| RI | H8050 | Intro
25% | Authorizes Providence to issue not more than $400,000,000 general obligation bonds & notes to finance the construction, related demolition, renovation, improvement, alteration, repair, landscaping, furnishing and equipping of schools throughout the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H7035 | Intro
25% | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES - Appropriates $1,875,000 for the creation of a 9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline within the department of behavioral healthca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7120 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Allows a deduction from federal adjusted gross income for interest payments on outstanding student loans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7546 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Provides a tax upon the endowment of a private institution of higher education equal to two percent (2%) upon each dollar over $1,000,000,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7594 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- BILINGUAL, DUAL LANGUAGE AND WORLD LANGUAGE TEACHERS INVESTMENT ACT - Authorizes the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to establish a program to expand the issuance of teaching certificates to bilingual dual language and w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7031 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- CERTIFICATION OF CHILDCARE AND YOUTH-SERVING WORKERS AND OPERATORS - Repeals the provision that requires new applicants for employment under this section to pay the expense for their background checks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7547 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND CHILD CARE FOR ALL ACT - Establishes the Rhode Island Child Care for All Act which would provide high quality and affordable child care to families throughout the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8220 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- RHODE ISLAND DRUG COST REVIEW COMMISSION - Creates the Rhode Island drug cost review commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H8109 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- STATEWIDE TANGIBLE PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION - Repeals the language that eff. 2025 fiscal year all cities/towns/fire districts would receive a reimbursement equal to the tangible property levy for the 12/31/22 assessment date less the tangib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8170 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CONTRACTORS' REGISTRATION AND LICENSING BOARD - Requires all applicants who seek to register as a contractor to produce a legible copy of a valid government issued identification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7479 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION - Funds the state crime victim compensation program through an additional one dollar ($1.00) fine on traffic violations, exclusive of violations related to the parking of vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance 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 | H7542 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- INSPECTION OF MOTOR VEHICLES - Changes the inspection requirement for a new motor vehicle from two (2) years to five (5) years from the date of purchase.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8041 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS - Includes any costs paid by an enrollee or on behalf of the enrollee by a third party when calculating an enrollee's overall contribution to any out-of-pocket maximum or cost sharing requirement under a health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8070 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PSYCHOLOGISTS - Includes licensed school psychologists under the provisions of the general laws governing the regulations of psychologists and expands the licensing of school psychologists for independent practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7491 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY - Authorizes the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority to enter into certain projects and procure related services including the transit center project, using design build contrac...
[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 | H7482 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To The Rhode Island Black Business Association (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 To The Rhode Island Black Business Association.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7769 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To The Ri African Diaspora Community (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 To The Ri African Diaspora Community.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To House Finance 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 | H7107 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT - Allows governmental employee union contracts to contain specific references to specific health insurance companies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7200 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES' ARBITRATION - Recognizes that municipal employees have the opportunity to utilize interest arbitration and would establish new factors for the arbitrators to consider. These factors include comparison...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7202 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FIREFIGHTERS' ARBITRATION - Provides that all contractual provisions in a firefighters collective bargaining agreement continue until a successor agreement has been reached or an interest arbitration award has been render...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7201 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MUNICIPAL POLICE ARBITRATION - Extends provisions of an existing collective bargaining agreement for municipal police arbitration purposes until a successor agreement is reached or an interest arbitration award is rendere...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H8127 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ACT - Establishes requirements which would have to be met by an applicant prior to the issuing of permits for an activity that would have an environmental impact on or would increase the cumulativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7286 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Creates an income-sensitive tiered subsidy program to ensure that home energy utility costs are affordable for eligible low-income households.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7668 | Intro
25% | CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- PRISONER MADE GOODS - Allows correctional industries to conduct business for goods or services with any 501(c)(3) and would require customers of correctional industries to pay fifty present (50%) of an order ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8058 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Prohibits use of algorithm or artificial intelligence to set residential rental amounts and prohibits landlord price fixing of residential rents. Violations constitute a deceptive trade practice and v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7735 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE - Requires insurance coverage for at a minimum up to ninety (90) days of residential or inpatient services for mental health and/or substance use disorders for American Society of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7726 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Requires specific actions and procedures that a public school district or the department of elementary and secondary education shall follow as a part of their proposal to phase out, merge or close a public s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7368 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- NOISE LIMITS FOR MOTOR VEHICLES - Enables municipalities to install and use automated systems to detect noise limit violations in order to enhance enforcement abilities and reduce noise violations state-wide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7651 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Provides that only residential properties and new or rehabilitated residential affordable housing units would be subject to the tax under § 44-5-13.1 relating to taxation of low-income housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7533 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LEAD HAZARD MITIGATION - Requires renovation projects of pre-1978 buildings to comply with provisions of chapter 24.6 of title 23 and chapter 21 of title 28, and require presence of lead inspector and supervisor and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7362 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Establishes general caseload limits for DCYF workers similar to those contained in the Council on Accreditation standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7650 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES -- EXTREME TEMPERATURE EMPLOYEE PROTECTION - Directs employers to take certain actions to protect their employees who are exposed to extreme hot and cold temperatures and failure to implement or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7357 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HIGH HEAT WASTE FACILITY ACT - Provides for a prohibition on the licensing of any new high-heat waste facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7344 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ARREST - College security may detain criminal offenders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7072 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve, Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State -- Four Year Terms For Representatives And Senators (proposes An Amendment To The State Constitution, Article Iv, Section 1, T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H7016 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING - Forbids a motor vehicle liability insurance carrier from considering the zip code of where an insured lives for purposes of calculating their policy premium.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7296 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF STATE ROADS - Authorizes and empowers the department of transportation to plant pollinator-friendly species of trees, shrubs, grasses and plants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7034 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Increases the hourly wages paid to prisoners, for work performed by prisoners, with the consent of the director of corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H7052 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Prohibits the declawing of cats by any surgical procedure to amputate or modify a portion of a cat's paw in order to remove the cat's claws. Does not apply to any procedure performed for a therapeu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7097 | Intro
25% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION - Provides for a residency requirement of at least six (6) months rather than one year for the Rhode Island family court to have jurisdiction over a divorce complaint.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7044 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS REQUIRED AT PUBLIC PLACES AND HEALTH CARE FACILITIES - Requires all health care facilities to provide functional automated external defibrillators (AEDs
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7272 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Provides that the maximum number of unrelated persons living together that could be constitute an individual household would not be less than one person per bedroom.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H7117 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- PRIMARY ELECTIONS - Changes the process of nominating candidates for the general election, by replacing the political party primary with a primary general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7024 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX - Allows cannabis establishments, as defined pursuant to § 21-28.11-3, to claim any deduction to income that would be allowable under the laws of the United States but for 26 U.S.C. § 280E.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-05
To House Finance Committee |
