Bills Pending Rhode Island Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee | Introduced

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RIS2307Intro
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PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LITTER CONTROL AND RECYCLING - Changes the fine for any person convicted of a first violation of this chapter from $85 to $200, and increases the period of time that the violator may be ordered to pick up litter.
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2024-03-27
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2543Intro
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PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES -- LEAD BY EXAMPLE ACT - Bans state purchases of plastic bottles and also requires state funds to be used to lease or purchase electric vehicles and renewable energy efficient technologies for use on state...
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2024-03-27
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2541Intro
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE AGENCY EMISSION REPORTING - Requires executive climate change coordinating council (EC4) to develop a template to be used by all agencies of the state to track their climate emissions to uphold the pathway to Rho...
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2024-03-27
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2535Intro
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ACT - Establishes requirements which would have to be met by an applicant prior to the issuing of permits for an activity that would have an environmental impact on or would increase the cumulativ...
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2024-03-27
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2153Intro
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WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- FRESHWATER LAKE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - Establishes the Rhode Island lake management program and a restricted receipt account as a find within the department of environmental management to aid with lake and pond management issue...
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2024-03-27
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2412Intro
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WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- DAM PERMITS - Renames 46-19.1, allows existing docks on ponds with 1400 normal storage feet of water per DEM, allows property owner to commence work on property without pond owner authorization.
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2024-03-27
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2810Intro
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FISH AND WILDLIFE -- DEER HUNTING - Modifies reporting requirements regarding collisions between vehicles and wildlife where the vehicle has been substantially damaged.
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2024-03-22
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2850Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- TOXIC PACKAGING REDUCTION ACT - Updates the existing Toxic Packaging Act by delaying the ban on PFAS in processing agents, until July 1, 2027, and also expands the law by banning PVC and polystyrene in packaging.
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2024-03-22
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2849Intro
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PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- EXCAVATION NEAR UNDERGROUND UTILITY FACILITIES - Amends the provision of notice to be provided for the release of any hazardous gas or liquid as determined by the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Admini...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2811Intro
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WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Provides that the legislature would be the body that negotiates on behalf of the state for all activities occurring in, on and over state submerged land extending beyond twenty-five (25)...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2809Intro
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WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- PFAS IN DRINKING WATER, GROUNDWATER, AND SURFACE WATER - Delays from June 1, 2024, until June 1, 2025, the necessity to conduct monitoring for the maximum number PFAS in drinking water and would amend the type of water system...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2808Intro
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PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- SOLAR DECOMMISSIONING PLANS - Requires that developers of ground-mounted solar systems submit a plan for decommissioning to be held on file by the municipality and requires DEM, with the office of energy resources, ma...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2848Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLEAN HEAT STANDARD ACT - Created the Rhode Island clean heat standards act to implement a system of tradeable clean heat credits earned from the delivery of clean heat measures that reduce greenhouse gas emissio...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2812Intro
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INSURANCE -- PET INSURANCE ACT - Enacts a chapter to regulate pet insurance.
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2024-03-22
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2296Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PESTICIDE CONTROL - Prohibits the application of lawn care pesticides on the grounds of any public or private pre-school or public or private school with students in grade twelve (12) or lower, except in an emergency situation.
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2024-03-20
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2540Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLEAN AIR PRESERVATION ACT - Establishes regulations to prohibit stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), solar radiation modification (SRM) experimentation, and other hazardous weather engineering activities.
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2024-03-20
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2544Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT - Does not require the remediation of occurring arsenic in the soil with direct exposure of less than or equal to twenty (20) milligrams per kilogram.
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2024-03-20
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2745Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PESTICIDE CONTROL - Precludes the use of second generation anticoagulant rodenticide products which contain brodifacoum, bromadiolone, difenacoum, or difethialone, except in certain circumstances.
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2024-03-20
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2152Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMPREHENSIVE PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024 - Enacts the Comprehensive PFAS Ban Act of 2024, prohibiting the intentional addition of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances of PFAS in products offered for sale or manufactured in the...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2300Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MICROPLASTICS REDUCTION ACT - Prohibits a manufacturer from selling, offering for sale, or distributing into commerce any product containing synthetic polymer micro particles beginning January 1, 2028.
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2024-03-20
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2154Intro
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FISH AND WILDLIFE -- BIRDS - Allows the taking of wild turkeys by using a crossbow in compliance with rules and regulations promulgated by DEM.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2538Intro
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ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- REGULATION OF VICIOUS DOGS - Permits euthanization of vicious dogs upon finding that dogs condition warrants euthanasia or after determination that there is no reasonable placement for the dog/provides any municipality...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2305Intro
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ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Provides that the trapping and subsequent release of any unowned feral or free roaming cat for the purpose of spaying or neutering of the cat would not be considered abandonment.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2297Intro
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FISH AND WILDLIFE -- FURBEARING ANIMALS - Deletes subsection (b) of this section which lists the furbearing mammals in the state and requires DEM to promulgate by rule, a list of "furbearers" for this chapter.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2301Intro
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FOOD AND DRUGS -- FORCE-FED POULTRY PRODUCTS - Prohibits force-feeding to create a force-fed poultry product nor hire another to engage in force feeding of a poultry product. Violations would be subject to a civil penalty of $500.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2732Intro
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FISH AND WILDLIFE -- HUNTING AND HUNTING SAFETY -- CAPTIVE HUNTING PROHIBITED - Prohibits captive hunting for domestic or wild animals and does not prohibit the release of domestic game birds for hunting on licensed shooting preserves.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2302Intro
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CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- TRADE IN ANIMAL FUR PRODUCTS ACT - Prohibits the sale/offer of sale/trade/distribution of fur products. Makes 3 violations of this chapter civil infractions punishable by civil penalty and the 4th violation a misdemeanor punishab...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2744Intro
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ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOGS - Increases the penalty for violations of the care of dogs statute to a minimum fine of one hundred dollars ($100) and a maximum fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000) per violation.
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2024-03-08
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2746Intro
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WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Requires that any lease of tidal lands, or any license issued to use those lands, be approved by the general assembly, and that the coastal resources management council review all reques...
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2024-03-08
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2536Intro
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PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET METERING - Changes definitions of eligible net-metering system, excess renewable net-metering credit, renewable net-metering credit and requires customer reimbursement under certain circumstances.
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2024-03-06
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2151Intro
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PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET METERING - Modifies the definition of "core forest" to refer to unfragmented forest blocks or single or multiple parcels totaling 250 acres or greater and at least 25 yards from mapped roads.
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2024-03-06
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2155Intro
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TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATEWIDE MUNICIPAL SOLAR PERMIT - Requires as part of the solar permit application an assessment on carbon-neutral, a solar permit would only be approved if it was carbon neutral based on the assessment.
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2024-03-06
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2293Intro
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RENEWABLE READY PROGRAM - Establishes the renewable ready program and fund to promotes the responsible siting/development of renewable energy generating resources in locations where it would be an ancillary beneficial ...
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2024-03-06
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2537Intro
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AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- ORGANIC FARMING AND CERTIFICATION PROGRAM - Establishes the organic farming and certification program to be administered by the department of environmental management.
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2024-03-01
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2542Intro
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PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- AFFORDABLE CLEAN ENERGY SECURITY ACT - Makes several amendments relative to the affordable clean energy security act establishing the act's priority over chapter 6.2 of title 42 (the "2021 act on climate").
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2024-03-01
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2545Intro
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENERGY FACILITY SITING ACT - Increases the membership of the energy facility siting board from 3 to 5 members and would revise the process of energy facility siting to mandate inclusion/participation of the host commun...
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2024-03-01
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2534Intro
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WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Requires that the appointment of public members to the coastal resources management council to include an active, licensed fisher, a representative from Save the Bay and from an organiza...
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2024-03-01
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2299Intro
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AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- OLD GROWTH FOREST PROTECTION ACT - 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.
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2024-02-12
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2294Intro
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Senate Resolution Respectfully Requesting The Department Of Administration To Conduct A Study On The Technical And Economic Outcomes Of Decarbonizing Rhode Island By 2030
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2024-02-12
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2295Intro
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FOOD AND DRUGS -- MILK SANITATION CODE - Permits and legalize the sale of raw milk.
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2024-02-12
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2298Intro
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WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- ACT ON COASTS -- COASTAL RESILIENCY - Requires the chief resilience officer (CRO) and a resiliency office within the department of environmental management (DEM) be charged with the creation, maintenance and updating of the s...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2303Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HIGH HEAT WASTE FACILITY ACT - Provides for a prohibition on the licensing of any new high-heat waste facility.
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2024-02-12
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2292Intro
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE GREEN JUSTICE ZONE ACT - Establishes the first Green Justice Zone, a model that may be replicated in future years to ensure that all communities throughout the state have clean air and clean water.
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2024-02-12
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2306Intro
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PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- VEGETATION MANAGEMENT FOR ELECTRIC SYSTEM RELIABILITY - Requires an electric distribution company to develop and act pursuant to a vegetation management plan approved by the DPUC to carry out vegetation management act...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2304Intro
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WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Requires that a super majority of three-fifths (3/5) of the duly appointed council is required to override a recommendation by the CRMC staff.
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2024-02-12
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2150Intro
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ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- UNLAWFUL CONFINEMENT OF A COVERED ANIMAL - Exempts egg laying hens kept for commercial egg production purposes from the provisions of chapter 4-1.1 until January 1, 2034.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2044Intro
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- 2021 ACT ON CLIMATE - Incorporates ethical energy standards to the 2021 Act on Climate.
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2024-01-12
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
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