Introduced by Sen. V. Susan Sosnowski (D) on February 6, 2013, to forbid health insurance providers from considering gender when setting premium rates.
Introduced by Sen. Donna M. Nesselbush (D) on March 6, 2013, to create a state-controlled electronic prescription database storing all information related to electronically distributed medical prescriptions. The legislation also expands the types of prescriptions that may be transmitted electronically.
Introduced by Rep. Brian Patrick Kennedy (D) on February 28, 2013, to restrict the interactions that the people of Rhode Island can have with physicians licensed in other states.
Introduced by Sen. Marc A. Cote (D) on April 4, 2013, to force the taxpayers of Woonsocket to accept a tax increase up to 12.7% on motor vehicles and 4.6% on real estate, up to $2.5 million, as determined by the state Budget Commission currently operating within the town, with no opportunity to stop the increase by any means in state or local law. However, the commission could vary or eliminate the increases for elderly residents.
Introduced by Sen. Hanna M. Gallo (D) on March 13, 2013, to make teacher evaluations private personnel documents that cannot be released to the public.
Introduced by Sen. Elizabeth A. Crowley (D) on January 10, 2013, to screen Medicaid, Rite Care, and Rite Share benefit claims and to analyze all transactions looking for fraudulent or incorrect claims.
Introduced by Sen. Dominick J. Ruggerio (D), Senators Sosnowski, Lombardi, Miller, and Satchel on February 6, 2013, to forbid landlords from refusing to rent, or even discouraging people from seeking to rent, on the grounds that the potential tenants' pets are not "declawed or devocalized " The bill provides for a fine up to $1,000, a period of probation during which the offender cannot own any pets or live on the same property as a pet owner, and forced "humane education ".
Introduced by Sen. V. Susan Sosnowski, and Senators Felag, Sheehan, McCarthy, and Walaska on January 24, 2013, to further implement separation of powers by removing members of the General Assembly from the Coastal Resource Management Council. Membership rules would also be simplified and changed with the intent of broadening the perspectives and experience on the council.
Introduced by Sen. Dominick J. Ruggerio, Senators Paiva-Weed, DiPalma, Pearson, and Walaska on March 13, 2013, to give unelected members of the the Economic Development Corporation and state Division of Planning a mandate to develop "a written long-term economic development vision and policy" for the state. Subsequently, every new governor would grant the power to review the plan to unelected members of a new Economic Development Planning Council.
Introduced by Sen. Michael J. McCaffrey, Senators Paiva-Weed, Ruggerio, Gallo, and DiPalma on March 6, 2013, to allow public and private high school students to take college courses for both high school and college credits. A provision that would have allowed using a portion of the state aid allocated to their districts for tuition was removed in amendment.
Introduced by Rep. Eileen S. Naughton (D) and Representative Naughton on January 24, 2013, to expand the reach of the Department of Human Services so that it can create an assessment of the personal and financial circumstances of people who help to care for their elderly or disabled family and friends.
Introduced by Rep. Kenneth A. Marshall, Representatives Gallison and Edwards on February 27, 2013, to force health insurance companies to give the state insurance commissioner "proprietary and trade secret information that has the potential for harm and competitive disadvantage to the insurer," with fines up to $365,000 for failing to comply.
This act would allow any two (2) individuals, who are otherwise eligible under chapter 15-1, to marry regardless of gender, while protecting the freedom of religious institutions to make their own decisions regarding marriage eligibility within their own faith’s tradition, without
interference from the state.
To confirm the rules of the Rhode Island House of Representatives for the years 2013 - 2014.
This act would extend the transition period for restructuring the board of education.
To revise details of reports of the Board of Education.
Would allow Judith Fox to join Alison Rae Hopkins and Michael Baker O'Brien in marriage within the City of Providence, Rhode Island, on or about March 16, 2013.
Would explicitly permit tolls on the Sakonnet River Bridge and transfer authority over it and Jamestown Verrazano Bridge to the Turnpike and Bridge Authority.
to make appropriations for the State of Rhode Island's 2013 fiscal year and to enact other legislation included as articles in the budget. (The 2013 state budget). Signed into law.
would force grassroots and other politically active groups at the state and town levels to track and report to the state donations of more than $100 per person per year for the purposes of promoting local budgets and charter changes.
would force grassroots and other politically active groups at the state and town levels to track and report to the state donations of more than $100 per person per year for the purposes of promoting local budgets and charter changes.
would create a quasi-public state agency, the East Bay Energy Consortium, that would allow several communities in the East Bay region to enter into the windfarm business.
Mandates that people enrolled in health insurance must designate a participating primary care provider.
Would increase the surcharge on motor vehicle rental contracts from 6% to 8% and increase the amount that the rental company may hold for licensing, title, register, and transfer fees and excise taxes before transferring the extra to the state.
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