| RI | H7619 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- TOXIC PACKAGING REDUCTION ACT - Updates the existing Toxic Packaging Act by delaying the ban on PFAS in processing agents, until July 1, 2027, and also expands the law by banning PVC and polystyrene in packaging.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-20
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7358 | Intro
25% | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- DEER HUNTING - Modifies reporting requirements regarding collisions between vehicles and wildlife where the vehicle has been substantially damaged.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-18
Placed on House Calendar (05/23/2024) |
| RI | H8071 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT - Requires that the DEM rules and regulations for remediation of hazardous material releases not include any provision requiring the remediation of arsenic which is naturally occurring at levels less th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-18
Placed on House Calendar (05/23/2024) |
| RI | H7027 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- INSPECTOR GENERAL - Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to investigate, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
[Hearing: May 22]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7101 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES - Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Placed on House Calendar (05/21/2024) |
| RI | H7129 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Allows school committees to add item(s) not appearing in published notice to their agendas for purposes of discussion only if the revised agenda is filed with the secretary of state and posted on distri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
[Hearing: May 23]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7303 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION - Defines "public official" to include school personnel for purposes of the criminal prohibition against making threats to public officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
[Hearing: May 21]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7587 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Strongly Supporting A National Infrastructure Bank Through The Passage Of The 118th Congress H.r. 4052
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
[Hearing: May 23]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7664 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- NOMINATION OF PARTY AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES - Provides a process for local canvassing clerks to notify the state board of elections regarding patterns of forgery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
[Hearing: May 23]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | H7645 | Engross
50% | HIGHWAYS -- QUALIFIED ABANDONMENT OF TOWN ROADS - Allows for a qualified abandonment of town highways/driftways and grants a public easement over said road allowing it to be converted to a walking/hiking/biking trail as well as for access to parks, n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government 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] | 2024-05-17
[Hearing: May 23]
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | H7606 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING - Prevents insurance companies from treating widowed persons differently than married persons when establishing or maintaining an insured's rate or classification respecting the operation of a personal motor veh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/21/2024) |
| 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] | 2024-05-17
[Hearing: May 21]
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | H7744 | Engross
50% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT - Provides that a defendant's third and subsequent violation of domestic violence offenses, including both prior felony and misdemeanor convictions, be punishable as a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7985 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION - Requires, by January 1, 2026, the creation of an online, publicly available, comprehensive statewide geographic information system of land related resources to include information from al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
[Hearing: May 21]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | H8119 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- LOW-SPEED VEHICLES - Provides that low-speed vehicles may be operated on limited access highways, state highways, through highways and public highways or roadways provided the speed limit on the highways and roadways is no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Placed on House Calendar (05/22/2024) |
| RI | H8154 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- FAMILY COURT - Permits the family court to disclose criminal records of juvenile offenders to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System for the purposes of background check conducted when an individual attemp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
[Hearing: May 21]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H8266 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making The Transfer Of Funds From The Budget For Fiscal Year 2025 Contained In The Budget Submitted By The Governor (2024-h7225) To The Towns Of Tiverton, Burrillville And Middletown (authorizes The Transfer Of Funds To Tiverton, Bur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
[Hearing: May 21]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8279 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- CONSUMER ENFORCEMENT OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE WARRANTIES - Requires manufacturers of assisting technology devices to make available to independent repair providers/the owner of the device, any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7033 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- LONG-TERM CARE SERVICE AND FINANCE REFORM -- CHIROPRACTIC SERVICES RATES - Provides the executive office of health and human services would submit to the US Department of Health and Human Services a state plan ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7255 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires every individual or group health insurance contract effective on or after January 1, 2025, to provide coverage to the insured and the insured's spouse and dependents for all FDA-approve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7678 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANY SERVICES - Imposes a seventy-five cent (0.75) surcharge on fares charged by rideshare companies as well as an account to benefit RIPTA from the payment of sales taxes collected from ride...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7858 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- RHODE ISLAND TURNPIKE AND BRIDGE AUTHORITY - Directs the Rhode Island turnpike and bridge authority (RITBA) design a safety barrier or netting system on the several bridges within its authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7903 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE MEDICAL PRIMARY CARE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM - Establishes the medical primary care scholarship program to be administered by the commissioner of postsecondary education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7902 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PRIMARY CARE TRAINING SITES PROGRAM - Establishes the primary care training sites program and appropriates $2,700,000 for implementing the program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7900 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Requires the EOHHS to establish an early childhood mental health hub program focused on improving access to infant and early childhood mental health services for childre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8000 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- REDUCED HOUSING RENT PILOT PROGRAM - Establishes and funds an incentive program for landlords to offer reduced rents to eligible tenants. The program would be administered by the state department of housing with an app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8030 | Intro
25% | PARKS AND RECREATIONAL AREAS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Adds to those persons exempt from payment of parking fees at any recreational facility owned and operated by the state those individuals determined by the executive office of HHS, or its designee, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8033 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $150,000 To Women's Fund Of Rhode Island (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $150,000 To The Women's Fund Of Rhode Island To Implement Programs And Initiatives That Seek To Clos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8146 | Pass | House Resolution Extending The Reporting And Expirations Dates And Amending The Purpose Of The Special Legislative Commission To Review And Provide Recommendations For Policies That Deal With Numerous Economic And Social Short-term Rentals Issues (th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
House read and passed |
| 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 | H7480 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Provides a tax credit to individual taxpayers who convert their gas-powered vehicle into a vehicle propelled by an alternative fuel source.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8032 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES - Amends tax law on renewable energy products to exempt certain additional products from sales tax including battery energy storage system equipment, if supplied by a manufacturer of solar photovoltaic equipment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8271 | Pass | House Resolution Celebrating "national Hospital Week" On May 12th Through May 18th, 2024, In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
House read and passed |
| RI | H7213 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- RHODE ISLAND PHYSICAL THERAPIST LICENSURE COMPACT ACT - Allows the state to become a member of the physical therapist licensure compact adopted by twenty-five (25) states in order to facilitate the interstate practice of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7629 | Engross
50% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- INDICTMENTS, INFORMATIONS AND COMPLAINTS - Includes the offense of second-degree sexual assault among the offenses to which there shall be no statute of limitations and provides for a ten (10) year statute of limitations for thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
To Senate Judiciary 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 | H7982 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Amends provisions relative to the application of zoning ordinances pertaining to wetland buffers to projects for development, redevelopment, construction or rehabilitation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | H7323 | Pass | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Allows the town council of Portsmouth, by ordinance or resolution, to exempt Quaker Manor from valuation for taxation or to enter into tax abatement or payment in lieu of taxes agreements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H7759 | Pass | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION - Directs the department of transportation to prepare a monthly "Washington Bridge snapshot report" containing information on the progress of repairs and other actions pertaining to the Was...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7671 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND SUPPLEMENTAL PAYMENTS FOR THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM IN RHODE ISLAND ACT - Directs the allocation of $3,000,000 from the 2025 state budget to provide cash benefits to participants in the supplemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8258 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating The Ponaganset High School Chieftains Wrestling Team On Their Incredibly Successful Season In 2024 As They Repeated As Rhode Island State Champions And As New England Champions
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
House read and passed |
| RI | H7253 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- HIGHER EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES - Establishes the Higher Education Opportunities for Students with Disabilities Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8149 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- ADMINISTRATION - Reduces the number of years from five (5) to three (3), when calculating for retirement purposes, the average of the highest consecutive years of compensation, for state and munic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7125 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSES -- VIOLATIONS - Eliminates the requirement of paying reinstatement fees to restore a person's right to drive.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7339 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION TAX CREDITS - Eliminates the sunset provision for the motion picture production tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7496 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLIMATE CHANGE AND OCEAN PROTECTION YOUTH EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ACT - Establishes the Rhode Island Climate Change and Ocean Protection Youth Education and Workforce Development Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7857 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES -- LEAD BY EXAMPLE ACT - Bans state purchases of plastic bottles and also requires state funds to be used to lease or purchase electric vehicles and renewable energy efficient technologies for use on state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7204 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE HEALTHCARE SERVICES FUNDING PLAN ACT - Amends RI's existing Healthcare Services Funding Plan Act by adding an account relating to a new Psychiatry Resource Network to fund RI's present PediPRN and MomsPRN, as well ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7897 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUGS - Defines step therapy and prohibits certain groups and agreements from requiring prior authorization or a step therapy protocol when prescribing certain medications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To House Finance Committee |
