SB 91
(2021 Regular Session)
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.)
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Jan 26 2021 |
04/07/2021 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 07 2021
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SB 353
(2021 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT (Requires the general assembly to establish an education aid fund to be administered by the department of education for increases in enrollment of at least twenty five (25) students.)
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Feb 25 2021 |
04/07/2021 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 07 2021
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SB 348
(2021 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT (Prohibits total education paid to any local education agency from being reduced by more than one percent (1%) of the municipal education appropriation in the previous year.)
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Feb 25 2021 |
04/07/2021 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 07 2021
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SB 660
(2021 Regular Session)
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.)
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Mar 18 2021 |
04/01/2021 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 01 2021
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SB 128
(2021 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN--CONFINEMENT IN MOTOR VEHICLES PROHIBITED (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.)
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Jan 26 2021 |
04/01/2021 Referred To House Judiciary
Apr 01 2021
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SB 455
(2021 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION (Establishes an education savings account program to assist and support the parents, guardians and caretakers of students with the materials, tutors, technology and other educational support for learning at-home or at any other remote-learning site.)
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Mar 04 2021 |
03/31/2021 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 31 2021
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SB 530
(2021 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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Mar 04 2021 |
03/25/2021 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 25 2021
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SB 533
(2021 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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Mar 04 2021 |
03/25/2021 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 25 2021
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SR 425
(2021 Regular Session)
SENATE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY VOTER FRAUD (Creates a 7 member special legislative commission whose purpose it would be to study and provide recommendations to prevent voter fraud, and who would report back to the Senate no later than February 7, 2022, and whose life would expire on April 7, 2022.)
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Feb 25 2021 |
03/18/2021 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 18 2021
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SR 125
(2021 Regular Session)
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.)
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Jan 26 2021 |
03/18/2021 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 18 2021
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SR 39
(2021 Regular Session)
Senate Resolution Protecting And Ensuring Farmland Preservation
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Jan 19 2021 |
03/17/2021 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 17 2021
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SR 628
(2021 Regular Session)
Senate Resolution Respectfully Requesting That The Rhode Island Auditor General'S Office Conduct A Thorough Review Of The Kent County Water Authority (Kcwa)
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Mar 16 2021 |
03/16/2021 Senate Read And Passed
Mar 16 2021
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SB 476
(2021 Regular Session)
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.)
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Mar 04 2021 |
03/11/2021 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 11 2021
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SB 95
(2021 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC FINANCE -- STATE BUDGET (Requires that the governor submit a zero-based budget to the general assembly. The zero-based budget shall be phased in over a five (5) year period.)
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Jan 26 2021 |
03/08/2021 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 08 2021
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SB 467
(2021 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO FISH AND WILDLIFE - BIRDS (Removes the prohibition of taking, killing or destroying wild birds by crossbow.)
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Mar 04 2021 |
03/04/2021 Introduced, Referred To Senate Environment And Agriculture
Mar 04 2021
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SB 491
(2021 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - LICENSING OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES (Allows hospital and nursing home patients and residents of group homes to designate one person to safely visit during any public health emergency or other state of emergency, where visitation rights are suspended.)
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Mar 04 2021 |
03/04/2021 Introduced, Referred To Senate Health And Human Services
Mar 04 2021
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SB 350
(2021 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT (Modifies the amount of education aid determined for each school district with respect to high-need students.)
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Feb 25 2021 |
02/25/2021 Introduced, Referred To Senate Education
Feb 25 2021
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SB 269
(2021 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES--OVERTIME (Exempts the Central Coventry Fire District from the application of the firefighters' overtime law for five (5) years beginning on July 1, 2021.)
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Feb 10 2021 |
02/24/2021 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Feb 24 2021
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SB 113
(2021 Regular Session)
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE EXETER-WEST GREENWICH REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT TO ISSUE NOT TO EXCEED $17,840,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND NOTES TO FINANCE THE RENOVATION, REHABILITATION, IMPROVEMENT, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FACILITIES THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, AUDITORIUM AND CLASSROOM IMPROVEMENTS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, ROOFS, FLOORS, HEATING, VENTILATION, AIR CONDITIONING, ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS, PLAYGROUNDS, ATHLETIC FACILITIES, PARKING AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS, 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 Exeter-West Greenwich Regional School District to issue general obligation bonds not to exceed $17,840,000 for school improvements.)
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Jan 26 2021 |
02/12/2021 Signed By Governor
Feb 12 2021
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SB 27
(2021 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PERSONAL DELIVERY DEVICES (Establishes rules and regulations concerning the use and registration of personal delivery devices and mobile carrying devices.)
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Jan 19 2021 |
02/12/2021 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Feb 12 2021
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