Rhode Island State Senator

John Burke 2024 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 2)

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Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2064

Introduced
1/12/24  
Increases the net taxable estate exemption to four million dollars ($4,000,000) for deaths that occur on or after January 1, 2025.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2078

Introduced
1/12/24  
Refer
1/12/24  
Report Pass
5/30/24  
Engrossed
6/4/24  
Refer
6/5/24  
Report Pass
6/11/24  
Enrolled
6/12/24  
Provides a procedure requiring that healthcare facilities maintain a list with all standard charges for all Medical facility items.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2090

Introduced
1/12/24  
Refer
1/12/24  
Report Pass
5/30/24  
Engrossed
6/4/24  
Requires radon testing within one year of any residential real estate transaction and the installation of a radon mitigation system if unsafe radon levels are present, at the seller's expense.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2097

Introduced
1/12/24  
Would amend certain signature requirements and deadlines regarding primaries for election of delegates to national conventions for presidential preference.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2098

Introduced
1/12/24  
Requires prosecutorial consent in order for a defendant to waive a jury trial.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2103

Introduced
1/12/24  
Provides the review and appeal process for individuals applying for a permit or license to carry a handgun with the licensing authority or attorney general.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2105

Introduced
1/12/24  
Requires law enforcement agencies to obtain search warrants for electronic information, data, location information and other identifying information of subscribers and customers, except in specified circumstances.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2109

Introduced
1/12/24  
Creates the Rhode Island Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, prohibiting the performance or induction of an abortion of an unborn child capable of feeling pain, unless necessary to prevent serious health risk to the unborn child's mother.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2110

Introduced
1/12/24  
Provides for a 10 year statute of limitations for the violation of second degree sexual assault.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2111

Introduced
1/12/24  
Provides for a cause of action against an individual or entity that prohibits the possession of firearms on real property, except residences, by an individual that is authorized and licensed to carry a firearm.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2112

Introduced
1/12/24  
Refer
1/12/24  
Report Pass
5/28/24  
Engrossed
5/30/24  
Enrolled
6/11/24  
Provides that supported decision-making pursuant to chapter 66.13 of title 42 be added to the Limited Guardianship and Guardianship of Adults forms section as one of the less restrictive alternatives to guardianship that have been explored.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2114

Introduced
1/12/24  
Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to investigate, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the expenditure of public funds.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2119

Introduced
1/12/24  
Refer
1/12/24  
Report Pass
4/24/24  
Engrossed
4/30/24  
Allows governmental employee union contracts to contain specific references to specific health insurance companies.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2120

Introduced
1/12/24  
Refer
1/12/24  
Report Pass
6/4/24  
Engrossed
6/6/24  
Engrossed
6/11/24  
Clarifies the types of electrical services that require an electrical contractor's license.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2124

Introduced
1/12/24  
Refer
1/12/24  
Report Pass
4/24/24  
SENATE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY AND REVIEW RHODE ISLAND'S MINIMUM WAGE (Creates an eleven (11) member special legislative study commission whose purpose it would be to study Rhode Island's minimum wage, and who reports back to the Senate no later than May 4, 2025, and whose life expires on January 4, 2026.)