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State Legislature US Congress

All 25,118 Active 7,678 In committee 7,673 Passed 5,917 Signed 4,510 Failed 6,972

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Jul 6, 2022

SB 2248: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES (Creates a special license plate for the not for profit Atlantic Shark Institute.)

07/06/2022 Effective without Governor's signature

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Jul 6, 2022

SB 2527: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - STATE BUILDING CODE (Amends the Gender Inclusive Restroom Act to have a municipality apply to the state building code standard committee for a waiver in the case of undue burden with compliance.)

07/06/2022 Effective without Governor's signature

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Jul 6, 2022

SB 2277: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- BLOCK ISLAND UTILITY DISTRICT ACT OF 2017 (Provides that the members of the board of the Block Island Utility Commission be reimbursed for the actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.)

07/06/2022 Effective without Governor's signature

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Jul 6, 2022

SB 2481: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 (Amends membership of the RI Housing Resources Act of 1998 Commission to exclude a representative of the insurers and replace it with a representative of a Rhode Island city or town with a population below 25,000 with a median family income of 40,000.)

07/06/2022 Effective without Governor's signature

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Jul 6, 2022

SB 3031: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- APPLICABILITY OF TRAFFIC REGULATIONS (Allows the city council of the city of Warwick to enact ordinances authorizing the Warwick police department to impounded off-road non-registered vehicles that are unlawfully used on public streets.)

07/06/2022 Effective without Governor's signature

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Jul 6, 2022

SB 3020: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES (Authorizes the administrator of the division of motor vehicles to make available a special registration motor vehicle plate for the Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association.)

07/06/2022 Effective without Governor's signature

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Jul 6, 2022

SB 3038: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF NORTH PROVIDENCE TO ESTABLISH, ADOPT, AND REAPPORTION THE TOWN COUNCIL AND SCHOOL COMMITTEE VOTING WARDS (Authorizes and ratifies the action of the North Providence town council which reapportions and redistricts its voting wards based on the most recent federal decennial census.)

07/06/2022 Effective without Governor's signature

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Jul 6, 2022

SB 2671: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES (Authorizes administrator DMV to issue special license plates to Friends of Pomham Rocks Lighthouse.)

07/06/2022 Effective without Governor's signature

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Jul 6, 2022

SB 3008: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF WARWICK TO ISSUE NOT TO EXCEED $350,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS TO FINANCE THE CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION, IMPROVEMENT, ALTERNATION, REPAIR, LANDSCAPING, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF TWO NEW HIGH SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FACILITIES TO REPLACE PILGRIM HIGH SCHOOL AND TOLLGATE HIGH SCHOOL, AND ALL ATTENDANT EXPENSES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DEMOLITION, ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURAL COSTS, SUBJECT TO APPROVAL OF STATE HOUSING AID AT A REIMBURSEMENT RATE OR STATE SHARE RATIO OF NOT LESS THAN 45% AT THE TIME OF ISSUANCE AND 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 city of Warwick to issue up to $350,000,000 general obligation bonds, to finance the construction, renovation, improvement, and equipping of two new high schools and school facilities to replace Pilgrim and Tollgate High School.)

07/06/2022 Effective without Governor's signature

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Jul 6, 2022

SB 2907: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES (Grants the Providence board of licenses the authority to exempt from the provisions of the laws concerning the proximity of a Class B license retailer to schools and churches, property located at 12 Governor Street in the city of Providence.)

07/06/2022 Effective without Governor's signature

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Jul 6, 2022

SB 3037: AN ACT RELATING TO AUTHORIZING AN AMENDMENT TO THE NORTH PROVIDENCE CHARTER INCREASING THE ANNUAL SALARY OF MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, COMMENCING JANUARY 3, 2023 (Amends the North Providence town charter so that, commencing on January 3, 2023, the annual salary for town council members, increases from eight thousand dollars ($8,000) to fourteen thousand four hundred dollars ($14,400).)

07/06/2022 Effective without Governor's signature

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Jul 6, 2022

SB 3061: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES (Creates a special motor vehicle registration plate for The Rose Island Lighthouse Foundation, Inc.)

07/06/2022 Effective without Governor's signature