| RI | H7092 | Intro
25% | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- DEPARTMENT OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS - Mandates, as of 1/1/26, all recovery housing facilities register with department of behavioral healthca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
[Hearing: Jun 4]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7358 | Engross
50% | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- DEER HUNTING - Modifies reporting requirements regarding collisions between vehicles and wildlife where the vehicle has been substantially damaged.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
[Hearing: Jun 4]
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | H7467 | Intro
25% | HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE -- DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE - Directs the governor to select a day and annually order the lowering of flags to half-mast on any state buildings to honor the passing of first responders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
[Hearing: Jun 4]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | H7509 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7517 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- OFFICE OF STATE MEDICAL EXAMINERS - Provides for procedures for the burial of unclaimed remains.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Placed on Senate Calendar (06/06/2024) |
| RI | H7578 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Allows members of the Rhode Island judiciary and their staff to be issued a driver's license that contains the applicant's official business address in lieu of a residence address.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Placed on House Calendar (06/06/2024) |
| RI | H7562 | Engross
50% | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- FURBEARING ANIMALS - Requires the department of environmental management to promulgate by rule, a list of "furbearers" for purposes of the furbearing animals chapter of the general laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Placed on Senate Calendar (06/06/2024) |
| RI | H7627 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study The Feasibility Of Utilizing Federal Title Iv Dollars To Support And Enhance Enrollment In Social Work Education At Ric (creates A 12-member Commission To Study The Feasibility Of Ut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
[Hearing: Jun 4]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | H7798 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- STALKING - Makes it a misdemeanor to harass another person by following them and using an electronic device to record their movements in any public or private place.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Placed on House Calendar (06/06/2024) |
| RI | H7972 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- PUBLIC UTILITIES - Expands the crime of false reporting to include shootings or other dangerous events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Placed on House Calendar (06/06/2024) |
| RI | H8045 | Engross
50% | GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS - Names the intersections of Main Street with Legris Avenue and West Warwick Avenue (Route 117), in the town of West Warwick, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
[Hearing: Jun 4]
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | H8323 | Intro
25% | THE TOWN OF JOHNSTON MUNICIPAL COURT - Totally repeals the 1964 public law, which established the Johnston Municipal Court and which has never been amended and would enable the town of Johnston to establish a municipal court and housing court with ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
[Hearing: Jun 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7303 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7101 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| 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] | 2024-05-29
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| RI | H7264 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MOTOR VEHICLE REPLACEMENT PARTS - Prohibits insurance companies from refusing to use after market parts that are greater than 48 months and less than 72 months from the date of manufacture, provided the repairer has written consent from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| RI | H7015 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- ELECTRICIANS - Clarifies the types of electrical services that require an electrical contractor's license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| RI | H7570 | Engross
50% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Allows law enforcement to utilize mufflers, silencers, or other devices for deadening or muffling the sound of a firearm while acting within the scope of their official duties under the supervision of the police chief o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7795 | Engross
50% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LABOR AND PAYMENT OF DEBTS BY CONTRACTORS - Prohibits contractors and subcontractors from paying employees the cash equivalent of any applicable healthcare benefit in lieu of actually purchasing the healthcare benefit. Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Placed on House Calendar (06/04/2024) |
| RI | H7834 | Engross
50% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- PERSONAL WATERCRAFT SAFETY - Amends the penalty for violating the provisions of the personal watercraft safety act from a misdemeanor to a violation and reduce the fine from five hundred dollars ($500) to a fine of two hundre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| 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] | 2024-05-28
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| RI | H7196 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- THE NATHAN BRUNO AND JASON FLATT ACT - Requires public school districts to adopt a policy for responding to the death of a student or staff member. Also amends the title of chapter 16-21.7 to "The Nathan Bruno, Jason Flatt, and Alicia Bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | H8308 | Pass | House Resolution Welcoming Boys Town New England To The Rhode Island State House On May 23, 2024, And Thanking Them For All The Good Work They Do For Children And For Healing And Bringing Families Together
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
House read and passed |
| 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] | 2024-05-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8287 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming May Of 2024, To Be "jewish American Heritage Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
House read and passed |
| RI | H8014 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- RHODE ISLAND UNIFORM COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE ACT - Provides that commercial driver instruction would include industry-specific training on the recognition, prevention, and reporting of human trafficking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| 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 | H7399 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Creates a sales tax holiday on August 10 and 11, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7447 | Engross
50% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION - Considers election officials and poll workers "public officials" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7187 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Exempts any individual who is aging out of foster care from the payment of any fee associated with the issuance of a operator's license as well as driver's education class fees. The fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7263 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS' BILL OF RIGHTS - Creates the law enforcement officer's due process accountability and transparency act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H7669 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT - Increases the department's standard, burial allowance payment from nine hundred dollars ($900) to one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7896 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - Increases the number of state child care licensing inspectors to meet the national recommended average of one inspector for every fifty (50) to sixty (60) child care providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7904 | Intro
25% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- SUPPORT OF CHILDREN - Repeals the law requiring a parent to pay support and maintenance to agencies having custody of their child
[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 | 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 | H7905 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- TUITION WAIVER PILOT PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE - Establishes the tuition waiver program for children in Rhode Island foster care program. The purpose would be to increase the number of youths in foster care e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7259 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $1,000,000 To The Rhode Island Department Of Labor And Training To Encourage Members Of The State, City, And Town Police Departments To Seek A College Degree (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7498 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES - Allows any peace officer working in a Rhode Island school as a full or part-time resource officer to work in excess of the seventy-five (75) working days in a calendar year, and not have an inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7773 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $1,380,000 To The Rhode Island State Police For The Operation Of A State Police Recruit Training Academy (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $1,380,000 To The Rhode Island State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7915 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICES AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Amends the definition of "domestic partner" for purposes of the retirement system -- contributions and benefits chapter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8005 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $60,000 To The Rhode Island Fire Academy (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $60,000 To The Rhode Island Fire Academy For Training To Extinguish Small To Large Lithium Battery F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8144 | Pass | House Resolution Extending The Reporting And Expirations Dates And Amending The Membership, Findings, And Purpose Of The Special Legislative Commission To Study And Provide Recommendations Pertaining To Services And Coordination Of State Programs Rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H8209 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Requires persons convicted of driving under influence or refusal to submit to chemical test, have an ignition interlock system installed in vehicle as part of sentence and to pay an assessment to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H8223 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION - Considers state government caseworkers or investigators "public officials" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H8249 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating The Week Of May 6th Through May 12th Of 2024, As "national Nurses Week" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
House read and passed |
| RI | H8241 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Requires DCYF to establish segregated savings account for foster care child receiving SS, SSI, veterans benefits or railroad retirement benefits to manage the accounts and k...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7128 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts the trade-in value of trucks weighing fourteen thousand pounds (14,000 lbs.) or less and motorcycles from the sales and use tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7589 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Raises the earned-income tax credit from sixteen percent (16%) to thirty percent (30%) for the tax years 2025 and beyond.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7931 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAX HOLIDAY - Creates a sales and use tax holiday for the second Saturday and Sunday in July, annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
