| S0017 | Intro
Sine Die | Sunsets/discontinues the Jobs Development Act rate reduction as of July 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0437 | Intro
Sine Die | Sets the minimum hourly wages for employees of developmental disabilities organizations who have developmental disabilities at thirteen dollars and seventy seven cents ($13.77) with an increase to fifteen dollars ($15.00) commencing on July 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0127 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes 1% state tax on sale of hookah tobacco/vaping devices, accessories/supplies/replacement parts & 1% local hookah tobacco/vaping devices tax to be used by cities/towns for education of persons of the dangers of hookah tobacco/vaping device usag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0418 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a tax on sugary drinks and creates a dedicated revenue source for programs designed to benefit public health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0080 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes tax assessors to use the last revaluation as the assessed valuation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| S0208 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes cities and towns to tax real and/or personal property owned, leased or operated in whole or in part by any nonprofit institution of higher education or nonprofit hospital currently exempt by charter, general, or public law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0561 | Intro
Sine Die | Sets forth the proportional distribution of revenue from tax payments received after July 1, 2019, from the hotel tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0773 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires hospitals to adopt, implement, periodically update and submit to the director of health, evidence-based protocols for the early recognition and treatment of patients with sepsis and septic shock.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| S0831 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the purchase, sale, offer for sale or possession with intent to sell covered animal parts or products and provide for penalties for violation ranging from misdemeanor to felony upon conviction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0141 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health insurance to provide coverage for communication access between deaf patients and their physicians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0416 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires free lunches to be provided for all elementary and secondary students attending public schools, to the extent state and federal funds are available.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0325 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the governor to designate any person to solemnize a marriage within the state of Rhode Island on a particular day and within a particular city or town.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| S0803 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes special economic development districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
To House Finance Committee |
| S0908 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the commuter transportation benefit act. Employers with twenty (20) or more employees would provide a pre-tax transportation fringe benefit program or provide transportation to the employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S0493 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Deceptive Trade Practices Act to clarify the law's exemptions, enable individuals subject to unfair or deceptive acts/practices to recover increased damages/permit the attorney general to seek civil penalties for initial violations of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
To House Corporations Committee |
| S0307 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires hospital to incorporate consent for peer recovery specialist services into comprehensive patient consent form. Creates MAT program using meds and counseling and to create a comprehensive approach to the treatment of substance use disorders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
To House Finance Committee |
| S0942 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes board of trustees for URI; establishes transfer of URI research foundation authority to board of governors if foundation dissolved; removes authority of council on postsecondary education over URI, requires disclosure of tuition waivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| S0434 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for increases in the amount of foundation level school support that a community would receive, based upon a community's ability to meet and surpass its minimum low and moderate income housing requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0832 | Intro
Sine Die | Vests jurisdiction over the adjudication of violations relating to obstructing and interfering with the lawful taking of wildlife with the Rhode Island traffic tribunal, and would set forth the relevant penalties related thereto.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0562 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provisions of the Stay Invested in RI Wavemaker Fellowship, and establish the Stay Invested in RI Tax Credit to provide eligible taxpayers with a tax credit for educational loan repayment expenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0787 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that documents related to an audit of mattress stewardship fees are considered public records under the access to public records act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0766 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) hemp licensing fee and reduces the hemp licensing application fee from two hundred fifty dollars ($250) to one hundred dollars ($100).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0128 | 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] | 2019-06-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0833 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows law enforcement officers to utilize mufflers, silencers, or other devices for muffling sound of firearm while acting within scope of official duties while training as tactical teams and under supervision of police chief, colonel of state polic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0762 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the sale or use tax that portion of a motor vehicle lease payment collected for tangible personal property tax, municipal property tax, excise, or any other similar tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0764 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes all fees associated with hemp licensing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0763 | Intro
Sine Die | Pension benefits that originate from and were taxed in another state are exempted from Rhode Island state taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0674 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a tax payment shall be paid by midnight on the date in which the tax becomes due and payable, and reduces the amount of penalty for taxes unpaid from a maximum of twenty-one percent (21%) to ten percent (10%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0720 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes numerous changes to the merit system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0278 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a tax payment shall be paid by midnight on the date in which the tax becomes due and payable, and reduces the amount of penalty for taxes unpaid from a maximum of twenty-one percent (21%) to ten percent (10%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0789 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals current state law regarding paternity and replaces it with a more comprehensive parentage act that provides procedures establishing parentage, genetic testing, surrogacy agreements and assisted reproduction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0069 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals to make or cause to be made annual unannounced inspections and investigations of community residences.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-07
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0577 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides the office of the health insurance commissioner with oversight of risk-bearing provider organizations and health care risk contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-07
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0297 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the establishment of harm reduction centers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-07
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S0048 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes personal income tax credit for persons incurring expenses caring for relative requiring assistance with daily living activities certified by a licensed physician for tax years from/after 12/31/19.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0084 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the manufacturing, importation, sale, shipment, delivery, possession, or transfer of any firearm that is undetectable by metal detectors commonly used at airports and public buildings including 3D printed firearms as defined herein.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0126 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes state agencies to allow vendors to withhold a commission for developing electronic filing systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0591 | 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 applications, and also imposes additional requirements on applicants for energy facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0567 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the sales and use taxes tangible personal property donated for a charitable purpose to nonprofit organization deemed tax-exempt by both the federal government, this state or any state government of the United States of America.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0021 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds three (3) new income tax brackets for purposes of Rhode Island state income taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0765 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases tax wage base for contributions to TDI /TCI, expands eligibility, increases benefit rates, adds sibling and grandchild in coverage benefits, increases temp caregiver weeks, and institutes fines for not reinstating an employee who uses progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0056 | 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] | 2019-06-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0960 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands certain rights of persons with developmental disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-06
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0049 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the sales and use taxes products used for feminine hygiene in connection with the menstrual cycle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0825 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows state employees the ability to make an after tax contribution to a qualified Roth contribution program as a part of a deferred compensation plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0937 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the executive position of the secretary of education, and would set out the powers and duties of the secretary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| S0656 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the Rhode Island Early Childhood Innovation Act whereby the department of human services shall establish a childhood innovation fund to create programs to close the achievement gap that currently exists for at-risk children entering kindergar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| S0943 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the department of elementary and secondary education to convene a group of stakeholders to review the standards for grade level promotion established by local education agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| S0931 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes Westerly to issue bonds and notes not to exceed $71,410,000 for school improvements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-05
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S0220 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for opportunity zone in investment in Pawtucket
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-05
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
