Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2191
Introduced
1/24/24
Refer
1/24/24
TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Provides that the city of Warwick, no separate class or zoning district would be assigned/designated based solely on a scenic view, and no property in a particular class or zoning district would be assessed at an increased rate from other properties.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2192
Introduced
1/24/24
Refer
1/24/24
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- BURGLARY AND BREAKING AND ENTERING - Adds a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing robbery of the owner, lessor, or occupant of a motor vehicle and that the owner or occupant of the vehicle acted in self-defense.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2193
Introduced
1/24/24
Refer
1/24/24
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- IDENTIFICATION AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS - Requires superior court clerk to automatically seal cases or individual counts of a criminal complaint or indictment, upon request of the defendant and serve it upon bureau of criminal identification, police department and counsel of record.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2194
Introduced
1/24/24
Refer
1/24/24
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - 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.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2195
Introduced
1/24/24
Refer
1/24/24
EDUCATION -- OFFENSES PERTAINING TO SCHOOLS - Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race by expanding the definition of race to include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protected hairstyles.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2196
Introduced
1/24/24
Refer
1/24/24
COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- JUDGMENTS, ORDERS, AND DECREES - Amends calculations of interest in civil actions a rate determined by average accepted auction price for last auction of 52 week U.S. treasury bills.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2197
Introduced
1/24/24
Refer
1/24/24
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ARREST - Prohibits the civil arrest of any person who is attending court either on behalf of themselves or a family or household member. Any person who violates this act shall be subject to civil suit and for contempt of court.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2198
Introduced
1/24/24
Refer
1/24/24
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- BURGLARY AND BREAKING AND ENTERING - Provides a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing any violent criminal offense that individual is lawfully in a place they have a right to be, and acted in self-defense and reasonable belief of harm.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2199
Introduced
1/24/24
Refer
1/24/24
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Allows an individual to lawfully possess a device that would silence the sound of a natural report of a rifle or shotgun to hunt game, as long as the host rifle or shotgun is allowed.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2200
Introduced
1/24/24
Refer
1/24/24
COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- FAMILY COURT - Gives statewide juvenile hearing boards the authority to refer a juvenile offender to a rehabilitative driving course, as part of a disposition of an offense before the board. The order may be enforced by the traffic tribunal.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2201
Introduced
1/24/24
Refer
1/24/24
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Defines suitable person, establishes reasons for applying for concealed carry permit, establishes what information is required on applications, establishes appeal process for denials, provides that records are not public permits hunting with suppressor.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2202
Introduced
1/24/24
Refer
1/24/24
Report Pass
3/12/24
Refer
3/20/24
Report Pass
5/23/24
Engrossed
5/28/24
Engrossed
6/6/24
Passed
6/13/24
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Requires safe storage of firearms/provides civil and criminal penalties for violations/adds rifles and shotguns to the types of firearms requiring a trigger lock to be included with purchase/requires firearms dealers post signs regarding safe storage.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2203
Introduced
1/24/24
Refer
1/24/24
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES - Prohibits an employer, employment agency, labor organization, or employee from directly or indirectly committing any act declared to be an unlawful employment practice.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2204
Introduced
1/24/24
Refer
1/24/24
ELECTIONS -- VOTING DISTRICTS AND OFFICIALS -- POLLING PLACE CAP - Increases the maximum number of voters that a polling place can accommodate from three thousand (3,000) to three thousand five hundred (3,500).
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2205
Introduced
1/24/24
Refer
1/24/24
CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- PAROLE - Provides that prisoners who committed offenses prior to age 18 and sentenced as adults would be eligible for parole after completing 15 yrs of their sentence/does not lengthen their eligibility should prisoner be eligible for parole earlier than 15 yrs.