| RI | H6054 | Intro
25% | Creates a refundable twenty-five cent ($0.25) deposit for miniature alcoholic beverage containers, often referred to as "nips."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5672 | Intro
25% | Mandates that food service establishments only provide single-use foodware accessories and standard condiments to a customer upon request.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5091 | Intro
25% | Reduces equitable relationships between packaging producers and local governments and communities by establishing the Package Reduction and Recycling Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5090 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a covered establishment from preparing, selling, processing or providing food or beverages in or on a disposable food service container that is composed in whole or in part of polystyrene foam.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5502 | Intro
25% | Establishes a system for the recycling of beverage containers working with the department of environmental management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5673 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the use of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances or "PFAS" in various products including carpets, cookware, cosmetics, ski wax, and various other items.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5861 | Intro
25% | Provides that water supply systems that have PFAS contaminants that exceed the interim drinking water standard be required to enter into a consent agreement with department of health to implement treatment to reduce the levels of PFAS contaminants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5862 | Intro
25% | Provides for the establishment of labeling requirements to enable consumers to easily identify proper disposal methods for non-flushable wipes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5550 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale: eff. 1/1/24 of screw/bayonet base compact fluorescent lamps; eff. 1/1/25 of pin-base type compact and linear fluorescent lamps with civil penalties for violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5172 | Intro
25% | Requires carbon-emissions-reduction goals be considered in energy plant siting proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H6057 | Intro
25% | Requires that the division of planning create a checklist of environmental and energy issues that state construction projects which cost in excess of $10,000,000 would need to consider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5865 | Intro
25% | Requires that all equipment and components used for solar panel installations and wind power turbines be manufactured using renewable energy sources and not from energy derived from fossil fuels.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5778 | Intro
25% | Repeals the insurance of multipurpose vessel licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5674 | Intro
25% | Requires the installation of signs indicating locations of greenway areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5425 | Intro
25% | Creates building energy performance standards based on the size of buildings, to achieve, by way of benchmarking and reporting, a statewide analysis of energy use and strategies to increase energy efficiency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5549 | Intro
25% | Mandates that by January 1, 2025, all lawn care devices sold in the state have zero emissions and that by January 1, 2028, all lawn care devices used in the state have zero emissions. DEM to promulgate rules and regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H6056 | Intro
25% | Establishes a chief resilience officer (CRO) charged with creation/maintenance/updating of the state's resiliency/recovery program along with climate change resiliency plan with ocean/riverine coasts resilience advisory board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5864 | Intro
25% | Prohibits captive hunting for domestic or wild animals. This act does not prohibit the release of upland game birds for hunting on licensed shooting preserves.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5344 | Intro
25% | Prohibits forestry operations on state and any municipality owned land relating to old growth forests enforced by DEM with violation punishable by fines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5742 | Intro
25% | Adds additional species to the prohibition of hunting, shooting or trapping except in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the department of environmental management governing hunting seasons and limits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5551 | Intro
25% | Authorizes and empowers the department of transportation to plant pollinator-friendly species of trees, shrubs, grasses and plants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5863 | Intro
25% | Provides amendments to multiple sections of law related to the marine fisheries council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5866 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the intentional release of hazardous polluting emissions, and provides for a natural climate while increasing resiliency by prohibiting deliberate atmospheric pollution and manipulation of the environment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5548 | Intro
25% | Requires all state licensed health care facilities to convert the powering of their operations from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. DOH would promulgate rules and regulations to implement the requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H6055 | Intro
25% | Requires the DEM adopt motor vehicle emissions standards based on California's promulgated standards; provided that, the California standards achieve greater motor vehicle pollution reductions than the federal standards as required by ยง 31-47.1-1(a)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-05
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5784 | Intro
25% | Sales tax exemption for commercial forest product operations. Creates motor vehicle forestry plate registration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-26
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5675 | Intro
25% | Requires disposal of solar panels at the Rhode Island resource recovery corporation facility along with the payment of a disposal fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-17
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5089 | Intro
25% | Requires that when a person causes an injury requiring medical assistance to a human by firearm, archery, or crossbow while hunting or trapping, the initial responding entity must immediately make a report to DEM.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5037 | Intro
25% | Requires all aquaculture leases in Sakonnet river area to be located at least one thousand feet (1,000') from the median high tide/tide line. Existing oyster farms would be exempt and this restriction would expire on July 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5171 | Intro
25% | Requires a covered entity generating organic waste materials of more than 52 tons/year and located less than 30 miles from an authorized composting facility or anaerobic digestion facility to recycle the waste at that facility beginning January 1, 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5280 | Intro
25% | Mandates an additional five (5) year period of air quality monitoring, after completion of the freight terminal, of the area surrounding the Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5345 | Intro
25% | Provides that Rhode Island assents to the provisions of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act relative to the Preventive Controls for Animal Food Regulation (PCAF) regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5086 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the marketing or sale of consumer products labeled as "compostable."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5116 | Intro
25% | Permits the director of the department of environmental management to recognize and identify public rights-of-way to shoreline and water access over land owned by a private party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-27
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5142 | Intro
25% | Provides for a prohibition on any new high-heat waste facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-18
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5087 | Intro
25% | Requires the EPA to develop a plan for flooding on the Pawtuxet River, specifically at the site of the former Ciba-Geigy Chemical Company with regard to contaminants leaching into the Pawtuxet River and neighboring wells.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-12
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5088 | Intro
25% | Includes PVC pipe (polyvinyl chloride resin) that is abandoned, discarded, left lying on the ground or not stored in a covered facility in the definition of solid waste.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-12
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
