| S0539 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorize the appropriation of a sum that is sufficient to establish to provide direction and proposals to reduce racial disparity in incarceration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H6407 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Josephine Piro Raimondo
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
House read and passed |
| S0265 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates that any surplus state tax revenue received in any fiscal year would be refunded to the taxpayers of this state on a proportional basis in relation to the personal income tax liability incurred by the taxpayers in that fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H6332 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides the executive office of health and human services would submit a plan amendment to provide set rates for chiropractic services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| S0525 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires general treasurer upon request from RIDE to establish education savings account to assist remote-learning students with educational support exempt from state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H6123 | Intro
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] | 2023-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| S0817 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes all sexual abuse or exploitation of a child causes of action not subject to statute of limitations whether lapsed or time-barred.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H6408 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating The Eleanor Slater Hospital-zambarano Campus On The Recognition Of “zambarano Day” On May 16, 2023
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
House read and passed |
| S0166 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates building energy performance standards based on the size of buildings, to achieve, by way of benchmarking and reporting, a statewide analysis of energy use and strategies to increase energy efficiency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S0174 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that all sales representatives selling or leasing solar panels are licensed by the department of business regulation and that a statement be provided to homeowners setting forth pertinent information pertaining to the solar panels.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S0540 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for an annual appropriation for the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H5402 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the auditor general to oversee an audit of Medicaid programs administered by managed care organizations and submit a report of such findings within six (6) months to the general assembly and EOHHS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H5997 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the substance use and mental health prevention and treatment fund to receive the checkoff contributions from Rhode Island personal income tax returns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| S0263 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a new educational program that allows students to enroll public and private schools of their choice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H6369 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the application or removal of eyelash extensions and the use of chemicals in the area of the eyelids to the definition of the "practice of hairdressing and cosmetic therapy".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To House Corporations Committee |
| S0244 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $180,000 For The Rhode Island State Conservation Committee And Its Three Conservation Districts (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $180,000 To The Ri State Conservation Commit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0261 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a new program where the per pupil funding, calculated annually by RIDE, would be transferred into a newly created educational funding account run by the children's scholarship fund to pay for educational expenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0259 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the net taxable estate exemption to three million six hundred thousand dollars ($3,600,000) on January 1, 2024. Also increases the exemption by one million dollars ($1,000,000) on January 1 per year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H5474 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the auditor general to oversee an audit of Medicaid programs administered by managed care organizations and submit a report of such findings within six (6) months to the general assembly and EOHHS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H6002 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates the RITBA to design a safety barrier or netting system on the Mount Hope Bridge, the Claiborne Pell Bridge, and the Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge by January 1, 2024, with construction commencing no later than June 30, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H6406 | Pass | House Resolution Recognizing And Celebrating The 20th Anniversary Of The Opening Of Beacon Charter Schools In 2003
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
House read and passed |
| H5477 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires every individual or group health insurance contract effective on or after January 1, 2024, to provide coverage to the insured and the insured's spouse and dependents for all FDA-approved contraceptive drugs, devices and other products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| S1024 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming May 10th, 2023, To Be "lupus Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Senate read and passed |
| H6311 | Intro
Sine Die | Protects and continue health insurance coverage for the dependent of an employee who wishes to change their health insurance coverage to Medicare or are currently on Medicare.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| S0814 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a felony subject to a fine between $5,000 and $10,000, or imprisonment for no more than 5 years or both, on any person in a position of authority who fails to report known or suspected child abuse or neglect, child sexual assault or battery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0344 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the family court from detaining any juvenile or committing any juvenile, under the age of 14 years, to the training school, for any offense other than murder, first degree sexual assault or an attempt to commit such offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S1023 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming May 8th Through May 12th Of 2023, To Be "teacher Appreciation Week" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Senate read and passed |
| H5988 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the executive office of health and human services from entering into manage care organization (MCO) contracts that permit managed care organizations to contract with pharmacy benefit managers (PBM).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| S0273 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a compact agreement among at least two (2) states to prohibit the use of subsidies to selectively retain industry or company entice relocation from one state to another state or to open a new facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0221 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a new fund, with 50% of the collected state motor vehicle registration fees, to be administered by the director of the department of transportation, and earmarked for municipal road and bridges maintenance and construction projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H5867 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the lieutenant governor serve as the chairperson of the long-term care coordinating council and provides that a quorum of the council consist of twelve (12) members of the council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S0794 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows ALFs to provide medical/skilled nursing care services to residents in assisted living setting, as their care needs change, rather than requiring transition to a skilled nursing facility when full-time skilled services are required for the resi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H6109 | Intro
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] | 2023-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H6220 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires insurance plan chapters 18, 19, 20, and 41 of title 27 the Rhode Island medical assistance program, chapter 8 of title 40 and any contract thereto, to separately reimburse, at prevailing fee schedule, for long-acting injectable medications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| S1021 | Pass | Senate Resolution Congratulating The Eleanor Slater Hospital-zambarano Campus On The Recognition Of “zambarano Day” On May 16, 2023
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Senate read and passed |
| S0861 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides $4,000,000 to support comprehensive and effective afterschool/school vacation/summer learning/workforce development programs for students grades K-12, requires annual report to general assembly and the governor on status/progress of the prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H5561 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits an educational institution or school district from accessing or using location data for tracking a student's institutional device or personal device, except in limited circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| H5220 | Engross
Sine Die | Regulates electric bicycles in the same manner as human-powered bicycles, classify electric bicycles into three (3) classes, require all electric bicycles to have a label affixed to the bicycle and be equipped with a speedometer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0805 | Pass | Allows Gregory A. Mancini, Esq., to join Semra Beric and James Silvia-Chandley in marriage on or about October 22, 2023, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
Signed by Governor |
| H5290 | Pass | Amends the Burrillville Town Charter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
Signed by Governor |
| H5460 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the maximum number of voters that a polling place can accommodate from three thousand (3,000) to three thousand five hundred (3,500).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0110 | Pass | Amends the Burrillville Town Charter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
Signed by Governor |
| S0996 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides all retired teachers and all retired state employees a one-time stipend in the amount of 3% of the lesser of either the member's retirement allowance or the $30,000 of the member's retirement allowance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H5076 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the state to become a member of the physical therapist licensure compact adopted by twenty-five (25) states in order to facilitate the interstate practice of physical therapy with the goal of improving public access to physical therapy service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0998 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the administrator of community confinement and the home confinement coordinator in the state retirement system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H5101 | Pass | Authorizes the Town of North Providence to issue bonds and notes in an amount not exceeding $125,000,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
Signed by Governor |
| H5555 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds a new section which sets forth conditions for pharmacists to prescribe tobacco cessation drug therapies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0997 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that vacancies in excess of 3% for full time equivalent state employees which are substituted with contract employees shall require an appropriation to the pension fund equal to the average annual employer contribution for each vacant positi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H5911 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes the offense of second-degree sexual assault among the offenses to which there shall be no statute of limitations and provides for a ten (10) year statute of limitations for third-degree sexual assault.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5545 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that certain quarterly reports required to be filed by district charter schools, mayoral academies and independent charter schools be submitted to the commissioner of elementary and secondary education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Education Committee |
