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• Senate Resolution #2001: SENATE RESOLUTION HONORING SENATOR GAYLE L. GOLDIN FOR HER SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-03-14: Placed on Senate Calendar
  • 2022-03-14: Placed on House Calendar (03/19/2022)
• Senate Resolution #2002: SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF THE HONORABLE RAYMOND J. SULLIVAN, JR.
  
  • 2022-03-14: Placed on Senate Calendar
  • 2022-03-14: Placed on House Calendar (03/19/2022)
• Senate Bill #2005: AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES
  Allows Dr. Ryan Matthew Marnane to join Jessica St. John and Matthew DiCristofaro in marriage on or about January 15, 2022, within the Town of Middletown, Rhode Island.
  • 2022-01-10: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2006: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' LICENSE -- SAFE ROADS AND MANDATORY INSURANCE
  Allows the division of motor vehicles to issue driving privilege cards and driving privilege permits, to applicants unable to establish their lawful presence in the United States.
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended indefinite postponement
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-04-29: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-05-06: Referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-28: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2007: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- SECRETARY OF STATE -- LET RI VOTE ACT
  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 requirements.
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-11: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-04-13: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-04-27: Referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-05-24: Placed on House Calendar (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-25: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-05-31: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-07: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2008: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES
  Increases the per-unit fee for affordable single family homes to seventy five thousand dollars ($75,000) and allow municipalities to transfer in-lieu payments upon receipt or within ten (10) years.
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2009: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- LOW- AND MODERATE-INCOME HOUSING
  Provides for increases in the amount of foundation level school support that a community would receive, based upon a community's ability to meet and surpass its minimum low- and moderate-income housing requirements.
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2010: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES
  Increases penalties for a variety of motor vehicle offenses.
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2011: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSES -- VIOLATIONS
  Requires that the license plates of a vehicle be confiscated by a police officer if the owner was arrested for driving while their license was suspended, revoked or cancelled for refusing to submit to a chemical test or for operating under the influence.
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2012: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES
  Extends the "lookback" period for repeat offenses involving driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs under § 31-27-2 and for repeat offenses related to failure or refusal to submit to chemical tests under § 31-27-2.1 from 5 years to 10 years.
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2013: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
  Requires cities and towns to implement affordable housing requirements upon all developers of tax stabilization applications for developments of more than five (5) housing units based upon median income as defined by HUD.
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2014: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC FINANCE -- RHODE ISLAND SECURE CHOICE RETIREMENT SAVINGS PROGRAM ACT
  Establishes the Rhode Island secure choice retirement savings program as a public corporation managing IRA-type investments. Requires employers to offer the program to employees or be subject to a $250 penalty per employee.
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2015: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY
  Prohibits the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) from imposing any fares and/or charges for service provided to the general public.
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Resolution #2016: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST SYMPATHY ON THE PASSING OF MEAGHAN MCGONAGLE
  
  • 2022-01-11: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-01-18: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2017: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF GERALD J. HABERSHAW
  
  • 2022-01-11: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-01-11: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2018: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF KATHLEEN "KATHY" FLORES
  
  • 2022-01-11: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-01-11: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2019: SENATE RESOLUTION JOYOUSLY CELEBRATING THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW OF CONSTANTINOPLE
  
  • 2022-01-13: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (01/18/2022)
  • 2022-01-13: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar
  • 2022-01-25: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-01-25: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2020: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF JOHNSTON TO ISSUE NOT TO EXCEED $215,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS TO FINANCE CONSTRUCTION, ADDITIONS, RENOVATION, IMPROVEMENT, ALTERATION, REPAIR, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FACILITIES THROUGHOUT THE TOWN, PROVIDED THAT THE AUTHORIZATION SHALL BE REDUCED BY ANY GRANT RECEIVED FROM THE SCHOOL BUILDING AUTHORITY CAPITAL FUND
  Authorizes the town of Johnston to issue bonds and notes in an amount not exceeding $215,000,000 to finance construction, additions, renovation, improvement, alteration, repair, furnishing and equipping of schools and school facilities.
  • 2022-01-13: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-01-14: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/18/2022)
  • 2022-01-19: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-01-18: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-01-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-01-25: Placed on Senate Calendar
  • 2022-02-01: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-02-01: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-02-01: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-02-07: Signed by Governor
• Senate Resolution #2021: SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF JOE DOWDY
  
  • 2022-01-14: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (01/18/2022)
  • 2022-01-18: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2022: SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE CELEBRATION OF THE BIRTH OF THE REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
  
  • 2022-01-18: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-01-18: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2023: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF DANIEL E. FRAZIER
  
  • 2022-01-18: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-01-18: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2024: SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST SYMPATHY ON THE PASSING OF SHARLENE L. DAMIANI
  
  • 2022-01-18: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-01-18: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2025: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF ARMAND W. DUBOIS
  
  • 2022-01-20: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-25: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2026: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING THE WEEK OF JANUARY 23-29, 2022, TO BE "CERTIFIED REGISTERED NURSE ANESTHETISTS WEEK" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-01-25: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-01-25: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2027: SENATE RESOLUTION HONORING AND THANKING BILL WHITE ON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT
  
  • 2022-01-25: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-01-25: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2028: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO THE ALVES FAMILY ON THE PASSING OF THE HONORABLE WILLIAM L. ALVES
  
  • 2022-01-25: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-01-25: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2029: SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF RETIRED COMMANDER MICHAEL J. BABULA
  
  • 2022-01-25: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-01-25: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2030: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS -- NET NEUTRALITY
  Requires Internet service providers to follow Internet service neutrality requirements.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2031: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW - GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS - INTERNET PRIVACY AND SECURITY
  Establishes that manufacturers of devices capable of connecting to the Internet equip the devices with reasonable security features.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2032: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT
  Repeals § 16-7-34.3, reimbursement for public housing students. Adds similar language to § 16-7.2-6.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
• Senate Bill #2033: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS - SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT
  Allows a school district to conduct instruction through virtual education up to five (5) days when schools have been closed due to inclement weather, emergency or any nonscheduled school closings.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2034: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT
  Amends the method for the calculation of the permanent foundation education aid to school districts, and would make an adjustment based upon students residing in qualified low-income housing.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
• Senate Bill #2035: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- PAUL W. CROWLEY STUDENT INVESTMENT INITIATIVE
  Restructures professional development investment fund to assume duties of dissemination of curriculum materials/frameworks/assessments/development plans with annual allocation of $200 per student.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2036: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- STUDENT PRIVACY ON SCHOOL-OWNED TECHNOLOGY
  Establishes certain student privacy rights in regard to take-home technology devices from school.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
• Senate Bill #2037: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT
  Requires a review by the department of elementary and secondary education of the formula components used to compute the aid needed to support high need students.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
• Senate Bill #2038: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT
  Removes funding requirement from department of elementary and secondary education.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
• Senate Bill #2039: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE CLIMATE LITERACY ACT
  Requires RIDE to implement a plan ensuring that students enrolled in public schools become climate literate by graduation from high school.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2040: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- SEIZURE SAFE SCHOOLS ACT
  Requires the departments of elementary and secondary education and health to adopt policies/ rules/regulations for the administration of seizure rescue medications for children who have been medically identified as having epilepsy/seizure disorder.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2041: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT
  Requires that benchmarks specific to each local education authority (LEA) be developed by the department of education to improve cost controls, efficiencies and program effectiveness.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
• Senate Bill #2042: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT
  Prohibits total education aid paid to any local education agency from being reduced by more than one percent (1%) of the municipal education appropriation in the previous year.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
• Senate Bill #2043: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT) --TRAINING AND EVALUATION--EVALUATION REQUIREMENTS
  Directs the council on elementary and secondary education to implement an assessment and evaluation system that applies to both teachers and administrators and is aligned with the state's standards.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2044: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- TOXIC PACKAGING REDUCTION ACT
  Prohibits the sale or promotional distribution of any food package in Rhode Island which contains perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), effective January 1, 2024.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2045: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - ENERGY FACILITY SITING ACT
  Provides applicants/licensees for fossil fuel electricity generating facilities invest in renewable energy facilities with application denial/revocation of license for failure to comply with renewable energy requirements.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/02/2022)
  • 2022-03-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2046: AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
  Mandates that all public water providers annually test and generate a report of the level of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in their water supply.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2047: AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- PUBLIC DRINKING WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM PROTECTION
  Requires public drinking water suppliers to utilize technologies to remove PFAS from pubic drinking water supplies.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2048: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION
  Exempts reusable bags from the state sales tax.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-05: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-08: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2049: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PROHIBITION OF PFAS IN FOOD PACKAGING, CLOTHING AND CARPETING ACT
  Prohibits PFAS, a class of fluorinated organic chemicals, from being used in food packaging and requires that any carpeting/clothing manufactured or sold in this state carry a warning label. Violations are punishable by fine of $1000 for each offense.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2050: AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- DISPOSABLE FOOD SERVICE CONTAINERS
  Prohibits a covered establishment from preparing, selling, processing or providing food or beverages in or on a disposable food service container that is composed in whole or in part of polystyrene foam.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2051: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- FOUNDATION LEVEL SCHOOL SUPPORT [SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT]
  Provides districts with free and reduced lunch populations above 20% have their minimum housing aid share increased to 40% for projects completed after July 1, 2020 and school housing aid ratio increased to 5% if completed by December 30, 2027.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee heard
• Senate Bill #2052: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- COASTAL AND RIVERINE HOME PROTECTION
  Enables cities and towns to provide a tax exemption to individuals who take resiliency measures to rehabilitate their property because of flood hazards.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2053: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - AGREEMENT TO PHASE OUT CORPORATE INCENTIVES COMPACT ACT
  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.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/16/2022)
  • 2022-02-16: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2054: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES--LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION
  Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under eight thousand one hundred pounds (8,100 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2055: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY TAX RELIEF
  Defines as “disabled,” persons receiving veterans’ affairs disability benefits paid by the federal government for purposes of property tax relief.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2056: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES
  Modifies the maximum tax on qualifying low-income property from eight percent (8%) of the previous year's gross scheduled rental income to ten percent (10%) of the prospective year's gross scheduled rental income.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2057: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS
  Exempts some incapacitated public service employees who are receiving benefits from the requirement to apply for accidental disability retirement allowances under certain circumstances.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2058: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT
  Enables school teachers, state and municipal employees to retire earlier.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2059: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - VETERANS EXEMPTIONS
  Allows the town of North Smithfield town council to provide veterans' and gold star parents exemptions from real estate taxes.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-20: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2060: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES -- INTEREST CHARGES ON OVERDUE PROPERTY TAX
  Establishes a statewide limit of twelve percent (12%) per year on interest charged by cities and towns on delinquent taxes.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2061: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION
  Requires the contracting department of the department of human services or the department of administration to pilot at least one contract for professional or technical services using automatic verification software to verify hours billed under contract.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/17/2022)
  • 2022-03-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2062: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX
  Increases the state earned-income credit as of January 1, 2023, to eighteen percent (18%) of the federal earned-income credit, not to exceed the amount of state income tax.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-16: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2063: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX -- MILITARY RETIREMENT
  Excludes for the purposes of Rhode Island state income taxes, the first $25,000 of eligible military retirement income, paid by the state or federal government to persons 60 years or older received in the 2023 tax year, and thereafter.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2064: AN ACT RELATING TO MILITARY AFFAIRS -- NATIONAL GUARD
  Raises the amount of life insurance the state would provide at no charge to Rhode Island National Guard members called up for federal duty to five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000).
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2065: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - SALES AND USE TAXES - LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION
  Exempts from taxation the retail sale of cloth or disposable face masks and facial coverings.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2066: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX
  Allows a modification to federal adjusted gross income for military pension income for tax years commencing on January 1, 2023 and thereafter.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2067: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX
  Exempts from state taxation certain pension benefits that originate from, and were taxed in another state.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-16: Committee continued
  • 2022-06-18: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Bill #2068: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION
  Exempts from the sales and use tax that portion of a motor vehicle lease payment collected for tangible personal property tax, municipal property tax, excise, or any other similar tax.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2069: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES
  Updates and revises the current law on pharmacy benefit managers and prescription drug pricing including establishing maximum allowable cost limits and providing for amended administrative appeal procedures.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2070: AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- WHOLESALE PRESCRIPTION DRUG IMPORTATION PROGRAM
  Establishes the Wholesale Prescription Drug Importation Program for the importation of wholesale prescription drugs from Canada to provide savings to Rhode Island consumers.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2071: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE
  Requires insurance coverage for at minimum ninety (90) days of residential or inpatient services for mental health and/or substance use disorders for American Society of Addiction Medicine levels of care 3.1 and 3.3.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2072: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF 2004--HEALTH INSURANCE OVERSIGHT
  Requires the health insurance commissioner to adopt a uniform set of medical criteria for prior authorization and create a required form to be used by a health insurer.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-23: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Corporations
• Senate Bill #2073: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
  Raises Rhode Island Medicaid primary care payment rates to not less than federal Medicare rates for the same service.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2074: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CANCER
  Collects and disaggregates data on childhood cancer within the state’s comprehensive cancer control program.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2075: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS IN CHILDREN RELIEF FUND
  Establishes Children's Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund to provide finance assistance to families for medical expenses not covered by state or federal programs or insurance contract.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2076: AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG COST PROTECTION
  Prohibits the state, ERISA or any health plans to purchase referenced drugs for a cost higher than the referenced rate.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2077: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ALCOHOLISM
  Requires the dept of behavioral healthcare/developmental disabilities/hospitals to coordinate with the DOH to propose revisions to chapter 1.10 and 10.1 of title 23, including updates and revisions of statutory language and evidence-based best practices.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-15: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/17/2022)
  • 2022-03-17: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-23: Referred to House Health & Human Services
• Senate Bill #2078: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMPREHENSIVE DISCHARGE PLANNING
  Requires coverage for residential/inpatient mental health services for detox/stabilization/substance abuse disorders without preauthorization or be subject to concurrent review during the first 28 days.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-04: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-04-07: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-04-22: Referred to House Health & Human Services
• Senate Bill #2079: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND PATHWAYS PROJECT
  Requires the executive office of health and human services (EOHHS) to conduct a study to assess the impact of using Medicaid funds to provide coverage for the treatment of the chronically homeless.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-04: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-04-07: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-04-22: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2080: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE
  Requires individual health insurers, large group health insurers and small employer health insurers to provide coverage for ten (10) categories of essential health benefits listed in the act.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for consideration (03/17/2022)
  • 2022-03-16: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-03-17: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-03-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-03-25: Referred to House Health & Human Services
• Senate Bill #2081: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- NONPROFIT DENTAL SERVICE CORPORATIONS
  Provides that nonprofit dental service corporations shall have the power to provide for the administering and/or insuring of vision and optometric programs.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/17/2022)
  • 2022-03-16: Meeting postponed (03/17/2022)
• Senate Bill #2082: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES
  Authorizes a pharmacist to prescribe a partial refill of Schedule II controlled substances. Requires the department of health to adopt regulation conditions under which a pharmacist may prescribe drugs or devices.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2083: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE CONSUMER PROTECTION IN EYE CARE ACT
  Provides for consumer protection in eye care services by developing standards and enforcement protocols in the provision of eye care services.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/17/2022)
  • 2022-03-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2084: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES
  Increases the maximum tax for qualifying low-income housing from eight percent (8%) to ten percent (10%) of the property's previous year's gross scheduled rental income.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
• Senate Bill #2085: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD LIMITS -- COMMERCIAL VEHICLES
  Prohibits commercial vehicles from operating on Chases Lane in the town of Middletown and would provide for fines for violations.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-08: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-11: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-03-22: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-03-25: Placed on House Calendar (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-03: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-05-11: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2086: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES
  Requires insurance providers to seek recoupment or set off of insurance payments made to health care providers within twelve (12) months and requires health care providers to seek reimbursement for underpayment within twelve (12) months.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-10: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-11: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2087: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ACT
  Requires the department of environmental management to create environmental justice areas.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-16: Referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
• Senate Bill #2088: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES
  Provides a procedure for homeowners to submit to a municipal zoning board of review or municipal official or agency for a review to determine whether or not a proposed use under this chapter requires a special use permit.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-08: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-11: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-17: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2089: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BED BUGS IN RESIDENTIAL PREMISES ACT
  Spells out the responsibilities of both the landlord and tenant with respect to the inspection and treatment of bed bugs in residential premises.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2090: 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.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2091: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- CANVASSING THE LISTS OF QUALIFIED ELECTORS
  Replaces the requirement that the notice for the final canvass be posted in a newspaper and instead this act would require the notice for the final canvass to be published on the official website maintained by the city or town.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-29: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-06: Referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-05-24: Placed on House Calendar (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-25: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-31: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-08: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Resolution #2092: JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE -- REFERENDUM ON LINE ITEM VETO
  This proposed amendment to the Constitution would provide the governor with a line item veto on the budget and other bills for the appropriation of money.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2093: AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTIONS -- RHODE ISLAND COMMERCIAL RECEIVERSHIP ACT
  Creates temporary non-liquidating receivership program for businesses with substantial revenue decline after declared emergency/suspended/ceased substantial part of operation resulting by emergency police/regulatory powers.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-13: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-06-07: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-20: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2094: AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- FAMILY COURT
  Only protective orders issued against adults are to be transmitted to A.G.'s B.C.I. for inclusion in the R.O.N.C.O. system. Protective orders against juveniles will be accessible to law enforcement.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #2095: JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE, PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION -- RIGHT TO AN ADEQUATE EDUCATION
  Amends the constitution to guarantee Rhode Island residents with equal opportunity to receive an education that is adequate, equitable and meaningful and provides judicial enforcement of this provision.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-16: Referred to House State Government & Elections
• Senate Bill #2096: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT) -- DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF RACE PROHIBITED
  Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race by expanding the definition of race to include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2097: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES
  Repeals the state voter identification law.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2098: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- RHODE ISLAND SALVAGE LAW
  Eliminates the notarization requirement of various certificates filed by insurance companies.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2099: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- NOMINATION OF PARTY AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES
  Allows voters to endorse nomination of candidacy documents by mail, email, or facsimile and deliver to the candidate or board of canvassers in-person, via mail, email or facsimile.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2100: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SENTENCE OR EXECUTION
  Amends Hate Crimes Sentencing Act. Adds gender identity, expression to protected groups. Clarifies sentencing enhancements for hate crimes against victims in a protected group. Permits sentencing to community service or educational classes.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-18: Withdrawn at sponsor's request
• Senate Bill #2101: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LITTER CONTROL AND RECYCLING
  Prohibits littering upon private property owned by another person.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2102: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES -- THE HOSPITAL CONVERSIONS ACT
  Repeals health services council and expands the health services and amends several provisions relative to the review process of the hospital conversion act pertaining to maintenance of services and required disclosures.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2103: AN ACT RELATING TO AERONAUTICS -- AIRPORTS AND LANDING FIELDS
  Allows DOT to lease airport property up to 50 years for substantial improvement/building and increases RI airport corporation directors from 7 to 9 with one appointment (RIPA) and (RIGABOA).
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2104: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW--GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES
  Requires all persons or entities collecting social security and other personal identification numbers to create and publicly display a privacy protection policy. Violations of this requirement would incur a civil penalty of five-hundred dollars ($500).
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2105: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN
  Establishes a military family advocacy program to address child abuse and neglect in military families.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-29: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-06: Referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/26/2022)
  • 2022-05-26: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-31: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-07: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2106: AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES
  Allows Anne Marie Hartwell to join Lindsay Barrow and Sean Hackbarth in marriage on or about June 4, 2022, within the Town of Narragansett, Rhode Island.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-02: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-08: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-09: Referred to House Special Legislation
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-04-08: Placed on House Calendar (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-04-13: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-04-21: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2107: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PARKING FACILITIES AND PRIVILEGES -- DISABILITY PARKING
  Includes the governor’s commission on disabilities on the decision making process for the disability parking enforcement enhancement program and require an annual report be submitted to the governor’s commission.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2108: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS - LOSS OF RIGHTS BY PRISONERS
  Repeals the provision of the general laws declaring prisoners serving a life sentence civilly dead.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2109: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Includes the chief inspector and inspectors as those exempt from carrying a firearm without a permit and would define them as peace officers.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2110: AN ACT RELATING TO MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
  Limits the governor to one thirty (30) day renewal of a declaration of emergency without a joint resolution of the general assembly.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2111: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- LIABILITY INSURANCE
  Provides that if an insured has one or more motor vehicles with uninsured motorist’s coverage, the insured is permitted to collect up to the aggregate amount of coverage for all vehicles covered by the insurance policies.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2112: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LILA MANFIELD SAPINSLEY COMPASSIONATE CARE ACT
  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.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2113: AN ACT RELATING TO MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- CIVIL AIR PATROL ACT
  Authorizes state assistance to the Rhode Island wing of the Civil Air Patrol to support continued training and equipment for use by the state during times of natural disaster or emergency.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2114: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- ELECTIVE MEETINGS
  Allows local boards of canvassers discretion to substitute the physical posting in each voting district of senatorial, representative district meetings/voting district meetings for the purposes of election/publication in a newspaper local circulation.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-29: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-06: Referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-05-24: Placed on House Calendar (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-25: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-31: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-08: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2115: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- CANVASSING THE LISTS OF QUALIFIED ELECTORS
  Allows audio recordings to be taken of local boards of canvassers’ proceedings and be maintained as a permanent record of the board.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-29: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-06: Referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-20: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2116: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Authorizes the police authority making a background check of an applicant seeking to buy a firearm, to invoice the seller of any pistol, revolver, shotgun or rifle, a twenty-five dollar ($25.00) fee per non-disqualifying background check.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2117: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
  Prohibits the sale or offer for sale of any flavored electronic nicotine delivery system.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2118: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - MAIL BALLOTS
  Same as 21H-6004 Sub A as amended --Entitles disabled and military voters to utilize electronically transmitted ballots.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-06: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-20: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2119: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS
  Allows the board of elections to begin the certification of mail ballots twenty (20) days prior to election day. It also establishes a new and more comprehensive mail ballot voter signature verification process.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-11: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-04-13: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-04-27: Referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-05-24: Placed on House Calendar (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-25: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-05-31: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-07: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2120: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT
  Increases the age of children able to utilize a recorded forensic interview for cases of sexual abuse in grand jury testimony -- child assault from age fourteen (14) to age eighteen (18).
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-20: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2121: AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  Authorizes a law enforcement or animal control officer to take possession and hold an animal unlawfully confined in a motor vehicle and the officer may hold the animal for up to 72 hours pending a district court hearing.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2122: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SNOWMOBILES AND RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
  Allows driving and/or operating an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) on public lands that are designated trails for ATVs as provided in the department of environmental management regulations.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2123: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES
  Includes the general assembly elections within the category of elections subject to the risk-limiting audits within the jurisdiction of the board of elections.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2124: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES
  Prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to execute a nondisclosure agreement or non-disparagement agreement, regarding alleged violations of civil rights or criminal conduct, as a condition of employment.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2125: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Exempts full-time members of divisions of the state police, including the capitol police and the sheriff's department from the requirements of § 11-47-35.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-02: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended indefinite postponement
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2126: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING
  Prohibits insurance companies from considering the zip code of the insured or the zip code of any insured real property or the zip code where any insured property is stored or garaged in determining casualty insurance rates.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2127: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- IMPLANTATION DEVICES AS CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
  Prohibits an employer from subjecting its employees or prospective employees to the implantation of an implantation device and creates criminal penalties as well as civil damages, that may be assessed against violating employers.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2128: AN ACT RELATING TO CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS -- UNIFORM PARTNERSHIP ACT
  Repeals the current law on limited partnerships contained in chapter 13 of title 7 and replaces the repealed chapter with the Uniform Limited Partnership Act.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2129: AN ACT RELATING TO CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS -- UNIFORM LIMITED PARTNERSHIP ACT
  Repeals the current law on partnerships contained in chapter 12 of title 7 and replaces the repealed chapter with the Uniform Partnership Act.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2130: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- THE "COMMUTER TRANSPORTATION BENEFITS ACT"
  Establishes the commuter transportation benefit act. Employers with five hundred (500) or more employees provide a pre-tax transportation fringe benefit program or provide transportation to the employees.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #2131: JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE (GOVERNOR AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR TO APPEAR JOINTLY ON THE BALLOT)
  Requires submission to voters in 2022 election constitutional amendment requiring governor/lieutenant governor to run as a team in elections commencing in 2026.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2132: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES
  Holders of Class B licenses shall offer the public food during times alcoholic beverages are sold to the public.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/02/2022)
  • 2022-03-02: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-03: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-09: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-08: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-13: Placed on House Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-05-24: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-01: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2133: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES
  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.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2134: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- SMALL BUSINESSES -- ZONING ORDINANCES
  Imposes one year moratorium on enforcement of municipal ordinance or zoning requirement that penalizes owners of food service establishments/bars for modifications/alternations to their premises in response to an emergency declaration.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-02-02: Placed on Senate Calendar (02/08/2022)
  • 2022-02-08: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-02-08: Placed on House Calendar (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-02-10: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-02-16: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2135: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES -- HAPPY HOURS
  Allows licensees to offer happy hour alcoholic drink specials served in conjunction with meals.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2136: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Creates a special motor vehicle registration plate for recipients of the United States Bronze Star Medal.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-05: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-08: Referred to House Special Legislation
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-16: Signed by Governor
  • 2022-06-15: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2137: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- MILITARY SPOUSE LICENSURE
  Provides issuance of an occupational license, certificate and permit for military service members licensed in other states and relocated to Rhode Island.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-16: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-17: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House Corporations
• Senate Bill #2138: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Provides for a reduction in the minimum number of special plates to be ordered from the DMV to one hundred fifty (150) sets, upon payment of a conditionally refundable fee of three thousand dollars ($3,000).
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
• Senate Bill #2139: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES -- HAPPY HOUR
  Allows happy hour drink specials served in conjunction with meals prepared on the premises sufficient to constitute breakfast, lunch or dinner, excluding snacks.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2140: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MINIATURE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTAINER ACT OF 2022
  Creates a refundable fifty cent ($0.50) deposit for miniature alcoholic beverage containers, often referred to as "nips."
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
• Senate Bill #2141: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Minimum number of specialty registration plate sets be reduced to 150 and nonrefundable fee paid by sponsoring nonprofit entity be calculated by subtracting the actual number of sets ordered from 600 and then multiplying the remainder by sum of $22.50.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-02: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2142: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES
  Authorizes the issuance of farmer-brewery and farmer-distillery licenses to qualifying farms subject to conditions and regulations issued by the department of business regulation.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
• Senate Bill #2143: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION
  Creates an agreement to limit corporate incentives.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/16/2022)
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-02-14: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (02/16/2022)
• Senate Bill #2144: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX--DEFINITION OF CORPORATE NET INCOME
  Repeals a state corporate income tax deduction to income allowed for federal tax purposes for investment property held for at least seven (7) years.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2145: AN ACT RELATING TO CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS -- STATEWIDE REFERENDUM
  Provides for $1,000,000,000 in bonds to improve local roadways, pedestrian spaces, bikeway paths and municipal parks.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2146: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS
  Authorizes tax on private school tuition not including financial aid. Exempts $13,000 in tuition for K-12 and $25,000 for postsecondary. Requires cities to explain basis for exemption within municipality. Exempt status may be challenged.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2147: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX
  Increases the tax rates for individuals, bankruptcy estates, trusts and estates.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2148: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
  Repeals the authority of various cities and towns to provide certain tax exemption and tax stabilization agreements.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2149: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- COVID-19 PANDEMIC INSURANCE RECOVERY ACT
  Allows businesses that had an insurance policy in place for business interruption as of March 9, 2019 to recover from their insurance companies for a COVID-19 business impact.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2150: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND SANCTUARY STATE ACT
  Designates Rhode Island as a Sanctuary State, prohibits law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2151: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - PRIMARY ELECTIONS
  Requires that for all primaries, the candidates' names would be listed on the ballot, in an order chosen by lot, under the direction of the secretary of state.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2152: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS - LABOR RELATIONS ACT
  Provides for the right to strike for public sector workers in Rhode Island, including teachers, with exceptions for police officers, firefighters, 911 employees, and correctional officers.
  • 2022-01-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2153: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES -- RETAIL LICENSES
  Repeals 3/1/22 sunset provision allowing Class B/brew pub licensees to sell wine/beer/mixed drinks with food takeout orders only.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-02-02: Placed on Senate Calendar (02/08/2022)
  • 2022-02-08: Senate passed as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-02-08: Placed on House Calendar (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: House passed as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-02-10: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-02-16: Signed by Governor
• Senate Resolution #2154: CONCURRENT RESOLUTION EXTENDING POWER CONFERRED UPON THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SUBSECTION (E) OF TITLE 30, CHAPTER 15, SECTION 9 OF THE RHODE ISLAND GENERAL LAWS
  
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Scheduled for consideration (02/03/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-02-01: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-02-03: Meeting postponed (02/03/2022)
  • 2022-02-03: Scheduled for consideration (02/08/2022)
  • 2022-02-07: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-02-08: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-02-08: Placed on Senate Calendar (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-02-10: Placed on House Calendar (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-02-11: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-02-11: Signed by Governor
• Senate Resolution #2155: SENATE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING THE 8TH ANNUAL "PHYSICIAN ANESTHESIOLOGISTS WEEK" ON JANUARY 30TH THROUGH FEBRUARY 5, 2022, IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-02-01: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-02-01: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2156: SENATE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHINESE NEW YEAR "THE YEAR OF THE TIGER"
  
  • 2022-02-01: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-02-01: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2157: SENATE RESOLUTION HONORING AND THANKING DR. NICOLE ALEXANDER-SCOTT
  
  • 2022-02-01: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-02-01: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2158: SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING JANUARY OF 2022 AS "RHODE ISLAND SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-02-01: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-02-01: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2159: SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF THE HONORABLE JULIAN P. FORGUE, III
  
  • 2022-02-01: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-02-01: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2160: SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF PAUL AUDETTE
  
  • 2022-02-01: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-02-01: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2161: SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST SYMPATHY ON THE PASSING OF LYNN MARION WHITE
  
  • 2022-02-01: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-02-01: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2162: AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- REDISTRICTING OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
  Sets forth the boundaries of the voting districts for the House of Representatives and the Senate. Also sets forth the territory for the First and Second Congressional Districts in Rhode Island.
  • 2022-02-02: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/08/2022)
  • 2022-02-08: Scheduled for consideration (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-02-09: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-02-10: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-02-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-02-15: Placed on House Calendar (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-02-15: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-02-16: Signed by Governor
• Senate Resolution #2163: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 7TH THROUGH THE 14TH OF 2022, TO BE "CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT AWARENESS WEEK" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-02-08: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-02-08: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2164: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING FEBRUARY OF 2022, TO BE "CHILDREN'S DENTAL HEALTH MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-02-08: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-02-08: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2165: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF DAVID R. NARODOWY
  
  • 2022-02-08: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-02-08: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2166: AN ACT RELATING TO FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- LICENSED ACTIVITIES -- LENDERS AND LOAN BROKERS -- CHECK CASHING
  Repeals the provisions of the general laws allowing deferred deposit providers, also known as "payday lenders."
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2167: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS
  Decreases the number of OSHA training hours from three (3) hours to one hour.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-23: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-02: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-17: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-21: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2168: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- AIR POLLUTION
  Prohibits the sale of gasoline-powered leaf blowers in this state after July 1, 2023 and prohibit their use in this state after July 1, 2024. Violations would be punished by a civil fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500).
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
• Senate Bill #2169: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND CERTIFICATION STANDARDS BOARD (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 - THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT)
  Extends the time period to for all teachers to demonstrate proficiency in knowledge and practices of scientific reading and structured literary instruction from the 2023-2024 school year until the 2025-2026 school year.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-25: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Scheduled for consideration (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-22: Meeting postponed (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Resolution #2170: SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF THE HONORABLE PAUL J. HARVEY
  
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-02-08: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar
  • 2022-02-09: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-02-08: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (02/10/2022)
• Senate Bill #2171: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE -- SEPTEMBER 11 CLASSROOM MOMENT OF SILENCE
  Allows for a moment of silence in observation of September 11.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2172: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- FEDERAL AID
  Requires free lunches to be provided for all elementary and secondary students attending public schools, to the extent state and federal funds are available.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
• Senate Bill #2173: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS
  Requires that one third of all Rhode Island teachers, each year for the next 3 years, be trained in the basic emergency and response skills curriculum ("BEARS"), specifically in hand-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation/Heimlich maneuver/bleeding control.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2174: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT
  Adds to the determination of the need to support high-need students a separate and independent qualifying factor of whether the student is an English language learner as defined by the department of education's regulations.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-18: Committee transferred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee heard
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2175: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT
  Provides local education agencies (LEAs) hiring site-based specialists for reading and math to receive state reimbursement based on enrollment and specific guidelines.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
• Senate Bill #2176: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- SOCIAL SERVICES (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 --THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT)--STAFFING
  Requires all public schools, in grades kindergarten through twelve (K-12), to have at least one full-time certified school social worker for every four hundred (400) students.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2177: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- STATE DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97--THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT)
  Requires district and independent charter schools to use a random selection process to select eligible public school students who would be invited to attend the charter school and allows a parent to decline the invitation.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
• Senate Bill #2178: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RENEWABLE ENERGY STANDARD -- SOLAR ENERGY ANALYSIS
  Requires the public utilities commission to establish a docket to review and analyze solar energy development in Rhode Island.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/02/2022)
  • 2022-03-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
• Senate Bill #2179: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENERGY FACILITY SITING ACT
  Requires carbon-emissions-reduction goals be considered in energy plant siting proceedings.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/02/2022)
  • 2022-03-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2180: AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- INSPECTION OF DAMS AND RESERVOIRS -- ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY OF JOHNSON'S POND
  Provides a dedicated grant of funding to DEM, specifically to commission an environmental study for the public benefit.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2181: AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- DAM PERMITS
  Requires that any person operating or owning a dam with a storage capacity greater than one thousand four hundred (1,400) normal storage acre feet of water to obtain a permit from the director of the DEM to raise or lower the water level behind the dam.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended indefinite postponement
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-01: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-10: Referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/15/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2182: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
  Creates an income-sensitive tiered subsidy program to ensure that home energy utility costs are affordable for eligible low-income households.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2183: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX
  Allows a modification to federal adjusted gross income for military pension income for tax years commencing on January 1, 2023 and thereafter.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2184: 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.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2185: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX
  Reduces the minimum corporate tax from four hundred dollars ($400) to two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for the year beginning on January 1, 2022, and abolishes the minimum tax for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2023.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2186: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - SALES AND USE TAXES - LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION
  Eliminates the sales tax on taxi services and pet care services.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-16: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2187: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN
  Expands the Rite Track Program to provide health care coverage to children up to age nineteen (19) funded by federal funds, if available, or if not available, by state funds.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-27: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2188: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
  Allows municipalities to establish a program providing property tax exemption to active duty individuals who volunteer services as a firefighter or emergency medical technician.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2189: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- HEALTH CARE FOR FAMILIES
  Creates the "Medicaid Employer Assessment."
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2190: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - THE RHODE ISLAND QUALITY ENHANCEMENT IN AFTERSCHOOL AND OUT-OF-SCHOOL TIME ACT
  Provides funding for afterschool, summer learning and workforce development programs for students in grades K-12.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee heard
• Senate Bill #2191: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES
  Directs department of administration to promulgate regulations giving preferences in the awarding of state contracts to certain business enterprises.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2192: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY TAX RELIEF
  Increases max income level to $50,000 and max credit amount to $850 for property tax relief with annual adjustment for inflation.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Bill #2193: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RIGHTS OF NURSING HOME PATIENTS
  Requires the department of health to promulgate rules and regulations to determine whether a nursing home facility shall be granted an exception from the minimum staffing level requirements.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
• Senate Bill #2194: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES
  Medicare eligible disabled individuals under age 65 eligible for Medicare supplemental policies. Health insurance commissioner may adopt reasonable regulations and standards for Medicare supplemental policies.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2195: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- UNANTICIPATED OUT-OF-NETWORK BILLS FOR HEALTH CARE SERVICES
  Protects people with health insurance from surprise medical bills for emergency and other services by requiring a non-participating health care provider to bill an insured party only for a co-payment, or deductible.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2196: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
  Increases eligibility for the three (3) federal Medicare Savings Programs and eliminates the asset test for these programs.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2197: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND RARE DISEASE MEDICATION ACCESSIBILITY, AFFORDABILITY AND REINSURANCE ACT
  Establishes within the EOHHS a rare disease medication reinsurance program fund in consultation with an advisory council, to assure equitable financing and facilitate access to medication for rare diseases.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2198: AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT
  Expands drug awareness programs to high schools, directs funding from certain civil fines and mandates establishment of criteria for funding.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2199: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES - INSURANCE BENEFITS
  Enables adjunct faculty members eligible for state employee medical insurance.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-10: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2200: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES - MEDICAL AND CLINICAL SERVICES PROGRAMS RATE REVIEW AND RATE SETTING PROCESS ACT OF 2022
  Provides for rate setting and review for all medical programs licensed or having a contract with the state as well as Medicaid.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-13: Meeting postponed (06/16/2022)
• Senate Bill #2201: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- BIOMARKER TESTING COVERAGE
  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.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-10: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House Finance
  • 2022-05-26: Committee transferred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-06-15: Scheduled for consideration (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-17: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2202: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN
  Extends the benefits given to eligible women under title XIX state plan through the last day of the month in which their twelve-month post-partum period ends.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-15: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-27: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2203: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE
  Requires coverage for the treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections/pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome, including, but not limited to, the use of intravenous immunoglobin therapy.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-10: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-11: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-19: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub B
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub B as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub B as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2204: AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROL SUBSTANCES ACT
  Requires that professionals authorized to prescribe opioid drugs discuss addiction risks with the patient or the patient’s parent or guardian if the patient is under eighteen (18) years of age.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-04: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-04-07: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-04-22: Referred to House Health & Human Services
• Senate Bill #2205: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- GENETIC COUNSELORS LICENSING ACT
  Provides a statutory framework for the licensing and regulation of genetic counselors.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2206: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- ACCESSIBLE RESIDENCE MODIFICATIONS
  Commencing January 1, 2023, requires insurance coverage for medically necessary residence modifications that would otherwise require the patient to enter a long-term care facility.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2207: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PHARMACEUTICAL REDISTRIBUTION PROGRAM ACT
  Authorizes the creation and implementation of a Pharmaceutical Redistribution program by the department of health (DOH) and the board of pharmacy to commence operations on January 1, 2023.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-24: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2208: AN ACT RELATING TO CITIES AND TOWNS -- SEWAGE CHARGES -- TOWN OF COVENTRY
  Authorizes the town of Coventry to provide for the payment of sewer assessments in installments up to a thirty year period.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2209: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PARKING FACILITIES AND PRIVILEGES
  Requires the installation of designated electric vehicle parking spaces, with charging capabilities by certain businesses, municipalities, and housing developments in existing, new, or expanded parking lots commencing January 1, 2023.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #2210: SENATE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING THE LICENSING OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS
  Creates an 11 member commission to study and make recommendations on licensing of residential builders and contractors, and would report back by January 15, 2023, and expire on January 30, 2023.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-08: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2211: AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- MUNICIPAL ROADS AND BRIDGES MAINTENANCE AND CONSTRUCTION FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
  Establishes a new fund, with 50% of state motor vehicle registration fees, to be administered by the director of the department of transportation, for municipal road and bridges' maintenance and construction projects.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2212: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ELECTRONIC INFORMATION AND DATA PRIVACY ACT
  Requires law enforcement agencies to obtain search warrants for electronic information, data, location information and other identifying information of subscribers and customers, except in specified circumstances.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2213: AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS - THE GOOD SAMARITAN OVERDOSE PREVENTION ACT OF 2016
  Creates immunity from prosecution for medical emergencies for drug possession or delivery.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2214: AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD TENANT ACT -- HOUSING PAYMENT STABILITY ACT
  Requires landlords to complete the landlord portion of an application for federal emergency rental assistance before starting an action for eviction against a residential tenant for nonpayment of rent.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2215: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- MERIT SYSTEM
  Allows a classified employee to seek elected office provided that they resign their position upon being elected.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Resolution #2216: JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION - PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE
  This joint resolution would authorize the submission to the electors of a constitutional amendment that would allow eligible citizens to register to vote removing the requirement that the registration be completed thirty (30) days before an election.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2217: AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL
  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.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-13: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House State Government & Elections
• Senate Bill #2218: AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE - PROCEDURE GENERALLY - CAUSES OF ACTION
  Provides for a cause of action against an individual or entity that prohibits the possession of firearms on real property, except residences, by an individual that is authorized and licensed to carry a firearm.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2219: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT
  Defines any act of sexual penetration or contact perpetrated by an individual with a position of authority upon a person over the age of fourteen (14) and under the age of eighteen (18) as third degree sexual assault.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2220: AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -THE JOHNSON'S POND PROTECTION ACT
  Makes the Mill Damn Act subject to the provisions of the Freshwater Wetlands Act as it relates to Johnson's Pond in the town of Coventry.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2221: AN ACT RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- EMPLOYEE CRIMINAL RECORDS CHECK
  Requires criminal records check for all applicants for employment with BHDDH/any facility/program operated by BHDDH with routine, unsupervised with individuals/organizations employing 250 or more employees with checks every 5yrs. of continuous employment.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-13: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2222: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- PEER-TO-PEER CAR SHARING PROGRAM
  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.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2223: AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT
  Requires all property owners of rental property to file with the secretary of state notice of their name, home address, including zip code, and telephone number. The secretary of state shall comply a report of such information.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2224: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ASSAULT WEAPONS
  Bans the possession, sale, and transfer of assault weapons. Possession of assault weapons owned on the effective date of this act would be "grandfathered" subject to certain registration provisions.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #2225: JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE-LINE ITEM VETO
  This proposed amendment to the Constitution would provide the governor with a line-item veto on the budget and other bills for the appropriation of money.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2226: AN ACT RELATED TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLES
  Authorizes licensed auto body shops to sell or dispose of motor vehicles that have been abandoned and located on their premises.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2227: AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  Authorizes the potential appointment of pro bono attorneys, supervised law students and from a list maintained by the DEM to act as animal advocates in animal cruelty and abuse cases, at the court's discretion, to serve the interests of justice.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2228: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- EXPLOITATION OF ELDERS
  Changes the definition of "elder person" for purposes of exploitation of elders from a person sixty-five (65) years of age or older to a person sixty (60) years of age or older.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-02: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-08: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-09: Referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-16: Signed by Governor
  • 2022-06-15: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2229: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- TAX SALES
  Requires the dismissal of a complaint filed after the statute of limitations to set aside the final decree of a tax sale foreclosure and award defense costs. This act also establishes additional standards for abandoned and blighted properties.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2230: AN ACT RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- DEPARTMENT OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS
  Expands the deinstitutionalization subsidy aid program in the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals to include adoptive parent(s) or siblings(s) and allows them to receive a subsidy through the aid program.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2231: AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- FAMILY COURT -- EXPUNGEMENTS
  Creates a family court process to expunge a substantiated finding of child abuse or neglect by the department of children, youth and families.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #2232: SENATE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL SENATE COMMISSION TO STUDY RANKED CHOICE VOTING AND RUNOFF ELECTIONS FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND GENERAL OFFICER PRIMARIES
  This resolution creates a seven (7) member commission to study ranked choice voting for General Assembly and General Officer primaries, and would report back to the President of the Senate on or before February 1, 2023, and would expire on July 1, 2023.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Bill #2233: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - SEXUAL ASSAULT
  Establishes criteria for the criminal offense of sexual assault when the victim is in the custody of a peace officer and provides that a person convicted of custodial sexual assault would face imprisonment for not more than three (3) years.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2234: AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT
  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.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2235: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND EARLY EDUCATOR INVESTMENT ACT
  Requires the children’s cabinet, to develop a strategic plan to retain early childhood educators by creating a cross-departmental target wage scale of early educators and that of public school teaching staff or individuals with similar credentials.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-05: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-08: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2236: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION
  Requires the office of diversity, equity and opportunity (ODEO) to create, and for all state and municipal employees to receive, annual training in cultural competency. Defines "cultural competency".
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-16: Referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-03: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on House Calendar (06/15/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2237: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES
  Requires employers with 50 or more employees to pay "hazard pay" to employees involved in providing essential services during a declared public health emergency.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
• Senate Bill #2238: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES--OVERTIME WAGES
  Exempts certain executive, administrative, and professional employees from overtime pay if their weekly wages exceed one thousand thirty-six dollars ($1,036), an increase from the current two hundred dollars ($200).
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/04/2022)
  • 2022-05-04: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2239: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES
  Defines and recognize the existence and potential liability of lead entities concerning the payment of wages.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
• Senate Bill #2240: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES
  Increases the minimum hourly wage commencing January 1, 2027, by an amount equal to the total percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the Northeast Region for the calendar year 2025.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
• Senate Bill #2241: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES
  Effective January 1, 2023, increases the minimum hourly wage to fourteen dollars and fifty cents ($14.50) to sixteen dollars and seventy-five cents ($16.75) the next year, the next year to nineteen dollars ($19.00).
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
• Senate Bill #2242: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES
  Repeals § 28-12-9 of the general laws which provides that the director of labor and training may approve of wages below the minimum wage for those persons whose earning capacity is impaired due to physical or mental disability.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/11/2022)
  • 2022-05-11: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Labor
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-16: Signed by Governor
  • 2022-06-15: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2243: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- RHODE ISLAND PARENTAL AND FAMILY MEDICAL LEAVE ACT
  Increases the amount of parental or family leave available to an employee from thirteen (13) weeks to twenty-four (24) weeks in any two (2) calendar years.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-05: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-08: Referred to House Labor
• Senate Bill #2244: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES' ARBITRATION
  Establishes new factors for the interest contract arbitration board for municipal employee unions to consider in rendering a decision the board power to render an award over all negotiated matters, including the expenditure of money.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-07: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-22: Referred to House Labor
• Senate Bill #2245: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS - TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE - BENEFITS
  Increases the weekly dependency allowance for recipients of temporary disability insurance and temporary caregiver benefits from ten dollars ($10.00) to twenty dollars ($20.00).
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2246: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS - TIP PROTECTION
  Prohibits employers from receiving any portion of the tips given by customers to their tipped employees, with limited exceptions for credit card service charges.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/11/2022)
  • 2022-05-11: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-28: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2247: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ESTABLISHING AN OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
  Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to investigate, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the expenditure of public funds.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Rules, Government Ethics and Oversight
• Senate Bill #2248: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Creates a special license plate for the not for profit Atlantic Shark Institute.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2249: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- TRANSFER OF VEHICLES
  Extends from twenty (20) days to thirty (30) days, the period of time that a newly purchased motor vehicle may be temporarily operated, using the purchaser's current licenses plates.
  • 2022-02-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-13: Referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-28: Signed by Governor
• Senate Resolution #2250: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF THE HONORABLE RODNEY D. DRIVER
  
  • 2022-02-10: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar
  • 2022-02-10: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-02-15: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2251: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF TIMOTHY ALAN JACKSON
  
  • 2022-02-10: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2252: SENATE RESOLUTION HONORING NEWS REPORTER SEAN FLYNN ON HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE NEWPORT DAILY NEWS
  
  • 2022-02-10: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2253: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- VOTING DISTRICTS AND OFFICIALS POLLING PLACE CAP
  Increases the maximum number of voters that a polling place can accommodate from three thousand (3,000) to four thousand (4,000).
  • 2022-02-11: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2254: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- REGISTRATION OF VOTERS
  Allows non-affiliated party voters to vote in party primaries without becoming an affiliated party voter.
  • 2022-02-11: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2255: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- PRIMARY ELECTIONS -- GENERAL ASSEMBLY OFFICES -- RANKED CHOICE VOTING
  Establishes an instant runoff form of ranked choice voting, limited to general assembly primary elections, when there are three (3) or more candidates.
  • 2022-02-11: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2256: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - NOMINATION OF PARTY AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES
  Removes the requirement that unopposed candidates who file valid declarations of candidacy need to file nominating signatures for certification.
  • 2022-02-11: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2257: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- RESIDENCE OF INDIVIDUALS IN GOVERNMENT CUSTODY ACT
  Requires that the state use the actual residences of persons in government custody for redistricting purposes. Such information would be collected by the department of corrections and forwarded to the secretary of state, to be utilized for redistricting.
  • 2022-02-11: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2258: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- NOMINATION OF PARTY AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES -- DECLARATION OF CANDIDACY AND PRIMARY VOTES
  Sets earlier deadline from June to April for filing declaration of candidacy and nomination papers.
  • 2022-02-11: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2259: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION
  Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks weighing fourteen thousand pounds (14,000 lbs.) or less from sales and use tax.
  • 2022-02-11: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2260: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION
  Exempts from sales tax the trade-in values of motorcycles.
  • 2022-02-11: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2261: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION
  Defines light duty, non-emergency, emergency and zero-emission vehicles and requires the state to convert its fleet of vehicles to no less than fifty percent (50%) of vehicles in those categories by the year 2030.
  • 2022-02-11: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2262: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY COMPUTATION
  Exempts from sales and use taxes: burial containers, urns, urn liners, urn vaults, grave liners, grave vaults, burial liners, burial vaults, burial tent setups, and prayer cards.
  • 2022-02-11: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2263: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- STATE TAX OFFICIALS
  Changes the rate of interest for underpayments of tax to prime rate plus six percent (6%). Also limits the assessment of interest to four (4) calendar years prior to the date on which notice of the delinquent payment is sent.
  • 2022-02-11: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Bill #2264: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX
  Adds one new income tax bracket for purposes of state income taxation.
  • 2022-02-11: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2265: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX AND FRANCHISE TAX
  Refunds the minimum tax paid by corporations with annual gross income of less than four hundred dollars ($400); but caps the amount refunded at four hundred dollars ($400).
  • 2022-02-11: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2266: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES--LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION
  Exempts bicycles from sales and use tax
  • 2022-02-11: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2267: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION
  Exempts from the sales and use tax that portion of a motor vehicle lease payment collected for tangible personal property tax, municipal property tax, excise or any other similar tax.
  • 2022-02-11: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2268: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - RESIDENTS
  Phases out taxation of military pensions by 2027.
  • 2022-02-11: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee continued
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Resolution #2269: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING FEBRUARY OF 2022, AS "BLACK HISTORY MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-02-15: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-02-15: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2270: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 21 THROUGH FEBRUARY 25, 2022, TO BE "PUBLIC SCHOOLS WEEK IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND"
  
  • 2022-02-15: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-02-15: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2271: SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE 178TH ANNIVERSARY OF DOMINICAN REPUBLIC INDEPENDENCE ON FEBRUARY 27, 2022
  
  • 2022-02-15: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-02-15: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2272: SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIFE-SAVING HEROICS OF THE LATE THOMAS N. PRINSTER
  
  • 2022-02-15: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-02-15: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2273: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PERSONAL DELIVERY DEVICES
  Defines mobile carrying device as any device that transports cargo within twenty-five feet (25') of the operator and is equipped with technology that permits the operator to control the device remotely.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2274: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RENEWABLE ENERGY
  Increases the percentage of retail electricity sales from renewable energy sources.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-23: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-02: Referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/08/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Committee recommends passage of Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2275: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BARBERS AND HAIRDRESSERS
  Allows hairdressers to have apprentices. After a two (2) year apprenticeship, the apprentice would be eligible to apply for a hairdresser license pursuant to § 5-10-8.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
• Senate Bill #2276: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
  Requires that electrical distribution companies submit a time of use rate plan to the PUC setting forth high and on-demand times. The time of use rate plans are to be implemented on or before January 1, 2023.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2277: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- BLOCK ISLAND UTILITY DISTRICT ACT OF 2017
  Provides that the members of the board of the Block Island Utility Commission be reimbursed for the actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2278: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE BRIGHT TODAY SCHOLARSHIP AND OPEN ENROLLMENT EDUCATION ACT
  Establishes a new educational program that would allow students to enroll public and private schools of their choice.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
• Senate Bill #2279: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- ACCESS TO ADVANCED PLACEMENT COURSES FOR ALL STUDENTS ACT
  Establishes a process for CCRI, RIC and URI to accept for college credit an advanced placement subject test score of three (3) ("qualified") or better in an advanced placement course.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-01: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-08: Referred to House Education
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2280: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE COLLEGE CRUSADE SCHOLARSHIP
  Provides that scholarships received directly from the College Crusade Scholarship Program would not be considered financial aid pursuant to the Rhode Island Promise Scholarships.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-07: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-22: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2281: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE -- SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 - THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT
  Provides that the public schools shall be responsible for attendance data monitoring and detection of emergent truant behavior.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Education
  • 2022-06-15: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2282: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- ESTABLISHING A CLASS SIZE MAXIMUM FOR KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE TWO (2)
  Mandates public school classroom size be limited to twenty (20) students for kindergarten through grade two (2).
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2283: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS
  Requires feminine hygiene products be provided in all universities and colleges at no cost to students.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2284: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM
  Requires the RIDOE to create a model policy and timeline to assist local education agencies in implementing a dual language immersion program. This model policy and timeline to be sent to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Education
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2285: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 - THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT)
  Requires courses in family life or sex education be taught in grades 6 -12 and be appropriate for students of all races, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2286: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION
  Establishes a group to develop a tuition formula for schools sending students to technical programs.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2287: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- APPRENTICESHIP PATHWAYS TO EARNING A BACHELOR'S DEGREE ACT
  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.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-25: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-26: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Education
• Senate Bill #2288: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS
  Provides students attending public schools enrolled in grades K-12 with a students' bill of rights prohibiting discrimination based on race, sex, gender, economic status or mental, physical, developmental or sensory disabilities.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Education
• Senate Bill #2289: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT)
  Authorizes school administration to issue an out-of-school suspension if student is a threat to safety of students, teachers, or administrators; or guilty of violating school regs on alcohol, drugs or controlled substances, or weapons.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2290: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND HOPE SCHOLARSHIP ACT
  Establishes the Rhode Island hope scholarship act to provide up to the cost of two (2) years of tuition costs and mandatory fees for eligible students in hopes to increase the numbers for enrollment and graduation.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-18: Committee transferred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2291: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM
  Direct the council on elementary and secondary education to provide professional support and assistance to LEAs regarding effective ways to use data such as the LEA’s budget and demographics, school culture, and assessments to improve student performance.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2292: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - RESIDENTIAL SOLAR ENERGY DISCLOSURE AND HOMEOWNERS BILL OF RIGHTS ACT
  Grants residential purchasers of solar energy systems consumer protections related to disclosure and cancellation.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/02/2022)
  • 2022-03-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-28: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2293: AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- THE OCEAN STATE CLIMATE ADAPTION AND RESILIENCE FUND
  Imposes an adaption fee on every barrel of petroleum products and asphalt products received at a marine terminal within this state.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2294: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HURRICANE, STORM AND FLOOD STANDARDS
  Amends dam safety standards to require the state building code standards committee to take into account climate change effect on inundation areas below dams classified as high, significant, or low hazard.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/16/2022)
  • 2022-03-16: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/11/2022)
  • 2022-05-11: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2295: AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- INSPECTION OF DAMS AND RESERVOIRS
  Authorizes DEM to assess penalties for non-compliance with emergency plans for significant/ high hazard dams with DEM/EMA developing system to issue severe weather advisories/watches/warnings.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/16/2022)
  • 2022-03-16: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/11/2022)
  • 2022-05-11: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2296: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY FOR PACKAGING
  Creates the producer responsibility program requiring producers to make necessary changes to product design(s) to reduce packaging consumption and waste and assess fees based on the packaging.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2297: AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION-PROTECTION FROM UNSAFE DAMS
  Establishes an orphan and insolvent dam fund for the repair or removal of high hazard or significant hazard dams with the right of subrogation.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/16/2022)
  • 2022-03-16: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/11/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-11: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Finance
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
• Senate Bill #2298: AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- PFAS IN DRINKING WATER, GROUNDWATER AND SURFACE WATERS
  Authorizes DOH to establish maximum contaminate levels of PFSA in drinking water and to set interim standards. Also requires DEM to set standards for PFSA in ground- and surface waters. Defines PFSA as hazardous substances.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/11/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-11: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
  • 2022-06-15: Scheduled for consideration (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2299: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PESTICIDE CONTROL
  Restricts the use of neonicotinoids which are a class of insecticides.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommended indefinite postponement
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-20: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2300: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BEVERAGE CONTAINER DEPOSIT RECYCLING ACT OF 2022
  Creates a refundable ten cent ($0.10) deposit for non-reusable beverage containers. A four cent ($0.04) handling fee would be paid by distributors.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2301: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - NET METERING
  Does not limit install of net metering system based on 3 years prior, and would also credit consumer for energy not used.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2302: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS - STATE PURCHASES
  Bans state purchases of plastic bottles, bags and polystyrene. It would also require state funds to be used to lease or purchase alternative fueled vehicles and renewable energy efficient technologies for use on state property.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2303: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS - CORROSION PREVENTION AND MITIGATION WORK REQUIREMENTS
  Requires all contractors and subcontractors who perform construction, alteration, demolition, installation, repair or maintenance work, pursuant to public works contracts, to comply with industry standards for infrastructure corrosion prevention.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/11/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-11: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
  • 2022-05-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-05: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-16: Signed by Governor
  • 2022-06-15: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2304: AN ACT RELATING TO FISH AND WILDLIFE - RHODE ISLAND FREEDOM TO FISH AND MARINE CONSERVATION ACT
  Requires the department of environmental management to establish baseline shellfish harvest targets and a timeline to accomplish the restoration targets of quahog, oyster, and bay scallop populations.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2305: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR FUEL TAX
  Imposes a moratorium on the payment of the fuel tax until December 31, 2022.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2306: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- LONG-TERM CARE SERVICE AND FINANCE REFORM
  Provides Medicaid home care base rate adjustments.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #2307: JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $10,991,049 TO FUND LOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVICES
  Requires the state to contribute twenty-five percent (25%) of the municipal funding level for public library services.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Bill #2308: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - STAY INVESTED IN RI WAVEMAKER FELLOWSHIP
  Repeals the provisions of the Stay Invested in RI Wavemaker Fellowship, and establish the Stay Invested in RI Tax Credit to provide eligible taxpayers with a tax credit for educational loan repayment expenses.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2309: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE PAUL W. CROWLEY RHODE ISLAND STUDENT INVESTMENT INITIATIVE
  Provides for a one-time appropriation of $1,000,000 and an annual appropriation thereafter to Rhode Island College providing to teachers at no costs to them certification and educational programs who teach students who don't speak English.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee heard
• Senate Bill #2310: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT
  Allows for new SNAP incentives for fruits and vegetables.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Bill #2311: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- SOCIAL AND HUMAN SERVICES PROGRAMS RATE REVIEW AND RATE SETTING PROCESS ACT OF 2022
  Requires EOHHS assisted by 24 member advisory committee to provide review/recommendations for rate setting/ongoing review of social service programs licensed by state departments/agencies and Medicaid.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2312: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- FOUNDATION LEVEL SCHOOL SUPPORT
  Provides that in determining local school aid, the state would annually provide each community no less than an amount equal to the aid given in the preceding fiscal year.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2313: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
  Requires DHS to disburse $18,700,000 in $1,500 amounts total, $250 per month for 6 months as retention bonuses to direct care staff at childcare centers/licensed family providers.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2314: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - PAYMENTS TO FIRE COMPANIES
  Provides for an appropriation of state funds to cities and towns who are members of the Narragansett Bay marine task force (NBMTF) for the maintenance of boats providing services to Narragansett Bay.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2315: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
  Provides that the town of Bristol would be authorized to exempt from taxation, or otherwise enter into payment in lieu of tax agreements regarding property in the town of Bristol of qualifying nonprofit, charitable organizations.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-05: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
• Senate Bill #2316: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM
  Extends the life-time limit for RI works benefits to 60 months; increases the monthly cash benefit to 50% of the federal poverty level; increases post-secondary program participation by an additional 12 months.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee continued
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Bill #2317: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT
  Requires the RI department of human services to develop a plan to streamline the application, certification and recertification process for SNAP beneficiaries aged sixty years and over.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-03: Scheduled for consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Finance
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2318: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES
  Includes seafood landed in Rhode Island among the items that purchasing agents for state institutions are directed to purchase at prevailing market prices if available.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2319: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT
  Amends the local share of education funding to be paid to charter public schools based on a comparison of performance data between the specific school from which the student is coming and the specific charter school that will be receiving the student.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee heard
• Senate Bill #2320: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX
  Allows a deduction from federal adjusted gross income for interest payments on outstanding student loans.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2321: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE TO FINANCE A CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS THE UNFUNDED PENSION LIABILITY OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE BY THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS IN A PRINCIPAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $515,000,000
  Authorizes the city of Providence to finance a contribution towards the unfunded pension liability of the employee retirement system of the city of Providence by the issuance of bonds in the principal amount of $515,000,000.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-04: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommended indefinite postponement
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-06: Meeting postponed (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-06: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-17: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-22: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2322: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES
  Permits certain volunteer firefighters to purchase motor vehicles by utilizing state purchasing provisions.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2323: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX
  Allows volunteer firefighters who pay for their own training and equipment to receive an income tax credit.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2324: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
  Provides medical assistance coverage for medical services provided qualifying eligible recipients for community based care.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2325: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES
  Mandates that health insurance companies and Medicaid provide coverage for FDA approved COVID-19 home testing kits.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2326: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - NEUROFEEDBACK THERAPY
  Creates a two (2) year pilot program to provide insurance coverage for neurofeedback therapy for members of the military and veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and for individuals under the age of twenty-one (21).
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2327: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES
  Requires every individual or group health insurance contract effective on or after January 1, 2023, to provide coverage to the insured and the insured's spouse and dependents for all FDA-approved contraceptive drugs, devices and other products.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Meeting postponed (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-27: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-01: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-08: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2328: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICAL THERAPISTS
  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.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-16: Referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-16: Signed by Governor
  • 2022-06-15: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2329: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - PHARMACIES
  Authorizes a licensed pharmacist, who successfully completes a course on tobacco cessation therapy, to prescribe and dispense tobacco cessation drug products to a qualified patient pursuant to rules adopted by the board of pharmacy.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2330: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES
  Authorizes a pharmacist to prescribe and dispense hormonal contraceptives, provided that the pharmacist has completed a training program approved by the state board of pharmacy.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #2331: SENATE RESOLUTION URGING THE RHODE ISLAND CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION TO PRIORITIZE RACIAL JUSTICE IN HEALTHCARE AND CHAMPION THE PASSAGE OF THE MEDICARE FOR ALL ACT
  
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
• Senate Bill #2332: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COVID-19 RAPID TEST KIT AND N95 MASK PROGRAM
  Requires the DOH to institute a program for distribution of N95 masks/COVID-19 test kits to every household in Rhode Island/manual distribution to unhoused/housing insecure/homeless shelters/warming centers/harm reduction centers and health equity zones.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2333: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- PROGRAM OF ALL-INCLUSIVE CARE FOR THE ELDERLY
  Ensures that all hospitals and hospital-owned professional practices accept payment for all-inclusive elderly care which is no more than one hundred (100%) of what Medicare would pay for the same services.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2334: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- PHYSICAL THERAPY COPAY
  Limits copays, coinsurance or office deductible for services of a physical therapist to the amount authorized for the services of a primary care physician or osteopath.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2335: AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- ANIMAL CARE -- USE OF ANIMALS IN MEDICAL TRAINING
  Prohibits a medical training program from using live animals if another accredited training program in the same medical discipline does not use animals or if an alternative teaching method exists.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2336: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES -- ZONING BOARD OF REVIEW
  Authorizes the town of South Kingstown to enact a local ordinance which increases the number of alternates on their zoning board of review from two (2) to three (3).
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-08: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-11: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-05-13: Placed on House Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-17: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-05-25: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2337: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENT AND DEBT PROTECTION ACT OF 2011
  Authorizes the Rhode Island public transit authority's coordinating council to develop a pilot program to address the needs of disabled individuals whose disability prevents independent use of a fixed route system.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2338: AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS - RHODE ISLAND TURNPIKE AND BRIDGE AUTHORITY
  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 April 1, 2022, with construction commencing no later than January 1, 2023.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2339: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
  Entitles dairy farms to the exemptions from taxation granted to farmland, forestland, or open space.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2340: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- PROHIBITION OF SINGLE-FAMILY ZONING IN URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARIES ACT OF 2022
  Prohibits single-family residential zoning in municipalities with populations of over twenty-thousand (20,000) and mandate that those municipalities adopt zoning regulations for middle housing in single-family residential zones.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2341: AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- SIDEWALKS
  Requires that all maintenance of sidewalks along state highways be the responsibility of the state.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2342: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES
  Allows the town of Middletown to adopt a new the tax classification plan to provide property tax relief to its residents.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-08: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-11: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-03-22: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-03-25: Placed on House Calendar (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-10: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-05-18: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2343: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY
  Increases the number of members of the transit authority from eight (8) to ten (10) and makes the mayor of Providence or designee an ex officio member with voting privileges.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-29: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-06: Referred to House Corporations
• Senate Bill #2344: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES
  Permits a municipality, in which twelve percent (12%) of the housing in a municipality qualifies for low-income housing, to charge a tax up to ten percent (10%) of the current year's gross scheduled rental income.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
• Senate Bill #2345: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PARKING FACILITIES AND PRIVILEGES
  Requires motor vehicle parking spaces in lots with >100 spaces specifically designed for persons transporting young children under the age of 3/baby strollers except for single-family/duplex/townhouse/multifamily residences/industrial zoned properties.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-01: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-08: Referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-28: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2346: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
  Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of American Legion Riverside Post Holding Company, d/b/a American Legion Post 10, located in East Providence.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-08: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-11: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-03-22: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-03-25: Placed on House Calendar (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-04-26: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-05-04: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2347: AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF STATE ROADS
  Authorizes and empowers the department of transportation to plant pollinator-friendly species of trees, shrubs, grasses and plants.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2348: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
  Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of the Holy Rosary Band Society located in East Providence.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-08: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-11: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-03-22: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-03-25: Placed on House Calendar (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-03: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-05-11: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2349: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE HOSPITAL CONVERSIONS ACT
  Requires the transacting parties/new hospital seeking conversion to supply additional information in application for review by the DOH/DAG relating to staffing levels/pension plans/community impact.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2350: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - NOMINATION OF PARTY AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES - MAXIMUM NUMBER OF SUBMITTED NOMINATION SIGNATURES
  Limits the number of signatures that a candidate may submit for certification, to seventy-five (75) if fifty (50) signatures are required and to one hundred twenty-five (125) when one hundred (100) signatures are required.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2351: AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- FEES
  Increases the amount forwarded to Rhode Island Legal Services from court filing fees for the entry of every petition, complaint or action in district, superior and family court.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-13: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2352: AN ACT RELATING TO MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE - EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
  Provides that emergency orders and powers of the governor would only be extended upon with a joint resolution of the general assembly authorizing that extension.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2353: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS - EXPENDITURES REPORTS
  Requires all campaign schedules of contributions submitted to the board of elections expressly indicate whether the contributor is a registered lobbyist.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2354: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS
  Prohibits the mailing of any mail ballots or mail ballot applications to any voters who did not request them.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #2355: JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE -- PROCEDURE TO FILL VACANCY IN OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, ATTORNEY GENERAL OR GENERAL TREASURER
  
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-02: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-08: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-09: Referred to House State Government & Elections
• Senate Bill #2356: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- GENERAL STATE OFFICES
  Requires a special election to fill a vacancy in the office of secretary of state, attorney general or general treasurer if more than one year is left in the term of office.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-02: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-08: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-09: Referred to House State Government & Elections
• Senate Bill #2357: AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- MECHANICS' LIENS
  Provides that any arbitration award issued shall be binding and res judicata in the mechanics' lien action. The court, in its discretion, may also award reasonable attorneys' fees to the prevailing party.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended indefinite postponement
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2358: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- SELF-SERVICE STORAGE INSURANCE
  Allows for the sale of self-service storage insurance and declares that the sale, solicitation or offer of self-service storage insurance, as defined, does not require an insurance producer license.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2359: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Prohibits the sale or possession of firearm silencers unless the person complies with federal law in the sale, possession and use.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2360: AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- JOINT COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE SERVICES
  Amends the composition of the joint committee on legislative services by adding the senate majority leader to the committee.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
• Senate Bill #2361: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Provides the review and appeal process for individuals applying for a permit or license to carry with the licensing authority or attorney general.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2362: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SNOWMOBILES AND RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
  Creates misdemeanor penalties for any person driving or operating any recreational vehicle on any local highway unless specifically permitted by ordinance or exempted as a permitted crossing.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2363: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - EXPLOSIVES AND FIREWORKS
  Limits the sale of fireworks to one week prior to and including the 4th day in July, and may only be used, exploded, or cause to be exploded between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2364: AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE EDWARD O. HAWKINS AND THOMAS C. SLATER MEDICAL MARIJUANA ACT
  Expands the definition of "qualifying patient" to include any animal having a debilitating medical condition as determined by a veterinarian for purposes of a prescription for medical marijuana.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2365: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- BAIL AND RECOGNIZANCE
  Establishes procedures for the supreme/superior/district courts to establish non-monetary bail/pretrial release of detainees.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2366: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- BURGLARY AND BREAKING AND ENTERING
  Provides a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing any violent criminal offense that individual is lawfully in a place they have a right to be, and acted in self-defense and reasonable belief of harm.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2367: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GENERAL PROVISIONS
  Further delineates the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor and violation.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-29: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-06: Referred to House Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2368: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- BURGLARY AND BREAKING AND ENTERING
  Adds a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing robbery of the owner, lessor, or occupant of a motor vehicle and that the owner or occupant of the vehicle acted in self-defense.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2369: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- REGULATION OF SALES -- STATE IDENTIFICATION CARDS
  Allows the division of motor vehicles to issue a state identification card to residents unable to establish lawful presence in the United States upon proof of residence in this state and a tax identification number.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2370: AN ACT RELATING TO DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT
  Prohibits questioning of a suspected juvenile offender unless a parent, guardian or attorney is present.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-02: Referred to House Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2371: AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- MEDICAL MARIJUANA ACT
  Persons engaged in medical marijuana business to submit to criminal record check. Felon to be denied medical marijuana business license.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2372: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS -- REMOTE PARTICIPANTS
  Allows University of Rhode Island trustee members to remotely participate in meetings, without excuse, and to have them considered as the meeting quorum.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-02: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-08: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-09: Referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-03-18: Placed on House Calendar (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-03-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-03-28: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2373: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SENTENCE AND EXECUTION
  Requires the setting of bail for defendants coming before the court as alleged probation violators.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2374: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVORS BILL OF RIGHTS
  Sexual assault survivors bill of rights. Victims notified of rights, provided counselor, and may provide closed-to-public testimony.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2375: AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT
  Provides for the sealing and unsealing of court files in residential eviction proceedings.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2376: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC RECORDS - ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS
  Exempts from "public records" availability, all those documents, evidence and records of proceedings considered by the "relief from disqualifiers board and appellate courts" involving request for relief from firearm prohibitions.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2377: 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.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2378: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - WEAPONS
  Permits Rhode Island residents, twenty-one (21) years of age or older, to carry a concealed handgun, without a permit.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2379: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LAW ENFORCEMENT INTEGRITY ACT
  Specifies and restricts use of excessive physical force by peace officers and creates a civil action for constitutional rights violations as well as impose a duty to intervene on officers on scene. Requires reporting of incident information.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2380: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS' BILL OF RIGHTS
  Repeals the Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights, Chapter 42-28.6 of the General Laws, in its entirety.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2381: AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT--IMMIGRATION STATUS
  Prohibits a landlord from inquiring about the immigration status of a tenant subject to any federal laws or regulations, but may request financial information or proof of identity.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2382: AN ACT RELATING TO DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT
  Prohibits family court from detaining or committing any juvenile 14 at training school unless it is for a capital offense and the court determines that placement is for safety for juvenile and general public.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2383: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MISCELLANEOUS RULES
  Repeals the requirement that law enforcement officers issue only warnings of the risks to persons leaving a child under the age of seven (7) unattended in a motor vehicle.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2384: AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION
  Allows for the extension of child support obligations for non-custodial parents beyond emancipation if the children are attending a (2) or four (4) year college and still live with the custodial parent until such children reach the age of 21.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2385: AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE AND SALE
  Provides that fifty dollars ($50.00) of the filing fee paid to the HUD-approved agency for the mediation conference involving the mortgagee and mortgagor, shall be paid to the Rhode Island Legal Services.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2386: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BORN-ALIVE INFANT PROTECTION ACT
  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.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2387: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - CHILDREN
  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.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2388: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - WEAPONS
  Increases sentences for carrying a firearm when committing a crime of violence and for possessing a stolen firearm and requires that a person convicted of these offenses serve a period of time in which they would not be eligible for parole or probation.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2389: AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS - UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT
  Repeals Sections 5.04, 5.04.1 and 5.04.2 of title 21 chapter 28 which deal with forfeiture procedures.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #2390: SENATE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY AND REVIEW THE COST AND STATUS OF THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND OWNED, VACANT, AND ABANDONED PROPERTIES AND PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR METHODS TO MITIGATE THE ASSOCIATED EXPENSES
  Creates a 13 member commission to study and make recommendations for mitigating the associated costs for state owned vacant and abandoned property, and would report back by February 10, 2023, and expire on March 21, 2023.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-02: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-08: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2391: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS--PORTSMOUTH MUNICIPAL COURT
  Repeals the current authorization for town of Portsmouth municipal court and establishes authorization which expands the jurisdiction of Portsmouth municipal court to include a municipal housing court to adjudicate violations of the state building code.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-09: Meeting postponed (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-11: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-13: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-17: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2392: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENERGY FACILITY SITING ACT
  Increases membership from 3 to 5 members/revises siting process to mandate public/municipal participation.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2393: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Allows a person over eighteen (18) to purchase, carry, conceal, possess, use or attempt to use a stun gun for self defense. Additionally, establishes no duty to retreat when using a stun gun for self defense of the person or a third party.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2394: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- COMMISSION ON STANDARDS AND TRAINING
  Requires police officers commission on standards and training to provide training and instructions for officers and trainees to more accurately identify complaints involving persons with cognitive or communication-related disabilities.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2395: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES-DISORDERLY CONDUCT
  Makes threats of mass violence and false reports of threats to educational, religious, social institutions or civic or fraternal associations a misdemeanor.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2396: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- COLLECTION OF TAXES GENERALLY
  Prohibits the tax sale of properties when litigation is pending disputing the amount owed.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2397: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN
  Repeals the requirement that law enforcement officers issue only warnings of the risks to persons leaving a child under the age of seven (7) unattended in a motor vehicle.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-13: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-13: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2398: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE - SENTENCE AND EXECUTION
  Requires courts to consider parental status of defendant at time of sentencing/unless parent poses a significant risk to community that outweighs harm of parent’s absence from child’s life, it shall impose sentence that does not include imprisonment.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-21: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (03/24/2022)
• Senate Bill #2399: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE - BAIL AND RECOGNIZANCE
  Provides for release of misdemeanor arrestees without financial conditions, except for domestic violence or flight risk or obstruct of justice risk.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2400: AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION RESTRICTIONS ON REAL PROPERTY
  Requires conservation and preservation restrictions to be liberally interpreted in favor of the grants awarded.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-02: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-08: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-09: Referred to House Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2401: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- UNIFORM UNSWORN DECLARATION ACT
  Gives an "unsworn" declaration given under the penalty of perjury the same effect as "a sworn" declaration, and subject to the criminal penalties for perjury.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-02: Referred to House Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2402: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - DEPARTMENTS OF STATE GOVERNMENT
  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.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-13: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House State Government & Elections
• Senate Bill #2403: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Allows an individual to lawfully possess a device that would silence the sound of a natural report of a rifle or shotgun to hunt game, as long as the host rifle or shotgun is allowed.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2404: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATION OF BICYCLES
  Amends the general laws with respect to the operation of bicycles on state highways.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2405: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS THE RHODE ISLAND DEALERSHIP PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION ACT
  Excludes sale of dealership as good cause to terminate relations with dealerships/allows 5 days to cure contract deficiency/violation/vests exclusive jurisdiction in RI courts to settle any disputes.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-28: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2406: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- AUTHORITY TO FINE HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
  Amends the name of the title of chapter 5-90 to Ryan's Law.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-17: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-21: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2407: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES -- MINIMUM WAGE FOR PROVIDERS
  Requires state contracted human services providers to pay their employees a starting hourly wage, of no less than twenty-one dollars ($21.00) per hour, and to include wage incremental raises for existing employees.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/04/2022)
  • 2022-05-04: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2408: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES
  Increases the criminal penalties for wage theft and employee misclassifications.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
• Senate Bill #2409: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- ORGANIZATION OF STATE EMPLOYEES
  Requires that if state employee unions are engaged in contract negotiations and/or utilizing the dispute resolution process, all terms and conditions in the collective bargaining agreement shall continue to remain in effect.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-07: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-22: Referred to House Labor
• Senate Bill #2410: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE
  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 the other 10% be awarded to women owned businesses.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-03-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2411: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- FEDERAL AID
  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.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-03-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Finance
  • 2022-06-12: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2412: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- BUILDING SERVICE WORK
  Requires that janitors and security guards employed, pursuant to state contracts worth more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) of janitorial or security services, be paid a standard compensation rate.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-03-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-29: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-06: Referred to House Labor
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-19: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-28: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2413: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT
  Amends "Former Spouse Divorced" to include married for ten or more years and required by court order to support post divorce.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-13: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-27: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Resolution #2414: SENATE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY AND REVIEW RHODE ISLAND'S MINIMUM WAGE
  Creates an eleven (11) member special legislative study commission whose purpose it would be to study Rhode Island’s minimum wage, and who reports back to the Senate no later than May 4, 2022, and whose life would expire on January 4, 2023.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/04/2022)
  • 2022-05-04: Committee recommends passage
• Senate Bill #2415: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES - MERIT SYSTEM - TELEWORKING PROGRAM
  Requires all executive branch agencies and departments to establish and administer a teleworking program to allow their employees to work at a different location, than their ordinary principal work location.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2416: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FIREFIGHTERS' ARBITRATION
  Provides that all contractual provisions in a firefighters collective bargaining agreement would continue until a successor agreement has been reached or an interest arbitration award has been rendered.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-07: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-22: Referred to House Labor
• Senate Bill #2417: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MUNICIPAL POLICE ARBITRATION
  Extends provisions of an existing collective bargaining agreement for municipal police arbitration purposes until a successor agreement is reached or an interest arbitration award is rendered.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-07: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-22: Referred to House Labor
• Senate Bill #2418: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN
  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.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/11/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-11: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Labor
  • 2022-05-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-16: Signed by Governor
  • 2022-06-15: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2419: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES
  Exempts any proposed retailers' Class B license to be located at 4 Market Street, Plat 3, Lot 74 in the town of Warren from the two hundred feet (200') requirement from the premises of schools or places of worship.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/02/2022)
  • 2022-03-02: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-03: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-09: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-03-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-04-01: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-04-01: Placed on House Calendar (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-04-12: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-04-20: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2420: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- WINE DIRECT SHIPPER LICENSE
  Creates a wine direct license for licensed producers to directly ship limited wine to residents of RI over the age of twenty one (21).
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2421: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Authorizes the issuance of special motor vehicle registration plates for the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RISPCA).
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2422: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Authorizes the division of motor vehicles to issue special license plates in recognition of Choose Life and in support of CareNet - Rhode Island d/b/a CareNet Pregnancy Center Rhode Island.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
• Senate Resolution #2423: SENATE RESOLUTION URGING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO PURSUE A BROAD RANGE OF MEASURES TO REDUCE THE DANGER OF NUCLEAR WAR, TO SIGN AND RATIFY THE TREATY ON THE PROHIBITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS (TPNW), TO MAKE NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT THE CENTERPIECE OF OUR NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY, AND TO SPEARHEAD A GLOBAL EFFORT TO PREVENT NUCLEAR WAR
  
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-28: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2424: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Permits Dyslexia Advocacy Rhode Island plates to be issued for passenger or commercial vehicles. A minimum of six hundred (600) preordered plates would be required.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
• Senate Bill #2425: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- FALSE REPRESENTATION OF MILITARY STATUS
  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.
  • 2022-02-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-09: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-13: Referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-16: Signed by Governor
  • 2022-06-15: Signed by Governor
• Senate Resolution #2426: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF DOLORES C. FALAGUERRA
  
  • 2022-03-01: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2427: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF VICENTE "VINNY" CORREIA
  
  • 2022-03-01: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2428: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF ALBERT C. BONAMINIO JR.
  
  • 2022-03-01: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-03-01: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2429: SENATE RESOLUTION CONDEMNING THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE
  
  • 2022-03-01: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-03-01: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2430: AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE RHODE ISLAND CANNABIS ACT
  The Rhode Island Cannabis Act legalizes adult use of cannabis. It provides for licensing of cultivation, manufacture and retail sale of cannabis.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-18: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-05-24: Placed on House Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-05-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-05-25: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2431: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION BY ONLINE MARKETPLACES
  Requires high-volume third-party sellers, selling consumer goods on online marketplaces, to provide certain information to the marketplaces and disclose certain information to consumers on product listings.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2432: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS--DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES
  Amends how credit bureaus doing business in Rhode Island may disclose to inquiring users of credit reports by requiring that in addition to the social security number, the name matches the identity of the person who is the subject of the inquiry.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-06-15: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2433: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW - GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS-CONSUMER PROTECTION FROM MANDATED INDEMNIFIED (LIABILITY-FREE) PRODUCTS
  Prohibits mandating indemnified products to consumers in certain circumstances.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2434: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- CREDIT CARD LENDING
  Modernizes the Rhode Island credit card lending statute by amending the definition of “credit card plan”.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-16: Signed by Governor
  • 2022-06-15: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2435: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW--GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- INTEREST AND USURY
  Reduces the usury rate to twelve percent (12%).
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommended indefinite postponement
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2436: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- STUDENT COMPUTER DEVICE PRIVACY
  Establishes student privacy rights with institutional or personal technology devices and establishes criteria that school officials must follow to access a student's technology device and provides penalties for failure to follow the restrictions.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #2437: JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $2,000,000 TO THE RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
  Modernizes expand access and provide additional funds to adult education programs in the state, create a strategic plan for adult education establish learning, intake and assessment centers.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-05-13: Committee transferred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Bill #2438: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- RIGHTS OF STUDENTS ACT
  Creates the "Rights of Students Act" to provide protections for students and parents against discrimination on the basis of a religious viewpoint or religious expression.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
• Senate Bill #2439: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
  Amends charter school lottery admission process and provides for a detailed, weighted lottery process, with parents or guardians being able to opt-out or not have their student participate in the lottery, if they so wish.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
• Senate Bill #2440: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT -- PSYCHOLOGISTS
  Provides that the permanent foundation educational aid program would provide state funding for school-based mental health services pursuant to specified conditions.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-25: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2441: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- RIGHTS OF PARENTS AND GUARDIANS IN PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ACT
  Enables parents to review public school learning materials/object if the parent decides that the material is harmful. Also a parent may withdraw their student from the activity or class where the material is used and request an alternative assignment.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
• Senate Resolution #2442: 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 governance of pre-k through sixteen public education system, and would report back to the Senate and House by March 1, 2023, and expire on July 1, 2023.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-25: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-26: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Education
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-17: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-25: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2443: AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY - CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  Owners of animals in RISPCA custody to pay for animal's care or animal may be forfeited.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/11/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-11: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage of Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2444: AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT
  Authorizes licensed veterinarians to control and prescribe chorionic gonadotropin strictly for veterinary use and when that use is approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-23: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-17: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-21: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2445: AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY - CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  Prohibits declawing of a cat or other animal, unless a licensed veterinarian has determined that the procedure is necessary for a therapeutic purpose. Any person who violates this section would be subject to a fine of not more than $1,000.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2446: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - PLASTIC WASTE REDUCTION ACT
  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.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-05: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-08: Referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/08/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2447: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY REMEDIATION AND REUSE ACT
  Defines and provides that "per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances" (PFAS) be included within the definition of "hazardous substances" for purposes of industrial property remediation and reuse.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2448: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- ELECTRIC TRANSPORTATION ACT
  Provides for a plan and structure to transition to green energy in motor and other vehicles.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/04/2022)
  • 2022-05-04: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2449: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMPREHENSIVE PFAS BAN ACT OF 2022
  Prohibits use of PFAS in carpets, upholstered furniture, textile furnishings, apparel, cosmetics, juvenile products, cookware, firefighting foam and gives authority to the department of environmental management to regulate and the use.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #2450: JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $300,000 FROM THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT FUNDS FOR THE BLACKSTONE VALLEY TOURISM COUNCIL
  This joint resolution would authorize the appropriation of the sum of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) to the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2451: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CENTRAL FALLS BUSINESS COOPERATIVE INCUBATOR
  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.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #2452: JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $300,000 FROM THE AMERICA RESCUE PLAN ACT FUNDS FOR THE PORTSMOUTH HOUSING AUTHORITY (PHA)
  This resolution would authorize the appropriation of the sum of $300,000 to the Portsmouth Housing Authority.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2453: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM--MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICE CREDITS
  Allows members of the retirement system who served in the national guard or reserves and who qualify as veterans to purchase retirement service credits.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2454: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
  Includes the national guard in the definition of who is eligible for veterans' exemptions.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2455: AN ACT RELATING TO CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS -- RHODE ISLAND BUSINESS CORPORATION ACT
  Suspends the imposition of the minimum tax upon corporations, nonprofit corporations, and limited liability companies for the tax year in which the secretary of state certifies the entity's dissolution.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2456: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97-THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT)
  Effective January 1, 2023, the current COLA suspension schedule would be replaced with a fractional annual COLA of twenty-five percent (25%) of the COLA declared for that plan year, as it pertains to retired teachers, state and municipal employees.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2457: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT
  Provides that in local educational agencies when over 45% of the children have a family income that is at or below 185% of federal poverty guidelines then the student success factor will be 50% by the core instruction per-pupil amount.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee heard
• Senate Bill #2458: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC FINANCE -- STATE BUDGET
  Requires that the governor submit a zero-based budget to the general assembly with the zero-based budget phased in over a five (5) year period, commencing with the fiscal budget of July 1, 2023.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2459: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATE AID
  Secures general assembly appropriations in lieu of property taxes for state-owned properties within the town of Exeter.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2460: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES - MERIT SYSTEM
  Effective January 1, 2023, increase the salaries of the child advocate and the assistant child advocate for the office of the child advocate to $135,000 and $120,000 respectively.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2461: JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR FUNDING OF A NONPROFIT AGENCY, INSPIRING MINDS, INC., TO BENEFIT PROVIDENCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
  This resolution would allocate fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) from the general fund to the nonprofit agency Inspiring Minds, Inc., to train volunteers to provide personalized attention to Providence elementary school students.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #2462: JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION IN THE FISCAL YEAR 2022-2023 BUDGET TO FUND PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES (PILOT) AT THE FULL TWENTY-SEVEN PERCENT LEVEL
  This joint resolution would authorize the appropriation a sum sufficient to fund payments in lieu of taxes at the full twenty-seven percent.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2463: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- ESTATE AND TRANSFER TAXES--LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION
  Increases the net taxable estate exemption to three million six hundred thousand dollars ($3,600,000) on January 1, 2023 and increases the exemption by one million dollars ($1,000,000) on January 1 per year thereafter.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2464: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- REGISTRATION OF NURSING ASSISTANTS
  Establishes home care nursing assistants licensed by the department of health to work exclusively in home care.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2465: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HOME CARE RECOVERY AND STABILITY ACT
  Imposes new license issuance moratorium until 7/1/27 to home nursing care/home care/hospice provides with DOH planning for health systems.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2466: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT -- DENTAL INSURANCE
  Provides that dental services rendered to patients in Rhode Island shall be governed by Rhode Island law.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/17/2022)
  • 2022-03-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-08: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2467: AN ACT RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
  Establishes a core state behavioral health crisis services system, to be administered by the director of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-13: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Resolution #2468: JOINT RESOLUTION TO AMEND THE MEDICAID SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION WAIVER REQUESTS AND RENEWALS
  This joint resolution would approve an amendment the Medicaid section 1115 demonstration waiver requests and renewals.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-10: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-11: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2469: AN ACT RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
  Authorizes and directs the EOHHS to submit to the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services a state plan amendment for the purposes of establishing certified community behavioral health clinics in our state.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-23: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Health & Human Services
• Senate Bill #2470: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT
  Raises the maximum age of eligibility for pediatric palliative services from eighteen (18) to twenty-six (26) and raises the eligibility for enhanced services from age eight (8) to age twenty-six (26).
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-10: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-11: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2471: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE
  Increases the rate of reimbursement for in-network behavioral health care services below the medial commercial reimbursement rate and also Rhode Island Medicaid shall increase the rate of reimbursement.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2472: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSE LICENSURE COMPACT
  Amends the interstate nurse licensure compact and adopts an enhanced and more comprehensive version of the compact, to allow nurses to hold a multi-state license allowing them to practice across state lines without having to obtain multiple licenses.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2473: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
  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.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for hearing (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee heard
• Senate Bill #2474: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT
  Redefines the term "covered services" as used to describe applicable subscriber agreements between a health care entity and a dentist.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/17/2022)
  • 2022-03-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2475: AN ACT RELATING TO STATUTES AND STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION -- CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES
  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 disorder."
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2476: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES
  Requires health insurers, nonprofit hospital service corporations, nonprofit medical service corporations, health maintenance organizations and Rhode Island Medicaid, to issue/renew policies that provide coverage for emergency medical services transport.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate voted to recommit to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-06: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
• Senate Bill #2477: AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION - MUNICIPAL PARTNERSHIPS WITH WATER SUPPLIERS
  Requires municipalities to cooperate and forge partnerships with water suppliers, within their jurisdiction, that assist or enable water suppliers to maintain, improve, backup and safeguard their water supply.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-18: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
• Senate Resolution #2478: SENATE RESOLUTION RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING THAT THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT URGENTLY UNDERTAKES A COMPLETE AND COMPREHENSIVE INSPECTION OF ALL PUBLIC HOUSING WITHIN THEIR JURISDICTION IN THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE
  
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-12: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2479: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOBILE AND MANUFACTURED HOMES--AFFORDABLE HOUSING
  Qualifies mobile and manufactured homes as affordable housing when installed and affixed in mobile and manufactured home parks in groups of twenty (20) or more for a year or more.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2480: AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
  Provides the standards for reviewing applications for plans or work for the extension of supply or distribution mains or pipes. It also adds an appeal of a denial by a public water supply facility pursuant to the administrative procedures act § 42-35-15.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-18: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on House Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-16: Signed by Governor
  • 2022-06-15: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2481: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998
  Amends membership of the RI Housing Resources Act of 1998 Commission to exclude a representative of the insurers and replace it with a representative of a Rhode Island city or town with a population below 25,000 with a median family income of 40,000.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-06-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2482: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
  Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of the Old and Ancient Rowers Society of Rhode Island located in North Kingstown.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-05: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-11: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/26/2022)
  • 2022-05-26: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-31: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-08: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2483: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- CITY OF PAWTUCKET DOWNTOWN REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT
  Provides that portions of the city of Central Falls would be included within the Pawtucket Downtown Redevelopment Project.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2484: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES
  Increases the number of days a retired municipal employee could work in a calendar year without interruption of pension benefits to 90 days
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/16/2022)
  • 2022-03-16: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2485: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES - REEMPLOYMENT OF POLICE OFFICERS
  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.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/16/2022)
  • 2022-03-16: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/11/2022)
  • 2022-05-11: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Finance
  • 2022-06-06: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-06: Scheduled for consideration (06/08/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2486: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- DIGNITY AT WORK ACT
  Establishes the Dignity at Work Act, to provide workers with more protection from bullying and harassment in the workplace.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/11/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-11: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Labor
• Senate Bill #2487: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- ADMINISTRATION -- BOARD COMPOSITION
  Adds active firefighters and police officers or officers from their respective union to the retirement board.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/16/2022)
  • 2022-03-16: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2488: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES - EMPLOYEE RECORDS
  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.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-03-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2489: AN ACT RELATING TO CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS -- WORKERS' COOPERATIVES
  Clarifies the role of a workers' cooperative to allow it to operate as a hiring hall under certain circumstances.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-06: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-07: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-10: Referred to House Corporations
• Senate Bill #2490: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES
  Amends the hours of operation for Class A liquor license holders in Pawtucket.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for consideration (05/04/2022)
  • 2022-05-04: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-05: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-11: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/26/2022)
  • 2022-05-26: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-31: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-07: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2491: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- VIDEO LOTTERY GAMES, TABLE GAMES AND SPORTS WAGERING--THE RHODE ISLAND CONSUMER PROTECTION GAMING ACT
  Prohibits the use of facial recognition technology and biometric recognition technology in video-lottery terminals at pari-mutuel licensees in the state or in online betting applications.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2492: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES - MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES
  Authorizes manufacturer-breweries to sell up to three (3) drinks on premises per visitor per day, where a drink is defined as up to sixteen ounces (16 oz.).
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-09: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-13: Referred to House Committee on Small Business
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/26/2022)
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-20: Meeting postponed (05/26/2022)
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2493: AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS
  Provides that the corner of 496 Main Street and Joyce Street along state route 114 in the town of Warren, Rhode Island, would be known as Delekta’s Corner.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-16: Referred to House Special Legislation
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-04-01: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-04-01: Placed on House Calendar (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-04-12: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-04-20: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2494: AN ACT TO AMEND THE LANGUAGE OF THE LEASE OF THE BENEFIT STREET ARMORY BETWEEN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND THE PROVIDENCE MARINE CORPS OF ARTILLERY
  Authorizes the Department of Administration to amend lease to Providence Marine Corps of Artillery to use hall for promotion of the arsenal and to sublease the rented space.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-17: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-16: Signed by Governor
  • 2022-06-15: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2495: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES
  Exempts any proposed retailers' Class B license to be located at 163 Main Street, Westerly, RI, Map 66, Lot 11 from the two hundred feet (200') requirement from the premises of schools or places of worship.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-25: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-04-01: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-04-01: Placed on House Calendar (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-04-26: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-05-04: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2496: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - VIDEO-LOTTERY GAMES, TABLE GAMES AND SPORTS WAGERING
  Prohibited gaming patrons forfeit winnings.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-16: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-17: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-20: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2497: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE EMBLEMS
  Provides that trilobite be designated the state fossil.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-17: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House Special Legislation
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on House Calendar (06/08/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-17: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Resolution #2498: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF HOWARD JEFFREY MELISH, ESQ.
  
  • 2022-03-01: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar
  • 2022-03-02: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-01: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/08/2022)
• Senate Resolution #2499: SENATE RESOLUTION JOYOUSLY CELEBRATING THE 100TH BIRTHDAY OF MS. DORABELLE SMITH ON FEBRUARY 21, 2022, AND THANKING HER FOR HER SERVICE TO OUR NATION
  
  • 2022-03-01: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar
  • 2022-03-02: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-01: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/08/2022)
• Senate Bill #2500: AN ACT TO VACATE THE FORFEITURE OR REVOCATION OF THE CHARTER OF GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION, INC.
  
  • 2022-03-01: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar
  • 2022-03-02: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-09: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-04-01: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-04-01: Placed on House Calendar (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-04-05: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-04-13: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2501: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- FAIRNESS IN WOMEN'S SPORTS ACT
  Categorizes women by their biological identity at birth rather than their gender identity for purpose of organized sports.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2502: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN
  Increases the coverage eligibility for any pregnant person for Medicaid from an income level of 250% of the federal poverty level to 400% of the federal poverty level and provides full health insurance coverage for pregnant people.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2503: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SUSPENSION AND REVOCATION OF LICENSES--VIOLATIONS
  Reduces the civil penalty for the first and second offenses for driving without a license or driving with a suspended license, and would make a third violation a civil offense and a fourth offense a misdemeanor punishable by a fine.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended indefinite postponement
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-23: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2504: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND -- ZONING ORDINANCES
  Requires four (4) members present to conduct hearing and concurring vote of majority in attendance at planning/zoning board meetings.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-14: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-20: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2505: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES
  Allows health care facility to conduct human-subjects research on patients subject to 21 C.F.R. Pt 50 and/or 45 C.F.R. Pt 46 (relating to the informed consent of human subjects).
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2506: AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION
  Requires the department of human services, office of child support services, to provide monthly updates to all obligees of all child support enforcement efforts in cases they are involved in.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2507: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Increases the number of minimum rounds fired from one hundred (100) to three hundred (300) during the qualification and training of police officers.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2508: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- RHODE ISLAND TITLE INSURERS ACT
  Provides only licensed attorney can be title insurance agents and determine insurability/marketability. Prohibits discounted insurance premiums and fee sharing with unlicensed agents and attorneys.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-07: Meeting postponed (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2509: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- MUNICIPAL DETENTION FACILITY CORPORATIONS
  Repeals the municipal detention facility corporations and prohibit the operation of private detention facilities and private public partnerships within the state.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2510: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- AUTOMATED SCHOOL ZONE-SPEED-ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM ACT OF 2022
  Authorizes use of "automated speed enforcement system" (speed cameras) throughout the state.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-04-02: Meeting postponed (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2511: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- HOTELS
  Requires online posting of hotel rules. Allows ejection of person for verbally abusing or physically threatening a hotel employee or guest. Permits refusal of service to anyone under the age of 18, unless accompanied by an adult.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-06: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-28: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2512: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND LOBBYING REFORM ACT
  Expands the lobbying reform act to apply to persons who lobby municipal government executives and legislative bodies, as well as local fire districts.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2513: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- TOURISM AND DEVELOPMENT
  Prohibits cities, town, and municipalities from stopping an owner of a residential unit from using a hosting platform to rent the property.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2514: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT
  Establishes a commission to study the use of artificial intelligence in the decision-making process of state government.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2515: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT--PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF POLICE ROBOT TECHNOLOGY
  Prohibits on-duty/off-duty law enforcement officer from utilizing any robot/police robot dog/UAV, whether armed/unarmed, within the scope of their employment as well as police departments from purchase/procurement of any robots/UVAs/police robot dogs.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended indefinite postponement
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2516: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - PARENTS BILL OF RIGHTS ACT
  Provides for a parents' bill of rights related to the health, education and welfare of their minor children.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2517: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS
  Provides for the process of removing a deceased person from the registered voter rolls.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2518: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW--GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT RIGHT TO REPAIR ACT
  Provides that original equipment manufacturers of agricultural equipment would provide independent service providers repair information and tools to maintain and repair electronics of the agricultural equipment.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2519: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS
  Allows expungement of multiple felony convictions for non-violent felonies 20 years after sentence completed.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2520: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- "THE RHODE ISLAND INFORMED CONSENT PROTECTION ACT"
  Requires written consent by recipient or parent before vaccine and prohibits discrimination against those who don't vaccinate and fines up to $25,000 for violation. Also prohibits DCYF from investigating for failure to vaccinate.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2521: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN -- OBSCENE MATERIAL
  Prohibits the distribution, transfer, or possession of any material that depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct and is obscene and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2522: AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- REDISTRICTING ACT
  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.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2523: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Defines taser and stun gun under § 11-47-2, provides any person over the age of 18 is permitted to carry a taser without a license and use it in self-defense if they have a reasonable belief that they are in imminent fear of bodily harm.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2524: AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- WRITS, SUMMONS AND PROCESS -- CERTIFICATION OF CONSTABLES
  Establishes fines and penalties and revocation of license for constables found in violation of rules and regulations.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2525: AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY--CAUSES OF ACTION
  Provides immunity from liability for school employees whose position involves work with students for accidental injury or damage. Provides compensation for certain injuries received by school employees whose position involves work with students.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #2526: JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION COMPOSITION OF THE SENATE
  
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2527: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - STATE BUILDING CODE
  Amends the Gender Inclusive Restroom Act to have a municipality apply to the state building code standard committee for a waiver in the case of undue burden with compliance.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2528: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS -- TRAUMA INFORMED SCHOOLS ACT
  Establishes the implementation of trauma-informed practices in schools throughout the state.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-18: Meeting postponed (06/21/2022)
• Senate Resolution #2529: SENATE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY THE IMPACT OF THE TRAUMA INFLICTED ON CHILDREN WHO ARE EXPOSED TO VIOLENCE
  
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2530: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS
  Requires that only the mail ballot voter, their spouse, court appointed guardian, cohabitant, or any adult person related to the voter by blood or marriage, be allowed to physically mail the voted mail ballot.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2531: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- FEMININE HYGIENE PRODUCT DONATION ACT
  Allows feminine hygiene products to be donated by businesses to nonprofit charities.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-20: Meeting postponed (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2532: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- TRESPASS AND VANDALISM
  Removes the phrase "or deface" from the prohibited acts relative to malicious damage to public property.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2533: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- TRESPASS AND VANDALISM
  Makes vandalism punishable as a petty misdemeanor with penalties of a five hundred dollar ($500) fine and imprisonment of up to one month along with community service requirements.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2534: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THEFT, EMBEZZLEMENT, FALSE PRETENSES, AND MISAPPROPRIATION
  Allows the possession of a used catalytic converter to be used as evidence of guilt that said catalytic converter was stolen.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2535: AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT
  Modifies the summons for eviction for reasons other than nonpayment of rent with the district court, to add a certificate of service section, and provides the option to post the summons/complaint conspicuously on door of the defendant/tenant's dwelling.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2536: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES
  Specifically excludes the cultivation and processing of cannabis from the definitions of plant agriculture contained in the Rhode Island zoning enabling act.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2537: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THEFT, EMBEZZLEMENT, FALSE PRETENSES, AND MISAPPROPRIATION
  Makes possession of a used catalytic converter a felony and requires recycling service providers to maintain certain records relative to catalytic converters.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2538: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - MOTOR VEHICLE VIOLATIONS FINES COLLECTED
  Prohibits the state, municipalities, or courts from attempting to collect any motor vehicle violation fines or costs, after more than seven (7) years of the fine becoming final.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2539: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- REFUSE DISPOSAL
  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.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2540: AN ACT RELATING TO FISH AND WILDLIFE - BIRDS
  Allows the taking of any wild bird by using a crossbow in addition to the weapons spelled out in this section.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2541: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS
  Amends various laws related to firearms.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2542: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- BAIL AND RECOGNIZANCE
  Requires that whenever a person is charged with possession of a firearm with alteration of identification marks, the alteration would create a rebuttable presumption that the person is a danger to the safety of the community.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2543: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Defines suitable person and establishes reasons for applying for carry permit, establishes what information is required on applications, establishes appeal process if application denied and provides that records are not public.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2544: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS - HOISTING ENGINEERS
  Provides that public engineers and individuals utilizing equipment and performing volunteer services on land trust, conservation, or the individuals' personal property be exempt from the provisions of law relating to licensing of hoisting engineers.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2545: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES
  Requires that each child under the supervision of the department of children, youth and families be provided a team of educational advocates to ensure the child’s educational planning, progress and success.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-01: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-08: Referred to House Education
• Senate Resolution #2546: JOINT RESOLUTION RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES TO INCREASE RATES FOR EARLY INTERVENTION AND FIRST CONNECTION PROGRAMS
  Directs the executive office of health and human services to increase Medicaid rates for the Early Intervention and First Connections programs allowing for payment of competitive wages for qualified professionals.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Bill #2547: AN ACT RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- DIVISION OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
  Creates a workload study for social caseworkers II in the division of developmental disabilities within BHDDH. The study would be completed within one year and the results reported to the general assembly.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2548: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE
  Establishes a special enrollment provision for pregnant women to obtain health insurance coverage at any time after the commencement of the pregnancy.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-20: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Effective without Governor's signature
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2549: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN--EQUALITY IN ABORTION COVERAGE
  Provide fors abortion coverage in the Medicaid program and repeals the abortion coverage exclusion for state employee insurance plans.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2550: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- SOLICITATION BY CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS
  Exempts not-for-profit food banks from the registration requirements under the "solicitation by charitable organizations" statute.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-22: Meeting postponed (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-01: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-08: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-06-12: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-17: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-21: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2551: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- REBUILD RHODE ISLAND TAX CREDIT
  Defines "construction worker" and provides for wage and benefits in accordance with chapter 13 of title 37.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Finance
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage of Sub B
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub B
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: Senate passed Sub B in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-02: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2552: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY- IMMUNIZATION AGAINST COVID-19
  Mandates residents to be vaccinated for COVID-19.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
• Senate Bill #2553: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - THEFT, EMBEZZLEMENT, FALSE PRETENSES, AND MISAPPROPRIATION
  Provides for tiered and reduced penalties for the offenses of larceny, and shoplifting, classifies certain shoplifting offenses as petty misdemeanors and repeals habitual offender provisions.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2554: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES -- PROMOTION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTER AND SMART GROWTH
  Amends several sections of the Rhode Island Zoning Enabling Act of 1991 with the intent of preserving neighborhood character and promoting smart growth.
  • 2022-03-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
• Senate Resolution #2555: SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF THE HONORABLE MATTEO D. CASTIGLIEGO
  
  • 2022-03-01: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar
  • 2022-03-02: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-01: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/08/2022)
• Senate Bill #2556: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS -- TRAUMA INFORMED SCHOOLS ACT
  Establishes the implementation of trauma-informed practices in schools throughout the state.
  • 2022-03-04: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-18: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2557: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS
  Requires public bodies to offer translation services for all open meetings of said bodies.
  • 2022-03-04: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2558: AN ACT RELATING TO MAKING APPROPRIATIONS IN SUPPORT OF FY 2022
  Increases the budget amounts of the office of health and human services for other programs and restricted receipts and establishes a restricted receipts account entitled "HCBS Enhanced FMAP".
  • 2022-03-04: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2559: AN ACT RELATING TO FIDUCIARIES -- UNIFORM DIRECTED TRUST ACT
  Permits the settlor of a trust to designate a trust director who shall be a person, other than the trustee, to direct actions relative to a trust and pursuant to any power of direction.
  • 2022-03-04: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2560: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT
  Temporarily suspends the cap on the amount of days retired educators can work without penalty, suspends certain transportation of pupils requirements sunsetting at the end of 2021-2022 school year.
  • 2022-03-04: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-16: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-17: Placed on Senate Calendar (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-22: Placed on House Calendar (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-03-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-03-28: Signed by Governor
• Senate Resolution #2561: SENATE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MARCH 8, 2022, AS "INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-03-08: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-03-08: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2562: SENATE RESOLUTION RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING THE RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES TO USE ITS REGULATORY AUTHORITY TO IMMEDIATELY REDUCE FAMILY COPAYMENTS FOR THE CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
  
  • 2022-03-08: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-03-08: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2563: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF VERNA CARDENTE
  
  • 2022-03-08: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-03-08: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2564: AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES
  Allows Dr. Ryan Matthew Marnane to join Katrina Marie Holmstedt and Robert James DiMarino in marriage on or about May 7, 2022, within the Town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
  • 2022-03-08: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-16: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-17: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-23: Referred to House Special Legislation
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-04-08: Placed on House Calendar (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-04-12: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-04-20: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Resolution #2565: SENATE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING MARCH OF 2022 AS "ARTS IN THE SCHOOLS MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-03-10: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-03-10: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2566: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF CASEY J. CONTRADA
  
  • 2022-03-10: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar
  • 2022-03-10: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2567: SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING PROVIDENCE COLLEGE MEN'S BASKETBALL COACH ED COOLEY ON BEING NAMED THE BIG EAST CONFERENCE MEN'S BASKETBALL 2021-2022 COACH OF THE YEAR
  
  • 2022-03-10: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-03-10: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2568: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT
  Establishes a development program to increase and administer the adoption of broadband services for local and statewide entities, both public and private, to be funded by the spending of America Rescue Plan Act funds.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-04-28: Meeting postponed (04/28/2022)
• Senate Bill #2569: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
  Requires an electric utility company to bury power lines for all residential customers who have experienced ninety-six (96) or more consecutive hours of power outage, unless the outage was caused by the resident.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
• Senate Bill #2570: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES
  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.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Education
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/08/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-20: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2571: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE COLLEGE AND CAREER SUCCESS FOR ALL STUDENTS ACT
  Requires all high school seniors in the state to complete a federal financial aid application (FAFSA) or a Rhode Island Alternative Financial Aid Application, offered through the Community College of Rhode Island in order to graduate high school.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2572: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE
  Provides that in developing alternative-learning plans, consideration shall be given to the difficulties and interruptions students experience because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2573: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL EDUCATION OMBUD
  Establishes the RI ombud for special education who ensures school districts throughout the state meet the minimum standards required to comply with the individualized education programs for students with disabilities.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Bill #2574: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - CURRICULUM (SEE TITLE 19 CHAPTER 97 - THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT)
  Amends and revises the minimum standard for the public education system's basic education program.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2575: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - STATE AID (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 - THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT)
  Establishes a process for reporting violations relating to the nonpayment of tuition between local education agencies (LEAs) within 30 days and a process to reallocate tuition for students transferring from one LEA to another as of Feb. 1 of each year.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
• Senate Bill #2576: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
  Calls for the promulgation of rules and regulations which require public higher education institutions financially compensate students who participate in work-based learning experiences.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2577: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT)
  Increases the maximum amount of days a retired teacher and athletic coach may substitute teach from 90 days to 120 days.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2578: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS
  Mandates department of education and AG to publish data on school resource officers.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-25: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-26: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Education
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2579: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- REFUSE DISPOSAL -- FOOD WASTE BAN
  Amends § 23-18.9-17 to increase the miles of distance to thirty (30) a covered entity can be to an authorized composting facility or anaerobic digestion facility beginning January 1, 2023.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2580: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ECONOMIC AND CLIMATE RESILIENCE ACT OF 2022
  Establishes a fee on companies that sell fossil fuels in Rhode Island and establishes a fund to disburse the collected funds.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2581: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ORGANIC WASTE RECYCLING
  Requires the department of environmental management, no later than January 1, 2024, to approve and begin implementing that comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-04-03: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (04/06/2022)
• Senate Resolution #2582: SENATE RESOLUTION RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING THE RHODE ISLAND RESOURCE RECOVERY CORPORATION AND THE RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT TO CONDUCT A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF PLASTICS RECYCLING
  REQUESTS THE RHODE ISLAND RESOURCE RECOVERY CORPORATION AND THE RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT TO CONDUCT A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF PLASTICS RECYCLING
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-01: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Bill #2583: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- AFFORDABLE CLEAN ENERGY SECURITY ACT
  Amends the affordable clean energy security act and the long-term contracting standard for renewable energy.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-01: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-08: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub B
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed Sub B
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub B in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2584: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- JUST TRANSITION TO CLEAN ENERGY
  Establishes just transition office assisted by 18 member advisory committee within DLT to support displaced fossil fuel workers in transition to carbon free economy.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2585: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT- GOVERNOR'S CLEAN ENERGY WORKFORCE TRANSITION COMMISSION
  Creates the Governor’s Clean Energy Workforce Transition Commission.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-13: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-14: Meeting postponed (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
• Senate Bill #2586: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES
  Requires any request for proposal issued by the state may not be changed unless the request for proposal is cancelled and reissued as a master price agreement.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-14: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/17/2022)
  • 2022-03-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-03: Scheduled for consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-04: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-13: Referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2587: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- EDUCATION FREEDOM ACCOUNT PROGRAM
  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.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Resolution #2588: JOINT RESOLUTION RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES TO INCREASE ADULT DENTAL AND CHIROPRACTIC RATES
  Requires the EOHHS to submit to the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services a state plan amendment to Medicaid dental and chiropractic rates.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate held on desk
• Senate Bill #2589: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC FINANCE - IDENTIFICATION OF STATE PENSION FUNDS WITH MILITARY CONTRACTORS
  Requires the state investment commission to identify pension fund investments in military weapon manufacturers whether held directly and indirectly.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2590: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- FOUNDATION LEVEL SCHOOL SUPPORT (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT)
  Extends the date of commencement of construction projects for health and safety deficiencies and educational enhancement to December 30, 2023.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee heard
• Senate Bill #2591: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PROMISE SCHOLARSHIP
  Expands the Rhode Island promise scholarship program to include students at Rhode Island college as well as students with medical, personal leave, military obligations or disabilities.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2592: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HARD-HIT LIQUIDITY PROGRAM ACT
  Establishes the “Rhode Island Hard-Hit Emergency Liquidity Program Act” to provide up to twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) to businesses adversely affected by the Coronavirus pandemic by providing aid for drop in sales.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2593: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX
  Adds one new income tax bracket for purposes of Rhode Island state income taxation. The new bracket would be a rate of ten and ninety-nine one-hundredths percent (10.99%) on taxable income over four hundred thousand five hundred dollars ($400,500).
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2594: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PRECEPTORS TAX CREDIT ACT
  Allows for a tax credit of $500 for certain nurse practitioners or physicians.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2595: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- STATE TAX OFFICIALS
  Requires the tax administrator to provide to the general assembly data regarding immigrant taxpayers’ tax filings for two (2) tax years, and reports its findings to the general assembly.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/17/2022)
  • 2022-03-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2596: AN ACT CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FOR EDUCATION -- STATEWIDE REFERENDUM
  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.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee continued
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Bill #2597: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
  Establishes the Katie Beckett Program pursuant to federal guidelines.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2598: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
  Increases the daily rate of payments to nursing facilities by twenty percent (20%) for single occupancy rooms to include private bathrooms.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2599: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT
  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.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2600: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
  Places limitations on the tax-exempt real and personal property a nonprofit college, university or hospital may hold.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2601: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES
  Establishes review requirements for request for proposals by chief purchasing officer with duty to ensure no conflicts or appearance of conflicts of interest exist between members of technology evaluation committee/state.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/17/2022)
  • 2022-03-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-03: Scheduled for consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-13: Referred to House State Government & Elections
• Senate Bill #2602: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM
  Exempts the receipt of child support from being treated as earned income for purposes of Rhode Island Children Works' Program benefits.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2603: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES--LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION
  Exempts from taxation the retail sale of breast pump products.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2604: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- HISTORIC PRESERVATION TAX CREDITS 2013
  Extends the expiration of the Historic Preservation Tax Credits program from June 30, 2022 to June 30, 2023.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee continued
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
• Senate Bill #2605: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PSYCHOLOGY INTERJURISDICTIONAL COMPACT
  Authorizes governor to enter into Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact and designates office to administer compact. Creates interstate agreement that allows limited telepsychological practice to be conducted across state lines among member states.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-10: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on House Calendar (06/15/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-16: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-21: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2606: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT
  Creates the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact allowing physicians to become licensed in multiple states and practice under the jurisdiction of the state in which the patient is located.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-18: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-11: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for reconsideration
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for reconsideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-19: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2607: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS
  Changes the definition of collaboration for physician assistants/increases continuing education to 50 hours/adds licensed nurse practitioners and physician assistants to the School and Youth concussion act.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2608: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES
  Limits the copayment or coinsurance requirement on specialty drugs to one hundred fifty dollars ($150) for a thirty (30)-day supply.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2609: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BOARD OF MEDICAL LICENSURE AND DISCIPLINE
  Prohibits the board of medical licensure and discipline from requiring specialty board certification as a condition of licensure and prohibits the denial of reimbursement for refusal to participate in national board certification program.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2610: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE HOSPITAL CONVERSION ACT
  Provides a one year moratorium on hospital conversions involving for-profit corporations as acquiree or acquiror.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-10: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-11: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House Corporations
• Senate Bill #2611: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- OPIOID ALTERNATIVES
  DOH to develop and publish opioid alternative pamphlet.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2612: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT
  Establishes a program within the adult correctional institution to permit medication assisted treatment approved by the FDA for the treatment of a substance abuse disorder to any individual incarcerated.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-27: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-31: Meeting postponed (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-07: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-10: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2613: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN
  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.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-10: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-11: Meeting postponed (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-16: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-18: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-08: Referred to House Health & Human Services
• Senate Bill #2614: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE
  Establishes a plan to improve the promotion of social and emotional well-being of young children as well as screening, assessment, diagnosis and treatment of mental health challenges of infants and young children under the age of six (6).
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-18: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2615: AN ACT RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- INTELLECTUAL/DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES OMBUDSPERSON ACT OF 2022
  Creates an intellectual/developmental disabilities ombudsperson program.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2616: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELORS AND MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS
  Creates entry-level licensing program to allow applicants as a mental health counselor assoc. or a marriage/family therapist assoc. to practice under supervision prior to becoming a licensed mental health counselor or a licensed marriage/family therapist.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/17/2022)
  • 2022-03-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-16: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-18: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on House Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-17: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-17: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2617: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- LICENSE PROCEDURE FOR SOCIAL WORKERS
  Mandates that an applicant for a license as a licensed clinical social worker not be required to take or pass a standardized written examination in order to qualify for the license.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-21: Scheduled for consideration (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-23: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-24: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2618: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES - MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
  For purposes of rates of payment to nursing facilities under the "Medical Assistance" chapter, adjust the elements to be developed by the executive office in determining Medicaid payment methods to nursing facilities.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2619: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- CONTROL OF HIGH PRESCRIPTION COSTS -- REGULATION OF PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGERS
  Regulates PBMs policies and practices relating to accurate costs and pricing reporting, restricts discriminatory practices and establishes consumer protections and enforcement of penalties for violations by the office of the attorney general.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2620: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ASSISTED LIVING RESIDENCE LICENSING ACT
  Requires department of health to establish an informal dispute resolution to address any changes to department of health violations.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2621: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998
  Changes the affordable housing eligibility standards for households in New Shoreham with gross household income of less than one hundred and forty percent (140%) of area median income.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-18: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2622: AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE ACT
  Grants a right-of-first-refusal to qualified nonprofits for the purchase of certain multifamily properties.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2623: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES
  Eliminates the restrictions on accessory dwelling units and allows for accessory apartments and affordable accessory apartments as a matter of right.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-04: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended indefinite postponement
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Meeting postponed (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2624: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES
  Provides the authority to the assessor of the town of Cumberland to apply a tax classification system for real estate and personal property.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-25: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-04-25: Scheduled for consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-29: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-06: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-23: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2625: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RHODE ISLAND PAIN-CAPABLE UNBORN CHILD PROTECTION ACT
  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.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2626: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES
  Requires health care facilities that perform abortions to meet the license requirements of similar health care facilities and allows the department of health to conduct unannounced inspections.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2627: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- REGISTRATION OF VOTERS
  Increases role of the DMV in the voter registration/address verification process, by imposing specific/comprehensive obligations. Protects from disclosure to federal government, any documents produced, pursuant to these new voter registration procedures.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended indefinite postponement
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2628: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Permits the city of Warwick to prohibit the sale of firearms within five hundred feet (500 ft.) of any school or daycare facility.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-30: Meeting postponed (03/31/2022)
• Senate Bill #2629: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Mandates that police officers qualify in the use of firearms in both daylight and nighttime conditions two (2) times per year and that correctional officers qualify every year instead of once every two (2) years.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2630: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Mandates that police officers qualify in the use of firearms two (2) times per year instead of one time annually.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2631: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RESTRICTIVE HOUSING AT CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES ACT
  Establishes for DOC conditions and procedures for use of restrictive housing/disciplinary and administrative confinement and protective custody with annual reporting required.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2632: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Provides that a prepaid special motor vehicle registration plate order will be processed if the plate sponsoring nonprofit entity makes a nonrefundable payment of $13,500 to the state.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2633: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- PAROLE
  Provides that prisoners who committed offenses prior to age 18 and sentenced as adults be eligible for parole after completing 15 yrs of sentence. Would not lengthen their parole eligibility should the prisoner be eligible for parole earlier than 15 yrs.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2634: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE GREEN JUSTICE ZONE ACT
  Establishes the first Green Justice Zone, a model that may be replicated in future years to ensure that all communities throughout the state have clean air and clean water.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2635: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS--VOTING
  Makes it easier for eligible incarcerated inmates to vote and creates the title of a "jail voting coordinator" within the department of corrections to help facilitate inmate voting from start to finish.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2636: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES
  Requires towns and cities to allow tiny homes to be used as an accessory dwelling and excludes tiny homes from affordable housing.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2637: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Increases the age from eighteen (18) to twenty-one (21) years for lawful sale of firearms or ammunition. Exempts full-time law enforcement, state marshals and members of the U.S. military from these prohibitions.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-07: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-13: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-14: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-17: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-21: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2638: AN ACT RELATING TO MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- RHODE ISLAND VETERANS' HOME
  Provides any present or past resident with service-connected disabilities overcharged, during their residency from January 1, 2007 to January 1, 2021.
  • 2022-03-10: Placed on Senate Calendar
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2639: AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- ADOPTION OF CHILDREN
  Requires family court and/or DCYF to provide child who is subject of a DCYF neglect or abuse petition or termination of parental rights or an adoption based on parental neglect or abuse, a mental health referral based on the individual needs of the child.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2640: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES
  Prohibits the department of business regulation from substituting judgment made by local boards and authorities unless not improper, clearly erroneous, or otherwise arbitrary or capricious.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2641: AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- FAIR CHANCE IN HOUSING ACT
  Limits the use of certain criminal records and credit history reports in denying housing to prospective applicants, provides fines for failure to comply and requires notice of denials be sent to the prospective tenants.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2642: AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION
  Grants to great-grandparents the right to file a petition in family court seeking visitation rights with their great-grandchildren, under certain circumstances.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2643: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- HOMICIDE
  Abolishes penalty of life without parole and amends/repeals all sections of general laws regulating prisoners serving a sentence of life without parole. It would have prospective and retroactive effect for any offense committed after January 1, 1991.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2644: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES
  Amends current law so that the choice to pay a fee in lieu of construction or provision of affordable housing, would no longer be left to the discretion of the developer but would be determined by the city or town where the development is located.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2645: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- FILING OF ASSUMED NAME
  Requires individuals transacting business in RI under any assumed name to file in person, by mail, or electronically with the office of the city or town clerk the true or real full name(s) of the person(s) transacting business and their email address.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-28: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2646: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- TRADE IN ANIMAL FUR PRODUCTS ACT
  Prohibits the sale, offer of sale, trade or distribution of fur products as defined and would make violations punishable by a civil fine.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2647: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- HARASSMENT
  Creates a new criminal offense of harassment and allow victims to file for a protective order in district court.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #2648: JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $17,700,000 FOR THE PURPOSES OF INCREASING HOME CARE PROVIDER REIMBURSEMENT RATES TO BE USED FOR WAGE PASS THROUGH TO DIRECT CARE STAFF AND FOR INCREASES IN PAYMENTS TO DIRECT CARE WORKERS HIRED BY CONSUMERS THROUGH SELF-DIRECTED CARE PROGRAMS
  This joint resolution would authorize the appropriation of the sum of $17,700,000 in order to increase home care provider reimbursement rates, and for increases in payments to direct care workers.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House State Government & Elections
• Senate Bill #2649: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOCAL PLANNING BOARD OR COMMISSION
  Requires initial, biennial, and continuing education in land use law and planning for local planning and zoning board members and members of historic district commissions.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-31: Meeting postponed (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-07: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-10: Referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-06-12: Scheduled for consideration (06/15/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-17: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-25: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2650: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- AUTOMATED LICENSE PLATE READERS
  Provides for municipal and state police authorities to utilize automated license plate readers. Further, it identifies what data may be collected and defines how the data can be used.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2651: AN ACT RELATING TO FISH AND WILDLIFE - FIELD TRIALS AND SHOOTING PRESERVES -- CAPTIVE HUNTING PROHIBITED
  Prohibits captive hunting for domestic or wild animals and does not prohibit the release of upland game birds for hunting on licensed shooting preserves.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2652: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT
  Eliminates the requirement that a member of the labor relations board not be a holder of any other public office.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-20: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-05: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2653: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- LARGE CAPACITY FEEDING DEVICE BAN OF 2022
  Makes it a felony for an individual to possess any semi-automatic firearm magazine which is capable of holding more than ten (10) rounds of ammunition. Violations are punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment or a fine of up to $5,000.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-07: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Defeated in Committee
• Senate Bill #2654: AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- ABANDONMENT BY TOWNS
  Allows the town of Cumberland upon request to sell the highway or driftway to the abutting owner at fair value.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-25: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-04-25: Scheduled for consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-29: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-06: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/26/2022)
  • 2022-05-26: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on House Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-31: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-08: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2655: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - TAX SALES
  Provides for the transfer, with the approval of the town council, of all tax titles held by the town of Cumberland to the Cumberland Land Trust, Inc.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2656: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT
  Provides that the director of the department of corrections shall establish a program to provide access to electronic multimedia tablets to prisoners in the general population. The program administered at no cost to the department.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2657: AN ACT RELATING CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SENTENCE AND EXECUTION
  Requires court to release defendant who is violator of probation on personal recognizance unless reasonable surety is required or unless a crime of violence under § 11-47-2(5) or a crime of domestic violence under § 12-29-2.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-04-05: Meeting postponed (04/05/2022)
• Senate Bill #2658: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ORDINANCES
  Allows cities and towns to create ordinances to regulate use and sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2659: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY PROGRAM
  Creates an Address Confidentiality Program for persons subjected to domestic violence, human trafficking, sexual assault, or stalking.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-06: Meeting postponed (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-06: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2660: AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES
  Allows the Honorable Judge Judith Sheindlin to join Barbara Collins and Casey Barber in marriage on or about June 11, 2022, within the Town of Westerly, Rhode Island.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-16: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-17: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-23: Referred to House Special Legislation
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-04-08: Placed on House Calendar (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-04-26: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-04-28: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2661: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS
  Amends open meetings act to allow public bodies to hold in person, virtual or hybrid meetings, and provide for virtual access in cases of a virtual or hybrid meeting. These sections would expire on July 1, 2023.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2662: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES
  Allows individuals employed in domestic service or in or about a private home to be included as an employee, for purposes of minimum wages law.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/11/2022)
  • 2022-05-11: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2663: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS - PAYMENT OF WAGES
  Provides for contractor liability for debts owed to an employer or third party on the wage claimants behalf, incurred by a subcontractor.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-03-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2664: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- IDENTITY THEFT PROTECTION ACT OF 2015
  Provides identity theft protections by requiring reporting of breaches by certain municipal and state agencies, and requires notice to collective bargaining agents where required and requires an explanation of remediation services.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/11/2022)
  • 2022-05-11: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Innovation, Internet, & Technology
• Senate Bill #2665: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES
  Repeals the law that prevented municipalities from establishing their own minimum wage for their employees.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
• Senate Bill #2666: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND TRAINING--DIGITAL CREDENTIALING
  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.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/11/2022)
  • 2022-05-11: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Labor
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-03: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-14: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-16: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-21: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2667: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF COMMERCIAL FISHING VEHICLES
  Requires the division of motor vehicles to develop a form for registration of and a license plate for commercial fishing motor vehicles.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-09: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2668: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Prohibits the division of motor vehicles from refusing to re-register any vehicle for the current registrant, which has previously been registered in Rhode Island as prescribed in title 31.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2669: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- BLACK REGIMENT MONUMENT COMMISSION
  Establishes the Black Regiment Monument Commission to maintain the Black Regiment Monument located in Patriots Park in Portsmouth and its surrounding grounds/promotes the commemoration of the Black Regiment.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for consideration (05/04/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-04: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-05: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-11: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-05-27: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-31: Meeting postponed (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-03: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage of Sub B
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: House passed Sub B
  • 2022-06-14: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Senate passed Sub B in concurrence
  • 2022-06-16: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-21: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2670: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES
  Amends the driver education course requirement before licensing to allow instructor-led virtual format course instruction.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2671: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Authorizes administrator DMV to issue special license plates to Friends of Pomham Rocks Lighthouse.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2672: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES
  Allows the city of Providence board of licenses to grant exemption from restrictions relating to the issuance of a Class BL license or Class BV alcoholic beverage retail licenses.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-05: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-08: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
• Senate Bill #2673: AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS - SANITATION IN FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS
  Allows cottage food manufacturers upon registration with the DOH and directs the department to permit home food manufacture and sales direct to consumers.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2674: AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- JUSTICES OF SUPREME, SUPERIOR, AND FAMILY COURTS -- TRAFFIC TRIBUNAL
  Allows magistrates of the traffic tribunal to receive all credits and retirement allowances as afforded to justices and judges of the supreme, superior, family and district courts. Effective June 30, 2022.
  • 2022-03-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Resolution #2675: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST SYMPATHY ON THE PASSING OF CHERYL ANN SKUBA
  
  • 2022-03-10: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2676: SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING THE PROVIDENCE COLLEGE BASKETBALL TEAM FOR THEIR OUTSTANDING 2021-2022 SEASON, AND WISHING THEM CONTINUED SUCCESS IN THE 2022 NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
  
  • 2022-03-15: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-03-15: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2677: SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF MICHAEL ANTHONY TROFI, SR.
  
  • 2022-03-15: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-03-15: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2678: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING
  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.
  • 2022-03-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-11: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House State Government & Elections
• Senate Bill #2679: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- EARLY LEARNING HUBS
  Establishes "early learning hubs" to serve as an intermediary among regional partners in order to coordinate support for early learning providers in the delivery of early childhood care and education.
  • 2022-03-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-11: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2680: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PRE-KINDERGARTEN EDUCATION ACT
  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.
  • 2022-03-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-11: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2681: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND CHILDCARE IS ESSENTIAL ACT
  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.
  • 2022-03-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Resolution #2682: SENATE RESOLUTION HONORING STEVEN J. ARTHURS ON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT
  
  • 2022-03-15: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/17/2022)
  • 2022-03-17: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2683: SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE CELEBRATION OF SAINT PATRICK'S DAY AND RECOGNIZING THE CULTURAL AND HISTORIC LINKS BETWEEN IRELAND AND RHODE ISLAND AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AMERICAN-IRISH STATE LEGISLATORS CAUCUS
  
  • 2022-03-17: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-03-17: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2684: SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE CELEBRATION OF ST. JOSEPH'S DAY
  
  • 2022-03-17: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-03-17: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2685: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PROMISE SCHOLARSHIP
  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.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2686: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION -- SOCIAL COST OF CARBON
  Requires the public utilities commission to establish a social cost of carbon and factor it a cost benefit analysis whenever programs are proposed to curb climate change and carbon dioxide emission.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2687: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
  Climate incentives for connecting new gas customers.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2688: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- CONSUMER CREDIT HISTORY EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION ACT -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES
  Prohibits employers from seeking/using credit reports in making hiring decisions concerning prospective employees, asking questions about the applicant's financial past during interviews or including credit history questions in their job applications.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2689: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DISTRIBUTED GENERATION INTERCONNECTION
  Modifies the application process for interconnection projects to require greater transparency/greater clarity through an 8 member committee and independent ombudsman with prospective application.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Bill #2690: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES
  Requires all state licensed health care facilities to convert the powering of their operations, from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2691: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- 2022 ENERGY STORAGE ACT
  Requires the PUC to initiate the process of evaluating the barriers to and opportunities for electric energy storage resources to be connected to the electric distribution system.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/11/2022)
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-06: Meeting postponed (05/11/2022)
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Corporations
• Senate Bill #2692: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - MULTI-STATE MEDIUM AND HEAVY-DUTY ZERO-EMISSION VEHICLE ACT
  Strives to make sales of all new medium and heavy-duty vehicles in the state zero-emissions by no later than 2050.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/04/2022)
  • 2022-05-04: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2693: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
  Increases the Medicaid rate of reimbursement for in-network dental care services.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2694: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE MEDICAID REENTRY ACT
  Requires that Medicaid enrollment be maintained or provided to all inmates in the first 30 days of incarceration at the adult correctional institutions within the department of corrections and the last 30 days of incarceration.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Bill #2695: AN ACT RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- ADVANCE INSTRUCTION FOR MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT
  Allows an individual to exercise their right to consent to or refuse mental health treatment through an advance instruction when the individual lacks sufficient understanding or capacity to make or communicate mental health treatment decisions.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2696: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES
  Caps amount payable for 30 day supply of equipment/supplies for insulin administration/glucose monitoring at $25 or equipment designed to last more than 30 days with no deductible commencing January 1, 2023.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-27: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-01: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-08: Referred to House Health & Human Services
• Senate Bill #2697: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES--DENTAL INSURANCE
  Expands dental insurance coverage, prohibits certain deductions and requires coverage where there is a pre-existing conditions or any earlier treatments. Annual reports must be publicized and filed with the department of health.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2698: AN ACT RELATING TO THE TOWNS OF JOHNSTON AND SMITHFIELD -- REGIONAL JUVENILE HEARING BOARD
  Amends the public law creating the Johnston/Smithfield Regional Juvenile Hearing board to allow a board member to serve more than two terms if no other person seeks appointment to the board.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-05: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-08: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
• Senate Bill #2699: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES--EAST PROVIDENCE REVALUATION
  Extends the current revaluation date in the city of East Providence from December 31, 2021 to December 31, 2024.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-03-24: Withdrawn at sponsor's request
• Senate Bill #2700: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- THE GREEN BUILDINGS ACT
  Expands definition of public buildings under Green Building Act to include buildings in any subdivision of state, and include private major facility projects; mandates public reports for all such projects.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-16: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-06: Meeting postponed (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-06: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2701: AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- ANIMAL ABUSER REGISTRY ACT
  Creates the "animal abuser registry act" which would require all persons convicted of felonies involving animal abuse, to register with an online registry to be established and maintained by the department of public safety.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2702: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - PUBLIC SAFETY ORGANIZATION PERSONNEL AND PEER SUPPORT MEMBERS
  Establishes a testimonial privilege for communications with critical incident stress management peer support personnel.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2703: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES
  Establishes general caseload limits for DCYF workers similar to those contained in the Council on Accreditation standards.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2704: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Permits only attorney general to issue concealed carry permits, repeals provisions allowing minors to possess firearms, requires federal background check on all concealed carry applicants, repeals right of carry permits for retired law enforcement.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2705: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- JUSTICES OF THE PEACE -- UNIFORM LAW ON NOTARIAL ACTS
  Codifies in the general laws the standards of conduct for notaries public in the state of Rhode Island by the secretary of state which came into effect on April 3, 2020. Takes effect on July 1, 2021; sunsets and expires on July 1, 2023.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommended indefinite postponement
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-15: Meeting postponed (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2706: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- INTERCEPTION OF WIRE AND ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
  Adds felony violations of Uniform Act on Prevention of and Remedies for Human Trafficking as a designated offense for an application for an order under the Interception of Wire and Oral Communications statute.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-13: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-27: Referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/26/2022)
  • 2022-05-26: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-31: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-07: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2707: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- INDICTMENTS, INFORMATIONS AND COMPLAINTS
  Includes the offense of second-degree sexual assault among the offenses to which there shall be no statute of limitations.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2708: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS--POLICE INTERNAL AFFAIRS INVESTIGATIONS
  Classifies any reports of investigations conducted by internal affairs units or their equivalent as public records with certain redactions allowed to prevent a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2709: AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- ADOPTION OF CHILDREN
  Permits a petition for adoption, and if necessary, termination of parental rights, to be filed by a grandparent(s) without the noncustodial parent(s') consent, when the child is in the sole custody of the grandparent(s).
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2710: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1990 -- THE CROWN ACT
  Defines the terms "race and ethnicity" to include ancestry, color, ethnic group identification, and ethnic background and inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2711: AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY--LEVY AND SALE ON EXECUTION
  Exempts from attachment five hundred dollars ($500) in savings or deposits in financial or banking institutions.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2712: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOCUS AREAS
  Establishes environmental justice focus areas/coastal zones and establishes procedures for investigation/ remediation of contaminated sites within coastal zones by DEM with increased community participation.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2713: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - COMMERCIAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY
  Decriminalizes sex work and expands eligibility for expungement of related criminal records.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2714: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES -- RULES
  Requires that all agencies final rules, promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act, be approved by general assembly action, but in no case later than December 31st of the year it is promulgated before it can become effective.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2715: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IMPACT STATEMENTS
  Require that DEM, require an environmental justice impact statement for a new facility or for the expansion or the renewal of an existing facility's, if the facility is in an overburdened community.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2716: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- COMMERCIAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY
  Decriminalizes certain commercial sexual activity to a civil violation with a fine and repeals defendant detention unless they test positive for infectious venereal disease.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2717: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES
  Prohibits certain providers of digital application distribution platforms from requiring that payments for the software application be made exclusively through a particular in-application payment system.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-25: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-16: Meeting postponed (05/19/2022)
• Senate Bill #2718: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS' BILL OF RIGHTS
  Amends the law enforcement officers' bill of rights to provide greater accountability in the disciplinary process over law enforcement.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2719: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RESTROOM ACCESS ACT
  Requires retail establishments with 3 or more employees on the premises without accessible public restroom to allow customers suffering from eligible conditions access to their employee restrooms.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2720: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT
  Increases the wage amount for working prisoners, committed to the adult correctional institution, from three dollars ($3.00) a day to the minimum hourly wage amount for most workers currently set at twelve dollars and twenty-five cents ($12.25) per hour.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/04/2022)
  • 2022-05-04: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2721: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- EVIDENCE AND OVERSIGHT ACT OF 2022
  Creates the Evidence and Oversight Act of 2022 to create and maintain a data transparency portal.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Rules, Government Ethics and Oversight
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/25/2022)
  • 2022-04-25: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #2722: SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING THE BURRILLVILLE/PONAGANSET/BAY VIEW CO-OP GIRLS ICE HOCKEY TEAM ON WINNING THE RHODE ISLAND 2022 DIVISION I STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
  
  • 2022-03-17: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar
  • 2022-03-18: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-17: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/22/2022)
• Senate Resolution #2723: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF CHRISTINE DWYER KAVANAGH, THE LONGTIME AND HIGHLY-REGARDED DIRECTOR OF THE PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAM AT ST. MARY ACADEMY BAY VIEW
  
  • 2022-03-17: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar
  • 2022-03-18: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-03-17: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/22/2022)
• Senate Bill #2724: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES
  Extends the "lookback" period for third and subsequent offenses pursuant §31-27-2 ("driving under influence of liquor or drugs") and §31-27-2.1 ("refusal to submit to chemical test") from five (5) to ten (10) years.
  • 2022-03-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #2725: SENATE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING MARCH 25, 2022, AS THE 201ST ANNIVERSARY OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE DAY AND CELEBRATING DEMOCRACY IN GREECE AND THE UNITED STATES
  
  • 2022-03-22: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-03-22: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2726: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MARCH AS "COLORECTAL CANCER AWARENESS MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-03-22: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-03-22: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2727: SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM ON THEIR OUTSTANDING 2021-2022 SEASON
  
  • 2022-03-22: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-03-22: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2728: SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING THE BRYANT UNIVERSITY MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM ON WINNING THE 2022 NORTHEAST CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP AND ON QUALIFYING FOR THE 2022 NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
  
  • 2022-03-22: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-03-22: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2729: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF THE HONORABLE HENRY JOSEPH NARDONE, SR.
  
  • 2022-03-22: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-03-22: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2730: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST SYMPATHY ON THE PASSING OF ANTOINETTE GULLIFA
  
  • 2022-03-22: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2731: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF GEORGE EDWARD CASTRO, JR.
  
  • 2022-03-22: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2732: SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING AND THANKING WILLIAM F. FLYNN JR. MSW, FOR HIS THIRTEEN YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE AS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE SENIOR AGENDA COALITION OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-03-23: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2733: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Disqualifies individuals with prior convictions for possession of a firearm without a license from purchasing or possessing a firearm.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2734: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Felony to store firearms unlocked.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2735: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
  Amends the total amount of expenses that may be charged to a utility for those expenses related to a commission or division initiated investigation of public utilities with gross intrastate operating revenues exceeding $400,000,000.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2736: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET-METERING--MULTI-TENANT PROPERTY RENEWABLE CREDITS
  Allows a property owner with eligible net-metering systems with a master meter to allocate excess net metering credits to any meter on the property.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2737: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
  Amends the revenue decoupling reconciliation mechanism used by a gas distribution company for the purposes of revenue decoupling to not require that distribution be determined on a revenue-per-customer basis.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Corporations
• Senate Bill #2738: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS--SURCHARGES ON CREDIT CARD TRANSACTIONS
  Provides that surcharges on credit card transactions may only be permitted when certain notice requirements are adhered to and provides for a misdemeanor penalty of five hundred dollars ($500) and/or one year in jail in any violations.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2739: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- CLAIMS ADJUSTERS
  Authorizes the 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.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-07: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-10: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-17: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-21: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2740: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- LABOR STANDARDS IN RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS
  Adds a new chapter known as the Labor Standards in Renewable Energy Projects.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Labor
  • 2022-06-16: Committee transferred to House Corporations
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-19: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub B
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed Sub B
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub B in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2741: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- BUSINESS FAST-START OFFICE
  Requires the fast-start office to regularly convene business owners in the state to gather recommendations to improve business licensing procedures.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2742: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES
  A provider of a club, facility, or services to a consumer must stop automatic deductions from the consumer’s account or credit card within thirty (30) calendar days of receiving a notice to stop from the consumer.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2743: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- RHODE ISLAND LIFE AND HEALTH GUARANTY ASSOCIATION ACT
  Brings the Rhode Island Life and Health Guaranty Fund statute into conformance with the latest version of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Model Act.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2744: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- INSURANCE DATA SECURITY ACT
  Adopts the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Model Act regarding data security.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2745: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- TAXICABS AND LIMITED PUBLIC MOTOR VEHICLES
  Requires national and state background checks for certain drivers transporting passengers for hire.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-16: Meeting postponed (05/19/2022)
• Senate Bill #2746: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- SURPLUS LINES INSURANCE
  Updates and clarifies various insurance statutes.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-17: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2747: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND
  Modifies appointment/removal process for URI board of trustees with all appointments by governor for 3 yr-terms with advice/consent of senate/URI president appoints faculty member/student to serve in non-voting/ex officio capacity.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-06-15: Scheduled for consideration (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-16: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-17: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2748: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
  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.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2749: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PUPIL TRANSPORTATION VEHICLES
  Amends the definitions of a "Pupil Transportation Vehicle" to be and constructed to seat not more than ten (10) passengers including the operator, rather than the existing limit of eight (8) passengers.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2750: AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- RHODE ISLAND UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT
  Eliminates the Rhode Island Underground Storage Tank financial advisory board and include the cleanup of residential heating oil tanks under the eligibility for reimbursement from the cleanup fund.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/11/2022)
  • 2022-05-11: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2751: AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- ANIMAL DISEASES IN GENERAL
  Authorizes the director of the department of environmental management to establish quarantine zones for animals and would permit the examination of any quarantined animal therein.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-28: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-04: Referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-05-13: Placed on House Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-19: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-05-24: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2752: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND CLIMATE CORPS
  Creation of RI Climate Corps to implement a work program developed and administered by ServeRI.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
• Senate Bill #2753: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC FINANCE -- REFUNDING BOND AUTHORITY
  Changes the designations of "state budget office" to the "office of management and budget".
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2754: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS
  Effective July 1, 2022, entitles environmental police officers to the benefits provided by chapter 45-21.2 entitled "Optional retirement for members of police force and firefighters."
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2755: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT)
  Allows URI board of trustees to make small procurements up to $50,000 for construction/$10,000 for all other purchases with annual increases in the federal CPI.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-23: House voted to reconsider
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2756: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES
  Permits certain volunteer firefighters to purchase motor vehicles by utilizing state purchasing provisions.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2757: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX
  Uninsured for health care taxpayer to indicate on return whether they consent to being contacted by exchange.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2758: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- INSURANCE BENEFITS
  Entitles correctional officers with twenty-five (25) years of service and who are at least fifty-five (55) years of age to a non-Medicare-eligible retiree health care insurance benefit.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2759: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- REAL ESTATE CONVEYANCE TAX
  Taxes property not considered a primary residence at a flat rate of five percent (5%) of the assess value.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2760: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION TAX CREDITS
  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.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Bill #2761: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BOARD OF MEDICAL LICENSURE AND DISCIPLINE
  Require if last day for suspension hearing of physician/limited registrant's license fall on Sat./Sun./legal holiday, hearing held on 1st business day thereafter.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2762: AN ACT RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- MENTAL HEALTH LAW
  Includes licensed advanced practice registered nurses (APRN), certified in psychiatric/mental health, as qualified to certify the need for mental health treatment in certain patients.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2763: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES
  Sepsis and septic shock best practices for hospital and emergency care facilities.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-10: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate held on desk
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2764: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- LICENSE PROCEDURE FOR SOCIAL WORKERS
  Allows individuals who have received their masters of social work from an accredited college or university within the past two (2) years to practice within the field prior to obtaining a license.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-23: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-11: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage of Sub B
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed Sub B
  • 2022-06-17: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub B in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2765: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LEAD POISONING PREVENTION ACT
  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.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
• Senate Bill #2766: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH CARE ADVOCATE
  Permits the health care advocate to receive confidential health care information with individual patient information but would prohibit the disclosure of the information, except pursuant to judicial process.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2767: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- NONPROFIT HOSPITAL SERVICE CORPORATIONS--RATE REVIEW ACT
  Creates uniform rate review procedure for rates to be changed.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-10: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2768: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES
  Provides that the renewal fee for a pharmacist license not be more than $250, renewed biennially. Also provides that the nonresident pharmacy fee to obtain a license of location to operate a pharmacy not be less than $625.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2769: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM
  Establishes a universal, comprehensive, affordable single-payer health care insurance program and helps control health care costs, which would be referred to as, "the Rhode Island Comprehensive Health Insurance Program" (RICHIP).
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for hearing (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee heard
• Senate Bill #2770: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD LIMITS
  Transfers all responsibility for oversize/overweight permitting to the department of transportation and amends and increases fines for all oversize and overweight infractions.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-05: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-08: Referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2771: AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- RELOCATION OF UTILITY SERVICES
  Amends the formula used to reimburse a utility facility or company for the cost of relocation necessitated by highway construction.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-18: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2772: AN ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH RHODE ISLAND GENERAL LAWS § 16-7-44 APPROVING THE ISSUANCE OF $5,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS OF THE TOWN OF EAST GREENWICH TO FINANCE THE RENOVATION, REHABILITATION, REPAIR, REPLACEMENT, IMPROVEMENT, FURNISHING, EQUIPPING AND INSTALLATION OF SCHOOL, SCHOOL FACILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, SAFETY AND FIRE-CODE RELATED IMPROVEMENTS, ROOFS, HEATING, VENTILATION, ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS, LANDSCAPING, GROUNDS, ATHLETIC FIELDS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, VEHICLES AND FOOD SERVICE FACILITIES
  Serves as the enabling act required by Rhode Island general laws § 16-7-44 in order for the interest on bonds issued in support of school housing projects to be eligible for state housing aid reimbursement.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-05: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-08: Referred to House Finance
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-20: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2773: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- TOURISM IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS
  Enables municipalities to create tourism improvement districts to increase economic activity in the tourism industry.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2774: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- PROBATION AND PAROLE SUPPORT ACT
  Modifies current procedures for the application and collection of court costs, fees and assessments in all criminal matters.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2775: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENTS OF WAGES
  Increases the criminal penalties for wage theft and employee misclassification.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-04-01: Meeting postponed (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2776: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THEFT, EMBEZZLEMENT, FALSE PRETENSES, AND MISAPPROPRIATION
  Corrects the erroneous misdemeanor classification of the criminal offense of fraudulent conversion by agent or factor.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-13: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-16: Signed by Governor
  • 2022-06-15: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2777: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- COUNTY GRAND JURIES
  Permits grand juries to issue reports and provides for a process for review and acceptance by the superior court for dissemination to the public.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2778: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- MAINTENANCE OF ORDER ON CAMPUS
  Mandates arming campus police at public higher educational institutions and includes campus police in the definition of "law enforcement officer" for the purposes of the "Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights."
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2779: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- BAIL AND RECOGNIZANCE
  Prohibits the court from setting financial conditions of bail.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2780: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- HARASSMENT
  Creates the offense of criminal harassment. Persons who commit such an offense would be guilty of a misdemeanor for the first offense and felony for a second offense and subject to fines and imprisonment.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2781: AN ACT RELATING TO MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE - EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT - LIMITATIONS
  Allows any city or town to add the municipality as a third-party beneficiary where the original contract causes a violation of a municipal ordinance, in the amount of three percent (3%) of the total compensation of the contract.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2782: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- REAL ESTATE SALES DISCLOSURES
  Allows a homebuyer to void a purchase and sales agreement prior to the transfer if the seller fails to provide a written sales disclosure. The act also increases the maximum civil penalty for violating this law from $100 to $1,000.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2783: AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE--PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- THIRD-PARTY LITIGATION FINANCING CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT
  Comprehensively regulates the practices of third-party litigation financers in Rhode Island to provide transparency in litigation.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2784: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICE ACT
  Makes it an unfair claims practices act violation for an insurer to fail to have an appraisal performed by a licensed appraiser when a vehicle sustains damage in excess of $5,000. Also corrects a citation regarding salvage and reconstructed titles.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2785: AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE--PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- JUDGMENTS, ORDERS, AND DECREES -- INTEREST IN CIVIL ACTIONS
  Provides that pre- and post-judgment interest on civil actions begin on the date of the filing of the civil action and be calculated based upon a rate equal to the coupon issue yield equivalent.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2786: AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW
  Provides a unit owner’s insurance policy as the primary insurance policy with respect to any amount of loss which is not payable under the association’s policy because of the application of the deductible.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-28: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2787: AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE--COURTS -- DISTRICT COURT
  Creates within the district court a dedicated calendar offering treatment and sentencing alternatives to eligible defendants deemed to suffer from serious and persistent mental illness.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2788: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- REFUSE DISPOSAL
  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.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-27: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-01: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-08: Referred to House Corporations
• Senate Bill #2789: AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE--PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- PROCEEDINGS IN AID OF EXECUTION
  Requires that upon issuance of a citation, the judgment debtor is given twenty-five (25) days to contact the judgment creditor to resolve the matter prior to court intervention.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-20: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2790: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SENTENCE AND EXECUTION
  Corrects an erroneous statutory citation found in § 12-12-9, which inaccurately referred to § 12-9-8 (extradition), rather than the correct statute § 12-19-8 (suspension of sentence and probation by superior or district court).
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2791: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- DNA DETECTION OF SEXUAL AND VIOLENT OFFENDERS
  Removes diversion programs from the list of criminal convictions subject to mandatory DNA collection.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/15/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2792: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MISCELLANEOUS RULES
  Clarifies that the use of a wireless communication device for the purpose of navigation must be while the device is mounted or otherwise affixed to the vehicle and not held in the motorist’s hand.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2793: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MISCELLANEOUS RULES
  Sunsets the provision which allows first-time violators to avoid the fine by presenting proof of acquisition of a hands-free device prior to the imposition of the fine effective September 1, 2022.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-27: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-01: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-08: Referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/15/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2794: AN ACT RELATING TO FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- CREATION AND EXPANSION
  Amends a number of provisions in the general laws relative to financial institutions by eliminating unnecessary requirements and/or clarifying language in order to reduce certain burdens on businesses operating in Rhode Island.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2795: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SENTENCE AND EXECUTION
  Permits the DOC to release a sentenced inmate up to 3 days early directly to a community partner for residential treatment or stable housing when completion of sentence is incompatible with the community partners staffing or scheduling capabilities.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/15/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2796: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- BAIL AND RECOGNIZANCE
  Permits a judge, after consultation with a mental health professional, to order into a locked down mental health facility for a mental health assessment as an alternative to incarceration.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-02: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2797: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD LIMITS
  Establishes penalties for vehicles exceeding twenty-five thousand pounds (25,000 lbs) gross vehicle weight and requires certain civil penalties to be paid to the enforcing municipality.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2798: AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  Bans the sale of cosmetics developed/manufactured using animal testing. A violation would be a $1,000 fine for each offense.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-02: Meeting postponed (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2799: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS' BILL OF RIGHTS
  Increases committee in law enforcement officers’ bill of rights hearing to 5, three as permanent. Hearings commenced in 15 days, allow for summary suspension of 5 days and would mandate pay suspended while the case is pending.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2800: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS
  Eliminates the requirement that the signature on all certifying envelopes containing a mail ballot be made before a notary public or before two (2) witnesses.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2801: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC RECORDS -- PUBLIC RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
  Updates public records administration act, modifies records control schedule, designates records officer, establishes procedures for retention of records. Provides administrator submit yearly reports, establishes public reporting compliance.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2802: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- JUSTICES OF THE PEACE--STANDARDS OF CONDUCT FOR NOTARIES PUBLIC
  Allows the continuance of the remote notarization following the expiration of the executive emergency order currently in effect and requires a certificate of any notarial act.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2803: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS
  Adds the division of taxation, division of motor vehicles and department of revenue to those agencies who receive lists of reported deaths.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2804: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Adds the chief inspector and inspectors within the office of inspections to the definition of "peace officer."
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/15/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2805: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- STATE TAX OFFICIALS
  Effective January 1, 2023, creates Superior Court jurisdiction over all appeals of tax administrators concerning assessment, deficiency, refund claim, license or permit. It creates an exemption for the taxpayer from prepayment as a condition precedent.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-13: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2806: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- CHILD SUPPORT INTERCEPT ACT
  Expands child support interception of insurance payments to include life insurance proceeds payable to non-custodial parents who are beneficiaries of the policy.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-02: Referred to House Corporations
• Senate Bill #2807: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES
  Amends the conditions upon which a nurse would be exempt from certain licensing requirements to include eligibility to practice before taking and receiving results of the NCLEX exam.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2808: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN
  Establishes criminal penalties for a wanton or reckless act or omission of a parent, guardian or any other person who has custody or control of a child that result in substantial risk of serious bodily injury or sexual abuse of a child in their care.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-02: Referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/15/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2809: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- SECRETARY OF STATE
  Authorizes the secretary of state and board of elections to conduct an extensive cybersecurity assessment of our election systems and facilities and to establish a cybersecurity review board.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-13: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House Innovation, Internet, & Technology
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on House Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-16: Signed by Governor
  • 2022-06-15: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2810: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE ARCHIVES
  Clearly defines permanent state records to be retained/ requires preparation of disaster preparedness plan/ allows access to superior court for injunctions/ restraining orders for violations of public records laws.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-01: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-08: Referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-17: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-21: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2811: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Requires correctional officers to qualify annually with the pistol or revolver rather than the previous requirement of biennial qualification.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-06: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-20: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2812: AN ACT RELATING TO CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS -- UNIFORM LIMITED PARTNERSHIP ACT
  Enacts the Rhode Island Limited Partnership Act to govern the law of limited partnerships in this state and repeal chapter 12 of title 7 entitled "Limited Partnerships".
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-17: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-21: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2813: AN ACT RELATING TO CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS -- UNIFORM PARTNERSHIP ACT
  Enacts the Uniform Partnership Act to govern the law of partnerships in this state.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-17: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-21: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2814: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CONTRACTORS' REGISTRATION AND LICENSING BOARD
  Revises the manner in which complaints against contractors are made, processed, investigated, and resolved in a more efficient and expeditious manner and makes various technical and grammatical corrections.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/11/2022)
  • 2022-05-11: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-05-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-28: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2815: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- REAL JOBS RHODE ISLAND ACT
  Establishes a real job Rhode Island program, which is an industry-led system to advance the skills of the state's workforce to grow the state's economy and increase sustainable employment for middle-class families.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-13: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-27: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2816: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYMENT SECURITY -- GENERAL PROVISIONS
  Extends until June 30, 2023, an increase in the total amount of earnings a partial-unemployment insurance claimant can receive before being entirely disqualified for unemployment insurance benefits.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-07: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-22: Referred to House Finance
  • 2022-06-06: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-06: Scheduled for consideration (06/08/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on House Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-14: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-14: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-16: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-21: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2817: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES--LICENSE PLATES
  Changes the location of "State of Rhode Island" and "ocean state" on the registration plates.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2818: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE LOTTERY
  Increases the non-Keno lottery prize awards from a maximum of sixty-five percent (65%) to seventy-one percent (71%) of the total revenue accruing from the sale of lottery tickets.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-13: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2819: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE LOTTERY--LOTTERY SALES AGENT RENEWAL PERIOD
  Extends the renewal period for lottery sales agent's license from one year to two (2) years.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-13: Referred to House Finance
  • 2022-05-28: Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-16: Signed by Governor
  • 2022-06-15: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2820: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Changes the definition of "street rod" motor vehicle to reference its registration certificate and not its title. It would also change the meaning of "custom vehicle" by adding a reference to its registration certificate.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2821: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- QUADRICYCLE PASSENGER VEHICLES
  Authorizes municipalities to regulate the use of quadricycle passenger vehicles within their borders, provided there is approval by the local police chief.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2822: AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS
  Creates a name for the Rhode Island Convention Center Boardroom as the James P. McCarvill Boardroom.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-13: Referred to House Special Legislation
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on House Calendar (06/08/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-16: Signed by Governor
  • 2022-06-15: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2823: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM
  Establishes a seven (7) member public-private partnership infrastructure oversight commission to approve all requests for proposals submitted for public-private partnership construction of qualified facilities.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/04/2022)
  • 2022-05-04: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2824: AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE AND APPROVE A REFERENDUM TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE QUALIFIED ELECTORS OF THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AT THE NEXT GENERAL ELECTION TO ALLOW THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND TO ISSUE GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, REFUNDING BONDS, AND/OR TEMPORARY NOTES IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS ($12,000,000) FOR THE NEW CONSTRUCTION OF A STATE-OF-THE-ART CARBON-NEUTRAL EDUCATION CENTER AND EVENT PAVILION AT ROGER WILLIAMS PARK ZOO.
  Allows the state to issue bonds, and/or temporary notes in an amount not to exceed ($23,500,000) for the new construction of a state-of-the-art carbon-neutral education center and event pavilion at Roger Williams Park Zoo.
  • 2022-03-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee continued
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Bill #2825: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Defines rifle and shotgun as weapons and makes it unlawful to possess a loaded rifle or shotgun in public subject to various exceptions inclusive of hunting activity punishable upon conviction by imprisonment up to 5 years or a fine up to $5,000.
  • 2022-03-28: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-07: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-14: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-17: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-21: Signed by Governor
• Senate Resolution #2826: SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING "INTERNATIONAL TRANSGENDER DAY OF VISIBILITY" ON MARCH 31, 2022, IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-03-29: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-03-29: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2827: SENATE RESOLUTION THANKING AND HONORING AMERICA'S AND RHODE ISLAND'S VIETNAM WAR VETERANS AND ASKING THAT ALL RHODE ISLAND RESIDENTS REMEMBER THEIR SERVICE AND SACRIFICE ON BEHALF OF OUR NATION ON "VIETNAM VETERANS DAY"
  
  • 2022-03-29: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-03-29: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2828: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2022, TO BE "DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AWARENESS DAY" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-03-29: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-03-29: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2829: SENATE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING THE 150TH BIRTHDAY OF THE ROGER WILLIAMS PARK ZOO AND PROCLAIMING APRIL 1, 2022, AS "ROGER WILLIAMS PARK ZOO DAY" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-03-29: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-03-29: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2830: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF ANNMARIE BELLEVILLE
  
  • 2022-03-29: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-03-29: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2831: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING APRIL OF 2022, AS "ARAB AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-03-29: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2832: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND
  Names the Newport campus of the Community College of Rhode Island the M. Teresa Paiva Weed campus.
  • 2022-03-29: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-07: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-22: Referred to House Special Legislation
• Senate Resolution #2833: SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF LUCIO MANCINI
  
  • 2022-04-05: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-04-05: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2834: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING APRIL OF 2022, AS "ALCOHOL AWARENESS MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-04-05: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2835: SENATE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING AND COMMENDING SOPHIA BOARDMAN ON ACHIEVING SCOUTING'S MOST DISTINGUISHED HONOR, THE RANK OF EAGLE SCOUT
  
  • 2022-04-05: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2836: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING APRIL OF 2022, TO BE "PARKINSON'S AWARENESS MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-04-05: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-04-05: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2837: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- FILING OF ASSUMED NAME
  Makes amendments necessary to use the term "trade name" rather than "assumed name", for purposes of the commercial law chapter on filing an assumed name, and provides for the administration and regulation of the use of trade names.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2838: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE PAUL W. CROWLEY RHODE ISLAND STUDENT INVESTMENT INITIATIVE
  Requires the commissioner to update the status of Providence school district and requires the commissioner to update the turnaround plan released June 23, 2020.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-19: Referred to House Education
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage of Sub B
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub B
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub B in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-02: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2839: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- HEALTH AND EDUCATIONAL BUILDING CORPORATION
  Provides municipalities in the state with appropriate additional means to improve the health, living conditions, and welfare of their residents with expanded access to public educational, or child daycare centers, or public recreational facilities.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/04/2022)
  • 2022-05-04: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/15/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2840: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- FOUNDATION LEVEL SCHOOL SUPPORT
  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.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/04/2022)
  • 2022-05-04: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-25: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-26: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Education
• Senate Bill #2841: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS
  Establishes courses that include instruction in career and technical education programs.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Education
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2842: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW--GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- ELECTRONIC BOOK LICENSES TO LIBRARIES AND SCHOOLS
  Requires publishers to provide electronic book licenses to libraries and schools on reasonable terms, when a publisher offers to license electronic books and digital audiobooks to the public in Rhode Island.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage
• Senate Bill #2843: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
  Creates state and local requirements for the protection and preservation of old growth forests located on public lands.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended indefinite postponement
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2844: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT
  Increases the state's contribution and decreases the amount of city, town or local educational agency by two percent (2%) each year.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2845: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR FUEL TAX
  Suspends the tax on fuel or manufactured biodiesel fuel sold or used from April 1, 2022 to June 30, 2022, and requires the seller to reduce the per-gallon price of fuel or manufactured biodiesel fuel by a sum equal to the tax abatement.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2846: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS
  Awards all members of the pension system a three percent (3%) (COLA) if certain conditions are met.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2847: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM
  Allows families to continue to receive state and federal tax credits and any stimulus funds provided for the well-being of children or adults without jeopardizing the family's RI Works cash benefit.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2848: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS BENEFITS
  Members and/or beneficiaries that retired on or before June 30, 2012 would get two percent (2%) benefit adjustment when benefit adjustments are suspended.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2849: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATE AID
  Amends the computation of relative wealth of municipalities for the purpose of distributing state aid by eliminating the requirement that certain exemptions include tax treaties that are conditioned on being in force on May 15, 2005.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2850: AN ACT RELATION TO TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX
  Increases the amount each corporation pays on state tax to seven and one half percent (7.5%) of net income beginning on or after January 1, 2023, and reduce the minimum tax to two hundred dollars ($200).
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #2851: JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $200,000 TO YEAR UP PROVIDENCE
  This resolution would authorize the appropriation of the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to Year Up Providence.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Bill #2852: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES
  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).
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-18: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Health & Human Services
• Senate Bill #2853: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PODIATRISTS
  Allows licensed podiatrists to administer botox injections.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2854: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
  Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Foster Forward, a domestic nonprofit corporation, located in Pawtucket.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-27: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-04: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-05-07: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-05-13: Placed on House Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-17: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-05-25: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2855: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE
  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 businesses.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-18: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-06-06: Committee transferred to House Finance
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2856: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE
  Amends and updates the qualifications for state and local building inspectors and officials aligning state law with federal law and also makes several technical corrections.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-18: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-20: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2857: AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT
  Allows the district court to designate the date of the hearing in eviction matters filed under the residential landlord and tenant act.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-13: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2858: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY PROGRAM
  Creates an Address Confidentiality Program for persons subjected to abuse or domestic violence.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2859: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998
  Creates a program for emergency housing assistance to needy families with children and pregnant woman with no other children through the Rhode Island housing resources commission.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2860: AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- JUSTICES OF SUPREME, SUPERIOR, AND FAMILY COURTS
  Provides for a cost-of-living allowance for all present and former state employees
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2861: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES
  For proposed wages, workers' compensation, temporary disability and unemployment benefits this act creates a new definition for "employee"
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2862: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC FINANCE -- STATE FUNDS
  Adds the Workers' Compensation Administrative Fund, Rhode Island Uninsured Employers Fund and the Rhode Island Uninsured Protection Fund to those restricted receipt accounts not subject to indirect cost recoveries.
  • 2022-04-05: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-13: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-27: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Bill #2863: AN ACT TO VACATE THE FORFEITURE OR REVOCATION OF THE CHARTER OF ROBERTS AND ROCHA, INC.
  
  • 2022-04-05: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-04-08: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-04-29: Placed on House Calendar (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-03: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-05-11: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Resolution #2864: SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING APRIL 3-9, 2022, AS "NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-04-07: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-04-07: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2865: SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING THE HONORABLE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON ON BEING CONFIRMED TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
  
  • 2022-04-07: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-04-07: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2866: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MERCURY REDUCTION AND EDUCATION ACT
  Prohibits, beginning January 1, 2024, any compact fluorescent lamp or linear fluorescent lamp to be offered for final sale, sold at final sale, or distributed in the state as a new manufactured product.
  • 2022-04-07: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
• Senate Bill #2867: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION--CITY OF WOONSOCKET
  Authorizes city of Woonsocket to extend exemption or stabilizing of taxes on qualifying property located in designated districts in the city to 20 years to facilitate economic development within the city. The current law provides for a 10 year period.
  • 2022-04-07: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-17: Meeting postponed (05/17/2022)
• Senate Bill #2868: AN ACT RELATING TO LIBRARIES -- HISTORICAL SOCIETY LIBRARIES
  Requires the general assembly appropriate funds to the state librarian for the purpose of caring for, preserving and cataloguing property in the state in the keeping of the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society.
  • 2022-04-07: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2869: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES
  Allows RNs to perform cosmetic/aesthetic dermatological procedures prescribed/ordered by licensed health care practitioner.
  • 2022-04-07: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #2870: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MAY 1ST THROUGH MAY 8TH TO BE "TARDIVE DYSKINESIA (TD) AWARENESS WEEK" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-04-12: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-04-12: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2871: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING APRIL OF 2022, TO BE "FINANCIAL LITERACY MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-04-12: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-04-12: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2872: SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE 79TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE "FOUR CHAPLAINS", THE FOUR MEN OF GOD WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES DURING WORLD WAR II SO THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE
  
  • 2022-04-12: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-04-12: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2873: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF ANGELINA DEFILIPPO
  
  • 2022-04-12: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-04-12: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2874: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF JONATHAN WEISS
  
  • 2022-04-12: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-04-12: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2875: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES--TOWN OF JOHNSTON REVALUATION
  Grants the town of Johnston a one year extension to complete the revaluation due in 2022. The revaluation would be based on valuations as of December 31, 2022.
  • 2022-04-12: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-05: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-11: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/26/2022)
  • 2022-05-26: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-31: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-07: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2876: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES -- TOWN OF JOHNSTON TAX CLASSIFICATION
  Amends the law pertaining to tax classifications in the town of Johnston to allow it to enact tax classifications in accordance with the nature of the real and personal property to be taxed.
  • 2022-04-12: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-27: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-04: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-17: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2877: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS
  Requires that for cities and towns holding elections every 4 years, the terms of the members of the school committee expire on election day and the vote taken for the whole number of members on the same date, except for the city of Central Falls.
  • 2022-04-14: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2878: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES--EAST PROVIDENCE REVALUATION
  Extends the current revaluation date in the city of East Providence from December 31, 2021 to December 31, 2022.
  • 2022-04-14: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-05: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-11: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/26/2022)
  • 2022-05-26: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-31: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-06: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2879: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES
  Allows the town council of New Shoreham to adopt a tax classification plan in accordance with the provisions of this section, to be applicable to taxes on or after the assessment date of December 31, 2022.
  • 2022-04-14: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-27: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-04: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
• Senate Bill #2880: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES
  Delays the town of west Greenwich’s first statistical update following the 2019 revaluation from 2022 to 2023 and bases the update on valuations as of December 31, 2023.
  • 2022-04-14: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-14: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on House Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-17: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Resolution #2881: JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $5,000,000 FROM THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT FUNDS TO THE CITY OF CENTRAL FALLS IN RECOGNITION OF THE DISPROPORTIONATELY HIGH IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC ON CENTRAL FALLS AND THE DISPROPORTIONATELY ARPA FUNDING TO THE CITY
  This joint resolution would authorize the appropriation of the sum of $5,000,000 to the City of Central Falls for relief in combating pandemic threats to the City's public health.
  • 2022-04-14: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2882: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- QUALITY SELF-DIRECTED SERVICES
  Increases the hourly compensation for "individual providers" from no less than fifteen dollars ($15.00) on April 1, 2022, and gradually increases several times until June 30, 2023, when it would be eighteen dollars ($18.00) and continuing.
  • 2022-04-14: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-14: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/04/2022)
  • 2022-05-04: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2883: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND BROADBAND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
  Establishes a program to increase the adoption of broadband services for local and statewide entities, both public and private, to be funded by federal funds and state appropriations.
  • 2022-04-15: Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-23: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-02: Referred to House Finance
• Senate Resolution #2884: JOINT RESOLUTION RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
  Increases managed care hospital rates for obstetrician deliveries at one hundred ten percent (110%) of the Medicaid fee for service (FFS) rate.
  • 2022-04-22: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee continued
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Bill #2885: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES -- WARWICK REVALUATION
  Delays the city of Warwick's second statistical update following the 2015 revaluation from 2021 to 2022 and would base the update on valuations as of December 31, 2022.
  • 2022-04-25: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-04-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-05: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-11: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/26/2022)
  • 2022-05-26: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-31: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-07: Signed by Governor
• Senate Resolution #2886: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF EDWARD F. LEEDHAM, JR.
  
  • 2022-04-26: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2887: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING APRIL 24, 2022, AS "ARMENIAN GENOCIDE REMEMBRANCE DAY" TO COMMEMORATE THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE OF 1915 TO 1923, AND IN HONOR OF ARMENIAN-AMERICANS
  
  • 2022-04-26: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-04-26: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2888: SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING "HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY" ON APRIL 28, 2022
  
  • 2022-04-26: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-04-26: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2889: SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING WESTERLY TOWN CLERK DONNA GIORDANO ON HER RETIREMENT AFTER MANY YEARS OF DEVOTED SERVICE TO THE CITIZENS OF WESTERLY
  
  • 2022-04-26: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-04-26: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2890: SENATE RESOLUTION SUPPORTING IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CARE OF ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
  
  • 2022-04-26: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-04-26: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2891: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- FEDERAL OLD-AGE AND SURVIVORS' INSURANCE
  Requires municipalities to ensure that school district employees are eligible for social security.
  • 2022-04-26: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2892: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX--CAPITAL GAINS
  Amends the capital gains tax rates and holding period from 5 years to 1 year. Imposes a non-owner occupied tax on homes assessed at more than $1,000,000. Increases estate tax exemption to $2,225,000.
  • 2022-04-26: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2893: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STAY INVESTED IN RI WAVEMAKER FELLOWSHIP
  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.
  • 2022-04-26: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Bill #2894: AN ACT RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS
  Establishes a community mental health services revolving fund, to help fund the construction and renovation of facilities to provide mental health services.
  • 2022-04-26: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2895: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- STATE TAX OFFICIALS
  Waives interest and penalties on the taxable portion of loans taxed or forgiven under the Paycheck Protection Program during tax years 2020 and 2021, provided any tax due is paid by March 31, 2022 and March 31, 2023, respectively.
  • 2022-04-26: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #2896: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HEALTH BENEFIT EXCHANGE
  Establishes a premium payment program to help individuals and families transition from expired COVID-19 Medicaid coverage to commercial health insurance, thereby avoiding a gap in medical coverage.
  • 2022-04-26: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate passed as amended (floor amendment)
• Senate Bill #2897: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES -- TOWN OF NEW SHOREHAM -- REVALUATION
  Grants the town of New Shoreham a one-year extension to complete the revaluation due in 2022. The revaluation would be based on valuations as of December 31, 2022.
  • 2022-04-26: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-05: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-11: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2898: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES
  Allows the city of Newport to adopt separate tax rates for non-owner occupied and owner occupied residential real estate.
  • 2022-04-26: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-16: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-18: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-02: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-06-06: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-23: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2899: AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- DISTRICT COURT
  Permits retired district court clerk/magistrates or magistrates to be recalled after retirement.
  • 2022-04-26: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2900: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS
  Provides that public bodies not be required to hold open-forum sessions on any topic not on the meeting notice and limits comment on any topic not previously posted.
  • 2022-04-26: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-01: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-08: Referred to House State Government & Elections
• Senate Bill #2901: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES -- SCHOOL BUS DRIVER TRAINING
  Requires, in order to maintain their certifications, that school bus drivers to pass written state examinations once every ten (10) years, instead of annually, as the current law requires.
  • 2022-04-26: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-21: Scheduled for consideration (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-24: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2902: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF YOUTH CAMPS
  Establishes the procedures and requirements for the licensing of youth camps.
  • 2022-04-26: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2903: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- CERTIFICATES OF TITLE AND SECURITY INTERESTS
  Enables Rhode Island licensed new motor vehicle dealers to conduct vehicle identification number inspections.
  • 2022-04-26: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2904: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS
  Allows persons convicted of felonies punishable by 10 years or less to file to expunge records after 5 years after sentence completion except felonies of sex registration/ domestic violence/weapons
  • 2022-04-26: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2905: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Requires the administrator of the division of motor vehicles to prescribe or approve power-of-attorney forms to be used in connection with vehicle registrations.
  • 2022-04-26: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2906: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- PURCHASE AND SALE OF PRECIOUS METALS -- CATALYTIC CONVERTERS
  Requires a purchaser of a catalytic converter to obtain a copy of the registration for the vehicle from which the catalytic converter was removed and provide the information to law enforcement.
  • 2022-04-26: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-13: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-14: Meeting postponed (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2907: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES
  Grants the Providence board of licenses the authority to exempt from the provisions of the laws concerning the proximity of a Class B license retailer to schools and churches, property located at 12 Governor Street in the city of Providence.
  • 2022-04-26: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/04/2022)
  • 2022-05-04: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-17: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2908: AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- SANITATION IN FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS
  Eliminates DOH food license fee for Class C liquor license holders provided they are in compliance with the provisions of § 3-7-8(b) relating to the types of pre-packaged foods prepared off the premises that may be served with alcoholic beverages.
  • 2022-04-26: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/04/2022)
  • 2022-05-04: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-17: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Resolution #2909: SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING MAY OF 2022, AS "MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-04-26: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2910: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM
  Requires all public elementary and secondary schools in Rhode Island to provide at least one unit of instruction on Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander History and culture.
  • 2022-04-28: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/04/2022)
  • 2022-05-04: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Education
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/08/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Resolution #2911: SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING MAY OF 2022, AS "NATIONAL SKIN CANCER AWARENESS MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-04-28: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2912: SENATE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING MAY 1ST THROUGH MAY 7TH, 2022, AS "NATIONAL CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES WEEK" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-04-29: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2913: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY-POLICE RELATIONSHIP ACT OF 2015
  Amends the comprehensive community-police relationship act of 2015 to require an annual study by an outside agency chosen by the department.
  • 2022-04-29: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #2914: SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING PROVIDENCE COLLEGE MEN'S BASKETBALL COACH ED COOLEY ON BEING NAMED THE 2021-2022 NAISMITH COLLEGE COACH OF THE YEAR
  
  • 2022-05-03: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2915: SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE 4TH ANNUAL "STATE DAY OF THE COOPERATIVE" ON MAY 3, 2022, IN RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-05-03: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-03: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2916: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF THE HONORABLE JAMES JOSEPH SPEARMAN
  
  • 2022-05-03: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-03: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2917: SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF NANCY J. ENRIGHT
  
  • 2022-05-03: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2918: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF PAULA M. CASEY
  
  • 2022-05-03: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2919: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF JOHNATHON M. DESLAURIERS
  
  • 2022-05-03: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2920: SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING AND RECOGNIZING MAY 5, 2022, AS "NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-05-05: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-05: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2921: SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING MAY 1 THROUGH MAY 7, 2022, AS "NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS WEEK" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-05-05: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-05: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2922: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MAY 1ST THROUGH MAY 7TH OF 2022, TO BE "TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-05-05: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-05: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2923: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF JOAN NEGRIS
  
  • 2022-05-05: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-05: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2924: SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF BARBARA A. RENAULT
  
  • 2022-05-05: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-05: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2925: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL PRODUCTION TAX CREDITS
  Amends the definition of "Pre-Broadway production".
  • 2022-05-06: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-16: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2926: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF PAWTUCKET TO ISSUE NOT TO EXCEED $330,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS TO FINANCE THE ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, IMPROVEMENT, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF A NEW HIGH SCHOOL AND SCHOOL FACILITIES AND ALL EXPENSES INCIDENT THERETO, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, COSTS OF DESIGN, DEMOLITION, ATHLETIC FIELDS, LANDSCAPING AND PARKING, SUBJECT TO APPROVAL OF STATE HOUSING AID AT A REIMBURSEMENT RATE OR STATE SHARE RATIO OF NOT LESS THAN 83.7% FOR EXPENDITURES ELIGIBLE FOR STATE AID AND PROVIDED THAT THE AUTHORIZATION SHALL BE REDUCED BY ANY GRANT RECEIVED FROM THE SCHOOL BUILDING AUTHORITY CAPITAL FUND
  Authorizes the city of Pawtucket to issue not more than $330,000,000 general obligation bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness to finance the acquisition, construction, improvement, furnishing and equipping of a new high school.
  • 2022-05-06: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2927: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF WESTERLY TO ISSUE NOT TO EXCEED $50,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS TO FINANCE THE CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION, IMPROVEMENT, ALTERATION, REPAIR, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FACILITIES THROUGHOUT THE TOWN, SUBJECT TO APPROVAL OF STATE HOUSING AID AT A REIMBURSEMENT RATE OR STATE SHARE RATIO OF NOT LESS THAN 35% FOR EXPENDITURES ELIGIBLE FOR STATE AID AND PROVIDED THAT THE AUTHORIZATION SHALL BE REDUCED BY ANY GRANT RECEIVED FROM THE SCHOOL BUILDING AUTHORITY CAPITAL FUND
  Authorizes the Town of Westerly to issue bonds and notes in an amount not exceeding $50,000,000 to finance the construction, renovation, improvement, alteration, repair, furnishing and equipping of schools and school facilities throughout the town.
  • 2022-05-06: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Finance
  • 2022-06-06: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-06: Scheduled for consideration (06/08/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-20: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2928: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF SCITUATE TO ISSUE GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND NOTES IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $750,000 TO FINANCE EQUIPMENT, REPAIRS AND/OR IMPROVEMENTS AT THE SCITUATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
  Town of Scituate to issue not more than $750,000 bonds and notes to finance various improvements at the town of Scituate’s schools and constitutes an enabling act of the general assembly that is required pursuant to § 16-7-44.
  • 2022-05-06: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Finance
  • 2022-06-06: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-06: Scheduled for consideration (06/08/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on House Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-20: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2929: AN ACT RELATING TO THE KINGSTON FIRE DISTRICT IN THE TOWN OF SOUTH KINGSTOWN
  Clarifies that qualification to vote in elections of the Kingston Fire District extends to those residents of the District qualified to vote in the town of South Kingstown elections.
  • 2022-05-06: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-12: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-18: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
• Senate Bill #2930: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS -- TOWN OF NARRAGANSETT-- LANDING FEE
  Increases the landing fee at the Port of Galilee in the town of Narragansett from thirty-five cents ($.35) to fifty cents ($.50).
  • 2022-05-06: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-16: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-18: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on House Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-17: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Resolution #2931: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MAY 8TH THROUGH MAY 14TH OF 2022, TO BE "TURQUOISE TAKEOVER WEEK"
  
  • 2022-05-10: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar
  • 2022-05-10: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2932: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MAY 10TH, 2022, TO BE "LUPUS DAY" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-05-10: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-10: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2933: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MAY 15 THROUGH MAY 21, 2022, TO BE "RHODE ISLAND QUAHOG WEEK"
  
  • 2022-05-10: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-10: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2934: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF MARGARET T. BONNER
  
  • 2022-05-10: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-10: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2935: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MAY AS "BETTER HEARING AND SPEECH MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-05-12: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-12: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2936: SENATE RESOLUTION THANKING DR. EWA KING FOR HER TWENTY-TWO YEARS OF DISTINGUISHED SERVICE WITH THE RHODE ISLAND STATE HEALTH LABORATORIES (RISHL) AND WISHING HER CONTINUED SUCCESS IN HER NEW POSITION AS THE CHIEF OF PROGRAMS FOR THE ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES
  
  • 2022-05-12: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-12: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2937: SENATE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING THE WEEK OF MAY 6TH THROUGH MAY 12TH AS "NATIONAL NURSES WEEK" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-05-12: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-12: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2938: SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING THE PROVIDENCE WOMEN'S RUGBY DIVISION II TEAM ON WINNING THE USA RUGBY CLUB DIVISION II ATLANTIC SUPER REGIONAL AND ADVANCING TO THE USA RUGBY CLUB NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
  
  • 2022-05-12: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-12: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2939: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- APPROPRIATIONS -- AMERICAN RECOVERY PROGRAM ACT HOUSING FUND AND CREATING RELIABLE EFFICIENT AFFORDABLE TENANCIES EXPEDITIOUSLY -- "CREATE" HOMES ACT
  Creates a new department of housing, a housing development fund, and a housing land bank program to help create reliable, efficient, affordable tenancies.
  • 2022-05-13: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-05-16: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-22: Committee heard
• Senate Resolution #2940: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MAY 19TH OF 2022 AS "GREEK PONTIAN GENOCIDE REMEMBRANCE DAY" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-05-17: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-17: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2941: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING THE WEEK OF MAY 15 THROUGH MAY 21, 2022 TO BE "NATIONAL POLICE WEEK" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, IN REMEMBRANCE OF ALL POLICE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE LINE OF DUTY
  
  • 2022-05-17: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-17: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2942: SENATE RESOLUTION CONDEMNING THE MAY 14, 2022, MASS SHOOTING IN BUFFALO, NEW YORK
  
  • 2022-05-17: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-17: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2943: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- IDENTIFICATION AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS
  Provides a procedure for the automatic sealing of records of persons acquitted or otherwise exonerated by operation of law or by motion.
  • 2022-05-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-18: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-28: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2944: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- PSYCHIATRY RESOURCE NETWORK FUNDING ACT
  Creates the Rhode Island Psychiatry Resource Network for the primary purpose of equitably determining and collecting assessments for the cost of Psychiatry Resource Network's in the state not covered by other federal or state funding.
  • 2022-05-18: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Resolution #2945: SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING LAUREN AND ZACH BAIN, OWNERS OF LUCKY DOGS FARM, ON BEING NAMED THE RICHMOND GRANGE #6 2022, "AGRICULTURALISTS OF THE YEAR"
  
  • 2022-05-18: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2946: SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING BECKY BURTON ON BEING NAMED "TEACHER OF THE YEAR" BY THE RICHMOND GRANGE #6
  
  • 2022-05-18: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2947: SENATE RESOLUTION RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING THE RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY (RIPTA) TO REINSTATE ITS NONSTOP EXPRESS BUS SERVICE TO SOUTH COUNTY BEACHES
  
  • 2022-05-18: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-19: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2948: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF NURSING SERVICE AGENCIES
  Establishes maximum rate for services provided to client by a nurse may not exceed 200%.
  • 2022-05-18: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2949: AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSE OF ACTION
  Removes the statute of limitations for actions based on sexual abuse or exploitation of a child and would make eligible previously time barred actions.
  • 2022-05-18: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Resolution #2950: SENATE RESOLUTION HONORING DR. TIMOTHY J. BABINEAU ON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT AS PRESIDENT AND CEO OF LIFESPAN
  
  • 2022-05-19: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-19: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/24/2022)
• Senate Resolution #2951: SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF MARY DONNELLY
  
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar
  • 2022-05-20: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2952: AN ACT TO VACATE THE FORFEITURE OR REVOCATION OF THE CHARTER OF MP CLEANING CO. INC.
  
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar
  • 2022-05-20: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-05-26: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on House Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-23: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2953: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- BILITERACY SEAL
  Allows high school students receiving state Silver/Gold Seal of Biliteracy to earn 2 to 4 semesters of college credit toward minor/major in language at public university/community college if requested within 3 yrs. after high school graduation.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-25: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-21: Scheduled for consideration (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-23: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2954: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE RHODE ISLAND EDUCATIONAL RECORDS BILL OF RIGHTS
  Authorizes local education agency (LEA) to supply a community-based organization (CBO), with individual-level student data, provided certain criteria are met.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-25: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2955: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
  Allows the city of East Providence to adopt a tax exemption classification for disabled veterans who have a disability rating of less than one hundred percent (100%).
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/15/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2956: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES
  Allows town of Middletown employees hired after June 30, 2022, various options relating to enrollment in the town's defined contribution plan up to and including December 31, 2022.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2957: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
  Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of RI Public Health Foundation, and any other entity formed in conjunction with, or to facilitate the acquisition of properties of, Rhode Island Public Health Foundation in Providence.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-07: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-10: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2958: AN ACT RELATING TO MAKING APPROPRIATIONS IN SUPPORT OF FY 2022
  Appropriates $1.0 million in state funds to nonprofit hospitals serving large governmentally insured populations with a primary care focused (internal medicine and/or family practice) program that started after January 1, 2021.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee continued
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Bill #2959: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF EAST PROVIDENCE TO FINANCE THE CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION, IMPROVEMENT, ALTERATION, REPAIR, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FACILITIES IN THE CITY BY THE ISSUANCE OF NOT MORE THAN $148,000,000 BONDS, NOTES AND/OR OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS THEREFOR, SUBJECT TO APPROVAL OF STATE HOUSING AID AT A REIMBURSEMENT RATE OR STATE SHARE RATIO OF NOT LESS THAN 48.5% FOR EXPENDITURES ELIGIBLE FOR STATE AID AND PROVIDED THAT THE AUTHORIZATION SHALL BE REDUCED BY ANY GRANT RECEIVED FROM THE SCHOOL BUILDING AUTHORITY CAPITAL FUND
  Authorizes the City of East Providence to issue bonds and notes in an amount not exceeding $148,000,000 to finance the construction, renovation, improvement, alteration, repair furnishing and equipping of schools and school facilities.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Finance
  • 2022-06-12: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Removed from House Consent Calendar and
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2960: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF MIDDLETOWN TO ISSUE NOT TO EXCEED $235,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS TO FINANCE THE CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION, IMPROVEMENT, ALTERATION, REPAIR, LANDSCAPING, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF NEW ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FACILITIES THROUGHOUT THE TOWN, AND ALL ATTENDANT EXPENSES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DEMOLITION, ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURAL COSTS; PROVIDED THAT, THE AUTHORIZATION SHALL BE REDUCED BY THE AMOUNT OF CERTAIN GRANTS RECEIVED FROM STATE BOND PROCEEDS, FROM THE RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OR FROM THE RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL BUILDING AUTHORITY
  Authorizes the town of Middletown to issue not more than $235,000,000 bonds and notes to finance the construction, renovation, improvement, alteration, repair, landscaping, furnishing and equipping of new elementary, middle and high schools.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-08: Referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-06-18: Referred to House Finance
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2961: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF NEWPORT AND TOWN OF MIDDLETOWN TO ESTABLISH A REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AND PROVIDING FOR STATE AID FOR SCHOOL HOUSING COSTS AT SCHOOL HOUSING REIMBURSEMENT RATES FOR REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS WHICH, INCLUDING INCENTIVES, MAY EXCEED 80% OF DEBT SERVICE FOR EXPENDITURES ELIGIBLE FOR STATE AID
  Authorizes the city of Newport and the town of Middletown to establish a regional school district.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-08: Referred to House Finance
  • 2022-06-18: Referred to House Finance
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2962: AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF SECTION 4 OF CHAPTER 1321 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS, 1915, ENTITLED "AN ACT FIXING THE TIME FOR THE ELECTION OF OFFICERS IN THE TOWN OF SCITUATE" AS PREVIOUSLY AMENDED BY CHAPTER 3777 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1956 AND AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF SCITUATE TO CHANGE THE DATE OF ITS FISCAL YEAR AND ALLOWING THE TAX LEVY FOR A TRANSITIONAL FISCAL YEAR TO EXCEED THE MAXIMUM SET FORTH IN § 44-5-2.
  Changes the annual financial town meeting date for Town of Scituate to the first Tuesday in the month of June starting in the calendar year 2024.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-05: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Resolution #2963: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MAY 26, 2022, AS "COX CHARITIES DAY" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-05-23: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2964: AN ACT RELATING TO INCORPORATE THE FOSTER FIRE DISTRICT
  Creates a Foster Fire District with authority to levy taxes, for the purpose of providing fire and rescue services to the town of Foster, subject to its approval by qualified electors within the town of Foster, at the November 8, 2022, general election.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2965: AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 492 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 2006 AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE CENTRAL COVENTRY FIRE DISTRICT
  Amends the Central Coventry Fire District Charter to provide for purchasing, installing, operating and maintaining street lighting and the funding for its debt. Provides for the appointment of an Assistant Treasurer.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate held on desk
• Senate Bill #2966: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF PAWTUCKET TO PROVIDE FOR THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, RECONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND OTHER TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DRAINAGE AND LANDSCAPING AND AUTHORIZING THE FINANCING THEREOF, INCLUDING THE ISSUE OF NOT MORE THAN $1,200,000 BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS THEREFOR, TO FUND THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM FOR THE TWO FISCAL YEARS 2024 AND 2025
  Authorizes the city of Pawtucket to issue not more than $1,200,000 general obligation bonds, notes and other indebtedness to finance design, construction, reconstruction and repair of streets and sidewalks including, drainage and landscaping.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/15/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2967: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF PAWTUCKET TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION AND IMPROVEMENT, REPAIR, ALTERATION, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN THE CITY AND AUTHORIZING THE FINANCING THEREOF, INCLUDING THE ISSUE OF NOT MORE THAN $18,350,000 BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS THEREFOR, TO FUND THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM FOR THE TWO FISCAL YEARS 2024 AND 2025
  Authorizes the city of Pawtucket to issue not more than $18,350,000 general obligation bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness to finance the construction, renovation, improvement, repair, alteration, furnishing and equipping of public buildings.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/15/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2968: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF PAWTUCKET TO PROVIDE FOR THE PLANNING, EVALUATION, DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, EQUIPPING AND RECONSTRUCTION OF THE SANITARY SEWERS AND STORM SEWERS IN THE CITY AND AUTHORIZING THE FINANCING THEREOF, INCLUDING THE ISSUE OF NOT MORE THAN $1,000,000 BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS THEREFOR, TO FUND THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM FOR THE TWO FISCAL YEARS 2024 AND 2025
  Authorizes the city of Pawtucket to issue up to $1,000,000 general obligation bonds, notes and other indebtedness to finance the planning, evaluation, design, construction, equipping and reconstruction of the sewer and sanitation system.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/15/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2969: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF PAWTUCKET TO PROVIDE FOR THE REPAVING OF STREETS IN THE CITY AND ALL COSTS RELATED THERETO AND AUTHORIZING THE FINANCING THEREOF, INCLUDING THE ISSUE OF NOT MORE THAN $3,000,000 BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS THEREFOR, TO FUND THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM FOR THE TWO FISCAL YEARS 2024 AND 2025
  Authorizes the city of Pawtucket to issue not more than $3,000,000 general obligation bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness to finance the repaving of streets and all costs related thereto.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/15/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2970: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF PAWTUCKET TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION, RECONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF BRIDGES AND ALL COSTS INCIDENTAL OR RELATED THERETO AND AUTHORIZING THE FINANCING THEREOF, INCLUDING THE ISSUE OF NOT MORE THAN $1,000,000 BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS THEREFOR, TO FUND THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM FOR THE TWO FISCAL YEARS 2024 AND 2025
  Authorizes the city of Pawtucket to issue not more than $1,000,000 general obligation bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness to finance the construction, reconstruction and repair of bridges and all costs incidental or related thereto.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/15/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2971: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF PAWTUCKET TO PROVIDE FOR THE RENOVATION, CONSTRUCTION, RECONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPPING OF PUBLIC RECREATION FACILITIES IN THE CITY INCLUDING LAND ACQUISITION AND AUTHORIZING THE FINANCING THEREOF, INCLUDING THE ISSUE OF NOT MORE THAN $4,100,000 BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS THEREFOR, TO FUND THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM FOR THE TWO FISCAL YEARS 2024 AND 2025
  Authorizes the city of Pawtucket to issue not more than $4,100,000 general obligation bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness to finance the construction, renovation, construction, reconstruction and equipping of public recreation facilities.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/15/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2972: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF PAWTUCKET TO PROVIDE FOR THE IMPROVEMENT AND REPLACEMENT OF ROAD SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS AND TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES IN THE CITY OF PAWTUCKET AND AUTHORIZING THE FINANCING THEREOF, INCLUDING THE ISSUE OF NOT MORE THAN $1,000,000 BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS THEREFOR, TO FUND THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM FOR THE TWO FISCAL YEARS 2024 AND 2025
  Authorizes the city of Pawtucket to issue not more than $1,000,000 general obligation bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness to finance the improvement and replacement of road safety improvements and traffic control devices in the city.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/15/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2973: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING
  Prevents insurance companies from treating widowed persons differently than married persons when establishing or maintaining an insured’s rate or classification respecting the operation of a personal motor vehicle.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #2974: AN ACT RELATING TO AUTHORIZING THE AMENDMENT OF THE WARWICK CITY CHARTER REGARDING NEW ELECTED TERM LENGTHS AND TERM LIMITS FOR MAYOR AND COUNCIL ELECTIVE TERMS COMMENCING JANUARY, 2025
  Approves Warwick city charter amendments increasing mayor's term of office from 2 to 4 yrs, limited to 2 consecutive terms limiting council members to 6 consecutive 2 yr. terms effective 1/1/25 subject to general/special election voter approval.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-07: Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2975: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- RHODE ISLAND CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENDITURES REPORTING
  Authorizes the reopening of a dissolved campaign account and fund upon notice to the board of elections.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2976: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Defines "electric arm" as a handheld device that transmits an electric charge from the device to a person, including a stun gun or a taser, subject to the various protections of firearms and removes stun gun from the list of prohibited weapons.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2977: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WORKERS' COMPENSATION
  This act is the annual workers' compensation omnibus.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-07: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-10: Referred to House Labor
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-28: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2978: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- ELECTRICIANS
  Clarifies the types of electrical services that require an electrical contractor's license.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-01: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-08: Referred to House Corporations
• Senate Bill #2979: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- ELECTRICIANS
  Provides penalties for owners of structures who interfere with inspections by electrical investigators.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-07: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-10: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-19: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2980: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LABOR AND PAYMENT OF DEBTS BY CONTRACTORS
  Requires a contractor, subcontractor or public body to include offsite fabrication work in weekly certified prevailing wage records.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-03: Meeting postponed (06/07/2022)
• Senate Bill #2981: AN ACT RELATING TO MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- BURIAL OF VETERANS -- HMONG LAOTIAN GUERILLA UNITS
  Provides certain benefits to members of the Hmong Laotian special guerilla units who served in the secret war in the Kingdom of Laos during the Vietnam War in conjunction with the United States armed forces as granted to Rhode Island veterans.
  • 2022-05-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #2982: SENATE RESOLUTION HONORING PAUL J. AGATIELLO, M.D., F.A.C.P. ON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT
  
  • 2022-05-24: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2983: SENATE RESOLUTION SUPPORTING WILLIAM M. DAVIES, JR. CAREER AND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AND COMMEMORATING 50 YEARS OF CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-05-24: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-24: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2984: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- HOUSING MAINTENANCE AND OCCUPANCY CODE
  Allows a municipality to impose a debt in favor of the corporate unit against the owner when the municipality relocates the occupant and authorizes the corporate unit to choose the vendors to assist qualifying homeowners with repair costs.
  • 2022-05-24: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Resolution #2985: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MAY 2022 TO BE "ELECTRICAL SAFETY MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-05-25: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2986: SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING DENNIS ROY, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM (EBCAP), ON RECEIVING THE "2022 VISION AWARD" FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND STAFF OF EBCAP
  
  • 2022-05-31: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2987: SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING LISA GARCIA ON BEING NAMED THE "2022 RHODE ISLAND TEACHER OF THE YEAR"
  
  • 2022-05-31: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-05-31: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2988: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
  Permits the city council of the city of Providence to extend the period for tax exemption from a maximum of 20 years for an additional 10 years pertaining to the real property located 111 Westminster Street, also identified as 55 Kennedy Plaza.
  • 2022-06-01: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• Senate Resolution #2989: SENATE RESOLUTION JOYOUSLY CELEBRATING AND COMMEMORATING JUNE OF 2022, AS "PRIDE MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-06-02: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2990: SENATE RESOLUTION REAFFIRMING THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN RHODE ISLAND AND TAIWAN, AND SUPPORTING ENHANCED BILATERAL TRADE RELATIONS AND TAIWAN'S INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION
  
  • 2022-06-02: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2991: SENATE RESOLUTION HONORING STEVEN R. DETOY ON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT AFTER THIRTY YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE WITH THE RHODE ISLAND MEDICAL SOCIETY
  
  • 2022-06-02: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-06-02: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #2992: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES
  Amends certain provisions relative to the application for absentee mail ballots, including a process to be included on a permanent mail voter list.
  • 2022-06-02: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
• Senate Bill #2993: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES
  Exempts the property located at 777 Elmwood Avenue, Providence, Rhode Island from the provisions of this section in order to hold a Class BL license.
  • 2022-06-03: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-07: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-10: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-06-15: Scheduled for consideration (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-27: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-05: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #2994: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND ALL-PAYER HEALTH CARE PAYMENT REFORM ACT
  Establishes the Health Spending Accountability and Transparency Act and the Rhode Island All-Payer Health Care Payment Reform Act.
  • 2022-06-03: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A
• Senate Bill #2995: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Authorizes the administration of the division of motor vehicles to make available, to Purple Heart Medal recipients, up to two (2) sets of special registration plates.
  • 2022-06-03: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-24: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2996: AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY - ANIMAL CARE
  Waives the adoption fee to adopt a dog or cat from a public animal shelter for a veteran that presents a current and valid driver’s license or identification card with the word "veteran" printed on its face.
  • 2022-06-03: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #2997: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL SALES
  Authorizes the Providence board of licenses to exempt from the provisions of this section any proposed retailer Class B or Class BV licenses located at 371 Smith Street, Plat 68, Lot 2 of the applicable Providence tax assessment map.
  • 2022-06-03: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-07: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-10: Referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Resolution #2998: SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING THE EXETER JOB CORPS ACADEMY ON WINNING THE 2022 RI PROSTART® HIGH SCHOOL CULINARY ARTS, FOODSERVICE AND HOTEL MANAGEMENT COMPETITION
  
  • 2022-06-07: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-06-07: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #2999: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING JUNE OF 2022, TO BE "MEN'S HEALTH MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-06-07: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-06-07: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #3000: SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING GARY FURTADO ON HIS RETIREMENT AS THE PRESIDENT & CEO OF NAVIGANT CREDIT UNION AFTER FORTY-FOUR YEARS OF DISTINGUISHED SERVICE WITHIN THE RHODE ISLAND BUSINESS COMMUNITY
  
  • 2022-06-07: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-06-07: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #3001: SENATE RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING AND COMMEMORATING THE 78TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE D-DAY LANDINGS IN NORMANDY, FRANCE, AND THE EVENTUAL LIBERATION OF EUROPE
  
  • 2022-06-07: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-06-07: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #3002: JOINT RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING RHODE ISLAND'S OLD GROWTH FORESTS
  Creates an 11 member commission whose purpose would be to study and make recommendations regarding RI's old growth forests, and who would report back to the House and Senate by August 18, 2023, and would expire on December 31, 2023.
  • 2022-06-07: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-10: Referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
• Senate Resolution #3003: SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING ABBY ELENA MANSOLILLO ON BEING NAMED MISS RHODE ISLAND 2022
  
  • 2022-06-09: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-06-09: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #3004: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING JUNE 10, 2022, AS THE "DAY OF PORTUGAL" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-06-09: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-06-09: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #3005: SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING THE REPORTING AND EXPIRATION DATES OF THE SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO REVIEW AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING THE EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE ADMINISTRATION OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES PROGRAMS IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  Extends the reporting and expiration dates of the commission to review and make recommendations regarding Health and Human Services programs in RI, from July 1, 2022, to September 1, 2022, and would expire on January 1, 2023.
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #3006: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
  Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Manissean Tribal Council, a Rhode Island nonprofit corporation, located in the town of New Shoreham, Rhode Island.
  • 2022-06-09: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #3007: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES
  Allows the town of Glocester to tax the real and tangible property of Factory Mutual Insurance Company and would allow the town of Glocester to increase their tax levy by 12.46% for the fiscal year 2023.
  • 2022-06-09: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
• Senate Bill #3008: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF WARWICK TO ISSUE NOT TO EXCEED $350,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS TO FINANCE THE CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION, IMPROVEMENT, ALTERNATION, REPAIR, LANDSCAPING, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF TWO NEW HIGH SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FACILITIES TO REPLACE PILGRIM HIGH SCHOOL AND TOLLGATE HIGH SCHOOL, AND ALL ATTENDANT EXPENSES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DEMOLITION, ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURAL COSTS, SUBJECT TO APPROVAL OF STATE HOUSING AID AT A REIMBURSEMENT RATE OR STATE SHARE RATIO OF NOT LESS THAN 45% AT THE TIME OF ISSUANCE AND PROVIDED THAT THE AUTHORIZATION SHALL BE REDUCED BY THE AMOUNT OF CERTAIN GRANTS RECEIVED FROM STATE BOND PROCEEDS, FROM THE RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OR FROM THE RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL BUILDING AUTHORITY
  Authorizes the city of Warwick to issue up to $350,000,000 general obligation bonds, to finance the construction, renovation, improvement, and equipping of two new high schools and school facilities to replace Pilgrim and Tollgate High School.
  • 2022-06-09: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #3009: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF NARRAGANSETT TO FINANCE THE IMPROVEMENT, REPLACEMENT, CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION, REPAIR, RECONSTRUCTION AND/OR RESTORATION OF ROADWAYS, SIDEWALKS, STORM DRAINS, PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND OTHER PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE TOWN OF NARRAGANSETT AND TO ISSUE NOT MORE THAN $20,000,000 BONDS AND NOTES THEREFOR
  Authorizes the town of Narragansett to issue up to $20,000,000 general obligation bonds, notes and other indebtedness to finance the improvement, replacement, construction, and repair of roadways, sidewalks, drains, and buildings.
  • 2022-06-09: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-20: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #3010: AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- NARRAGANSETT BAY COMMISSION
  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.
  • 2022-06-09: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
• Senate Bill #3011: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES
  Restores the original legislative intent that employees may be held individually liable for their own discriminatory conduct.
  • 2022-06-09: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
• Senate Bill #3012: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES
  Eliminates repealed statute references/creates mechanism for employees to enforce right to continuation of medical benefits/reinstates status and benefits after returning from being a temporary caregiver and for benefits relating to Sunday wage laws.
  • 2022-06-09: Introduced, referred to Senate Labor
• Senate Resolution #3013: SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING JUNE 12, 2022, TO BE "WOMEN VETERANS APPRECIATION DAY" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #3014: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
  Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Cape Verdean Museum Exhibit, located in Pawtucket.
  • 2022-06-10: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #3015: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE COLLEGE AND CAREER SUCCESS FOR ALL STUDENTS ACT
  Requires all high school seniors in the state to complete a federal financial aid application (FAFSA) or a Rhode Island Alternative Financial Aid Application, offered through the Community College of Rhode Island in order to graduate high school.
  • 2022-06-13: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Resolution #3016: SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING THE ELEANOR SLATER HOSPITAL/ZAMBARANO UNIT ON THE RECOGNITION OF "ZAMBARANO DAY" ON JUNE 14, 2022
  
  • 2022-06-14: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #3017: SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF PAUL BUCCI
  
  • 2022-06-14: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-06-14: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #3018: SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING NANCY FRASER ON HER RETIREMENT AFTER THIRTY-TWO YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE AS A TEACHER
  
  • 2022-06-14: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #3019: AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- ANIMAL CARE
  Allows emergency medical treatment to police dogs injured in the line of duty, which includes transporting by ambulance.
  • 2022-06-14: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #3020: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Authorizes the administrator of the division of motor vehicles to make available a special registration motor vehicle plate for the Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association.
  • 2022-06-14: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Resolution #3021: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF CHRYSOULA ZERVA
  
  • 2022-06-14: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar
  • 2022-06-14: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #3022: SENATE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING "JUNETEENTH NATIONAL FREEDOM DAY" ON JUNE 19, 2022
  
  • 2022-06-16: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-06-16: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #3023: SENATE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING JUNE 16, 2022, AS "ESSENTIAL WORKER APPRECIATION DAY" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-06-16: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-06-16: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #3024: SENATE RESOLUTION JOYOUSLY CELEBRATING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICAN HELLENIC EDUCATIONAL PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION
  
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #3025: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS
  Amends the net metering statute to exclude net-metering systems from a residential zone.
  • 2022-06-16: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-06-16: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Bill #3026: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX
  Exempts from state taxation certain pension benefits that originate from, and were taxed in another state.
  • 2022-06-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-06-21: Meeting postponed (06/21/2022)
• Senate Bill #3027: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES
  Same as 21H-5634 -- Requires cities and towns to assess renewable energy resources to be taxed as tangible property and the real property on which it is located shall not be reclassified, revalued or reassessed.
  • 2022-06-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-06-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Defeated in Committee
• Senate Resolution #3028: JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO PAY CERTAIN CLAIMS
  
  • 2022-06-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #3029: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RHODE ISLAND PROGRAM TO ADDRESS ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
  Amends the composition of the Advisory Council on Alzheimers Disease Research and Treatment" to include 6 additional members and renames the council the "Advisory Council on Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorders."
  • 2022-06-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #3030: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- OFFICE OF THE STATE FIRE MARSHAL
  Provides certain parties may not enter onto property where a fire occurred for solicitation or inspection of a fire loss, without the permission of the owner or occupant, until the property is released to the owners or occupants.
  • 2022-06-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #3031: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- APPLICABILITY OF TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
  Allows the city council of the city of Warwick to enact ordinances authorizing the Warwick police department to impounded off-road non-registered vehicles that are unlawfully used on public streets.
  • 2022-06-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #3032: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS -- ADOPTION OF CHILDREN
  Allows the division of vital statistics to provide an original birth certificate of an adult adopted person to the adopted person's lineal descendants or the legal representative of the adopted person if the adopted person is deceased.
  • 2022-06-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #3033: AN ACT RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- GOVERNOR'S COUNCIL ON BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
  Increases the membership of the governor's council on behavioral health from thirty-one (31) to thirty-two (32) members by adding the president of the Hospital Association of Rhode Island or a designee.
  • 2022-06-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #3034: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
  Requires operators of nursing homes to provide the department of health with detailed information on ownership and any person having an interest in the land, building or operation of the facility.
  • 2022-06-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #3035: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES
  Provides health care coverage for laparoscopic removal of uterine fibroids, including uterine artery embolization intraoperative ultrasound guidance and monitoring and radiofrequency ablation, commencing January 1, 2023.
  • 2022-06-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-24: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #3036: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- RHODE ISLAND UNIFORM COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE ACT
  Eliminates the exemption for firefighters from having to complete a road safety test in order to obtain a commercial driver’s license.
  • 2022-06-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #3037: AN ACT RELATING TO AUTHORIZING AN AMENDMENT TO THE NORTH PROVIDENCE CHARTER INCREASING THE ANNUAL SALARY OF MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, COMMENCING JANUARY 3, 2023
  Amends the North Providence town charter so that, commencing on January 3, 2023, the annual salary for town council members, increases from eight thousand dollars ($8,000) to fourteen thousand four hundred dollars ($14,400).
  • 2022-06-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #3038: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF NORTH PROVIDENCE TO ESTABLISH, ADOPT, AND REAPPORTION THE TOWN COUNCIL AND SCHOOL COMMITTEE VOTING WARDS
  Authorizes and ratifies the action of the North Providence town council which reapportions and redistricts its voting wards based on the most recent federal decennial census.
  • 2022-06-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #3039: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- SEXUAL ASSAULT EVIDENCE KITS
  Requires any entity that receives, maintains, stores or preserves sexual assault evidence kits to submit a report to the department of health, annually, setting forth the total number of untested kits in possession of such entity.
  • 2022-06-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #3040: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' TENURE
  Requires a school committee or the governing body of a charter or private school to submit the identity of any teacher terminated for cause to the Rhode Island department of education.
  • 2022-06-17: Introduced, referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #3041: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES
  Amends the statutory laws relating to driving under the influence and refusal to submit to chemical tests by adding the requirement for blood and/or urine testing.
  • 2022-06-18: Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-06-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-21: Scheduled for reconsideration (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed as amended (floor amendment)
• Senate Resolution #3042: JOINT RESOLUTION RELATING TO PUBLIC CORPORATION DEBT MANAGEMENT
  This Joint Resolution would authorize approval of financing in an amount not to exceed three hundred fifty-six million dollars ($356,000,000) for construction of a new apartment style residence facility at the University of Rhode Island.
  • 2022-06-18: Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-06-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-22: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-23: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #3043: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- 2021 ACT ON CLIMATE
  Establishes the Rhode Island executive climate change coordinating council equity and environmental justice advisory board to advise on decision-making and equitable outcomes.
  • 2022-06-19: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #3044: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING
  Permits multi-family rental apartment units to be built as part of a comprehensive plan and to be included in the calculation of low or moderate income housing.
  • 2022-06-20: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #3045: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING
  Amends the composition of the state housing appeals board by adding one member from the Center for Justice and one member Direct Action for Rights and Equality, as well as two (2) alternates selected by the governor.
  • 2022-06-20: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #3046: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING
  Revises the comprehensive permitting process and the appeals process in regard to low and moderate income housing. It also adds two (2) additional alternates to the state housing appeals board.
  • 2022-06-20: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Resolution #3047: SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF NORMAN GEORGE BESTOSO
  
  • 2022-06-20: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #3048: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING
  Provides for the establishment of the repurposing of vacant and unused school and other municipal buildings for affordable housing program, within the Rhode Island housing corporation.
  • 2022-06-20: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #3049: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING
  Requires the office of housing and community development to prepare and annual report on Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers.
  • 2022-06-20: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #3050: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING
  Provides that the Rhode Island housing resources commission would promulgate regulations for the selection and appointment of approved monitoring agents to oversee affordable housing units.
  • 2022-06-20: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #3051: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING
  Directs the Rhode Island housing and mortgage finance corporation to maintain an online database of low income rental units on the corporation's website.
  • 2022-06-20: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #3052: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING
  Directs the division of statewide planning to maintain records and prepare an annual status report on low and moderate income housing applications.
  • 2022-06-20: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Bill #3053: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET METERING
  Adds a definition for the term "private entity" to the "Net Metering" chapter of title 39, and includes private entity within the provisions of the definition for "eligible net-metering system" and "eligible net-metering system site".
  • 2022-06-20: Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• Senate Resolution #3054: SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING AND THANKING KATHRYN CROWLEY, SUPERINTENDENT OF THE EAST PROVIDENCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, ON THE OCCASION OF HER RETIREMENT
  
  • 2022-06-21: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-06-21: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #3055: SENATE RESOLUTION HONORING LINDA KATZ, J.D., CO-FOUNDER AND POLICY DIRECTOR OF THE ECONOMIC PROGRESS INSTITUTE, ON THE OCCASION OF HER RETIREMENT AFTER FORTY-FIVE YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE TO SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
  
  • 2022-06-21: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-06-21: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #3056: SENATE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING RHODE ISLAND'S OLD GROWTH FORESTS
  This resolution would create an 11 member commission whose purpose would be to study and make recommendations regarding Rhode Island's old growth forests, and which would report back to the Senate by August 18, 2023, and expire on December 31, 2023.
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #3057: SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING THE LASALLE ACADEMY BOYS LACROSSE TEAM ON THE INCREDIBLE ACHIEVEMENT OF WINNING THEIR TENTH STRAIGHT RHODE ISLAND DIVISION I STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
  
  • 2022-06-21: Recommended for Immediate Consideration
  • 2022-06-21: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #3058: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF COMMERCE
  Provides that the deputy secretary of commerce and housing become the secretary of housing and retains all the powers and duties of the deputy secretary of commerce and housing. Also creates a new department of housing effective January 1, 2023.
  • 2022-06-21: Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-06-21: Scheduled for consideration (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-24: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• Senate Resolution #3059: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING JEANNE L. MOULAY
  
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #3060: SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF FRANK KENDRA
  
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
• Senate Bill #3061: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Creates a special motor vehicle registration plate for The Rose Island Lighthouse Foundation, Inc.
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Bill #3062: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
  Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Sophia Academy, San Miguel Education Center, and Community Preparatory School, Inc., all of which are located in the city of Providence.
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• Senate Resolution #3063: SENATE RESOLUTION RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION TO UNDERTAKE A DOCKET TO REVIEW, ANALYZE, AND PROVIDE A REPORT ON SOLAR ENERGY DEVELOPMENT IN RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
• Senate Resolution #3064: SENATE RESOLUTION RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION (PUC) TO STUDY AND IDENTIFY ISSUES RELATED TO COMPENSATION MECHANISMS FOR ELECTRIC STORAGE RESOURCES, OWNERSHIP OF STORAGE DEVICES, AND CAPACITY CONNECTED TO THE ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION OR TRANSMISSION SYSTEM
  
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate read and passed
• House Bill #6600: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LILA MANFIELD SAPINSLEY COMPASSIONATE CARE ACT
  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.
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6601: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES
  Same as 21H-5600--Includes the general assembly elections within the category of elections subject to the risk-limiting audits within the jurisdiction of the board of elections.
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/27/2022)
  • 2022-01-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6602: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS
  Same as 21H-5859--Provides that any reports of investigations conducted by internal affair units or their equivalent are public records.
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-25: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6603: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- ACCESS TO ADVANCED PLACEMENT COURSES FOR ALL STUDENTS ACT
  Same as 21H-5522 SUB A/2 -- Establishes a process for CCRI, RIC and URI to accept for college credit an advanced placement subject test score of three (3) ("qualified") or better in an advanced placement course.
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-11: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-20: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #6604: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Same as 21H-5254 SUB A -- Authorizes administrator DMV to issue special license plates to Friends of Pomham Rocks Lighthouse.
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on House Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: House read and passed
  • 2022-06-14: Referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-02: Effective without Governor's signature
• House Resolution #6606: HOUSE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A PLAN AND THE DESIGN OF A VIETNAM MEMORIAL TO BE LOCATED IN THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
  Same as 21H-6285-Creates a 9 member commission to study and make recommendations for a plan and design of a Vietnam Memorial to be located in the City of Providence, and who would report back to the House by January 31, 2023, and expire on April 30, 2023.
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-08: Placed on House Calendar (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: House read and passed
• House Bill #6607: AN ACT TO AMEND THE LANGUAGE OF THE LEASE OF THE BENEFIT STREET ARMORY BETWEEN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND THE PROVIDENCE MARINE CORPS OF ARTILLERY
  Same as 21H-5669 -- Authorizes the Department of Administration to amend lease to Providence Marine Corps of Artillery to use hall for promotion of the arsenal and to sublease the rented space.
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-08: Placed on House Calendar (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: House read and passed
  • 2022-04-26: Referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-22: Meeting postponed (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-02: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-16: Signed by Governor
  • 2022-06-15: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #6608: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION
  Same as 21H-5209 --Grants a tax credit for any tax placed upon the sale of automobile parts which have a core charge.
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6609: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- PEER-TO-PEER CAR SHARING PROGRAM
  Same as 21H-6429 --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.
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-20: Placed on House Calendar (05/26/2022)
  • 2022-05-26: House read and passed
  • 2022-05-27: Referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #6610: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY
  Provides that a cosmetic medical service would be performed by a qualified licensed or certified non-physician only if the services have been delegated by a medical director responsible for on-site supervision of the services.
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-25: Meeting postponed (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-05-27: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on House Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-10: Referred to Senate Health and Human Services
• House Bill #6613: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- CORROSION PREVENTION AND MITIGATION WORK REQUIREMENTS
  Requires all contractors and subcontractors who perform construction, alteration, demolition, installation, repair or maintenance work, pursuant to public works contracts, to comply with industry standards for infrastructure corrosion prevention.
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on House Calendar (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-16: Signed by Governor
  • 2022-06-15: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #6614: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- LARGE CAPACITY FEEDING DEVICE BAN OF 2022
  Same as 21H-5554 --Makes it a felony for an individual to possess any semi-automatic firearm magazine which is capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition. Violation is punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment or a fine of up to $5,000.
  • 2022-06-07: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on House Calendar (06/10/2022)
  • 2022-06-10: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-14: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-14: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-20: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #6616: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Same as 21H-6482 --Prohibits the sale or transfer of ammunition unless the purchaser successfully undergoes a background check.
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6617: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN
  Same as 21H-6235 -- Establishes a military family advocacy program to address child abuse and neglect in military families.
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-29: Placed on House Calendar (05/04/2022)
  • 2022-05-04: House read and passed
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-31: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-07: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #6618: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - PAYMENTS TO FIRE COMPANIES
  Same as 21H-5118 -- Provides for an appropriation of state funds to cities and towns who are members of the Narragansett Bay marine task force (NBMTF) for the maintenance of boats providing services to Narragansett Bay.
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6619: AN ACT RELATING TO MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- CIVIL AIR PATROL ACT
  Same as 21H-5111 -- Authorizes state assistance to the Rhode Island wing of the Civil Air Patrol to support continued training and equipment for use by the state during times of natural disaster or emergency.
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Withdrawn at sponsor's request
• House Bill #6621: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT)
  Same as 21H-5352 -- Creates a local advisory committee on special education in every school district to advise the school district on matters concerning the unmet needs of students with disabilities.
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/26/2022)
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-24: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (01/26/2022)
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6622: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- PRIMARY ELECTIONS
  Same as 21H-6465 --Changes the process of nominating candidates for the general election, by replacing the political party primary with a primary general election.
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/27/2022)
  • 2022-01-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6623: AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY--LEVY AND SALE ON EXECUTION
  Same as 21H-5038 -- Exempts from attachment five hundred dollars ($500) in savings or deposits in financial or banking institutions.
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for consideration (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-02-11: Placed on House Calendar (02/17/2022)
  • 2022-02-17: House read and passed
  • 2022-03-01: Referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #6624: AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- ANIMAL ABUSER REGISTRY ACT
  Same as 21H-5040 --Creates the "animal abuser registry act" which would require all persons convicted of felonies involving animal abuse, to register with an online registry to be established and maintained by the department of public safety.
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-25: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6625: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- SCHOOL BUILDING AUTHORITY
  Same as 21H-5444--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.
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/11/2022)
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-10: Meeting postponed (05/11/2022)
• House Bill #6626: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHER'S RETIREMENT
  Same as 21H-5668 --Allows teachers, state and municipal employees to retire upon the earlier of reaching age sixty (60) with thirty (30) years of service or the employee's retirement eligibility date under present state statutes.
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6627: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT
  Same as 21H-6311-For purposes of teachers' retirement benefits, amends the definition "former spouse divorced" to include someone who was married to a deceased member 10+ yrs & deceased member was required by court order to contribute support post-divorce
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6628: AN ACT RELATING TO CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS -- THE RHODE ISLAND LIMITED-LIABILITY COMPANY ACT
  Same as 21H-5348 --Permits a member or members of a limited-liability company to avoid dissolution by buying the units owned by the other member or members seeking dissolution.
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-25: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6629: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANY SERVICE
  Same as 21H-5587--Allows New Shoreham to regulate transportation network company services.
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/16/2022)
  • 2022-02-16: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6630: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- PEN REGISTERS AND TRAP AND TRACE DEVICES
  Same as 21H-5866--Prohibits the use of a stingray cell-site simulator device by any law enforcement agency except upon application for its use and the granting of an order by the presiding justice of the superior court.
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-25: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6631: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DUTIES OF UTILITIES AND CARRIERS
  Same as 21H-5440-Requires electric transmission & 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
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-25: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6632: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- PUBLIC UTILITIES
  Same as 21H-5986 --Increases penalties for damages to electric/cellular communication lines from $3,000 to $50,000/imprisonment from 2 to 10 years, or both/requires restitution for economic harm/increases water supply systems imprisonment to 10 years plus
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-25: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6633: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Same as 21H-6044 --Creates a special license plate for the not for profit Atlantic Shark Institute.
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/26/2022)
  • 2022-01-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on House Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: House read and passed
  • 2022-06-10: Referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-24: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-06: Effective without Governor's signature
• House Bill #6634: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES--LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION
  Same as 21H-5684 -- Exempts bicycles from sales and use tax.
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6635: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION--STATE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS METRICS
  Same as 21H-5685 --Requires that the division of planning create a checklist of environmental and energy issues that state construction projects which cost in excess of $10,000,000 would need to consider.
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6636: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- QUADRICYCLE PASSENGER VEHICLES
  21H-5694 Sub A/3) --Authorizes municipalities to regulate the use of quadricycle passenger vehicles within their borders, provided there is approval by the local police chief.
  • 2022-01-14: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-14: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/18/2022)
  • 2022-01-18: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for consideration (02/16/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-02-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-02-25: Placed on House Calendar (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-03-11: Referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
• House Bill #6637: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - SEXUAL ASSAULT
  Same as 21H-6049 --Establishes criteria for the criminal offense of sexual assault when the victim is in the custody of a peace officer/provides that a person convicted of custodial sexual assault would face imprisonment for not more than 3 years.
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-22: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6638: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES
  Same as 21H-6093 --Prohibits single-family residential zoning in municipalities with populations of over twenty-thousand (20,000) and mandate that those municipalities adopt zoning regulations for middle housing in single-family residential zones.
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/16/2022)
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-02-15: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (02/16/2022)
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6639: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HOUSING CONSTRUCTION
  Same as 21H-6074 --Creates the housing jobs department and a series of other initiatives designed to create jobs in housing construction, specifically affordable and low income housing, green and solar energy jobs and programs for low income individuals.
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6642: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND -- ZONING ORDINANCES
  Same as 21H-5568 SUB A -- Provides planning board approval votes require majority of members present at time of vote/quorum of zoning review board would authorize voting members including alternatives.
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for consideration (02/17/2022)
  • 2022-02-17: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-02-25: Placed on House Calendar (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: House read and passed
  • 2022-03-11: Referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-14: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Senate passed as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-20: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #6643: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- GENETIC COUNSELORS LICENSING ACT
  Same as 21H-5147 -- Provides a statutory framework for the licensing and regulation of genetic counselors.
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-25: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-07: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-03-07: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-11: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-03-18: Placed on House Calendar (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-04-05: Referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #6644: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT
  Same as 21H-5141 -- Increases the age of children able to utilize a recorded forensic interview for cases of sexual abuse in grand jury testimony -- child assault from age fourteen (14) to age eighteen (18).
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for consideration (02/17/2022)
  • 2022-02-17: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-04: Placed on House Calendar (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: House read and passed
  • 2022-03-11: Referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #6645: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- TRANSFER OF VEHICLES
  Same as 21H-6274 -- Extends from twenty (20) days to thirty (30) days, the period of time that a newly purchased motor vehicle may be temporarily operated, using the purchaser's current licenses plates.
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House read and passed
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-28: Signed by Governor
• House Resolution #6646: HOUSE RESOLUTION RESPECTFULLY URGING THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO PASS LEGISLATION ESTABLISHING AN IMPROVED "MEDICARE FOR ALL" SINGLE PAYER PROGRAM THAT WOULD PROVIDE UNIVERSAL, COMPREHENSIVE AND AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE
  Same as 21H-6078--
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/08/2022)
  • 2022-02-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6647: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- MEDICAL INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR EPINEPHRINE INJECTORS
  Same as 21H-5463--Requires group health plans and health insurance issuers that provide prescription benefits to cover prescribed epinephrine injectors and cartridges/No copayment or deductible would be required to obtain a prescribed epinephrine injector
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/11/2022)
  • 2022-05-11: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6649: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS
  Same as 21H-5827 A-Requires the dept of education in coordination with attorney general to collect & publish data concerning school resource officers in each district, including use of force against students/arrests/referrals to law enforcement or courts.
  • 2022-05-28: Scheduled for consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on House Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: House read and passed
  • 2022-06-09: Referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-17: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #6650: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ESTABLISHING AN OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
  Same as 21H-5795 -- Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to investigate, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the expenditure of public funds.
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6652: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN
  Same as 21H-5619 -- Requires children who seek a special limited work permit to successfully complete a training program which shall address workers' rights, workplace health and safety, and workers' compensation, to be established and funded by the DLT.
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on House Calendar (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: House read and passed
  • 2022-06-02: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-16: Signed by Governor
  • 2022-06-15: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #6654: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE CONSUMER PROTECTION IN EYE CARE ACT
  Provides for consumer protection in eye care services by developing standards and enforcement protocols in the provision of eye care services.
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-25: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on House Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-10: Referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #6656: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - MAIL BALLOTS
  Same as 21H-6004 Sub A as amended --Entitles disabled and military voters to utilize electronically transmitted ballots.
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House read and passed
  • 2022-06-20: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #6657: AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- SOLAR PANELS
  Same as 21H-6436 --Would establish group for placement of solar panels on inter-state highways, would use America Rescue Plan Act of 2021 for funding.
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6658: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- STATE TAX OFFICIALS
  Same as 21H-5213 -- Changes the rate of interest for underpayments of tax to prime rate plus six percent (6%). Also limits the assessment of interest to four (4) calendar years prior to the date on which notice of the delinquent payment is sent.
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6659: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES
  Same as 21H-5769 Sub A --A provider of a club, facility, or services to a consumer must stop automatic deductions from the consumer’s account or credit card within thirty (30) calendar days of receiving a notice to stop from the consumer.
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for consideration (02/09/2022)
  • 2022-02-09: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-02-11: Placed on House Calendar (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: House read and passed
  • 2022-03-24: Referred to Senate Commerce
• House Bill #6661: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- PRIMARY ELECTION DATES
  Same as 21H-5284 -- Requires that the primary election date, typically the eighth Tuesday preceding the biennial state elections, shall be held on the Wednesday immediately following Labor Day, only if the eighth Tuesday immediately follows Labor Day.
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/27/2022)
  • 2022-01-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6662: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET METERING
  Same as 21H-5327 -- Increases the maximum aggregate amount of community remote net-metering systems from 30 MW to 60 MW and requires the allocation of a minimum of 35% of the generated power to low- or moderate-income households commencing July 1, 2021.
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House read and passed
  • 2022-06-22: Referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
• House Bill #6663: AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- FORCE-FED POULTRY PRODUCTS
  Same as 21H-5731 -- Prohibits the production, sale, or importation into Rhode Island of any force-fed poultry product or food containing a force-fed poultry product and would impose a civil penalty of five hundred dollars ($500) for each violation.
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for consideration (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-22: Placed on House Calendar (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-22: Placed on House Calendar (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: House read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
• House Bill #6664: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF 2004 -- HEALTH INSURANCE OVERSIGHT
  Same as 21H-5772 -- Requires the health insurance commissioner to adopt a uniform set of medical criteria for prior authorization and create a required form to be used by a health insurer.
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6665: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- FEDERAL AID
  Same as 21H-5931 -- Requires free lunches to be provided for all elementary and secondary students attending public schools, to the extent state and federal funds are available.
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6666: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS
  Same as 21H-5934 -- Requires all school districts to provide students enrolled in grades Kindergarten through twelve (K-12) access to high-speed Internet.
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/26/2022)
  • 2022-01-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6667: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS -- TRAUMA INFORMED SCHOOLS ACT
  Same as 21H-5936 -- Establishes the implementation of trauma-informed practices in schools throughout the state.
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/26/2022)
  • 2022-01-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/11/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-11: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-13: Placed on House Calendar (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub B
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub B
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub B in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #6668: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- SECRETARY OF STATE
  Same as 21H-6042 -- Authorizes the secretary of state and board of elections to conduct an extensive cybersecurity assessment of our election systems and facilities and to establish a cybersecurity review board.
  • 2022-03-04: Withdrawn at sponsor's request
• House Bill #6669: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICAL THERAPISTS
  Same as 21H-6129 -- 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.
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-20: Placed on House Calendar (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-25: House read and passed
  • 2022-06-02: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-16: Signed by Governor
  • 2022-06-15: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #6671: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- CERTIFICATION OF CHILDCARE AND YOUTH-SERVING WORKERS AND OPERATORS
  Same as 21H-6172 -- Waives costs of criminal background checks for employees of child day care, daycare centers, family daycare homes, group family daycare homes, child-placing agencies and residential childcare facilities that must be state licensed.
  • 2022-01-10: Committee transferred to House Finance
• House Bill #6672: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Minimum number of specialty registration plate sets be reduced to 150 and nonrefundable fee paid by sponsoring nonprofit entity be calculated by subtracting the actual number of sets ordered from 600 and then multiplying the remainder by sum of $22.50.
  • 2022-05-24: Scheduled for consideration (05/26/2022)
  • 2022-05-25: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-26: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on House Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-10: Referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub B
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub B
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed Sub B as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: Senate passed Sub B as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-02: Effective without Governor's signature
• House Bill #6673: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - COMPENSATION FOR STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS
  Same as 21H-5082 -- Expressly allows college athletes, while they are students, to personally profit from the use of their name, image, and likeness, and prohibits the NCAA from preventing these practices.
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for consideration (04/06/2022)
  • 2022-04-06: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-08: Placed on House Calendar (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: House read and passed
  • 2022-04-26: Referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #6674: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS
  Same as 21H-5100 -- Prohibits any development of land contiguous to the State House unless approved by the general assembly.
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for consideration (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-22: Placed on House Calendar (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: House read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
• House Bill #6675: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- REFUSE DISPOSAL--ELIMINATION OF POST-USE POLYMERS AND RECOVERED FEEDSTOCKS USED IN ADVANCED RECYCLING PROCESSES FROM SOLID WASTE
  Same as 21H-5446 -- Exempts post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks used in advanced recycling processes from the definition of solid waste.
  • 2022-05-11: Withdrawn at sponsor's request
• House Bill #6676: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES
  Same as 21H-5634 -- Requires cities and towns to assess renewable energy resources to be taxed as tangible property and the real property on which it is located shall not be reclassified, revalued or reassessed.
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/16/2022)
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-02-16: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (02/16/2022)
• House Bill #6677: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE COLLEGE CRUSADE SCHOLARSHIP
  Same as 21H-6312 -- Provides that scholarships received directly from the College Crusade Scholarship Program would not be considered financial aid pursuant to the Rhode Island Promise Scholarships, and provides the program with access to certain student
  • 2022-01-10: Committee transferred to House Finance
• House Bill #7013: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION BY ONLINE MARKETPLACES
  Requires high-volume third-party sellers, selling consumer goods on online marketplaces, to provide certain information to the marketplaces and disclose certain information to consumers on product listings.
  • 2022-01-10: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7014: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW - GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS - PATIENT BROKERING ACT
  Prohibits the practice of patient brokering and provides penalties and enforcement.
  • 2022-01-10: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-24: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7015: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - REGULATORY POWERS OF ADMINISTRATION
  Provides that any rate increase with respect to electric distribution companies would be no greater than the increase in the Consumer Price Index or 5.5%, whichever is greater, unless there is approval of a higher rate by the general assembly.
  • 2022-01-10: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-24: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/09/2022)
  • 2022-02-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7016: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- COVID-19 PANDEMIC INSURANCE RECOVERY ACT
  Allows businesses that had an insurance policy in place for business interruption as of March 9, 2020 or thereafter to recover from their insurance companies for a COVID-19 business impact.
  • 2022-01-10: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/09/2022)
  • 2022-02-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7017: AN ACT TO VACATE THE FORFEITURE OR REVOCATION OF THE CHARTER OF THE TYLER DOCK ASSOCIATION
  
  • 2022-01-10: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-25: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-01-28: Placed on House Calendar (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: House read and passed
  • 2022-02-02: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (02/08/2022)
  • 2022-02-08: Senate read and passed
  • 2022-02-08: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-02-08: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-02-16: Effective without Governor's signature
• House Bill #7018: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS
  Requires school committees to provide transportation for any student who resides two (2) or more miles from school.
  • 2022-01-10: Introduced, referred to House Education
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/26/2022)
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-24: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (01/26/2022)
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/09/2022)
  • 2022-02-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7019: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- FOUNDATION LEVEL SCHOOL SUPPORT (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT)
  Extends the date of commencement of construction projects for health and safety deficiencies and educational enhancement to December 30, 2023.
  • 2022-01-10: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7020: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE BREAST CANCER ACT
  Amends the current law so that digital breast tomosynthesis (dbt) screenings are available wherever mammograms are conducted and to provide insurance coverage for such screenings.
  • 2022-01-10: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/03/2022)
  • 2022-02-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7021: AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- ANIMAL CARE
  Allows emergency medical treatment to police dogs injured in the line of duty, which would include transporting by ambulance.
  • 2022-01-10: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/03/2022)
  • 2022-02-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-22: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-04-25: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-04-29: Placed on House Calendar (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• House Resolution #7022: HOUSE RESOLUTION REINSTATING THE LIFE OF AND EXTENDING THE REPORTING AND EXPIRATION DATES OF THE SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION KNOWN AS THE "RHODE ISLAND ONLINE DATA TRANSPARENCY AND PRIVACY PROTECTION COMMISSION"
  Reinstates the life and extends the expiration and reporting dates of the "Rhode Island Online Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Commission" from May 5, 2021, to June 24, 2022, and said commission would expire on July 8, 2022.
  • 2022-01-10: Introduced, referred to House Innovation, Internet, & Technology
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/09/2022)
  • 2022-02-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-13: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-20: Placed on House Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: House passed Sub A
• House Bill #7023: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOCAL PLANNING BOARD OR COMMISSION
  Requires initial, biennial, and continuing education in land use law and planning for local planning and zoning board members and members of historic district commissions.
  • 2022-01-10: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-25: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for consideration (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-09: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-02-10: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-02-11: Placed on House Calendar (02/17/2022)
  • 2022-02-17: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-03-01: Referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-03-01: Referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommends passage of Sub B
  • 2022-06-13: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate passed Sub B
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed Sub B in concurrence
  • 2022-06-17: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-25: Effective without Governor's signature
• House Bill #7024: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW-- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS
  Makes it a felony to price gouge prescriptions or pharmaceuticals in time of a shortage.
  • 2022-01-10: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Resolution #7025: HOUSE RESOLUTION CONDEMNING THE ACTS OF VIOLENCE ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE INSURRECTION COMMITTED AT THE SEAT OF OUR COUNTRY'S DEMOCRACY, AND EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES FOR ALL OF THE LIVES LOST
  
  • 2022-01-10: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7026: AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- MECHANICS' LIENS
  Provides that any arbitration award issued where an arbitration provision exists between the parties shall be binding in a mechanics' lien action filed in any court and shall be res judicata.
  • 2022-01-10: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7027: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LABOR AND PAYMENT OF DEBTS BY CONTRACTORS
  Requires bidders on public school construction contracts of $5,000,000 or more to have an apprenticeships program compliant with chapter and truthful reporting of program data to DOLT effective July 1, 2022.
  • 2022-01-10: Introduced, referred to House Labor
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/02/2022)
  • 2022-02-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7028: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF JOHNSTON TO ISSUE NOT TO EXCEED $215,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS TO FINANCE CONSTRUCTION, ADDITIONS, RENOVATION, IMPROVEMENT, ALTERATION, REPAIR, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FACILITIES THROUGHOUT THE TOWN, PROVIDED THAT THE AUTHORIZATION SHALL BE REDUCED BY ANY GRANT RECEIVED FROM THE SCHOOL BUILDING AUTHORITY CAPITAL FUND
  Authorizes the town of Johnston to issue bonds and notes in an amount not exceeding $215,000,000 to finance construction, additions, renovation, improvement, alteration, repair, furnishing and equipping of schools and school facilities.
  • 2022-01-10: Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-01-14: Committee transferred to House Finance
  • 2022-01-14: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-14: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/18/2022)
  • 2022-01-18: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-25: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-01-25: Placed on House Calendar (01/27/2022)
  • 2022-01-27: House read and passed
  • 2022-02-01: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-02-01: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-02-07: Signed by Governor
• House Resolution #7029: HOUSE RESOLUTION AMENDING THE RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE YEARS 2021 AND 2022
  This resolution would amend the house rules by providing term limits for house leadership positions.
  • 2022-01-10: Introduced, referred to House Rules Committee
• House Bill #7030: AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES
  Allows Cynthia A. Chester, Justice of the Peace in the State of Connecticut, to join Kacie Ann Chester and Cole Whitehead in marriage on or about July 3, 2022, within the Town of Narragansett, Rhode Island.
  • 2022-01-10: Introduced, referred to House Special Legislation
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/26/2022)
  • 2022-01-26: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-01-28: Placed on House Calendar (02/03/2022)
  • 2022-02-03: House read and passed
  • 2022-02-08: Referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-02: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-03-08: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-03-08: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-03-16: Effective without Governor's signature
• House Resolution #7031: JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE, PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE - FOUR YEAR TERMS AND TERM LIMITS FOR REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS
  Proposes an amendment to the State Constitution, Article IV, to allow for term limits for the general assembly members.
  • 2022-01-10: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/27/2022)
  • 2022-01-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7032: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS
  Provides an exemption to the access to public records law for winners of lottery prizes and/or games.
  • 2022-01-10: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7033: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- RHODE ISLAND CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENDITURES REPORTING
  Requires all candidates for office to file the same number of campaign finance reports, all due at the same times, whether or not they have or had a contested primary election.
  • 2022-01-10: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/27/2022)
  • 2022-01-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Resolution #7034: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXTENDING CONGRATULATIONS
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7035: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING CONDOLENCES
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7036: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF THE REV. DR. MURRAY SCOTT BLACKADAR
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7037: HOUSE RESOLUTION THANKING THE DEDICATED STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS WHO HAVE WORKED AT RHODE ISLAND'S COVID-19 VACCINE AND TESTING CLINICS AND SITES ACROSS THE STATE
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7038: HOUSE RESOLUTION JOYOUSLY CELEBRATING THE 218TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECLARATION OF HAITIAN INDEPENDENCE ON JANUARY 1, 2022
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7039: HOUSE RESOLUTION HONORING PATRICIA REDFEARN ON HER RETIREMENT AFTER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE AS THE DIRECTOR OF THE GEORGE HAIL FREE LIBRARY OF WARREN
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7040: HOUSE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING THE MONTH OF JANUARY 2022, TO BE "FIREFIGHTER CANCER AWARENESS MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7041: HOUSE RESOLUTION HONORING AND CONGRATULATING ALLIE REILLY FOR ATTAINING A SILVER MEDAL IN ROWING AT THE 2020 SUMMER PARALYMPICS HELD FROM AUGUST 24TH TO SEPTEMBER 5TH OF 2021, IN TOKYO, JAPAN
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7042: HOUSE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING AND HONORING JEANNE BOYLE, COMMERCE DIRECTOR FOR THE CITY OF PAWTUCKET, ON THE OCCASION OF HER RETIREMENT
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7043: HOUSE RESOLUTION HONORING AND THANKING BILL WHITE ON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7044: HOUSE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT APPRECIATION DAY ON JANUARY 9, 2022
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7045: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF WILLIAM J. "BILL" FONTAINE, BATTALION CHIEF, CCFD
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  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7046: HOUSE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING RANDALL ROSENBAUM ON HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AFTER TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OF DISTINGUISHED, INNOVATIVE AND INSPIRING SERVICE AS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE RHODE ISLAND STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7047: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO THE WEIN FAMILY ON THE PASSING OF GEORGE WEIN
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7048: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF THE HONORABLE COLIN L. POWELL, FORMER UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE AND UNITED STATES ARMY FOUR STAR GENERAL
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7049: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF ROBERT A. NARDOLILLO, JR.
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7050: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING ITS DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF MOLLY FALCONER DE RAMEL
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7051: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF LILLIAN G. GINAITT
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7052: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF THE HONORABLE PETER K. ROSEDALE
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7053: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF THE HONORABLE WILLIAM D. DURAND
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7054: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF CLAIRE MADONNA SMITH
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7055: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF SUSAN ALDER KAPLAN
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7056: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF CHRISTINE DWYER KAVANAGH, THE LONGTIME AND HIGHLY-REGARDED DIRECTOR OF THE PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAM AT ST. MARY ACADEMY BAY VIEW
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7057: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF BEVERLY E. NAJARIAN
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7058: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST SYMPATHY ON THE PASSING OF MEAGHAN MCGONAGLE
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7059: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF RETIRED COMMANDER MICHAEL J. BABULA
  
  • 2022-01-11: House read and passed
• House Bill #7060: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES--HAPPY HOUR
  Allows happy hour drink specials served in conjunction with meals prepared on the premises sufficient to constitute breakfast, lunch or dinner, excluding snacks.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-25: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-08: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-04-22: Placed on House Calendar (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
• House Bill #7061: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION [SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT]
  Prohibits a college or university from withholding a student's academic transcript due to outstanding tuition fees.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Education
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/26/2022)
  • 2022-01-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7062: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE
  Provides that in developing alternative-learning plans, consideration shall be given to the difficulties and interruptions students experience because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Education
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/26/2022)
  • 2022-01-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on House Calendar (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: House read and passed
  • 2022-06-10: Referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7063: AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- DISPOSABLE FOOD SERVICE CONTAINERS
  Prohibits a covered establishment from preparing, selling, processing or providing food or beverages in or on a disposable food service container that is composed in whole or in part of polystyrene foam.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/27/2022)
  • 2022-01-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7064: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PLASTIC BOTTLE AND CONTAINER LABELING ACT
  Would prohibit the sale of miniature alcoholic beverage containers in Rhode Island.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/27/2022)
  • 2022-01-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7065: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PLASTIC WASTE REDUCTION ACT
  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.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/27/2022)
  • 2022-01-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/08/2022)
  • 2022-06-03: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-08: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-20: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7066: AN ACT RELATING AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY - OLD GROWTH FOREST PRESERVATION ACT
  Creates state and local requirements for the protection and preservation of old growth forests located on public lands.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/27/2022)
  • 2022-01-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7067: AN ACT RELATING TO FISH AND WILDLIFE - RHODE ISLAND FREEDOM TO FISH AND MARINE CONSERVATION ACT
  Requires DEM to establish baseline shellfish harvest targets and a timeline to accomplish the restoration targets of quahog, oyster, and bay scallop populations.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/27/2022)
  • 2022-01-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7068: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT
  Requires the RI department of human services to develop a plan to streamline the application, certification and recertification process for SNAP beneficiaries aged sixty years and over.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House read and passed
  • 2022-06-20: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7069: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX
  Allows real property owner a one-time non-refundable tax credit for the actual costs of connecting a single family or multi-family dwelling to a municipal sewer system credited to the owner's personal or corporate income tax.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7070: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HOME COMMUNITY CARE SERVICES TO THE ELDERLY
  Expands eligibility for elderly services assistance to persons under age 65 suffering from Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia confirmed by a licensed physician provided that the person's joint income not exceed 250% of the federal poverty level.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7071: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- SALARIES AND TRAVELING EXPENSES
  Prohibits the authorization of bonus or payment to state employee in labor union contracts for receiving the COVID-19 vaccine/would allow bonuses to employee if bonus is tied to employee's performance attributable to difficult COVID-19 working conditions.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Withdrawn at sponsor's request
• House Bill #7072: AN ACT RELATING TO FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- CHECK CASHING -- PAYDAY LOANS
  Caps the APR for payday loans at 28%. Requires 90-day maturity date. Prohibits fees/interest payments in excess of 60% of principal. Requires monthly payments of no more than 25% of original principal amount.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7073: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC FINANCE - REVENUE ESTIMATING CONFERENCES
  Changes the dates of the Revenue Estimating Conferences meeting to the last ten (10) days of April and the first ten (10) days of November of each year.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7074: AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  Bans the sale of cosmetics developed/manufactured using animal testing. A violation would be a $1,000 fine for each offense.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/03/2022)
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-31: Withdrawn at sponsor's request (02/03/2022)
• House Bill #7075: AN ACT RELATED TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- VICIOUS DOGS
  Provides that a dog can only be declared vicious if it is involved in a physical attack.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/03/2022)
  • 2022-02-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7076: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- NATIONAL CRIMINAL RECORDS CHECK SYSTEM--CRIMINAL RECORDS REVIEW
  Requires patient contact employees, personal care attendants and high-risk providers to undergo a national criminal records check and disqualifies those individuals, if they have a criminal record for crimes of violence or other offenses listed.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/08/2022)
  • 2022-02-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7077: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES
  Requires that a participant or beneficiary of a health insurance plan incur no greater out-of-pocket costs for emergency services than they would have incurred with an in-network provider other than in-network cost sharing.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/03/2022)
  • 2022-02-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7078: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE
  Requires a health plan to cover clinically appropriate and medically necessary residential or inpatient services, including detoxification and stabilization services, for the treatment of mental health and substance use disorders.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/03/2022)
  • 2022-02-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7079: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- SEXUAL ASSAULT EVIDENCE KITS
  Requires any entity that receives, maintains, stores or preserves sexual assault evidence kits to submit a report to the department of health, annually, setting forth the total number of untested kits in possession of such entity.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/08/2022)
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-02-06: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (02/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-12: Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-13: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7080: AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  Provides that the trapping and subsequent release of any unowned feral or free roaming cat for the purpose of spaying or neutering of the cat shall not be considered abandonment.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/03/2022)
  • 2022-02-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for consideration (02/08/2022)
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-02-06: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (02/08/2022)
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-05-27: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on House Calendar (06/08/2022)
  • 2022-06-08: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-10: Referred to Senate Judiciary
• House Bill #7081: AN ACT RELATING TO -- FOOD AND DRUGS -- FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETIC LABELING
  Requires that all cosmetics manufactured, sold, delivered, or held for offering to be sold contain a label that completely and accurately lists all of its component ingredient.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/03/2022)
  • 2022-02-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7082: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- POLICE OFFICERS COMMISSION ON STANDARDS AND TRAINING
  Requires mandatory training standards for police officers and trainees, in identifying, responding, and handling all incidents involving any person with a developmental disability.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/08/2022)
  • 2022-02-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7083: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND BROADBAND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
  Establishes the twelve (12) member broadband council to create a plan to increase the use of broadband service in the state. A broadband administrator is to be designated in RI Commerce Corporation to access federal funds and coordinate with the council.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Innovation, Internet, & Technology
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/09/2022)
  • 2022-02-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7084: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- COSTS
  Provides that payment orders issued by the court would not enter unless certain procedures required by the court regarding determining a defendant's ability to pay are considered.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-22: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7085: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- THE RHODE ISLAND FIRST STEP ACT
  Establishes Rhode Island First Step program requiring DOC to assist offenders with reintegration into society, counseling, medical care, education, early sentence termination or pre-release confinement for elderly and terminally ill offenders.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-24: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7086: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS
  Allows expungement of multiple felony convictions for non-violent felonies 20 years after sentence completed.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-24: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7087: AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION
  Creates a custody procedure for pets in divorce and separation proceedings based on the best interests of the animal. This act would not apply to assistance/service animals.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-25: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for consideration (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-18: Placed on House Calendar (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: House read and passed
  • 2022-03-24: Referred to Senate Judiciary
• House Bill #7088: AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DOMESTIC ABUSE PREVENTION
  Permits the family court to award custody of household pets to the plaintiff in a domestic abuse complaint.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-25: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7089: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FIREFIGHTERS' ARBITRATION
  Provides that all contractual provisions in a firefighter's collective bargaining agreement would continue until a successor agreement has been reached or an interest arbitration award has been rendered.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Labor
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/02/2022)
  • 2022-02-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7090: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MUNICIPAL POLICE ARBITRATION
  Extends provisions of an existing collective bargaining agreement for municipal police arbitration purposes until a successor agreement is reached or an interest arbitration award is rendered.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Labor
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/02/2022)
  • 2022-02-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Resolution #7091: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXTENDING THE REPORTING AND EXPIRATION DATES FOR THE SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY THE LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING ACT
  Extends the reporting and expiration dates for the Commission to study the Low and Moderate Income Housing Act from December 16, 2021, to April 12, 2023, and would expire on May 24, 2023.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-01-14: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-14: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/18/2022)
  • 2022-01-18: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-01-21: Placed on House Calendar (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-25: House read and passed
• House Bill #7092: AN ACT RELATING TO THE CITY OF WARWICK -- SEWER AUTHORITY
  Reduces excess interest rate chargeable by the Warwick Sewer Authority from a maximum rate of one and twenty-five hundredths percent (1.25%) to a maximum rate of one-half of one percent (.5%).
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7093: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES
  Allows the town of Middletown to adopt a new tax classification plan to provide property tax relief to its residents.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-01-14: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-14: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/18/2022)
  • 2022-01-18: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for consideration (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-25: Placed on House Calendar (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: House read and passed
  • 2022-04-05: Referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-05-05: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-10: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-05-18: Effective without Governor's signature
• House Bill #7094: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD LIMITS -- COMMERCIAL VEHICLES
  Prohibits commercial vehicles from operating on Chases Lane in the town of Middletown and provides for fines for violations.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-01-14: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-14: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/18/2022)
  • 2022-01-18: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for consideration (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-25: Placed on House Calendar (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: House read and passed
  • 2022-04-05: Referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-04-27: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-03: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-05-11: Effective without Governor's signature
• House Bill #7095: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES
  Extends the period for the moratorium imposed on the enforcement of any municipal ordinance or zoning regulation relating to any alterations or modifications made to an establishment in order to comply with emergency declarations until April 1, 2023.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Small Business
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/03/2022)
  • 2022-02-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for consideration (02/08/2022)
  • 2022-02-08: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-02-08: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-02-08: Placed on House Calendar (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: House read and passed
  • 2022-02-10: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-02-10: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-02-16: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7096: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Authorizes the administrator of the division of motor vehicles to make available a special registration motor vehicle plate for the Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Special Legislation
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/26/2022)
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-24: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (01/26/2022)
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on House Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: House read and passed
  • 2022-06-10: Referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-02: Effective without Governor's signature
• House Bill #7097: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  Creates a special motor vehicle registration plate for The Rose Island Lighthouse Foundation, Inc.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Special Legislation
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/26/2022)
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-24: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (01/26/2022)
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on House Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: House read and passed
  • 2022-06-10: Referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-02: Effective without Governor's signature
• House Bill #7098: AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES
  Allows the Honorable Mary A. Orfanello to join Marge M. Urquhart and Matthew P. Orfanello in marriage on or about April 2, 2022, within the City of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House Special Legislation
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/26/2022)
  • 2022-01-26: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-01-28: Placed on House Calendar (02/03/2022)
  • 2022-02-03: House read and passed
  • 2022-02-08: Referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-02-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-02: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-03-08: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-03-08: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-03-16: Effective without Governor's signature
• House Bill #7099: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION FEES
  Reduces the fee to acquire an emailed duplicate motor vehicle registration certificate from seventeen dollars ($17.00) to five dollars ($5.00).
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-01-26: Committee transferred to House Finance
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7100: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- SECRETARY OF STATE -- LET RI VOTE ACT
  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 requirements.
  • 2022-01-12: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-06: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-13: Placed on House Calendar (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-20: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-05-31: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-07: Signed by Governor
• House Resolution #7101: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF MARGARET F. MANCINI
  
  • 2022-01-18: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7102: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF ANDREW DAVID DICKSON
  
  • 2022-01-18: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7103: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF GERALD J. GRANAHAN
  
  • 2022-01-18: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7104: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXTENDING CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF THE HONORABLE RAYMOND J. GALLOGLY
  
  • 2022-01-18: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7105: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST SYMPATHY ON THE PASSING OF SHARLENE L. DAMIANI
  
  • 2022-01-18: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7106: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST SYMPATHY ON THE PASSING OF CHRISTINA A. MCKIERNAN
  
  • 2022-01-18: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7107: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF BENJAMIN W. LITTLE, SR.
  
  • 2022-01-18: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7108: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF LEGENDARY MOUNT SAINT CHARLES ACADEMY ICE HOCKEY HEAD COACH, NORMAND BERNARD BELISLE
  
  • 2022-01-18: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7109: HOUSE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING THE WEEK OF JANUARY 23-29, 2022, TO BE "CERTIFIED REGISTERED NURSE ANESTHETISTS WEEK" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-01-18: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7110: HOUSE RESOLUTION HONORING AND THANKING DR. NICOLE ALEXANDER-SCOTT
  
  • 2022-01-18: House read and passed
• House Bill #7111: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RENEWABLE ENERGY
  Increases the percentage of retail electricity sales from renewable energy sources.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-02-02: Withdrawn at sponsor's request
• House Bill #7112: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PARKING FACILITIES AND PRIVILEGES
  Requires installation of designated electric vehicle parking spaces, with charging capabilities, by certain business/ municipalities/housing developments in existing/new/expanded parking lots as of 1/1/23.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-25: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7113: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS--ELECTRONIC BOOK LICENSES TO LIBRARIES AND SCHOOLS
  Creates electronic book licenses for all public, private, academic and educational libraries allowing libraries to provide access to electronic books with violation deemed unfair/deceptive trade practice.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7114: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE - LIABILITY INSURANCE
  Extends property damage coverage for a rented motor vehicle to under seventeen thousand, nine hundred pounds, without regard to negligence for a period not to exceed ninety consecutive days.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/09/2022)
  • 2022-02-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7115: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFERS' LICENSES
  Requires bus drivers to take training courses to renew licenses for first and second renewal with courses required every 5 years thereafter.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7116: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACEUTICAL COST TRANSPARENCY
  Directs the state board of pharmacy to annually identify up to fifteen prescription drugs with increased costs and provide the list to the attorney general to obtain reasons for the cost increases.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7117: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- STATE DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
  Requires district and independent charter schools to use a random selection process to select eligible public school students who would be invited to attend the charter school and allows a parent to decline the invitation.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Education
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/11/2022)
  • 2022-04-11: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-13: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-20: Placed on House Calendar (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-25: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-27: Referred to Senate Education
• House Resolution #7118: HOUSE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY THE EFFECTS AND IMPACT THAT HYBRID AND VIRTUAL LEARNING EMPLOYED DURING THE PANDEMIC HAS HAD ON THE ACHIEVEMENT RATES OF CHILDREN IN KINDERGARTEN THROUGH 12TH GRADE
  Creates a 15 member commission to study, identify gaps, and provide plans to counter the impact of hybrid and virtual learning on achievement rates of children grades K-12th, and would report back by July 31, 2023, and expire on September 30, 2023.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Education
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/02/2022)
  • 2022-02-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-13: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on House Calendar (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: House passed Sub A
• House Bill #7119: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM
  Directs the council on elementary and secondary education to develop recommendations for a high school curriculum to prepare students for successful postsecondary education and careers in computer science.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Education
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/09/2022)
  • 2022-02-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7120: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM
  Requires the department of education to develop and make available for school use a mental health curriculum. Schools would be required to provide four (4) hours of mental health instruction to seventh grade students.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Education
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/09/2022)
  • 2022-02-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7121: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
  Prohibits discrimination in postsecondary education of students who are granted medical or religious vaccine exemptions by a sponsoring university or college.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Education
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/02/2022)
  • 2022-02-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7122: AN ACT RELATING TO MAKING REVISED APPROPRIATIONS IN SUPPORT OF FY 2022
  
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Finance
• House Bill #7123: AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE STATE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2023
  
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-06-07: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-09: Placed on House Calendar (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-16: Referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7124: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT
  Increases retirement credits from 1% to 2% of annual salary per-year of service for teachers, state employees, and municipal workers in the Municipal Employees' Retirement System (MERS). Applies to a member's service on and after July 1, 2022.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7125: AN ACT CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FOR EDUCATION -- STATEWIDE REFERENDUM
  Provides for a statewide voter referendum seeking approval of capital development bonds for school buildings in the amount of three hundred million dollars ($300,000,000).
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/17/2022)
  • 2022-02-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7126: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- THE RENEWABLE ENERGY GROWTH PROGRAM
  Requires a yearly deposit of $200 per solar panel into an escrow account for the future disposal and exempts residential homeowners from the deposit.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7127: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY TAX RELIEF
  Increases max income level to $50,000 and max credit amount to $850 for property tax relief with annual adjustment for inflation.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7128: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION
  Creates a sales tax holiday on August 6 and 7, 2022
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7129: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PESTICIDE CONTROL
  Restricts the use of neonicotinoids which are a class of insecticides.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/17/2022)
  • 2022-02-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on House Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: House read and passed
  • 2022-06-20: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7130: AN ACT RELATING TO FISH AND WILDLIFE -- HUNTING AND HUNTING SAFETY
  Requires that when a person causes an injury requiring medical assistance to a human by firearm, archery, or crossbow while hunting, the initial responding entity must immediately make a report to DEM.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/27/2022)
  • 2022-01-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7131: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- OPIOID ALTERNATIVES
  DOH to develop and publish opioid alternative pamphlet.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/08/2022)
  • 2022-02-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7132: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES
  Increases the state board of pharmacy from nine (9) to eleven (11) members by adding two (2) pharmacy technicians.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/08/2022)
  • 2022-02-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7133: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PHARMACEUTICAL REDISTRIBUTION PROGRAM ACT
  Authorizes the creation and implementation of a Pharmaceutical Redistribution program by the department of health (DOH) and the board of pharmacy to commence operations on January 1, 2023.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-22: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-04-29: Placed on House Calendar (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub B
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub B
  • 2022-06-24: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: House passed Sub B in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7134: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CANCER
  Collects and disaggregate data on childhood cancer within the state’s cancer registry.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/08/2022)
  • 2022-02-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-01: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-04-08: Placed on House Calendar (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-04-26: Referred to Senate Health and Human Services
• House Bill #7135: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- PHYSICAL THERAPY COPAY
  Limits copays, coinsurance or office deductible for services of a physical therapist to the amount authorized for the services of a primary care physician or osteopath.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/03/2022)
  • 2022-02-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7136: AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY - ANIMAL CARE
  Waives the adoption fee to adopt a dog or cat from a public animal shelter for a veteran that presents a current and valid driver’s license or identification card with the word "veteran" printed on its face.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/03/2022)
  • 2022-02-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-29: Placed on House Calendar (05/04/2022)
  • 2022-05-04: House read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• House Resolution #7137: HOUSE RESOLUTION SUPPORTING FEDERAL LEGISLATION GRANTING STATEHOOD TO THE PEOPLE OF WASHINGTON, D.C.
  
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-31: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7138: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - PARENTS BILL OF RIGHTS ACT
  Provides for a parents' bill of rights related to the health, education and welfare of their minor children.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7139: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND LOBBYING REFORM ACT
  Prohibits lobbyists from making any political contributions to any member of the general assembly from January 1 through July 1 in any year, unless the general assembly adjourns for the year prior to July 1.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-25: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7140: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- FEMININE HYGIENE PRODUCT DONATION ACT
  Provides for immunity provisions for persons involved in donating feminine hygiene products to charitable or nonprofit organizations.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-25: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for consideration (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-22: Placed on House Calendar (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-22: Placed on House Calendar (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: House read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-06-20: Meeting postponed (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-22: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-24: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-24: House passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7141: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE - PROBATION AND PAROLE SUPPORT
  Repeals court costs against all defendants who plead nolo contendere, guilty or are found guilty of certain crimes.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-22: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7142: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- PAROLE
  Allows an inmate’s immediate family to be notified of and attend a parole hearing.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/25/2022)
  • 2022-01-25: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7143: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - VETERANS EXEMPTIONS
  Allows the town of North Smithfield town council to provide veterans' and gold star parents exemptions from real estate taxes.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-08: Placed on House Calendar (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: House read and passed
  • 2022-04-26: Referred to Senate Finance
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-20: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7144: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
  Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of the Old and Ancient Rowers Society of Rhode Island located in North Kingstown.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for consideration (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-01: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-04-01: Placed on House Calendar (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: House read and passed
  • 2022-04-26: Referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-31: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-31: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-08: Effective without Governor's signature
• House Bill #7145: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE EMBLEMS
  Designates as the state music, the genre of rhythm and blues which contains elements of pop, soul, funk, hip-hop, and electronic music.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House Special Legislation
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/26/2022)
  • 2022-01-26: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7146: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY
  Enables the Rhode Island public transit authority (RIPTA) to work with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) to allow commuter rail passes to be used as dual passes for both RIPTA and MBTA.
  • 2022-01-20: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-01-21: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/27/2022)
  • 2022-01-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Resolution #7147: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF THE HONORABLE JULIAN P. FORGUE, III
  
  • 2022-01-25: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7148: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF ANNIE S. ZAINYEH
  
  • 2022-01-25: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7149: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF RITA MICHAELSON
  
  • 2022-01-25: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7150: HOUSE RESOLUTION HONORING PATRICIA REDFEARN ON HER RETIREMENT AFTER MORE THAN EIGHTEEN YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE AS THE DIRECTOR OF THE GEORGE HAIL FREE LIBRARY OF WARREN
  
  • 2022-01-25: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7151: HOUSE RESOLUTION HONORING AND CONGRATULATING PAM GASNER ON HER RETIREMENT AS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE BLOCK ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  
  • 2022-01-25: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7152: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING CONDOLENCES
  
  • 2022-01-25: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7153: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXTENDING CONGRATULATIONS
  
  • 2022-01-25: House read and passed
• House Bill #7154: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS THE RHODE ISLAND DEALERSHIP PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION ACT
  Excludes sale of dealership as good cause to terminate relations with dealerships/allows 5 days to cure contract deficiency/violation/vests exclusive jurisdiction in RI courts to settle any disputes.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-13: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on House Calendar (06/02/2022)
  • 2022-06-02: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-10: Referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-06-17: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-28: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7155: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSE LICENSURE COMPACT
  Amends the interstate nurse licensure compact and adopts an enhanced and more comprehensive version of the compact, to allow nurses to hold a multi-state license allowing them to practice across state lines without having to obtain multiple licenses.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-04-24: Withdrawn at sponsor's request (04/26/2022)
• House Resolution #7156: HOUSE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY THE MANNER IN WHICH HEALTH INSURANCE, DISABILITY INSURANCE, UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE, RETIREMENT PLANS AND OTHER TRADITIONAL EMPLOYER PROVIDED BENEFITS ARE ACCORDED TO UBER AND LYFT DRIVERS, SELF EMPLOYED INDIVIDUALS, AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS ENGAGED IN PROVIDING SERVICES TO THE PUBLIC
  Creates a 5 member commission to study how health, disability, and unemployment plans, and other benefits are accorded to individuals providing services to the public, and would report back by January 5, 2023, and expire on March 5, 2023.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/09/2022)
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-02-08: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (02/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7157: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- AUTHORITY TO FINE HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
  Amends the name of the title of chapter 5-90 to Ryan's Law.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for consideration (05/05/2022)
  • 2022-05-05: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-06: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-05-06: Placed on House Calendar (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: House read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
  • 2022-05-24: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-16: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-21: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7158: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- MILITARY SPOUSE LICENSURE
  Provides for improving license portability for military service members and their spouses who are relocated to Rhode Island.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/16/2022)
  • 2022-02-16: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7159: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- REAL ESTATE SALES DISCLOSURES
  Allows a homebuyer to void a purchase and sales agreement prior to the transfer if the seller fails to provide a written sales disclosure. The act also increases the maximum civil penalty for violating this law from $100 to $1,000.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/09/2022)
  • 2022-02-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-13: Placed on House Calendar (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: House read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to Senate Judiciary
• House Bill #7160: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE GENERALLY
  Property insurance policies issued beginning January 1, 2023, shall not void or exclude coverage to an "innocent co-insured" for intentional loss caused by another co-insured.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/09/2022)
  • 2022-02-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7161: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT)
  Sets forth criteria for suspending students in sixth grade and above and grades pre-school through fifth and mandates school superintendents file annual reports relating to disproportionate disciplinary impact based upon race, ethnicity, or disability.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Education
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/02/2022)
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-02-01: Withdrawn at sponsor's request (02/02/2022)
• House Bill #7162: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT)
  Allows schools to impose an out-of-school suspension for students in grade 6 or above, if they are found to be a threat to the physical safety of school occupants.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Education
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/02/2022)
  • 2022-02-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7163: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS
  Provides students attending public schools enrolled in grades K-12 with a students' bill of rights prohibiting discrimination based on race, sex, gender, economic status or mental, physical, developmental or sensory disabilities.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Education
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/02/2022)
  • 2022-02-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7164: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND CERTIFICATION STANDARDS BOARD (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT)
  Extends the time period to for all teachers to demonstrate proficiency in knowledge and practices of scientific reading and structured literary instruction from the 2023-2024 school year until the 2025-2026 school year.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Education
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/02/2022)
  • 2022-02-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-15: Scheduled for consideration (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-17: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-07-02: Effective without Governor's signature
• House Bill #7165: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- COOPERATIVE SERVICE AMONG SCHOOL DISTRICTS (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.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Education
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/02/2022)
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-31: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (02/02/2022)
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/11/2022)
  • 2022-04-11: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7166: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM
  Requires courses in family life or sex education be taught in grades 6 -12 and be appropriate for students of all races, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Education
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/02/2022)
  • 2022-02-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7167: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE
  Directs school districts experiencing high rates of student absenteeism to establish attendance support teams to address this absenteeism.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Education
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/09/2022)
  • 2022-02-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-13: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-18: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-27: Placed on House Calendar (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-06-01: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-10: Referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-06-10: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
• House Bill #7168: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- COVID RECOVERY PLANS
  Directs all school districts to prepare district recovery plans by September 1, 2022 which would include strategies and targets for students, to address losses in both academic and social-emotional learning.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Education
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/09/2022)
  • 2022-02-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7169: AN ACT RELATING TO FISH AND WILDLIFE -- FIELD TRIALS AND SHOOTING PRESERVES
  Prohibits canned hunting and use of imported non-native animals or cloned animals for canned hunting purposes.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/17/2022)
  • 2022-02-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7170: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND COMMERCE CORPORATION
  Requires the installation of two (2) urban business incubators, one at the 25 Bough Street project in Olneyville neighborhood and the other at the former Urban League of Rhode Island site at 246 Prairie Avenue in the Upper South Providence neighborhood.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7171: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX
  Provides technical amendments to the existing Pass-through Entity Election Tax statute to allow tax practitioners and the Rhode Island Division of Taxation to comply with the provisions in practice.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7172: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX
  Provides a tax credit for state community service hours provided by state residents to certain not-for-profit entities and municipal departments.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7173: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX
  Allows volunteer firefighters who pay for their own training and equipment to receive an income tax credit.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7174: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC FINANCE -- STATE BUDGET
  Requires that the governor submit a zero-based budget to the general assembly with the zero-based budget phased in over a five (5) year period, commencing with the fiscal budget of July 1, 2023.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-03-03: Withdrawn at sponsor's request
• House Bill #7175: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- EDUCATION SAVINGS ACCOUNTS PROGRAM
  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.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-02-15: Withdrawn at sponsor's request
• House Bill #7176: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
  Provides a scholarship allowing a student in the care and custody of the DCYF to attend RIC without the payment of tuition and room and board as long as they meet the eligibility requirements of the program and the admission criteria of RIC.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/04/2022)
  • 2022-05-04: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7177: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND CHILDCARE IS ESSENTIAL ACT
  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.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/02/2022)
  • 2022-03-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7178: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND BEST RX PRESCRIPTION DRUG DISCOUNT PROGRAM FOR THE UNINSURED
  Requires that enrollees in the Rhode Island best RX Prescription drug discount program for the uninsured are not charged a copay for their prescriptions.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7179: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
  Provides medical assistance coverage for medical services provided to qualifying eligible recipients for community-based care. The department of human services on EOHHS would seek federal approval to implement the provisions of the act.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7180: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- SOCIAL AND HUMAN SERVICES PROGRAMS RATE REVIEW AND RATE SETTING PROCESS ACT OF 2022
  Requires EOHHS assisted by 24 member advisory committee to provide review/recommendations for rate setting/ongoing review of social service programs licensed by state departments/agencies and Medicaid.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7181: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND PATHWAYS PROJECT
  Requires the executive office of health and human services (EOHHS) to utilize current Medicaid waiver funds to provide coverage for supporting housing for the homeless.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Resolution #7182: JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE-LINE ITEM VETO
  This proposed amendment to the Constitution would provide the governor with a line-item veto on the budget and other bills for the appropriation of money.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Finance
• House Bill #7183: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- LIFETIME LIMITS
  Repeals the authority of the health insurance commissioner to enforce any act of Congress/decision of federal court invalidating or repealing the prohibition of annual lifetime limits on health insurance in this state.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/03/2022)
  • 2022-02-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7184: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PSYCHOLOGISTS
  Includes licensed school psychologists under the provisions of the general laws governing the regulations of psychologists and provides specific qualifications applicants for licensing as a school psychologist must meet.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/08/2022)
  • 2022-02-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7185: AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG AFFORDABILITY BOARD - GROUP PURCHASING BOARD FOR RX WE CAN AFFORD
  Creates a prescription drug affordability board composed of representatives of affected stakeholders designated to investigate and comprehensively evaluate drug prices for Rhode Islanders and possible ways to reduce them to make them more affordable.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7186: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PUBLIC HEALTH AND WORKPLACE SAFETY ACT
  Provides that any law or regulation which protects a person from exposure to secondhand smoke would also provide protection from exposure to secondhand tobacco and marijuana smoke, regardless of how the smoke was generated.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/08/2022)
  • 2022-02-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7187: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- COMMUNITY ANTENNA TELEVISION SYSTEMS AND INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS
  Requires Internet service providers to follow net neutrality requirements serving consumers/state as well as awarding of state contracts with violations resulting in penalty provisions for deceptive trade practice.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Innovation, Internet, & Technology
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/09/2022)
  • 2022-02-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7188: AN ACT RELATING TO DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT
  Prohibits any questioning of a juvenile who is suspected of delinquent or criminal behavior, unless the parent of guardian of the juvenile is present, or unless an attorney is present or the juvenile and their parents have waived their presence.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-31: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7189: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RHODE ISLAND PAIN-CAPABLE UNBORN CHILD PROTECTION ACT
  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 1/1/23
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7190: AN ACT RELATING CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- INDICTMENTS, INFORMATIONS AND COMPLAINTS
  Prohibits prosecutions for violations in this state if violation arises from same facts or acts for which defendant has been acquitted in another jurisdiction, unless there exists new evidence substantially warranting prosecution in this state.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/13/2022)
  • 2022-04-13: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7191: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- HOMICIDE
  Abolishes penalty of life without parole and amends/repeals all sections of general laws regulating prisoners serving a sentence of life without parole. It would have prospective and retroactive effect for any offense committed after January 1, 1991.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-02-06: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7192: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- COSTS
  Standardizes and makes uniform the applicability, assessment, collection, waiver, and ultimately the extinguishment of court costs, fees, fines and assessments required in connection with all criminal cases.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7193: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GAMBLING AND LOTTERIES
  Allows social gaming in private residences and in public taverns or private clubs as long as the gambling is incidental to a bona fide social relationship between the participants and no person other than the participants receive anything of value.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7194: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SEARCH WARRANTS -- AUDIO AND VIDEOS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY PROHIBITED
  Requires law enforcement to obtain consent or a warrant before placing audio or video recorders on or near the private property of another. A violation of this act would make any evidence inadmissible in any court proceedings.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/17/2022)
  • 2022-02-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7195: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ELECTRONIC INFORMATION AND DATA PRIVACY ACT
  Requires law enforcement agencies to obtain search warrants for electronic information, data, location information and other identifying information of subscribers and customers, except in specified circumstances.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/17/2022)
  • 2022-02-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7196: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS
  Amends the definition of firearms to include tasers, as well as define taser and stun gun.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7197: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - EXPLOSIVES AND FIREWORKS
  Limits the sale of fireworks to one week prior to and including the 4th day in July, and may only be used, exploded, or cause to be exploded between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7198: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES' ARBITRATION
  Recognizes that municipal employees have the opportunity to utilize interest arbitration and would establish new factors for the arbitrators to consider. These factors include comparisons of wages/hourly conditions of employment in similarly skilled jobs
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Labor
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/02/2022)
  • 2022-02-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7199: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- RIGHT TO EARN A LIVING ACT
  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.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Labor
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/02/2022)
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-31: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (02/02/2022)
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7200: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- BUILDING SERVICE WORK
  Requires that janitors and security guards employed, pursuant to state contracts worth more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) of janitorial or security services, be paid a standard compensation rate.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Labor
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/02/2022)
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-02-01: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (02/02/2022)
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2022)
  • 2022-04-07: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-19: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-23: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-24: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-28: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7201: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES
  Provides a procedure for homeowners to submit to a municipal zoning board of review or municipal official or agency for a review to determine whether or not a proposed use under this chapter requires a special use permit.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/16/2022)
  • 2022-02-16: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/19/2022)
  • 2022-05-19: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-20: Placed on House Calendar (05/26/2022)
  • 2022-05-26: House read and passed
  • 2022-06-02: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-17: Effective without Governor's signature
• House Bill #7202: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES
  Allows the operation of a home-based business, which meets criteria for home office IRS income tax deduction, without securing approval from the municipality with no storage of chemicals/park heavy equipment/not more than 10% of premises used for parking.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/02/2022)
  • 2022-03-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7203: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - PUBLIC NOTICE ACT
  Allows the towns of Burrillville and Glocester to publish notices in any newspaper located within their municipalities and would also allow publication in other designated platforms selected by their city or town councils.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-02-08: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/02/2022)
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-01: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (03/02/2022)
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7204: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
  Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of the Holy Rosary Band Society located in East Providence.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for consideration (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-25: Placed on House Calendar (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: House read and passed
  • 2022-04-05: Referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
  • 2022-04-26: Placed on Senate Calendar (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-05-03: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-05-11: Effective without Governor's signature
• House Bill #7205: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
  Exempts from real and property tax The American Legion Riverside Post 10 in the city of East Providence.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for consideration (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-25: Placed on House Calendar (03/31/2022)
  • 2022-03-31: House read and passed
  • 2022-04-07: Placed on Senate Calendar (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Senate passed as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-04-22: Placed on House Calendar (04/26/2022)
  • 2022-04-26: House passed as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-04-26: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-05-04: Effective without Governor's signature
• House Bill #7206: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
  Authorizes fire districts or any municipal volunteer fire departments to provide for an exemption from fire taxes for volunteer firefighters.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/16/2022)
  • 2022-02-16: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7207: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- EXCISE ON MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAILERS
  Allows a taxpayer to appeal a vehicle valuation by the Rhode Island vehicle valuation commission to the city or town's board of assessment. The board's decision shall not increase the valuation. The board's decision may be appealed to the district court.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/02/2022)
  • 2022-03-02: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7208: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES
  Expands the definition of legitimate theaters to extend beyond the city of Newport and the town of Burrillville and apply statewide.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/16/2022)
  • 2022-02-16: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7209: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES -- RETAIL LICENSES
  Repeals 3/1/22 sunset provision allowing Class B/brew pub licensees to sell wine/beer/mixed drinks with food takeout orders only.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Small Business
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/03/2022)
  • 2022-02-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for consideration (02/08/2022)
  • 2022-02-07: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-02-08: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-02-08: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-02-08: Placed on House Calendar (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-02-10: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-02-10: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-02-16: Signed by Governor
• House Resolution #7210: HOUSE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY AND REVIEW THE IMPACT OF EXISTING RULES AND REGULATIONS ON THE CREATION OF NEW BUSINESSES, AND PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS TO REVISE LAWS IN ORDER TO ELIMINATE BARRIERS
  Creates a 17 member commission to study the impact of rules and regulations on new businesses, and make recommendations that would eliminate barriers, and who would report back by January 4, 2023, and expire on March 4, 2023.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Small Business
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/03/2022)
  • 2022-02-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7211: AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- SANITATION IN FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS
  Adds pickles and relish to those foods which are permitted to be manufactured and sold as a farm home food product.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Small Business
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/03/2022)
  • 2022-01-31: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (02/03/2022)
• House Bill #7212: AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES
  Allows Kathleen Coyne-McCoy to join Emily Ann Caron and Cullen Adare McCoy in marriage on or about September 10, 2022, within the Town of New Shoreham, Rhode Island.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House Special Legislation
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-02-25: Placed on House Calendar (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: House read and passed
  • 2022-03-11: Referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-03-17: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-03-22: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-03-28: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7213: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- MERIT SYSTEM
  Allows a classified employee to seek elected office provided that they resign their position upon being elected.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-22: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-04-26: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-05-06: Scheduled for consideration (05/10/2022)
  • 2022-05-06: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-10: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-05-13: Placed on House Calendar (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-18: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-06-03: Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7214: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES
  Creates a new additional post-election risk-limiting audit of voted mail ballots, focusing on voter signature verification.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7215: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- FOREIGN VEHICLES
  Enables some Massachusetts and Connecticut based student's transportation providers without Rhode Island licensed and registered vehicles to operate in Rhode Island, under limited conditions.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7216: AN ACT RELATING TO PARKS AND RECREATIONAL AREAS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS
  Provides for the authorized taking of mushrooms from public lands.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Resolution #7217: JOINT RESOLUTION TERMINATING THE GOVERNOR'S STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARATION
  
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Resolution #7218: HOUSE RESOLUTION TERMINATING THE GOVERNOR'S STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARATION
  
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7219: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND LOBBYING REFORM ACT
  Expands the lobbying reform act to apply to persons who lobby municipal government executives and legislative bodies, as well as local fire districts.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7220: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PARKING FACILITIES AND PRIVILEGES -- DISABILITY PARKING
  Includes the governor’s commission on disabilities on the decision making process for the disability parking enforcement enhancement program and require an annual report be submitted to the governor’s commission.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for consideration (04/28/2022)
  • 2022-04-28: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-29: Placed on House Calendar (05/04/2022)
  • 2022-05-04: House read and passed
  • 2022-05-20: Referred to Senate Judiciary
• House Resolution #7221: JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION -- JURY NULLIFICATION AS PROPER TRIAL DEFENSE ARGUMENT
  This joint resolution would propose to the voters a constitutional amendment which would allow a criminal defendant to argue jury nullification as a defense.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7222: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- VIDEO LOTTERY GAMES, TABLE GAMES AND SPORTS WAGERING--THE RHODE ISLAND CONSUMER PROTECTION GAMING ACT
  Prohibits the use of facial recognition technology and biometric recognition technology in video-lottery terminals at pari-mutuel licensees in the state or in online betting applications.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7223: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT
  Establishes a commission to study the use of artificial intelligence in the decision-making process of state government.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7224: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES
  Administrative hearings to follow superior court rules of procedure and evidence. Provides for subpoena of witnesses and evidence.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Resolution #7225: JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION -- PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE
  This joint resolution would authorize the submission to the electors of a constitutional amendment that would allow eligible citizens to register to vote removing the requirement that the registration be completed thirty (30) days before an election.
  • 2022-01-26: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Resolution #7226: HOUSE RESOLUTION THANKING FEMA AND THE NATIONAL DISASTER MEDICAL SYSTEM TEAM DOCTORS, NURSES, AND STAFF FOR PROVIDING CRITICAL HELP TO RHODE ISLANDS HOSPITALS AND CITIZENS
  
  • 2022-01-27: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7227: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXTENDING CONGRATULATIONS
  
  • 2022-01-27: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7228: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING CONDOLENCES
  
  • 2022-01-27: House read and passed
• House Bill #7229: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
  Requires an electric utility company to bury power lines for all residential customers who have experienced ninety-six (96) or more consecutive hours of power outage, unless the outage was caused by the resident.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7230: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS REGULATION
  Prohibits the use of certain information sources, and algorithms and predictive models that use external data, to unfairly discriminate based on race and other matters in regard to any insurance practice.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/09/2022)
  • 2022-02-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7231: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- FREEDOM TO TRAVEL AND WORK ACT
  Establishes an occupational regulatory framework by authorizing the issuance of occupational licenses and government certifications by recognition, for qualified worker applicants from other states.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/09/2022)
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-02-08: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (02/09/2022)
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7232: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- CIGARETTE AND OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS TAX
  Includes an automobile or truck as a place of business to sell tobacco products, including mobile tobacco sales.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-02-28: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-03-22: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-04-22: Withdrawn at sponsor's request
• House Bill #7233: AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- PFAS IN DRINKING WATER, GROUNDWATER AND SURFACE WATERS
  Provides for the department of health to take action to establish maximum contaminant levels for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water and set interim standards.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/17/2022)
  • 2022-02-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-15: Scheduled for consideration (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-15: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-17: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-22: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7234: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY REMEDIATION AND REUSE ACT
  Defines and provides that "per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances" (PFAS) be included within the definition of "hazardous substances" for purposes of industrial property remediation and reuse.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/17/2022)
  • 2022-02-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7235: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES
  Sets pharmacist renewal license fee at $250 biennially and annual nonresident pharmacy location license fee at $625. Validates pharmacy technician licenses for 2 years. Validates pharmacy intern licenses for 5 years.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2022)
  • 2022-04-12: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-06-19: Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: House read and passed
  • 2022-06-21: Referred to Senate Health and Human Services
• House Bill #7236: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PRECEPTORS TAX CREDIT ACT
  Allows for a tax credit of $500 for certain nurse practitioners or physicians.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7237: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- HEALTH CARE FOR ELDERLY AND DISABLED RESIDENTS ACT
  Increases the income limits for disabled individuals to one hundred eighty percent (180%) of the federal poverty level to qualify for medical assistance coverage.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2022)
  • 2022-05-17: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7238: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - PERSONAL INCOME TAX
  Provides that individuals who do not qualify for social security benefits and who receive pension income may exclude the pension income from taxation under the same circumstances that social security income is excluded from taxation.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2022)
  • 2022-05-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7239: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97-THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT)
  Effective January 1, 2023, the current COLA suspension schedule would be replaced with a fractional annual COLA of twenty-five percent (25%) of the COLA declared for that plan year, as it pertains to retired teachers, state and municipal employees.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7240: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION
  Exempts reusable bags not including paper or plastic bags from the state sales tax.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-04-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/04/2022)
  • 2022-05-04: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Resolution #7241: JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE-LINE ITEM VETO
  This proposed amendment to the Constitution would provide the governor with a line-item veto on the budget and other bills for the appropriation of money.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Finance
  • 2022-04-22: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
  • 2022-04-27: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7242: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ESTABLISHING THE RHODE ISLAND RARE DISEASE MEDICATION ACCESSIBILITY, AFFORDABILITY, AND REINSURANCE ACT
  Provides for establishment of the rare disease medication reinsurance program to be funded by insurer contributions that would be administered by the secretary of health and human services based on recommendations from a 15 member advisory council.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/14/2022)
  • 2022-02-14: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7243: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- ACCESSIBLE RESIDENCE MODIFICATIONS
  Allows health insurance plans to provide coverage for accessible residence modifications determined to be medically necessary.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/14/2022)
  • 2022-02-14: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7244: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES
  Medicare eligible disabled individuals under age 65 eligible for Medicare supplemental policies. Health insurance commissioner may adopt reasonable regulations and standards for Medicare supplemental policies.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/14/2022)
  • 2022-02-14: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for consideration (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-03-04: Placed on House Calendar (03/10/2022)
  • 2022-03-10: House read and passed
  • 2022-03-11: Referred to Senate Health and Human Services
  • 2022-06-14: Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-06-16: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-16: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed as amended (floor amendment)
  • 2022-06-22: Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022)
  • 2022-06-23: House passed as amended in concurrence
  • 2022-06-28: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-30: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7245: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- THE DRUG COST TRANSPARENCY ACT
  Allows drug cost transparency by requiring reports be submitted by drug manufacturers, pharmacy benefit managers and health benefit plan insurers for analysis to the director of the department of business regulation regarding prescription drugs.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7246: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- EXPLOITATION OF ELDERS
  Changes the definition of "elder person" for purposes of exploitation of elders from a person sixty-five (65) years of age or older to a person sixty (60) years of age or older.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-01: Scheduled for consideration (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-05-06: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-05-06: Placed on House Calendar (05/12/2022)
  • 2022-05-12: House read and passed
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/09/2022)
  • 2022-06-09: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-09: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-16: Signed by Governor
  • 2022-06-15: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7247: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- HARASSMENT
  Creates a new criminal offense of harassment and allow victims to file for a protective order in district court.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7248: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES
  Increases the penalties for driving so as to endanger, death resulting, by increasing the maximum term of imprisonment from ten (10) years to twenty (20) years, and the maximum term of license suspension from five (5) years to ten (10) years.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7249: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND SANCTUARY STATE ACT
  Requires a judicial warrant before federal immigration authorities are granted access to certain designated locations. Limit the state and local law enforcement agencies in assisting federal immigration authorities.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2022)
  • 2022-03-03: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7250: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES
  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.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Small Business
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7251: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES
  Increases the amount of malt beverages that a manufacturer can sell for offsite consumption from forty-eight (48) twelve-ounce (12 oz.) bottles and cans to fifty-five (55) bottles or cans.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Small Business
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7252: AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES
  Allows Dale J. Venturini to join Kaitlin F. Battista and Justin W. Venturini in marriage on or about July 9, 2022, within the Town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House Special Legislation
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2022)
  • 2022-02-15: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-02-25: Placed on House Calendar (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: House read and passed
  • 2022-03-11: Referred to Senate Judiciary
  • 2022-03-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-03-17: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/22/2022)
  • 2022-03-22: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-03-22: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-03-28: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7253: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- PRIMARY ELECTIONS
  Requires that for all primaries, the candidates' names would be listed on the ballot, in an order chosen by lot, under the direction of the secretary of state.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
  • 2022-03-24: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7254: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND ECONOMIC GROWTH BLOCKCHAIN ACT
  Establishes an economic growth blockchain act, set regulations for the sale of hemp, regulate virtual and digital assets, and establish depository banks for these purposes.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7255: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- EMERGENCY SHELTERS
  Establishes rules and procedures for licensing emergency shelters, including setting minimum standards and prohibiting the charging of fees to the residents.
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Resolution #7256: CONCURRENT RESOLUTION EXTENDING POWER CONFERRED UPON THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SUBSECTION (E) OF TITLE 30, CHAPTER 15, SECTION 9 OF THE RHODE ISLAND GENERAL LAWS
  
  • 2022-01-28: Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
  • 2022-01-28: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-01: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for consideration (02/08/2022)
  • 2022-02-07: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-02-08: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-02-08: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-02-08: Placed on House Calendar (02/10/2022)
  • 2022-02-10: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-02-10: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-02-11: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-02-11: Signed by Governor
• House Resolution #7257: HOUSE RESOLUTION THANKING THE MANY EMERGENCY AND ESSENTIAL PERSONNEL, AND VOLUNTEERS WHO WORKED TIRELESSLY TO SERVE AND PROTECT RHODE ISLANDERS DURING THE SEVERE WINTER STORM THAT HIT OUR STATE ON JANUARY 28TH AND 29TH OF 2022
  
  • 2022-02-01: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7258: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF TIMOTHY ALAN JACKSON
  
  • 2022-02-01: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7259: HOUSE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING FEBRUARY OF 2022 TO BE "CHILDREN'S DENTAL HEALTH MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-02-01: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7260: HOUSE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING THE 8TH ANNUAL "PHYSICIAN ANESTHESIOLOGISTS WEEK" ON JANUARY 30TH THROUGH FEBRUARY 5, 2022, IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-02-01: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7261: HOUSE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE CELEBRATION OF THE LUNAR NEW YEAR "THE YEAR OF THE TIGER"
  
  • 2022-02-01: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7262: HOUSE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING FEBRUARY OF 2022, AS "BLACK HISTORY MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
  
  • 2022-02-01: House read and passed
• House Resolution #7263: HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF THE HONORABLE RODNEY D. DRIVER
  
  • 2022-02-01: House read and passed
• House Bill #7264: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE - CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING
  Prohibits automobile insurance companies from utilizing education level, race, ethnicity, occupation, income, gender, zip code or adjacent zip code, or census tract to determine automobile insurance rates, premiums, and/or eligibility for coverage.
  • 2022-02-02: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/16/2022)
  • 2022-02-16: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7265: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- WINE DIRECT SHIPPER LICENSE
  Creates a Wine Direct Shipper License for licensed producers in this or any state to directly ship a limited amount of wine to residents age 21 or older for personal consumption.
  • 2022-02-02: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-03-18: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/23/2022)
  • 2022-03-23: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7266: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- ELECTRICIANS--HOME INSPECTIONS
  Allows home inspectors to inspect electrical systems and components as part of an inspection and a written evaluation of a residential building.
  • 2022-02-02: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/16/2022)
  • 2022-02-16: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7267: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BARBERS AND HAIRDRESSERS
  Allows hairdressers to have apprentices. After a two (2) year apprenticeship, the apprentice would be eligible to apply for a hairdresser license pursuant to § 5-10-8.
  • 2022-02-02: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-02-24: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-02-25: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2022)
  • 2022-03-08: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Resolution #7268: HOUSE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY AND PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR UNIFORM MULTI-STATE NURSING LICENSE REQUIREMENTS
  Amends the interstate nurse licensure compact and adopts an enhanced and more comprehensive version of the compact, to allow nurses to hold a multi-state license allowing them to practice across state lines without having to obtain multiple licenses.
  • 2022-02-02: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
  • 2022-03-29: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-06-19: Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-19: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-21: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-21: Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022)
  • 2022-06-22: House passed Sub A
• House Bill #7269: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- LICENSE PROCEDURE FOR SOCIAL WORKERS
  Allows individuals who have received their masters of social work from an accredited college or university within the past 18 months to practice within the field prior to obtaining a license.
  • 2022-02-02: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/16/2022)
  • 2022-02-16: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-27: Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2022)
  • 2022-05-27: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-05-31: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-11: Scheduled for reconsideration (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-11: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-14: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-15: Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022)
  • 2022-06-17: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-17: Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2022)
  • 2022-06-21: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-21: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-27: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7270: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING REVIEW ACT
  Establishes a policy for regulation of occupations, specifying criteria for government regulation to increase opportunities, competition, protect consumers and a process to review criminal histories to reduce offenders' disqualifications.
  • 2022-02-02: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/16/2022)
  • 2022-02-16: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• House Bill #7271: AN ACT TO VACATE THE FORFEITURE OR REVOCATION OF THE CHARTER OF GAREAU ENTERPRISES, INC.
  
  • 2022-02-02: Introduced, referred to House Corporations
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/16/2022)
  • 2022-02-16: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-02-25: Placed on House Calendar (03/01/2022)
  • 2022-03-01: House read and passed
  • 2022-03-11: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (03/15/2022)
  • 2022-03-15: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-03-15: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-03-23: Effective without Governor's signature
• House Bill #7272: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - CURRICULUM
  Requires all public elementary and secondary schools in Rhode Island to provide at least one unit of instruction on Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander History and culture.
  • 2022-02-02: Introduced, referred to House Education
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/09/2022)
  • 2022-02-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2022-02-08: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (02/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-04: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/09/2022)
  • 2022-03-09: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-13: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-05-17: Committee postponed at request of sponsor (05/18/2022)
  • 2022-05-28: Scheduled for consideration (06/01/2022)
  • 2022-05-28: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-06-01: Committee recommends passage of Sub A
  • 2022-06-03: Placed on House Calendar (06/07/2022)
  • 2022-06-07: House passed Sub A
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
  • 2022-06-23: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-29: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7273: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES
  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.
  • 2022-02-02: Introduced, referred to House Education
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/16/2022)
  • 2022-02-16: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-03-25: Scheduled for consideration (03/30/2022)
  • 2022-03-30: Committee recommends passage
  • 2022-04-01: Placed on House Calendar
  • 2022-04-01: Placed on House Calendar (04/05/2022)
  • 2022-04-05: House read and passed
  • 2022-04-26: Referred to Senate Education
  • 2022-05-20: Scheduled for consideration (05/25/2022)
  • 2022-05-25: Committee recommends passage in concurrence
  • 2022-06-10: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/14/2022)
  • 2022-06-14: Senate passed in concurrence
  • 2022-06-15: Transmitted to Governor
  • 2022-06-20: Signed by Governor
• House Bill #7274: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' TENURE
  Requires a school committee or the governing body of a charter or private school to submit the identity of any teacher terminated for cause to the Rhode Island department of education.
  • 2022-02-02: Introduced, referred to House Education
  • 2022-02-11: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/16/2022)
  • 2022-02-16: Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for consideration
  • 2022-04-08: Proposed Substitute
  • 2022-04-08: Scheduled for consideration (04/11/2022)
  • 2022-04-11: Committee recommends passa