| H8007 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- TRANSFER OF VEHICLES - Allows temporary vehicle registration and plates issued to Rhode Island residents by another state to be valid; provided that, the plates and registration issued to an out-of-state resident by a Rhod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H7086 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- VEGETATION MANAGEMENT FOR ELECTRIC SYSTEM RELIABILITY - Requires an electric distribution company to develop and act pursuant to a vegetation management plan approved by the DPUC to carry out vegetation management act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7241 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- OPTIONAL RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE AND FIREFIGHTERS - Amends definition for final compensation, relative to police officers and firefighters, provides them life annuity regardless of age or years of service, upon reti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H8063 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Supporting Continued Focus And Actions For Maintaining And Improving Adequate Transportation Services By The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority In West Warwick (would Direct The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority To Revisit The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H8118 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- RHODE ISLAND CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENDITURES REPORTING - Amends various sections of law relating to campaign contributions and expenditures including prohibitions on self-dealing with committee funds and would prohibit donation m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H8119 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- LOW-SPEED VEHICLES - Provides that low-speed vehicles may be operated on limited access highways, state highways, through highways and public highways or roadways provided the speed limit on the highways and roadways is no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H8116 | Intro
25% | CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS -- THE RHODE ISLAND LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ACT - Replaces the existing limited liability company act with a newer and updated model act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7715 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- TERMINATION OF SERVICE TO PERSONS WHO ARE DISABLED, SERIOUSLY ILL, OR IN ARREARS OF PAYMENT - Extends the forbearance of utility terminations for customers with serious illness certifications and would amend various p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| H8013 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL CODE PROVISIONS - Includes "Kei cars" or "Kei trucks" as having restricted public highway use and those vehicles validly registered as of August 1, 2021, would not be denied renewal of that registra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H8014 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- RHODE ISLAND UNIFORM COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE ACT - Provides that commercial driver instruction include industry-specific training on the recognition, prevention, and reporting of human trafficking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H7017 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Directs PUC to extend utility termination moratorium for gas/electricity from April 15 to May 1, of each year with discretion to respond to emergency/ economic conditions/customers' needs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7658 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SIZE, WEIGHT AND LOAD LIMITS -- WEIGHT RESTRICTIONS ON ROUTE 114 A EAST PROVIDENCE - Prohibits commercial motor trucks, with a gross weight rating of twenty-six thousand one pounds (26,001 lbs.) or more, from traveling on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H7714 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTORIZED BICYCLES - Requires helmets be worn by all riders, regardless of age, while operating or riding any electric bicycle or electric motorized bicycle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7892 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- HARBORS AND HARBOR LINES - Permits towns and cities to regulate all houseboats within their jurisdiction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H7839 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES - Authorizes retired police officers and firefighters to earn income in addition to their earnable compensation; provided that, the amount would not exceed 5 times the rate of earnable compensatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H7695 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- REGULATORY POWERS OF ADMINISTRATION - Prohibit rate charges in excess of rates applied if tenant of residential complexes with electrical master-meters receives electricity directly from a public utility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7286 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Creates an income-sensitive tiered subsidy program to ensure that home energy utility costs are affordable for eligible low-income households.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7429 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Changes the requirements of quarterly meetings of the board to monthly meetings. The chairperson of the board would be the commissioner or acting commissioner of the office of energy reso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7461 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Allows the presumption of in-the-line-of-duty illness unless contrary evidence is presented.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H8015 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT AND MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE FRAUD REPORTING -- IMMUNITY ACT - Prohibits the release of customers personal information compiled by the department of motor vehicles to any private company, nonprofit organization or thir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H7464 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Extends injured-on-duty (IOD) benefits to police officers and firefighters that suffer from diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorders, except under certain conditi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H7138 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- REGULATORY POWERS OF ADMINISTRATION - Provides that any rate increase with respect to electric distribution companies would be no greater than the increase in the Consumer Price Index or f5.5%, whichever is greater, u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| H7434 | Intro
25% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Amends the current law to allow for the sale of alcoholic beverages by the bottle to be consumed on the premises of a licensee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (04/04/2024) |
| H7701 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE -- ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT - Consolidates and transfers the duties of the state building inspector to the state building code commissioner and establish a state building code education and training acad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H8062 | Intro
25% | THE EXETER -- WEST GREENWICH SCHOOL DISTRICT - Amends chapter 80 of the public laws of 1965 with respect to the composition of the regional district school building committee, apportionment of construction and operating costs and amendments to the ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H7688 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- TOURISM AND DEVELOPMENT - Redirects the distribution of the hotel tax money generated in the South County regional tourism district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7668 | Intro
25% | CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- PRISONER MADE GOODS - Allows correctional industries to conduct business for goods or services with any 501(c)(3) and would require customers of correctional industries to pay fifty present (50%) of an order ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7888 | 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] | 2024-03-28
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H7030 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- RHODE ISLAND VETERANS' HOME - Reduces the assessment by the Rhode Island Veterans Home against a resident's net income from eighty percent (80%) to fifty percent (50%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H8076 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION -- LIFE ESTATE - Entitles holders of a life estate to real property to use any veteran's tax exemptions available to them.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H7679 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND MOTOR VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION FEES - Provides that when a registrant voluntarily cancels the registrant's motor vehicle registration, that person would receive a partial refund of the fee that had been paid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7786 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- AUTOMATED DECISION TOOLS - Requires companies that develop or deploy high-risk AI systems to conduct impact assessments and adopt risk management programs, would apply to both developers and deployer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| H7890 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ACTIONS BY AND AGAINST TOWNS - Requires a municipality to disclose on their official website the specific issues, details and costs of any legal action of which the town or city is a named defendant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H7785 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DIGITAL ASSET KEYS -- PROHIBITION OF PRODUCTION OF PRIVATE KEYS - Prohibits the compelled production of a private key as it relates to a digital asset, digital identity or other interest or right.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| H7690 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $100,000 To The Rhode Island Department Of Veterans Of Foreign Wars (ri Vfw) For The Ri Veterans Services Officers (vso) Program (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $100,000 To ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7025 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE LOTTERY - Designates a special account for veterans' causes to be funded by Keno sales, less prizes and commissions, generated on Memorial Day and Veterans Day with disbursement pursuant to appropriation by the g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7266 | Intro
25% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- CURRENCY TRANSMISSIONS -- VIRTUAL CURRENCY KIOSKS - Establishes guidelines for the operation of virtual currency (crypto) kiosks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| H7127 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC FINANCE -- RHODE ISLAND RETIREMENT SAVINGS PROGRAM ACT - Establishes Rhode Island Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program to be administered by the general treasurer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7460 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT SECURITY ACT FOR LOCALLY ADMINISTERED PENSION FUNDS - Requires municipalities managing their own pension system to submit a statutorily required actuarial experience study to the advisory council to locally administered...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H7787 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- RHODE ISLAND DATA TRANSPARENCY AND PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT - Creates the Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protect Act for data privacy protections for the personal data of the citizens of Rh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| H7367 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES - Prohibits state agency contract for licensing of software applications designed for generally available desktop/server hardware cannot limit agency choice to install/run software o its hardware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| H7990 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Permits every municipality in the state to offer a homestead tax exemption of up to 20% of assessed value on residential properties, and also provides that municipalities that grant greater exemptions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H7996 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- STATE TAX OFFICIALS - Reduces the interest rate on delinquent payments to the twelve percent (12%) per annum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Finance Committee |
| H7462 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENERGY FACILITY SITING ACT - Increases the membership of the energy facility siting board from 3 to 5 members and would revise the process of energy facility siting to mandate inclusion/participation of the host commun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H7960 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT -- JUST CAUSE EVICTIONS - Provides for just cause evictions for residential landlord tenancies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7962 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Recognizes tenants' unions and provides a procedure whereby the housing resources commission shall administer a hearing process for consolidated complaints filed by tenants' unions, pertaining to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7049 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Limits rent increases to no more than 4% annually and provides tenants with a civil action to recover damages for any violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7162 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Permits those other residents of a residential dwelling unit to extend the term of the rental agreement for a period not to exceed three (3) months after the death of the lessee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7304 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Requires landlords of residential properties give tenants notice of rent increase at least 90 days prior to increase and requires notice requirement for rent increases for month to month tenants who a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7579 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Increases the state minimum wage by $1.25 per year from 2026 through 2029 when it would reach twenty dollars ($20.00) per hour and then provides for subsequent annual adjustments based on the Consumer Pric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Labor Committee |
