| S2048 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from state taxation certain pension benefits that originate from, and were taxed in another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2097 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a wine direct license for licensed producers to directly ship limited wine to residents of RI over age twenty one (21).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2053 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "disabled", for the purposes of property tax relief, to include veterans who earn less than thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) annually and who receive disability benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2055 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of the term "disabled," for purposes of tax relief, to include persons receiving veterans' affairs disability benefits paid by the federal government.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2070 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a developmental disabilities ombudsperson program to be administratively attached to the department of administration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2061 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the minimum corporate tax from four hundred dollars ($400) to two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for the year beginning on July 1, 2020, and would abolish the minimum tax for tax years beginning on or after July 1, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2046 | Intro
Sine Die | Sunsets/discontinues the Jobs Development Act rate reduction as of July 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2037 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires elementary/secondary schools to have at least 1 school employee trained to administer/assist with the self-administering of seizure rescue medication prescribed to treat seizure disorder systems and the use of prescribed electrical stimulati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2051 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the general assembly to appropriate necessary funds for the furnishing of in-house occupational therapy services for all residents of the Bristol Veterans' home.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2039 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a school district to conduct instruction through virtual education up to five (5) days when schools have been closed due to inclement weather, emergency or any nonscheduled school closings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2057 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts reusable bags not including paper or plastic bags from the state sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2047 | 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] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2082 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for specific fines and sanctions to operators of motor vehicles who fail to exercise due care to avoid colliding with a vulnerable road user causing injury, serious injury, or death to the vulnerable road user.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2064 | Intro
Sine Die | Gradually increases the state's contribution to the teachers' retirement system, while reducing the municipal contribution, eventually resulting in the contributions being shared equally.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2063 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provisions of § 16-7-34.3 reimbursing state for conventional public housing students and adds similar language to § 16-7.2-6 providing permanent foundation education aid funding for services to students in conventional public housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2079 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes sweeping changes to the motor vehicles laws by repealing the many sections that require the filing of security or bond with the DMV following a motor vehicle accident.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2059 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds three (3) new income tax brackets at rates of 7,99%, 8.49% and 8.99% for taxable income from $275,000 to over $1,000,000 effective January 1, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2062 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the method for the calculation of the permanent foundation education aid to school districts, and would make an adjustment based upon students residing in qualified low-income housing. Applies to all school years commencing on or after 7/1/20.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2042 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines small, large and residential wind energy systems and establishes zoning requirements for these systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2043 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes minimum energy and water efficiency standards for appliances and specified equipment purchased or installed after July 1, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2058 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates micro zones in distressed areas to stimulate economic revitalization, employment opportunities, and business development through the redevelopment of obsolete, dilapidated and abandoned industrial and commercial structures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2050 | 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, 2021, and thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2098 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a special motor vehicle registration plate honoring the New York Yankees for their 27 World Championships and the New York Yankees Universe Fund for the benefit of Rhode Island based charitable organizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2040 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires state reimburse city or town for any costs transporting children placed in foster care by a Rhode Island-licensed child-placing agency or a Rhode Island governmental agency to an educational facility outside the regional transportation distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2044 | 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 the prospective year's gross scheduled rental income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2060 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the sales and 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] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2038 | Intro
Sine Die | Redefines extraordinary costs associated with the education of special education students to be costs that are above the core foundation amount.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| H7124 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes emergency medical service providers to transport and provide first aid to police dogs injured in the line of duty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-16
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7129 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that only certified nurse-teachers may be employed as school nurses in elementary and secondary schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-16
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7167 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that Medicare supplement policies be made available to Medicare eligible disabled individuals under the age of sixty-five (65).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7168 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the state medical assistance payments made to nursing homes to cover any increased costs resulting from a hike in the minimum hourly wage, benefitting some of its employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7121 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a prescription drug affordability board composed of representatives of affected stakeholders designated to investigate and comprehensively evaluate drug prices for Rhode Islanders and possible ways to reduce them to make them more affordable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-16
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7166 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the town of Tiverton to be prospectively reimbursed at the forty percent (40%) floor of the housing aid share ratio on projects completed before June 30, 2010.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7169 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes a book of fiction or non-fiction within the definition of a "work" which is original or creative and for "one-of-a-kind, limited production" thus qualifying item for exemption from the sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7128 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires drug manufactures to establish fund and manage state approved drug take back programs, free of charge to the consumer and pharmacy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-16
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7165 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes Ocean State Climate Adaptation and Resilience Fund (OSCAR) which provides grants to fund projects that adapt infrastructure on public lands to address impacts of climate change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H7107 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state, including all its agencies and departments, to purchase one hundred percent (100%) of their energy needs from renewable sources by January 1, 2031.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7108 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that all vehicles owned and operated by a governmental body be electric powered within ten (10) years, exclusive of trucks and law enforcement vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7106 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that individuals who do not qualify for social security benefits and receive pension income may exclude up to fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) of income from taxation under the same circumstances that social security income is excluded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7072 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows certified nurse practitioners (CNPs) to prescribe medical marijuana to patients in the normal course of their practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H7078 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises juror's fees for each day's attendance on the superior court from $15.00 per day to $25.00 per day commencing July 1, 2020, and increases to $35.00 per day commencing July 1, 2021 and thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H7053 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts home health care products from taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| H7044 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes rules and procedures for licensing emergency shelters, including setting minimum standards and prohibiting the charging of fees to the residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H7057 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amount of reimbursement funds required to be paid by the Rhode Island airport corporation to the city of Warwick for municipal services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| H7054 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the "Rhode Island Student Success Act" which would identify those students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition at public universities, colleges or community colleges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| H7055 | Intro
Sine Die | Caps the APR for payday loans at 28%. Requires 90 day maturity date. Prohibits fees/interest payments in excess of 60% of principal. Requires monthly payments of no more than 25% of original principal amount.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| H7050 | Intro
Sine Die | 2) (Mandates 20 students per classroom for kindergarten through second grade. Exceptions for emergencies and temporary situations, not to exceed 3 days and mid-year enrollments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
| H7056 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a commission to establish homeless shelter standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To House Finance Committee |
