| S0312 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts houses, condominiums, and other residential dwelling units from state sales or hotel tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0403 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that no person shall knowingly purchase or otherwise obtain a firearm on behalf of or transfer to a person who the transferor knows or reasonably should know is prohibited from possessing or receiving a firearm under federal or state law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0148 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits changing hospital from charging risk bearing hospital insurer for cost of unduplicated service more than 100% of lowest rate changing hospital accepts from insurer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| S0640 | Intro
Sine Die | Maintains the forty-seven percent (47%) distribution percentage with respect to hotel tax proceeds generated in the various regional tourism districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0187 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits carrying of firearms on school grounds to peace officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0204 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the earned income tax credit from fifteen percent (15%) to twenty percent (20%) for the tax years 2017 and beyond.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0251 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the exemptions for taxable retirement income to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000). This increased exemption would apply to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0308 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for revenue sharing with municipalities commencing in FY 2018, 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, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0037 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a 10 year period in which tax administrator would have to commence a collection action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0706 | Intro
Sine Die | Subtracts from the federal adjusted gross income, recovery of Rhode Island income taxes attributable to any amount deducted for federal income taxes in any prior tax year for the purposes of calculation of the same income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0832 | 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] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0215 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the refundable state earned income credit from fifteen percent (15%) to twenty-five percent (25%) for the 2018 taxable year, and each taxable year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0027 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for subtraction of up to $20,000 in taxable pension or annuity income from adjusted gross income beginning in tax year 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0314 | Intro
Sine Die | Subtracts state tax refunds, paid to an individual in the previous year, from federal adjusted gross income, for purposes of the state income tax for tax years beginning January 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0456 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that when calculating the income for Federal income tax purposes, there may be subtracted from Federal adjusted gross income up to $15,000 of the taxable portion of the retirement income provided in a taxpayer's Federal income tax return.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0833 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires attachments and executions to describe real estate with particularity by using the recorded legal description, or metes and bounds, street address or assessors plat and lot number.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0926 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that nomination papers for certain candidates for citywide nonpartisan office in the city of Woonsocket would require at least one hundred (100) signatures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| S0758 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds to the protection afforded to subcontractors on public work contracts, and provides for the award of reasonable attorneys' fees and costs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0311 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes 2% tax increase on personal income over $250,000 effective January 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0042 | 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] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0028 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2018, a taxpayer entitled to a federal earned-income credit shall be allowed a state earned-income credit equal to 18% of the federal earned-income credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0323 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from personal income tax the first $25,000 a taxpayer received from pensions, interest income, 401K plans and individual retirement accounts, and up to $50,000 for joint filers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0034 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from state taxation certain pension benefits that originate from, and were taxed in another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0451 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases credit against RI estate tax from $64,400 to $99,600 for decedents dying after 12/31/17 which is equivalent to estate tax exemption of $2,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0564 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a one-time tax credit up to two hundred fifty dollars ($250) per dependent child for certain Rhode Island households who contribute to an account under the Rhode Island college bound tuition savings program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0259 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a nineteen percent (19%) carried interest fairness fee for investment management services in order to tax the carried interest income of hedge fund and private equity investors as traditional ordinary earned income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0490 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides insurance for infertility regardless of marital status and also increases the maximum treatment age from 40 years to 42 years. Also redefines the term "infertility" to mean a woman who is unable to sustain a pregnancy during a period of 1 ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Corporations Committee |
| S0499 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for a nurse to delegate tasks to nursing assistants and authorizes the department of health to promulgate regulations that delineate delegable tasks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0731 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires local district payments to Davies, and the Met Center schools only for those periods where a student is both enrolled and physically present in attendance at those schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To Senate Education Committee |
| S0189 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the "Healthy Workplace Act of 2017" and establishes a cause of action against employers and employees for workplace bullying, harassment and other abusive conduct that is tolerated by employers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-31
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S0660 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement of notice to husband of a patient before an abortion procedure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0444 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the creation of a state sponsored loan program to help pay off student debt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0892 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the Cumberland Town Council to establish limits on the number of students from the Cumberland school district who may enroll in any charter public school, Davies, and the Met Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0125 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the maximum tax for qualifying low income housing from eight percent (8%) to ten percent (10%) of the property's previous year's gross scheduled rental income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0255 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the interest rate on delinquent tax payments from between 21% and not less than 18% to between 15% and not less than 10% and provides for a reduced interest rate for persons on approved payment plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0114 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits a municipality, in which twelve percent (12%) of the housing in a municipality qualifies for low-income housing, to charge a tax up to ten percent (10%) of the current year's gross scheduled rental income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0690 | 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] | 2017-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0474 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provisions of the Stay Invested in RI Wavemaker Fellowship, and establishes the Stay Invested in RI Tax Credit to provide eligible taxpayers with a tax credit for educational loan repayment expenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0922 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a definition for "manufacturer" for purposes of providing a tax credit application exemption to certain projects under the RI Tax Credit Act to include occupants that are manufacturers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0921 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts projects governed by the RI Industrial Facilities Corporation Act and approved after 6/30/2017, from the payment of sales tax applicable to materials/furniture/fixtures/equipment used in the construction/reconstruction/rehab of the project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0920 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a reduction to local per pupil funding for state-operated schools that do not have teachers who participate in the state teacher's retirement system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0274 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the state from interfering with a woman's decision to prevent, commence, continue, or terminate a pregnancy prior to fetal viability, or restricting the use or manner of medically recognized methods of contraception or abortion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0128 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the maximum tax on qualifying low-income property from eight percent (8%) of the previous year's gross scheduled rental income to ten percent (10%) of prospective year's gross scheduled rental income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0713 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines snow removal contracts between service providers and service receivers and limit liability between them and declare indemnity agreements void as against public policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0488 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "individualized program plan" for purposes of the state's division of developmental disabilities to include evaluation of skill sets taught by outside sources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0810 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Rhode Island cooperative water authority. The authority would have the power to acquire, lease, manage, sell, and otherwise deal with land and water supply systems and authorized to issue bonds and notes in furtherance of its mission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| S0804 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulates fiduciary and designated recipient access to digital assets relating to probate practice and procedure by creating the "Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act" to promote uniformity of the law among states that enact it.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0899 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a person, who has waived their right to an adjudicatory hearing, to pay an administrative penalty. Interest would accrue, where payment is late, at a rate of 12% per annum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0836 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the July 1, 2018 sunset provision imposed by Chapters 325 and 406 of the 2013 Public Laws with respect to §34-27-3.2 ("mediation conference").
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0838 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the "Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act" to be called the "Uniform Voidable Transactions Act" and amends several provisions to the general laws to reflect this change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
