| H7324 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Removes the floor area ratio requirement from the zoning ordinances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H7742 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTIONS -- SMALL CLAIMS AND CONSUMER CLAIMS - Amends procedures and fees relative to claims of appeal in small claims actions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
Proposed Substitute |
| H8055 | Intro
25% | CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS -- RHODE ISLAND BUSINESS CORPORATION ACT - Allows the sharing of certain information between the division of taxation and the secretary of state's office regarding an entity's tax status as compliant or no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7302 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SEARCH WARRANTS - Dictates the length a search warrant involving a tracking device would be valid and provide a process to extend the time frame of the tracking device for good cause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7683 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- REAL ESTATE CONVEYANCE TAX - Imposes a conveyance tax on purchasers, of single-family residential properties, who are for- profit entities with over $15,000,000 in assets, at a rate of $6.90/$500, to be collected for housing production fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Finance Committee |
| H7801 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ELECTRONIC INFORMATION AND DATA PRIVACY ACT - Requires law enforcement agencies to obtain search warrants for electronic information, data, location information and other identifying information of subscribers and customers, exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7712 | Intro
25% | AERONAUTICS -- AIRPORTS AND LANDING FIELDS - Designates the appropriate authority on air space issues as the president and CEO of the Rhode Island airport corporation and aligns certain job titles with their proper responsibilities relative to aerona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7923 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HOUSING PRODUCTION REVOLVING FUND ACT - Authorizes the department of housing to issue bonds in the amount of $50,000,000 with a maturity date not to exceed 20 years, to establish the housing production revolving fund, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Finance Committee |
| H7537 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- SMALL BUSINESS ADVOCACY - Amends the composition of the small business advisory council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Small Business Committee |
| H7834 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- PERSONAL WATERCRAFT SAFETY - Amends the penalty for violating the provisions of the personal watercraft safety act from a misdemeanor to a violation and reduce the fine from five hundred dollars ($500) to a fine of two hundre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8175 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Gives the city of Woonsocket the authority to establish by ordinance, exemptions from taxation on real and personal property for different classifications of individuals including, but not limited to, the el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H7573 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Amends the statute punishing child pornography by replacing the term "child pornography" with the term "child sexual abuse material."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8171 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Removes the sunset provision of all statutory law requiring coverage for the treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7952 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8170 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CONTRACTORS' REGISTRATION AND LICENSING BOARD - Requires all applicants who seek to register as a contractor to produce a legible copy of a valid government issued identification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7040 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Requires the DMV to create a blue envelope program for drivers with autism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
Proposed Substitute |
| H7795 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LABOR AND PAYMENT OF DEBTS BY CONTRACTORS - Prohibits contractors and subcontractors from paying employees the cash equivalent of any applicable healthcare benefit in lieu of actually purchasing the healthcare benefit. Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
Proposed Substitute |
| H7970 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7739 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- DISTRICT COURT PRACTICE - Amends the filing fees and time frame for certain claims of appeal to superior court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
Proposed Substitute |
| H7800 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- VICTIM'S RIGHTS - Waives the payment of filing fees and service of process costs when the victim of a crime is still owed restitution at the expiration of a criminal case.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7208 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY TAX RELIEF - Increases the income range up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) and tax credit up to eight hundred fifty dollars ($850), for elderly and disabled persons who own or rent their homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Finance Committee |
| H7371 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- FAMILY COURT - Gives statewide juvenile hearing boards the authority to refer a juvenile offender to a rehabilitative driving course, as part of a disposition of an offense before the board. The order may be en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7749 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- AUTOMATED LICENSE PLATE READERS - Provides for municipal and state police authorities to acquire and to utilize automated license plate readers. Further, the act identifies what data may be collected and in what ways the data ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8181 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To The City Of Warwick As Compensation For Municipal Services Provided At Rhode Island T.f. Green International Airport (this Joint Resolution Would Provide Payment Of $500,000 To The City Of Warwi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Finance Committee |
| H7975 | Intro
25% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION - Permits state child support agencies to bring actions under the child support statute on behalf of a noncustodial parent who is incarcerated and unable to pay child support.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7681 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX -- AFFORDABLE HOUSING TAX CREDIT ACT - Creates business tax credit for, eliminates sale tax on, eliminates income tax on the sale of, and creates a 10 year tax valuation freeze on newly renovated affordable housin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Finance Committee |
| H7984 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 - Provides that mobile and manufactured homes be included as affordable housing under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H7402 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- STATE AID - Exempts schools or school districts subject to an intervention for failing schools from the withholding of aid provisions for infractions related to nonpayment of tuition owed by one community to another.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Finance Committee |
| H7798 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- STALKING - Makes it a misdemeanor to harass another person by following them and using an electronic device to record their movements in any public or private place.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7629 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- INDICTMENTS, INFORMATIONS AND COMPLAINTS - Includes the offense of second-degree sexual assault among the offenses to which there shall be no statute of limitations and provides for a ten (10) year statute of limitations for thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7986 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- ABANDONED PROPERTY - Requires towns and cities to publish a list of abandoned properties and makes various other amendments relative to the sale of abandoned property by a receiver.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H8133 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Imposes an additional local hotel tax in the city of Newport, at a rate of two and one-half percent (2.5%) to be retained and used for its public infrastructure and resiliency purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Finance Committee |
| H7271 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8176 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H7982 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Amends provisions relative to the application of zoning ordinances pertaining to wetland buffers to projects for development, redevelopment, construction or rehabilitation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H7527 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - This act would further delineate the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8042 | Intro
25% | Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of New England Racing Fuel, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7673 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- FIRST TIME HOME BUYER SAVINGS PROGRAM ACT - Establishes the first time home buyer savings program act. Allows modifications to federal adjusted gross income for $50,000 in contributions and $150,000 of interest and dividends included in f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Finance Committee |
| H7935 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTY CONVENTION AND VISITORS' BUREAU - Makes various amendments to the chapter creating the Newport and Bristol County Convention and Visitors Bureau.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
Proposed Substitute |
| H7387 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- DECEPTIVE AND FRAUDULENT SYNTHETIC MEDIA IN ELECTION COMMUNICATIONS - Prohibits synthetic media within ninety (90) days of an election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
Proposed Substitute |
| H7956 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SENTENCE AND EXECUTION - Requires the court to set reasonable bail for all those individuals who appear before it as probation violators and establish a presumption of personal recognizance unless the new alleged offense is a cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7776 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $20,000,000 For The Housing Down Payment Assistance Program (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $20,000,000 To Support The Down Payment Assistance Program.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
To House Finance Committee |
| H7744 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT - Provides that a defendant's third and subsequent violation of domestic violence offenses, including both prior felony and misdemeanor convictions, be punishable as a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8158 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS -- WOONSOCKET -- TAX STABILIZATION AGREEMENTS - Grants the city of Woonsocket the authority to extend tax stabilization agreements within the city, for properties currently occupied by CVS at 1 CVS Drive, 100 Highla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H8095 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOGS - Increases the penalty for violations of the care of dogs statute to a minimum fine of one hundred dollars ($100) and a maximum fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000) per violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H8057 | 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] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Finance Committee |
| H7565 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LONG-TERM CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL - Provides for remote participation in open public meetings of the long-term care coordinating council and would provide that a quorum of the council consists of 12 members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H7257 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- REAL ESTATE CONVEYANCE TAX - Increases conveyance tax for residential properties sold above $2,000,000 to a rate of $3.30 per $500, to be collected for RI housing for elderly affordable housing development. Provides and exemption to any e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Finance Committee |
| H8129 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES - Includes visual images that are created or manipulated by digitization, or without the consent of the person, within the purview of the crime of unauthorized dissemination of indecent material and exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7663 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS - Requires the division of vital records to ensure that the records are accessible to the local registrars and grant local registrars the authority to issue certified copies of certificates and records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
