All Bills - Rhode Island 2023 Regular Session
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Rhode Island 2023 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5915
Introduced
3/1/23
Refer
3/1/23
Permits the health care advocate to receive confidential health care information with individual patient information but would prohibit the disclosure of the information, except pursuant to judicial process.
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Rhode Island 2023 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5916
Introduced
3/1/23
Refer
3/1/23
Prohibits any governmental entity from mandating the COVID-19 vaccination, or from discriminating against any individual or issuing a civil or criminal penalty upon any individual for refusing any COVID-19 vaccination.
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Rhode Island 2023 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5917
Introduced
3/1/23
Refer
3/1/23
Establishes The Rourke Act which creates a survivor support fund for the survivors of domestic assault and prohibits any individual convicted of domestic assault from being within 100 ft of the domestic assault survivor's residence.
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Rhode Island 2023 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5918
Introduced
3/1/23
Refer
3/1/23
Creates a custody procedure for pets in divorce and separation proceedings based on the best interests of the animal. This act would not apply to assistance/service animals.
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Rhode Island 2023 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5919
Introduced
3/1/23
Refer
3/1/23
Provides that any conviction of unnecessary cruelty to animals, malicious injury or killing of animals, or abandonment of animals, also carries the appropriate penalties pursuant to the domestic violence prevention act, where applicable.
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Rhode Island 2023 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5920
Introduced
3/1/23
Refer
3/1/23
Report Pass
3/28/23
Engrossed
4/4/23
Refer
5/15/23
Amends the statutory penalties for a second and third possession of marijuana offense to conform to the penalties promulgated in the Rhode Island cannabis act.
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Rhode Island 2023 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5921
Introduced
3/1/23
Refer
3/1/23
Report Pass
3/28/23
Engrossed
4/4/23
Refer
5/15/23
Amends the statutory penalties for possession of marijuana offenses to conform to the penalties promulgated in the Rhode Island cannabis act.
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Rhode Island 2023 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5922
Introduced
3/1/23
Refer
3/1/23
Report Pass
6/6/23
Engrossed
6/13/23
Enrolled
6/15/23
Passed
6/26/23
Provides that Schedules I through V of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act consist of drugs and other substances, by whatever official name, common or usual name, chemical name or name designated by the director of the department of health.
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Rhode Island 2023 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5923
Introduced
3/1/23
Refer
3/1/23
Report Pass
6/6/23
Engrossed
6/12/23
Refer
6/12/23
Amends the current law on controlled substances to permit a person to be in possession of less than one ounce of psilocybin and permits psilocybin to be securely cultivated within a person’s residence for personal use.
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Rhode Island 2023 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5924
Introduced
3/1/23
Refer
3/1/23
Defines the terms "race and ethnicity" to include ancestry, color, ethnic group identification, and ethnic background and inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles.
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Rhode Island 2023 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5925
Introduced
3/1/23
Refer
3/1/23
Removes requirement that the Rhode Island state police or the department of attorney general complete the nationwide criminal records check for any license application, permit and/or registration, require applicant to apply for nationwide criminal records
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Rhode Island 2023 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5926
Introduced
3/1/23
Refer
3/1/23
Comprehensively regulates the practices of third-party litigation financers in Rhode Island to provide transparency in litigation.
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Rhode Island 2023 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5927
Introduced
3/1/23
Refer
3/1/23
Expands the definition of employee to include individuals under appointment or contract of hire or apprenticeship, volunteers or unpaid interns and decreases from 4 to 1 the number of employees required to trigger the designation of employer.
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Rhode Island 2023 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5928
Introduced
3/1/23
Refer
3/1/23
Effective January 1, 2024, increases the minimum hourly wage to fourteen dollars and fifty cents ($14.50) to sixteen dollars and seventy-five cents ($16.75) the next year, the next year to nineteen dollars ($19.00).
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Rhode Island 2023 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5929
Introduced
3/1/23
Refer
3/1/23
Report Pass
3/29/23
Engrossed
4/4/23
Refer
5/15/23
Report Pass
6/13/23
Prohibits an employer to require an employee to execute a nondisclosure agreement or non-disparagement agreement, regarding alleged violations of civil rights or criminal conduct, as a condition of employment.