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All 25,118 Active 7,678 In committee 7,673 Passed 5,917 Signed 4,510 Failed 6,972

in committee · Rhode Island · House Mar 23, 2022

HB 8031: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HARD-HIT LIQUIDITY PROGRAM ACT (Establishes the “Rhode Island Hard-Hit Emergency Liquidity Program Act” to provide up to twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) to businesses adversely affected by the Coronavirus pandemic by providing aid for drop in sales.)

03/23/2022 Introduced, referred to House Finance

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate Mar 21, 2022

SB 2398: 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.)

03/21/2022 Committee postponed at request of sponsor (03/24/2022)

in committee · Rhode Island · House Mar 18, 2022

HB 8004: AN ACT RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- DIVISION OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES (Creates a workload study for social caseworkers II in the division of developmental disabilities within BHDDH. The study would be completed within one year and the results reported to the general assembly.)

03/18/2022 Introduced, referred to House Finance

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate Mar 17, 2022

SB 2707: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- INDICTMENTS, INFORMATIONS AND COMPLAINTS (Includes the offense of second-degree sexual assault among the offenses to which there shall be no statute of limitations.)

03/17/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate Mar 17, 2022

SB 2715: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IMPACT STATEMENTS (Require that DEM, require an environmental justice impact statement for a new facility or for the expansion or the renewal of an existing facility's, if the facility is in an overburdened community.)

03/17/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate Mar 17, 2022

SB 2693: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE (Increases the Medicaid rate of reimbursement for in-network dental care services.)

03/17/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Finance

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate Mar 17, 2022

SB 2709: AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- ADOPTION OF CHILDREN (Permits a petition for adoption, and if necessary, termination of parental rights, to be filed by a grandparent(s) without the noncustodial parent(s') consent, when the child is in the sole custody of the grandparent(s).)

03/17/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate Mar 17, 2022

SB 2710: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1990 -- THE CROWN ACT (Defines the terms "race and ethnicity" to include ancestry, color, ethnic group identification, and ethnic background and inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles.)

03/17/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate Mar 17, 2022

SB 2712: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOCUS AREAS (Establishes environmental justice focus areas/coastal zones and establishes procedures for investigation/ remediation of contaminated sites within coastal zones by DEM with increased community participation.)

03/17/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary

in committee · Rhode Island · House Mar 16, 2022

HB 7987: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES (Authorizes and requires the department of human services to hire an administrator for the refugee assistance program on a full-time basis.)

03/16/2022 Introduced, referred to House Finance

in committee · Rhode Island · House Mar 16, 2022

HR 7988: HOUSE RESOLUTION RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING THE RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES TO USE ITS REGULATORY AUTHORITY TO IMMEDIATELY REDUCE FAMILY COPAYMENTS FOR THE CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

03/16/2022 Introduced, referred to House Finance

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate Mar 16, 2022

SB 2081: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- NONPROFIT DENTAL SERVICE CORPORATIONS (Provides that nonprofit dental service corporations shall have the power to provide for the administering and/or insuring of vision and optometric programs.)

03/16/2022 Meeting postponed (03/17/2022)