Title 42, Title 42 Affairs and Government

(a) A joint legislative study commission is hereby created to study the restraint reporting requirements and training approaches of each of the covered facilities and make recommendations to ensure that reporting is as uniform as possible and appropriate data is collected to info…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Rhode Island Sailing Events Commission.”

There is hereby created and established a permanent commission to be known as the Rhode Island Sailing Events Commission hereinafter referred to as the “commission.”

(a) The commission shall consist of nineteen (19) members as follows: (1) The director of the department of environmental management, or designee; (2) The president of the Narragansett Bay Yacht Association, or designee; (3) The chief executive officer of US Sailing, or designee;…

The members shall serve until their successors are appointed and qualified.

The commission is created and established to identify, evaluate, and provide recommendations to assist nationally and internationally recognized sailing and marine events, both amateur and professional, and to attract and encourage activity in Rhode Island. In addition, the commi…

(a) The commission is authorized to accept and empowered to accept and expend funds made available by the United States government or any agency thereof, in order to carry out the commission’s efforts to manage financial support for sailing events. In coordination with the Rhode …

This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Rhode Island Pay for Success Act.”

The general assembly hereby finds and declares as follows: (1) Pay-for-success contracts are executed detailing the outcomes, associated repayment, and evaluation process to be conducted by a third party. The proceeds are disbursed to a nonprofit organization(s) that will execute…

The executive office, in collaboration with the Rhode Island Coalition to End Homelessness, shall provide yearly progress reports to the general assembly beginning no later than January 30, 2022, and annually thereafter until January 30, 2027. These reports will include recommend…

For the purpose of this chapter: (1) “Coordinated entry system (CES)” means the partnership of all homeless service providers in the state through this initiative of the Rhode Island continuum of care. CES manages all diversion/entry to the shelter system through the coordinated …

There is established a five-year (5) pay-for-success pilot program to be administered by the Rhode Island executive office of health and human services. The pilot will follow the proposal outlined in the 2016 pay-for-success grant proposal to HUD and 2017 feasibility study. The p…

There is hereby created within the general fund of the state a restricted receipt account entitled or to be known as “Pay for Success.” The account shall be housed within the budget of the executive office of health and human services and shall be utilized to record all receipts …

There is hereby established with the executive branch of state government a department of labor and training. The head of the department shall be the director of labor and training who shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, and shall serve …

The compensation of members of the board shall be determined by the department of administration. The compensation shall be prorated and made chargeable to the employment security administration fund and such other funds as shall be available for the payment of temporary disabili…

(a) The board of review shall be empowered to appoint and employ a qualified attorney, who shall act in accordance with such instructions as the attorney may receive from the board concerning appeals from its decisions and other related duties. Whenever the board of review may or…

(a) The director of the department of labor and training shall maintain within the workers’ compensation unit of the department of labor and training, a workers’ compensation fraud prevention unit whose members shall be in the unclassified service and whose responsibility it shal…

The unit is authorized to investigate allegations of workers’ compensation fraud and abuse. In furtherance of any investigation, the unit has the power to: (1) Administrative subpoena. The unit may request, through an administrative subpoena, the attendance and testimony of witne…

Any insurer, or agent authorized by the insurer, to act on its behalf, or third-party administrator or any self-insurer, having reason to believe that an insurance transaction may be fraudulent, shall send to the fraud prevention unit a report of the transaction and any additiona…

The unit’s documents, reports, or evidence relative to a workers’ compensation investigation are privileged and not open to public inspection. The documents, reports, and evidence are not subject to a subpoena duces tecum unless the unit consents, or a court determines the unit w…

In the absence of fraud, malice, or bad faith, no insurer or agent authorized by the insurer to act on its behalf, employee of the unit, or person providing information to the unit, is subject to civil liability for damages as a result of any statement, report, or investigation m…

If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part of this chapter or the application of any part to any person or circumstances shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, that judgment does not affect, impair, or invalidate the rem…

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the department of labor and training shall not release information to any individual not connected with the department relative to any employee’s workers’ compensation claim, including, but not limited to, information obta…

The director is hereby authorized, and may in the director’s discretion, recover the reasonable cost of legal services and audit fees for services provided by in-house attorneys and/or other personnel of the department of labor and training or outside auditors and incurred by the…

The director of labor and training shall: (1) Have all the powers and duties formerly vested by law in the director of labor with regard to factory inspectors and steam boiler inspectors, and such other duties as may be by law conferred upon the department; (2) Administer the lab…

(a) There are hereby transferred to the department of labor and training all functions formerly administered by the department of labor under the provisions of chapter 4 of title 5; chapter 1 of title 25; chapters 1, 2, 4 [repealed], 10 — 15, inclusive, 18, 20, 25, and 29 — 38, i…

(a) There are hereby transferred to the department of labor and training all functions formerly administered by the department of employment and training set forth in chapters 39 — 44, inclusive, of title 28 and chapter 102 of title 42; and of all other general laws and public la…

There shall be within the department of labor and training an education unit. The unit shall provide, in convenient locations throughout the state, education services to employees and employers concerning the prevention of occupational diseases and injuries, training for non-mana…

There shall be a board of review consisting of three (3) members. One member shall be a representative of labor, one member shall be a representative of industry, and one member shall be a representative of the public generally. Not more than two (2) members of the board shall be…

In January of each odd-numbered year, the governor shall submit to the senate the name of a person to act as a member of the board of review to succeed the member of the board whose term will next expire, and to hold office for a term of six (6) years and until his or her success…

In case there is a vacancy in the board of review while the senate is in session, the governor shall appoint in the manner aforesaid. In case there is a vacancy in the board of review when the senate is not in session, the governor shall appoint some person to hold office until t…

The representative of the public shall be chairperson of the board of review. No hearing shall proceed in the absence of the chairperson of the board of review and the chairperson shall act alone in the absence of any other member. In the absence of the chairperson for more than …

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Statewide Body-Worn Camera Program.”

As used in this chapter: (1) “Attorney general” means the attorney general of the state of Rhode Island, or designee. (2) “Body-worn camera” means a video and audio recording device that is carried by, or worn on the body of, a law enforcement officer and that is capable of recor…

(a) The director of the department of public safety is hereby authorized, within available funds, to award grants and other forms of funding to facilitate the adoption of body-worn cameras by Rhode Island police departments. The director of the department of public safety may als…

(a) The director of the department of public safety in consultation with the attorney general shall promulgate rules and regulations, pursuant to chapter 35 of this title, to develop the criteria and manner in which funds are awarded to Rhode Island police departments under this …

The director of the department of public safety shall publish a report on the funding of the statewide body-worn camera program within sixty (60) days following the end of each fiscal year. The report shall contain information on the commitment, disbursement, and use of funds pur…

The general assembly finds and declares that: (1) The 2021 act on climate establishes mandatory, economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets; and (2) To meet these goals, Rhode Island must accelerate its adoption of more sustainable transportation solutions, including…

As used in this chapter, the following terms, unless the context requires a different interpretation, shall have the following meanings: (1) “Department” means the department of transportation. (2) “Electric vehicle charging infrastructure” means equipment that supplies electrici…

(a) There is hereby established an electric vehicle charging infrastructure investment program. The department and office shall, in consultation with the department of environmental management, establish the electric vehicle charging infrastructure investment program to be admini…

The department and office shall provide a report to the governor and general assembly by December 31, 2023, on the results of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure investment program. The department and office shall provide an annual report to the governor and general asse…

As used in this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) “Broadband” means “a high-capacity transmission technique using a wide range of frequencies to deliver high-speed internet including both wireline and wireless technologies” and shall include, but…

An employee of the commerce corporation shall be designated by the secretary of commerce as the broadband director. The broadband director shall be responsible for connecting and communicating with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and other fe…

(a) Creating or otherwise administering grants, programs, projects, initiatives, or mapping efforts to further the investment in and development of broadband and digital equity in the state. Pending availability of funding, these may include: developing a mapping process to revie…

(a) There is hereby established a broadband advisory council for the purpose of performing the duties enunciated in § 42-163-5. (b) The council shall consist of the following nine (9) members: (1) The broadband director from Commerce Rhode Island, who shall serve as the chair; (2…

The broadband advisory council shall advise the executive office of commerce on broadband implementation efforts undertaken by the agency including, but not limited to, the development of a state strategic plan and broadband-related investment strategies. The broadband advisory c…