| RI | 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] | 2025-02-28
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5847 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Provide Findings And Potential Solutions To Address The Flooding Of The Pawtuxet River (creates An 11-member Commission To Study And Provide Recommendations And Potential Solutio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5846 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Establish a moratorium on changes to the state energy conservation code from the 2024 International Energy Conservation Code until January 1, 2030, unless approved by the legislature and made effective by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
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] | 2025-02-28
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 | H5293 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY - Creates a public education program on methods to recycle textiles.
[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 | H5344 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Extending The Reporting And Expiration Dates And Amending The Membership Of The Legislative Study Commission On Climate Change Impact And Solutions (increases The Membership Of The Commission From 17 To 18, And Extends The Reporting ...
[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 | 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] | 2025-02-26
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] | 2025-02-26
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5611 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- PUBLIC BUILDINGS - Requires the installation of universal changing stations in all newly constructed, reconstructed, or remodeled public buildings and places of public accommodation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
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] | 2025-02-26
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] | 2025-02-26
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] | 2025-02-26
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] | 2025-02-26
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] | 2025-02-13
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] | 2025-02-13
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] | 2025-02-12
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 |
| 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] | 2025-01-24
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
