Rhode Island Rep. Stephen R. Ucci (D)

RI - Labor (House)

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RI - Rules (House)

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RI - HR6291 HOUSE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE PARTNERSHIP TO BUILD AN INTERNATIONAL AND LASTING SISTER CITY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TOWN OF JOHNSTON, RHODE ISLAND, AND THE TOWN OF PANNI, FOGGIA, ITALY

RI - HB5230 AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES ACT (Directs the office of management and budget to develop a plan to implement a centralized administrative hearing agency.)

RI - HB6011 AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- SELF-SERVICE STORAGE FACILITIES (Eliminates requirement of publication in newspapers by self-storage facilities enforcing a lien.)

RI - HR5293 HOUSE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY AND REVIEW REGULATION OF DRONES AND UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (Creates a 9 member special legislative study commission to study and make recommendations for the regulation of drones and unmanned aerial vehicles in Rhode Island, and reports back to the House no later than January 6, 2016, and expires on April 6, 2016.)

RI - HB5209 AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - ESTATE AND TRANSFER TAXES (Provides that estates be taxed at a rate equal to federal revenue act for estate, inheritance, and succession taxes.)

RI - HB5231 AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX (Reduces the minimum corporate tax from five hundred dollars ($500) to fifty dollars ($50.00).)

RI - HB5261 AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES (Allows bake sales to be held on election days at polling places.)

RI - HB5796 AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION (Establishes a manufacturer's tax credit for new capital investments, building additions and equipment valued at ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or greater.)

RI - HB5273 AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - RHODE ISLAND RESOURCE RECOVERY CORPORATION (Allows the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation to consider the use of incineration as a method to dispose of solid waste.)

RI - HB6162 AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS - UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT (Makes a few minor changes to the uniform interstate family support act necessitated by a 2014 federal law amendment.)

RI - HB5275 AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- FOUNDATION LEVEL SCHOOL SUPPORT (Provides that funding for kindergartens that have been converted from part-time to full-time beginning with the 2015-2016 school year would be fully funded beginning in fiscal year 2016.)

RI - HB5255 AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - SEWAGE CHARGES (Authorizes municipal sewer systems to service/maintain lines in bordering city/town with no legal liability or agreement.)

RI - HB5292 AN ACT RELATING TO AERONAUTICS -- UNPILOTED AERIAL VEHICLE REGULATION (Grants authority in the state of Rhode Island, to the exclusion of municipalities, to regulate unpiloted aerial vehicles.)

RI - HB5233 AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES (Increases the minimum amount of a state purchase subject to competitive bidding.)

RI - HB5210 AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES (Eliminates the additional fee for registration renewal of courtesy (vanity) plates.)

RI - HB5520 AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - PERSONAL INCOME TAX (Excludes from the state income tax the amount resulting from the receipt of a veteran's disability pension from the United States government for a service-connected disability.)

RI - HB5232 AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE--PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTIONS -- ATTACHMENT (Provides that child support garnishment be paid first before any other garnishment including a garnishment for the payment of taxes.)

RI - HB5858 AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION (Establishes a venture capital investment tax credit to qualified Rhode Island businesses and the credit would be available to businesses certified by the Rhode Island commerce corporation as meeting certain set requirements.)

RI - HR6168 HOUSE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING THE JOHNSTON/NORTH PROVIDENCE BOYS CO-OP HOCKEY TEAM ON WINNING THE RHODE ISLAND DIVISION III CHAMPIONSHIP

RI - HB5220 AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - IDENTITY THEFT PROTECTION (Creates the Identify Theft Protection Act of 2015, to protect personal information from unauthorized access, use, modification, destruction or disclosure, and to preserve the confidentiality and integrity of such information.)

RI - HR6255 HOUSE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING TARA PRINCIPE ON BEING NAMED THE "DISTINGUISHED YOUNG WOMAN OF RHODE ISLAND"

RI - HB5276 AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - RHODE ISLAND RESOURCE RECOVERY CORPORATION (Requires RRC to pay Johnston $6,000,000 annually plus any tipping fees paid to town.)

RI - HB5797 AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION (Establishes an angel investor tax credit for investors in Rhode Island businesses engaged in bioscience, advanced materials, photonics, information technology or any other emerging technology as determined by the commerce corporation.)

RI - HB5053 AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES (Allows persons who are involuntarily unemployed and are subject to license or registration non-renewal as a result of failure to pay taxes to obtain a conditional renewal during their period of unemployment.)

RI - HB5097 AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES (Delays the issuance of license plates from 9/1/15 to 9/1/17 and provides owners with option to retain current plates.)

RI - HB5132 AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- HOISTING ENGINEERS (Increases the fines for violations of chapters regulating hoisting engineers.)

RI - HB5174 AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- HEALTH INSURANCE - PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS (The department of business regulation is declared the state agency in charge of oversight of the business relationship between pharmacy providers and health service organizations.)

RI - HB5190 AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS (Provides for automatic renewal of a gun permit or license.)

RI - HB5205 AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - SALES - GUN SAFES (Exempts gun safes from sales and use taxes.)

RI - HB5216 AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PROOF OF FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE FUTURE (Requires that insurance carriers notify the division of motor vehicles of any policy cancellation or termination by the insurer or insured.)

RI - HB5238 AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - ESTATE TAXATION (Requires the state tax administrator to provide written notice of the existence of a lien on real property owned by a decedent, to his or her executor, administrator, heirs-at-law and surviving joint tenant.)

RI - HB5242 AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HOUSING RESOURCES -- HOMELESS SHELTERS (Establishes a homeless shelter standards commission.)

RI - HB5245 AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - CRIMINAL TRANSMISSION OF HIV (Creates a criminal offense for knowingly transmitting HIV to another person.)

RI - HB5246 AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - GENERAL STATE OFFICERS (Enables the general assembly in grand committee to fill a vacancy in the office of the lieutenant governor.)

RI - HB5334 AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES--LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION (Exempts from sales and use tax that portion of motor vehicle lease payments collected to be remitted for tangible personal property tax, municipal property tax, excise tax or any other similar tax.)

RI - HB5363 AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS (Seeks to prohibit employers from demanding payment or deductions from a tip or service charge given to waitstaff, prohibiting tip pools and would require that any service charge imposed by an employer be remitted to the service staff.)

RI - HB5388 AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR (Requires that the designation of a worker as an "independent contractor" form to be filed annually, with a fifty dollar ($50) filing fee with the director of revenue, and not the director of labor and training.)

RI - HB5476 AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RHODE ISLAND RESOURCE RECOVERY CORPORATION (Prohibits the disposal of any recyclable materials and/or recyclable waste in the central landfill per any rules or regulations promulgated by the Rhode Island resource recovery corporation.)

RI - HB5484 AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE - MOTOR VEHICLE BODY REPLACEMENT PARTS (Amends the definition of the term "aftermarket part" to refer to all motor vehicle replacement parts, excluding windshields, rear and side windows, and any other vehicular glass, and amends the title of chapter 10.2 to reference the change.)

RI - HB5485 AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE - ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES (Prevents denial of health insurance coverage because injuries were sustained in a car accident.)

RI - HB5493 AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN (Prohibits the sale of liquid used by humans in electronic delivery systems unless packaged in child-resistant packaging.)

RI - HB5510 AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - RHODE ISLAND RESOURCE RECOVERY CORPORATION (Increases the Resource Recovery Corporation tipping fee from three dollars ($3.00) to five dollars ($5.00) per vehicle to be paid to the town of Johnston on a biannual basis.)

RI - HB5512 AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ESTABLISHING A PROGRAM WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES TO PROVIDE FOR EMERGENCY HOUSING ASSISTANCE (Establishes an emergency housing assistance fund to be administered by the department of human services in conjunction with community action program agencies.)

RI - HB5518 AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - RHODE ISLAND DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEE ACT (Imposes moratorium on assessment/collection of impact fees on public facility projects for 36 months or until statewide single family permits exceed 1,500 units.)

RI - HB5791 AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES--SPECIAL PLATE FOR LUPUS FOUNDATION NEW ENGLAND (Authorizes the issuance of a special license plate for Lupus Foundation New England.)

RI - HB5898 AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS - EMPLOYMENT SECURITY - GENERAL PROVISIONS (Authorizes the director of labor and training to disclose information to the department of corrections, upon request, for the purpose of case management and post-release supervision.)

RI - HB5942 AN ACT RELATING TO MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT (Makes technical amendment to the general laws to reflect changes to the structure of the emergency management agency and would change the title of the executive director to "director.")

RI - HB6226 AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT--RETIREMENT SYSTEM MEMBERSHIP (Permits the current Cranston police chief to enroll in a defined contribution retirement plan.)

RI - HB6248 AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT (Requires full payment for all back rent upon stay of execution in landlord/tenant action and establishes rights relating to removal of tenant's personal property when execution is obtained by default.)

RI - HR5212 HOUSE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE WEEK OF JANUARY 25TH THROUGH JANUARY 31ST, 2015, AS "NATIONAL SCHOOL CHOICE WEEK" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

RI - HR5222 HOUSE RESOLUTION EXTENDING THE REPORTING AND EXPIRATION DATES AND AMENDING THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY THE REQUIREMENTS AND FEASIBILITY OF IMPLEMENTING APPRENTICESHIP PREREQUISITES FOR PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACTS (Amends the commission to study the requirements and feasibility of implementing apprenticeship prerequisites for public works contracts by increasing the membership to 12, extending reporting date to July 1, 2015, and expiration to September 1, 2015.)

RI - HR6047 HOUSE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING "NATIONAL CANCER REGISTRARS WEEK" ON APRIL 6TH THROUGH THE 10TH, 2015, IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

RI - HR6199 HOUSE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE HONORABLE ARAM G. GARABEDIAN ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY

RI - HR6222 HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING PROFOUND SYMPATHY ON THE PASSING OF JAMES J. SKEFFINGTON, SR.

RI - HR6284 HOUSE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING JOSEPH JOLY ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 100TH BIRTHDAY