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• Senate Bill #81: AN ACT TO VACATE THE FORFEITURE OR REVOCATION OF THE CHARTER OF PET CONNECTION, LLC
  
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
• Senate Bill #326: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX
  Adds one new income tax bracket for purposes of state income taxation.
  • 2021-02-22: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #327: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- SUGARY DRINKS TAX
  Imposes a tax of .015 cents/per oz on the sale of bottled sugary drinks/syrups/powders from which a sugary drink may be derived with tax collected deposited into the Retail SNAP Incentive Fund effective 1/1/22.
  • 2021-02-22: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• House Bill #5052: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- COVID-19 INSURANCE RELIEF ACT
  Requires an insurer to provide business interruption coverage due to the global pandemic COVID-19.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #5105: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES - RETAIL LICENSES
  Authorizes Class B license holder to sell specified limits of wine, beer and mixed alcoholic beverages with take out orders, however, all other alcoholic beverages prohibited with sunset on 12/31/21.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
• House Bill #5147: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- GENETIC COUNSELORS LICENSING ACT
  Provides a statutory framework for the licensing and regulation of genetic counselors.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #5149: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES -- INSPECTIONS
  Authorizes the Exeter town sergeant or designees to conduct division of motor vehicles vehicle identifying number and odometer inspections.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Resolution #5176: HOUSE RESOLUTION RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND TO ADJUST PUBLIC HEALTH GUIDELINES THAT ARE HARMING RHODE ISLAND’S SMALL BUSINESS COMMUNITY
  
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #5199: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE
  Brings the Rhode Island Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Fund statute into conformance with the latest version of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Model Act.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #5200: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- INSURANCE DATA SECURITY ACT
  Adopts the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Cybersecurity Act which establishes the current cybersecurity standard for insurers doing business in this state.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #5201: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE
  Updates the long-term care insurance statute so that it is in conformance with the latest version of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners model.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #5202: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- CLAIMS ADJUSTERS
  Authorizes department of insurance, within the DBR, in lieu of passing in-state licensing examination, to recognize the competence of an applicant for an insurance claims adjuster license, through an out-of-state proctored examination.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #5203: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Permits the division of motor vehicles to suspend the registration privileges of motor carriers upon receipt of notice from the department of labor and training that the motor carrier has not secured workers' compensation insurance.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #5204: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DUTIES OF UTILITIES AND CARRIERS
  Requires every electric distribution company and natural gas distribution company to submit to the division of public utilities and carriers an emergency response plan for review and approval.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #5206: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RHODE ISLAND SMALL CELL SITING ACT
  Rhode Island Small Cell Siting Act. Permits issued by municipalities. Rules by PUC.
  • 2021-02-22: Withdrawn at sponsor's request
• House Bill #5253: AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES
  Allows the Honorable Justice James D. Gleason to join Julia C. Scott and Brandon T. Elliano in marriage on or about August 28, 2021, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2021-02-22: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (02/25/2021)
• House Bill #5255: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES - MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES - BREWERIES AND DISTILLERIES
  Modifies limitations on quantities of malt beverages and distilled spirits that can be sold at retail by certain licensed breweries and distilleries for off-premises consumption.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #5274: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- PROMPT PAYMENT BY DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION
  Amends the provisions for prompt payment of monies owed by the department of administration to their contractors or subcontractors.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #5324: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES
  Increase the amount of malt beverages that a manufacturer can sell for offsite consumption from 24 twelve-ounce and 24 sixteen-ounce (16 oz.) bottles or cans to 55 twelve-ounce (12 oz.) and 41 sixteen-ounce (16 oz.) bottles and cans respectively.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #5344: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - LAND SURVEYORS
  Grants a right of entry for licensed, professional land surveyors performing surveying services for a landowner to enter upon or cross any lands, air, space or water resource, whether publicly or privately owned, necessary to perform services.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #5345: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - TERMINATION OF SERVICE TO RESTAURANTS
  Authorizes PUC to use emergency powers to suspend all utility payments to restaurants during a state of emergency with a (36) month interest free repayment plan commencing (3) months after the emergency ends retroactive to March , 2020.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #5346: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS
  Prohibits third-party delivery services from using any likeness or intellectual property of a merchant without written consent. This act would require a third-party delivery service to register to do business in Rhode Island.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #5347: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- THE RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY
  Directs the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) to alter bus route 58 and bus route 27.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #5411: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LONG-TERM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
  Adds climate change/sea-level rise/coastal resiliency to data analysis. Changes number of members of the economic development planning council from 17 to 19 by adding the directors of environmental management and coastal resources council.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #5412: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Expands the classes of licensed vehicles eligible to obtain courtesy veterans' plates.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #5413: AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES
  Allows Christine K. Bush to join Jenny Miller and Craig Koehler in marriage on or about August 19, 2021, within the Town of Narragansett, Rhode Island.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2021-02-22: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (02/25/2021)
• House Bill #5414: AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES
  Allows William Bon Bauer to join Kaitlin Bauer and Gustazo Cabarcas in marriage on or about June 21, 2021, within the City of Providence, Rhode Island.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2021-02-22: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (02/25/2021)
• House Bill #5416: AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- JOINT COMMITTEE-- BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS
  Directs the department of transportation to install signs along the Purple Heart Trail, commemorating and identifying the Purple Heart Trail, by August 7, 2021, which day is National Purple Heart Day.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #5440: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DUTIES OF UTILITIES AND CARRIERS
  Requires electric transmission and electric distribution companies to conduct periodic equipment inspections. Such companies would also be required to submit a periodic report to the public utilities division regarding the status of such inspections.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #5442: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- TERMINATION OF SERVICE DURING PERIODS OF DECLARED EMERGENCIES
  Imposes a moratorium on the termination of utility services throughout a limited period of any emergency declared by the governor, with special provisions related to emergencies related to health epidemics.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #5481: AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES
  Allows James R. Boyd, Jr., to join Alyssa Lynn LeValley and Andrew James Fleming in marriage on or about July 23, 2021, within the City of East Providence, Rhode Island.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2021-02-22: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (02/25/2021)
• House Bill #5482: AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES
  Allows Peter Monopoli to join Gabrielle LaBrie and Lee Stamas in marriage on or about July 9, 2021, within the Town of Exeter, Rhode Island.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2021-02-22: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (02/25/2021)
• House Bill #5483: AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES
  Allows the Honorable Scott Avedisian to join Lorna M. Simpson and John V. Kelly in marriage on or about August 21, 2021, within the Town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
  • 2021-02-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2021-02-22: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (02/25/2021)
• House Bill #5636: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS-- IDENTIFICATION AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS
  Act repeals fee payment for expungements and makes eligible persons convicted of felony simple possession for expungement 5 years after completion of sentence.
  • 2021-02-22: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
• House Bill #5637: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS
  Repeals the power granted to certain municipal courts to execute search warrants to the extent the warrants could be executed by a judge of the district court.
  • 2021-02-22: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
• House Bill #5638: AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- FREEWAYS
  Exempts the operation of construction vehicles performing authorized public works functions from the prohibition on operating their vehicle in reverse on roadways.
  • 2021-02-22: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
• House Bill #5639: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Allows reciprocal concealed carry permits from out of state to be valid in Rhode Island, which is either authorized by the attorney general or subject to other reciprocal restrictions.
  • 2021-02-22: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
• House Bill #5640: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS
  Allows individuals, who have not reached the age of eighteen (18) years, to vote in a primary election, as long as the voter will be eighteen (18) as of the date of the general or special election.
  • 2021-02-22: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
• House Bill #5641: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PESTICIDE CONTROL
  Prohibits the use of neonicotinoids which are a class of insecticides.
  • 2021-02-22: Introduced, referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
• House Bill #5642: AN ACT RELATING TO FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- THE ELDER ADULT FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION PREVENTION ACT
  Requires employees of regulated financial institutions to report suspected financial exploitation of elder adults to the office of healthy aging and provide authority to the regulated financial institution to place a temporary hold on transactions.
  • 2021-02-22: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
• House Bill #5643: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- INSURERS' REHABILITATION AND LIQUIDATION ACT
  Updates a portion of the Insurance Receivership statute to the current National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) standards.
  • 2021-02-22: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
• House Bill #5644: AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW -- RESALE OF UNITS
  Allows a condominium association to impose a fee of up to one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125) for preparation of a resale certificate.
  • 2021-02-22: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
• House Resolution #5645: JOINT RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING THE LICENSING OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS
  Creates a 13 member commission to study and provide recommendations regarding the licensing of residential builders and contractors, and who would report back no later than February 9, 2022, and whose life would expire on April 9, 2022.
  • 2021-02-22: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
• House Bill #5646: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- HOUSING MAINTENANCE AND OCCUPANCY CODE
  Landlords responsible to tenants if tenants evicted due to landlord neglect and allows municipality to place lien on property.
  • 2021-02-22: Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
• House Bill #5647: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION
  Establishes a surtax on the business corporation tax for publicly traded corporations subject to SEC disclosure and reporting requirements, if corporation's ratio of compensation for its CEO to median worker is equal to or greater than 100 to 1.
  • 2021-02-22: Introduced, referred to House Finance
• House Bill #5648: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BREAST CANCER PATIENT NOTIFICATION
  Now allows for a summary of a patient's mammography report be provided to the patient by mail, electronically, or otherwise.
  • 2021-02-22: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
• House Bill #5649: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- BAIL HEARINGS
  Entitles criminal defendants charged with enumerated serious criminal offenses to a bail hearing within 14 calendar days of their initial court appearance.
  • 2021-02-22: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary