Rhode Island House
Significant Rewrites with Statewide Impact H5115I think this is the repeal of the “Amazon” tax. (Comment: Even though this bill contains a relatively small amount of verbiage, I’m putting it in the “significant rewrites” section, since it’s meaning needs some decrypting) Targeted Changes with Statewide Impact H5114From the official description: “This act would clarify that…
Significant Rewrites with Statewide Impact H5029Defines crimes of assault, battery and manslaughter against an unborn child. H5095Authorizes a “24/7” sobriety program as an alternative to imprisonment for drunk driving offenses. Targeted Changes with Statewide Impact H5027Creates a civil action for forcing or coercing a woman to have an abortion without her free consent. H5028Defines a…
Significant Rewrites with Statewide Impact H5100Repeals the state’s franchise tax. H5101Sets conditions under which Bureau of Criminal Identification reports may be used in employment decisions. Targeted Changes with Statewide Impact H5026No charging fees or asking for fingerprints, when a bank customer presents “a valid instrument” to withdraw funds. H5032“Any landlord who rents or leases premises…
This is the first of five posts today on the bills introduced to the RI General Assembly last week. There will be two other posts on House Bills, with criminal/civil offense and business regulatory bills grouped together, and two posts on Senate Bills, one of which focuses on taxation bills. As a reminder, the difference…
The Republicans in the Rhode Island House or Senate don’t have the numbers to block anything on the floor or in committee on a straight party line vote, so when I read the Thursday Projo headline which read “R.I. House Republicans Hold Up Money for Jobless Call Center“, I wasn’t quite sure what it meant.…
This is the first in what is intended to be a regular series of posts on legislation submitted to the Rhode Island House of Representatives in the prior week. Initially, bills will be broken down into three categories…Bills that have a statewide impact that involve a significant rewriting of sections of the law (“significant” being…
In contrast to the promise of more open government in the Republican-controlled U.S. House that I noted earlier, this head-turner came via GoLocalProv today: [Newly appointed Rules Committee Chairman Rep. Peter] Palumbo [D, Cranston] said he has just started poring through all the rules, but he already has some ideas about what he would like…
Joseph Trillo, State Representative from District 24 (Warwick), who is running unopposed in the general election and will therefore be a member of the 2011 legislature, has this to say about Lincoln Chafee’s assurance that the General Assembly will pass his 1% sales tax expansion, if Mr. Chafee is elected as the next Governor of…
House District 43 candidate Karin Gorman (Johnston), in addition to going on the record against independent Gubernatorial candidate Lincoln Chafee’s proposal to expand the Rhode Island sales tax to goods currently not taxed…I vote no for Chafee’s taxes……also reminds us that another mechanism is available, to prevent the tax increase from happening……and no for Chafee.
Here are three more responses to independent candidate Lincoln Chafee’s public assurance that the state legislature will go along with his proposal to extend the Rhode Island sales tax to items currently not taxed, made during Friday’s night WJAR-TV (NBC 10) Gubernatorial debate…If the governor is leading the way on a tax increase…the General Assembly…
