| H7418 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a five hundred dollars ($500) fine for first and second convictions for willful trespass, in addition to fines of one thousand dollars ($1000) for third or subsequent convictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2274 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from state taxation the machinery, equipment, and tangible personal property of an unregulated renewable energy system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2190 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a residential renewable energy systems tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7247 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires persons convicted of crimes of violence to serve half their sentence before being eligible for parole.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (02/23/2016) |
| H7638 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the thirty (30) day mail notice requirement which must be provided to those owing overdue court fees due prior to their names being published.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7593 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the state fire marshal, chief deputy state fire marshals, 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] | 2016-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| H7562 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the excise tax any vehicle or trailer with a valuation of five thousand dollars ($5,000) or less.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| S2447 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts purchases for telecommunication service purposes from sales and use taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2410 | 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] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2438 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for revenue sharing with municipalities commencing in FY 2017, based upon three percent (3%) of total state income tax revenues. It would also impose a 2% tax increase on personal income over $250,000 commencing January 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2444 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows owners of vehicles subject to road tolls to register for 2 year period with the same registration fee as would have been applied to a one year registration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7354 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that individuals employed in medical/dental healthcare practices other than hospitals are subject to the Sunday/holiday pay with DLT director prohibited from granting exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Labor Committee |
| S2246 | Pass | Authorizes the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority to enter into contracts to operate and manage toll facilities on state roads and to impose tolls on large trucks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Signed by Governor |
| H7366 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows street light customers paying for lighting services to make investments use purchased equipment with access agreements provided by electric distributors and net metering based on total billed consumption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H7356 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits employees who are covered by employer-sponsored disability insurance programs to elect to be exempt from the state TDI program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Labor Committee |
| S2408 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits tortfeasor liability to several only if defendant’s act or omission constituted no more than (25% of the plaintiff's damages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7409 | Pass | Authorizes the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority to enter into contracts to operate and manage toll facilities on state roads and imposes tolls on such roads.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Signed by Governor |
| S2430 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the trade-in value of motorcycles from sales and use taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2439 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from state taxation certain pension benefits that originate from another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7564 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the Rhode Island Tax Amnesty Acts of 1986, 1996, 2006, and 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| H7558 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any law authorizing a tax preference enacted after January 1, 2017 to contain specific goals and objectives and provides for detailed performance indicators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| H7411 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the director of the department of environmental management to issue violations and penalties for violations of provisions of the general laws regarding the Rhode Island infrastructure bank.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H7280 | 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] | 2016-02-11
To House Labor Committee |
| S2452 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates tax incentives for the installation of alternative fuel facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7355 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds siblings to class of workers who can receive temporary disability for caregiver services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Labor Committee |
| S2398 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides parents of K-12 students with opportunity to enroll their child in an educational program of their choosing with designated public monies to follow the student to school selected by parent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2432 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the imposition of a two percent (2%) tax increase on personal income over two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) commencing January 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7549 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a procedure for the timely payment to contractors and subcontractors in connection with state contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| S2347 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from taxation open air structures that are used for the sheltering and/or feeding and watering of animals utilized in connection with agricultural operations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2090 | 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] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| H7548 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state and municipalities to award bids for the purchase of goods or services to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H7553 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates that health employees working for state operated community and residential facilities receive a minimum of $13.97 per hour and that such rate would be adjusted annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| S2348 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts qualified plug-in electric drive vehicles from excise taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2352 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the tax increment financing act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2363 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts some political contributions by state vendors and prohibits state vendors from making political contributions to candidates for the office responsible for awarding those state vendor contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2353 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires municipalities to include a 20 year amortization schedule with its annual report every 3 years and provides an alternative funding critical status funding plan to state officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7550 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies depreciation with respect to the net book value of a company's tangible personal property, by providing that the accumulated depreciation reduction takes into account physical deterioration and functional and economic obsolescence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H7135 | Pass | Allows Dan E. Blackstone to join Teresa Garcia and Jeffery Perez in marriage on or about February 13, 2016, within the town of Westerly, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| S2346 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the tax per gallon on all taxable gallons of gasoline sold or used in this state from thirty-two cents ($0.32) per gallon to twenty-eight cents ($0.28) per gallon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2355 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provisions of the general laws which authorize cities, towns, and redevelopment agencies to make rehabilitation loans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7255 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all food businesses, with the exception of restaurants, that have gross sales of over $500,000 to post a sign informing their customers that all their food products contain modified organisms, unless their labels say otherwise.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2285 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the "Start-Up Rhode Island Act" to allow for the establishment of certain tax free zones in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7082 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that any genetically-engineered foods be labeled as such.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2232 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that operators of motor vehicles use only hands-free mobile electronic communication devices and provides for monetary penalties for violations of said requirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7088 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes operators of developmental disability agencies, acting as a group, to self-insure health care costs for employees, retirees and other beneficiaries and allows a third-party administrator to administer said program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7415 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the secretary of state to the board of elections as a nonvoting ex officio member. It also requires the board of canvassers to clearly mark the fifty foot (50') buffer zone at each polling place, where political campaigning is prohibited.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2275 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds enterprise zone tax credits to list available to taxpayers in computing state personal income tax liability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2289 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals authorization for various cities and towns to enter into tax stabilization agreements and provides for certain tax exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7314 | Intro
Sine Die | Subjects the state board of elections to the provisions of the administrative procedures act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2270 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes from Rhode Island state taxation portions of pension benefits that originate in and were subject to taxation in another state
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
