| RI | S2923 | Intro | Authorizes City of Providence to issue $140,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance, improvements to school buildings and facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-03
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| RI | S2209 | Intro | Exempts from taxation real property acquired or leased by a railroad entity used in the boarding or disembarking of railroad passengers or supporting passenger railroad operations and services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-14
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| RI | S2363 | Intro | Repeals the sunset provision of chapter 33.6 of title 44 which grants tax credits to individuals or companies redeveloping historic structures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-18
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| RI | S2855 | Intro | Creates class of owner-occupied dwellings of 5 or less/limits effective tax rates for all classes/extends home exemption to owner-occupied property of 5 units or less. Retroactive to July 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
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| RI | S2801 | Intro | Adds one new income tax bracket for purposes of state income taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
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| RI | S2795 | Intro | Requires electronic filing of returns and remittance of payments for certain larger business registrants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
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| RI | S2804 | Intro | Amends the classification of manufacturing machinery that is eligible for a property tax exemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
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| RI | S2798 | Intro | Authorizes the general treasurer to withhold state aid to municipalities which do not meet certain requirements regarding locally-administered pension plans and, if applicable, funding improvement plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
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| RI | S2797 | Intro | Exempts from taxes school meals sold to school staff.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
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| RI | S2802 | Intro | Creates a seven percent (7%) minimum markup for cigarettes sold by a retailer, changes increases cost to retailers and wholesalers for cigarettes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
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| RI | S2800 | Intro | Changes the rate of interest for underpayments of tax to prime rate plus six percent (6%). It would also limit the assessment of interest to four (4) calendar years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
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| RI | S2806 | Intro | Requires municipalities to tax renewable energy resources as tangible property without affecting the real property on which it is located. Excepts farmland, which shall be reassessed at the predated farmland classification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
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| RI | S2803 | Intro | Increases the maximum small state purchase from $10,000 to $25,000 for construction projects and from $5,000 to $10,000 for all other small purchases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
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| RI | S2796 | Intro | Provides that any operational surplus of the Rhode Island resource recovery corporation shall be automatically transferred, on an annual basis, to a restricted receipt account for the sole purpose of waste management infrastructure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
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| RI | S2809 | Intro | Joint Resolution Relating To A Lease Agreement For Leased Exhibition, Office And Vault Storage Space (this Joint Resolution Would Authorize A Lease Agreement For Exhibition, Office And Vault Storage Space For The Department Of State.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
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| RI | S2807 | Intro | Allows retired municipal and state employees to reenter the system for up to twenty hours per week without interrupting their pension benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
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| RI | S2364 | Intro | Raises the earned income tax credit from fifteen percent (15%) to twenty percent (20%) for the tax years 2020 and beyond.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
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| RI | S2049 | Intro | Increases the state earned-income credit as of January 1, 2021, to eighteen percent (18%) of the federal earned-income credit, not to exceed the amount of state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
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| RI | S2737 | Intro | Relating To Public Notice In The Town Of Burrillville
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
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| RI | S2738 | Intro | Requires any company that is issued a contract for services in the state of Rhode Island, or any political subdivision therein, to employ a certain percentage of individuals with disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
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| RI | S2740 | Intro | Amends various sections relating to libraries to delete outdated provisions, updates language to reflect current practices affecting library technology and increases from 2 years to 5 years the award of the statewide reference resource center contrac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
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| RI | S2739 | Intro | Creates an agreement to limit corporate incentives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
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| RI | S2743 | Intro | Joint Resolution To Authorize And Approve A Referendum To Be Submitted To The Qualified Electors Of The State Of Rhode Island At The Next General Election For Blanket Authority For The General Treasurer To Refinance Bonds (joint Resolution Authorizin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
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| RI | S2741 | Intro | Provides for $1,000,000 in bonds to improve local roadways, pedestrian spaces, bikeway paths and municipal parks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
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| RI | S2114 | Intro | Requires that the tax imposed on little cigars be imposed in the same manner as the tax imposed on cigarettes, that 25% of such tax revenue would be applied to smoking cessation programs, and requires that little cigars be sold in packs of 20 or more...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
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| RI | S2642 | Intro | Provides that a tax payment shall be paid by midnight on the date in which the tax becomes due and payable, and reduces the amount of penalty for taxes unpaid from a maximum of twenty-one percent (21%) to ten percent (10%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
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| RI | S2646 | Intro | Requires the department of human services and/or the department of administration to pilot at least one contract using verification software for billable hours and for professional or technical services in excess of one million dollars.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
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| RI | S2643 | Intro | Add the workers' compensation administration fund to those restricted receipt accounts not subject to indirect cost recoveries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
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| RI | S2648 | Intro | Eliminates the two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) hemp licensing fee and would reduce the hemp licensing application fee from two hundred fifty dollars ($250) to one hundred dollars ($100).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
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| RI | S2641 | Intro | Phase-out the taxation of pensions and annuities over a five (5) year period beginning on January 1, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
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| RI | S2645 | Intro | Exempts beer and malt beverage from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
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| RI | S2649 | Intro | Allows for a tax credit of five hundred dollars ($500) for any nurse practitioner or physician who provide on-site clinical education as a preceptor clinician to nurse practitioner graduate students, enrolled in the graduate nursing program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
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| RI | S2647 | Intro | Facilitates state departments/agencies to implement electronic filing of applications for licenses/permits/ registrations/certificates by allowing state vendor to withhold commission for developing and implementing electronic filing web-based system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
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| RI | S2644 | Intro | Allows state employees the ability to make an after tax contribution to a qualified Roth contribution program as a part of a deferred compensation plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
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| RI | S2518 | Intro | Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under six thousand pounds (6,000 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
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| RI | S2494 | Intro | Creates a new income tax bracket of 6.99% on taxable income over five hundred thousand dollars. Any tax collected on this income deposited into restricted receipt account and expended on education for grades kindergarten through twelfth grade.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
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| RI | S2516 | Intro | Creates three new categories of taxable income for income above $232,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
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| RI | S2517 | Intro | Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under eight thousand one hundred pounds (8,100 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
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| RI | S2514 | Intro | Allows for deductions from the salary of any state or municipal employee for insurance or employee benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
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| RI | S2515 | Intro | Amends the provisions for prompt payment of monies owed by the department of administration to their contractors or subcontractors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
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| RI | S2365 | Intro | Defines light duty, non-emergency and zero emission vehicles and requires the state to convert its fleet of vehicles to no less than fifty percent (50%) of vehicles in those categories by the year 2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-13
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| RI | S2352 | Intro | Repeals a state corporate income tax deduction to allowable income for federal tax purposes for investment property held for at least seven (7) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-13
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| RI | S2357 | Intro | Exempts certain equipment procured or rented by a contractor performing construction work for the state, any city or town or any quasi-public entity from the sales and use tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-13
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| RI | S2361 | Intro | Allows a deduction from federal adjusted gross income for interest payments on outstanding student loans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-13
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| RI | S2349 | 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] | 2020-02-13
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| RI | S2360 | Intro | Expands the Wavemaker Fellowship Program to include public school teachers in the high-need fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-13
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| RI | S2358 | 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] | 2020-02-13
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| RI | S2362 | Intro | Removes the prohibition on state appropriations to the municipal infrastructure grant program, and authorize the state planning council to evaluate, approve and issue such grants, subject to the appropriations provided to the program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-13
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| RI | S2354 | Intro | Permits manufacturing or commercial concerns to apply to commerce corporation for exemption or stabilization of taxes when moving to another municipality if could reasonably and efficiently relocate outside state and that relocation would be advantag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-13
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| RI | S2351 | Intro | Repeals the authority of various cities and towns to provide certain tax exemptions and tax stabilization agreements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-13
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