| H8088 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the state sales tax the purchase of envelopes by a company engaged in the printing business, and creates a presumption that such envelopes are intended for purchase for resale.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-04
To House Finance Committee |
| H7716 | 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] | 2016-05-04
To House Finance Committee |
| H7717 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts Rhode Island teacher pensions from personal income tax for state residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-04
To House Finance Committee |
| H7183 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from state taxation certain pension benefits that originate from another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-04
To House Finance Committee |
| H7212 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes tax increases on personal income, with the revenue collected therefrom to be deposited into restricted receipt accounts for the purposes of state aid to municipalities, and reimbursement of public school construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-04
To House Finance Committee |
| H7229 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts certain retirement income from state personal income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-04
To House Finance Committee |
| H7729 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes for the purposes of Rhode Island state income taxes, the first twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) of military retirement income, paid by the state or federal government, to persons sixty-five (65) years or older.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-04
To House Finance Committee |
| H7104 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the deduction from the state income tax for contributions to the tuition savings program from $500 to $1,000 for an individual and from $1,000 to $2,000 for a joint return.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-04
To House Finance Committee |
| H7210 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts military pension income from personal income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-04
To House Finance Committee |
| H7270 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that estates in Rhode Island be taxed at a rate equal to the maximum credit for state death taxes allowed by the federal revenue act, which exemption is set at five million three hundred forty thousand dollars ($5,340,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-04
To House Finance Committee |
| H7375 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the "Remote Sales Tax collection Act" to enable the state to collect sales and use taxes from out-of-state retailers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-04
To House Finance Committee |
| H7788 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that in the event sales and use tax revenue exceeds projections, then in such event the tax administrator shall reduce the sales tax rate by one percent (1%) until the end of the fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-04
To House Finance Committee |
| H7383 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the estate tax property used in the conduct of a trade or business to the value of five million dollars ($5,000,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7233 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the sales tax on taxi and other transit and ground passenger transportation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7010 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a sales/use tax holiday on August 6, 2016, only subject to renewal/continuation by the general assembly for future years thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7348 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from sales/use tax any portion of motor vehicle lease payments collected for tangible personal property, municipal property, excise or any other similar tax effective 7/1/16.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7737 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the legal minimum age to purchase tobacco products and nicotine-delivery systems from eighteen (18) to twenty-one (21).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7994 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows those individuals who pay part or all of the cost of a renewable energy system to carry over the tax credit, if not used for the year of installation, to the next year for a maximum of 3 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7230 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies statutory language defining retailers entering agreements with residents who refer potential customers by links to internet sites for purpose of computation of sales/use taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7714 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts feminine hygiene and some home health care products from sales tax, and reduces the clothing exemption from $250 to $240.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7733 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that a fifteen percent (15%) minimum markup be added to the total cost of cigarettes sold by retailers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7069 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the collection of a sales or use tax on that portion of a motor vehicle lease payment representing taxes payable by the lessor on the leased motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7732 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the estate tax the value of a qualified small business valued at an amount not greater than $5,000,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7713 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a tax credit in connection with the installation of charging stations for electric-operated vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7380 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the filing for limited liability partnerships to a flat fee of one hundred fifty dollars ($150) and the renewal fee to a flat fee of fifty dollars ($50.00).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7373 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the tax imposed on little cigars be imposed in the same manner as the tax imposed on cigarettes, that 25% of such revenue would be applied to smoking cessation programs, would provide that little cigars be sold in packs of (20) or more.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7266 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces licensing fee for distilleries producing less than 50,000 gallons to $500, and grants a manufacturing tax exemption on first 50,000 gallons for instate distribution by RI distilleries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7497 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a 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] | 2016-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7724 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the imposition of the tax on hard-to-dispose material.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7560 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the maximum weekly unemployment benefit rate to the higher of fifty-seven and one-half percent (57.5%) of the average weekly wages paid to workers in the prior calendar year or six hundred sixteen dollars ($616) per week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7068 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a sales tax holiday for the days of August 6, 2016 and August 7, and no excise or sales taxes would be collected on nonbusiness sales of tangible personal property with certain exceptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7103 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from sales and use taxes devices designed for purpose of safe firearms storage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H8116 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides funds to dual enrollment students to offset a portion of students' costs relating to transportation, textbooks, curriculum/instruction support and cost of education/fees imposed by the RIDE for the 2016-2017 school year and annually thereaft...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-29
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H7346 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the time a retirement system member may work for municipalities without any forfeiture/reduction of retirement benefits from 75 to 90 days and from 150 to 180 half-days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7889 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the apprenticeship program fee which shall be paid by each program sponsor and it would also repeal the apprenticeship registration fee which shall be paid by each indentured apprentice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7556 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits state from reducing its yearly contribution to the pension system until fund ratio meets or exceeds 80%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7108 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases education aid to a community based on community's meeting and surpassing minimum low and moderate income housing requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7234 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for additional appropriations by the general assembly to promote the capability of URI in the areas of environmental and agricultural research and education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H8117 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $250,000 For The Trinity Repertory Company Project Discovery Program (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $250,000 To The Trinity Repertory Company Project Discovery Program.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7181 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the monthly minimum benefits of spouses and domestic partners of retired teachers, and authorizes additional yearly non-compounded adjustments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7265 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for payment responsibility of sending district to school department of East Providence for any child attending Bradley Hospital.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7345 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) to the Westerly Higher Education and Job Skills Center, for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7460 | Intro
Sine Die | Legalizes the taking of wild migratory birds by crossbow.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H7725 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits retired teachers to exceed earnings limits if the department of education determines there is a shortage of teachers in their subject.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7182 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds tutoring to a list of occupations that may be performed without impairment of state retirement benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7595 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows retired nurses to be employed at state colleges for up to 75 days or 150 half days before their pension payment would be suspended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7235 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to use separate collection categories and tabulations for specified Asian ethnic groups in every demographic report on ancestry or ethnic origins of residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7439 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state to pay for the education of students placed in group homes outside of their municipality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7374 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the "Student Equal Economic Opportunity Act" which would identify those students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition at public universities, colleges or community colleges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7428 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes "The Performance Funding Act of 2016" that would provide that new, unrestricted funding, for Rhode Island's postsecondary state schools be based upon certain performance measures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
