| RI | H7019 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM - Establishes "workplace readiness week". It requires all public high schools, including charter schools, to annually observe that week by providing information to students on their rights as workers and specifies the topics t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| RI | H7037 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales tax scalp hair prosthesis or wigs that are necessary due to hair loss from a medical condition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8269 | Pass | House Resolution Recognizing The 76th Anniversary Of Israel's Day Of Independence On May 13-14, 2024, And Reaffirming The Bonds Of Friendship And Cooperation Between Rhode Island, The United States, And The State Of Israel
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
House read and passed |
| RI | H7663 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS - Requires the division of vital records to ensure that the records are accessible to the local registrars and grant local registrars the authority to issue certified copies of certificates and records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | H7713 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- ELECTRIC BICYCLES - Defines 3 classes of electric bicycles, authorizes the DEM to determine allowable uses of electric bicycles at properties under the department's jurisdiction, allows Class 1 electric bicycles to legally...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H8095 | Engross
50% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOGS - Increases the penalty for violations of the care of dogs statute to a minimum fine of one hundred dollars ($100) and a maximum fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000) per violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | H7243 | Pass | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION -- TAX EXEMPTIONS -- JAMESTOWN - Grants the town of Jamestown the legal authority to grant a tax dollar reduction to gold star parents and to visually impaired persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H8257 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating May 12 Through May 18, 2024, To Be "national Police Week" In The State Of Rhode Island, In Remembrance Of All The Police And Law Enforcement Officers Who Have Lost Their Lives In The Line Of Duty
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
House read and passed |
| RI | H7509 | Engross
50% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES - Provides that gift certificates issued by state-chartered institutions of higher education would be exempt from the provisions of the gift certificate statute relating to exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| RI | H8180 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION TAX CREDITS - Clarifies that all costs of goods used and services performed in Rhode Island shall qualify as state-certified production costs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7489 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX - Reduces the corporate minimum tax to three hundred fifty dollars ($350).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7928 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX - Repeals the corporation minimum tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7929 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Authorizes a retroactive tax credit for tax yr 2022/thereafter/allowing investment tax credits to be passed through to the personal income tax returns of eligible Sub-S corporation shareholders/limited liability comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7930 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- STATE TAX OFFICIALS - Reduces the minimum interest rate on delinquent payments from eighteen percent (18%) per annum to twelve percent (12%) per annum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8230 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating "holocaust Remembrance Day" On May 6, 2024
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
House read and passed |
| RI | H7324 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Removes basement area from the calculation of floor area ratios in relation to the provisions that a zoning ordinance may address.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H7593 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL FUNDS AND PROPERTY - Directs the department of education to develop and adopt regulations for energy capable school buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7844 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Replaces the coastal resources management council with a state department of coastal resources and transfers all of the powers and duties between the two (2) authorities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H7254 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICE CREDITS - Allows members of retirement systems who also served in the national guard or reserves to purchase retirement services credits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7672 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Effective July 1, 2024, entitles environmental police officers to the benefits provided by chapter 45-21.2 entitled "Optional retirement for members of police force an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7573 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Amends the statute punishing child pornography by replacing the term "child pornography" with the term "child sexual abuse material."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H8184 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating "national Crime Victims' Week" On April 21st Through April 27th, 2024, In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
House read and passed |
| RI | H8187 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring Robert L. G. Batchelor, Cpa, On The Occasion Of His Retirement
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
House read and passed |
| RI | H7203 | Engross
50% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Adds the month of August to the dates a Class A retail alcoholic beverage establishment can offer unlimited free samples of wine, beer and distilled spirits products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | H7612 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Requires school districts to provide the parent/guardian of a student with an individualized education program (IEP) with information concerning the achieving a better life experie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | H7541 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION - Permits hit and run victims suffering serious bodily injury to recover under the crime victim compensation program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7552 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- VETERANS' AFFAIRS - Provides that every city and town must maintain a municipal veterans' service officer. Also authorizes a one hundred thousand dollar ($100,000) appropriation to be used to fund matching grants for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7775 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $180,000 For The Rhode Island State Conservation Committee And Its Three Conservation Districts (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $180,000 To The Ri State Conservation Committ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8003 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $10,000,000 To The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (crmc) (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $10,000,000 To The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8159 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- PUBLIC BUILDINGS - Authorizes and funds the painting of a portrait of the president of the senate and former presidents of the senate who may be living to be hung in the state house.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7999 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT PROGRAM - Provides that the $5,500,000 appropriation to the infrastructure bank from the 2023 budget act be allocated for eligible municipal infrastructure grant program ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8148 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Replaces the coastal resources management council with a state department of coastal resources and transfers all of the powers and duties between the two (2) authorities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H8151 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming April Of 2024, To Be The "month Of The Military Child" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
House read and passed |
| RI | H7297 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- OPTICIANS -- QUALIFICATIONS - Establishes a second avenue of qualification as an optician, to include successfully completing an apprenticeship program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7236 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT - Includes animal cruelty offenses to the domestic violence crimes committed by a family or household members against another.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7835 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- RAILROAD, STEAMBOAT, AND BRIDGE POLICE - Provides any police report involving a railroad fatality and all communications between railroad employees not be made public. Additionally, it makes a violation of this section a misdeme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7955 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- JUDGMENTS, ORDERS, AND DECREES - Amends calculations of interest in civil actions a rate determined by average accepted auction price for last auction of 52 week U.S. treasury bills.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H8138 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming April To Be "holocaust & Genocide Awareness Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
House read and passed |
| RI | H8140 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming April 4th Of 2024, To Be "community College Of Rhode Island Day"
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
House read and passed |
| RI | H7470 | Engross
50% | MOTOR VEHICLES -- SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD LIMITS - Adds "loose material" to the contents of a vehicle that must be covered by a covering that must remain in place until the vehicle's contents are purged from the vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7569 | Engross
50% | PROBATE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE -- UNCLAIMED INTANGIBLE AND TANGIBLE PROPERTY - Provides conditions which persons paid to recover or assist in recovering reported property must comply with.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7241 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- OPTIONAL RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE AND FIREFIGHTERS - Amends definition for final compensation, relative to police officers and firefighters, provides them life annuity regardless of age or years of service, upon reti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H8007 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- TRANSFER OF VEHICLES - Allows temporary vehicle registration and plates issued to Rhode Island residents by another state to be valid; provided that, the plates and registration issued to an out-of-state resident by a Rhod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H8116 | Intro
25% | CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS -- THE RHODE ISLAND LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ACT - Replaces the existing limited liability company act with a newer and updated model act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7786 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- AUTOMATED DECISION TOOLS - Requires companies that develop or deploy high-risk AI systems to conduct impact assessments and adopt risk management programs, would apply to both developers and deployer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| RI | H8113 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating March 25, 2024, As The 203rd Anniversary Of Greek Independence Day And Celebrating Democracy In Greece And The United States
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
House read and passed |
| RI | H7820 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES - Provides that licensed health care facilities be prohibited from using a patients photograph for any office use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7817 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study Blockchain And Cryptocurrency (creates A 5 Member Commission To Recommend Legislative Proposals For Blockchain And Cryptocurrency, And Submit An Interim Progress Report By January 5,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7969 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ELECTRONIC MONITORING IN NURSING AND ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES - Allows electronic monitoring of residents or private living unit in nursing or assisted living facility with certain restrictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7940 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- SENIOR SAVINGS PROTECTION ACT - Prohibits the charging of any fees to a senior citizen who is 65 years of age or older for a hard-copy paper bill, invoice or statement. The violation of this provisio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Corporations Committee |
