| S0820 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Of Suffrage (would Propose To The Voters Of The State A Constitutional Amendment Regarding Eligibility To Vote And To Be A Candidate....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
[Hearing: Mar 20]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H6059 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CONSUMER PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024 - Exempts certain products that have PFAS if deemed safe by FDA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
[Hearing: Mar 20]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| S0278 | 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] | 2025-03-17
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5703 | Intro
25% | THE KINGSTON WATER DISTRICT -- BONDS - Increases the maximum amount of the Kingston water district bonding authority from four million dollars ($4,000,000) to fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Placed on House Calendar (03/18/2025) |
| S0797 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS - Updates the Homeless Bill of Rights to add rules governing encampments, including the right to clean and sanitary conditions and impose penalties for violations of the rights set forth in this chapter in the amou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| H5381 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- NOMINATION OF PARTY AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES - Amends several statutes relating to elections and the dates for primaries and dates within which to file nomination papers and object to nomination papers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| S0290 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Grants an affirmative defense for certain privileged communications, including communications made by an individual, without malice, regarding an incident of sexual assault, hara...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5855 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- RHODE ISLAND FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS ACT - Amends the types of less expensive generic products which pharmacists may prescribe to include "devices and supplies" and "therapeutically equivalent products" and requires the director ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S0352 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- IDENTIFICATION AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS - Requires superior court clerk to automatically seal cases/individual counts of a criminal complaint/indictment that were dismissed, upon request of the defendant and serve it upon b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5713 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- LOCAL CANVASSING AUTHORITY - Prohibits members of elected city/town political party committees as well as representative/senate district committees from serving on local canvassing authorities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| S0515 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION - Makes it a felony for any person required to register as a sex offender to live within three hundred feet (300’) of a school as defined in § 11-37.1-2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5794 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOCAL PLANNING BOARD OR COMMISSION - Provides technical amendments to the chapters on subdivision of land and zoning ordinances for towns and cities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0790 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- LICENSING OF APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS - Changes the name of "applied behavior assistant analyst" to "assistant applied behavior analyst" and makes several changes to provide consistency in the certification language for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0403 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- FORCE-FED POULTRY PRODUCTS - Prohibits force-feeding to create a force-fed poultry product or the hiring of another to engage in force-feeding of a poultry product. Violations would be subject to a civil penalty of $500 per violatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 19]
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S0495 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND COMMERCE CORPORATION -- HOUSING DEVELOPMENT - Authorizes the establishment of a RI housing champion designation program. This program would make qualified municipalities eligible to receive preferential ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20]
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| H5312 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- LOCAL CANVASSING AUTHORITIES - Establishes a process by which vacancies in a municipal election office and local canvassing board are filled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| S0283 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Requires that only the mail ballot voter/spouse/court appointed guardian/cohabitant/or adult person related to the voter by blood or marriage, be allowed to physically mail the voted mail ballot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0486 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF 2004 -- HEALTH INSURANCE OVERSIGHT - Establishes a process whereby large drug manufacturers, may be penalized for prescription drug price increases where there is no, or inade...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H5834 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Respectfully Requesting The Public Utilities Commission, Office Of Energy Resources, And Department Of Environmental Management To Identify Issues Related To Electric Rates And Potential Rate Reform Strategies
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20]
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5504 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RHODE ISLAND FAIR HOUSING PRACTICES ACT - Tenants with disabilities may request to keep an emotional support animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0633 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' TENURE - Requires the names of any noncredentialled school employee who is terminated for good and just cause, to be furnished to the department of education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 19]
To Senate Education Committee |
| S0132 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- UNIFORM ACT ON PREVENTION OF AND REMEDIES FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING - Requires that all monies received from the payment of fines under the Uniform Act on Prevention of and Remedies for Human Trafficking be deposited into the into th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5681 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS -- MERIT SYSTEM - Allows for waiver from testing for temporary or emergency positions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 19]
To House Labor Committee |
| H5253 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS - Removes the age restriction for benefits coverage and requires, for health insurance policies issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026, that coverage must include reimbursement for applied behavior analys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H6085 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET METERING - Allows preferred sites to be developed without being subject to the cap or rate reduction in the net metering statute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To House Corporations Committee |
| S0769 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- AFFORDABLE CLEAN ENERGY SECURITY ACT - Mandates state and electric distribution companies develop proposals and encourage off shore wind power development and give priority in those projects to providing employment an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H6061 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Amends the provisions for insurance coverage of mental health, mental illness, and substance use disorders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S0526 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT - Requires the electronic filing of domestic violence/sexual assault forms by law enforcement agencies, and enhances the information to be included on the reporting forms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5850 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Requires every individual or group health insurance plan on or after January 1, 2026, that provides benefits to reimburse child service providers for therapy services of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S0207 | 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] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0474 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RARE DISEASE ADVISORY COUNCIL - Establishes a rare disease advisory council within the department of health to provide guidance and recommendations to educate healthcare providers and the citizens of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H5798 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Adds the process of permitting the construction of attached single-family dwellings in identified zoning districts as a factor that zoning ordinances must address.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20]
Proposed Substitute |
| S0824 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM AND GENDER AFFIRMING CARE HEALTH DATA PRIVACY ACT - Creates the reproductive freedom and gender affirming care health data privacy act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5353 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Authorizes a pharmacy technician or pharmacy intern to perform technology-assisted dispensing process validation for medications prepared for distribution by another pharmacy technician or intern within an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
Proposed Substitute |
| H5711 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Requires verification of an applicant's date of birth and either a Rhode Island driver's license number or state identification number on all applications seeking mail ballots and emergency mail ballots.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H5595 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE GOOD SAMARITAN OVERDOSE PREVENTION ACT OF 2016 - Requires that every institution of higher education provide training in the administration of opioid antagonists to every staff member on the institution's campus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To House Education Committee |
| S0819 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- LOCAL CANVASSING AUTHORITIES - Requires the local board of canvassers to publish early voting dates, hours, and location, at least twice in a newspaper of general circulation and to publish the same on the municipality's website for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5844 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- WATER POLLUTION - Requires quarterly testing of biosolids for PFAS contaminants by those seeking to apply biosolids to lands, with subsequent reports to the department of environmental management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| S0117 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Sets controls on Medicaid prescription drug costs by imposing transparency and accountability requirements on managed care organizations (MCOs) and their pharmacy benefit managers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0649 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- PET INSURANCE ACT - Provides for the sale and regulation of pet insurance policies and their contents and provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 19]
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S0785 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- BILINGUAL, DUAL LANGUAGE AND WORLD LANGUAGE TEACHERS INVESTMENT ACT - Authorizes the office of postsecondary commissioner to expand bilingual and dual language teacher certificates in urban schools through two scholarship programs for st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0569 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES - Adds early voting to the fifty (50) feet buffer prohibitions against politicking on election day voting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5311 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Allows the board of elections to tabulate mail ballots in local special elections in the same manner as in tabulate mail ballots in statewide elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| S0025 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- TRADE IN FARMED ANIMAL FUR PRODUCTS - Prohibits a person to sell, offer for sale, display for sale or otherwise distribute a farmed animal fur product within the state and provides graduated civil pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 19]
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S0801 | Intro
25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Extends the voluntary extension of care (VEC) program for all children in the care and custody of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5106 | 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 5.5%, whichever is greater, un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20]
To House Corporations Committee |
| S0016 | Intro
25% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- CURRENCY TRANSMISSIONS - Establishes regulation by DBR over the practices and procedures of virtual currency kiosk operators to prevent fraud related to the use of virtual currency kiosks, by establishing daily transaction l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H5514 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Exempts emergency mail ballots from the requirement to have certain wording regarding "mail voters" on the ballot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H5605 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Reinstating And Extending The Life And Expiration Dates Of The Special Legislative Commission To Study And Provide Recommendations For The Development And Implementation Of An Anti-littering Education Program For Rhode Island Public ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To House Education Committee |
| H5633 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Allows a pharmacist to dispense a one-time refill for certain medications for continuation of therapy to patients under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
