§ 40-8.15-1 Definitions
§ 40-8.15-2 Right of individual providers to choose provider representative – Subject of negotiation
§ 40-8.15-3 Good-faith negotiations
§ 40-8.15-4 Unresolved issues – Impasse procedures
§ 40-8.15-5 Economic aspects of contract subject to legislative appropriation
§ 40-8.15-6 Duty to represent all individual providers fairly – Deduction of membership dues and other voluntary deductions
§ 40-8.15-7 Certification and decertification of provider organization
§ 40-8.15-8 Unfair practices
§ 40-8.15-9 Individual providers not state employees
§ 40-8.15-10 Right of families to select, direct, and terminate individual providers
§ 40-8.15-11 Strikes not authorized
§ 40-8.15-12 State action exemption
§ 40-8.15-13 Severability

Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 40-8.15 - Individual Providers of Direct-Support Services

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.