| S2629 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates that police officers qualify in the use of firearms in both daylight and nighttime conditions two (2) times per year and that correctional officers qualify every year instead of once every two (2) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H8159 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for contractor liability for debts owed to an employer or third party on the wage claimants behalf, incurred by a subcontractor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To House Labor Committee |
| S2212 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires law enforcement agencies to obtain search warrants for electronic information, data, location information and other identifying information of subscribers and customers, except in specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2718 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the law enforcement officers' bill of rights to provide greater accountability in the disciplinary process over law enforcement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2778 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates arming campus police at public higher educational institutions and includes campus police in the definition of "law enforcement officer" for the purposes of the "Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2799 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases committee in law enforcement officers’ bill of rights hearing to 5, three as permanent. Hearings commenced in 15 days, allow for summary suspension of 5 days and would mandate pay suspended while the case is pending.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7069 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows real property owner a one-time non-refundable tax credit for the actual costs of connecting a single family or multi-family dwelling to a municipal sewer system credited to the owner's personal or corporate income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7657 | 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] | 2022-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7984 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts beer and malt beverage from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| S2073 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises Rhode Island Medicaid primary care payment rates to not less than federal Medicare rates for the same service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H7285 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a modification up to forty thousand dollars ($40,000) to federal adjusted gross income for withdrawals from any retirement account, traditional IRA or a rollover IRA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7441 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a tax credit for the amount in excess of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) contributed to a public school district for the express purpose of making physical improvements to a school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7171 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides technical amendments to the existing Pass-through Entity Election Tax statute to allow tax practitioners and the Rhode Island Division of Taxation to comply with the provisions in practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| S2379 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies and restricts use of excessive physical force by peace officers and creates a civil action for constitutional rights violations as well as impose a duty to intervene on officers on scene. Requires reporting of incident information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2109 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes the chief inspector and inspectors as those exempt from carrying a firearm without a permit and would define them as peace officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7655 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from state taxation certain pension benefits that originate from, and were taxed in another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7236 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for a tax credit of $500 for certain nurse practitioners or physicians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7494 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the earned-income tax credit from fifteen percent (15%) to fifty percent (50%) for the tax years 2023 and beyond.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7391 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from taxation the retail sale of cloth or disposable face masks and facial coverings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| S2196 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases eligibility for the three (3) federal Medicare Savings Programs and eliminates the asset test for these programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H7173 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows volunteer firefighters who pay for their own training and equipment to receive an income tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7128 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a sales tax holiday on August 6 and 7, 2022
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7379 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts self-employed sole practicing investigators operating independently from any partnership, corporation, limited liability company or association from the sales tax imposed on services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7238 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that individuals who do not qualify for social security benefits and who receive pension income may exclude the pension income from taxation under the same circumstances that social security income is excluded from taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| S2380 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights, Chapter 42-28.6 of the General Laws, in its entirety.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7292 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that any person who has a retail sales permit would not be required to pay a separate registration fee to make sales at flea markets; provided, however, the person would remain responsible to pay all taxes due as a result of sales at a flea ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7660 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a modification up to fifty thousand dollars $50,000 of taxable pension and/or annuity income includible in federal adjusted gross income for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7172 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a tax credit for state community service hours provided by state residents to certain not-for-profit entities and municipal departments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H8177 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the requirement that five percent (5%) of the hotel tax be paid to the Greater Providence-Warwick Convention and Visitors Bureau and redistribute the five percent (5%) tax to the city or district where the hotel or residential unit is located...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| S2461 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation For Funding Of A Nonprofit Agency, Inspiring Minds, Inc., To Benefit Providence Elementary School Students (this Resolution Would Allocate Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000) From The General Fund To The Nonprofi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7656 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from sales and use taxes: burial containers, urns, urn liners, urn vaults, grave liners, grave vaults, burial liners, burial vaults, burial tent setups, and prayer cards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| H7654 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the corporate tax cut and qualified business income deduction created by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| H8196 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the Narragansett Indian tribe be considered a sovereign and federally recognized Indian tribe and exempt the tribe and its members and organizations from taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-29
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H8192 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the Evidence and Oversight Act of 2022 to create and maintain a data transparency portal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-29
To House Finance Committee |
| H8194 | Intro
Sine Die | Renames and repeals sections of the Narragansett Indian Land Corporation Act and acknowledges the Narragansett Indian Tribe as the sole aboriginal people sovereign to the territory of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8195 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a broad and comprehensive framework to provide workers with more protection and remedies from bullying and harassment in the workplace.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-29
To House Labor Committee |
| H8084 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes penalties for vehicles exceeding twenty-five thousand pounds (25,000 lbs) gross vehicle weight and requires certain civil penalties to be paid to the enforcing municipality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H8085 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the number of qualified electors per voting booth from one hundred seventy-five (175) qualified electors to two hundred fifty (250) qualified electors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| S2306 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides Medicaid home care base rate adjustments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7557 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $200,000 To The Department Of Health To Aid In The Fight Against Alzheimer's Disease And Dementia (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $200,000 In A Fiscal Year 2022-2023, To Est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| S2869 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows RNs to perform cosmetic/aesthetic dermatological procedures prescribed/ordered by licensed health care practitioner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H7127 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases max income level to $50,000 and max credit amount to $850 for property tax relief with annual adjustment for inflation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7615 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the daily rate of payments to nursing facilities by twenty percent (20%) for single occupancy rooms to include private bathrooms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To House Finance Committee |
| S2648 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $17,700,000 For The Purposes Of Increasing Home Care Provider Reimbursement Rates To Be Used For Wage Pass Through To Direct Care Staff And For Increases In Payments To Direct Care Workers Hired By Consumer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2568 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a development program to increase and administer the adoption of broadband services for local and statewide entities, both public and private, to be funded by the spending of America Rescue Plfunds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2090 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows individuals, who have not reached the age of eighteen (18) years, to vote in a primary election, as long as the voter will be eighteen (18) as of the date of the general or special election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2762 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes licensed advanced practice registered nurses (APRN), certified in psychiatric/mental health, as qualified to certify the need for mental health treatment in certain patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2802 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the continuance of the remote notarization following the expiration of the executive emergency order currently in effect and requires a certificate of any notarial act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2031 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes that manufacturers of devices capable of connecting to the Internet equip the devices with reasonable security features.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2311 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires EOHHS assisted by 24 member advisory committee to provide review/recommendations for rate setting/ongoing review of social service programs licensed by state departments/agencies and Medicaid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
