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State Legislature US Congress

All 25,118 Active 5 In committee 20,549 Passed 5,917 Signed 4,510 Failed 6,972

died · Rhode Island · House Mar 6, 2018

HB 7545: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- FOUNDATION LEVEL SCHOOL SUPPORT (Permits any regional school district to be considered a separate and individual community for purposes of determining and distributing foundation level school support.)

03/06/2018 Withdrawn at sponsor's request

died · Rhode Island · House Mar 3, 2018

HB 7064: AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS--IN-PERSON EARLY VOTING (Ends the voting of mail ballots at local board of canvassers. It also authorizes in-person early voting effective July 1, 2018, with the actual procedures to be established by rules promulgated by the state board of elections.)

03/03/2018 Withdrawn at sponsor's request (03/07/2018)

died · Rhode Island · House Mar 2, 2018

HB 7181: AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - PARKING FACILITIES AND PRIVILEGES (Requires signs for disability parking spaces to include the words, "Unauthorized vehicles may be towed at owner's expense".)

03/02/2018 Withdrawn at sponsor's request (03/06/2018)

died · Rhode Island · House Feb 27, 2018

HB 7421: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - LABORATORIES (Permits laboratories offering clinical laboratory services to bill or receive payment from persons other than the patient.)

02/27/2018 Withdrawn at sponsor's request

died · Rhode Island · Senate Feb 27, 2018

SB 2370: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATION TAX (Clarifies depreciation relating to new books value calculation company's tangible personal property to include physical deterioration/functional/economic obsolescence.)

02/27/2018 Withdrawn at sponsor's request

died · Rhode Island · House Feb 27, 2018

HB 7639: AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows the Honorable Cale P. Keable to join Lauren Gayle Lemisch and Fred Rehab, Jr., in marriage on or about October 13, 2018, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.)

02/27/2018 Withdrawn at sponsor's request

died · Rhode Island · House Feb 8, 2018

HB 7417: AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE (Provides group health plan or insurers cover clinically appropriate residential services, including detoxification for treatment of mental health or substance-abuse disorders and the patient remain presumptively covered during the assessment review.)

02/08/2018 Withdrawn at sponsor's request

died · Rhode Island · House Feb 2, 2018

HB 7318: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- ELECTRIC GENERATION SERVICE (Requires the public utilities commission to implement a purchase of receivables program where the electric distribution company purchases the receivables of a nonregulated power producer at a discount rate.)

02/02/2018 Withdrawn at sponsor's request

died · Rhode Island · House Jan 19, 2018

HB 7035: AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows the Honorable Nancy E. Smith to join Margaret Smith Hickey and John Michael Lerner in marriage on or about August 25, 2018, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.)

01/19/2018 Withdrawn at sponsor's request

died · Rhode Island · House Jan 18, 2018

HB 7014: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (Creates an economic hardship relief fund from penalties imposed on contractors for past due road or bridge projects to be paid to business owners who can show a decline in revenue as a result of the past due completion of a road or bridge project.)

01/18/2018 Withdrawn at sponsor's request

died · Rhode Island · House Jan 18, 2018

HB 7056: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- 911 EMERGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBER ACT (Repeals the surcharges levied on residence and business telephone lines and wireless telecommunications services.)

01/18/2018 Withdrawn at sponsor's request

died · Rhode Island · House Jan 18, 2018

HB 7163: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS (Defines bump stock and trigger crank and makes possession of any firearm equipped with either device a felony punishable by up to ten (10) years imprisonment.)

01/18/2018 Withdrawn at sponsor's request