| RI | H6207 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY - Provides extended producer responsibility for packaging and paper, recycling of beverage containers, and provides general provisions for oversight of single-stage producer organizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
[Hearing: May 13]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H6205 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY FOR PACKAGING AND PAPER ACT - Creates the extended producer responsibility for packaging and paper program for the recycling of packaging and paper products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
[Hearing: May 13]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H6208 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT - Strikes the words "which is naturally occurring" with regard to any promulgated rules and regulations of the department of environmental management (DEM) relating to the remediation of arsenic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
[Hearing: May 13]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H6206 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BEVERAGE CONTAINERS RECYCLING ACT - Establishes the Beverage Container Recycling Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
[Hearing: May 13]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | S0241 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CONSUMER PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024 - Prohibits a manufacturer from manufacturing, knowingly selling, offering for sale, distributing for sale or distributing for use in the state any firefighting personal protective equipment containi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-11
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | 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] | 2025-04-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H6108 | Intro
25% | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- RIGHT TO FARM - Allows backyard chickens throughout the state subject to the provisions of this section and any deed restrictions or neighborhood association by-laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H6157 | Intro
25% | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- COMMERCIAL FISHING LICENSES - Creates a new commercial fishing license for invasive green crabs for Rhode Island residents for twenty-five dollars ($25) annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5492 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MICROPLASTICS REDUCTION ACT - Creates the Microplastics Reduction Act to prohibit the sale or distribution of products containing synthetic polymer micro particles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5607 | Intro
25% | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- AGRICULTURAL FUNCTIONS OF DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Redefines “farm” by reducing the amount of revenue from farm products required to be sold from ten thousand ($10,000) to two thousand five hundred doll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5845 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- PUBLIC DRINKING WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM PROTECTION - Requires Rhode Island water suppliers to prepare a resilience assessment and a response plan for the risk of flooding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5606 | Intro
25% | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- HUNTING AND HUNTING SAFETY -- WILDLIFE KILLING CONTEST - Bans wildlife killing contests on both public and private lands in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5608 | Intro
25% | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- LOBSTERS AND OTHER CRUSTACEANS -- BLUE CRABS - Eliminates any limits restricting the harvesting of blue crabs in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5493 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BUILDING DECARBONIZATION ACT OF 2025 - Establishes a program for the energy and water benchmarking of large buildings in Rhode Island and a standard for their energy performance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5425 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION -- STATE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS METRICS - Requires that the division of planning create a checklist of environmental and energy issues that state construction projects which cost in excess o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5612 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PROMOTION OF BIOFUELS ACT OF 2011 - Repeals the Promotion of Biofuels Act of 2011, which established a study commission to investigate the use and promotion of such fuels within the state, in its entirety.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5609 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STUDY OF MOTOR VEHICLE NON-EXHAUST PARTICLE EMISSIONS - Requires the department of transportation, in consultation with the department of environmental management also to conduct an environmental impac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5166 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HIGH HEAT WASTE FACILITY ACT - Provides for a prohibition on the licensing of any new high-heat waste facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5610 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- 2021 ACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE - Requires the executive climate change coordinating council to evaluate and make recommendations for the use of carbon emissions removal technology as an alternative to reducing carbon emiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5294 | Intro
25% | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- OLD GROWTH FOREST PROTECTION ACT - Creates the Old Growth Forest Protection Act to provide protection for state-owned forestland in their natural state prohibiting extractive logging and clearcutting in any forest on state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5342 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Establishes an agricultural restricted receipt account within the department of environmental management. An advisory committee would be established to determine suggested uses ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5341 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- REGULATION OF BOATS -- FRESHWATER LAKE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - Authorizes the collection of a small additional fee, in addition to the registration fee paid by motorboat owners, to be deposited in a restricted account, in order ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5343 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES -- LEAD BY EXAMPLE ACT - Takes several measures to lead by example by banning state purchases of plastic bottles, and requires state funds to be used to lease or purchase electric vehicles and renewable en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5074 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Respectfully Requesting The Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation (rirrc) To Conduct A Recycling/waste Audit On The Rhode Island State House And Provide Recommendations For A Waste Reduction Strategy
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5340 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Requires the producer of artificial turf and turf infill sold or distributed in Rhode Island to report its chain of custody, from installation to use, repurposing, recycling and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5424 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND CLIMATE SUPERFUND ACT OF 2025 - Establishes the Rhode Island Climate Superfund Act cost recovery program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5099 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF STATE ROADS - Authorizes and empower the department of transportation to plant pollinator friendly native species of trees, shrubs, grasses and plants within limits of a roadway, including state highways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5217 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLEAN AIR PRESERVATION ACT - Establishes the Rhode Island Clean Air Preservation Act that establishes a regulatory process to prohibit polluting atmospheric experimentation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5167 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLEAN HEAT STANDARD ACT - Creates the Rhode Island clean heat standards act to implement a system of tradeable clean heat credits earned from the delivery of clean heat measures that reduce greenhouse gas emissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5098 | Intro
25% | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- FORESTRY AND FOREST PARITY ACT - Creates a new motor vehicle registration for "forestry vehicles" also provides that forest product operations are permitted uses within all zoning districts of a municipality except where p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
