Public Utilities And Carriers
Rhode Island 2016 Regular Session
Public Motor Vehicle [HB-7876]
Requires the division of public utilities and carriers to impose a moratorium on the issuance of all new certificates authorizing the operation of public motor vehicles until June 30, 2017.
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Public Motor Vehicles [HB-7875]
Requires all persons operating public motor vehicles to apply for a vehicle identification device for each vehicle so registered. Penalties for violations and suspensions of the identification devices for cause are provided.
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Rhode Island 2016 Regular Session
Public Motor Vehicles [HB-7874]
Prohibits the operator of a public motor vehicle from transporting any passenger unless the pickup time is prearranged at least two (2) hours before the actual pickup.
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Rhode Island 2016 Regular Session
Regulatory Powers Of Administration [HB-7873]
Bars any person, entity and its members or shareholders, members or affiliates from being issued a certificate of necessity for selling electricity or gas by the PUC if a prior certificate for such person, association, or corporation has been revoked.
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Rhode Island 2016 Regular Session
Public Utilities Commission [HB-7872]
Provides that taxicabs, limited public motor vehicles, and public motor vehicles be considered common carriers and public utility companies. Eliminates the administrative expense assessment exemption to utilities and carriers with revenue under $100,000.
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Rhode Island 2016 Regular Session
Taxicabs And Limited Public Motor Vehicles [HB-7871]
Permits private cause of action by taxicab certificate holders against violations of the law or rules governing taxicab regulation.
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Rhode Island 2016 Regular Session
Public Utilities Commission [HB-7870]
Exempts taxicabs and limited public motor vehicles from the public utility companies annual financial assessment for reimbursement of administrative expenses.
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Rhode Island 2016 Regular Session
E-911 Uniform Emergency Telephone System Division [HB-7748]
Requires E-911 system division to update system by allowing user access by text or internet.
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Rhode Island 2016 Regular Session
911 Emergency Telephone Number Act -- Prepaid Wireless E911 Charge Act [HB-7722]
Creates a restricted receipt account for all 911 funds and requires that they be used solely for the operation of the 911 system. Authorizes the PUC to reduce 911 surcharges to the extent they exceed the sums needed to operate the 911 system.
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Rhode Island 2016 Regular Session
Public Motor Vehicles [HB-7622]
Requires all persons operating public motor vehicles to apply for a vehicle identification device for each vehicle so registered. Penalties for violations and suspensions of the identification devices for cause are provided.
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Rhode Island 2016 Regular Session
Public Motor Vehicles [HB-7621]
Prohibits the operator of a public motor vehicle from transporting any passenger unless the pickup time is prearranged at least two (2) hours before the actual pickup.
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Rhode Island 2016 Regular Session
Net Metering [HB-7585]
Expands the state's net metering policy to include renewable energy projects in which energy is distributed off-site from a customer's account and would establish an energy system credit benefit or charge.
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Rhode Island 2016 Regular Session
Duties Of Utilities And Carriers [HB-7542]
Includes online impersonation and electronic dissemination of indecent materials to minors as offenses for which an internet service provider must give subscriber information to the attorney general.
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Rhode Island 2016 Regular Session
Public Utilities Commission [HB-7514]
Requires the division of public utilities and carriers and the public utilities commission to include climate, environmental, employment, health and consumer concerns in all their proceedings and decisions.
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Rhode Island 2016 Regular Session
Renewable Energy Growth Program [HB-7473]
Expands the renewable energy growth program for an additional ten (10) years after the fifth program year, with an annual target of forty (40) nameplate megawatts for each year of the ten (10) year period.
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Rhode Island 2016 Regular Session
Duties Of Utilities And Carriers - Notice Of Rate Change [HB-7436]
Requires cable, internet, or telephone providers to provide customers with a written notice (not part of any statement) of any rate increase at least 30 days prior to the effective date of such increase unless the customer shall have previously renewed.
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Rhode Island 2016 Regular Session
Renewable Energy [HB-7413]
Extends the 2004 Renewable Energy Standard Schedule Program, which required the suppliers of retail electricity to purchase increasing minimum amounts of renewable energy from 2019 to 2035.
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Rhode Island 2016 Regular Session
Municipal Streetlight Investment Act [HB-7366]
Allows street light customers paying for lighting services to make investments use purchased equipment with access agreements provided by electric distributors and net metering based on total billed consumption.
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Rhode Island 2016 Regular Session
Rhode Island Public Transit Authority [HB-7329]
Provides that the governor's appointments to the RIPTA authority shall include a regular user of fixed-route RIPTA transportation and also a disabled person.
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Rhode Island 2016 Regular Session
Cable Billing [HB-7304]
Requires cable television companies to give their customers the option to purchase, at its fair market value, a device which decodes their digital cable signals.