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State Legislature US Congress

All 25,118 Active 5 In committee 20,549 Passed 5,917 Signed 4,510 Failed 6,972

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Sep 27, 2017

SB 1007: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET METERING (Makes educational institutions and nonprofit corporations established pursuant to chapter 6 of title 7 eligible for net-metering financing arrangements.)

09/27/2017 Signed by Governor

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Sep 27, 2017

SB 381: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS (Excludes weekends and state holidays from the calculation of the forty-eight (48) hour public notice requirement, and requires all public bodies to keep minutes of open meetings and file their minutes with the secretary of state.)

09/27/2017 Signed by Governor

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Sep 27, 2017

SB 432: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- UNFAIR COMPETITION AND PRACTICES (Prohibits domestic insurance companies from any distinction or discrimination against individuals in a domestic partner relationship regarding policies issued or renewed in this state.)

09/27/2017 Signed by Governor

signed · Rhode Island · House Sep 27, 2017

HB 5224: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - SMALL CELL SITING ACT (Establishes the "Small Cell Siting Act", which specifies how local authorities may regulate the collocation of small wireless facilities and small wireless facility networks.)

09/27/2017 Signed by Governor

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Sep 27, 2017

SB 600: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- STUDENT JOURNALISTS' FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION ACT (Creates the Student Journalists' Freedom of Expression Act protecting student journalists' right to exercise freedom of speech in school-sponsored media.)

09/27/2017 Signed by Governor

signed · Rhode Island · House Sep 27, 2017

HB 5669: AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICAL THERAPISTS (Modernizes the definition of physical therapy, the right to use the title of physical therapist and includes practice beyond the scope of physical therapy as a grounds for discipline.)

09/27/2017 Signed by Governor

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Sep 27, 2017

SB 767: AN ACT RELATING TO AERONAUTICS -- THE PERMANENT AIR QUALITY MONITORING ACT (Reduces the items which must be monitored by the air-quality monitors at T.F. Green Airport to particles less than 0.1 microns, and black carbon.)

09/27/2017 Signed by Governor

signed · Rhode Island · House Sep 27, 2017

HB 5932: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS - PAYMENT OF WAGES (Prohibits employers from making deductions from an employee's wages except for those deductions authorized or required by law, or as expressly authorized in writing by the employee.)

09/27/2017 Signed by Governor

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Sep 27, 2017

SB 135: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION TAX CREDITS (Removes video games from the definition of "motion picture" for the purposes of the Motion Picture Credit Tax Act, and extends from July 1, 2021, to July 1, 2024.)

09/27/2017 Signed by Governor

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Sep 27, 2017

SB 55: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION (Provides that sex offenders register their presence with any homeless shelter at which they may temporarily stay and provides that said shelters notify the local law enforcement agency of the presence.)

09/27/2017 Signed by Governor

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Sep 27, 2017

SB 267: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (Prohibits "conversion therapy" by licensed health care professionals with respect to children under 18 years of age.)

09/27/2017 Signed by Governor

signed · Rhode Island · Senate Sep 27, 2017

SB 115: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - PUBLIC TRANSIT - BUS PASSES (Requires that five million dollars ($5,000,000) be appropriated to the Rhode Island public transit authority between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2019.)

09/27/2017 Signed by Governor