| RI | S0005 | Pass | Senate Resolution Extending Deepest Sympathy On The Passing Of Marie E. Paiva
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-10
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2551 | Pass | Defines "construction worker" and provides for wage and benefits in accordance with chapter 13 of title 37.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-02
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S2222 | Pass | Authorizes and regulate peer-to-peer car sharing programs whereby existing car owners make their motor vehicles available for other individuals to use under a peer-to-peer program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2205 | Pass | Provides a statutory framework for the licensing and regulation of genetic counselors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2773 | Pass | Enables municipalities to create tourism improvement districts to increase economic activity in the tourism industry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2841 | Pass | Establishes courses that include instruction in career and technical education programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2855 | Pass | Increases the current levy on construction costs for residential building permits to be deposited into an exempt restricted receipts account to be used for training grants, including programs for local and state building officials and minority busine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2201 | Pass | Requires health insurers, nonprofit hospital service corporations, nonprofit medical service corporations and health maintenance organizations that issue policies that provide coverage for biomarker testing on or after 1/1/23.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2411 | Pass | Requires school lunch service contracts to provide for payment to school-lunch workers and aides for one hundred eight (180) days or the length of the contract for the school year, whichever is longer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2274 | Pass | Increases the percentage of retail electricity sales from renewable energy sources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2446 | Pass | Creates the "Plastic Waste Reduction Act" designed to reduce the use of plastic bags by retail establishments by offering recyclable bag options and providing penalties for violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2548 | Pass | Establishes a special enrollment provision for pregnant women to obtain health insurance coverage at any time after the commencement of the pregnancy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2485 | Pass | Exempts retired police officers from the seventy-five (75) day rule which restricts employment for retirement purposes, when they work private details for a nongovernmental entity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2442 | Pass | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Joint Legislative Commission To Study The Governance Structure Of Rhode Island's Public Education System (creates A 10 Member Joint Commission To Study And Make Recommendations For Efficient And Effective Governanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-25
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S2596 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for a statewide voter referendum seeking approval of capital development bonds for direct funding for foundational level school housing aid and the school capital building authority fund in the amount of $300,000,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-22
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S2666 | Pass | Mandates the department of labor and training to require publicly funded workforce and training programs to supplement all paper-based credentials with verified electronic credentials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-21
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2760 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the motion picture production company tax credit to ten million dollars ($10,000,000) and cap the available total of credits to forty million dollars ($40,000,000). This act would also eliminate the sunset provision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-21
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S2893 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands Wavemaker Fellowship Program to include public school teachers, including public school teachers in the high-need fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, as well as health care professionals licensed by DOH.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-21
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S3024 | Pass | Senate Resolution Joyously Celebrating The 100th Anniversary Of The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-21
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S3054 | Pass | Senate Resolution Congratulating And Thanking Kathryn Crowley, Superintendent Of The East Providence Public Schools, On The Occasion Of Her Retirement
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-21
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2570 | Pass | Provides that special education services would include speech-language pathology services, and would not stop because a child has reached nine (9) years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-20
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2497 | Pass | Provides that trilobite be designated the state fossil.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-17
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S2136 | Pass | Creates a special motor vehicle registration plate for recipients of the United States Bronze Star Medal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-15
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2328 | Pass | 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] | 2022-06-15
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2418 | Pass | 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] | 2022-06-15
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2434 | Pass | Modernizes the Rhode Island credit card lending statute by amending the definition of “credit card plan”.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-15
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2603 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts from taxation the retail sale of breast pump products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2765 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a lead water supply replacement program for public and private service lines and requires disclosure to tenants and buyers of real property of the presence of lead service lines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-14
Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| RI | S3017 | Pass | Senate Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Paul Bucci
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-14
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S3010 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Narragansett Bay Commission to engage in public purpose projects that will have a positive impact on the economic, environmental, and social welfare of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-09
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2613 | Engross
Sine Die | Limits the accessibility of over-the-counter dietary supplements to prevent the misuse or abuse of such products and provides a conspicuously posted notice at the purchase counter of the possible side effects of the supplements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2007 | Pass | Allows voting by mail without needing an excuse/improves voter roll cleanup/allows applying for mail ballots through online system/allows nursing home residents to receive mail ballot applications automatically/codifies mail ballot drop box requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-07
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2287 | 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] | 2022-06-07
To House Education Committee |
| RI | S2475 | Engross
Sine Die | Replaces terms "mentally retarded"/"retarded" or "alcoholic"/"drug abuser" used in general laws with "intellectual and/or developmental disability" or "person with an intellectual and/or developmental disability" or "person with substance use disorde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2599 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes up to nine (9) grants to hire a community schools coordinator and establishes up to eighteen (18) grants to distribute funds for the expansion of community schools programs established pursuant to the African America history education act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2840 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that school construction projects approved after July 1, 2022, 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] | 2022-06-07
To House Education Committee |
| RI | S2370 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits questioning of a suspected juvenile offender unless a parent, guardian or attorney is present.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2991 | Pass | Senate Resolution Honoring Steven R. Detoy On The Occasion Of His Retirement After Thirty Years Of Dedicated Service With The Rhode Island Medical Society
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-02
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2282 | Engross
Sine Die | 2) (Mandates public school classroom size be limited to twenty (20) students for kindergarten through grade two (2).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2852 | Engross
Sine Die | Mandates insurance policies, provides coverage to diagnose & treat infertility for women between 25 & 42 years, including pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in conjunction with in vitro fertilization (IVF).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-26
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2963 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming May 26, 2022, As "cox Charities Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-24
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2983 | Pass | Senate Resolution Supporting William M. Davies, Jr. Career And Technical High School And Commemorating 50 Years Of Career And Technical Education In Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-24
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2137 | 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] | 2022-05-20
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2217 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates appointment of executive director of coastal resources management as an employee and respected staff of coastal resource management to coordinate with DEM and division leaders to plan management of coastal resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-20
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | S2402 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that the secretary of EOHHS, the secretary of commerce of the commerce corporation and the commissioners of elementary and secondary education and postsecondary education be appointed subject to the approval of the senate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-20
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | S2610 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides a one year moratorium on hospital conversions involving for-profit corporations as acquiree or acquiror.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-20
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2297 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an orphan and insolvent dam fund for the repair or removal of high hazard or significant hazard dams with the right of subrogation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2681 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that childcare is part of an early learning program and is an essential program supporting the state’s workforce and a strong state economy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2680 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates public, high quality pre-kindergarten education programs which are available to all children ages three (3) and four (4) throughout Rhode Island to increase children’s school readiness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2678 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the office of early childhood development and learning to manage a statewide early learning system for children from birth through age five (5), and ensure all children enter school ready to learn.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
