| S3023 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- OPTIONAL RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE AND FIREFIGHTERS - Provides an option for members to receive retirement allowances, without reduction, upon reaching twenty-five (25) years of total service or after twenty (20) year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S3135 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION -- LOCAL MEALS AND BEVERAGE TAX - Allocates five percent (5%) of revenues from the local meals and beverage tax to the Rhode Island Semiquincentennial (R.I. 250) Commission for the executio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2447 | Pass | ELECTIONS -- STATEWIDE REFERENDA ELECTIONS - Amends certain election statutes to require ballot questions be written in plain language reasonably calculated to be understood by persons with an eighth-grade reading level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Signed by Governor |
| S2087 | Pass | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ALCOHOLISM - Requires the dept of behavioral healthcare/developmental disabilities/hospitals to coordinate with the DOH to propose revisions to chapter 1.10 and 10.1 of title 23, including updates and revisions of statutory langu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Signed by Governor |
| H7663 | Pass | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS - Requires the division of vital records to ensure that the records are accessible to the local registrars and grant local registrars the authority to issue certified copies of certificates and records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Signed by Governor |
| H8049 | Pass | This act serves as the enabling act required by § 16-7-44 of the general laws in order for the principal and interest on bonds issued in support of school housing projects to be eligible for state housing aid reimbursement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Signed by Governor |
| S3123 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Gives the city of Woonsocket the authority to establish by ordinance, exemptions from taxation on real and personal property for different classifications of individuals including, but not limited to, the el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2343 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- TOURISM AND DEVELOPMENT - Redirects the distribution of the hotel tax money generated in the South County regional tourism district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7832 | Pass | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION - Allows the sexual offender board of review to use, in addition to applicable validated risk assessment tools, a structured professional judgment approach to determine the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
Signed by Governor |
| S2722 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF 2004 -- HEALTH INSURANCE OVERSIGHT - Protects the solvency of health systems, physicians, and advance practice providers and insurers, encourage fair treatment of hospitals an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S3067 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of the Providence Preservation Society.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Meeting postponed (06/04/2024) |
| S2931 | Engross
50% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Provides a four (4) year expiration period on any certificate of exemption pursuant to this section for writers, composers and artists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| S3041 | Engross
50% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- DECISIONS, SPECIAL FINDINGS AND ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGES - Adds the doctrine of assumption of risk to the current comparative negligence statute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2269 | Pass | INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING - Prevents insurance companies from treating widowed persons differently than married persons when establishing or maintaining an insured's rate or classification respecting the operation of a personal motor veh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| S2836 | Pass | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Amends several provisions relative to motorcycles and motor scooter license and educational requirements including deleting the learners permit requirement for motorcycles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| S2862 | Pass | Enabling act required by § 16-7-44 in order for the principal of, and interest on bonds issued by the Town of Burrillville in support of school housing projects to be eligible for state housing aid reimbursement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| H7471 | Pass | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Amends several provisions relative to motorcycles and motor scooter license and educational requirements including deleting the learners permit requirement for motorcycles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| S2281 | Engross
50% | LIBRARIES -- STATE AID TO LIBRARIES -- FREEDOM TO READ - Encourages and protects the freedom of public libraries to acquire materials without limitations and prohibits materials being removed from public libraries due to partisan or doctrinal disappr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| S2511 | Pass | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES - Provides that gift certificates issued by state-chartered institutions of higher education would be exempt from the provisions of the gift certificate statute relating to exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| H7606 | Pass | INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING - Prevents insurance companies from treating widowed persons differently than married persons when establishing or maintaining an insured's rate or classification respecting the operation of a personal motor veh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| S2225 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Repeals provisions that assess costs for women in the community corrections program for women offenders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8029 | Pass | Enabling act required by § 16-7-44 in order for the principal of, and interest on bonds issued by the Town of Burrillville in support of school housing projects to be eligible for state housing aid reimbursement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| H7509 | Pass | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES - Provides that gift certificates issued by state-chartered institutions of higher education would be exempt from the provisions of the gift certificate statute relating to exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| S2905 | Engross
50% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Allows retired state employees who worked as certified or qualified court interpreter to be employed or re-employed for a limited period of time in a given year to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
To House Finance Committee |
| S2766 | Engross
50% | PUBLIC RECORDS -- PUBLIC RECORDS ADMINISTRATION - Updates public records administration act, modifies records control schedule, designates records officer, establishes procedures for retention of records. Provides administrator submit yearly reports,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| S2834 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS - Provides an exemption for certain incarcerated persons from the payment of fees for a first request for vital statistics from the department of health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2588 | Pass | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of the Little Compton Game Club.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2048 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATE AID - Includes municipal detention facility corporations as exempt from taxation, and requires that an amount equal to twenty-seven percent (27%) of all tax that would have been collected if the property was taxable be paid ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2114 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- INSPECTOR GENERAL - Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to investigate, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7953 | Engross
50% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS IN DISTRICT COURT -- POWERS OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE - Increases the fee payable to justices of the peace to one hundred dollars $100.00.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7303 | Engross
50% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION - Defines "public official" to include school personnel for purposes of the criminal prohibition against making threats to public officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2355 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Creates an additional Rhode Island personal income surtax of 3% on taxable income over $1,000,000, with the existing three-bracket personal income tax structure remaining in place.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7113 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE EMBLEMS - Designates as the state music, the genre of rhythm and blues which contains elements of pop, soul, funk, hip-hop, and electronic music.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2012 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SURPLUS FUNDS TAX CREDIT ACT - Mandates that any surplus state tax revenue received in any fiscal year be refunded to the taxpayers of this state on a proportional basis in relation to the personal income tax liability incurred by the tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2930 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Provides a tax credit to individual taxpayers who convert their gas-powered vehicle into a vehicle propelled by an alternative fuel source.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2549 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT PROGRAM - Provides that the $5,500,000 appropriation to the infrastructure bank from the 2023 budget act be allocated for eligible municipal infrastructure grant program ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S3090 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the non-commercial real and tangible personal property of Southside Community Land Trust, a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation, located in Providence, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2315 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales and use tax the sale of firearm safety equipment and related products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7758 | Engross
50% | PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Amends the definition of public record to exempt from public disclosure the city or town of residence of the justices, judges, and magistrates of the unified judicial system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2571 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Limits real estate tax assessments for low- and moderate-income housing units to the last current sales price within a 5 year period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7755 | Pass | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of the Little Compton Game Club.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H8265 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TIVERTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE FINANCIAL REPORTS ACT - Authorizes the Town of Tiverton to require the school committee and quasi-municipal entities to provide regular financial reports to the chief financial officer or other designated town o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| S2318 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Adds department of corrections' correctional officers to the list of public safety employees that are entitled to their full salary if t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2052 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX - Repeals the corporation minimum tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2367 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Expands the positions that a person in the state retirement system could have at a state college or university post-retirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H8085 | Pass | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island (Wildlife Clinic of Rhode Island), a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation, located ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2747 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC FINANCE -- STATE FUNDS - Allocates, to the cities and towns of the state, a portion of state income taxes for new employees of not-for-profit healthcare institutions and private educational institutions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
Committee continued |
| S2987 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Requires that present and former employees, active and retired members, and beneficiaries receiving any retirement, disability or death allowance receive a $2,000 incr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2370 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT - Requires 10% of all rental fees collected by the water resources board pursuant to a lease with the Coventry Pines Golf Club be paid to the town of Coventry and 10% to the Central Coventry Fire Di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H8296 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MEDICAL SPAS SAFETY ACT - Provides that the performance of cosmetic medical services is the practice of medicine and surgery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
