other viral infection, classified by an executive order, during a declared state of emergency, subject to certain requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-07
To House Labor Committee |
| H7717 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amount of unpaid 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] | 2022-04-07
To House Labor Committee |
| H7405 | Intro
Sine Die | Enacts the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act and provide for the duties and obligations of medical personnel in certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7812 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amount of state contracts awarded to minority business enterprises to at least fifty percent (50%) of the total value of the entire dollar value of the contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-07
To House Labor Committee |
| H7307 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides equal medicare for infants born-alive as a result of abortion procedure/natural delivery with violations subject to criminal penalties for medical personnel/loss of license/civil action for damages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7904 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of employees to include individuals under appointment/contract/apprenticeship/volunteer or unpaid intern covered by fair employment practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-07
To House Labor Committee |
| H7903 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits an employer, employment agency, labor organization, or employee, to commit any act declared to be an unlawful employment practice; individuals would be held personally liable for such conduct.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-07
To House Labor Committee |
| H7199 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes procedures to ensure that agency regulations do not unjustly restrict individuals from entering into businesses, professions or public services, requiring articulable, legitimate public health, safety and welfare objectives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-07
To House Labor Committee |
| H7719 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the dollar amount of public works projects that shall be awarded to minority business entities to a minimum of twenty-five percent (25%) of the dollar value of the project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-07
To House Labor Committee |
| H7730 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires those appointing committee members to the advisory committee of the child advocate's office to use diversity as a criteria in making the appointments and requires committee meet twice annually and report to General Assembly yearly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H7736 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the general assembly to provide race, ethnicity and gender impact statements as to all legislation, addressing the disproportionate impact of the legislation on people of color and gender.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H7746 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the appoint the historian laureate from a five (5) year term to a three (3) year term, and requires the historian laureate to develop and implement programs about pertinent aspects of Rhode Island history.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H7584 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a redistricting commission to act every ten (10) years to adopt a redistricting plan for all general assembly and congressional districts that would require the approval of the general assembly and the governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H7747 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the transfer of any compassion center license to any other owner or location and provides that new compassion center licenses issued by way of lottery be issued only to the location and ownership approved in the application.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H8066 | Intro
Sine Die | State websites to comply with WCAG 2.1 standards by July 1, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H7749 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates provisions establishing a legislative regulation committee, and also repeals the provision that codes and standards adopted by the state building code standards committee would be subject to approval by the legislative regulation committee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H8092 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the promise scholarship program to allow a student who is eligible to receive funds under the Rhode Island promise scholarship to use the same funds at most public or private institutions of postsecondary education in Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
To House Finance Committee |
| H8104 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes and ratifies the action of the Cranston city council which reapportioned and redistricted its six (6) voting wards based on the most recent federal decennial census.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H8103 | Intro
Sine Die | Tightens up the obligation of the board of elections bipartisan mail ballot election supervisors and grants each political party chair the authority to replace the board-appointed supervisors with their own choice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H8089 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds advanced recycling as a definition for refuse disposal. Adds the advanced recycling facility that means a facility that receives, stores and converts post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks using advanced recycling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7738 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of administration to provide a list of certified minority and women-owned business enterprises to each prospective contractor of a construction project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H7585 | Intro
Sine Die | Seeks to eliminate all state requirements and involvement in internal political party operations and workings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H7739 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the operation of private detention facilities and private public partnerships within the state and prohibits the housing of Rhode Island prisoners in other states as well as hold out-of-state prisoners in Rhode Island facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H8036 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of environmental management to create environmental justice areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H8042 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires two weeks' notice to all abutters within five hundred feet of the commencement of any blasting operations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H7519 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State -- Right To Adequate Education (adds Two Sections To The Constitution/guarantees Residents Adequate Education Permitting Learning At Hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
