Creates separate and distinct employment positions and salaries under the unclassified pay plan for the board of elections employees.
Permits the department of environmental management and local municipalities to drain, remove, and replace an overflowing septic tank or system.
Creates a statutory framework designed to protect our forests and biodiversity, also prohibits logging in old growth forests and in the natural area preserves when they are created.
Codifies the federal legislation pertaining to the federal Indian child welfare act into state law.
Permits grand juries to issue reports and would provide for a process for review and acceptance by the superior court for dissemination to the public.
Provides any police report involving a railroad fatality and all communications between railroad employees not be made public. Additionally, it makes a violation of this section a misdemeanor.
Removes the requirement that individual of sixteen (16) years of age or older and found delinquent of two (2) offenses would be automatically certified and afforded a jury trial.
Requires that if state employee unions are engaged in contract negotiations and/or utilizing the dispute resolution process, all terms and conditions in the collective bargaining agreement shall continue to remain in effect.
Would direct the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority to revisit the issue of providing transit services to the town of West Warwick and surrounding communities.
