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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

in committee · Rhode Island · House May 3, 2017

HB 6027: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- INSURANCE BENEFITS (Proves that correctional officers with twenty-five (25) years of service and who are at least fifty-five (55) years of age, shall be entitled to a non-Medicare-eligible retiree health care insurance benefit.)

05/03/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

passed · Rhode Island · Senate May 3, 2017

SB 745: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND PATHWAYS PROJECT (Requires the executive office of health and human services (EOHHS) to conduct a study to assess the impact of using Medicaid funds to provide coverage for the treatment of the chronically homeless.)

05/03/2017 Referred to House Finance

in committee · Rhode Island · House May 3, 2017

HB 5745: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT (Increases the number of days a retired teacher may substitute teach or be otherwise employed by a school system from ninety (90) days to one hundred (100) days without a reduction or forfeiture of retirement benefits.)

05/03/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

in committee · Rhode Island · House May 3, 2017

HB 5367: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES - INSURANCE BENEFITS (Provides that adjunct faculty members at any state college or university who teach at least 50% of the hours regularly worked by full-time faculty in a semester would be eligible for the same medical benefits as other state employees.)

05/03/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

in committee · Rhode Island · House May 2, 2017

HB 6006: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- LOW SPEED VEHICLES (Permits the operation of low speed vehicles on certain Rhode Island roads under specific conditions.)

05/02/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

in committee · Rhode Island · House May 2, 2017

HB 5140: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYMENT SECURITY - BENEFITS (Increases the maximum weekly unemployment benefit rate to the higher of fifty-seven and one-half percent (57.5%) of the average weekly wages paid to workers in the prior calendar year or six hundred sixteen dollars ($616) per week.)

05/02/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate May 2, 2017

SB 787: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- QUONSET DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Authorizes the Quonset development corporation to borrow up to one million dollars ($1,000,000) for operational purposes, the debt would not be a debt of the state and would be secured only by the Quonset development corporation's assets.)

05/02/2017 Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study

in committee · Rhode Island · House May 2, 2017

HB 5091: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ESTABLISHING AN OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL (Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to prevent and detect fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the expenditure of public funds.)

05/02/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

in committee · Rhode Island · House May 2, 2017

HB 5768: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES (Requires that the Community College of Rhode Island provide traffic safety education at each public high school in the state.)

05/02/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

passed · Rhode Island · Senate May 2, 2017

SR 848: SENATE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING AND COMMEMORATING THE 69TH ANNIVERSARY OF ISRAEL'S INDEPENDENCE DAY ON TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017

05/02/2017 Senate read and passed

passed · Rhode Island · Senate May 2, 2017

SR 849: SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING PROFOUND SYMPATHY ON THE PASSING OF PAULA ANDERSON

05/02/2017 Senate read and passed

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate May 2, 2017

SB 154: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM (Repeals the "Rhode Island Health Care Reform Act of 2004 – Health Insurance Oversight" as well as the "Rhode Island Health Benefit Exchange, and establishes the Rhode Island comprehensive health insurance program.)

05/02/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study