| 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 |
| S2420 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Task Force To Investigate And Make Recommendations For Any Changes To The Law, Court Rules Or To Policies And Procedures Currently In Place To Enhance The Timely And Complete Disclosure Of Discoverable Material In ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
To House Judiciary 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 |
| S2933 | Pass | Senate Resolution Joyously Celebrating The 125th Anniversary Of The Westerly Sun
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-30
Senate read and passed |
| 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 |
| S2373 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Appropriating Sufficient Sums To Pay One-half The Costs Of Teachers In Obtaining An International Dyslexia Association ("ida") Aligned Graduate Certificate In Dyslexia Knowledge And Practice
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-29
To Senate Finance 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 |
| S2374 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making Appropriations Of $175,000 To The Rhode Island Community Food Bank (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $175,000 To The Rhode Island Community Food Bank.)
[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 |
| S2680 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate Resolution Amending The Rules Of The Senate
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2518 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $2,000,000 To The Rhode Island State Police Municipal Police Academy For Law Enforcement Mental Health First Aid Training
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2853 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $100,000 To Year Up Providence (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) To Year Up Providence.)
[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 |
| S2928 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming May 24, 2018, To Be "age Friendly Rhode Island Day"
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
Senate read and passed |
| 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 |
| S2926 | Pass | Senate Resolution Congratulating The 2018 Inductees Into The Rhode Island Music Hall Of Fame
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-23
Senate read and passed |
| 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 |
