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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

passed · Rhode Island · Senate Jun 14, 2019

SB 54: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES--LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION (Adds urns and shrouds, prayer cards and other items customarily sold or provided by a funeral director to those funeral items which are already exempt from sales and use taxes.)

06/14/2019 Referred to House Finance

passed · Rhode Island · Senate Jun 14, 2019

SB 679: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES (Prohibits cost sharing for persons forty-five (45) years or older for colorectal screening examinations, laboratory tests and colonoscopies covered by health insurance policies.)

06/14/2019 Referred to House H.E.W.

passed · Rhode Island · Senate Jun 14, 2019

SB 740: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- INSURANCE BENEFITS (Entitles correctional officers with twenty-five (25) years of service and who are at least fifty-five (55) years of age to receive a non-Medicare-eligible retiree health care insurance benefit.)

06/14/2019 Referred to House Finance

passed · Rhode Island · Senate Jun 14, 2019

SB 850: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE - MOTOR VEHICLE REPLACEMENT PARTS (Requires that the owner of a vehicle be notified in writing or by electronic mail that installation of an aftermarket glass may require re-calibration of safety related systems, or vehicle may not function as designed.)

06/14/2019 Referred to House Corporations

passed · Rhode Island · Senate Jun 14, 2019

SB 77: AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE UNIFORMED CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT (Expands drug awareness programs to high schools, directs funding from certain civil fines and mandates establishment of criteria for funding.)

06/14/2019 Referred to House Judiciary

passed · Rhode Island · Senate Jun 14, 2019

SB 495: AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Adds the administrator of the supreme court as an individual authorized to perform marriages and would clarify that the current administrators of the superior court, family court, district court, or traffic tribunal are empowered to perform marriages.)

06/14/2019 Referred to House Special Legislation

passed · Rhode Island · Senate Jun 14, 2019

SB 702: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- PRESERVATION OF FAMILIES WITH DISABLED PARENT ACT (Precludes the disability of a parent from serving as a basis for denial or restriction in matters involving a child's welfare, foster care, family law, guardianship and adoption.)

06/14/2019 Committee transferred to House H.E.W.

passed · Rhode Island · Senate Jun 14, 2019

SB 680: AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- ENSURING ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY CARE FOR THE TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS (Establishes the medication assisted treatment (MAT) program which uses medications, in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies, to create a comprehensive approach to the treatment of substance use disorders.)

06/14/2019 Referred to House H.E.W.

passed · Rhode Island · Senate Jun 14, 2019

SB 272: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - PERSONAL INCOME TAX (Raises the earned income tax credit from fifteen percent (15%) to twenty percent (20%) for the tax years 2020 and beyond.)

06/14/2019 Referred to House Finance

passed · Rhode Island · Senate Jun 14, 2019

SB 568: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- COASTAL AND RIVERINE HOME PROTECTION (Enables cities and towns to provide property tax relief to individuals who take resiliency measures to rehabilitate their property because of flood hazards)

06/14/2019 Referred to House Environment and Natural Resources

passed · Rhode Island · House Jun 13, 2019

HB 5794: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PROPER MANAGEMENT OF UNUSED PAINT (Requires that the department of environmental management to request proposals, every two years, to solicit procurement of a representative organization to operate the paint stewardship program.)

06/13/2019 Referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture

passed · Rhode Island · House Jun 13, 2019

HR 6223: HOUSE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING THE 5TH ANNUAL "RHODE ISLAND CALAMARI FESTIVAL" ON SEPTEMBER 7TH OF 2019, AND THANKING RHODE ISLAND'S FISHERMEN AND FISHING INDUSTRY WORKERS FOR ALL THEIR HARD WORK

06/13/2019 House read and passed