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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 · House Jul 22, 2020

HB 7947: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION -- LICENSING (Creates a new process with standards to be utilized when deciding whether an applicant's past conviction of a crime should disqualify the applicant from receiving an occupational license, permit, certificate, or registration issued by the state.)

07/22/2020 Signed by Governor

signed · Rhode Island · House Jul 22, 2020

HB 7103: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - WEAPONS--THE JULIE LYNN CARDINAL ACT (Provides that applications to purchase firearms be sent by the seller to the police department the city or town where the purchaser lives.)

07/22/2020 Signed by Governor

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Jul 22, 2020

SB 2824: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION -- LICENSING (Creates a new process with standards to be utilized when deciding whether an applicant's past conviction of a crime should disqualify the applicant from receiving an occupational license, permit, certificate, or registration issued by the state.)

07/22/2020 Signed by Governor

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Jul 21, 2020

SB 2136: AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- UNIFORM LAW ON PATERNITY -- UNIFORM PARENTAGE ACT (Repeals current state law regarding paternity and replaces it with a more comprehensive parentage act that provides procedures establishing parentage, genetic testing, surrogacy agreements and assisted reproduction.)

07/21/2020 Signed by Governor

signed · Rhode Island · House Jul 21, 2020

HB 7541: AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- UNIFORM LAW ON PATERNITY -- UNIFORM PARENTAGE ACT (Repeals current state law regarding paternity and replaces it with a uniform parentage act that provides procedures establishing parentage, genetic testing, surrogacy agreements and assisted reproduction.)

07/21/2020 Signed by Governor

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Jun 27, 2020

SB 2072: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SIZE, WEIGHT AND LOAD LIMITS--SMITHFIELD AND LINCOLN (Prohibits commercial motor trucks, with a gross weight rating of twenty-six thousand one pounds (26,001 lbs.) or more, from traveling on Limerock Road, in Smithfield and Lincoln.)

06/27/2020 Effective without Governor's signature

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Jun 27, 2020

SB 2863: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF MIDDLETOWN TO FINANCE ACQUIRING AND PRESERVING OPEN SPACE AND ACQUIRING, PRESERVING, RESTORING AND IMPROVING RECREATIONAL AREAS IN THE TOWN BY THE ISSUANCE OF NOT MORE THAN $5,000,000 BONDS AND/OR NOTES THEREFOR (Authorizes Middletown to issue up to $5,000,000 in bonds/notes to acquire/preserve open space/restore improve recreational areas subject to voter appeal.)

06/27/2020 Effective without Governor's signature

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Jun 27, 2020

SB 2116: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION (Authorizes a tax exemption for tangible business or personal property in whole or in part within the town of Bristol's community limits, subject to authorization by the action of the town council of the town of Bristol.)

06/27/2020 Effective without Governor's signature

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Jun 27, 2020

SB 2860: AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows Kieran Wilder to join Jennifer Lynn Hellmuth and Andrew Stephen Cormier in marriage on or about September 5, 2020, within the City of Providence, Rhode Island.)

06/27/2020 Effective without Governor's signature

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Jun 27, 2020

SB 2805: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - HISTORIC RESIDENCE - TAX CREDIT (Amends the definition of "Commission" to include the Cumberland local historic district commission.)

06/27/2020 Effective without Governor's signature

signed · Rhode Island · House Jun 27, 2020

HB 7917: AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows Robert I. Stolzman, Esq., to join Angel Canada and Charles Granoff in marriage on or about August 14, 2020, within the Town of Middletown, Rhode Island.)

06/27/2020 Effective without Governor's signature

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Jun 27, 2020

SB 2246: AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOG ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES -- FOSTER (Authorizes the Foster town council to enact ordinances permitting the dog officer in the town to issue citations for the violation of dog ordinances.)

06/27/2020 Effective without Governor's signature