HB 6311
(2017 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS (Establishes a process by which a virtual education plan may be established and used by school districts during inclement weather which would count as a school day, provided that the plan is approved by the council on elementary and secondary education.)
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Jun 08 2017 |
07/19/2017 Signed By Governor
Jul 19 2017
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HB 5397
(2017 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE AND SALE (Imposes a penalty of two thousand dollars ($2,000) upon financial institutions failing to promptly record foreclosure deeds and pay outstanding taxes.)
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Feb 03 2017 |
07/07/2017 Effective Without Governor's Signature
Jul 07 2017
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HB 5280
(2017 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS (Creates a veteran's preference in the issuance of state contracts.)
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Jan 27 2017 |
07/05/2017 Signed By Governor
Jul 05 2017
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HB 5241
(2017 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC TRANSIT-- BUS PASSES (Requires that five million dollars ($5,000,000) be appropriated to the Rhode Island public transit authority between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2019.)
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Jan 26 2017 |
07/05/2017 Signed By Governor
Jul 05 2017
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HB 5453
(2017 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- ALL STUDENTS COUNT ACT (Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to use separate collection categories and tabulations for specified Asian ethnic groups in every demographic report on ancestry or ethnic origins of residents.)
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Feb 09 2017 |
06/30/2017 Signed By Governor
Jun 30 2017
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HB 6078
(2017 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BARBERS, HAIRDRESSERS, COSMETICIANS, MANICURISTS AND ESTHETICIANS (Permits grandfathering the licensing of barbers, hairdressers, cosmeticians, manicurists and estheticians on the basis of work experience or work in another state.)
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Apr 05 2017 |
06/29/2017 Effective Without Governor's Signature
Jun 29 2017
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HB 5035
(2017 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS-UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT (Adds the synthetic opioid U-47700 (3,4-dichloro-N-[2-dimethylamino)cyclohexyl]-N-methylbenzamidem) to the list of Schedule I controlled substances as enumerated in §21-28-2.08 of the general laws.)
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Jan 06 2017 |
06/27/2017 Committee Recommends Passage In Concurrence
Jun 27 2017
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HB 5222
(2017 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - REAL ESTATE BROKERS AND SALESPERSONS (Requires a real estate broker to release customer or client funds in an escrow account as instructed by the parties to a failed real estate transaction, within ten (10) days of receipt of a written release.)
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Jan 26 2017 |
06/27/2017 Signed By Governor
Jun 27 2017
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HB 5874
(2017 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - WOONSOCKET MUNICIPAL HOUSING COURT (Authorizes the city of Woonsocket to establish a municipal housing court to consider potential violations of city zoning ordinances and applicable state laws and code provisions.)
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Mar 08 2017 |
06/27/2017 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Jun 27 2017
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HB 6157
(2017 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- STATE CRIME LABORATORY (Changes the director and other positions at the state crime laboratory from board of governors' appointments to employees of the council on postsecondary education.)
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Apr 27 2017 |
06/27/2017 Signed By Governor
Jun 27 2017
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HB 5661
(2017 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- PRIVATE SCHOOLS (Requires accreditation by a Regional Accrediting Agency recognized by the United States Department of Education for distance learning institutions to transact business or grant degrees in Rhode Island.)
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Mar 01 2017 |
06/27/2017 Signed By Governor
Jun 27 2017
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HB 6102
(2017 Regular Session)
AN ACT VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WOONSOCKET (Validates and ratifies amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the city of Woonsocket, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the city of Woonsocket on November 8, 2016.)
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Apr 12 2017 |
06/22/2017 Effective Without Governor's Signature
Jun 22 2017
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HB 5238
(2017 Regular Session)
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.)
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Jan 26 2017 |
06/21/2017 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Jun 21 2017
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HR 6260
(2017 Regular Session)
House Resolution Extending The Reporting And Expiration Dates Of The Special Legislative Commission To Study The Low And Moderate Income Act
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May 26 2017 |
06/21/2017 House Read And Passed
Jun 21 2017
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HB 5376
(2017 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES (Reduces the alcoholic beverage manufacturing and wholesale licensing fee from three thousand dollars ($3,000) to five hundred dollars ($500).)
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Feb 03 2017 |
06/20/2017 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Jun 20 2017
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HB 5324
(2017 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - LICENSING OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES (Requires all hospitals and freestanding ambulatory surgical facilities to adopt policies to use a smoke evacuation system for surgical procedures that generate surgical smoke.)
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Feb 01 2017 |
06/15/2017 Referred To Senate Health And Human Services
Jun 15 2017
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HB 5252
(2017 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND AGING AND DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTER (Establishes aging/disability resource center within division of elderly affairs as part of long-term care system for elderly/disabled persons/family caregivers/providers.)
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Jan 26 2017 |
06/07/2017 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Jun 07 2017
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HB 5912
(2017 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES (Subjects residential properties which are a part of certain federal programs to a 12% tax of the prior year's rental income.)
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Mar 10 2017 |
06/06/2017 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Jun 06 2017
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HB 6173
(2017 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION (Exempts from sales and use taxes specialized packaging equipment such as kegs for alcoholic beverages.)
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Apr 28 2017 |
05/31/2017 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 31 2017
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HB 5506
(2017 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- CIGARETTE TAX-MINIMUM PRICE OF CIGARETTES (Requires that a fifteen percent (15%) minimum markup be added to the total cost of cigarettes sold by retailers.)
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Feb 15 2017 |
05/30/2017 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 30 2017
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