| H7051 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits the operation of an outdoor gun range within one mile or closer of any kindergarten through grade twelve (K-12) schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7707 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Carol F. Doherty, Rn
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
House read and passed |
| H7308 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- MAINTENANCE OF ORDER ON CAMPUS - Mandates arming campus police at public higher educational institutions and includes campus police in the definition of "law enforcement officer" for the purposes of the "Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7609 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Provides protection and prevent the unethical, improper conduct and the collection of fees, by anyone advising or assisting a veteran filing a claim for disability benefit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7705 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming February 25th Through March 2nd, 2024, As "peace Corps Week" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
House read and passed |
| H7557 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Requires all public utilities to maintain a customer service facility within the state to perform services such as addressing customer inquiries and accepting bill payments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7344 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ARREST - College security may detain criminal offenders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7709 | Pass | House Resolution Thanking And Recognizing Dale J. Venturini On The Occasion Of Her Retirement As President & Ceo Of The Ri Hospitality Association (riha)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
House read and passed |
| H7385 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - This act would amend the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation special plate law to include an annual ten-dollar (10.00) surcharge for plate renewals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| H7427 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- EXCAVATION NEAR UNDERGROUND UTILITY FACILITIES - Amends the provision of notice to be provided for the release of any hazardous gas or liquid as determined by the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7136 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY - Enables the Rhode Island public transit authority (RIPTA) to work with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) to allow commuter rail passes to be used as dual passes for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7556 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION FEES - Allows veterans with "Disabled Veterans" license plates to all the rights and privileges to persons possessing a disability parking permit. There would be no requirement of a parking privilege placard t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7326 | Intro
25% | HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE -- HOLIDAYS - Changes the name of the holiday on the second Monday of August from Victory Day to Peace and Remembrance Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| H7700 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- ADVERTISING OF RHODE ISLAND PRODUCTS -- LOCAL FOOD - Defines what local means as it pertains to certain food types being sold and advertised in Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H7085 | Pass | Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of New England Bible Doctrine Church
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H7702 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires all hospitals to screen uninsured patients for eligibility for public health programs and financial assistance under Medicare and Medicaid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Finance Committee |
| S2071 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Amend The Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstration Waiver Requests And Renewals (this Joint Resolution Would Approve An Amendment To A Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstration Waiver And Renewals Regarding A Pilot Proposal To Reduce The Num...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H7466 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- TAX SALES - Replaces the tax sale auction process with a real estate broker listing of the land for fair market value and any surplus proceeds realized upon sale shall be paid to the owner of the real estate at the time of the sale.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H7221 | Pass | THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS-BILL REYNOLDS MEDIA WORK ROOM - Designates the media room at the Amica Mutual Pavilion as the "Bill Reynolds Media Work Roo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
Signed by Governor |
| S2034 | Pass | THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS-BILL REYNOLDS MEDIA WORK ROOM - Designates the media room at the Amica Mutual Pavilion as the "Bill Reynolds Media Work Roo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
Signed by Governor |
| H7517 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- OFFICE OF STATE MEDICAL EXAMINERS - Provides for procedures for the burial of unclaimed remains.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7101 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES - Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2088 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires every individual or group health insurance contract effective on or after January 1, 2025, to provide coverage to the insured and the insured's spouse and dependents for all FDA-approve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Health and Human Services 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] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7299 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires health insurance policies to provide coverage for the licensed practice of naturopathy and to provide reports.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7670 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE COLLEGE CRUSADE SCHOLARSHIP - Changes the name of The College Crusade Scholarship to the Onward We Learn Scholarship and provide that those scholarships would not be considered federal or financial aid with regard to the Promise Scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7689 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Requesting The Auditor General To Oversee An Audit Of Medicaid Programs Administered By Managed Care Organizations
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| S2495 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of The Honorable Harold L. Trafford, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
Senate read and passed |
| H7671 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND SUPPLEMENTAL PAYMENTS FOR THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM IN RHODE ISLAND ACT - Directs the allocation of $3,000,000 from the 2025 state budget to provide cash benefits to participants in the supplemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7686 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Amends works program to provide eligibility for benefits to pregnant persons from onset of pregnancy including lawful permanent residents, increases monthly cash benefits, disallows termination of be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7676 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- ANNUAL FUNDING FOR RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY ACT - Provides a mechanism for funding the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority through the use of an interest-free loan to advance certain federal funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7160 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- PRICE GOUGING OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS PROHIBITED - Makes it a felony to price gouge prescriptions or pharmaceuticals in time of a shortage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7072 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve, Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State -- Four Year Terms For Representatives And Senators (proposes An Amendment To The State Constitution, Article Iv, Section 1, T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H7672 | 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] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7692 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $6,000,000 To Onward We Learn In Ri (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $6,000,000 To Onward We Learn In Ri.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7053 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS - Permits those persons with felony convictions to have up to six misdemeanor offenses expunged from their criminal record.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7687 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOOL PUPILS BEYOND CITY AND TOWN LIMITS - Allows an individual school district that can utilize its own buses or vendors at a lower cost than the statewide system, to obtain reimbursement for these costs from state fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| S2494 | Pass | Senate Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Katelyn Mccanna Vieira
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
Senate read and passed |
| H7151 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- PHYSICAL THERAPY COPAY - Limits copays, coinsurance or office deductibles for services of a physical therapist to the amount authorized for the services of a primary care physician or osteopath...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H7165 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- COMMERCIAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY - Under certain circumstances, provides immunity from arrest and prosecution for prostitution, procurement of sexual conduct for a fee, loitering for prostitution and soliciting from motor vehicles for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7318 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- WRITS, SUMMONS AND PROCESS - Adds those persons with experience as a federal process server as qualifying for certification as a constable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7311 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Provides that imposition of a fine, or sentences of probation or a suspended sentence, absent a period of incarceration, are not convictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7693 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To The United Way Of Rhode Island For The 2-1-1 Human Services Hotline (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 To The United Way Of Rhode Island To Provide Operati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7521 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- AUTOMATED DECISION TOOLS -- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - Creates requirements for the developers or deployers of artificial intelligence and allows civil action against these developers or deployers by the attorney genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| H7306 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- JUDICIAL SELECTION - Requires individuals seeking a judicial nomination to reapply to JNC every 5 years and make those individuals selected as finalists, eligible only for the court in which they applied and we...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7669 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT - Increases the department's standard, burial allowance payment from nine hundred dollars ($900) to one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7526 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- IDENTIFICATION AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS - Mandates that the clerk of the district court automatically seal individual counts of criminal complaints upon dismissal pursuant to rule 48(a) of the rules of criminal procedure fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2376 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Increases the taxable wage base upon which employees make contributions to the TDI and TCI funds, increases individual benefit rates, and creates an opt-in option for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| 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] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H7100 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LILA MANFIELD SAPINSLEY COMPASSIONATE CARE ACT - Establishes the process to provide a legal mechanism whereby a terminally ill patient may choose to end their life using medications prescribed by a physician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
