SB 302: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ASSISTED LIVING RESIDENCE LICENSING ACT (Allows those individuals who do not otherwise meet the requirements, to reside in an Alzheimer's special care unit or program.)
07/15/2019 Signed by Governor
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HB 5458: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE - CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING (Raises amount from $1,500 to $3,000 at which insurer may fail to renew private passenger auto policy/assess premium surcharge for property damage claim payment. Eff. 1/1/20.)
07/15/2019 Signed by Governor
SB 586: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS (Eliminates division of planning from evaluation process of future state prop. leases. Eliminates requirement of notice to local planning board's planning program of hearings and zoning changes.)
07/15/2019 Signed by Governor
SB 592: AN ACT RELATING TO PROBATE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - REVISED UNIFORM FIDUCIARY ACCESS TO DIGITAL ASSETS ACT (Regulates fiduciary and designated recipient access to digital assets relating to probate practice and procedure by creating the "Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act" to promote uniformity of the law among states that enact it.)
07/15/2019 Signed by Governor
SB 78: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSES - VIOLATIONS (Allows a person to make satisfactory arrangements for the payment of motor vehicle fines or costs, and would permit a person to request an ability to pay hearing before a license is suspended for failure to pay such fines or costs.)
07/15/2019 Signed by Governor
SB 458: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW - GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS - SERVICE CONTRACTS (Defines service contracts and clarifies that consumer service contracts are not insurance and not otherwise subject to the insurance code.)
07/15/2019 Signed by Governor
SB 395: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS (Enables Rhode Island businesses to voluntarily promulgate standards to guide its business activities in a sustainable and responsible manner, as well as metrics for assessing whether it has met its objectives.)
07/15/2019 Signed by Governor
HB 5541: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (Expands the provisions requiring the reporting of immunization status and any other relevant information to adults, not just children, and requires the department of health to include routine adult immunization in the department’s immunization program.)
07/15/2019 Signed by Governor
Sponsors
Joseph Solomon
(D)
,
J. Russell Jackson
(D)
,
David Bennett
(D)
,
Evan Shanley
(D)
,
Joseph McNamara
(D)
SB 538: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - ENGINEERS (Requires that plans for natural gas infrastructure be built to a set of design standards approved by a certified engineer if the work poses a material public safety risk.)
07/15/2019 Signed by Governor
HB 5765: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - ELECTIVE MEETINGS (Mandates that polls in all cities and towns except New Shoreham open at 7 am and provides time for receipt of ballots cast outside the US.)
07/15/2019 Signed by Governor
SB 620: AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES (Clarifies the number of ounces a manufacturer of malt beverages is allowed to sell on their premises as twenty-four (24) twelve ounce (12 oz.) bottles or cans, or twenty-four (24) sixteen ounce (16 oz.) bottles or cans.)
07/15/2019 Signed by Governor
Sponsors
Walter Felag
(D)
,
William J. Conley, Jr.
(D)
,
Hanna Gallo
(D)
,
James A. Seveney
(D)
,
Sue Sosnowski
(D)
SB 994: AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION - RHODE ISLAND INFRASTRUCTURE BANK (Expands the definition of “approved project” to include resiliency related infrastructure projects, and further prohibits the award of financial assistance for a water pollution abatement project.)
07/15/2019 Signed by Governor
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