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All 25,118 Active 7,678 In committee 7,673 Passed 5,630 Signed 4,797 Failed 6,972

died · Rhode Island · Senate Mar 28, 2023

SB 358: AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE-- COURTS -- DOMESTIC ASSAULT (Provides the office of attorney general with the authority to prosecute any violation of a protective order.)

03/28/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

died · Rhode Island · Senate Mar 28, 2023

SB 600: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- IDENTIFICATION AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS (Mandate that the clerk of the district court automatically also seal individual counts of criminal complaints upon dismissal pursuant to rule 48(a) of the rules of criminal procedure for district court.)

03/28/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

died · Rhode Island · House Mar 28, 2023

HB 5944: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS (Allows the presumption of in-the-line-of-duty illness unless contrary evidence is presented.)

03/28/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

died · Rhode Island · Senate Mar 28, 2023

SB 399: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - MOTOR VEHICLE VIOLATIONS FINES COLLECTED (Prohibits the state, municipalities, or courts from attempting to collect any motor vehicle violation fines or costs, after more than seven (7) years of the fine becoming final.)

03/28/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

died · Rhode Island · Senate Mar 28, 2023

SB 405: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SENTENCE AND EXECUTION (Requires courts to consider parental status of defendant at time of sentencing/unless parent poses a significant risk to community that outweighs harm of parent’s absence from child’s life, it shall impose sentence that does not include imprisonment.)

03/28/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

died · Rhode Island · Senate Mar 28, 2023

SB 632: AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- THIRD-PARTY LITIGATION FINANCING CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT (Comprehensively regulates the practices of third-party litigation financers in Rhode Island to provide transparency in litigation.)

03/28/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

died · Rhode Island · House Mar 28, 2023

HB 6091: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ORDINANCES (Allows cities and towns to create and enforce ordinances related to the sale of tobacco products; provided the regulations are at least as stringent as state law.)

03/28/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

died · Rhode Island · Senate Mar 28, 2023

SB 388: AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- FAMILY COURT (Only protective orders issued against adults are to be transmitted to A.G.'s B.C.I. for inclusion in the R.O.N.C.O. system. Protective orders against juveniles will be accessible to law enforcement.)

03/28/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

died · Rhode Island · House Mar 28, 2023

HB 5373: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIREFIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS (Extends IOD benefits to police officers/firefighters suffering from post-traumatic stress injuries/provides municipal police/firefighters retiring due to PTSI accidental disability retirement allowance.)

03/28/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

died · Rhode Island · House Mar 28, 2023

HB 6203: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- OPTIONAL RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE AND FIREFIGHTERS (Authorizes an annual two and one-half percent (2.5%) escalation for all active and retired police and fire fighter's retirement pension allowance, compounded each year on January 1st following the year of retirement and continuing yearly, on that date.)

03/28/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

died · Rhode Island · House Mar 27, 2023

HB 5112: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES (Increases the penalties for driving so as to endanger, death resulting, by increasing the maximum term of imprisonment from ten (10) years to twenty (20) years, and the maximum term of license suspension from five (5) years to ten (10) years.)

03/27/2023 Withdrawn at sponsor's request

died · Rhode Island · House Mar 27, 2023

HB 5292: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- PUBLIC NOTICE REQUIREMENTS ACT (Authorizes municipalities to publish public notices in any newspaper in circulation in the municipality or on any other platform designated by ordinance.)

03/27/2023 Meeting postponed (03/28/2023)