Rhode Island Rep. Karen L. MacBeth (D)

RI - Finance (House)

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Member

RI - Oversight (House)

Title:

Chairperson

RI - HB5480 AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- GEOENGINEERING (Defines and limit the use of geoengineering in the state.)

RI - HB5410 AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - FIRE DRILLS (Permits school building principals to delay holding fire and emergency egress evacuation drills in the months of December, January, and February due to severe inclement weather.)

RI - HB6224 AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- NARRAGANSETT BAY COMMISSION (Prohibits the Narragansett Bay commission and/or the department of environmental management from charging fees, including annual permit fees, to any business that is utilizing a recycling process.)

RI - HR5645 HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING OUR DEEPEST SYMPATHY ON THE UNTIMELY PASSING OF NANCY STRAIN BELISLE

RI - HB6157 AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- REVERSE MORTGAGES (Allows a reverse mortgage lender to order a credit report and other information for a loan application prior to a mortgagor completing a counseling program.)

RI - HB5724 AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE--GENERAL PROVISIONS (Excludes the period of military deployment in the computation of the base period used in the determination of benefit amounts under the temporary disability insurance act.)

RI - HB5647 AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS (Restricts the prohibition against possessing firearms or other weapons on school grounds to students or other persons under 18 years of age and would include knives of any length, if capable of cutting of stabbing another person.)

RI - HB6341 AN ACT AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 505 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 2013 ENTITLED "AN ACT RELATING TO THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE CUMBERLAND, NORTH CUMBERLAND, CUMBERLAND HILL, AND VALLEY FALLS FIRE DISTRICTS INTO THE CUMBERLAND FIRE DISTRICT" (Provides all tax bills issued by the Cumberland fire district due on or after July 1, 2016, would be paid in quarterly installments.)

RI - HB5648 AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- INFORMED CONSENT FOR ABORTION (This act would require that an ultrasound fetal image be made of every fetus about to be aborted for review by the woman seeking the abortion, and would add language which makes it clear that a woman can refuse an abortion.)

RI - HB5699 AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - HEALTH AND SAFETY (Requires public schools to maintain and have available on school grounds emergency epinephrine auto-injectors.)

RI - HB5723 AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - EXCISE ON MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAILERS (Extends property tax exemptions given to veterans, gold star parents, and blind persons, to include, and be applicable to leased vehicles.)

RI - HB5516 AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES - VETERANS' PLATES (Eliminates the service and transfer fees currently required to obtain or transfer a "veteran" or "war veteran" license plate.)

RI - HB5078 AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD (Requires that any genetically-engineered foods be labeled as such.)

RI - HB5291 AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - REGULATORY POWERS OF ADMINISTRATION (Places a cap on electric distribution rate increases at five percent (5%).)

RI - HB5389 AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES - MEDICAL ASSISTANCE (Establishes a baseline for Medicaid managed care payment rates for certain distress hospital purchasers)

RI - HB5392 AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS - SIDEWALKS (Requires DOT to clear state-owned sidewalks on overpasses, overhead walkways, and handicapped signal-equipped crosswalks.)

RI - HB5539 AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- BUDGET COMMISSIONS (Requires the state to reimburse cities, towns and fire districts for twenty percent (20%) of the costs incurred in connection with the appointment of a receiver for such city, town or fire district.)

RI - HB5541 AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- EXCISE ON MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAILERS (Includes leased motor vehicles/trailers as exempt from excise tax whenever real estate/tangible personal property insufficient to exhaust statutory exemption amount.)

RI - HB5618 AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION (Allows family court to order maintenance support and education for a child up to age twenty-three (23).)

RI - HB5961 AN ACT RELATING TO THE CUMBERLAND FIRE DISTRICT (Establishes that membership on the Cumberland Fire District Fire Committee constitutes holding a public office and that the elections of the Fire Committee are governed by state election laws.)

RI - HB6218 AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE - ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES (Prohibits an insurer/health care entity from requiring pre-authorization and/or co-payments for certain medical testing prescribed by a physician where the physician determines there is an immediate, substantial and imminent threat to the person's health.)

RI - HR5758 HOUSE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY AND PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING CONSTRUCTION OF SCHOOLS NEAR OR OVER MINE SITES AND ON HOW TO INSURE SAFETY AROUND MINES IN RHODE ISLAND (Creates an eight member special legislative study commission to study mines in Rhode Island.)

RI - HR6252 HOUSE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING ALAN TENREIRO ON BEING SELECTED AS RHODE ISLAND'S 2015 "RHODE ISLAND HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL OF THE YEAR"

RI - HR6339 HOUSE RESOLUTION AMENDING THE RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE YEARS 2015 AND 2016