| H5562 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the maximum reimbursement rate for licensed child care providers by five percent (5%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-07
To House Finance Committee |
| H5751 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the state aid funding formula for compensation of school districts for the additional costs of students learning English.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-07
To House Finance Committee |
| H5085 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases income eligibility limit for the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) to 200% of the federal poverty level from 180%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-07
To House Finance Committee |
| H5498 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Rhode Island early childhood innovation fund for the purpose of supporting programs to close the achievement gap that currently exists for at-risk children as they enter kindergarten.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-07
To House Finance Committee |
| H5495 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a mental health consumer advocate and wellness recovery center to provide support for those suffering from mental health issues and would appropriate two-hundred ninety five thousand dollars ($295,000) to operate the program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-07
To House Finance Committee |
| H5252 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes aging/disability resource center within division of elderly affairs as part of long-term care system for elderly/disabled persons/family caregivers/providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-07
To House Finance Committee |
| H5890 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a two percent (2%) regionalization bonus to all regionalized school districts commencing in Fiscal Year 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-07
To House Finance Committee |
| H5289 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires reimbursement payments from the general fund to volunteer fire departments and ambulance organizations responding to emergencies on or along Route 95.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-07
To House Finance Committee |
| H5173 | Intro
Sine Die | Reinstates free RIPTA bus fares for elderly and disabled riders who meet means test criteria.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-07
To House Finance Committee |
| H5284 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that for the purpose of determining income limitations for receiving general public assistance, child support that is in arrears for thirty (30) days or more would not be considered to be income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-07
To House Finance Committee |
| H5694 | Intro
Sine Die | Validates certain conveyancing defects in various instruments executed by or affecting grantors, grantees, business entities, powers of attorney, probate fiduciaries, mortgage discharges and foreclosures or certain clerical defects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5138 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts qualified plug-in electric drive vehicles from excise taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To House Finance Committee |
| H6074 | Intro
Sine Die | Abolishes city and town taxes on tangible personal property, and provide for the state to reimburse each municipality for the lost revenue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To House Finance Committee |
| H6257 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the involuntary commitment of drug and intoxicating substance abusers who are a danger to themselves or others.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5912 | Intro
Sine Die | Subjects residential properties which are a part of certain federal programs to a 12% tax of the prior year's rental income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To House Finance Committee |
| H6267 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the reduction and elimination of the motor vehicle excise tax. Also provides that cities, towns, and fire districts would be reimbursed for the revenues lost by the reduction and elimination of the excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To House Finance Committee |
| H5335 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes the real and personal property of the East Bay Educational Collaborative exempt from state taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To House Finance Committee |
| H5250 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires cities and towns to use the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) trade-in value for motor vehicles assessed as of December 31, 2016 and thereafter for purposes of the tangible personal property tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To House Finance Committee |
| H5559 | Intro
Sine Die | Caps the excise tax on vehicles aged fifteen (15) years and older at the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To House Finance Committee |
| H5249 | 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] | 2017-06-06
To House Finance Committee |
| H6201 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds to the Rhode Island commerce corporation two (2) public members appointed by the governor, employed as senior managers in companies having the majority of their business in the defense industry and having facilities located in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To House Corporations Committee |
| H6200 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study The Feasibility Of Phasing Out The Sales Tax Imposed On The Sale Of Used Motor Vehicles (creates A 5 Member Commission To Study The Feasibility Of Phasing Out The Sales Tax Imposed O...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To House Finance Committee |
| H5785 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the excise tax on motor vehicles and replace it with user and product landing fees to be administered by the department of revenue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To House Finance Committee |
| H5163 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the reduction and elimination of the motor vehicle excise tax over a five (5) year period, from fiscal year 2018 to fiscal year 2022. The tax would be completely eliminated by fiscal year 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To House Finance Committee |
| H5281 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under eight thousand one hundred pounds (8,100 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H5355 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the sales and use tax, commencing July 1, 2017, from the current level of seven percent (7%) in yearly increments of one quarter percent (.25%), until the level of six and one quarter percent (6.25%) is reached.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H5248 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts containers and storage devices designed for safe storage of guns from sale and use tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H5166 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from sales and use taxes the sale of cremation urns for humans and pets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H6245 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Providence Country Day School a Rhode Island nonprofit corporation, located in East Providence, Rhode Island, effective as of December 31, 2011.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H5164 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the sales tax on pet care services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H5022 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a sales tax holiday for the days of August 12, 2017 and August 13, 2017 and no excise or sales taxes would be collected on non-business sales of tangible personal property with certain exceptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H5282 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the trade-in values of motorcycles from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H5380 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the sales and use tax the sale of beer and malt beverages at retail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H5283 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under six thousand pounds (6,000 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H6265 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the real and personal property of the nonprofit Sancutari, Inc. from taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| H5770 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that any person who has a retail sales permit would not be required to pay a separate registration fee to make sales at flea markets; however, the person remains responsible to pay all taxes due as a result of sales at a flea market.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H6272 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a pilot program to promote the creation of roof solar installations on school property in order to reduce the use of fossil fuels and to generate electricity in school buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H5142 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates assessment of sales and use tax on taxicab services effective July 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H6173 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from sales and use taxes specialized packaging equipment such as kegs for alcoholic beverages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H5247 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that effective January 1, 2018, delivery charges would not be subject to either a sales or use tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H6005 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the sales and use tax from seven percent (7%) to three percent (3%) effective July 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H6127 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Provide Recommendations On The Feasibility Of Reducing The State's Sales Tax To Three Percent (creates A 10 Member Commission To Study And Provide Recommendations On The Feasibil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H5979 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that in the event sales and use tax revenue exceeds projections, then in such event the tax administrator would reduce the sales tax rate by one percent (1%) until the end of the fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H5771 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the local hotel tax rate from one percent to two and one-half percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H5497 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the trade-in value of trucks up to fifteen thousand pounds (15,000 lbs.) gross vehicle weight from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H5787 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a tax on sugary drinks for the purpose of reducing the demand for those beverages, and discouraging the excessive consumption of, sugary drinks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H5377 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the sales tax products used for feminine hygiene in connection with the menstrual cycle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H6199 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from taxation the donation of alcoholic beverages to nonprofit organizations that are exempt from federal taxation under §501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H5832 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the portion of an automobile lease agreement relating to the reimbursement of the motor vehicle dealer/lessor for the assessment of excise tax by the state and/or the tangible personal property tax by any city or town commencing July 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| H5560 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the personal income tax rates, with the revenue collected therefrom to be deposited into a restricted receipt account for the purpose of reimbursement to municipalities for public school construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
To House Finance Committee |
