Rhode Island Representative William O'Brien [D]

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RIH7033Intro
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HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- LONG-TERM CARE SERVICE AND FINANCE REFORM -- CHIROPRACTIC SERVICES RATES - Provides the executive office of health and human services would submit to the US Department of Health and Human Services a state plan ...
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2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 15]
To House Finance Committee
RIH7294Intro
25%
FISH AND WILDLIFE -- FIELD TRIALS AND SHOOTING PRESERVES -- CAPTIVE HUNTING PROHIBITED - Prohibits captive hunting for domestic or wild animals and does not prohibit the release of upland game birds for hunting on licensed shooting preserves.
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2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 14]

Proposed Substitute
RIH7476Intro
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ELECTIONS -- STATEWIDE REFERENDA ELECTIONS - Amends certain election statutes to require ballot questions be written in plain language reasonably calculated to be understood by persons with an eighth-grade reading level.
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2024-05-10
Placed on House Calendar (05/14/2024)
RIH8097Engross
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MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Creates special motor vehicle registration plates for vehicles based on the nonprofit entity Rhode Island Fire Chiefs Honor Flight Hub.
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2024-05-09
House passed Sub A
RIH8220Intro
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BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- RHODE ISLAND DRUG COST REVIEW COMMISSION - Creates the Rhode Island drug cost review commission.
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2024-05-09
To House Health & Human Services Committee
RIH8257PassHouse Resolution Commemorating May 12 Through May 18, 2024, To Be "national Police Week" In The State Of Rhode Island, In Remembrance Of All The Police And Law Enforcement Officers Who Have Lost Their Lives In The Line Of Duty
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2024-05-09
House read and passed
RIH8099Intro
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EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PROMISE SCHOLARSHIP - Extends the time for which a student may enroll in the community college of Rhode Island Promise Scholarship program to one year after the student's high school graduation.
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2024-05-08
To House Finance Committee
RIH8252Intro
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INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Makes several pro-consumer changes to the "Fair claims settlement practices act".
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2024-05-08
To House Corporations Committee
RIH8253Intro
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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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2024-05-08
To House Corporations Committee
RIH7384Engross
50%
GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS - Renames the "Roosevelt Benton Youth Assessment Center" as the "Roosevelt Benton Center".
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2024-05-07
Committee recommends passage in concurrence
RIH7447Engross
50%
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION - Considers election officials and poll workers "public officials" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials.
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2024-05-07
House read and passed
RIH7424Engross
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COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- FILING OF ASSUMED NAME - Changes the term "assumed name" to "trade name" and centralizes the filing, administration and regulation process of trade names to the secretary of state and requires an ann...
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2024-05-07
Committee recommends passage in concurrence
RIH7509Engross
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COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES - Provides that gift certificates issued by state-chartered institutions of higher education would be exempt from the provisions of the gift certificate statute relating to exp...
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2024-05-07
Committee recommends passage of Sub A
RIH7916Intro
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TOWNS AND CITIES -- PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Adds department of corrections' correctional officers to the list of public safety employees that are entitled to their full salary if t...
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2024-05-07
To House Finance Committee
RIH8179Intro
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EDUCATION -- RESIDENCE OF CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES - Relieves East Providence from providing any educational/financial resources to children in the CRAFT program or other Bradley Hospital programs. Requires the school district of origin where the...
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2024-05-06
To House Finance Committee
RIH7489Intro
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TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX - Reduces the corporate minimum tax to three hundred fifty dollars ($350).
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2024-05-02
To House Finance Committee
RIH7589Intro
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TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Raises the earned-income tax credit from sixteen percent (16%) to thirty percent (30%) for the tax years 2025 and beyond.
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2024-05-02
To House Finance Committee
RIH7629Engross
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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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2024-05-02
House read and passed
RIH8095Engross
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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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2024-05-02
House read and passed
RIH7205Intro
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE MEDICAID REENTRY ACT - Requires that Medicaid enrollment be maintained or provided to all inmates in the first 30 days of incarceration at the adult correctional institutions within the department of corrections an...
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2024-05-01
To House Finance Committee
RIH8174Intro
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EDUCATION -- FEDERAL AID - Expands the law on school lunch service contracts requirements that provides for payment to workers/aides for 180 days or the contract for the school year, exclusive of paid time off, including vacation days or other forms ...
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2024-05-01
To House Labor Committee
RIH7050Intro
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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 House Judiciary Committee
RIH7250Intro
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EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Amends the term "extraordinary costs" for the purposes of excess costs associated with special education students. The new definition of extraordinary costs would be educational costs th...
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2024-04-30
To House Finance Committee
RIH7739Engross
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COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- DISTRICT COURT PRACTICE - Amends the filing fees and time frame for certain claims of appeal to superior court.
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2024-04-30
House passed Sub A
RIH7029Intro
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PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTION AND BENEFITS - Increases the maximum post retirement employment earnings from eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) a year for certain retired ...
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2024-04-25
To House Finance Committee
RIH7026Intro
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EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Requires all public school teachers hired on or after July 1, 2024, to participate in the retirement system social security pursuant to chapter 7 of title 36.
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2024-04-25
To House Finance Committee
RIH7342Intro
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EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Provides all retired teachers and all retired state employees a one-time stipend in the amount of three percent (3%) of the lesser of either the member's retirement allowance or forty thousand dollars ($40,000) of ...
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2024-04-25
To House Finance Committee
RIH7343Intro
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EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Allows teachers, state and municipal employees to retire upon the earlier of reaching age sixty (60) with thirty (30) years of service or the employee's retirement eligibility date under present state statutes.
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2024-04-25
To House Finance Committee
RIH7341Intro
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PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Provides state employee public safety professionals with parity to municipal public safety employees in the state/municipal retirement systems eff. 7/1/24 with 10% contri...
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2024-04-25
To House Finance Committee
RIH7485Intro
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TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Allows a modification for all taxable pension and/or annuity income includible in federal adjusted gross income for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025.
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2024-04-25
To House Finance Committee
RIH7592Intro
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EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Extends the sunset provision of § 16-16-24.2 to June 20, 2026.
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2024-04-25
To House Finance Committee
RIH7672Intro
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PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Effective July 1, 2024, entitles environmental police officers to the benefits provided by chapter 45-21.2 entitled "Optional retirement for members of police force an...
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2024-04-25
To House Finance Committee
RIH7993Intro
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EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Allows for a one-time two percent (2%) supplemental cost of living adjustment for plan year 2025 to the public pension benefits administered by the ERSRI, and allows for those benefits to be deducted from the taxpa...
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2024-04-25
To House Finance Committee
RIH7798Intro
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CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- STALKING - Makes it a misdemeanor to harass another person by following them and using an electronic device to record their movements in any public or private place.
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2024-04-24
To House Judiciary Committee
RIH8171Intro
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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...
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2024-04-24
To House Health & Human Services Committee
RIH8198PassHouse Resolution Congratulating The Classical High School Boys Basketball Team On Winning The 2024 Division I State Championship And The 2024 Rhode Island Interscholastic League Boys Basketball State Tournament
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2024-04-24
House read and passed
RIH7401Intro
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EDUCATION -- THE PAUL W. CROWLEY RHODE ISLAND STUDENT INVESTMENT INITIATIVE - Permits a school to calculate its maintenance of effort on a per-pupil basis and to deduct any nonrecurring expenditure from its maintenance of effort.
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2024-04-23
To House Finance Committee
RIH8106Engross
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THE NORTH PROVIDENCE CHARTER -- THE SALVATORE MANCINI CENTER ON AGING - Amends the charter of the Town of North Providence to create a new department entitled the "Salvatore Mancini Center on Aging."
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2024-04-23
House read and passed
RIH8184PassHouse Resolution Commemorating "national Crime Victims' Week" On April 21st Through April 27th, 2024, In The State Of Rhode Island
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2024-04-23
House read and passed
RIH7203Engross
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ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Adds the month of August to the dates a Class A retail alcoholic beverage establishment can offer unlimited free samples of wine, beer and distilled spirits products.
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2024-04-16
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee
RIH7468Engross
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MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION FEES - Exempts the Rhode Island Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Inc. from payment of certain vehicles registration fees.
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2024-04-16
To Senate Finance Committee
RIH7725Engross
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EDUCATION -- CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS - Allows emergency preliminary certificates for teaching to be issued for up to a total of five (5) school years.
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2024-04-16
To Senate Education Committee
RIH7542Intro
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MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- INSPECTION OF MOTOR VEHICLES - Changes the inspection requirement for a new motor vehicle from two (2) years to five (5) years from the date of purchase.
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2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee
RIH7966Intro
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Sets standards and procedures to allow and implement conjugal visitation at state correctional facilities.
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2024-04-11
To House Judiciary Committee
RIH8098Intro
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- COUNCIL ON THE ARTS - Establishes a Rhode Island creative futures fund in the amount of eighteen million dollars ($18,000,000).
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2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee
RIH7491Intro
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PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY - Authorizes the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority to enter into certain projects and procure related services including the transit center project, using design build contrac...
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2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee
RIH8159Intro
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PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- PUBLIC BUILDINGS - Authorizes and funds the painting of a portrait of the president of the senate and former presidents of the senate who may be living to be hung in the state house.
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2024-04-10
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7483Intro
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Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $750,000 To Waterfire Providence (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $750,000 To Waterfire Providence.)
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2024-04-09
To House Finance Committee
RIH7756Intro
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ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Establishes a three (3) day transmittal period after the deadline for local boards to accept mail ballot applications, if delivered via the postal service.
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2024-04-09
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH8151PassHouse Resolution Proclaiming April Of 2024, To Be The "month Of The Military Child" In The State Of Rhode Island
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2024-04-09
House read and passed
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