| S2786 | Intro 25% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES - Allows for the holder of a manufacturer's license to be able to transport beer, spirits or wine between its satellite taprooms. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2471 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Increases the minimum wage amount for any person committed to the adult correctional institution from three dollars to five dollars a day for every day the person shall labor. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2305 | Intro 25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Provides that the trapping and subsequent release of any unowned feral or free roaming cat for the purpose of spaying or neutering of the cat would not be considered abandonment. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| H7722 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM - Promotes the integration of diversity, equity and inclusion principles into school curriculum and also in hiring practices for education staff. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To House Education Committee |
| H7270 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Provides the review and appeal process for individuals applying for a permit or license to carry a handgun with the licensing authority or attorney general. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2301 | Intro 25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- FORCE-FED POULTRY PRODUCTS - Prohibits force-feeding to create a force-fed poultry product nor hire another to engage in force feeding of a poultry product. Violations would be subject to a civil penalty of $500. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| H7829 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Specifies that it is unlawful for any person under the age of eighteen (18) to possess a firearm. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7751 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Punishes as felony act of unlawfully discharging a firearm or incendiary or explosive substance or device with the intent to hit or fire into any unoccupied dwelling, building, other structure or ship, automobile or oth... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2465 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS STAFFING - Establishes parameters for staffing of correctional officers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To Senate Labor Committee |
| H7217 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ASSAULT WEAPONS - Bans the possession, sale, and transfer of assault weapons. Possession of assault weapons owned on the effective date of this act to be "grandfathered". Violations are punishable by a fine or imprisonment. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2302 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- TRADE IN ANIMAL FUR PRODUCTS ACT - Prohibits the sale/offer of sale/trade/distribution of fur products. Makes 3 violations of this chapter civil infractions punishable by civil penalty and the 4th violation a misdemeanor punishab... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| H7374 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS -- CONCEALED CARRY REFORM - Expands firearm rights to recognize out of state carry permits, authorizes weapons carried during emergency evacuation and establishes an appeal process for permit denied. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7269 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits purchases of more than one firearm in any thirty (30) day period. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7828 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS - Allows a law enforcement agency to consider expunged records when issuing a license or permit to carry a pistol or revolver. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2485 | Intro 25% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Allows holders of a Class P license to purchase alcoholic beverages from either a retail or wholesale establishment in the State of Rhode Island. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2218 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Requires purchasers of firearms, to take and pass a basic firearm safety test and requires the firearm test administered by DEM be updated every two years, as deemed appropriate and repeals § 11-47-35.2. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2451 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits any city or town or licensing authority from charging more than forty dollars ($40.00) for any license or permit to carry a concealed weapon. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7644 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- COMPENSATION FOR STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS - Allows college athletes and prospects to enter into contracts receive compensation for use of their name, image and likeness rights and would prohibit colleges and at... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2399 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICARE SAVINGS PROGRAMS - Expands eligibility for the qualified Medicare beneficiary program by increasing the income limit from 100% to 138% of the federal poverty line. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2788 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2446 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Defines "crime gun" and requires law enforcement to submit crime gun or 2 fired cartridge cases seized to state crime laboratory or the BATF for testing and tracing and also requires 2 test-fired cartridge cases to be e... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2362 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of the Providence Preservation Society. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7322 | Intro 25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ORDINANCES - Allows municipalities to seek recovery of fines associated with ordinance violations by permitting the municipality to include the fines on a property tax bill. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| S2653 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ASSAULT WEAPONS - Bans the possession, sale, and transfer of assault weapons. Possession of assault weapons owned on the effective date of this act to be "grandfathered". Violations are punishable by a fine or imprisonment. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7233 | Intro 25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- HEALTHY KIDS ACT - Establishes the Healthy Kids Act whereby restaurants would be required to offer at least two (2) healthy versions of children's meals, or twenty-five percent (25%) of the children's meals on its menu, whichever is... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7821 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND OLMSTEAD PLAN COMMISSION ACT - Creates an Olmstead Plan for people vulnerable to unnecessary institutionalization to update a continuum of care to receive services and supports in the least restrictive env... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S2489 | Intro 25% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- LENDERS AND LOAN BROKERS - Removes the licensing exemption for a lender that originates six (6) loans or less in twelve (12) consecutive months. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H7536 | Intro 25% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Repeals § 3-7-19 which prohibits retail liquor licenses within two hundred feet (200') of schools and religious institutions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| S2593 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX - Refunds to corporations with annual gross income of less than $400 the difference between the gross annual income and the $400 minimum tax imposed with the amount refunded capped at $400. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2103 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Provides the review and appeal process for individuals applying for a permit or license to carry a handgun with the licensing authority or attorney general. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7409 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Provides that any benefit that a beneficiary is entitled to shall be exempt from lien, attachment or garnishment and would not be transferable or assignable and provid... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7574 | Intro 25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- THIRD-PARTY LITIGATION FINANCING CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT - Comprehensively regulates the practices of third-party litigation financers in Rhode Island. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7698 | Intro 25% | PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW - Defines deed restricted unit. This act would further limit the increase in annual condominium fees for a deed restricted unit to five percent (5%) of the proceeding year's monthly common expenses. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7651 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Provides that only residential properties and new or rehabilitated residential affordable housing units would be subject to the tax under § 44-5-13.1 relating to taxation of low-income housing. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| S2219 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits purchases of more than one firearm in any thirty (30) day period. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7368 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- NOISE LIMITS FOR MOTOR VEHICLES - Enables municipalities to install and use automated systems to detect noise limit violations in order to enhance enforcement abilities and reduce noise violations state-wide. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7528 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2024-03-12 To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2620 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Protects and continues health insurance coverage for the dependent of an employee who wishes to change their health insurance coverage to Medicare or are currently on Medicare. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2201 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Defines suitable person, establishes reasons for applying for concealed carry permit, establishes what information is required on applications, establishes appeal process for denials, provides that records are not publi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2275 | Intro 25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- INTEREST AND USURY - Allows Rhode Island to opt out of provisions of Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 which allow financial institutions chartered in states other... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2108 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Permits Rhode Island residents, 21 years of age or older, to carry a concealed handgun, without a permit. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7694 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND INDIVIDUAL MARKET AFFORDABILITY ACT OF 2024 - Creates the Rhode Island Individual Market Affordability Act of 2024 to help reduce out-of-pocket costs for low- and moderate-income consumers enrolled in the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7886 | Intro 25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Bans the sale of cosmetics developed/manufactured using animal testing. A violation would be a $1,000 fine for each offense. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7750 | Intro 25% | PROPERTY -- BY POSSESSION AND PRESCRIPTION - Repeals the provisions of § 34-7-4 regarding rights of footway being acquired by adverse possession. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7863 | Intro 25% | PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW - Allows unit owners to participate in association meetings remotely through the use of digital platforms such as zoom or googlemeet. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 Withdrawn at sponsor's request (03/14/2024) |
| S2111 | Intro 25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Provides for a cause of action against an individual or entity that prohibits the possession of firearms on real property, except residences, by an individual that is authorized ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2734 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Specifies that it is unlawful for any person under the age of eighteen (18) to possess a firearm. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7864 | Intro 25% | PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW - Provides that the "rights of secured lenders" provision from § 34-36.1-2.19 be applicable to condominiums created before July 1, 1982. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 Withdrawn at sponsor's request (03/14/2024) |
| S2199 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Allows an individual to lawfully possess a device that would silence the sound of a natural report of a rifle or shotgun to hunt game, as long as the host rifle or shotgun is allowed. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2737 | Intro 25% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- THE RHODE ISLAND SPECIAL DEPOSITS ACT - Establishes the Rhode Island Special Deposits Act to be governed by an account agreement between the bank and the depositor or its beneficiary. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Commerce Committee |