| RI | H7736 | Engross 50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ALCOHOLISM - Requires the dept of behavioral healthcare/developmental disabilities/hospitals to coordinate with the DOH to propose revisions to chapter 1.10 and 10.1 of title 23, including updates and revisions of statutory langu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7210 | Intro 25% | THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE - Provides amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code for emerging technologies. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10 [Hearing: May 16] To House Corporations 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] | 2024-05-10 [Hearing: May 14]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | H7476 | Intro 25% | ELECTIONS -- STATEWIDE REFERENDA ELECTIONS - Amends certain election statutes to require ballot questions be written in plain language reasonably calculated to be understood by persons with an eighth-grade reading level. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10 Placed on House Calendar (05/14/2024) |
| RI | H7603 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RESIDENTIAL SOLAR ENERGY DISCLOSURE AND HOMEOWNERS BILL OF RIGHTS ACT - Repeals the "Residential Solar Energy Disclosure and Homeowners Bill of Rights Act." Amends title 5 "Businesses and Professions" to include a new... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10 Placed on House Calendar (05/14/2024) |
| 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] | 2024-05-10 [Hearing: May 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] | 2024-05-10 [Hearing: May 15] To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8002 | Intro 25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To Day One, Rhode Island's Sexual Assault Coalition And Rape Crisis Center (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 To Day One.) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10 [Hearing: May 15] To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8071 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT - Does not require the remediation of occurring arsenic in the soil with direct exposure of less than or equal to twenty (20) milligrams per kilogram. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10 [Hearing: May 14]
Proposed Substitute |
| 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] | 2024-05-10 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8265 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- TIVERTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE FINANCIAL REPORTS ACT - Authorizes the Town of Tiverton to require the school committee and quasi-municipal entities to provide regular financial reports to the chief financial officer or other designated town o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10 To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7123 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Eliminates the sunset on the provision of finding for child care for eligible child care educators and child care staff. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7122 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Removes the requirement that families consent to, and cooperate with the department of human services in establishing paternity and enforcing child and medical support orders as a condition of eligib... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7124 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND CHILDCARE ESSENTIAL ACT - Creates the Rhode Island Child Care Assistance Program that governs both family eligibility for the state's child care subsidy program and the rates paid to child care providers serving familie... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8224 | Intro 25% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Allows for the issuance of Class BV liquor licenses for the properties located at 94 Carpenter Street and 1023 Broad Street, both in the city of Providence. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H8256 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming And Celebrating May 10, 2024, As "child Care Awareness Day" In The State Of Rhode Island [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 House read and passed |
| RI | H8255 | Intro 25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To The Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 To The Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence.) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7075 | Engross 50% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Provides that the trapping and subsequent release of any unowned feral or free roaming cat for the purpose of spaying or neutering of the cat would not be considered abandonment. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07 House read and passed |
| RI | H7032 | Intro 25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- AWARD OF MUNICIPAL CONTRACTS - Increases the maximum state and municipal small purchase limits from $10,000 to $25,000 for construction projects and from $5,000 to $10,000 for all other state and municipal purchases. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7424 | Engross 50% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- FILING OF ASSUMED NAME - Changes the term "assumed name" to "trade name" and centralizes the filing, administration and regulation process of trade names to the secretary of state and requires an ann... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07 Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| RI | H7571 | Engross 50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CASINO GAMING - Amends the law consistent with the advent of iGaming and new technology. It also codifies the payment of investigatory expenses incurred by the State in limited circumstances. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07 House passed Sub A |
| 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 | 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 | H7951 | Engross 50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RHODE ISLAND COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING AND LAND USE ACT - Provides amendments relative to the compliance and implementation of the comprehensive planning and use act including the conditions upon which limitations may be placed on la... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07 House passed Sub A |
| 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 | H8244 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- VIDEO LOTTERY GAMES, TABLE GAMES AND SPORTS WAGERING - Increases the maximum amount of credit a video lottery retailer may extend to a patron and would authorize certain amendments to the regulatory agreement involving... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 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 | H7371 | Intro 25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- FAMILY COURT - Gives statewide juvenile hearing boards the authority to refer a juvenile offender to a rehabilitative driving course, as part of a disposition of an offense before the board. The order may be en... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 House passed as amended (floor amendment) |
| 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 | H8230 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating "holocaust Remembrance Day" On May 6, 2024 [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 House read and passed |
| RI | H8229 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming May Of 2024, To Be "motorcycle Awareness Month" In The State Of Rhode Island, And Joyously Celebrates The 50th Anniversary Of The Rhode Island Motorcycle Association [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 House read and passed |
| RI | H8161 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION - Allows the executive office of health and human services to use appropriated funds to support graduate medical education programs and research. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8225 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- DRIVER PRIVILEGE CARDS AND PERMITS - Prohibits driver privilege cards and state identification cards from containing any bar codes on the card that can be scanned and used for voting purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7050 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT -- SHERRY'S LAW - Increases minimum sentence for first degree sexual assault and provides first 10 years of a sentence for first degree sexual assault not be subject to a suspension or deferment of sentence. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To House Judiciary Committee |
| 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 | 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 | H7485 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Allows a modification for all taxable pension and/or annuity income includible in federal adjusted gross income for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7588 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Phases in modifications to federal adjusted gross income over a four (4) year period for social security income, from twenty percent (20%) up to eighty percent (80%), beginning on or after January 1, 2025. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8129 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES - Includes visual images that are created or manipulated by digitization, or without the consent of the person, within the purview of the crime of unauthorized dissemination of indecent material and exp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 To House Judiciary Committee |
| 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 | H7949 | Engross 50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND - Makes amendments to various provisions relative to subdivision of land review, review stages, special provisions related to development and the procedures for approvals from various permitting authorities. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7407 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- ORGAN DONATION LEAVE TAX CREDIT - Provides tax credits to any private entity that gives paid time off to an employee who is an organ donor. [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 | H7717 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT - Requires healthcare plans in RI to notify providers of any proposed amendments to an agreement 60 days before the effective date and requires 60 days notice of any amendment to a manu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7743 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- TRIAL - Allows a criminal defendant before the superior court to waive their right to a jury trial with the consent of the attorney general. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11 To House Judiciary 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 | H8167 | Pass | House Resolution Reaffirming The Friendship Between The State Of Rhode Island And Taiwan While Supporting Enhanced Bilateral Relations With Taiwan And Taiwan's Participation In The International Community [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11 House read and passed |
| 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 | 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 |