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State Legislature US Congress

All 25,118 Active 7,678 In committee 7,673 Passed 5,630 Signed 4,797 Failed 6,972

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate May 10, 2021

SB 333: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINALS--CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- PAROLE (Grants juveniles sentenced as adults parole eligibility after completing fifteen (15) years of sentence with prospective/retroactive. Effective January 1, 1991.)

05/10/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate May 10, 2021

SR 141: 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 joint resolution would provide for the publishing and submission to the electors a proposition of amendment to the constitution of the state for a line item veto.)

05/10/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate May 10, 2021

SB 312: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE - PROBATION AND PAROLE SUPPORT (Repeals court costs against all defendants who plead nolo contendere, guilty or are found guilty of certain crimes.)

05/10/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate May 10, 2021

SB 253: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND SANCTUARY STATE ACT (Designates schools, places of worship and courts as sensitive locations and would require that a judicial warrant be obtained before federal immigration authorities could be granted access to those premises to enforce immigration laws.)

05/10/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

in committee · Rhode Island · House May 7, 2021

HB 6312: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE COLLEGE CRUSADE SCHOLARSHIP (Provides that scholarships received directly from the College Crusade Scholarship Program would not be considered financial aid pursuant to the Rhode Island Promise Scholarships, and provides the program with access to certain student data.)

05/07/2021 Introduced, referred to House Education

in committee · Rhode Island · House May 7, 2021

HR 6275: HOUSE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY AND REVIEW THE IMPACT OF EXISTING RULES AND REGULATIONS ON THE CREATION OF NEW BUSINESSES, AND PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS TO REVISE LAWS IN ORDER TO ELIMINATE BARRIERS (Creates a 17 member commission to study the impact of rules and regulations on new businesses, and make recommendations that would eliminate barriers, and who would report back by January 4, 2022, and expire on March 4, 2022.)

05/07/2021 Committee postponed at request of sponsor (05/10/2021)

in committee · Rhode Island · House May 7, 2021

HB 6315: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND CERTIFICATION STANDARDS BOARD--RIGHT TO READ ACT (Extends the dates for the creation of a program to prepare teachers to teach reading with scientific reading instruction and structured literacy instruction.)

05/07/2021 Introduced, referred to House Education

in committee · Rhode Island · House May 7, 2021

HB 6310: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY – TRANSPORTATION EMISSIONS AND MOBILE (TEAM) COMMUNITY ACT (Establishes the Transportation Emission and Mobile (Team) Community Act intended to limit and reduce indirect carbon dioxide emissions throughout the state while promoting the purposes of the transportation climate initiative program.)

05/07/2021 Introduced, referred to House Finance

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate May 7, 2021

SB 883: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS (Requires all persons or entities collecting social security and other personal identification numbers to create and publicly display a privacy protection policy. Violations of this requirement would incur a civil penalty of five-hundred dollars ($500).)

05/07/2021 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate May 6, 2021

SB 537: AN ACT RELATING TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY - SPECIAL COMMISSION ON REAPPORTIONMENT (Creates an 18 member special commission on reapportionment to redistrict the districts of the general assembly and the state's congressional districts based on the data collected by the federal Census conducted in 2020 by January 15, 2022.)

05/06/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate May 6, 2021

SB 308: AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (Increases penalties for animal cruelty.)

05/06/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate May 6, 2021

SB 309: AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (Prohibits a person convicted of unnecessary cruelty to animals from owning or exercising control of an animal for life and be subject to fine of $1000 for each violation of this act.)

05/06/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study