SB 2686
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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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 2697
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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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 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 2415
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Feb 15 2022 |
03/30/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 30 2022
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SB 2245
(2022 Regular Session)
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).)
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Feb 08 2022 |
03/30/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 30 2022
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SR 2826
(2022 Regular Session)
Senate Resolution Commemorating "International Transgender Day Of Visibility" On March 31, 2022, In The State Of Rhode Island
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Mar 29 2022 |
03/29/2022 Senate Read And Passed
Mar 29 2022
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SB 2374
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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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 2330
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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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 2619
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Mar 10 2022 |
03/22/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 22 2022
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SB 2398
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Feb 15 2022 |
03/21/2022 Committee Postponed At Request Of Sponsor (03/24/2022)
Mar 21 2022
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SB 2712
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Mar 17 2022 |
03/17/2022 Introduced, Referred To Senate Judiciary
Mar 17 2022
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SB 2715
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Mar 17 2022 |
03/17/2022 Introduced, Referred To Senate Judiciary
Mar 17 2022
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SB 2693
(2022 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE (Increases the Medicaid rate of reimbursement for in-network dental care services.)
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Mar 17 2022 |
03/17/2022 Introduced, Referred To Senate Finance
Mar 17 2022
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SB 2087
(2022 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ACT (Requires the department of environmental management to create environmental justice areas.)
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Jan 25 2022 |
03/16/2022 Referred To House Environment And Natural Resources
Mar 16 2022
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SB 2665
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Mar 10 2022 |
03/10/2022 Introduced, Referred To Senate Labor
Mar 10 2022
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SB 2569
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Mar 10 2022 |
03/10/2022 Introduced, Referred To Senate Commerce
Mar 10 2022
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SB 2593
(2022 Regular Session)
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).)
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Mar 10 2022 |
03/10/2022 Introduced, Referred To Senate Finance
Mar 10 2022
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SB 2600
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Mar 10 2022 |
03/10/2022 Introduced, Referred To Senate Finance
Mar 10 2022
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SB 2589
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Mar 10 2022 |
03/10/2022 Introduced, Referred To Senate Finance
Mar 10 2022
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SB 2634
(2022 Regular Session)
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.)
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Mar 10 2022 |
03/10/2022 Introduced, Referred To Senate Judiciary
Mar 10 2022
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