Commissions Created or Amended Since 1995

COMMISSION	Resolution No.
"The 1696 Historical Commission " – African-American history curriculum – develop	14R-395, 14R-397 15R-117, 15R-118
According degree-granting authority to for-profit institutions of higher education	00R-341
Adoptions, benefits and support system for the state of Rhode Island	04R-373
Adult correctional institutions, equal employment opportunities and alleged racism and harassment	95R-182
Adult education-appropriate state agency to review and recommend house adult education	18R-302
AFDC need and payment standards, state	95R-086
African continent, establishment of economic relationship with the countries of	09R-371
Agricultural commerce in Rhode Island, promotion, protection and stimulation	96R-151
Airport corporation's management and governance of Rhode Island's airports	04R-347
Alcohol and drug abuse in the rural communities- elementary, middle and junior high schools	00R-148
Alcoholic beverages, retail licenses administration, review, revise and update laws	96R-160, 07R-288
All-Terrain Vehicles, (ATV) the use of	02R-253
Alternate fuels, electric recharging vehicles and related taxation	95R-143, 96R-055
American Hispanic/Latino cultural exchange	95R-166
Amusement rides and other devices, safety inspections, rules and regulations	96R-191
Animal and child abuse and domestic violence, association between and amongst	99R-274
Animal housing facilities, fire and life safety	06R-330, 08R-093 08R-281
Animal euthanasia, by carbon monoxide poisoning, alternatives	00R-132, 01R-166 04R-037, 05R-091
Anti-Littering Education Program for RI elementary students (developing and implementing)	23R-375
Aquaculture commerce in Rhode Island	95R-199, 96R-138 98R-212, 97R-306 99R-256, 00R-311 01R-316, 02R-287 04R-376
Arborists, licensing and certification	99R-248, 00R-104
Archives, records and historical documents, current law, rules and regulations pertaining to the care of Rhode Island	05R-348
Armenian massacre, commemorative plaque	96R-194
Auditing, state	96R-184
Autism, children with, early intervention, screening and treatment	96R-199, 97R-429
Autism, education of children with	07R-309, 09R-334 09R-336, 11R-256
Auto body business	99R-212, 00R-211 01R-337, 08R-381
Auto body industry, impact on moving regulatory authority to the public utilities commission	04R-191
Automobile dealers’ business, rules, regulations and laws	96R-190, 97R-030
Baked goods, previously frozen, sales	96R-076
Banking practices and rates charged to consumers	95R-185
Barrington River, contamination	99R-299, 00R-108
Behavioral health in Rhode Island	13R-407, 13R-413
Benefits transfer, electronic, Rhode Island as a pilot project state	96R-088
Beirut Memorial design at Rhode Island State House	16R-304, 17R-016, 17R-176, 18R-099, 19R-094, 21R-138
Big River management area, feasibility of selling all or a portion of back to the prior owners or their heirs	06R-019, 07R-024
Bi-partisan preparatory commission to assemble information on constitutional questions in preparation for a vote by the qualified electors on the holding of a constitutional convention in accordance with Article XIV section 2 of the Rhode Island constitution	04R-287, 04R-387
Bill tracking system, real- time	06R-118
Biosolids for fertilizer	08R-141, 09R-078
Black history month, activities, plan and coordination throughout the state	01R-067
Blackstone Valley-study economic development	18R-239, 19-274
Board of regents for elementary and secondary education, alternative	96R-139
Bonds, state and local, issuance procedure	95R-105
Boundary line between the state of Connecticut and the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations from the mouth of the Ashaway River north to the Massachusetts border, provide for the determination, and settlement of	03R-303
Boxing, the sport of	01R-164
Boxing, professional	99R-292
Broadband services – study	14R-411, 14R-413
Broadband strategic plan – special house task force study	15R-435
Brownfield’s programs, public awareness about remediation and reuse, study commission to develop necessary legislative recommendations	01R-323, 02R-141
Builders and contractors, examine the issue of licensing	05R-278, 06R-048 07R-121, 09R-187 12R-315
Business community and the University of Rhode Island, partnership to create high tech jobs	95R-052, 96R-024
Business entities, certain, pipe fitters, refrigeration, air conditioning, and fire sprinkler systems business	96R-213
Business permits and fee collection forms, consolidation	97R-401, 09R-332 09R-337
Bus ridership incentives	11R-423
Cable television industry	98R-339, 99R-131
Camp Cronin facility at Point Judith, development of a school of oceanography	97R-322
Campaign finance reports, electronic filing	97R-424
Cancer, diagnosis and treatment, central resource network	95R-114, 95R-187 96R-206, 98R-318
Capital police, sheriffs and marshals, reorganization, budgetary impact	95R-152, 96R-123 96R-183
Captioning and audio descriptions in residential and commercial settings	13R-418, 13R-420 14R-369
Car insurance rates throughout the various cities and towns in Rhode Island, inequities	97R-375 , 97R-403
Cemetery, business practices operations and procedures	02R-138
"Certificate of Need " study	08R-155, 08R-379
Charity and uncompensated care	97R-435
Chemical dependency professionals, current processes in place for licensing and certification	01R-273
Child abuse	95R-019
Child care in Rhode Island	98R-325, 07R-346 10R-372
Child molestation, first degree, and third-degree sexual assault laws as they relate to teenage pregnancy	96R-092
Child safety in custody and visitation	05R-297
Child sexual abuse, prevention strategies	95R-181
Child support enforcement and accountability	00R-074
Child, animal abuse and domestic violence, association between and amongst	99R-274
Children with autism, early intervention, screening and treatment	96R-199, 08R-010 09R-334, 09R-336 10R-368
Children with deaf and hard of hearing problems-early intervention system	17R-386, 17R-387
Children with reading disabilities, educational needs	12R-314, 12R-383, 18R-247
Cities and towns, keeping of deeds and records	07R-237
Cities and towns, state mandates, financial effects	96R-193
Cities and towns, swimming areas, rope and buoy requirements	96R-075
Civil Rights Act, Title VI Compliances	01R-044
Claiborne Pell on the humanities	12R-352, 12R-385
Clean water supply in Rhode Island	97R-41, 98R-091 99R-198
Coastal Resources Management Council-reorganization	19R-401, 21R-335
Collection – fees – beaches – study	14R-353
Commemorate sesquicentennial of the Civil War	11R-084, 11R-085
Commercial driver’s licenses, study	01R-299
Commercial health insurance companies, the department of business regulation, role of	04R-066
Commercial marine fishing, licensing program	00R-336
Commuter rail service	01R-079, 02R-332
Computers, illegal use	99R-309
Constitutional convention bi-partisan preparatory commission to assemble information on constitutional questions in preparation for a vote by the qualified electors in the holding	04R-286 14R-391, 14R-392
Contractors registration board, recommendations	98R-391
Contractors, independent, definition under employment security law	96R-169
Cord blood program, establishment for the future of state disease management	06R-152, 06R-341 07R-083
Corporations, public, current guidelines governing, leases and obligation bonds	95R-180
Corrections department, ombudsman position, creation	95R-209
Correctional officers, retired, mortality rate	96R-150
Corrections department, permanent oversight commission, creation and benefits	03R-072, 04R-063
Courts, certified interpreter program, development and implementation	96R-212
Courts, reporting contracts	99R-328
Cranston, lead poisoning in this city	00R-156
Crime bill, federal, review	95R-107, 96R-146
Crime victimization compensation program, alternative funding sources	98R-345
Criminal background checks, state, statutes review	99R-153
Criminal defendants, central collection unit to enforce the collection, fines, costs and restitution imposed upon	96R-141
Criminal injuries compensation	98R-350
Criminal justice oversight, evaluate existing good time credit policy	11R-424, 12R-029
Criminal records expungement and the filing of complaints, general laws relating	96R-043, 97R-212
Criminals, present methods of incarceration	00R-304
Cyber threats and cyber bullying from an educator’s prospective	07R-130, 10R-274
Desert Storm and Desert Shield Memorial – study	14R-294, 14R-296
Defacing Hebrew cemetery gravestones in Fall River, Mass	19R-174
Defense economy planning	03R-133, 03R-177 10R-316, 10R-378, 17R-365, 17R-340
Department of Corrections, creation and benefits of a permanent oversight commission	02R-312
Department of Transportation	10R-336
Development impact fees	98R-338
Dexter Armory, preservation as an historical federal landmark	95R-169
Diesel pollution levels, identifying programs that reduce	09R-311
Disabled persons, effectiveness and adequacy of services provided	95R-015
Discrimination against students in the public schools	96R-065, 97R-070
District court, first division, relocation to Bristol County	96R-093
Domestic violence, child abuse and animal abuse, association between and among	97R-128, 98R-14 99R-274
Drinking water quality and supply in the state of Rhode Island	95R-041
Driving, aggressive, remedies	99R-252
Drones and unmanned aerial vehicles – study	15R-433, 16R-005
East Bay, district court	97R-419
Economic development committee, permanent, need	99R-075, 99R-189 00R-223, 07R-352
Education	95R-191, 96R-124
Education accountability	00R-024
Education-School Committees and Superintendents	17R-314, 18R-081
Education-Joint commission to study the Governance structure of Rhode Island public education	22R-401, 22R-402, 23R-442, 23R-444
Educational needs of children with reading disabilities and or dyslexia recommendations	14R-220, 15R-277, 16R-199, 17R-376, 18R-247
Education and the finances of school districts in the state- the effect of state and federal mandates	07R-078, 07-093 08R-042
Education, board of regents for elementary and secondary education, alternative	96R-139
Education, children in care of Department of Children, Youth and Families	10R-363, 10R-370 11R-391, 11R-394
Education hearings	13R-197
Education, public, ethics and character development in curriculum	96R-078
Educational mandates, effects upon local finances	96R-178
Education, standardized testing programs in secondary education	12R-374
Elderly abuse and financial exploitation	18R-342
Elderly and handicapped persons, expansion of recreational opportunities	95R-192
Elections board, makeup, length of terms and compensation	98R-387
Election system, public funded	11R-430, 11R-434 12R-323, 12R-384 13R-408, 13R-414
Electric industry, restructuring to allow competition among utilities	96R-004
Electric and natural gas transmission	19R-388
Electric recharging vehicles and alternative fuels, related taxation	95R-143, 96R-055
Electronic benefits transfer, Rhode Island as a pilot project state.	96R-088
Electronic community development network in Rhode Island	96R-187
Electronic health records	08R-376
Electronic waste, develop a recommended plan for the collection and recycling	03R-195
Elementary and secondary education, board of regents, alternative	96R-139
Emergency department room diversion	11R-307, 13R-024
Emergency medical treatment, health insurance contracts, plans or policies, coverage	99R-161, 00R-224
Eminent domain powers in the state of Rhode Island	03R-169
Emissions inspection program, the Rhode Island motor vehicles	04R-349
Employer organizations, professional and temporary employment agencies	95R-206, 96R-165
Employment security law, definition of independent contractor	96R-169
Employment termination act, uniform, adopting	96R-185
Encouragement of persons of color to enter field of education	19R-361, 21R-186
Energy bills, inability of low income and working families to pay	97R-400
Energy bills, payment solutions, low income and working poor families	95R-161
Energy Facility Sitting Act-relating to state affairs and government	17R-359
Environment and natural resources from plastic bottle-protection	23R-443, 23R-445
Environment and the conservation and the use of natural resources of the state, accountability in relation to all aspects of the state	00R-025
Environmental health and safety issues, information and resources for Rhode Island schools	04R-369
Environmental management department and all matters relating thereto	96R-177, 97R-337
Ergonomics regulations	99R-181, 00R-027
Establish internet system- over prescribing	13R-272
Ethics and character development in public education curriculum	96R-078
Extradition laws and procedures, Rhode Island	95R-095
Fair funding formula – study	14R-367
Families, emergency assistance, implementation of a pilot program	95R-177
Family income and asset building	07R-404, 08R-116
Farm, forest and open space land, tax assessment at current use value	95R-204, 96R-203 07R-347, 07R-397
Farm, forest and open space program	11R-205
Farm vehicles, registration law	01R-112
Federal anti-poverty funds, establishing a program for distribution	99R-273
Federal crime bill, review	95R-107, 96R-146
Ferry business in the state	97R-376, 98R-349 99R-040
Females in the criminal justice population-improving long term outcomes and reducing recidivism	223R-446, 223R-447
Finfish, rapid depletion in state coastal waters	98R-332, 99R-300 00R-230, 02R-268 03R-081
Finger imaging technology to combat fraud in state programs	01R-165
Fire and rescue dispatch and communication systems in northern Rhode Island	95R-130, 97R-409
Fire safety considerations, new homes constructions	96R-102
Fire safety code, House Oversight commission to monitor the ramifications of	04R-092, 07R-055
First division district court, relocation to Bristol County	96R-093, 97R-053 98R-051
Fish stock along the eastern seaboard, methods of increasing	98R-347, 99R-079
Fishing, extension of catch and release in Rhode Island	97R-295
Flooding – economic risk – study	15R-392, 16R-072
Food allergies	97R-127, 98R-008 99R-070
Food Recovery Incentive Program-implementation	17R-229, 18R-173
Food service establishments, mandatory listing of ingredients	95R-005
Foreclosure procedures of the right of redemption, tax sales	95R-124
Forest, farm and open space land, tax assessment at current use value	95R-20, 96R-203
Forest management for fire prevention	23R-413
Foster care system, Rhode Island	96R-117
Foster, cable television service	00R-319
Frozen baked goods, sales	96R-076
Fuels, alternative, electric recharging vehicles and related taxation	95R-143 , 96R-055
Gaming, study	02R-152
Gangs, youth	96R-159, 96R-577
Genealogical information, central repository	96R-080, 97R-153
General Assembly, real time bill tracking system	07R-137
General Laws-updating	17R-282, 18R-088
General officers of the state of Rhode Island, compensation	97R-413
Genetic testing, confidentiality and proprietary rights	00R-169, 00R-220
Global Environment-intentional manipulation through geoengineering	17R-374, 18R-153
Government, state, reinventing	95R-178, 96R-198 97R-431
Graffiti	97R-417, 08R-293
Grandparent rights-study and recommendations	15R-317
Guardianship laws	95R-085, 95R-214 96R-201, 98R-316
Gulf War Veteran’s Memorial-construction	17R-144, 17R-343,18R-268, 19R-160
Handicapped and elderly persons, recreational opportunities	95R-192
Handicapped parking laws	95R-195
Harbormasters, authority and training	99R-316
Health benefits, government employees	09R-350
Health benefits, mandated, review	99R-245
Health and human services program	21R-338, 22R-367
Health care and HMO liability in the state of Rhode Island	99R-293, 99R-325 00R-048
Health care coverage, Rhode Island	96R-134
Health care, extending coverage to personal care attendants and other direct care providers	01R-336
Health care facilities, interpreters	00R-237
Health care information, confidential, governing of the definition, handling and release	00R-320, 00R-339
Health care insurance, access to "any willing provider " law	96R-104
Health care insurers and providers, relationship	96R-164
Health care providers, managed care plans, impact on patients’ ability to make choices	95R-223
Health care services for persons with mental illness under managed care	95R-063
Health care, 1998 federal balanced budget act, impact on community needs	98R-377
Health care, 24-hour coverage	96R-077
Health centers, school based	99R-310
Health department study	97R-388, 98R-254 99R-176
Health insurance plan, single payer comprehensive	04R-291, 06R-050
Health insurance or health maintenance organizations, nonprofit hospitals, restricted hospital network plans	95R-094
Health insurers in Rhode Island, "optimum recovery guidelines "	95R-208, 96R-122
Health insurance commissioner’s office study, publicly report date, provide recommendations for       addressing inadequacy of access to behavioral health services in Rhode Island commercial  insurance networks	23R-423
Health Insurance relating to consumer protection, affordability, quality, and market stability	17R-364, 18R-119
Health Literacy-study	16R-239
Health maintenance organizations, coverage for sudden emergency medical conditions	95R-048
Health plan patient liability provisions – study	14R-375
Health study -- Rhode Island	11R-330, 12R-028
Healthy Rhode Island Reform Act of 2008, health care reform study	08R-368, 08R-384
Heating boilers, industrial, commercial, and home central, more efficient, mandating and regulating the installation and usage	06R-071
Heating systems, certain gas and oil fired, installation and maintenance business	96R-097
High density polyethylene containers packaging milk, juice or water recyclables	98R-348
High speed rail service between T.F. Green state airport and Quonset Point	01R-156
Higher education affordability-public	11R-170
Higher education institutions, unionized classified employees, direct negotiations with board of  governors	00R-355, 01R-331
Higher education, to promote, develop and articulate a public science school for grades 6-12 aligned with	05R-213
Highway construction zone, safety regulations and policies, transportation department	96R-205
Hispanic/Latino American cultural exchange	95R-166
Historic buildings – development – challenges – study	14R-371 15R-068, 15R-429
Historical cemeteries in Rhode Island	95R-016, 97R-422 01R-264
HIV and Aids code, study	08-R375
HMO and healthcare liability in this state, status	99R-293, 99R-325
HMO’s legal liability in cases of inadequate medical care	97R-323
Home energy, affordability program	09R-346
Home loans, study the acts and practices regarding	02R-291, 12R-329
Homeless shelters – regulations necessary for the proper operation – study	15R-412
Hospitals, acute care, patient care and nursing staffing	99R-192
Hospital Conversion Act	09R-319
Hospitals, delivery of care, cost containment	10R-341, 10R-335
Hospital emergency departments, psychiatric holds	09R-172
Hospital system in Rhode Island	97R-073
Housing Adult Education	18R-302
House of representatives standing committees, continuing sworn testimony	96R-156
House of representatives, chaplaincy establishment	98R-080, 99R-028 00R-060
House of representatives, design of Korean War monument	10R-299
House of representatives, veteran’s affairs committee, permanent advisory council	04R-003
Housing Adult Education	18R-302
Housing code enforcement, state and municipalities, violations and regulations	95R-138
Housing stock, lead safe, incentives for achieving	96R-127
Human trafficking	10R-349
Hunting and fishing in Rhode Island, laws and regulations relating to and the licensing to participate therein	05R-248, 06R-055 07R- 023, 08R-017
Hybrid and virtual learning-effects and impact on achievement rates of children in K-12	22R-340, 23R-114,  23R-334
Immigrant foreign trained physicians, licensing	96R-079
Immunizations, prohibiting the use of thimerosal in	05R-250, 07R-022
Improving the Pawtucket corridor	23R-420
Incarceration methods	97R-392
Incarnation of women	21R-281
Income tax returns, form, Rhode Island	96R-181
Income tax, flat rate	95R-205
Independent contractor, definition under employment security law	96R-169
Independent transportation network	06R-117
Industrial, commercial, and home central heating boilers, the economic viability and feasibility of mandating and regulating the installation and usage of more efficient	05R-247
Industrial forklift operators, licensure	99R-279
Inspections – barbershop, hairdresser and cosmetician locations – study	14R-366, 15R-025
Insurance, healthcare coverage, Rhode Island	96R-134
Insurance, single payer comprehensive health plan	05R-085
Insurers, health, in Rhode Island, "optimum recovery guidelines "	95R-208
Insurer Payments on access to health care-study impact	19R-423, 20R-104
Internet, cable, and phone services study – availability in underserved communities in Northwestern Rhode Island	15R-422
Internet and information technologies, ways to improve state government	00R-346
Internet lending	00R-163
Interpreter, certified program, courts, development and implementation	96R-212
Intentional manipulation of the global environment through geoengineering	17R-374
Intentional manipulation of the global environment-amend and extend	18R-153
Interstate medical licensure compact-advisability of RI joining	17R-360, 18R-118, 18R-341
Involuntary inpatient treatment for substance use disorder	19R-419
Irish Famine Memorial, establishment	97R-169
Itemizing state income tax refunds as federal deductions	13R-427
Jobs, high tech, University of Rhode Island and the business community, partnership to create	96R-024
Joint tortfeasors – study – legislative	14R-284, 16R-058
Judicial magistrates in the courts of this state, laws governing the appointments and tenures	01R-269
Justice Reinvestment Proposals-extended	21R-281, 23R-94
Juvenile correction services, jurisdiction transfer from department of children, youth and families to department of corrections	96R-112, 95R-183
Juvenile crime and gang violence	99R-148, 00R-174
Kent county water authority, all aspects	06R-297
Land trusts, various, and open space projects in the state	98R-322
Landfill, alternative sites	00R-307
Landlord and tenant act, security deposits	00R-333
Lands, state, acquired, easements and rights of way	95R-207
Land use, development, housing, environment, and regulation study	21R-139, 22R-194, 22R-399, 23R-230
Lateral access along RI shoreline	21R-322
Law enforcement officers, qualifications and firing positions	96R-148, 96R-163 97R-399
Law, the practice of	02R-292
Lead drinking water-study of presence and treatment of drinking water in RI	16R-325, 17R-228
Lead paint mitigation law which shall take effect July 1, 2004	04R-380
Lead paint poisoning, prevention and abatement	03R-276, 04R-302
Lead poisoning, insurance availability to property owners, incentives to reduce hazards	98R-376
Lead safe housing stock, incentives to achieve	96R-127
Learning disabilities, adults	98R-305
Leased land dwellings	10R-365, 11R-166 11R-193, 12R-255
Legalizing marijuana-effects	17R-384,18R-355, 18R-356
Legislation regarding schools near mines – study	14R-214
Library services, current strengths and weaknesses	04R- 306,04R-371 07R-280, 09R-375 12R- 229
Licensing Builders and Contractors, House Commission to examine the issue of	05R-278
Licensing residential builders and contractors	22R-146
Life Span and Care New England, proposed merger	99R-191, 99R-321 08R-023, 08R-310
Line Item Veto-extending dates, requirements for election of Governor and potential RI constitutional amendments for a governor runoff	17R-338, 17R-385 18R-244
Liquefied natural gas, the transportation of	04R-352, 05R-063
Liquor license, adopting a class "N ", study commission	01R-357
Liquor licenses, retail, administration, review, revise and update of laws	96R-160, 97R-423
Liquor regulations, limitations by licensed retailers from licensed wholesalers	96R-094
Liquor, purchase limitations by licensed retailers from licensed wholesalers and other liquor regulations	97R-279
Local finances, educational mandates, effects upon	96R-178, 09R-187
Low and moderate-income act	16R-207,17R-052,17R-333, 18R-309, 21R-140, 22R-066, 22R-403, 23R-229
Low income and working poor families, inability to pay their energy bills, investigation and comprehensive solution	95R-161, 96R-167
Lyme disease in the state	07R-399
Mandatory school attendance age from sixteen (16) to seventeen (17), the feasibility of enacting legislation that would change	05R-206
Manufacturers, payment of overtime wages	96R-195
March of General Rochambeau, Newport to Yorktown, commemoration of 225th anniversary, study commission	01R-358
Marijuana, studying the effects of legalization	17R-367
Marijuana, studying the prohibition of	09R-316, 10R -006
Marine repair contracting	11R-428
Marshals, sheriffs and capital police, reorganization, state budgetary impact	95R-152 , 96R-123 96R-183
Masonic temple	95R-062, 97R-296
Mechanics lien laws	99R-288, 00R-264 05R-203, 05R-313
Medical licensure and discipline, board of – rules and regulations – study	15R-165
Medical device reprocessing	08R-360
Medical saving accounts	00R-337
Medicines and prescriptions, unused, costs and methods of disposing	96R-149
Menhaden fishing in Rhode Island waters	95R-024, 96R-010
Mental health prescription drugs-patient access	12R-353
Mental health providers, utilization review	98R-356
Mental illness and substance abuse services	97R-041, 98R-382
Mental illness, services to the persons within the criminal justice system	00R-314, 04R-378
Merit System for personnel administration and management in the department of human services and of children, youth and families	23R-415
Methamphetamine use in Rhode Island	08R-364, 08R-383
Methoprone, use of	08R-328
Minimum pricing statutes	12R-386, 13R-410 13R-412, 23R-412
Minority teachers in Rhode Island public schools, recruitment and hiring	99R-326
Mobile and manufactured homes, taxation	95R-162, 96R-204
Mobile homes, interest rates and financing	97R-137, 98R-306
Mopeds, safety and regulations, New Shoreham	95R-179
Mortgages, timely providing assignments and discharges	00R-162
Mortgage, predatory lending practices	04R-155, 06R-065
Mosquito borne diseases	01R-306
Motorcycle baffles and exhaust systems, tampering with or altering	04R-364
Motor vehicle and inventory taxes, tax rate and structure	97R-406
Motor vehicle noise pollution study	01R-082
Motor vehicles division study	11R-419, 12R-011 12R-065
Motor vehicles division, delegation of certain functions to local government	97R-350
Motor vehicle damage appraisers	05R-280
Motor vehicles noise pollution	00R-317, 01R-324
Motor vehicles, apportionment of jurisdiction, related offenses and operations of the motor vehicle reparations act	97R-414
Motor vehicles, registering on line	02R-331
Motor vehicles, used, pre-insurance inspection procedure	06R-062, 06R- 266
Mount Hope Bay, contributing pollution	95R-138, 95R-165 96R-108
Municipal and state construction projects	00R-332
Municipal education facilities, the financing of necessary repair and renovation for	05R-196, 06R-037
Municipal financial integrity	11R-036
Municipal Pensions	05R-196, 06R-037 10R-317
Municipal services-management	11R-414, 11R-417
Municipal shared services, Senate commission to study	09R-080, 09R-322
Music, copyrighted under federal law, licensing and fee arrangements	95R-144
Narragansett bay, Pawtuxet village to Conimicut point area, point sources, and non-point sources contributing pollutant loaded degraded water	95R-211, 96R-121
Narragansett Bay, develop a strategic plan	02R-329, 02R-336
Narragansett Indian tribe and the Rhode Island state government, relations between	97R-362
Natural disasters, effects on property insurance costs and requirements in the state of Rhode Island	07R-151
Naturopathic physicians, necessity of licensing	99R-172, 00R-139 01R-093
Navy surplus oil storage tank farms, feasibility of acquiring	01R-212
Needle syringe and lancet disposal procedures	11R-431, 11R-436
New health care equipment and new institutional services	01R-327,02R-337
New homes construction, fire safety considerations	96R-102
New Shoreham, mopeds, safety and regulations	95R-179, 10R-156
Newport, Portsmouth and Middletown school systems-regionalizing and/or combining administrative and other functions	06R-293, 09R-023
Newport, sea aquarium establishment	95R-160, 96R-161
NFPA 1500 implementation plan review	11R-433, 11R-440
Nonprofit hospitals, restricted hospital network plans, health insurance or maintenance organizations	95R-094
Non-plurality voting method	23R69
North Cape barge oil spill, restoration plan	99R-187
Northern Rhode Island, fire and rescue dispatch and communications systems	95R-130
Nursing assistants, certified, long term plan to ensure an adequate pool	00R-354
Nursing facilities and skilled nursing homes, reinstitution of minimum staffing levels	98R-335, 98R-378 99R-141
Nursing homes, procedures for inspections	96R-174
Nursing homes, regulations	99R-272, 20R-240
Nurse licensure – study	15R-434
Nursing shortage projection, extending reporting date	08R-216, 09R-035, 09R-160
Nursing staffing impact in licensed health care facilities in Rhode Island	97R-357, 98R-259 08R-216
Ocean Acidification Effects on Rhode Island	16R-300
Ocean State World Language Learning Commission-study impact of funding formula on language learners	15R-353, 16R-080
Ocean Technology and environment biotechnology –study	02R-278, 02R-301
Oceanography school at the camp Cronin facility at Point Judith, development	97R-322
Office based surgery	98R-289, 11R-171
Old Growth Forests-study	22R-393
Older Adult Rhode Islanders-Services and Coordination of Programs-study	23R-320
Olmstead decision, establish task force	07R-215, 08R-198
Online privacy protection	18R-353, 21R-187
Open spaces, forest, farms, tax assessments at current use value	95R-204 , 96R-203
Optometrists, usage of therapeutic pharmaceutical agents	95R-005
Oral healthcare, quality, expansion of access to all Rhode Islanders	00R-331
Oral health care, special Senate oversight commission	01R-330
Organ donations	98R-192, 99R-049 00R-086
Osteoporosis	96R-128
Out of School Time Learning Commission	18R-267, 18R-255, 19R-414
Patriot’s football stadium, new, perspective sites	97R-113
Permitting process for businesses – streamline	14R-221, 15R-363
Pesticide control regulation-study	17R-338, 18R-034
Pesticide use in Rhode Island schools, study commission	01R-325
Pet assisted therapy curriculum, development	99R-318
PFAS in Firefighter Gear	22R-412
Pharmacy practices in Rhode Island	01R-351, 10R-167
Pharmaceutical human waste contamination in water	12R-357
Psychiatric Holds in Hospital Emergency Department	09R-172
Physicians, immigrant foreign trained, licensing	96R-079
Plaque to honor all Rhode Island veteran women of United States Armed Forces-study	16R-303, 17R-015
Point sources and non- point sources, contributing pollutant loaded degraded water to Narragansett bay in the area from Pawtuxet village to Conimicut point in Warwick	95R-211
Police equipment, safety equipment for police vehicles, location and evaluation	99R-253
Pollution, Mount Hope Bay	97R-425
Port development	08R-186, 09R-014 09R-015, 10R-369 11R-008, 11R-413 11R-437
Port of Galilee Task Force	11R-409, 12R-330
Post- employment benefits, impact of the government accounting  standards board’s rules and regulations	04R-379
Pregnant women, risks in handling paints, solvents and other common chemicals, educational program	01R-167
Prescription drugs, unused, costs and the methods of disposing	95R-197, 96R-149
Previously frozen baked goods, sales	96R-076
Primary care providers, to jointly negotiate with health insurers	07R-408
Private detectives, licensing procedures	00R-356
Private security guard companies, changes to the overall regulatory structure	95R-080, 95R-210, 96R-007, 97R-336
Probate law and procedure, feasibility of modernizing	95R-213, 96R-197 97R-396
Probation and parole an enhanced role	00R-315, 00R-357 01R-304, 02R-330 02R-344
Problem gambling in Rhode Island	00R-350
Processing municipal real estate tax appeals – study	14R-377
Producer responsibility models for paper and packaging	12R-351, 13R-089
Professional development investment fund	98R-388
Professional employer organizations and temporary employment agencies	95R-206, 96R-165
Professional and labor management standards for employees in Providence school department-review and provide recommendations	23R-440
Project Sustainability in RI	18R-205, 19R-427 19R-170
Prosthetic device delivery system	98R-383
Providence new city project, economic and environmental impact	02R-289
Prospective Improvements in Patients due to Medical Care from Licensed Naturopathic Physicians	22R-350
Providence Civic Center, financing renovations and utilization	01R-311
Public agenda for Rhode Island	98R-180
Public corporations debt management	96R-014, 97R-023
Public corporations, current guidelines governing, leases and obligation bonds	95R-180
Public education, ethics and character development in curriculum	96R-078
Public high schools-changing times	17R-314
Public Motor Vehicle Act – study	14R-393, 14R-396
Public places, excessive noise and the hazard thereof	05R-099
Public records, Rhode Island general laws relating to simplification and clarification	03R-196
Public rights of way and their use by private companies	99R-323
Public safety dispatchers and telecommunicators, training and certification	99R-285
Public School Student Information System, statewide	09R-329
Public school students, discriminations against	96R-065, 97R-070 98R-054
Public schools, new guidelines for the expulsion of students	97R-426
Public utilities commission, structure	96R-192
Public works projects – implementing apprenticeship prerequisites – study	15R-062
Pyrolysis or Gasification Facility in RI-merits and feasibility	19R-425
Pyrotechnic displays and fire safety, all aspects of law and regulation	03R-068, 03R-069
Quality of life- individuals with autism	13R-359, 13R-361
Quarries	02R-129
Quonset Development Corporation	08R-359, 09R-013
Quonset Point/Davisville – use of the port and airport	98R-215
Quonset third rail, economic feasibility of the development	99R-064
Quonset Point steam plant, viable alternatives	01R-218, 01R-326
R.I. Civil War Sesquicentennial Commemoration – extend	14R-403, 14R-407
R.I. Condominium Act – study	14R-387, 14R-416
R.I.G.L. §10-6-7 – changes – study	14R-284
Racial bias in criminal courts	99R-236
Racial equity and optimizing health and safety laws affecting individuals	21R-340
Ranked choice voting and runoff elections General Assembly and general office primaries	22R-392
Rare diseases – providing care and coordinating resources – study	15R-408
Rental management companies, policies relating to structures with minimum housing code violations	01R-339, 02R-005
Rail service, commuter	99R-228, 01R-285 01R-347
Rail service, South Kingstown	96R-061, 97R-395
Raw mild regulations	17R-361
Real estate instruments, electronic recording	03R-061
Recidivism rate, financial impact on the state	95R-167
Recreational vehicle parks and campgrounds in Rhode Island	96R-133, 97R-340
Recycling, statewide efforts	97R-418, 98R-323
Recycling program, multi-family units	17R-347, 18R-183,19R-071
Reducing catch of quahogs in Narragansett bay	23R-451
Reducing the Incarceration of women-justice reinvestment and proposals	21R-281
Regenerative medicine and research	07R-191
Remediation of naturally occurring arsenic in soil	07R-326
Rental management companies, policies relating to structures with minimum housing code violations	99R-190
Resource Recovery Corporation landfill, feasibility of extending adjacent buffer zone in town of Johnston	01R-344
Resource Recovery Corporation’s operations pertaining to the Rhode Island central landfill.	06R-234, 12R-071 12R-175
Retail business permits and fee collection forms, consolidation	98R-314, 99R-297 01R-072, 09R-331
Retail inventory tax, phasing out, lost revenue, replacement for municipalities	96R-202
Retail liquor licenses	98R-341
Retired military veterans, personal income tax credits	00R-316
Retirement system or state pension	08R-040, 08R-219 09R-033
Rhode Island’s 39 cities’ and towns’ municipal and school financial departments, the consolidation of	04R-350
Rhode Island Airports Corporation’s management and governance of state airports	04R-347
Rhode Island Board of Governors for higher education, comprehensive study on the feasibility of establishing an accredited distance learning program	07R-156
Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council-effect of reorganization	19R-401, 20R-54 21R-018
Rhode Island Corporation and Partnership Acts	11R-398
Rhode Island’s Education Funding Formula-study	19R-426
Rhode Island high school students, universal community service requirement	97R-208
Rhode Island’s Housing System-comprehensive review	19R-400, 20R-105
Rhode Island human rights, structure, administration and operation	00R-238
Rhode Island’s minimum pricing statutes	12R-386, 12R-342, 17R-344, 18R-152
Rhode Island Online Data Transparency and Private Protection Commission	18R-353, 19R-406, 21R-187, 22R-326
Rhode Island Owned Vacant and Abandoned Properties-Recommendations for methods to mitigate expenses	22R-295
Rhode Island Parentage Act	19R-395
Rhode Island Public Transit Authority, all aspects	00R-067, 04R-368 09R-305
Rhode Island school districts, impact of mandates	07R-370
Rhode Island Semiquincentennial (RI 250th) Commission	21R-309, 21R-310
Rhode Island shoreline, issue of lateral access along as protected by the Rhode Island Constitution	07R-019
Rhode Island state revenues lost to Massachusetts and Connecticut	98R-084
Rhode Island veterans’ home, potential improvements	07R-267, 08R-004
Rhode Island Water Resources Board and Water Supply-study	17R-316, 18R-033, 18R-301
Rite care, develop and coordinate state policy	97R-427, 98R-340
Route 14, designation as an historic highway in commemoration of General Rochambeau’s march	01R-102, 02R-052 03R-062, 04R-029 04R-332, 06R-029 07R-060
Route 195 relocation, public purposes advanced by redevelopment of areas made available	01R-339, 02R-005 07R-326, 09R-091
Safety protocols for Rhode Island Schools	23R-414
Sakonnet River Bridge, renaming of	07R-369, 08R-135
School based health centers	99R-310, 02R-324
School buses, seat belt usage	99R-152
School districts, in the State of Rhode Island	05R- 397, 07R-393 07R-396
School safety and security issues	02R-191
School systems, Article 31 costs and additional administrative aspects	99R-160
School systems, regionalizing of Portsmouth and Middletown	07R-188
School year extension	98R-327, 99R-149
Schools, performance standards, establishment	98R-351
Schools, public, students, discrimination against	96R-065
School violence, develop comprehensive strategy, task force created	01R-346
Science education K-12 standards for the "no child left behind " requirement	04R-224
Sea aquarium, establishing in Newport	96R-161, 97R-398
Senate work	98R-058, 98R-248
Sexual assault on college campuses – study	15R-375
Sexual abuse prevention strategies, child	95R-181
Sexual assault, third degree, and first-degree child molestation laws as they relate to teenage pregnancy	96R-092
Sexual offender’s legislation in the state	07R-372, 07R-400 12R-358, 13R-342
Sex Trafficking in Rhode Island	16R-218
Sheriffs, marshals and capital police, reorganization, budgetary impact	95R-152, 96R-123 96R-183, 97R-068 97R-099, 98R-050 99R-235
Short-term rental issues	23R-422
Single occupant vehicles as a means of commuting to work in Rhode Island, reduce the use of	02R-345
Small Business Renewable Energy Task Force	10R-239
Solar panels on inter-state highways	22R-411, 23R-354
Solid waste management	13R-419
Solitary Confinement in the Rhode Island ACI	16R-324, 17R-031
South Kingstown, rail service	96R-061, 97R-043 98R-017
Spaying and neutering of dogs – study	14R-381
Special education teacher assistants, training and certification	00R-191
Special education, third party reimbursement	97R-294, 98R-053
Spent foundry sand, beneficial use	97R-354
Sports racing and athletics division, transfer of duties to the state boxing commission	97R-219
State, AFDC need and payment standards	95R-086
State and municipal construction projects	00R-332
State and municipalities, housing codes enforcement, violations and regulations	95R-138
State auditing	96R-184
State budgetary impact, reorganization of the sheriffs, marshals and capital police	96R-123, 96R-183
State buildings and facilities, allocation of art	08R-091, 09R-116
State economic development committee, permanent, need	99R-254
State employees, new, pension system alternative	95R-225, 08R-040 08R-219
State-funded home care programs-vulnerable populations	16R-232, 17R-021, 17R-215
State government, internet use	00R-308
State government, re-inventing	96R-198
State government, sustainability concept, encouragement	00R-249, 01R-117 02R-343
State House, potential for additional office space and possible expansion	07R-382, 07R-402
State House, security issues	01R-305, 02R-014 03R-002, 03R-021
State issued identification cards, encrypting all forms with bar codes, study commission	01R-322 10R-339
State land – use as green energy technology incubator – study	15R-376
State mandates, financial effects upon cities and towns	96R-193, 97R-430 08R-042
State properties committee, acquired lands, easements and rights of way powers	95R-207
State purchased services where the annualized amount of the contract is $25,000.00 or more	01R-318
State reinsurance agency – provide relief – federal flood insurance program – study	14R-331
State trades classifications, pay scales and prevailing wage rates	06R-143, 07R-126 08R-122, 09R-079
State, zero based budgeting	01R-228
Step Therapy Prescription Drug Protocols-guidelines	19R-410, 21R-087
Storm water regulations	13R-417
Streamlining new business startup process	16R-181
Students in a school setting, all aspects of care	03R-230, 04R-010
Students in public schools, discrimination against	96R-065
Students leaving school before age seventeen, alternatives	97R-264
Substance Abuse, Mental Health, and related services-enhancing policies	18R-360
Substance abuse counselor funding to all middle schools and junior high schools that do not receive state aid, study commission	01R-298, 02R-259
Summer learning program task force	09R-361
Sustainable fisheries, status of the state’s policy formulation	04R-353, 05R-257
Sustainable transportation funding	10R-345
Swimming areas, cities and towns, rope and buoy requirements	96R-075
Tax assessments, farm, forest and open spaces, current use value	95R-204, 96R-203
Tax credits for donations of new high technology equipment to educational institutions in Rhode Island	97R-373
Tax exempt properties-analyzing and making recommendations	21R-352, 23R-777
Tax policy office within the division of taxation	01R-148
Tax return form, Rhode Island	96R-181
Tax sales, procedures of foreclosure of right of redemption	95R-124
Tax, alternate fuels and electric recharging vehicles	96R-055
Tax, mobile and manufactured homes	96R-204
Tax, municipal income in combination with existing local property tax	93R-149
Tax, retail inventory, phasing out, lost revenue replacement for municipalities	96R-202
Tax, state income, flat rate	95R-205
Taxi cab industry, regulation	01R-297
Teacher aides/assistants, criteria for certification	95R-505
Teacher assistants, professional development, state’s funding, cost, desirability and feasibility	98R-246
Teacher contracts – costs, benefits, and implementation of a statewide contract – study	15R-430
Teacher education in RI	09R-362
Teacher mentor program for the state of Rhode Island’s schools	95R-163
Teachers, public school, preparation, licensure and regulation	97R-348
Teen violence in the community, address concerns	06R-327, 07R-189 08R-035
Teenage pregnancy, relation to first degree child molestation and, third degree sexual assault laws	96R-092, 97R-080
Telecommunications industry, impact and effects of licensing and permitting issues	02R-298
Teleconferencing technology in schools	98R-049
Temporary disability insurance	04R-184, 04R-360
Temporary disability insurance program and the development  of an alternative system for the distribution of the tax burden	99R-182
Temporary disability insurance program, study the tax and benefit provisions of	02R-334, 03R-227 08R-091
Temporary employment agencies and professional employer organizations	95R-206
Temporary employment practices and procedures	02R-192
Temporary workers throughout the State of Rhode Island	04R-218, 05R-127 06R-209
Textbooks, purchase and use of in public schools	10R-374, 10R-375 11R-415, 11R-418 12R-230, 12R-256 13R-405, 13R-406
Third rail to Quonset, economic feasibility	98R-333
Time share estates in real property, ownership and taxation	96R-208, 97R-437
Tourism councils, merging	95R-496
Tourism-growing in state of RI	17R-323
Tourism – methods for growing – through branding and marketing	15R-414, 16R-332, 16R-065, 17R-030
Towing Storage Act relative to police seizures of vehicles	17R-348, 18R-294
Towns and cities, state mandates, financial effects	96R-193
Towns and cities, swimming areas, rope and buoy requirements	96R-075
Toxic mold, the health effects	03R-185, 04R-145
Transit service in the state of Rhode Island	04R-377
Transportation, afterschool and childcare programs	07R-392, 08R-380
Transportation department, highway construction zones, safety regulations and policies	96R-205
Transportation, financing	98R-329
Transportation, future funding sources	00R-324
Transportation, needs of seniors, the disabled and others living in areas without public transportation	98R-375
Transportation network, independent all aspects, elderly affairs department and the advisory commission on aging	06R-117
Tribal, state relations between the Narragansett Indian Tribe and the Rhode Island state government	97R-362
Tuition payment plan, advanced, establishment	95R-164, 97R-421
Unclassified pay plan board	99R-278
Underground economy and employee misclassification study	08R-372
Unemployment insurance	97R-420
Unemployment benefits, for non–education workers at state schools	07R-256
Uniform multi-state nursing license requirements -study	22R-400, 23R-115
Unionized classified employees, institutions of higher learning, direct negotiations with board of governors	98R-343, 98R-355 10R-364, 10R-373
Universal Voluntary retirement accounts, the establishment of	09R-332, 09R-333
University of Rhode Island and business community, partnership to create high tech jobs	95R-052, 96R-024
Unlawful Sexual Harassment Study in the workplace	18R-128, 18R-250
Upgrading facilities used for public purposes by encouraging private investment	16R-330, 17R-088
Urban infrastructure	99R-284, 99R-307
Used vehicles, pre-insurance inspection procedures relating to	05R-237, 06R-062
Utility rates in Rhode Island	95R-215, 96R-196
Utilization review act	98R-334, 99R-009
Vacant and abandoned RI owned property-study cost and status and provide recommendations	22R-128, 23R-341
Vacant mills throughout Rhode Island, reopening, comprehensive plan	98R-092, 99R-053
Vehicles, electric recharging, and alternative fuels, related taxation	95R-143
Veterans’ affairs committee, permanent advisory council for the Rhode Island House	04R-003
Veterans home in Bristol, construction of new wing	01R-256, 02R-053
Veterans home in Bristol, development of a master plan for the overall future direction of the facility	03R-206, 04R-121 05R-186, 06R-013 08R-003, 09R-208 11R-037, 11R-038 12R-024, 15R-112
Veterans and their families, homeless, state property available for housing	06R-314, 08R-204
Veterans license plate, feasibility of redesigning	04R-120
Veterans license plate, new designation	03R-207, 05R-080
Veteran and military spouse education and employment opportunities	17R-366, 17R-370, 18R-354, 18R-357, 19R-368, 19R-369
Veterans of invisible wounds memorial-construction	17R-349
Vicious Dogs Hearings-Reform	18R-303, 19R-312
Vietnam Memorial-plan and design	22R-237, 23R-107
Violence, relationship between interpersonal violence and cruelty to animals	08R-339
Visually impaired children, comprehensive system of education	02R-164, 03R-006 04R-262, 06R-039
Vocational education	97R-152
Vocational school funding	10R-277, 11R-120 11R-342
Volunteer fire fighters, recruitment and retention	04R-375
Voting rights, reinstatement procedure	99R-159
Warwick, lead poisoning in this city	99R-302
Wastewater reclamation and reuse in Rhode Island	04R-192
Water use, supply and distribution in the state	07R-108
Waterfowl hunting laws and regulations	16R-271, 17R-119
Waste to energy incineration	09R-370, 12R-072
West Warwick, flooding study	08R-133
Wind turbine effects	18R-322
Women, health issues	95R-007, 95R-027 96R-015
Woonsocket Housing Authority, feasibility of converting certain high-rise elderly developments into affordable assisted living	04R-261
Working and low-income poor families, inability to pay their energy bills, investigation and comprehensive solution	95R-161, 96R-167
Workers’ compensation commission, appellate commission, appeals of decisions to the supreme court	95R-159, 96R-051
Workers’ compensation, competitive rating	96R-179, 97R-211
World-Class Education System in Rhode Island-expiration dates and review	17R-262, 18R-087
Wyatt Detention Facility	11R-435, 11R-441 12R-257
Youth financial education	07R-391, 07R-398 08R-366
Youth gangs	96R-159, 96R-577
Zambarano hospital, potential use of certain portions	01R-277
Zambarano hospital, feasibility of establishing an institution of higher learning	05R-092, 08R-077
Zoning and subdivision acts	13R-416
Zoning – study – extend	14R-394, 14R-399

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