HB 5972: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - WEAPONS (Permits Rhode Island residents, twenty-one (21) years of age or older, to carry a concealed handgun, without a permit.)
03/19/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
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HB 5882: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS (Amends the definition of firearms to include tasers, as well as define taser and stun gun.)
03/19/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
HB 5381: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS (Requires firearm sellers to require purchaser to execute medical authorization/release form for release of records relating to addiction/alcoholism/mental health illness for a period of five (5) years.)
03/19/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Sponsors
Justine Caldwell
(D)
,
Anastasia Williams
(D)
,
David Morales
(D)
,
Joshua Giraldo
(D)
,
Jose Batista
(D)
HB 6041: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES (Mandates that any notice to the public required of a municipality be posted in a newspaper that is published on a daily basis and is distributed in that municipality.)
03/19/2021 Committee postponed at request of sponsor (03/25/2021)
HB 5973: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - WEAPONS (Permits the open and concealed carry of weapons by any person in the act of evacuating the area pursuant to an order of the governor or local authority under chapter 15 of title 30.)
03/19/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Sponsors
Mike Chippendale
(R)
,
Bob Quattrocchi
(R)
,
Doc Corvese
(D)
,
David Place
(R)
,
Blake A. Filippi
(R)
HB 5970: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS (Increases the age from eighteen (18) to twenty-one (21) years for lawful sale of firearms or ammunition. Full-time law enforcement, state marshals and members of the U.S. military be exempt from these prohibitions.)
03/19/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Sponsors
Susan Donovan
(D)
,
Gregg Amore
(D)
,
Marcia R. Ranglin-Vassell
(D)
,
Kathleen Fogarty
(D)
,
Teresa Tanzi
(D)
+5 more
HB 5730: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - WEAPONS (Authorizes the attorney general to enter into a reciprocal agreement with Massachusetts and/or Connecticut for handgun permits.)
03/19/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Sponsors
Mike Chippendale
(R)
,
Joseph Solomon
(D)
,
Ramon Perez
(D)
,
Tom Noret
(D)
,
Edward Cardillo
(D)
+4 more
HB 5395: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- MAINTENANCE OF ORDER ON CAMPUS (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT) (Mandates arming campus police at public higher educational institutions and includes campus police in the definition of "law enforcement officer" for the purposes of the "Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights.")
03/19/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
HB 5942: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS (Prohibits schools from offering employment incentives or bonuses to teachers on the condition that the teacher either is or becomes licensed to carry a weapon.)
03/19/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Sponsors
Karen Alzate
(D)
,
Marcia R. Ranglin-Vassell
(D)
,
Kathleen Fogarty
(D)
,
Brianna Henries
(D)
,
Rebecca Kislak
(D)
+2 more
HB 5185: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- PURCHASE AND SALE OF PRECIOUS METALS (Requires a licensed buyer of certain precious metals or articles, tools, and electronics to take a digital photograph of their purchase and upload it to the attorney general's license sales tracking system database.)
03/19/2021 Committee postponed at request of sponsor (03/24/2021)
HB 6082: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - WEAPONS (Defines "electric arm" subjects to various protections of firearms/removes stun gun from the prohibited weapons list.)
03/19/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
SB 622: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS (Repeal is to follow the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) and to account for permitting voters to cast provisional ballots at the polling place.)
03/18/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
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