| S2068 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks weighing fourteen thousand pounds (14,000 lbs.) or less from sales and use tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2081 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RESTORATION ACT - Prohibits eliminating religious exemption regarding mandatory health injections or inoculations and an unlawful employment practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2102 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- BAIL AND RECOGNIZANCE - Requires that whenever a person is charged with possession of a firearm with alteration of identification marks, the alteration would create a rebuttable presumption that the person is a danger to the saf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2062 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Removes the exemption from the state hotel tax for residences rented in their entirety. Effective 1/1/2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2117 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT - Limits the governor to one thirty (30) day renewal of a declaration of emergency without a joint resolution of the general assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2064 | 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] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2050 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- EDUCATION SAVINGS ACCOUNTS PROGRAM - Requires general treasurer upon request from RIDE to establish education savings account to assist remote-learning students with educational support exempt from state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2056 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Eliminates the sales tax on taxi services and pet care services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2134 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from sales tax the trade-in values of motorcycles as well the proceeds received as a result of an unrecovered stolen or total loss of a motorcycle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2109 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RHODE ISLAND PAIN-CAPABLE UNBORN CHILD PROTECTION ACT - Creates the Rhode Island Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, prohibiting the performance or induction of an abortion of an unborn child capable of feeling pain, unless...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2080 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COVID-19 VACCINATION MANDATE PROHIBITED - Prohibits a private employer from mandating a COVID-19 vaccination upon any full-time, part-time, or contract employee without providing individual exemptions that allow an employee to op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2039 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- INNOVATION ZONE SCHOOLS - Allows for a public school/group of public schools to implement an innovation plan through the local school board, approved by the state board and subject to review by the local school board as well as the depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2049 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Reduces the sales tax rate to 5%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2104 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Prohibits the distribution, transfer, or possession of any material that depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct and is obscene and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2067 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Amends modifications to income tax for residents to now include an exemption for a foreign service officer's pension.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2060 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the City of Cranston to issue not to exceed $40,000,000 general obligation bonds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2044 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- 2021 ACT ON CLIMATE - Incorporates ethical energy standards to the 2021 Act on Climate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2106 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires healthcare facilities that perform abortions meet the license requirements of similar healthcare facilities and allows the department of health to conduct unannounced inspections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2041 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RIGHTS OF PARENTS AND GUARDIANS IN PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL INSTRUCTION ACT - Enables parents to review public school learning materials/object if the parent decides that the material is harmful. Also a parent may withdraw their student from t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2009 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Requires all public school teachers hired on or after July 1, 2024, to participate in the retirement system social security pursuant to chapter 7 of title 36.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
