| RI | S2839 | Engross
50% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- PUBLIC BUILDINGS - Allows the department of administration to temporarily loan the state battle flags and markers to approved federal or state agencies under the condition that such loan is insured by bond against damage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
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| RI | H8178 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION - Redefines the groups included in "minority community-based organizations" for purposes of them making recommendations for appointments to state boards, commissions, public author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
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| RI | H8159 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- PUBLIC BUILDINGS - Authorizes and funds the painting of a portrait of the president of the senate and former presidents of the senate who may be living to be hung in the state house.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
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| RI | H7768 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Respectfully Requesting The Rhode Island Congressional Delegation To Support House Resolution 54 Of The 2023-2024 Congress To Amend The United States Constitution To Prove That The Rights Protected And Extended By The Constitution Ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
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| RI | H7756 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Establishes a three (3) day transmittal period after the deadline for local boards to accept mail ballot applications, if delivered via the postal service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
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| RI | H7587 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Strongly Supporting A National Infrastructure Bank Through The Passage Of The 118th Congress H.r. 4052
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
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| RI | H7638 | Intro
25% | CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- STATE COMMISSION ON PARDONS - Establishes a nine (9) member commission on pardons to provide recommendations to the governor as to who should receive executive pardons per the state constitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
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| RI | H8107 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- MERIT SYSTEM - Creates separate and distinct employment positions and salaries under the unclassified pay plan for the board of elections employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
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| RI | H7389 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- ORGANIZATION AND COMMAND OF MILITARY AND NAVAL FORCES - Requires an official declaration of war or an action to call forth the state militia by the United States Congress before members of the National Guard may be rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
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| RI | H8148 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Replaces the coastal resources management council with a state department of coastal resources and transfers all of the powers and duties between the two (2) authorities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
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| RI | H7968 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DETENTION FOR FEDERAL CIVIL IMMIGRATION VIOLATIONS - Prohibits state or municipality from contracts to detain individuals for civil immigration violations, and if such contract exists, it must end by July 1, 2025 and p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
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| RI | H8009 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- ORGAN-DONATION LEAVE ACT - Provides for paid leave for a state employee who donates an organ. The duration of the leave is dependent on the type of donation and notice should be provided to the employer at least thirt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
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| RI | H8008 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT - Limits the governor to one thirty (30) day renewal of a declaration of emergency without a joint resolution of the general assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
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| RI | S2043 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LONG-TERM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Adds climate change, sea-level rise and coastal resiliency to the analysis of data of the strategic plan for economic development policy. Adds director of DEM and executive director of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
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| RI | 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
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| RI | 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
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| RI | 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
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| RI | 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
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| RI | 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
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| RI | 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
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| RI | 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 |
| RI | H7394 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Respectfully Calling For Publication And Affirmation Of The Equal Rights Amendment (requests That The President, Joseph R. Biden, Publish Without Delay The Equal Rights Amendment As Our Twenty-eighth Amendment To The Constitution Of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7765 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- THE INFORMED VOTER ACT - Requires entity such as a nursing home, elder care facility that receives governmental funding post a notice that political candidates are not permitted to solicit residents and visits would be maintained in a bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7847 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- RHODE ISLAND CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENDITURES REPORTING - Includes political action committees that register with the Federal Election Commission within the definition of political action committees for the Rhode Island elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
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| RI | H7476 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- STATEWIDE REFERENDA ELECTIONS - Amends certain election statutes to require ballot questions be written in plain language reasonably calculated to be understood by persons with an eighth-grade reading level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
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| RI | H7766 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Redefines "Political Party" and defines and distinguishes between "major parties" and "minor parties" based on the total number of votes a party's candidate received in the previous election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7848 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- REGISTRATION OF VOTERS - Amends the current law so that it would no longer mandate, but rather simply allows local boards to annually conduct a voter registration drive at each high school within the city or town.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7664 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- NOMINATION OF PARTY AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES - Provides a process for local canvassing clerks to notify the state board of elections regarding patterns of forgery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H8017 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Of Suffrage (this Joint Resolution Would Propose To The Voters Of The State A Constitutional Amendment Which Would Provide That No Pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7850 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Establishes election day as a day of special observation in the State of Rhode Island. The act would also restrict the use of mail ballots in elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7474 | 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] | 2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7585 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND COMMERCE CORPORATION - Removes nuclear plant projects from seeking the approval from the general assembly for the construction of said nuclear plant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H8046 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Allows citizens of a city or town who are at least sixteen (16) years of age to register to vote and to vote in school committee elections in municipalities where school committees are elected entities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7540 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- PRIMARIES FOR ELECTION OF DELEGATES TO NATIONAL CONVENTIONS AND FOR PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE - Establishes the Ranked Choice Voting for Rhode Island Presidential Primaries and provides for new sections on Ranked Choice Voting Tabulation a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
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| RI | H7759 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION - Directs the department of transportation to prepare a monthly snapshot report on the progress of repairs and other actions pertaining to the Washington Bridge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7115 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Provides that public bodies not be required to hold open-forum sessions on any topic not on the meeting notice and limits comment on any topic not previously posted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H8016 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Respectfully Requesting The Us Army Corps Of Engineers To Study And Provide Recommendations To Restore The Operational Effectiveness Of The Point Judith Breakwater
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H8011 | Intro
25% | STATE PURCHASES -- CHANGE ORDERS - Prohibits the extension of contracts by any state or municipal department or agency by the utilization of change orders if the additional work or services exceeds ten percent (10%) of the original value of the contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7181 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Makes changes to the access to public records act, including clarifying various provisions, increasing the sanctions for knowing and willful violations of the law, and making certain traffic accident data ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7763 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Provides for free APRA records, DOA manages all APRA Records, and uses an online database for records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H8012 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES - Makes all documents and information related to any bid proposal relative to state purchases public records and available for inspection and review by any person seeking the records under chapter 2 of tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7764 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Requires public bodies to offer translation services for all open meetings of said bodies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7327 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Requires a member of the public to pay any outstanding balances due and owing for previous requests before being provided copies of records and documents on a new request from law enforcement agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| RI | H8010 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES - Establishes the Rhode Island purchasing cooperative for procurement of public service and municipal vehicles for all state and municipal agencies to participate in procurement opportunities of zero-emiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7129 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Allows school committees to add item(s) not appearing in published notice to their agendas for purposes of discussion only if the revised agenda is filed with the secretary of state and posted on distri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7846 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Makes any record of any person, firm, or corporation that successfully competes for state contract or business, a public record, including those records that are considered proprietary or otherwise confide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | S2447 | Engross
50% | ELECTIONS -- STATEWIDE REFERENDA ELECTIONS - Amends certain election statutes to require ballot questions be written in plain language reasonably calculated to be understood by persons with an eighth-grade reading level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7761 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- NARRAGANSETT TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY ACT - Exempts all Narragansett Indian Tribe members owning real estate, whether privately, commercially, in nonprofit corporations or in land trusts, from all real estate taxes imposed by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7758 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Amends the definition of public record to exempt from public disclosure the city or town of residence of the justices, judges, and magistrates of the unified judicial system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7760 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts all Narragansett Indian Tribe homeowners from real estate taxes and real estate tax liens, imposed by the state or any municipality. Also declares the Tribe as the sole sovereign federally recognized...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
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