| 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 |
| S0904 | Intro
Sine Die | Simplifies and clarifies the rules governing lobbying.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0553 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate Resolution Respectfully Requesting The Secretary Of The Executive Office Of Health And Human Services And The Chief Justice Of The Rhode Island Family Court Convene A Task Force With The Goal Of Focusing On Improving Communications, Coordinati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-04
Senate passed Sub A |
| 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 |
| S0233 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides state college or university adjunct faculty members teaching at least 50% of hours regularly worked by full-time faculty be eligible for same state hospital care and suggested surgical-medical service as other state employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-03
Meeting postponed (06/04/2015) |
| 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 |
| S0812 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows cities and towns and other governmental units to enter into agreements to provide shared services, activities and facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-02
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0544 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a Rhode Island income tax deduction for medical and dental expenses not covered by insurance, provided the taxpayer qualifies for the deduction under federal law (26 U.S.C. 213).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-02
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 |
| S0895 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health care insurance policies/benefit plans to include a step therapy protocol for policies/plans delivered, issued and renewed effective January 1, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-02
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0791 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for medical marijuana cultivation centers and establishes a regulatory system for same.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-02
Committee recommended measure 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 |
| S0051 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with preventing and detecting fraud, waste and abuse, and mismanagement in the expenditure of public funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-02
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0471 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts alcoholic beverages sold by farmer-wineries and distilleries from the imposition of sales and use taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-02
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0508 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a primary caregiver cardholder to possess a reasonable amount of unusable marijuana, including up to twelve (12) seedlings, and creates a distinction between mature plants and seedlings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-02
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0047 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of direct cash assistance funds on electronic benefit cards for the purchase of certain items.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-02
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0392 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows retired state employee nurses to work as professors in the nursing program at a state college. It would allow them to work seventy-five (75) days or one hundred fifty (150) half days before their pension payments would be suspended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-02
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0724 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires, prior to the award of authority, that all bidders for public works contracts provide a list of the subcontractors to be utilized.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-02
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| S0924 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the manufacture of marijuana using solvent extraction process, that includes the use of a compressed, flammable gas as a solvent, would not be subject to the protections of medical marijuana statute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-02
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0510 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the state's prohibition on adults using, possessing, and cultivating marijuana for personal use and establishes a system of regulated marijuana retail distribution to adults 21 and older & imposes taxes at both the wholesale and retail level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-02
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0108 | Intro
Sine Die | Gradually make fire districts in Coventry subject to the maximum levy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-02
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0494 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement that nonprofit hospital, medical and dental service corporations obtain written approval from the insurance commissioner before being allowed to hire persons on a commission basis to solicit subscribers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-02
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0441 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines and regulates the use of electronic marijuana delivery system products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-02
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0161 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires reimbursement payments from the general fund to volunteer fire departments responding to emergencies on or along Route 95.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-02
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0876 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes various revisions to the retirement provisions for many state and municipal employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-01
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S0165 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts ancillary services provided to customers of rental companies that are unrelated to airport access from airport access fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-28
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 |
| S0213 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts purchases for telecommunication service purposes from sales and use taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-28
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| 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 |
| H6180 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides protections against wage differentials based solely on sex.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-28
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5336 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the West Warwick municipal economic zone to the entire state in all municipally designated and state approved "growth centers" as defined by the Land-Use 2025 element of the state guide plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-28
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5391 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the amount of military pension which is included in federal adjusted gross income from the state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-28
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5207 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts all retirement income from personal income tax for those individuals who have attained the age used for calculating the maximum social security retirement benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-28
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5446 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from state taxation certain pension benefits that originate from another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-28
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5056 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts retirement and social security income from state personal income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-28
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5116 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a financial incentive for business entities to create new jobs by offering a business tax reduction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-28
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (05/28/2015) |
| H5209 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that estates be taxed at a rate equal to federal revenue act for estate, inheritance, and succession taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-28
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5203 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts retirement income from state personal income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-28
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5562 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that corporations with more than fifty (50) employees would be subject to a minimum corporate tax two hundred fifty dollars, ($250).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-28
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| H5852 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for tax refunds in connection with motion picture production tax credits, and further extends the program to July 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-28
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
