Rhode Island Bills

sponsored by Harold M. Metts

Bill Title Introduced Latest Action↓
SB 2755 (2020 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT (Amends the "residential landlord and tenant act" to allow a landlord prior to any residential rental agreement shall deliver to prospective tenant a valid certificate of rental suitability as defined in § 34-18-22.4.)
Mar 04 2020 03/04/2020 Introduced, Referred To Senate Judiciary
Mar 04 2020
SB 2233 (2020 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE (Directs the EOHHS to adopt/implement a methodology/determining a Medicaid fee for services/reimbursement rate non-emergency medical transportation service providers that is at least comparable to the rates paid for similar services in neighboring states.)
Feb 04 2020 03/03/2020 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 03 2020
SB 2651 (2020 Regular Session)
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.)
Feb 27 2020 02/27/2020 Introduced, Referred To Senate Health And Human Services
Feb 27 2020
SB 2630 (2020 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - EDUCATIONAL SERVICES TO VERY YOUNG CHILDREN (Develops and implements strategies to improve the compensation of early educators so programs can attract, develop, and retain effective staff to care for and educate young children and provide family-focuses services.)
Feb 27 2020 02/27/2020 Introduced, Referred To Senate Education
Feb 27 2020
SB 2635 (2020 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION - STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - HEALTH AND SAFETY (Updates and modernize the Department of Environmental Management’s ability to enforce environmental laws.)
Feb 27 2020 02/27/2020 Introduced, Referred To Senate Environment And Agriculture
Feb 27 2020
SB 2255 (2020 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- HOUSING MAINTENANCE AND OCCUPANCY CODE (Landlords responsible to tenants if tenants evicted due to landlord neglect and allows municipality to place lien on property.)
Feb 04 2020 02/27/2020 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Feb 27 2020
SB 2264 (2020 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT (Requires the sealing of any district court file, where a resolution of a trespass and eviction complaint results in a verdict for the tenant and no appeal is taken.)
Feb 04 2020 02/27/2020 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Feb 27 2020
SB 2258 (2020 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- IMMIGRATION STATUS (Prohibits a landlord from asking about the immigration status of a tenant, prospective tenant, occupant, or prospective occupant of residential rental property.)
Feb 04 2020 02/27/2020 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Feb 27 2020
SB 2271 (2020 Regular Session)
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.)
Feb 04 2020 02/27/2020 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Feb 27 2020
SR 2616 (2020 Regular Session)
Senate Resolution Commemorating The 176Th Anniversary Of Dominican Republic Independence On February 27, 2020
Feb 27 2020 02/27/2020 Senate Read And Passed
Feb 27 2020
SB 2663 (2020 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - STATE BUILDING CODE (Prohibits more than two (2) communities from combining to appoint a shared building official.)
Feb 27 2020 02/27/2020 Introduced, Referred To Senate Housing And Municipal Government
Feb 27 2020
SR 2711 (2020 Regular Session)
JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE -- RIGHT TO ADEQUATE EDUCATION (Adds two sections to the constitution/guarantees residents adequate education permitting learning at high levels, become lifelong learners, productive workers and responsible citizens/makes rights guaranteed under the constitution judicially enforceable.)
Feb 27 2020 02/27/2020 Introduced, Referred To Senate Education
Feb 27 2020
SB 2652 (2020 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (Amends the general laws relating to vaccines by allowing adults, parents, guardians, or persons in custody of a child to opt out of vaccines for non-casual contact diseases.)
Feb 27 2020 02/27/2020 Introduced, Referred To Senate Health And Human Services
Feb 27 2020
SB 2686 (2020 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - PARKING FACILITIES AND PRIVILEGES (Requires municipalities/state departments/agencies to submit annual report relating to enforcement of disability parking program.)
Feb 27 2020 02/27/2020 Introduced, Referred To Senate Judiciary
Feb 27 2020
SB 2696 (2020 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- EMPLOYEE CRIMINAL RECORDS CHECK (Requires all applicants for employment with the department of BHDDH or any of its licensed facilities or programs to have the attorney general's office conduct their mandated nationwide criminal records check.)
Feb 27 2020 02/27/2020 Introduced, Referred To Senate Judiciary
Feb 27 2020
SB 2631 (2020 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL-TO-CAREER TRANSITION ACT OF 1996 (Implements an individual career and academic plan graduation requirement for each student enrolled in public schools in the sixth through twelfth grade, starting with students entering the sixth grade in the 2023-2024 school year.)
Feb 27 2020 02/27/2020 Introduced, Referred To Senate Education
Feb 27 2020
SB 2666 (2020 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY (Increases the number of members of the transit authority from eight to nine and makes the mayor of Providence or designee an ex officio member with voting privileges.)
Feb 27 2020 02/27/2020 Introduced, Referred To Senate Housing And Municipal Government
Feb 27 2020
SB 2705 (2020 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- ESTABLISHING THE "COMMUTER TRANSPORTATION BENEFITS ACT" (This act would establish the commuter transportation benefit act. Employers with five hundred (500) or more employees would provide a pre-tax transportation fringe benefit program or provide transportation to the employees.)
Feb 27 2020 02/27/2020 Introduced, Referred To Senate Labor
Feb 27 2020
SB 2703 (2020 Regular Session)
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 instructions throughout the state by earning credits through apprenticeships.)
Feb 27 2020 02/27/2020 Introduced, Referred To Senate Labor
Feb 27 2020
SB 2267 (2020 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- FEES (Allows jurors to donate their juror fees to the state into the general fund.)
Feb 04 2020 02/26/2020 Referred To House Judiciary
Feb 26 2020

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