| S2791 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes the practice of aiding a minor in the process of getting an abortion a civil and criminal offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
Committee heard |
| S2142 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminalizes the knowing and intentional failure of a physician, nurse, or other licensed medical person to provide reasonable medical care and treatment to an infant born alive a felony and manslaughter if the infant dies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
Committee heard |
| S2058 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a surtax on the business corporation tax for publicly traded corporations subject to SEC disclosure and reporting requirements, if corporation's ratio of compensation for its CEO to median worker is equal to or greater than 100 to 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2709 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends and revises the definitions and penalties pertaining to partial-birth abortions. Further provides that any physician who knowingly performs a partial-birth abortion would be guilty of a felony and may be liable for civil penalties and fines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
Committee heard |
| S2472 | Intro
Sine Die | Sunset/discontinue the Jobs Development Act rate reduction as of July 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
Committee heard |
| S2137 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it unprofessional conduct for a physician not to take all reasonable steps to ensure that a viable fetus being carried by their patient is brought to term.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
Committee heard |
| S2526 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from sales tax any amount a construction contractor charges its clients for materials and supplies in connection with a construction contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2152 | Intro
Sine Die | Enacts the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act and provide for the duties and obligations of medical personnel in certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
Committee heard |
| S2554 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Rhode Island Livable Home Modification Grant allowing individuals to retrofit their residence to nationally recognized accessibility standards and receive fifty percent (50%) of the total sum spent, up to five thousand dollars ($5,000...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| S2585 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines and would regulate, and in some cases, would prohibit dismemberment abortions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
Committee heard |
| S2870 | Engross
Sine Die | Prevents credit history or score from being used to determine insurance rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2946 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends DOT authority to lease airport property to 50 years. Increase to 9 the directors on the airport corporation board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2941 | Intro
Sine Die | Reserves 5% of energy efficiency funds for low-income residents for assistance to residents who seek financial assistance with electric bills but do not meet eligibility guidelines for other financial assistance programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2950 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows employee granted unpaid family/parental leave to substitute any accrued vacation/sick/ other appropriate leave for any part of the unpaid leave.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2505 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires charter public school populations to reflect the combined demographics of the sending district(s).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-30
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S2649 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the student populations of mayoral academies to reflect the combined demographics of the sending district(s) in terms of the number of students in special education, who are English language learners and who qualify for free and reduced meal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-30
Committee recommended measure be held for further study |
| S2747 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Rhode Island global warming solutions act to reduce carbon emissions across various sectors of the local economy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-30
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2428 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the penalty provisions for disorderly conduct and willful trespass to monetary penalties only, absent certain circumstances, and would make a first or second offense shoplifting a civil violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-29
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| S2817 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an early childhood innovation fund which would fund programs to attempt to accelerate the learning ability of at-risk children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2820 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a stipend to be paid to certain retired state employees, municipal employees, and teachers or their beneficiaries during years when a cost of living adjustment is not scheduled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2838 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows municipal water supply system and any regional water quality management district commission to enter into an agreement called a "transaction" effectively merging the entities and becoming a public utility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2371 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that in determining local school aid, the state would annually provide each community no less than an amount equal to the aid given in the preceding fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2603 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes special requirements for fiscal impact statements relative to the department of corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-25
To House Finance Committee |
| S2762 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of public works so that it would include any public works projects performed for any city or town or quasi-municipal entity and the state and any quasi-state entity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-25
To House Labor Committee |
| S2589 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides immunity to persons donating food to food banks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2022 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a child in foster care on eighteenth birthday due to filing of petition may elect to continue with DCYF and under supervision of the court until age twenty-one (21) provided certain circumstances are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2473 | Engross
Sine Die | Ensures appropriate disability language is used in job descriptions and statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-25
To House Labor Committee |
| S2433 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows a person to make satisfactory arrangements for the payment of motor vehicle fines or costs, and would permit a person to request an ability to pay hearing before a license is suspended for failure to pay such fines or costs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2632 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the number of registered sex offenders in any facility that operates as a homeless shelter whether on state or private property. Those limits may be exceeded if the facility complies with the provisions of § 11-37.1-21(c).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2905 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes changes to the membership of the energy facilities siting board by increasing the size of the board from three (3) to seven (7) members for certain application, and also imposes additional requirements on applicants for energy facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| S2126 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a one-time nonrefundable tax credit in the amount of $2,000 for stillborn babies occurring at 28 weeks or more upon filing a certificate to that effect issued by the division of vital statistics. Effective July 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2057 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the tax administrator to commence any action for collection of personal income tax due and payable within ten (10) years of April 15 of the year the tax return was or would have been filed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2191 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the refundable state earned income credit from fifteen percent (15% to twenty-five percent (25%) for the 2019 taxable year, and each taxable year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2200 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the exemption for retirement income from state income tax from $15,000 to $20,000 commencing in 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2217 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the earned income tax credit from fifteen percent (15%) to twenty percent (20%) for the tax years 2019 and beyond.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2016 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from state taxation certain pension benefits that originate from, and were taxed in, another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2389 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds three (3) new income tax brackets for purposes of Rhode Island state income taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2071 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2019a 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] | 2018-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2385 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that Rhode Island adjusted gross income for federal income tax purposes would be reduced by the amount of individual retirement account rollover distributions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2364 | 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] | 2018-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2667 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a new personal income tax credit for individuals who incur expenses caring for a relative that requires assistance with one or more daily living activities as certified by a license physician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2203 | 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, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2219 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that payments by an employer, whether paid to an employee or lender, of principal and interest on a qualified education loan incurred by an employee shall be subtracted from the calculation of federal adjusted gross income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2067 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows $15,000 modification of retirement income in "pensions" and "annuities" line of federal tax return.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2643 | Pass | Amends and restates the charter of the Greater Providence YMCA and provides for governance by a board of directors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2066 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that non-resident withholding requirement for a corporation that sells real estate be consistent with the seven percent (7%) corporate income tax rate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2525 | Intro
Sine Die | Places twelve percent (12%) per annum interest rate on delinquent tax payments for business corporation, sales and use, estate and personal income taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2072 | 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] | 2018-05-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2844 | Pass | Allows Henry Lombardi to join Kathleen Reinhardt and Michael Coombs in marriage on or about May 31, 2018, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-23
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2710 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a vehicle unlawfully parked in a properly marked "handicapped parking" space would be towed at the owners expense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
