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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 incarcerated individual.
This bill would create a formal program inside Rhode Island's Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) — the state's main prison and jail system — to provide medication-assisted treatment (MAT) to incarcerated people who have opioid use disorder.
Mandates arming campus police at public higher educational institutions and would include campus police in the definition of "law enforcement officer" for the purposes of the "law enforcement officers' bill of rights".
This bill would require all campus police officers at Rhode Island's public colleges and universities to carry firearms.
Provides that statements by a health care provider regarding the unanticipated outcome of a patient's medical care and treatment shall be inadmissible as evidence of an admission of liability or as evidence of an admission.
This bill would protect doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers when they express sympathy or explain an unexpected outcome to a patient or their family after something goes wrong during medical care.
Disqualifies individuals with prior felony convictions or nolo contendere pleas from purchasing or possessing a firearm. It also prevents the sentencing judge from suspending the first two (2) years of any sentence under limited circumstances.
This bill would expand restrictions on who can legally buy or own a firearm in Rhode Island.
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.
This bill makes changes to the community service requirements for people convicted of defacing private property in Rhode Island.
Requires specific notice of the tax sale to the taxpayer with a copy of this § 44-9-10 attached thereto. Failure to do so would render the tax sale null and void.
This bill deals with how local governments must notify property owners before selling their property for unpaid taxes — a process known as a "tax sale.
Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Community MusicWorks located in the city of Providence.
This bill would give a property tax exemption to Community MusicWorks, a nonprofit organization located in Providence, Rhode Island.
Requires a corporation created under this statute to be regulated by the Rhode Island department of business regulation.
This bill would require any corporation that is created under a specific Rhode Island law governing towns and cities to be regulated by the Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation (DBR).
Expands council on elementary and secondary education and board of education and makes teacher of year and student advisory chair voting members on each.
This bill would make changes to two important education decision-making bodies in Rhode Island: the Council on Elementary and Secondary Education and the Board of Education.
Expands the requirement that all high schools and middle schools, whether they are publicly or privately run to maintain on site a functional AED while establishing and implementing a cardiac emergency response plan in these schools.
This bill would require all middle schools and high schools in Rhode Island — both public and private — to have a working Automated External Defibrillator (AED) on school grounds at all times.
Phases out the local meals and beverage tax by January 1, 2030.
This bill would gradually eliminate the local meals and beverage tax in Rhode Island, with the tax fully gone by January 1, 2030.
Establishes a statewide “Healthy School Meals for all” universal school breakfast and lunch program in Rhode Island public schools phased in over 3 years.
This bill would create a program in Rhode Island to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students in public schools, regardless of their family's income.
Increase the personal needs allowance of nursing facility residents from $75.00 to $100 per month.
This bill would increase the amount of spending money that Medicaid-funded nursing home residents are allowed to keep each month.
Eliminates the sunset on the provision of funding, modify eligibility requirement to 85% of state median income and expand funding to at least 20 hours per week.
This bill makes several changes to Rhode Island's welfare-to-work program, known as Rhode Island Works.
Exempts from the sales tax firearm safety equipment, storage devices, gun safes, gun cabinets, gun vaults, gun cases, strong boxes, cable locks, trigger locks and biometric locks.
This bill would remove the Rhode Island sales tax from a range of products designed to safely store and secure firearms.
Provides the department of elementary and secondary education, in consultation with a workgroup composed of various stakeholders, develops a funding formula for school districts sending students to career and technical programs outside their district.
This bill addresses how Rhode Island school districts pay for career and technical education (CTE) when students attend programs in a different school district than the one they live in.
Changes the retirement allowance based on accrued benefits.
This Rhode Island bill makes changes to how retirement payments are calculated for police officers and firefighters in towns and cities across the state.
Imposes a seventy-five cent (0.75) surcharge on fares charged by rideshare companies as well as an account to benefit RIPTA from the payment of sales taxes collected from rideshares.
This bill would add a 75-cent surcharge to every ride booked through rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft in Rhode Island.
Makes students in workforce-ready certificate programs at the community college of Rhode Island eligible to receive the Rhode Island Promise Scholarship.
This bill would expand who can receive the Rhode Island Promise Scholarship to include students enrolled in workforce-ready certificate programs at the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI).
Requires any remaining funds in the enacted budget from the RI promise scholarship program or the RI hope scholarship program, after Rhode Island college has satisfied all eligible scholarships to be reimbursed to onward we learn.
This bill deals with how leftover money is handled within two Rhode Island college scholarship programs: the RI Promise Scholarship and the RI Hope Scholarship.
Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under eight thousand eight hundred pounds (8,800 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.
This bill would change how sales tax is calculated when someone trades in a pickup truck while buying a new vehicle in Rhode Island.
Includes menthol as a flavored electronic nicotine-delivery system product.
This bill would change Rhode Island's existing law to specifically include menthol as a "flavor" when it comes to electronic nicotine-delivery system (ENDS) products — things like e-cigarettes, vapes, and similar devices.
Requires that all monies received from the payment of fines under the Uniform Act on Prevention of and Remedies for Human Trafficking be deposited into the into the violent crimes indemnity account within the general fund.
This bill deals with what happens to the money collected from fines paid by people convicted under Rhode Island's human trafficking laws.
Establishes the medical primary care scholarship program to be administered by the commissioner of postsecondary education.
This bill would create a new scholarship program in Rhode Island specifically designed to help students who are training to become primary care doctors.