| H6285 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the implementation of state assessments in Rhode Island public schools and directs the DOE to develop its own state assessments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-11
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5682 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the practice of "public health hygienists" who would be authorized to perform certain dental services in a public health setting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-11
Meeting postponed (06/11/2015) |
| H5477 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits and/or regulates the possession or sale of shark fins.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-11
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| H6195 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Creating A Special House Commission To Study The Issue Of Sexual Assault On College Campuses In The State Of Rhode Island (creates An 11 Member Commission To Study Options To Eliminate The Occurrence Of Sexual Assaults On College Cam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-11
House passed Sub A |
| H6278 | Intro
Sine Die | Prevents municipal firefighters and rescue service personnel from working a regular workweek that exceeds 42 hours and municipal police officers from working a regular workweek that exceeds 40 hours unless otherwise agreed to by the parties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-11
Meeting postponed (06/11/2015) |
| H5977 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds pump installers, and/or water filtration/treatment system contractors to the regulations relating to the drilling of drinking water wells.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5426 | Intro
Sine Die | Gives the contractor's registration and licensing board jurisdiction over pump installers, and/or water filtration/treatment system contractors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5591 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study The Use Of State Owned Land As An Incubator For Green Energy Technology (creates A Seven (7) Member Special Legislative Commission To Study Ways To Use State Owned Land To Assist And...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-10
House passed Sub A |
| H5886 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates economic incentives for the redevelopment and reuse of Rhode Island's historic structures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-10
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5444 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a ten (10) year statute of limitations on the collection of any business tax and/or personal income tax owed to the division of taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-10
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H6103 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the minimum corporate tax to four hundred dollars ($400) for the 2016 tax year, three hundred dollars ($300) for the 2017 tax year, and two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for the 2018 tax year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-10
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5396 | Intro
Sine Die | Entitles airport corporation rescue and firefighters to obtain injured in the line of duty benefits, if so qualified and would include injuries sustained while performing services for the executive military staff.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-10
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H6260 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts qualifying business located within a MED zone in West Warwick from fifty percent (50%) of current sales and use tax for a period of ten (10) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-10
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5582 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a definition of "dyslexia" and makes certain findings about dyslexia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-10
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H6298 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that "little cigars" be taxed at the same rate as cigarettes, be sold in packs of 20 or more, and distinguishes little cigars for purposes of taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-09
To House Finance Committee |
| H6299 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes police officers to provide a verbal warning to a person who is smoking in a vehicle containing a child who is restrained or required to be restrained.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H6239 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the emergency police power rules to include other municipal police officers as being subject to the authority of the requesting police chief and permits campus police and municipal departments to enter into mutual aid agreements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-09
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H6144 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes city and town councils to impose a penalty not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000) for municipal/environmental ordinance violations causing a substantial nuisance to the community.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-09
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H5617 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides additional protections when a mortgage is subject to Servicemember's Civil Relief Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-09
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| H6286 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the "Rhode Island Livable Home Tax Credit Act", and provide for its administration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-05
To House Finance Committee |
| H5714 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the definition of affordable housing for the purposes of RIHMFC.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H6156 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the interest rate on delinquent tax payments to between fifteen percent (15%) and not less than ten percent (10%) and would provide for a reduced interest rate for persons on approved payment plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H6014 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces deferred deposit transaction check-cashing fees from 10% to 9.23% with an APR not to exceed 240%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H6122 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the state fire marshal, chief deputy state fire marshals, the director of the Rhode Island fire academy, and deputy state fire marshals be considered members of the Rhode Island state police for purposes of retirement benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H6267 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Newport Grand Master Video Lottery Terminal Contract and authorizes the division of lotteries to enter into a fourth amendment to the Master Contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5984 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a referendum for public financing or tax relief in connection with a professional baseball stadium.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H6136 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the "I -195 Tax Stabilization Incentive Act" to provide incentives to the city of Providence to enter into property tax stabilization agreement in connection with certain projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H6139 | Intro
Sine Die | Designate certain roads in the City of Providence as state highways and would require the state to be responsible for all maintenance, (re)construction, snow and ice removal, and maintenance of curbs, sidewalks, drainage and traffic signals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H6015 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires quasi-public corporations to present budget revenue requests in line item format detailing expenditures commencing on July 1, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H6100 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds weddings to the list of permissible mixed-uses of farms and farmlands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| H5775 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Requesting The Rhode Island Department Of Administration's Division Of Statewide Planning And The Rhode Island Commerce Corporation To Conduct A Feasibility Study Of Mccoy Stadium
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H6108 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes how the department of human services' elderly/disabled transportation program ($0.01) per gallon allocation of the motor fuel tax so that ($0.0021) is directly transferred to DHS and ($0.0079) is directly transferred to RIPTA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H6279 | Intro
Sine Die | Names a portion of the interstate highway 195 "I-Way", bridge number 1081, after Manuel Q. Ledo and John F. Lopez.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H5546 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that adjunct faculty members at any state college/university who teach at least 50% of the hrs worked by full/time faculty would be eligible for the same state hospital care/surgical/medical service benefit as other state employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H6032 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a community senior services grant program to provide financial assistance to municipalities and nonprofit organizations which operate senior centers and/or senior programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H6266 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the town of Smithfield to maintain grounds utilized by public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5328 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the maximum tax from eight percent (8%) to twelve percent (12%) of gross scheduled rental income to be eligible for low-income housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5211 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends certain provisions of the general laws relative to insurance benefits provided to state retirees and repeals the section of law that ensures retired employees access to Medicare-eligible retiree health care insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H6251 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the general assembly to appropriate the sum of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) for the establishment of a commuter train station in the city of Pawtucket.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5848 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes certain presumptions concerning the use of utilities for tax purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5388 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the designation of a worker as an "independent contractor" form to be filed annually, with a fifty dollar ($50) filing fee with the director of revenue, and not the director of labor and training.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H6181 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes various revisions to the retirement provisions for many state and municipal employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-03
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5854 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases family court filing fee from $120.00 to $160.00.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-03
Meeting postponed (06/04/2015) |
| H6247 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of BHDDH to certify recovery housing facilities and programs for substance abuse treatment. Also, after July 1, 2016, only certified recovery housing will be eligible to receive funding to deliver recovery housing services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-03
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5702 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all health insurance contracts, plans, or policies to provide coverage for the services of pharmacists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-02
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| H6248 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires full payment for all back rent upon stay of execution in landlord/tenant action and establishes rights relating to removal of tenant's personal property when execution is obtained by default.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-02
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5340 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that neither the Public Service Corporation Tax or the Sales Tax, which are paid by customers, would apply to any increase in electricity rates or charges which are greater than those in effect on December 31, 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-28
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5057 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts social security income from state personal income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-28
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H6261 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes persons who are incarcerated ineligible for benefits from the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H5325 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts military pensions from the state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-28
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
