| H7519 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT - Provides that dental services rendered to patients would be reimbursed by standards governed by the general laws of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2895 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Allows citizens of a city or town who are at least sixteen (16) years of age to register to vote and to vote in school committee elections in municipalities where school committees are elected entities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7743 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- TRIAL - Allows a criminal defendant before the superior court to waive their right to a jury trial with the consent of the attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7989 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS -- TENANT PROTECTION ACT - Authorizes cities and towns to establish a housing authority to adopt tenant protection measures, including rent control, annual rent increase ordinances and no-fault evictions, subject to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H7682 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX -- PART 44-30-81 PROCEDURE AND ADMINISTRATION - Provides, for the tax year 2023 and thereafter, that any tax overpayment would be refunded with interest calculated at twelve percent (12%) compounded daily if not receiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee |
| H7680 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- ESTATE AND TRANSFER TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Phases in an annual increase of the net taxable estate exemption by ten percent (10%) per year until the state exemption equals the federal exemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee |
| H8143 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Restricts audits of pharmacists conducted by insurers and their intermediaries, limiting audits to 1 per year unless fraud or misrepresentation is reasonably suspected. The Rhode Island attorney would have t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7433 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Amend the standards for issuing Medicare supplemental insurance policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7161 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- THE RHODE ISLAND FIRST STEP ACT - Establishes Rhode Island First Step program requiring DOC to assist offenders with reintegration into society, counseling, medical care, education, early sentence termination or pre-release conf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7102 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SECOND LOOK SENTENCING ACT - Establishes the second look act and would permit incarcerated individuals to petition the sentencing court to consider a motion to reduce a sentence after the defendant has served at least ten (10) y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2353 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Increases personal needs allowance of nursing facility to $100.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Committee continued |
| H7525 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Repeals 42-56-38.1 and requires the department of corrections to provide free communication services to inmates and juveniles held in residential placement or detention centers and requires tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2957 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- ADMINISTRATION - Reduces the number of years from five (5) to three (3), when calculating for retirement purposes, the average of the highest consecutive years of compensation, for state and munic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H7851 | 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] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee |
| S2772 | Intro
25% | CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS -- UNIFORM PARTNERSHIP ACT - Requires certain limited liability partnership providing professional services to carry liability insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7479 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION - Funds the state crime victim compensation program through an additional one dollar ($1.00) fine on traffic violations, exclusive of violations related to the parking of vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee |
| S2592 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- WAIVER REQUEST - Authorizes the executive office of health and human services to establish a program providing coverage for nutritional assistance and medically tailored meals for certain beneficiaries where th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Committee continued |
| H7607 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- SMALL EMPLOYER HEALTH INSURANCE AVAILABILITY ACT - Amends the definition of "small employer" for purposes of the small employer health insurance availability act to mean a business employing less than one hundred (100) employees rather t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2646 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW - Requires associations to provide unit owners with thirty (30) days notice of any increase in the deductible application to the association's policy ensuring that unit owners will have coverage relating to their responsib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2311 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- HEALTH CARE FOR ELDERLY AND DISABLED RESIDENTS ACT - Increases the income limits for elderly or disabled individuals to one hundred eighty percent (180%) of the federal poverty level to qualify for medical assistance coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Committee continued |
| H7636 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND CIVIL RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT ACT - Provides a remedy for any harm caused due to a deprivation or violation of rights by the State of Rhode Island or its political and/or administrative units or subdivision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8098 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- COUNCIL ON THE ARTS - Establishes a Rhode Island creative futures fund in the amount of eighteen million dollars ($18,000,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee |
| S2869 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE GOOD SAMARITAN OVERDOSE PREVENTION ACT OF 2016 - Requires the director of the department of health to provide guidance to non-governmental employers and the public on acquiring opioid antagonist medication and training for its u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2894 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- REGISTRATION OF VOTERS - Allows non-affiliated party voters to vote in party primaries, without becoming an affiliated party voter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H8041 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS - Includes any costs paid by an enrollee or on behalf of the enrollee by a third party when calculating an enrollee's overall contribution to any out-of-pocket maximum or cost sharing requirement under a health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| H8056 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Prohibits insurance companies from paying a rate that is less than the approved Medicaid rate set by the executive office of health and human services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| S2309 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- LONG-TERM CARE SERVICE AND FINANCE REFORM - Prohibits contractors and subcontractors from paying employees the cash equivalent of any applicable healthcare benefit in lieu of actually purchasing the healthcare ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Committee continued |
| S2670 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- PRIMARY ELECTIONS - Changes the process of nominating candidates for the general election, by replacing the political party primary with a primary general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H7541 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION - Permits hit and run victims suffering serious bodily injury to recover under the crime victim compensation program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee |
| H7994 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION TAX CREDITS - Increase the motion picture tax credit to $10,000,000 and then to $15,000,000 for 2026 and the total available credits to $40,000,000 for 2025 and $50,000,000 for 2026 and eliminates the sunset prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee |
| S2520 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE SCHOOL LIBRARIES ACT - Requires every public school in Rhode Island to have a school library or library media center in a permanent and dedicated space available to students in grades K-12 with a librarian available.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2602 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- NURSING FACILITIES PROVIDER ASSESSMENT ACT - Provides a definition for intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities, includes the facilities under the nursing facility assessment, and includes a Medicaid Secti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2299 | Intro
25% | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- OLD GROWTH FOREST PROTECTION ACT - Creates a statutory framework designed to protect our forests and biodiversity, also prohibits logging in old growth forests and in the natural area preserves when they are created.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2082 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Caps amount payable for 30 day supply of equipment/supplies for insulin administration/glucose monitoring at $25 or equipment designed to last more than 30 days with no deductible commencing Jan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7859 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- MOTOR VEHICLES OWNED BY A GOVERNMENTAL BODY - Requires that any government owned vehicle that is to be replaced, be replaced with a zero-emission vehicle, defined as a vehicle which produces no emissions from the on-bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| S2145 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- STUDENT COMPUTER DEVICE PRIVACY - Prohibits an educational institution or school district from accessing or using location data for tracking a student's institutional device or personal device, except in limited circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| H7856 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- COMPOSTING AND ORGANIC WASTE DIVERSION - Establishes Compost Fund to award grants related to reducing the amount of solid waste generated in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| S2295 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- MILK SANITATION CODE - Permits and legalize the sale of raw milk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2514 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES - Provides for the legal governance of licensed electronic literacy materials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| H7793 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- RHODE ISLAND PARENTAL AND FAMILY MEDICAL LEAVE ACT - Increases the amount of unpaid parental or family leave available to an employee, from thirteen (13) weeks to twenty-six (26) weeks, in any two (2) calendar years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Labor Committee |
| H7781 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PARENTS BILL OF RIGHTS ACT - Provides for a parents' bill of rights related to the health, education and welfare of their minor children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Education Committee |
| S2537 | Intro
25% | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- ORGANIC FARMING AND CERTIFICATION PROGRAM - Establishes the organic farming and certification program to be administered by the department of environmental management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2464 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Provides that public meetings involving collective bargaining agreements of school teachers shall be open to the public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To Senate Labor Committee |
| H7685 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- OIL SPILL PREVENTION, ADMINISTRATION AND RESPONSE FUND - Provides funds to support Executive Climate Change Coordinating Council to reduce climate emissions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H7684 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts urban and small farmers from sales taxes, real, tangible and personal property taxes and income taxes. It also defines urban and small farmers and urban farmland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H8159 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- PUBLIC BUILDINGS - Authorizes and funds the painting of a portrait of the president of the senate and former presidents of the senate who may be living to be hung in the state house.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H7727 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- FAIRNESS IN WOMEN'S SPORTS ACT - Categorizes women by their biological identity at birth rather than their gender identity for purpose of organized sports.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Education Committee |
| H7258 | Intro
25% | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- STATE FORESTS AND FORESTRY PROJECTS - Directs the general assembly to fund ten full time equivalent positions in FY 2025 to support DEM's efforts in the areas of forestry and forestry projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H7677 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- MAINTENANCE OF TOWN HIGHWAYS - Requires that all inspections, cleaning and maintenance and repairs of sidewalks along state highway and municipal roads, with the exception of snow and ice removal, be the responsibility of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H7792 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE - Increases the minimum required awarded to minority business enterprises from 15% to 20% and of that, require a minimum of 10% be awarded to minority owned businesses and a minimum of 10% be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Labor Committee |
