| S2813 | Intro
25% | CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS -- RHODE ISLAND BUSINESS CORPORATION ACT - Makes numerous technical amendments to the statutes on taxes and corporations, associations and partnerships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed as amended (floor amendment) |
| H7952 | Enroll
75% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTIONS -- ARBITRATION - Spells out additional notice provisions, fees and costs of the arbitration process, from initiation to default provisions and potential court sanctions for breach of the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed in concurrence |
| S3131 | Enroll
75% | Authorizes the city of Pawtucket to issue not more than $20,000,000 general obligation bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness to finance the design, construction, reconstruction and repair of environmental infrastructure improvements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House passed in concurrence |
| S2142 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION WORKFORCE DATA ACT - Codifies the previously funded Rhode Island early care and education workforce registry data system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| H7571 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CASINO GAMING - Amends the law consistent with the advent of iGaming and new technology. It also codifies the payment of investigatory expenses incurred by the State in limited circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| S2015 | Engross
50% | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- DEPARTMENT OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS - Mandates, as of 1/1/26, all recovery housing facilities register with department of behavioral healthca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House passed Sub A in concurrence |
| H7840 | Engross
50% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- REGULATION OF VICIOUS DOGS - Permits euthanization of vicious dogs upon finding that dogs condition warrants euthanasia or after determination that there is no reasonable placement for the dog/provides any municipality...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| S2621 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- NURSING HOME WORKFORCE STANDARDS BOARD ACT - Creates the nursing home workforce standards board act to establish and enforce industry-wide quality of care standards in nursing homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House passed Sub A in concurrence |
| S2863 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION FEES - Exempts the Rhode Island Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Inc. from payment of certain vehicles registration fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House passed Sub A in concurrence |
| S2156 | Enroll
75% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTION AND BENEFITS - Increases the maximum post retirement employment earnings from eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) a year for certain retired ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House passed in concurrence |
| H7373 | Pass | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Requires safe storage of firearms/provides civil and criminal penalties for violations/adds rifles and shotguns to the types of firearms requiring a trigger lock to be included with purchase/requires firearms dealers po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| H7970 | Enroll
75% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION - Creates a custody procedure for pets in divorce and separation proceedings based on the best interests of the animal. This act would not apply to assistance/service animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed in concurrence |
| H8027 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS - Increases passenger landing and boarding fees for passenger cruise vessels landing at a dock in Newport from three dollars ($3.00) to ten dollars ($10.00).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| S2624 | Enroll
75% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- OPTICIANS -- QUALIFICATIONS - Establishes a second avenue of qualification as an optician, to include successfully completing an apprenticeship program of not less than 4,100 hours in not less than 2 years. The act would...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House passed in concurrence |
| H7733 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- NURSING HOME WORKFORCE STANDARDS BOARD ACT - Creates the nursing home workforce standards board act to establish and enforce industry-wide quality of care standards in nursing homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| S2536 | Engross
50% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET METERING - Prohibits utility companies from limiting the eligibility of a net metering site based on prior consumption and requires excess energy not consumed under the net metering system to be credited to the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed Sub A |
| S3021 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS - Increases passenger landing and boarding fees for passenger cruise vessels landing at a dock in Newport from three dollars ($3.00) to ten dollars ($10.00).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House passed Sub A in concurrence |
| H7660 | Enroll
75% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation real and tangible personal property classified as industrial and would extend the exemption period from ten (10) years to twenty (20) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed in concurrence |
| S3151 | Enroll
75% | EDUCATION -- DISTRICT CHARTER SCHOOL - Requires that certain quarterly reports required to be filed by district charter schools, mayoral academies and independent charter schools be submitted to the commissioner of elementary and secondary education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House passed in concurrence |
| H8078 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE LADDERS TO LICENSURE PROGRAM - Implements a grant program to fund public or private partnerships that provide opportunities for healthcare paraprofessionals to pursue higher education degrees and health professiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed as amended in concurrence |
| S2298 | Engross
50% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- ACT ON COASTS -- COASTAL RESILIENCY - Requires the chief resilience officer (CRO) and a resiliency office within the department of environmental management (DEM) be charged with the creation, maintenance and updating of the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence |
| S2565 | Enroll
75% | EDUCATION -- FOUNDATION LEVEL SCHOOL SUPPORT - Provides the state's share of the basic program and approved expenditures would be paid to the city of East Providence in twelve (12) monthly installments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House passed in concurrence |
| H8336 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Amends the definition of "low- and moderate-income housing" to include housing secured by a federal government voucher or subsidy, but only if the voucher or subsidy is applied prospectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed as amended in concurrence |
| H8264 | Enroll
75% | Authorizes the city of Pawtucket to issue not more than $20,000,000 general obligation bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness to finance the design, construction, reconstruction and repair of environmental infrastructure improvements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed in concurrence |
| H7022 | Engross
50% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- ACT ON COASTS -- COASTAL RESILIENCY - Requires the chief resilience officer (CRO) be charged with creation/maintenance/updating of the state's resiliency/recovery program along with climate change resiliency plan with ocean/r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence |
| S2499 | Engross
50% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS ACT - Creates the financial framework for incentivizing energy storage systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House passed Sub A in concurrence |
| H8325 | Engross
50% | STATUTES AND STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION - Makes technical amendments to the general laws at the recommendation of the law revision office
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| H7424 | Engross
50% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- FILING OF ASSUMED NAME - Changes the term "assumed name" to "trade name" and centralizes the filing, administration and regulation process of trade names to the secretary of state and requires an ann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House passed as amended in concurrence |
| H8275 | Enroll
75% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Authorizes the city of Providence to issue a BV alcoholic beverage license for the premises located at 1230 Elmwood Avenue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed in concurrence |
| S3045 | Enroll
75% | EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Directs that for a period of two years, the board of education would waive the whole grain requirements for meals served in public schools, for purposes of receiving reimbursement under federal law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House passed in concurrence |
| H7271 | Enroll
75% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- FAMILY COURT - Provides that a magistrate of the family court has the power and authority to hear contested divorce matters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed in concurrence |
| H7830 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL - Allows the attorney general to investigate and bring an enforcement action against persistent fraud or illegality in the carrying on, conducting, or transaction of business or governmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| H8176 | Enroll
75% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Authorizes reassessment of taxes on new construction from the date of issuance of the certificate of occupancy or the date it is first used, whichever is the earlier.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed in concurrence |
| H8180 | Engross
50% | TAXATION -- MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION TAX CREDITS - Clarifies that all costs of goods used and services performed in Rhode Island shall qualify as state-certified production costs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| H8244 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- VIDEO LOTTERY GAMES, TABLE GAMES AND SPORTS WAGERING - Makes various amendments to the authorization of gaming credits and the regulatory agreement involving Bally's corporation and affiliates to increase Rhode Island'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| S3139 | Enroll
75% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES - Provides that vendors, parent corporations, subsidiaries, affiliates, or subcontractors of the state are prohibited from bidding on requests for proposals if the person or entity has a conflict of intere...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House passed in concurrence |
| S2773 | Engross
50% | PROPERTY -- BY POSSESSION AND PRESCRIPTION - Denies the right of footway, except within one hundred (100) yards of the Pawtuxet River in the cities of Warwick and Cranston and except in connection with a right to pass with carriages to be acquired by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate read and passed |
| H7365 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Provides that health insurers provide coverage for covered clinician-administered drugs under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| S2121 | Engross
50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE -- BENEFITS - Makes care recipients eligible for temporary caregiver benefits and increase the maximum temporary caregiver benefit weeks from six (6) to eight (8) weeks over of period of two...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence |
| H8346 | Enroll
75% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT - Repeals the July 1, 2025, sunset provision of the interstate medical licensure act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed in concurrence |
| H7616 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RENEWABLE READY PROGRAM - Establishes the renewable ready program and fund to promotes the responsible siting/development of renewable energy generating resources in locations where it would be an ancillary beneficial ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| S3134 | Enroll
75% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Allows members of the Rhode Island judiciary and certain employees of the judiciary recommended by the chief justice to be issued a driver's license that contains the applicant's offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House passed in concurrence |
| S3152 | Engross
50% | TAXATION -- TAXATION OF BANKS - Provides banks with an election to use the allocation and apportionment method of income for purposes of taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House passed Sub A in concurrence |
| S2125 | Engross
50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES - Provides employees with civil administrative remedies against contractors, subcontractors involved in the contract with joint/severable liability imposed on contractors or subcontractors. Effective 9/1/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed Sub A |
| S2991 | Enroll
75% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOCAL PLANNING BOARD OR COMMISSION - Provides amendments to the membership provisions of planning boards or commissions and would enable municipalities to establish "combined review boards" to replace separate planning and zoning ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House passed in concurrence |
| S2173 | Enroll
75% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- AUDIOLOGY AND SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY INTERSTATE COMPACT - Adopts the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact and would establish a joint public agency known as the Audiology and Speech-Language Path...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House passed in concurrence |
| S2086 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Prohibits healthcare entities from interfering with a patient's right to choose to obtain a clinician-administered drug from their provider or pharmacy of choice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed as amended in concurrence |
| S3118 | Engross
50% | THE TOWN OF JOHNSTON MUNICIPAL COURT - Totally repeals the 1964 public law, which established the Johnston Municipal Court and which has never been amended and would enable the town of Johnston to establish a municipal court and housing court with ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence |
| H7283 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- PRODUCER LICENSING ACT - Amends provisions re insurance producer appointments and clarifies language re insurance claims adjusters. Amends the RI life & health guarantee assoc act. Adds insurance data security and pet insurance acts and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| H7945 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY LICENSURE COMPACT - Creates the occupational therapy licensure compact that would allow licensed occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants to practice in all states that join the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
