+ − Contact Information Email Address: sen-gee@rilegislature.gov Phone: (401) 222-2708 + − Committees (2) RI - Judiciary (Senate) Title: Member RI - Labor (Senate) Title: Member + − Cosponsored Bills (23) RI - SB2146 AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- ESTATE AND TRANSFER TAXES--LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION (Increases marital estate deduction if proper election made by decedent spouse's estate allowing decedent to transfer unused portion of estate tax exemption to spouse.) RI - SB2199 AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION (Provides that the taxation of military service pensions for purposes of the Rhode Island personal income tax would be reduced and phased out over a five (5) year period from 2018 to 2022.) RI - SB2250 AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT--STATE BEACH, PARK AND RECREATION AREA USER FEES (Eliminates user fees for access to any state beach.) RI - SB2256 AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - VETERANS' SMALL BUSINESS LOAN PROGRAM (Creates a transitioning veterans' small business loan program through the commerce corporation.) RI - SB2268 AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - THE HEALTHY PREGNANCIES FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN ACT (Prohibits the use of restraints on pregnant prisoners during transport to and from court proceedings by sheriffs and/or incarceration at the ACI with annual reports to the general assembly effective January 1, 2019.) RI - SB2338 AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - COUNCIL ON ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (Council on elementary and secondary education to mandate libraries in high schools to be open one hour before, during and one hour after school.) RI - SB2480 AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ESTABLISHING AN OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL (Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to investigate, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the expenditure of public funds.) RI - SB2580 AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT -- DRUG TESTING (Authorizes random drug screening as a condition for continued public assistance, and would provide a mechanism for retesting those who fail the test.) RI - SB2655 AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - TAX CREDITS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCHOLARSHIP ORGANIZATIONS (Increases the total aggregate amount of tax credits for a business entity not to exceed $5,000,000 in fiscal year 2019.) RI - SB2657 AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX (Provides that corporations with less than fifty (50) employees shall not be subject to the four hundred dollar ($400) minimum corporate tax.) RI - SB2661 AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- ESTATE AND TRANSFER TAXES (Repeals the state estate tax.) RI - SB2666 AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- RHODE ISLAND BRIDGE REPLACEMENT, RECONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE FUND--TOLLS (Repeals the provisions of the general laws which created the "Rhode Island Bridge Replacement, Reconstruction, and Maintenance Fund Act of 2016" ("Rhode Works"), which would have imposed tolls on large commercial trucks.) RI - SB2674 AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOBILE AND MANUFACTURED HOMES--AFFORDABLE HOUSING (Qualifies mobile and manufactured homes as affordable housing when installed and affixed in mobile and manufactured home parks in groups of twenty (20) or more for a year or more.) RI - SB2802 AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS (Requires that a person mailing a mail ballot be wither the spouse, guardian or relative by blood or marriage of the person voting by mail ballot.) RI - SB2915 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF NORTH KINGSTOWN TO FINANCE CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATIONS, REMEDIATION, ALTERATIONS, ADDITIONS AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR RELATED EQUIPMENT AND TO ISSUE NOT MORE THAN $27,000,000 BONDS AND NOTES THEREFOR, OF WHICH UP TO $13,500,000 IS FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES AND UP TO $13,500,000 IS FOR OTHER TOWN PURPOSES RI - SR2042 SENATE RESOLUTION HONORING STEPHEN A. ALFRED ON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT AFTER MORE THAN FOUR DECADES OF DEDICATED SERVICE AS TOWN MANAGER OF SOUTH KINGSTOWN, RHODE ISLAND RI - SR2164 SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING PAUL TETREAULT, NORTH KINGSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL TRACK AND CROSS COUNTRY COACH, ON WINNING THE 2017 "HOMETOWN HERO AWARD" FROM FLOSPORTS RI - SR2262 JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE -- REFERENDUM ON LINE ITEM VETO (This joint resolution would submit to the electors a constitutional amendment granting the governor the power to utilize a line item veto for appropriations.) RI - SR2650 SENATE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY THE EFFECT OF WIND TURBINES ON ALL MARINE LIFE (Creates a 5 member legislative commission to study the effect of wind turbines on all marine life, and who would report back to the House of Representatives no later than February 7, 2019, and whose life would expire on May 7, 2019.) RI - SR2745 SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING SINCERE CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF ANTHONY GIARRUSSO RI - SR2770 SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF ELIZABETH M. TULLY RI - SR2792 JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION -- GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO REVIEW REGULATIONS RI - SR2992 SENATE RESOLUTION HONORING AND THANKING CHERYL RICCI ON THE OCCASION OF HER RETIREMENT
RI - SB2146 AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- ESTATE AND TRANSFER TAXES--LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION (Increases marital estate deduction if proper election made by decedent spouse's estate allowing decedent to transfer unused portion of estate tax exemption to spouse.)
RI - SB2199 AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION (Provides that the taxation of military service pensions for purposes of the Rhode Island personal income tax would be reduced and phased out over a five (5) year period from 2018 to 2022.)
RI - SB2250 AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT--STATE BEACH, PARK AND RECREATION AREA USER FEES (Eliminates user fees for access to any state beach.)
RI - SB2256 AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - VETERANS' SMALL BUSINESS LOAN PROGRAM (Creates a transitioning veterans' small business loan program through the commerce corporation.)
RI - SB2268 AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - THE HEALTHY PREGNANCIES FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN ACT (Prohibits the use of restraints on pregnant prisoners during transport to and from court proceedings by sheriffs and/or incarceration at the ACI with annual reports to the general assembly effective January 1, 2019.)
RI - SB2338 AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - COUNCIL ON ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (Council on elementary and secondary education to mandate libraries in high schools to be open one hour before, during and one hour after school.)
RI - SB2480 AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ESTABLISHING AN OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL (Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to investigate, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the expenditure of public funds.)
RI - SB2580 AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT -- DRUG TESTING (Authorizes random drug screening as a condition for continued public assistance, and would provide a mechanism for retesting those who fail the test.)
RI - SB2655 AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - TAX CREDITS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCHOLARSHIP ORGANIZATIONS (Increases the total aggregate amount of tax credits for a business entity not to exceed $5,000,000 in fiscal year 2019.)
RI - SB2657 AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX (Provides that corporations with less than fifty (50) employees shall not be subject to the four hundred dollar ($400) minimum corporate tax.)
RI - SB2666 AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- RHODE ISLAND BRIDGE REPLACEMENT, RECONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE FUND--TOLLS (Repeals the provisions of the general laws which created the "Rhode Island Bridge Replacement, Reconstruction, and Maintenance Fund Act of 2016" ("Rhode Works"), which would have imposed tolls on large commercial trucks.)
RI - SB2674 AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOBILE AND MANUFACTURED HOMES--AFFORDABLE HOUSING (Qualifies mobile and manufactured homes as affordable housing when installed and affixed in mobile and manufactured home parks in groups of twenty (20) or more for a year or more.)
RI - SB2802 AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS (Requires that a person mailing a mail ballot be wither the spouse, guardian or relative by blood or marriage of the person voting by mail ballot.)
RI - SB2915 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF NORTH KINGSTOWN TO FINANCE CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATIONS, REMEDIATION, ALTERATIONS, ADDITIONS AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR RELATED EQUIPMENT AND TO ISSUE NOT MORE THAN $27,000,000 BONDS AND NOTES THEREFOR, OF WHICH UP TO $13,500,000 IS FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES AND UP TO $13,500,000 IS FOR OTHER TOWN PURPOSES
RI - SR2042 SENATE RESOLUTION HONORING STEPHEN A. ALFRED ON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT AFTER MORE THAN FOUR DECADES OF DEDICATED SERVICE AS TOWN MANAGER OF SOUTH KINGSTOWN, RHODE ISLAND
RI - SR2164 SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING PAUL TETREAULT, NORTH KINGSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL TRACK AND CROSS COUNTRY COACH, ON WINNING THE 2017 "HOMETOWN HERO AWARD" FROM FLOSPORTS
RI - SR2262 JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE -- REFERENDUM ON LINE ITEM VETO (This joint resolution would submit to the electors a constitutional amendment granting the governor the power to utilize a line item veto for appropriations.)
RI - SR2650 SENATE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY THE EFFECT OF WIND TURBINES ON ALL MARINE LIFE (Creates a 5 member legislative commission to study the effect of wind turbines on all marine life, and who would report back to the House of Representatives no later than February 7, 2019, and whose life would expire on May 7, 2019.)
RI - SR2792 JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION -- GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO REVIEW REGULATIONS
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