| RI | S2072 | Engross 50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH - Amends RI's existing Healthcare Services Funding Plan Act by adding an account relating to a new Psychiatry Resource Network to fund RI's present PediPRN and MomsPRN, as well as similar programs which may b... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12 [Hearing: Jun 12]
Placed on House Calendar (06/13/2024) |
| RI | S2090 | Engross 50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- REAL ESTATE SALES DISCLOSURES - Requires radon testing within one year of any residential real estate transaction and the installation of a radon mitigation system if unsafe radon levels are present, at the seller's expe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12 [Hearing: Jun 12] To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2184 | Engross 50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- SOCIAL WORK LICENSURE COMPACT - Adopts model legislation facilitating the interstate practice of regulated social workers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12 House passed Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | S2255 | Engross 50% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR PREVENTION OF HIV INFECTION - Eliminates prior authorization or step therapy requirement for prescriptions for any HIV prevention drug/prohibits the requirement of any co... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12 Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | S2714 | Engross 50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires all hospitals to screen uninsured patients for eligibility for public health programs and financial assistance under Medicare and Medicaid. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12 Placed on House Calendar (06/13/2024) |
| RI | S2121 | Engross 50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE -- BENEFITS - Makes care recipients eligible for temporary caregiver benefits and increase the maximum temporary caregiver benefit weeks from six (6) to eight (8) weeks over of period of two... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/13/2024) |
| RI | S2202 | Engross 50% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Requires safe storage of firearms/provides civil and criminal penalties for violations/adds rifles and shotguns to the types of firearms requiring a trigger lock to be included with purchase/requires firearms dealers po... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | S2262 | Engross 50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTHCARE PROVIDER SHIELD ACT - Creates a protective legal shield for healthcare providers, precluding any civil/criminal action by other states/persons against healthcare providers involving persons seeking access to transgende... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/13/2024) |
| RI | S2332 | Engross 50% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- OIL SPILL PREVENTION, ADMINISTRATION AND RESPONSE FUND - Provides funds to support Executive Climate Change Coordinating Council to reduce climate emissions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S2635 | Engross 50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Provide the maximum number of unrelated persons living together that could be constitute an individual household would not be less than one person per bedroom. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 House passed Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | S2712 | Engross 50% | PUBLIC FINANCE STATE FUNDS -- MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF PROGRAM - Establishes a medical debt relief program, to be administered by the general treasurer for the purchase, cancellation and forgiveness of medical debts, based upon certain conditions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| RI | S2713 | Engross 50% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Provides that services provided by graduate student interns who work under a supervisory protocol would be eligible to be paid from Medicaid reimbursement. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2709 | Engross 50% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- MEDICAL DEBT REPORTING - Prohibits hospitals and other medical providers from reporting medical debt to consumer reporting agencies. A violation of this chapter may be pursued on behalf of the consum... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 House passed Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | S2717 | Engross 50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STAY INVESTED IN RI WAVEMAKER FELLOWSHIPS - Adds a definition for "primary care" to the general law regarding the Stay Invested in RI Wavemaker Fellowships. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S2716 | Engross 50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PRIMARY CARE TRAINING SITES PROGRAM - Establishes the primary care training sites program to provide training for physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants within the DOH. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S2867 | Engross 50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE LADDERS TO LICENSURE PROGRAM - Implements a grant program to fund public or private partnerships that provide opportunities for healthcare paraprofessionals to pursue higher education degrees and health professiona... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S2950 | Engross 50% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL EMERGENCY DRILLS ACT - Makes revisions to the number, timing, and procedures to be followed when schools grades K through 12 implement fire drills, evacuation drills, and crisis response drills, designed to protect the health and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 House passed Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | S2382 | Engross 50% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- LIFETIME LIMITS - Repeals the authority of the health insurance commissioner to enforce any act of Congress/decision of federal court invalidating or repealing the prohibition of annual lifetim... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-10 House passed Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | S2711 | Engross 50% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Prohibits credit reporting, executions, attachments against a principal residence for judgments based on medical debt. Defines medical debt as an amount for the receipt of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-07 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S3102 | Engross 50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- HAWKERS AND PEDDLERS - Expands the definition of door-to-door salespersons to include those who sell services and authorize the town of Cumberland to license and regulate door-to-door salespersons in the same manner as h... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-07 To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | S2059 | Engross 50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Extends injured-on-duty (IOD) benefits to police officers and firefighters that suffer from diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorders, except under certain conditi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06 House passed Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | S2115 | Engross 50% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- VICTIM'S RIGHTS - Amends the current requirement of payment of initial filing fee/service of process costs when the victim of crime is still owed restitution at the expiration of the case/seeks to enforce the civil judgment ente... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06 House passed Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | S2726 | Engross 50% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Prohibits insurance companies from paying a rate that is less than the approved Medicaid rate set by the executive office of health and human services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-05 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2075 | Engross 50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Requires the secretary of the executive office of health and human services to present to the general assembly a plan for the realignment of state hospitals into a department of ho... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24 To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | S2719 | Engross 50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- RHODE ISLAND DRUG COST REVIEW COMMISSION - Creates the Rhode Island drug cost review commission. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2723 | Engross 50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF 2004 -- HEALTH INSURANCE OVERSIGHT - Includes the definition of "primary care services" and requires that all biennial reports shall include a review and recommendation of rat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2743 | Engross 50% | EDUCATION -- CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS - Extends teacher certifications without fee or penalty for three (3) or five (5) years for teachers who hold certifications as of July 1, 2024. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2148 | Engross 50% | EDUCATION -- THE KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE TWO - 2) MAXIMUM CLASS SIZE ACT (Mandates 20 students per classroom for kindergarten through second grade. Exceptions for emergencies and temporary situations, not to exceed 3 days and mid-year enrollments. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17 To House Education Committee |
| RI | S2701 | Engross 50% | HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE -- WORK ON HOLIDAYS AND SUNDAYS - Amends the "work on holidays and Sundays" statute to include Washington's Birthday in the definition of holidays for the purpose of this statute. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10 To House Labor Committee |
| RI | S2119 | Engross 50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT - Allows governmental employee union contracts to contain specific references to specific health insurance companies. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Labor Committee |
| RI | S2720 | Engross 50% | INSURANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS - Includes any costs paid by an enrollee or on behalf of the enrollee by a third party when calculating an enrollee's overall contribution to any out-of-pocket maximum or cost sharing requirement under a health... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2076 | Engross 50% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Removes the sunset provision of all statutory law requiring coverage for the treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To House Health & Human Services Committee |