| S0368 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the comprehensive community-police relationship act of 2015 to require an annual study by an outside agency chosen by the department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
Senate read and passed |
| S0144 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the minimum required awarded to minority business enterprises to 20% and of that, require a minimum of 10% be awarded to minority owned businesses and that a minimum of 10% be awarded to women owned businesses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
Senate passed Sub A |
| S0139 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes siblings/grandchildren/care recipient for temporary caregiver benefits of 12 weeks/Increases weekly dependent's allowances from $10 to $20 or 7% of benefit rate whichever is greater. Effective January 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
Senate read and passed |
| S0538 | Engross
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $5,000,000 To Eleanor Slater Hospital, Zambarano Unit (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $5,000,000 To Eleanor Slater Hospital, Zambarano Unit For The Purpose Of Re-building A ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
Senate read and passed |
| S1132 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the town of Richmond's town council to partially exempt qualifying real estate from the payment of property taxes or to determine a stabilized amount of taxes to be paid on qualifying real property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
Senate read and passed |
| S0148 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides issuance of an occupational license, certificate and permit for military service members licensed in other states and relocated to Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| S1060 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends LEOBOR to a five (5) member committee and extends summary punishment to fourteen (14) days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| S1061 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the maximum number of unrelated persons living together that could be designated by a local zoning ordinance as constituting an individual household could not be less than one person per bedroom.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| S0559 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to establish a program to expand the issuance of teaching certificates to bilingual dual language and world language teachers in urban and urban ring schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
Senate passed Sub A |
| S0888 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits noncompetition agreements except for noncompetition agreements between a seller and buyer of a business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| S0877 | Engross
Sine Die | Promotes a more efficient way to enforce tax liens on mobile and manufactured homes in the town of Coventry by allowing the town to enforce the lien in the same manner as used to collect real estate taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| S0764 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires all public schools to screen students for behavioral health concerns by June 30, 2024, and thereafter, all students in the third grade, eighth grade, and students who enroll from a district outside of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| S0371 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits those other residents of a residential dwelling unit to extend the term of the rental agreement for a period not to exceed three (3) months after the death of the lessee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate passed Sub A |
| S0965 | Engross
Sine Die | Defines a patient-provider relationship as when the healthcare professional agrees to undertake diagnosis and treatment of the patient and the patient agrees to be treated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| S0304 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds grass/grass clippings to the items prohibited from being deposited or blown onto a highway or roadway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| S0098 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the state, ERISA or any health plans to purchase referenced drugs for a cost higher than the referenced rate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate passed Sub A |
| S1011 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of children, youth and families (DCYF) to conduct periodic comprehensive needs assessments to determine whether the department’s programs and services meet the needs of children and families
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate passed Sub A |
| S0592 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that water utility companies be responsible for all costs associated with maintenance, operation and delivery of water pumping stations to individual parcels of land and schools with no pumping stations on the property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| S0258 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for an appropriation by the general assembly in the amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000) to the various school districts and municipalities to employ additional social workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| S0385 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits the substitution of advertising the voter registration deadline in a newspaper by posting notice of designations on the municipality's website, continuously, for at least 10 days leading up to the last day prescribed by law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| S0064 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the permanent foundation educational aid program would provide state funding for school-based mental health services pursuant to specified conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| S0561 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates $1,875,000 for the creation of a 9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline within the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals (BHDDH).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| S0571 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the personal needs allowances of nursing facility residents from fifty dollars ($50.00) to one hundred dollars ($100) per month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate passed Sub A |
| S0725 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a safe and reasonable regulatory framework for companies and drivers providing non-emergency medical transportation services to a population of vulnerable passengers through coordination with the state's health and human service agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0080 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the state earned-income credit as of January 1, 2024 to sixteen percent (16%) of the federal earned-income credit, not to exceed the amount of state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| S0795 | Engross
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Write An Olmstead Plan For Rhode Island (creates A Twenty-eight (28) Member Special Legislative Commission Whose Purpose It Is To Write An Olmstead Plan For Ri, And Who Reports Back To The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| S0317 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "low and moderate income housing" to include housing secured by a federal government voucher or subsidy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| S0500 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits residents on ponds in Coventry with a capacity in excess of 170 acres of water, to alter, repair, modify, or replace a dock on the pond by seeking approval only from DEM and the town of Coventry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| S0880 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that in the town of Warwick, no separate class or zoning district be assigned or designated based solely upon a scenic view. No property in particular class/zoning district be assessed increased rate from other properties because of scenic v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| S0442 | Engross
Sine Die | Names the Newport campus of the community college of Rhode Island the M. Teresa Paiva Weed campus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13
To House Finance Committee |
| S0486 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the council on elementary and secondary education to provide professional support/assistance to LEAs regarding effective ways to use data such as the LEA’s budget and demographics, school culture, and assessments to improve student performa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
To House Finance Committee |
| S0502 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Rhode Island lake management program and a restricted receipt account as a find within the department of environmental management to aid with lake and pond management issues relating to the control of aquatic invasive plants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| S0447 | Engross
Sine Die | Protects the rights of employees in the workplace relating to free speech, assembly and religion as well as attendance at employer-sponsored meetings regarding political or religious matters
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
To House Labor Committee |
| S0488 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends teacher certifications without fee or penalty for three (3) years for teachers who hold certifications as of July 1, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
To House Finance Committee |
| S0663 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires employer to furnish items and conditions of employment and a pay stub explaining how wages were calculated/reasons for deductions/allows the employee to file a court action against employer for violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
To House Labor Committee |
| S0136 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows an owner or owners of real property to execute a deed that names one or more beneficiaries who will obtain title to the property at the owner's death without the necessity of probate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0188 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires all school districts to designate an athletic trainer to be available for high school athletic practices and games.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
To House Education Committee |
| S0507 | Engross
Sine Die | Removes the requirements that all contributions be forwarded to the general treasurer to be deposited in a restricted account and distributed as prescribed in this chapter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0039 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows manufacturer-wineries to sell up to three (3) drinks of wine for on-site consumption or three (3) bottles of wine for off-site consumption or three (3) bottles of wine for off-site consumption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
To House Small Business Committee |
| S0380 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends certain election statutes to require ballot questions be written in plain language reasonably calculated to be understood by persons with middle school reading comprehension skills.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| S0530 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends RI's existing Healthcare Services Funding Plan Act by adding an account relating to a new Psychiatry Resource Network to fund RI's present PediPRN and MomsPRN, as well as similar programs which may be added by regulation in the future.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
To House Finance Committee |
| S0191 | Engross
Sine Die | Assigns additional duties to the commissioner of on postsecondary education, including preparing strategic plan for public higher education provides for equitable distribution of public funds and adopts an outcomes based model.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
To House Education Committee |
| S0276 | Engross
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Amend The Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstration Waiver Requests And Renewals (this Joint Resolution Would Approve An Amendment To Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstration Waiver Requests And Renewals.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
To House Finance Committee |
| S0821 | Engross
Sine Die | Protects bullying/psychological abuse in workplace inflicted upon employees by employers/co-employees/provides civil remedies to affected employees/fines against employers/imprisonment/fines against co-employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
To House Labor Committee |
| S0766 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits colleges and universities from withholding a student’s transcript due to the student failing to pay any expenses owed to the college or university but permits the withholding of a student’s academic credits and grades or diploma or degr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
To House Education Committee |
| S0978 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the Progreso Latino/Progreso Excellence Academy in the city of Central Falls to accept students who are not residents of Central Falls.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
To House Education Committee |
| S0403 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the declawing of cats by any surgical procedure to amputate or modify a portion of a cat's paw in order to remove the cat's claws. Does not apply to any procedure performed for a therapeutic purpose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S0946 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits disabled veterans to be issued several disabled veteran plates, permits plates to be transferred to their spouse or caretaker during the veteran's life and would allow disabled veteran plates to be issued for a commercial vehicle of any size.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-08
Senate passed Sub A |
| S0644 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the repayment period for toll violations, and requires the RI transit and bridge authority to notify frequent violators by certified mail that their driver's license may be in jeopardy for failure to pay toll violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-08
Senate passed Sub A |
| S0657 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits any agreement whereby an advanced practice registered nurse is restricted in the right to practice in a certain geographic area, assist or provide treatment or establish a professional relationship with any other employer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-07
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
