SB 2195
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Feb 08 2022 |
03/31/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 31 2022
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SB 2690
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Mar 17 2022 |
03/31/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 31 2022
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SB 2393
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Feb 15 2022 |
03/31/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 31 2022
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SB 2507
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Mar 01 2022 |
03/31/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 31 2022
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SB 2378
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Feb 15 2022 |
03/31/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 31 2022
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SR 2827
(2022 Regular Session)
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"
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Mar 29 2022 |
03/29/2022 Senate Read And Passed
Mar 29 2022
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SB 2206
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Feb 08 2022 |
03/29/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 29 2022
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SB 2800
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Mar 24 2022 |
03/24/2022 Introduced, Referred To Senate Judiciary
Mar 24 2022
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SB 2532
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Mar 01 2022 |
03/24/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 24 2022
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SB 2519
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Mar 01 2022 |
03/24/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 24 2022
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SB 2533
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Mar 01 2022 |
03/24/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 24 2022
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SB 2366
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Feb 15 2022 |
03/24/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 24 2022
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SB 2368
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Feb 15 2022 |
03/24/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 24 2022
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SB 2431
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Mar 01 2022 |
03/24/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 24 2022
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SB 2420
(2022 Regular Session)
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).)
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Feb 15 2022 |
03/23/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 23 2022
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SB 2135
(2022 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES -- HAPPY HOURS (Allows licensees to offer happy hour alcoholic drink specials served in conjunction with meals.)
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Jan 25 2022 |
03/23/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 23 2022
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SB 2484
(2022 Regular Session)
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)
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Mar 01 2022 |
03/16/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 16 2022
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SB 2364
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Feb 15 2022 |
03/15/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 15 2022
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SB 2371
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Feb 15 2022 |
03/15/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 15 2022
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SR 2210
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Feb 08 2022 |
03/10/2022 Senate Read And Passed
Mar 10 2022
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