LAW REVISION OFFICE
JOHN B. HARWOOD, SPEAKER
| CHAPTER | BILL NUMBER | TITLE | PASSAGE DATE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | H 7122 | Foster and Glocester - regional school district act - financial meeting date. | 1/23/98 |
| 002 | H 7475 | Pawtucket - certain primary and special elections - opening of limited number of polling places authorized. | 1/23/98 |
| 003 | H 7318am | Alcoholic beverages - Class F-2 retail licenses - auctions of alcoholic beverages authorized. | 1/30/98 |
| 004 | H 7339 | Scituate - bonds - Clayville Elementary School. | 2/14/98 |
| 005 | H 7317 | Chariho Regional School District - financial meeting date - budget process. | 2/14/98 |
| 006 | S 2897 | Burrillville - bonds - high school. | 3/12/98 |
| 007 | H 7770 | Education - school district and individual school performance - annual report by the commissioner of education. | 3/19/98 |
| 008 | H 7561A | Insurance - human leukocyte antigen testing - health care coverage. | 3/19/98 |
| 009 | S 2281Aam | Insurance - human leukocyte antigen testing - health care coverage. | 3/19/98 |
| 010 | S 2120 | The Mary Brennan Parkway - airport connector in Warwick. | 3/23/98 |
| 011 | S 2843 | The Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway - Rhode Island interstate 295. | 3/23/98 |
| 012 | H 7806 | The Mary Brennan Parkway - airport connector in Warwick.` | 3/23/98 |
| 013 | H 8989 | Barrington - bonds - Barrington High School. | 4/9/98 |
| 014 | H 7267Aam | State budget - revised appropriations - fiscal year ending June 30, 1998. Higher education assistance authority - prepaid tuition plan. Telephone sales solicitation act - filing fee - disposition of proceeds. (Effective 6/30/98) | 4/15/98 |
| 015 | H 8962 | Westerly - bonds - sewers and sewerage systems. | 4/16/98 |
| 016 | H 8862 | Woonsocket - property tax revaluation and updates - time period extension. | 5/1/98 |
| 017 | S 2014 | Westerly Fire District - meetings - public buildings. | 5/6/98 |
| 018 | H 9072 | North Kingstown - bonds - high school and school administration building. | 5/11/98 |
| 019 | H 7978A | Municipal contracts award act - exclusion of multi-cities or towns energy aggregation programs. | 5/11/98 |
| 020 | S 2968 | North Kingstown - bonds - development rights to farmland and other real estate. | 5/11/98 |
| 021 | S 2996 | Marriages - solemnization - Robert W. Langlois - authorization. | 5/22/98 |
| 022 | S 2882 | Marriages - solemnization - David Stickney - authorization. | 5/22/98 |
| 023 | H 8866A | Westerly - harbor master - appointment and powers. | 5/22/98 |
| 024 | H 7585 | Sodomy between consenting adults - de-criminalization. | 6/5/98 |
| 025 | H 8304am | Residential care and assisted living - licensed nonprofit facilities - financial assistance - R.I. Health and Educational Corporation. | 6/12/98 |
| 026 | S 2902 | East Greenwich Fire Engine Company - charter amendment. | 6/17/98 |
| 027 | H 8993 | Burrillville - home rule charter - elections. | 6/18/98 |
| 028 | H 8952am | Bicycle helmets - increases the mandatory age requirement. | 6/22/98 |
| 029 | H 9031A | Gambling facilities - local referendums - general assembly approval required. | 6/22/98 |
| 030 | H 7200Aam | Education - right to a safe school act. | 6/25/98 |
| 031 | H 8478Aam | State - appropriations for support for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999. Extended Description | 6/25/98 |
| 032 | H 8799Bam | Workers' compensation act - "employee" definition - employers exempt and employers subject to law - elections to become subject to the law - corporation officers - waiver of claim of common law rights. Provisions effective 1/1/99 | 6/29/98 |
| 033 | H 7184am | Sexual and violent offenders - DNA detection act. | 6/29/98 |
| 034 | H 7199B | Meningococcal disease immunizations --children residing in the state and more than twenty four (24) months of age. Provisions effective 9/1/98 | 6/29/98 |
| 035 | H 7332 | Charlestown - juvenile hearing board act. | 6/29/98 |
| 036 | S 3096Aam | Motor vehicles - children and passengers -safety restraint and belt requirements. | 6/29/98 |
| 037 | H 7361 | Hopkinton - juvenile hearing board act. | 6/29/98 |
| 038 | H 8477 | Portsmouth - juvenile hearing board act. | 6/29/98 |
| 039 | H 8916 | Warwick - sewer authority act - amendments. | 7/1/98 |
| 040 | H 9007 | The Peter D'Abrosca Bridge - North Kingstown. | 6/29/98 |
| 041 | S 2638 | Community service, Rhode Island national commission - composition - appointments. | 6/29/98 |
| 042 | S 2794 | Enterprise zones act - zone designation - Narragansett Brewery in Cranston. | 6/30/98 |
| 043 | S 3051am | The Richard Skogley Turfgrass Research Center - University of Rhode Island. | 6/30/98 |
| 044 | S 3064 | The Donald Price Facility - Medium II Correctional Facility in Cranston. | 6/30/98 |
| 045 | S 2006Aam | Municipal employees - retired - purchases of health insurance coverage. | 6/30/98 |
| 046 | S 2122am | Regional vocational schools - sending school districts - payment of past due vocational school tuition. | 6/30/98 |
| 047 | S 2383B | Education - curriculum - community service learning programs - high school diploma qualification. Provisions effective 9/1/98 | 6/30/98 |
| 048 | H 7545Aam | Nurse practitioners, certified registered - licensing act - persons qualified and licensed from another state - practice restrictions. | 6/30/98 |
| 049 | H 7797A | Motor vehicles - anatomical gifts by drivers act - driver's licenses - motor vehicles registry requirements. | 6/30/98 |
| 050 | S 2411A | Motor vehicles - anatomical gifts by drivers act - driver's licenses - motor vehicles registry requirements. | 6/30/98 |
| 051 | S 2716Aam | Education - right to a safe school act. | 6/30/98 |
| 052 | S 2738 | Underground storage tank tightness testing act - definitions - license requirements and DEM rules and regulations. | 6/30/98 |
| 053 | S 2768am | Elderly - long term care goals and values act. | 6/30/98 |
| 054 | H 9012Aam | Boats, party and charter - licensing act - commercial fishing vessels with a Rhode Island party and charter boat license - tax exemptions Provisions effective on 1/1/99. | 7/1/98 |
| 055 | S 2853am | Scenic highways act - designations - applications - approval requirements. This act applies to all applicants for designation pending. | 7/1/98 |
| 056 | S 2462am | Life insurance policy illustration act . Provisions effective 1/1/99 | 7/1/98 |
| 057 | H 7682am | Mobile and manufactured homes act - tenants association - right of first refusal - actions as an agent of the residents - reprisal restrictions. | 7/2/98 |
| 058 | H 7120Aam | Housing - low and moderate income act - "consistent with local needs" definition - calculation of formula - zoning board - procedures for approval of construction. | 7/2/98 |
| 059 | H 8659am | Health care fraud reporting immunity act. | 7/2/98 |
| 060 | S 2599A | Economic development corporation act - inventory of development sites - re-use of abandoned and distressed industrial properties. | 7/2/98 |
| 061 | S 2743 | Enterprise zones act - business tax credits for certain enterprise job employees . The provisions of this act become effective with the 1999 certification year. | 7/2/98 |
| 062 | S 2653 | Jobs development act - election - eligible companies - base employment date. | 7/2/98 |
| 063 | S 2644 | Smoke detector requirements - mobile homes and certain rooming houses - owners' requirements. | 7/2/98 |
| 064 | S 2074 | State beaches - user fees - Ninigret conservation area and Charlestown breachway - monetary limits paid to certain municipalities - elimination. | 7/2/98 |
| 065 | S 2570 | Medical licensure and discipline board act - physicians - recertification - continuing medical education requirements. | 7/2/98 |
| 066 | S 2526A | Taxation - personal income act - notice of deficiency - explanation requirements. | 7/2/98 |
| 067 | S 2475A | Children, youth and families department - confidentiality of records - disclosures to certain individuals employed by a child welfare agency outside of Rhode Island. | 7/2/98 |
| 068 | S 2481Aam | Education - foundation level school support act - children placed in foster care, group homes, child caring facilities, community residences or other residential facilities by a Rhode Island state agency - payment and reimbursement for education costs. | 7/2/98 |
| 069 | S 2482Aam | Children's community social services, education and mental health services - coordination - pilot program act - children, youth and families department duties. Act effective January 1, 1999. | 7/2/98 |
| 070 | S 2485A | Municipal employees - credit for other municipal service or service as a teacher or state employee - state employees - credit for service as a teacher, municipal employee or legislator - teachers - credit for service as a state or municipal employee - actuarially determined values. | 7/2/98 |
| 071 | S 2499 | Foreign insurance companies - licensing act - special deposit for benefit of policyholders. | 7/2/98 |
| 072 | S 2345am | Public assistance act - eligibility - "resource" definition exclusion - vehicles necessary to transport a family member with a disability - equity value of motor vehicles - increase. | 7/2/98 |
| 073 | S 2397A | Work on holidays and Sundays act - permit requirement removed - "employee" definition includes: boat repair employees, telephonic delivery of customer service, sales operations and ancillary services employees. | 7/2/98 |
| 074 | S 2406 | Enterprise zones act - state based companies - applicability to federal enterprise zones and communities. | 7/2/98 |
| 075 | S 2421 | State fire marshal division - establishment act - authority, powers, duties and responsibilities. | 7/2/98 |
| 076 | S 2466 | Domestic violence prevention act - arraignments - bail commissioners - issuance of no contact orders. | 7/2/98 |
| 077 | S 2100 | Motor vehicles - over-the-counter registration renewal transaction fees - repeal. | 7/2/98 |
| 078 | S 2112Aam | Shellfish licensing act - "nonresident landowner" definition - nonresident noncommercial shell fish license. | 7/2/98 |
| 079 | S 2139A | Persian Gulf War information relief commission - establishment. | 7/2/98 |
| 080 | S 2147 | Public accountants - certification act - exams - eligibility. | 7/2/98 |
| 081 | S 2193am | State and municipal employees, retired - electronic funds transfer requirement. | 7/2/98 |
| 082 | S 2239Aam | Defibrillation - public access act. | 7/2/98 |
| 083 | S 2025Aam | Hate crimes sentencing act - felony bias motivated assaults, ethnic or religious intimidation or defamation provisions - repeal. | 7/2/98 |
| 084 | S 2032 | Smoking in public places act - public laundries restriction. | 7/2/98 |
| 085 | S 2048 | Public finance management board act - comprehensive review date. | 7/2/98 |
| 086 | S 2092am | Beverage containers taxation act - reusable and refillable beverage containers - exemption. | 7/2/98 |
| 087 | S 2471A | Family court proceedings - foster parents - notice of court proceedings - adoption of children - hearings - individuals residing outside of the state - termination of parental rights - petitions - governmental child placement or licensed child placement agencies - evidence - abused and neglected children - custody awards - court review - permanency plan - court order - children, youth and families department - service plans, protective services. | 7/3/98 |
| 088 | S 2476am | Schools - pupils - dental screenings - licensed dental hygienist - community requirements. | 7/3/98 |
| 089 | S 2578Aam | Motor vehicles - driving licenses - persons ineligible - motor vehicles registry - standards and requirements - medical advisory board - function - license suspensions - reinstatements. | 7/3/98 |
| 090 | S 2597A | Nonprofit hospital service, medical service, dental service, optometric service corporations and health maintenance organizations - control, merger or consolidation - filing requirements with the business regulation director and attorney general - other general laws requirements - no derogation of attorney general authority. | 7/3/98 |
| 091 | S 3176Bam | Administrative adjudication court - abolished effective July 1, 1999 - authorizes a task force to recommend a permanent solution to the general assembly - creates interim administration under the authority of the chief justice of the supreme court - transfers operator control, alcohol and drug safety unit to the registry. | 7/3/98 |
| 092 | S 2282A | Health care quality performance measurement and reporting program act - health department establishment. | 7/3/98 |
| 093 | S 2314am | Elderly affairs department - family caregiver resource network. | 7/3/98 |
| 094 | S 2533A | Elderly affairs department - expands duties - administrative and coordination of a long term care entry system - elder abuse and neglect reports - investigations - protective services coordination. | 7/3/98 |
| 095 | S 3204 | Cranston - bonds - police department - rehabilitation of equipment and construction of facilities. | 7/7/98 |
| 096 | S 3205 | Cranston - bonds - purchase of public works and highway equipment. | 7/7/98 |
| 097 | S 3206 | Cranston - bonds - fire department - building renovations, construction and rehabilitation. | 7/7/98 |
| 098 | S 3207 | Cranston - bonds - renovation, improvements and repairing of school buildings. | 7/7/98 |
| 099 | H 9202 | Cranston - bonds - installation and repair of storm drains. | 7/7/98 |
| 100 | H 9203 | Cranston - bonds - repair, construction and rehabilitation of public highways. | 7/7/98 |
| 101 | H 9204 | Cranston - bonds - construction, rehabilitation and equipping of recreational and neighborhood facilities. | 7/7/98 |
| 102 | H 9205 | Cranston - bonds - construction and equipping classrooms - building renovations - Cranston High School West. | 7/7/98 |
| 103 | S 3208 | Cranston - bonds - installation and repair of storm drains. | 7/7/98 |
| 104 | S 3209 | Cranston - bonds - construction, rehabilitation and equipping recreational and neighborhood facilities - Cranston Stadium. | 7/7/98 |
| 105 | S 3178Aam | Worker's compensation - includes overtime in the calculation of benefits - increases the penalties for failure to obtain worker's compensation insurance. | 7/3/98 |
| 106 | S 3187 | Cities and towns - tax stabilization agreements. | 7/3/98 |
| 107 | S 2033 | Alzheimer's disease - added to list of eligible drugs providing pharmaceutical assistance to the elderly. | 7/3/98 |
| 108 | S 2123 | Elderly - pharmaceutical reimbursement. | 7/3/98 |
| 109 | S 2288am | Disabilities - tax exemption - specially adapted motor vehicle. | 7/3/98 |
| 110 | S 2343A | Taxation - small business tax credit. | 7/3/98 |
| 111 | S 2839Aam | Jobs development act - definitions - "base employment" and "disaster" - manufacturing business reconstruction materials - sales tax exemption. | 7/3/98 |
| 112 | S 3143 | Business corporation tax - tax credit for quality certification. | 7/3/98 |
| 113 | S 3196 | Employment security act - benefit payments for services with nonprofit organizations, educational institutions and governmental entities - "reasonable assurance" definition. Provisions retroactive to June 1, 1997. | 7/3/98 |
| 114 | S 2116Aam | Underground storage tank financial responsibility act - "site" definition - purpose of fund - sites owned by a city or town, the state or any agency of the state - clean-up - eligibility for reimbursement. | 7/3/98 |
| 115 | S 2256am | Real estate brokers and salespersons act - "real estate broker" definition - real estate brokerages - ownership interest or sales of businesses - license requirement. | 7/3/98 |
| 116 | S 2257 | Alcoholic beverages - price advertising - unconstitutional declared sections repealed. | 7/3/98 |
| 117 | S 2258am | Motor vehicle body repair shops - business regulation department - division of commercial licensing and regulation - license number display requirement - operation without a license - criminal penalties - injunctive relief. License number display provisions effective on January 1, 1999. | 7/3/98 |
| 118 | S 2263 | Children's cabinet - makes changes in membership. | 7/3/98 |
| 119 | S 2273 | Auctioneers - establishes parameters for the regulation of licenses by the department of business regulation - amends bonding section. | 7/3/98 |
| 120 | S 2276A | Sexual offenders, convicted - DNA samples taken - database established - records stored. | 7/3/98 |
| 121 | S 2280 | Peace officers - includes security officers at the Community College of Rhode Island for the purposes of arrest. | 7/3/98 |
| 122 | S 2285 | Insurance - clarifies term "insurance producer" - deletes fine - makes technical changes to insurance laws. | 7/3/98 |
| 123 | S 2296 | Wrongful death - increases minimum amount of liability. | 7/3/98 |
| 124 | S 2319 | Breast feeding in public - not a law violation. | 7/3/98 |
| 125 | S 2725am | Residential care and assisted living facilities - licensed - allows Rhode Island health and educational building corporation to assist and finance. | 7/3/98 |
| 126 | S 2744am | Judicial selection - criteria for selecting qualified candidates augmented. | 7/3/98 |
| 127 | S 2771A | Persons with disabilities - redefined - exempt from fees - state recreational facilities and hunting and fishing licenses. | 7/3/98 |
| 128 | S 2837 | Students with disabilities - department of health, division of family health - assistance in attaining self-sufficiency. | 7/3/98 |
| 129 | S 2849Aam | Education - calls for enacting regulations establishing that new school buildings are wired for computer networking technology. | 7/3/98 |
| 130 | S 2962 | Mobile and manufactured homes act - individual sewage disposal systems - certifications - requirements. | 7/3/98 |
| 131 | S 2963 | Nursery law - reciprocal agreements - out of state dealers - license fee. | 7/3/98 |
| 132 | S 2997 | Education - curriculum - electronic news or educational programming - cities and towns - program establishment. | 7/3/98 |
| 133 | S 3111 | Rural development council act established. | 7/3/98 |
| 134 | S 3159A | Gambling activities and other facilities act - "gambling facility" defined. | 7/3/98 |
| 135 | S 3191A | Westerly - downtown center service district act. | 7/3/98 |
| 136 | S 2886 | Smithfield - assessment and taxation of real estate construction. | 7/3/98 |
| 137 | S 2131Aam | Motor vehicles - registration fee for a specially adapted motor vehicle necessary to transport a family member with a disability for personal noncommercial use. | 7/7/98 |
| 138 | S 2451Aam | Insurance - single license procedure act - exceptions to licensing requirement - certain rental car companies and their employees - certificate of compliance - exception. | 7/7/98 |
| 139 | S 3202 | Elections - political party state committees - rules and bylaws - voting or attempting to vote in more than one political party's primary - felony. | 7/7/98 |
| 140 | H 9200 | Cranston - bonds - fire department purposes. | 7/7/98 |
| 141 | H 9210 | Cranston - bonds - public works and highway equipment. | 7/7/98 |
| 142 | H 7363Aam | Education - charter public schools establishment act - legislative purposes and amendments. | 7/3/98 |
| 143 | S 2594 | Bristol - municipal court act. | 7/4/98 |
| 144 | H 8006am | State building code act - board of standards and appeals - complainants - organizations representing disabled persons. | 7/7/98 |
| 145 | H 8221am | Manicurist or esthetician licenses act - persons licensed in other states - requirements. | 7/7/98 |
| 146 | H 7285am | Students - allergic emergencies - anaphylaxis - use of epinephrine - carry and use of prescription inhalers - requirements - school personnel - immunity from liability. | 7/7/98 |
| 147 | H 7628Aam | Bedding and materials - sterilization, disinfection and disinfestation requirements. Pesticide control act - registration purposes - definitions: "consumer protection and health benefits products" and "agricultural and other pesticides". | 7/7/98 |
| 148 | H 7736Bam | Workers' compensation insurance act - policy forms, procedural rules, "fresh start" provision, deficit calculations, definitions, standards for rate approvals, rate filings, rate disapprovals, information requirement, services of advisory organizations, rating organization membership, procedural rules, challenges and review, competition reducing acts, misleading information - casualty insurance rating - advisory organization filings and permitted activities. | 7/7/98 |
| 149 | S 2089 | Insurance - temporary disability - governmental entities exemption - state and its instrumentalities removed. | 7/7/98 |
| 150 | S 2838am | 911 emergency telephone number act - funding - telecommunication service providers of wireless service - advisory commission - composition and appointments. | 7/7/98 |
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