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FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT -- POWERS OF ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL -- CIVIL FORFEITURE PROCEDURE - Prohibits civil asset forfeiture regarding violations of the controlled substances...
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COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- JURY LISTS - Amends the jury list and jury qualification statutes to add individuals receiving public assistance benefits. 2024/04/04 Committee...
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DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Prohibits any questioning of a juvenile who is suspected of delinquent or criminal behavior, unless the parent of guardian of the...
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- RAILROAD, STEAMBOAT, AND BRIDGE POLICE - Provides any police report involving a railroad fatality and all communications between railroad employees not be made public....
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COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- CONDITIONAL ESCHEAT OF UNCLAIMED FUNDS IN COURT REGISTRIES - Updates the process by which the Supreme Court reports, holds, and escheats unclaimed property in...
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL - Allows the attorney general to investigate and bring an enforcement action against persistent fraud or illegality in the carrying on,...
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DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- THE RHODE ISLAND INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT - Codifies the federal legislation pertaining to the federal Indian child welfare act into state law. 2024/04/04 Committee recommended...
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT - Includes animal cruelty offenses to the domestic violence crimes committed by a family or household members against another. 2024/04/04...
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DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Removes the requirement that individual of sixteen (16) years of age or older and found delinquent of two (2) offenses would be...
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DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Prohibit the family court from detaining any juvenile or committing any juvenile, under the age of 14 years, to the training school,...
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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...
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- COUNTY GRAND JURIES - Permits grand juries to issue reports and would provide for a process for review and acceptance by the superior court for dissemination to the public....
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS IN DISTRICT COURT -- POWERS OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE - Increases the fee payable to justices of the peace to one hundred dollars $100.00. 2024/04/04...
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MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- STOPPING, STANDING, AND PARKING RESTRICTIONS - Penalizes as a misdemeanor for the first two offenses and a felony for any third or subsequent offense for obstructing the...
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COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- FAMILY COURT - Permits the family court to disclose criminal records of juvenile offenders to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System for the purposes of...
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PROBATE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE -- PRACTICE IN PROBATE COURTS - Outlines the process for a person petitioning to change their name in the probate court in the town or city where they reside. It also...
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND CIVIL RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT ACT - Provides a remedy for any harm caused due to a deprivation or violation of rights by the State of Rhode Island or its...
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- SOLITARY CONFINEMENT REFORM ACT - Establishes the restrictive housing oversight committee ("committee") for the purpose of monitoring the use of restrictive housing...
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Repeals 42-56-38.1 and requires the department of corrections to provide free communication services to inmates and juveniles held in...
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- THE RHODE ISLAND FIRST STEP ACT - Establishes Rhode Island First Step program requiring DOC to assist offenders with reintegration into society, counseling, medical care,...
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SENTENCE AND EXECUTION - Requires sentencing court to consider whether defendant is parent of child, or caregiver of elderly, disabled or terminally ill person whose well-being...
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SECOND LOOK SENTENCING ACT - Establishes the second look act and would permit incarcerated individuals to petition the sentencing court to consider a motion to reduce a sentence...
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Sets standards and procedures to allow and implement conjugal visitation at state correctional facilities. 2024/04/11 Committee recommended...
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- TRIAL - Allows a criminal defendant before the superior court to waive their right to a jury trial with the consent of the attorney general. 2024/04/11 Committee recommended...
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House Resolution Extending The Reporting And Expiration Dates Of The Special Legislative Task Force To Improve The Long-term Outcomes And Reduce Recidivism Of Females Within The Criminal Justice...
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PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Permits other residents of residential dwelling unit to extend term of rental agreement for 3 months after death of lessee, however it would not permit...
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DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- FULL ENFORCEMENT OF SUPPORT OBLIGATIONS - Allows a board to modify an obligor's license to a "Provisional Employment Operator's License" allowing the obligor the ability to...
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- VICTIM'S RIGHTS - Waives the payment of filing fees and service of process costs when the victim of a crime is still owed restitution at the expiration of a criminal case....
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CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Amends the statute punishing child pornography by replacing the term "child pornography" with the term "child sexual abuse material." 2024/04/18 Scheduled for hearing...
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES - Provides employees with civil administrative remedies against contractors, subcontractors involved in the contract with joint/severable liability imposed...
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- BAIL AND RECOGNIZANCE - Provides any person charged with an offense for which bail may be denied that there is a presumption of dangerousness to the community and a risk of flight...
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CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION - Allows the sexual offender board of review to use, in addition to applicable validated risk assessment tools, a structured...
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- INDICTMENTS, INFORMATIONS AND COMPLAINTS - Includes the offense of second-degree sexual assault among the offenses to which there shall be no statute of limitations and provides...
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CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - This act would further delineate the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor. 2024/04/18 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/24/2024)
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- AUTOMATED LICENSE PLATE READERS - Provides for municipal and state police authorities to acquire and to utilize automated license plate readers. Further, the act identifies what...
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WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- PERSONAL WATERCRAFT SAFETY - Amends the penalty for violating the provisions of the personal watercraft safety act from a misdemeanor to a violation and reduce the fine from...
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DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION - Permits state child support agencies to bring actions under the child support statute on behalf of a noncustodial parent who is incarcerated and unable to...
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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...
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ELECTRONIC INFORMATION AND DATA PRIVACY ACT - Requires law enforcement agencies to obtain search warrants for electronic information, data, location information and other...
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CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES - Includes visual images that are created or manipulated by digitization, or without the consent of the person, within the purview of the crime of...
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SEARCH WARRANTS - Dictates the length a search warrant involving a tracking device would be valid and provide a process to extend the time frame of the tracking device for good...
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ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOGS - Increases the penalty for violations of the care of dogs statute to a minimum fine of one hundred dollars ($100) and a maximum fine of one thousand dollars...
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SENTENCE AND EXECUTION - Requires the court to set reasonable bail for all those individuals who appear before it as probation violators and establish a presumption of personal...
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT - Provides that a defendant's third and subsequent violation of domestic violence offenses, including both prior felony and misdemeanor...
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COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- FAMILY COURT - Provides that a magistrate of the family court has the power and authority to hear contested divorce matters. 2024/04/18 Scheduled for...
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COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTIONS -- ARBITRATION - Spells out additional notice provisions, fees and costs of the arbitration process, from initiation to default provisions...
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DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION - 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...
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CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - This act would further delineate the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor. 2024/04/18 Referred to House Judiciary
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CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- STALKING - Makes it a misdemeanor to harass another person by following them and using an electronic device to record their movements in any public or private place. 2024/04/18...
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COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- DOMESTIC ASSAULT - Provides that effective July 1, 2025, any attorney who self-certifies that they have successfully completed a specialized domestic violence...
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