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RIS3145Intro
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COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Clarifies the statute of limitations for all causes of action not otherwise time barred that seek damages arising out of or related to the design/construction/supervision/or insp...
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2024-06-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS3104Intro
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INSURANCE -- LIABILITY INSURANCE - Assures rental vehicle coverage under private auto policy, extends to the named insured and any drivers listed on the insured’s policy and requires that the insurer pay for a rental that is of like quality as the ...
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2024-06-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS3134Intro
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MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Allows members of the Rhode Island judiciary and certain employees of the judiciary recommended by the chief justice to be issued a driver's license that contains the applicant's offic...
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2024-06-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS3105Intro
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INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Expands the definition of "unfair claims practices".
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2024-06-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS3118Intro
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THE TOWN OF JOHNSTON MUNICIPAL COURT - Totally repeals the 1964 public law, which established the Johnston Municipal Court and which has never been amended and would enable the town of Johnston to establish a municipal court and housing court with ex...
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2024-06-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS3107Intro
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COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DIGITAL ELECTRONICS RIGHT TO REPAIR ACT - Establishes a digital electronics right to repair, which would allow for digital electronic equipment and parts that are sold in this state on or after Janua...
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2024-05-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS3108Intro
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT - Permits the court to determine the number of hours a person would have to complete of a batters intervention program and gives the court discretion as to whether that person would be personally...
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2024-05-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS3103Intro
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TOWNS AND CITIES -- ORDINANCES - Allows town and city councils to impose penalties for the violation of ordinances and regulations not exceeding the amount of one thousand dollars ($1,000).
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2024-05-29
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RIH8154Intro
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COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- FAMILY COURT - Permits the family court to disclose criminal records of juvenile offenders to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System for the purposes of background check conducted when an individual attemp...
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2024-05-29
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RIS3106Intro
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS - Allows expungement of multiple felony convictions for non-violent felonies10 years after sentence completed.
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2024-05-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS3095Intro
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INCORPORATE THE BONNET SHORES FIRE DISTRICT - Amends the Bonnet Shores Fire District charter to establish who is an eligible voter in said district and would eliminate proxy voting.
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2024-05-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS3038Intro
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PROPERTY -- PUBLIC AUCTIONS BY ELECTRONIC OR REMOTE PROCEDURES - Brings greater public scrutiny to the public auction sales of real estate in Rhode Island by requiring public auctions by any city or town of real estate or an interest therein shall on...
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2024-05-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2209Intro
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MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PASSING, USE OF LANES, AND RULES OF THE ROAD - Permits the practice of lane-splitting by motorcycles.
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2024-05-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIH7371Intro
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COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- FAMILY COURT - Gives statewide juvenile hearing boards the authority to refer a juvenile offender to a rehabilitative driving course, as part of a disposition of an offense before the board. The order may be en...
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2024-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIH7849Intro
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ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Requires mail ballot drop boxes to be opened thirty-five (35) days prior to election day, and twenty (20) days prior to special elections.
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2024-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2233Intro
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Repeals 42-56-38.1 and requires the department of corrections to provide free communication services to inmates and juveniles held in residential placement or detention centers and requires tha...
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2024-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2194Intro
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Establishes a program within the adult correctional institution to permit medication assisted treatment approved by the FDA to be provided for the treatment of opioid use disorder to any incarc...
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2024-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2652Intro
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CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- PROTECTION AGAINST RETALIATION ACT - Provides that individuals that are currently, or have been, incarcerated, or are on probation or parole, may exercise their rights to free political speech and participati...
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2024-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS3057Intro
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ELECTIONS -- NOMINATION OF PARTY AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES - Amends various sections of the law relating to declarations of candidacy, and nomination papers and would amend the date for primary elections.
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2024-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS3059Intro
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ELECTIONS -- FEDERAL ELECTIVE OFFICERS - Changes the meeting of presidential electors from the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December after their election to the first Tuesday.
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2024-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS3053Intro
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- REFORM RESTRICTIVE CONFINEMENT ACT - Establishes a restrictive housing oversight committee for the purpose of monitoring the use of restrictive housing, as well as disciplinary confinement at the department of correcti...
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2024-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2768Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN -- VLOGS - Establishes a statutory framework designed to protect minors who are engaging in the business of vloging on social media and the Internet.
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2024-05-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS3043Intro
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INSURANCE -- LIABILITY INSURANCE - Provides for mandatory uninsured motorist coverage.
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2024-05-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS3042Intro
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INSURANCE -- MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE -- MANDATORY ARBITRATION PROVISION - Increases the minimum claim amount necessary to require a matter involving motor vehicle liability be submitted to mandatory arbitration.
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2024-05-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2650Intro
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BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- DEPARTMENT OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS - Expands the deinstitutionalization subsidy aid program in the department of behavioral healthcare, deve...
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2024-05-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2224Intro
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CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES - Provides for enhanced penalties if a victim of unauthorized dissemination of indecent material is a minor or the offender is in a position of authority over the victim or the offense results in seriou...
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2024-05-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2422Intro
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CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Amends the statute punishing child pornography by replacing the term "child pornography" with the term "child sexual abuse material."
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2024-05-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2824Intro
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PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Provides that landlords would pay interest on security deposits in residential landlord-tenant matters.
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2024-05-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2921Intro
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PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Recognizes tenants' unions and provides a procedure whereby the housing resources commission shall administer a hearing process for consolidated complaints filed by tenants' unions, pertaining to the ...
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2024-05-02
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RIS2923Intro
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PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL TENANT'S RIGHT TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION ACT - Creates the division of civil representation within the department of housing and require civil representation by a Designated Legal Organization to provide legal representation to ...
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2024-05-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2892Intro
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PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Prohibits use of algorithm or artificial intelligence to set residential rental amounts and prohibits landlord price fixing of residential rents. Violations constitute a deceptive trade practice and v...
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2024-05-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2893Intro
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COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Makes it a deceptive trade practice for landlords to conspire with each other to set rents or withhold rental dwelling units from the market in order to increase demand.
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2024-05-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2922Intro
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TOWNS AND CITIES -- HOUSING MAINTENANCE AND OCCUPANCY CODE -- NOTICE OF VIOLATIONS - Requires a housing code enforcement officer to give a copy of any housing code violation notice to all tenants of the building affected by a housing code violation a...
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2024-05-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS3001Intro
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TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND - Makes amendments to various provisions relative to subdivision of land review, review stages, special provisions related to development and the procedures for approvals from various permitting authorities.
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2024-05-02
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RIS2999Intro
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TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Provides amendments to the requirements of the inclusionary zoning law for affordable housing development.
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2024-05-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS3000Intro
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TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND - Provides amendments relative to the permitting authority of, and acceptable forms of financial security permissible for construction and/or improvement guarantees relating to the completion of required public...
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2024-05-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2920Intro
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PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT -- JUST CAUSE EVICTIONS - Provides for just cause evictions for residential landlord tenancies.
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2024-05-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2664Intro
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CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- TRESPASS AND VANDALISM - Changes the community service requirements of a sentence related to the violation of § 11-44-21.1 relating to defacing private residences, offices, businesses or commercial property.
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2024-04-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2938Intro
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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 and provides for a ten (10) year statute of limitations for thi...
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2024-04-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2095Intro
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EDUCATION -- CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES - Provides that parents and guardians of children with disabilities in private school have the same rights and remedies as parents/guardians of children in public school.
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2024-04-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2205Intro
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CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- PAROLE - Provides that prisoners who committed offenses prior to age 18 and sentenced as adults would be eligible for parole after completing 15 yrs of their sentence/does not lengthen their eligibility shoul...
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2024-04-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2912Intro
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DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Amends the definition of a wayward offense in the family court to conform to current statutory penalties for possession of marijuana offenses, promulgated in chapter 28 of title 21 (t...
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2024-04-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2906Intro
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FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT - Amends the statutory penalties for possession of marijuana offenses to conform to the penalties promulgated in the Rhode Island cannabis act.
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2024-04-30
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RIS2098Intro
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- TRIAL - Requires prosecutorial consent in order for a defendant to waive a jury trial.
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2024-04-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2230Intro
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CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT -- SHERRY'S LAW - Increases minimum sentence for first degree sexual assault and provides first 10 years of a sentence for first degree sexual assault not be subject to a suspension or deferment of sentence.
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2024-04-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2417Intro
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PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Creates a tenant bill of rights to the right to counsel, the right to habitability, the right to organize free, the right to be free from discrimination, the right to first refusal if the landlord dec...
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2024-04-30
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RIS2907Intro
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DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- TREATMENT OF JUVENILES FOR CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY - Amends the statute so as to conform to current statutory penalties for possession of marijuana offenses promulgated in the Rhode Island cannabis act allowing for po...
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2024-04-30
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RIS2910Intro
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FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT - Amends the statutory penalties for a second and third possession of marijuana offense to conform to the penalties promulgated in § 21-28-4.01.
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2024-04-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2197Intro
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ARREST - Prohibits the civil arrest of any person who is attending court either on behalf of themselves or a family or household member. Any person who violates this act shall be subject to civil suit and for contempt of court.
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2024-04-30
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RIS2110Intro
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- INDICTMENTS, INFORMATIONS AND COMPLAINTS - Provides for a 10 year statute of limitations for the violation of second degree sexual assault.
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2024-04-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee
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