Legislative Updates
2018
Net Neutrality Protection Act of 2018 - Requires net neutrality by fixed or mobile broadband Internet access services.
- Representative J. Aaron Regunbeg
- Representative Jeremiah O'Grady
- Representative Deborah Ruggerio
- Representative Edith H. Ajello
- Representative Blake A. Filippi
- 02-02-2018
Introduced, referred to House Corporations
- 03-09-2018
Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- 03-12-2018
Meeting postponed (weather)
- 03-16-2018
Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- 03-20-2018
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Requires Internet service providers to follow Internet service neutrality requirements.
- Senator Louis P. DiPalma
- Senator Ryan W. Pearson
- Senator Jeanine Calkin
- Senator Gayle Goldin
- Senator Joshua Miller
- 01-11-2018
Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce.
- 04-20-2018
Scheduled for hearing (5/03/2018)
- 05-03-2018
Committee recommended indefinite postponement
- 05-03-2018
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study
- 06-12-2018
Committee recommends passage of Sub A
- 06-13-2018
Placed on Senate Calendar (6/19/2018)
- 06-19-2018
Senate passed Sub A
- 06-20-2018
Referred to House Corporations
- 06-20-2018
Scheduled for consideration
- 06-20-2018
Meeting postponed (6/20/2018)
Sets standards for school libraries and services such that secondary school students have access to libraries before, during and after school.
- Senator Joshua Miller
- Senator Hanna M. Gallo
- Senator Mark Gee
- Senator James Sheehan
- Senator Louis P. DiPalma
- 02-15-2018
Introduced, referred to Senate Education
- 03-23-2018
Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (3/28/2018)
- 03-28-2018
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
2017
Promotes cooperation and assistance in the enforcement of immigration laws and establish penalties for failure to further the active enforcement of immigration laws.
- Representative Arthur J. Corvese
- Representative Robert D. Phillips
- Representative Stephen Ucci
- Representative David Coughlin, Jr.
- 01-12-2017
Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
- 03-14-2017
Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (Meeting postponed)
- 03-17-2017
Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- 03-22-2017
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Act making appropriations for the state for fiscal year 2018.
- Representative Marvin L. Abney
- 01-19-2017
Introduced, referred to House Finance
- 06-16-2017
Committee recommends passage of Sub A 6/22/2017: House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
- 06-22-2017
Referred to Senate Finance
- 06-23-2017
Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- 06-27-2017
Committee recommends passage of Sub A as amended in concurrence
- 06-27-2017
Senate voted to reconsider
- 08-03-2017
Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
- 08-03-2017
Transmitted to Governor
- 08-03-2017
Signed by Governor
Prevents any state or municipal agency's telecommunications or Internet contractor from collecting and disseminating the personal information of customers.
- Representative John G. Edwards
- Representative Blake A. Filippi
- Representative Evan P. Shanley
- Representative J. Aaron Regunbeg
- Representative Robert J. Quattrocchi
- 04-06-2017
Introduced, referred to House Corporations
- 04-20-2017
Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- 04-26-2017
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Excludes weekends and state holidays from the calculation of the forty-eight (48) hour public notice requirement, and requires all public bodies to keep minutes of open meetings and file their minutes with the secretary of state.
- Representative Evan P. Shanley
- Representative Jean P. Barros
- Representative Helder Cunha
- 06-09-2017
Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
- 06-09-2017
Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- 06-13-2017
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- 06-29-2017
Scheduled for consideration
- 06-29-2017
Committee recommends passage
- 06-29-2017
Placed on House Calendar
- 06-29-2017
House read and passed
- 06-30-2017
Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar
- 06-30-2017
Senate passed in concurrence
- 07-13-2017
Transmitted to Governor
- 07-18-2017
Signed by Governor
Increases the state's share to support local public library services in distressed communities, by an amount equal to the amount paid by the distressed city or town into the ocean state libraries (OSL) annual assessment charges.
- Senator Elizabeth Crowley
- 01-18-2017
Introduced, referred to Senate Finance
- 05-05-2017
Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/09/2017)
Requires the department of education to consider incorporating media literacy education in the basic education program.
- Senator Adam J. Satchell
- Senator William Conley Jr.
- Senator Harold Metts
- Senator Roger A. Picard
- 02-01-2017
Introduced, referred to Senate Education
- 04-28-2017
Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- 05-03-2017
Committee recommends passage
- 05-09-2017
Placed on Senate Calendar (05/11/2017)
- 05-11-2017
Senate read and passed
- 05-12-2017
Referred to House Health, Education & Welfare
- 06-27-2017
House passed in concurrence
- 07-18-2017
Transmitted to Governor
- 07-19-2017
Signed by Governor
Increases state library aid to distressed communities by an amount equal to the OSL annual assessment charges.
- Senator Elizabeth Crowley
- Senator Harold Metts
- Senator Donna Nesselbush
- Senator V. Susan Sosnowski
- Senator Ana B. Quezada
- 02-13-2019
Introduced and referred to Senate Finance
- 03-28-2019
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
2016
Makes a number of technical amendments to the General Laws of Rhode Island, including Title 29, Libraries, and would reenact the Title 29 in its entirety.
- Representative John DeSimone
- Representative Brian C. Newberry
- 01-15-2016
Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
- 03-23-2016
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- 05-17-2016
Committee recommends passage of Sub A
- 05-24-2016
Committee recommends passage of Sub A
- 05-26-2016
House passed Sub A
- 05-26-2016
Referred to Senate Judiciary
- 05-31-2016
Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence
- 06-18-2016
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
An act making appropriations for the support of the state for fiscal year ending June 30, 2019.