| RI | S2062 | Intro | Permits a municipality, in which twelve percent (12%) of the housing in a municipality qualifies for low-income housing, to charge a tax up to ten percent (10%) of the current year's gross scheduled rental income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
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| RI | S2074 | Intro | Increases the maximum tax on qualifying low-income property from eight percent (8%) of the previous year's gross scheduled rental income to ten percent (10%) of the prospective year's gross scheduled rental income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
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| RI | S2063 | Intro | Increases the maximum tax for qualifying low-income housing from eight percent (8%) to ten percent (10%) of the property's previous year's gross scheduled rental income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
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| RI | S2819 | Intro | Mandates that quasi-public corporations limit the use of all funds/property to perform the function/service for which the quasi-public corporation was created. Prohibits the transfer or reallocations of funds held by a quasi-public corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-12
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| RI | S2965 | Intro | Requires that contributions to a retirement plan be remitted to the retirement board on the date contributions are withheld but not later than three (3) business days following the pay period ending in which contributions were withheld.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-12
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| RI | S2956 | Intro | Allows state employees who had also been a correctional officer to elect to combine their service time earned from each job, for the determination of their retirement eligibility date and calculation of retirement benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-12
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| RI | S2199 | Intro | Provides that the taxation of military service pensions for purposes of the Rhode Island personal income tax would be reduced and phased out over a five (5) year period from 2018 to 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-12
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| RI | S2782 | Intro | Adds department of corrections' correctional officers to the list of public safety employees that are entitled to their full salary if they are injured and become disabled as a result of performance of their job duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-11
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| RI | S2903 | Intro | Prohibits the town of Middletown from annually increasing its tax levy more than 2% of the total for its prior fiscal year without an affirmative vote of its electors upon the occurrence of one or more of five conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-05
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| RI | S2818 | Intro | Relieves Central Falls from reimbursing state for expenses related to fiscal stability act, expenses related to Central Falls school district bankruptcy proceeding, expenses of Moreau v Flanders, or expenses incurred after termination of the receiver...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-05
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| RI | S2659 | Intro | Clarifies the status of pilot payments to the town of Exeter in view of its not presently having a police department
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-05
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| RI | S2904 | Intro | Allows the town of Middletown to adopt annual fair market assessments of its ratable property that do not exceed the two percent (2%) annual increase ceiling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-05
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| RI | S2856 | Intro | Authorizes Newport and Middletown to collect an additional one percent (1%) meal and beverage tax to fund schools, school safety, and capital improvements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-05
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| RI | S2070 | Intro | Directs department of administration to promulgate regulations giving preferences in the awarding of state contracts to certain business enterprises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-01
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| RI | S2512 | Intro | Applies the hotel tax distribution formula for entities within the Providence regional tourism district to any and all hotels physically connected to the Rhode Island Convention Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
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| RI | S2375 | Intro | Reinstates for one year, from July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019, the formula used to distribute hotel tax funds prior to January 1, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
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| RI | S2012 | Intro | Exempts from the sales tax products used for feminine hygiene in connection with the menstrual cycle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
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| RI | S2073 | Intro | Provides that applicants for historic tax credits shall have ninety (90) days after the date of the commission's written determination certifying the rehabilitation to pay the required three percent (3%) non-refundable fee to the division of taxation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
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| RI | S2520 | Intro | Restores the forty-seven percent (47%) distribution percentage with respect to hotel tax proceeds generated in the various regional districts and repeals the separate formula used for hosting platforms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
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| RI | S2216 | Intro | Allows for a credit equal to the amount contributed by a taxpayer for the taxable year to the Rhode Island Ocean State Fund, which is created in the general fund to accept monetary contributions for exclusively public purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
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| RI | S2058 | Intro | Establishes a surtax on the business corporation tax for publicly traded corporations subject to SEC disclosure and reporting requirements, if corporation's ratio of compensation for its CEO to median worker is equal to or greater than 100 to 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
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| RI | S2526 | Intro | Exempts from sales tax any amount a construction contractor charges its clients for materials and supplies in connection with a construction contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
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| RI | S2941 | Intro | Reserves 5% of energy efficiency funds for low-income residents for assistance to residents who seek financial assistance with electric bills but do not meet eligibility guidelines for other financial assistance programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-31
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| RI | S2373 | Intro | Joint Resolution Appropriating Sufficient Sums To Pay One-half The Costs Of Teachers In Obtaining An International Dyslexia Association ("ida") Aligned Graduate Certificate In Dyslexia Knowledge And Practice
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-29
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| RI | S2817 | Intro | Creates an early childhood innovation fund which would fund programs to attempt to accelerate the learning ability of at-risk children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-29
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| RI | S2820 | Intro | Provides for a stipend to be paid to certain retired state employees, municipal employees, and teachers or their beneficiaries during years when a cost of living adjustment is not scheduled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-29
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| RI | S2374 | Intro | Joint Resolution Making Appropriations Of $175,000 To The Rhode Island Community Food Bank (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $175,000 To The Rhode Island Community Food Bank.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-29
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| RI | S2371 | Intro | Provides that in determining local school aid, the state would annually provide each community no less than an amount equal to the aid given in the preceding fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-29
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| RI | S2518 | Intro | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $2,000,000 To The Rhode Island State Police Municipal Police Academy For Law Enforcement Mental Health First Aid Training
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-29
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| RI | S2853 | Intro | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $100,000 To Year Up Providence (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) To Year Up Providence.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-29
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| RI | S2126 | Intro | Allows a one-time nonrefundable tax credit in the amount of $2,000 for stillborn babies occurring at 28 weeks or more upon filing a certificate to that effect issued by the division of vital statistics. Effective July 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
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| RI | S2057 | Intro | Requires the tax administrator to commence any action for collection of personal income tax due and payable within ten (10) years of April 15 of the year the tax return was or would have been filed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
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| RI | S2191 | Intro | Increases the refundable state earned income credit from fifteen percent (15% to twenty-five percent (25%) for the 2019 taxable year, and each taxable year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
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| RI | S2200 | Intro | Increases the exemption for retirement income from state income tax from $15,000 to $20,000 commencing in 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
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| RI | S2217 | Intro | Raises the earned income tax credit from fifteen percent (15%) to twenty percent (20%) for the tax years 2019 and beyond.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
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| RI | S2016 | Intro | Exempts from state taxation certain pension benefits that originate from, and were taxed in, another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
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| RI | S2389 | Intro | Adds three (3) new income tax brackets for purposes of Rhode Island state income taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
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| RI | S2071 | Intro | Provides that for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2019a taxpayer entitled to a federal earned-income credit shall be allowed a state earned-income credit equal to 18% of the federal earned-income credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
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| RI | S2385 | Intro | Provides that Rhode Island adjusted gross income for federal income tax purposes would be reduced by the amount of individual retirement account rollover distributions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
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| RI | S2364 | Intro | Exempts from personal income tax the first $25,000 a taxpayer received from pensions, interest income, 401k plans and individual retirement accounts, and up to $50,000 for joint filers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
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| RI | S2667 | Intro | Establishes a new personal income tax credit for individuals who incur expenses caring for a relative that requires assistance with one or more daily living activities as certified by a license physician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
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| RI | S2203 | Intro | Subtracts state tax refunds, paid to an individual in the previous year, from federal adjusted gross income, for purposes of the state income tax for tax years beginning January 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
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| RI | S2219 | Intro | Provides that payments by an employer, whether paid to an employee or lender, of principal and interest on a qualified education loan incurred by an employee shall be subtracted from the calculation of federal adjusted gross income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
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| RI | S2067 | Intro | Allows $15,000 modification of retirement income in "pensions" and "annuities" line of federal tax return.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
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| RI | S2066 | Intro | Provides that non-resident withholding requirement for a corporation that sells real estate be consistent with the seven percent (7%) corporate income tax rate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
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| RI | S2525 | Intro | Places twelve percent (12%) per annum interest rate on delinquent tax payments for business corporation, sales and use, estate and personal income taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
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| RI | S2072 | Intro | Establishes a nineteen percent (19%) carried interest fairness fee for investment management services in order to tax the carried interest income of hedge fund and private equity investors as traditional ordinary earned income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
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| RI | S2120 | Intro | Establishes a tiered-rate structure for the child care assistance program, with higher rates paid to licensed child care centers and family child care homes that have achieved higher quality ratings in "BrightStars".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-17
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| RI | S2069 | Intro | Increases the child care provider reimbursement rate by five percent (5%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-17
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| RI | S2201 | Intro | Provides a one time tax credit up to two hundred fifty dollars ($250) per dependent child for certain Rhode Island households who contribute to an account under the Rhode Island college bound tuition savings program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-17
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