| RI | H5230 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- OPTIONAL RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE AND FIREFIGHTERS - Affords an option for police and firefighters to receive retirement allowances, without reduction, who seek retirement after twenty (20) years of service upon reac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 27]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5269 | Engross
50% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Allows the waiver of interest on overdue taxes for commercial properties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | H5590 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGULATION OF BUSINESS PRACTICES AMONG MOTOR VEHICLE MANUFACTURERS, DISTRIBUTORS, AND DEALERS - Extends certain protocols applicable to motor vehicle manufacturers to their distributors and factory branches, as well as upd...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 25]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5694 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Allows the town of Middletown to adopt a tax classification plan for residential real estate which divides the class into non-owner and owner-occupied properties with separate tax rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
Placed on House Calendar (03/25/2025) |
| RI | H5702 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES - Increases the number of days a retired municipal employee could work in a calendar year without interruption of pension benefits to ninety (90) days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 27]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6126 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Reforms the composition of the coastal resources management council to seven (7) members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5796 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Adds an additional purpose to the standard provisions list that a zoning ordinance is required to address.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
Committee recommends passage |
| RI | H5803 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Provides for the establishment and operation of an electronic permitting platform for all state and local permitting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5804 | Intro
25% | HEATH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Amends the corporation of the building code standards committee and would make several technical amendments relative to the building code office and would establish an state building code office within the of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5802 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RHODE ISLAND COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING AND LAND USE ACT - Provides amendments relative to the state developing state-owned vacant land for housing and the process therefor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6115 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming March 20, 2025, To Be "alzheimer's Awareness Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
House read and passed |
| RI | H5681 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS -- MERIT SYSTEM - Allows for waiver from testing for temporary or emergency positions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5945 | Intro
25% | PUBIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- MERIT SYSTEM - Provides for the creation of a new job classification for new or existing specialized information technology positions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5423 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Repeals the legislative findings in this section and requires elementary, middle and high schools to provide and maintain on-site functional automated external defibrillators (AEDs).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5631 | Intro
25% | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- EMPLOYEE CRIMINAL RECORDS CHECK - Allows applicants for employment in programs operated by the department involving routine contact with patients, residents, or clients without the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5677 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Adds a provision that allows a tenant to pay the last month's rent or any other prepaid rent. It also increases the amount that a security deposit can be requested from one to two (2) months of rent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5917 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Limits the mandatory rental registry to properties constructed prior to 1978, and further push out the effective date of registration to September 1, 2025, with the penalty clause becoming effective a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5906 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LEAD HAZARD MITIGATION - Substitutes "housing resources commission" with "department of health" for lead hazard mitigation purposes. It also makes it easier for a property owner to release funds put into an escrow acco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5918 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Requires landlords of residential properties built before 1978 to register lead hazard mitigation information with the department of health and the information would be private and only accessible by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6097 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND COMMERCE CORPORATION -- QUALIFIED DATA CENTERS LOCATION INCENTIVE - Creates qualified data centers and tax exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5553 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES - Provides that stores offering food product discounts must provide the same discounts to in store customers that are offered to customers using electronic digital coupons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5616 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH - Provides that public health advertisements be prohibited from stating that there is a safe way to take illegal drugs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5882 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Reduces the course time required to become a school bus driver for applicants who have a valid commercial driver’s license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H6067 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Clarifies roles and regulatory authority for the administration of the program involving the repurposing of vacant schools for housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6056 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEMP THC-INFUSED BEVERAGES ACT - Authorizes the sale of THC-infused beverages to be regulated by the DBR division of commercial licensing. It also establishes licensing and an endorsement process for wholesale and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H6068 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Requires municipalities to report to the RI department of housing regarding single-family low- or moderate-income housing available to rent/own. Information to be made available to the public on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6078 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $1,000,000 To 401 Tech Bridge To Study And Explore Seagliders In Rhode Island (this Resolution Would Make An Appropriation Of $1,000,000 To 401 Tech Bridge To Study And Explore Seagliders.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6048 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- VIDEO LOTTERY GAMES, TABLE GAMES AND SPORTS WAGERING - Effective 7/1/2026, the state lottery division of gaming stops renewing any existing sports wagering vendor contract. Prior to the expiration of any existing contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6043 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Makes certain technical amendments /clarifications to the statutes relating to the assessment of real property and the timing and process to appeals thereof.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5339 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS - Provides that for the period up until July 1, 2027, an applicant for a teaching certificate in Rhode Island would not be required to complete a standardized teacher's examination as a prerequisite to obtaining...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5586 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW - Creates process for condominium associations to give notice to and obtain approval from unit mortgage holders for certain association actions by mailing a written request for approval to the unit mortgagees via regular a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5585 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW - Requires associations to provide unit owners within thirty (30) days notice of any increase in the deductible application to the association’s policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5695 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Permits municipalities to enact ordinances that provide them the authority to organize local tax amnesty events once every three (3) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5926 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Creates a cause of action for the intentional or negligent injury or death of a pet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5511 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT - Allows the commissioners of the water and sewer commission for the town of Jamestown to limit its public water system's obligation to supply water only within designated and described area as oppo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
To House Municipal Government & Housing 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] | 2025-03-03
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5755 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- ESTATE AND TRANSFER TAXES -- ENFORCEMENT AND COLLECTION - Generates an estate tax discharge upon the recording of a statement by the executor or other estate representative that the value of the decedent’s gross estate does not require ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5879 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES - Provides a definition for antisemitism to be used by state agencies to evaluate whether discrimination is present.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H6009 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Authorizes a retroactive tax credit for tax yr 2026/thereafter/allowing investment tax credits to be passed through to the personal income tax returns of eligible Sub-S corporation shareholders/limited liability comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5946 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Prohibits the restriction of access in and out of a construction site by using locked gates or fences while work is ongoing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5877 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Allows that public records stored in a computer system, upon request, be provided at no charge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5999 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE POLICE - Amends the pension benefits for both current and former Rhode Island state police members, and would extend the time period a member may serve in the Rhode Island state police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6004 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT - Provides the general assembly make an annual appropriation of not less than eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) to the Rhode Island emergency management agency to assist with emergency communicatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5822 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- SOLAR SITING ADVISORY TASKFORCE - Creates a taskforce to provide recommendations, advice and guidance to help expedite and provide technical assistance with regard to the development of solar energy systems on propert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5085 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES - Requires that all agencies' final rules, promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act, be approved by general assembly action, but in no case later than December 31 of the year ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5309 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Increases the minimum veterans’ exemption from one thousand dollars ($1,000) to five thousand dollars ($5,000) with respect to municipal taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5308 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Permits every municipality in the state to offer a homestead tax exemption of up to 20% of assessed value on residential properties, and also provides that municipalities that grant greater exemptions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Municipal Government & Housing 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 | H5785 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Creates a sales tax holiday on August 9 and 10, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5766 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM BENEFITS -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Reinstates the cost of living adjustments for retirees, when the annual investment return of the retirement system, exceeds ten percent (10%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
