| S2548 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- RHODE ISLAND NEW QUALIFIED JOBS INCENTIVE ACT 2015 - Sunsets/discontinues the Jobs Development Act rate reduction as of July 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S3095 | Intro
25% | INCORPORATE THE BONNET SHORES FIRE DISTRICT - Amends the Bonnet Shores Fire District charter to establish who is an eligible voter in said district and would eliminate proxy voting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2341 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATE AID - Provides PILOT to Exeter for state owned properties. Imposes no duty on Exeter to protect these properties. Requires payments to be used to create a police department or defray town expenses used to provide police prot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2389 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Authorizes emergency medical service agencies to transport individuals to alternative facilities for treatment and permits licensed providers for mental health disorders to treat patients within...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S2051 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts reusable bags from the state sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2929 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC FINANCE -- RHODE ISLAND BABY BOND TRUST - Creates the Rhode Island baby bond trust to provide investment funds to children born to families with public health insurance or no insurance living in Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2325 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Effective July 1, 2024, entitles environmental police officers to the benefits provided by chapter 45-21.2 entitled "Optional retirement for members of police force an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2573 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION -- HUMAN SERVICES FTE ACCOUNTABILITY PORTAL - Directs the department of administration to establish a human services transparency FTE portal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2865 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Requires any benefit enhancements afforded under the employees' retirement system of Rhode Island or the municipal employees' retirement system to be amortized over in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2369 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Permits every municipality in the state to offer a homestead tax exemption of up to 20% of assessed value on residential properties, and also provides that municipalities that grant greater exemptions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2864 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES IN OUT-OF-SCHOOL TIME - Provides $4 million to support after school and school vacation, summer learning workforce development programs for K-12 students with annual reports on status and programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2875 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Provides insurance coverage for interpreter services for all medically necessary doctor appointments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S3038 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- PUBLIC AUCTIONS BY ELECTRONIC OR REMOTE PROCEDURES - Brings greater public scrutiny to the public auction sales of real estate in Rhode Island by requiring public auctions by any city or town of real estate or an interest therein shall on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7487 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- ESTATE AND TRANSFER TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Increases the net taxable estate exemption to four million dollars ($4,000,000) for deaths that occur on or after January 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To House Finance Committee |
| S2209 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PASSING, USE OF LANES, AND RULES OF THE ROAD - Permits the practice of lane-splitting by motorcycles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2563 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Allows a modification to federal adjusted gross income of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) of social security income for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2960 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Allows a modification to federal adjusted gross income of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) of taxable pension and/or annuity income for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2567 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATE AID - Requires an appropriation of an additional five percent (5%) of the assessed value of all low-income housing as part of the payment in lieu of taxes program to the municipality where the property is located beginning i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2159 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - 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 in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2560 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RESIDENCE OF CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES - Relieves East Providence from providing any educational/financial resources to children in the CRAFT program or other Bradley Hospital programs. Requires the school district of origin where the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2054 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Increases the state earned-income credit as of January 1, 2025 to seventeen percent (17%) of the federal earned-income credit, not to exceed the amount of state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2312 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Provides that vacancies in excess of 3% for full time equivalent state employees which are substituted with contract employees shall require an appropriation to the pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S3079 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- OPTIONAL RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE AND FIREFIGHTERS - Allows police and firefighters to retire with 20 years of service and attained 57 years of age based on their highest 3 years consecutive compensation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2167 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales tax scalp hair prosthesis or wigs that are necessary due to hair loss from a medical condition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H8183 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Imposes a tax of five percent (5%) upon the rental of a house or condominium. The funds from the tax to be used exclusively for infrastructure improvements, riverine and coastal resilienc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To House Finance Committee |
| H8242 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM - Establishes a universal, comprehensive, affordable single-payer health care insurance program and helps control health care costs, which would be referred to as, "the Rhod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
To House Finance Committee |
| H8295 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Changes utility company billing practices so that when a gas electric utility changes their customer billing, they would be required to file a copy of the new bill with the PUC for approv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7027 | 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] | 2024-05-22
To House Finance Committee |
| H8267 | 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] | 2024-05-21
To House Finance Committee |
| H8179 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RESIDENCE OF CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES - Relieves East Providence from providing any educational/financial resources to children in the CRAFT program or other Bradley Hospital programs. Requires the school district of origin where the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
To House Finance Committee |
| H8243 | 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] | 2024-05-21
To House Finance Committee |
| H8238 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- MAINTENANCE OF PRIVATE EASEMENTS AND RIGHTS-OF-WAY - Provides that the real estate appraisal from the city or town shall be taken into consideration when determining each property owner’s share of costs to maintain and/or repair an ease...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7913 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- FOUNDATION LEVEL SCHOOL SUPPORT - Modifies the current law to allow for approval of construction projects within school districts, rather than needing the project to be commenced by a certain date, permitting the municipality to take adv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
To House Finance Committee |
| S2630 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Amends several sections of law relating to zoning ordinances to provide uniform zoning standards for accessory dwelling units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| H8282 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Awards all members of the pension system a three and one-half percent (3.5%) annual benefit adjustment applied to the first thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) of a memb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H8279 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- CONSUMER ENFORCEMENT OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE WARRANTIES - Requires manufacturers of assisting technology devices to make available to independent repair providers/the owner of the device, any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To House Corporations Committee |
| H8281 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY - Prohibits RIPTA from using state funds or the proceeds of any bond(s) to pay for any work performed after 9/1/24, pursuant to the “transit center joint development project” ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| S2408 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES -- PROMOTION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTER AND SMART GROWTH - Amends several sections of chapter 24 of title 45, entitled "zoning ordinances," also known as the "Rhode Island zoning enabling act of 1991," with the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2409 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE -- RHODE ISLAND INCLUSIVE HOME DESIGN ACT - Establishes a new article in the state building code that provides that certain new housing construction contain at least one floor that meets the requirements for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| H7900 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Requires the EOHHS to establish an early childhood mental health hub program focused on improving access to infant and early childhood mental health services for childre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7854 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT - Provides eligibility for an additional forty dollars ($40.00) per month in food stamp benefits to certain qualifying persons or households eligible for food stamp benefits, commencing July 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7678 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANY SERVICES - Imposes a seventy-five cent (0.75) surcharge on fares charged by rideshare companies as well as an account to benefit RIPTA from the payment of sales taxes collected from ride...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7035 | Intro
25% | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES - Appropriates $1,875,000 for the creation of a 9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline within the department of behavioral healthca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7858 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- RHODE ISLAND TURNPIKE AND BRIDGE AUTHORITY - Directs the Rhode Island turnpike and bridge authority (RITBA) design a safety barrier or netting system on the several bridges within its authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7903 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE MEDICAL PRIMARY CARE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM - Establishes the medical primary care scholarship program to be administered by the commissioner of postsecondary education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7591 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC FINANCE -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE AND PUBLIC ASSISTANCE CASELOAD ESTIMATING CONFERENCES - Requires that the department of human services and the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals provide forecasted costs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H8208 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ORDINANCES - Allows town and city councils to impose penalties for the violation of ordinances and regulations not exceeding the amount of one thousand dollars ($1,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H7298 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- LONG-TERM CARE SERVICE AND FINANCE REFORM - All Medicaid programs operated by EOHHS would not reimburse home care providers less than fee-for-service rates adopted by rate review recommendations of the office o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7033 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- LONG-TERM CARE SERVICE AND FINANCE REFORM -- CHIROPRACTIC SERVICES RATES - Provides the executive office of health and human services would submit to the US Department of Health and Human Services a state plan ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H8274 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WORKPLACE PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY ACT - Protects bullying/psychological abuse in workplace inflicted upon employees by employers/co-employees/provides civil remedies to affected employees/fines against employers/imprisonment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Labor Committee |
