| 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 |
| S2019 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides the creation of a new charter public school or the expansion of an existing charter public school would require approval from the city or town council of each sending school district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
Committee heard |
| S2739 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides new rules and procedures regarding the funding of charter public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
Committee heard |
| S2026 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates provisions of §16-7-34.3 re: reimbursement by the state for conventional public housing students and adds language to §16-7.2-6 providing permanent foundation education aid funding for services for students residing in such housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
Committee heard |
| 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 |
| S2037 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the calculation of the permanent foundation education aid to school districts and makes an adjustment based upon students residing in qualified low-income housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
Committee heard |
| S2742 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that beginning in FY 2017, the state would pay the local share of charter public school tuition for school districts with charter public school enrollments that total more than five percent (5%) all students in those districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
Committee heard |
| S2674 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires livestock dealers to follow standards adopted by the livestock welfare and care standards advisory council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To Senate Environment and Agriculture 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 |
| S2637 | Intro
Sine Die | Accelerates the transition plan for calculation of state aid to education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
Committee heard |
| 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 |
| S2222 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a chief innovation officer to the governors list of appointments to be made following an election to office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2671 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes district-charter compacts between charter schools and traditional public schools. Would establish a compact fund from appropriations by the general assembly as well as grants, gifts and bequests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-03
Committee heard |
| 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 |
| S2308 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises access to public records charter re: definitions of public body public record, right to inspect, copy records, arrest logs, compliance, costs, court jurisdiction, remedies, claims settlement, violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| 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 |
| S2690 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits opticians to sell or dispense contact lenses when presented with a prescription from a licensed optometrist or physician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2873 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a charging hospital from charging a risk bearing hospital, or the insurer(s) for the cost of an unduplicated service provided at the charging hospital, more than (110%) of the lowest rate the charging hospital accepts from any insurer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2684 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes for the purposes of Rhode Island state income taxes, the first ten thousand dollars ($10,000) of military retirement income, paid by the state or federal government, to persons sixty (60) years or older.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| S2882 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for an expedited procedure for zoning variances to help manage various states of emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
To Senate Judiciary 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 |
| S2027 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes from the state income tax the amount resulting from the receipt of a veteran's disability pension from the United States government for a service-connected disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| 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 |
| S2451 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts governmental pensions and military pensions from state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| 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 |
| S2445 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for property tax and motor vehicle tax exemption for veterans and their spouses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| 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 |
| S2345 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the right to property tax relief to any veteran honorably discharged by eliminating references to particular conflicts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| S2048 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies federal adjusted gross income for state income tax purposes by deducting military/federal pension income including survivorship annuities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| S2047 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the portion of a military pension which is included in federal adjusted gross income from the state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| 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 |
| S2149 | 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] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| 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 |
| S2354 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds honorably discharged disabled veterans who purchase a new motor vehicle to the category of certain veterans exempt from sales and use taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-28
Committee heard |
| 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 |
