| RI | H5400 | Pass | Terminates all parental rights of any person convicted of sexual assault which results in the birth of a child from that assault.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-14
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5727 | Pass | Requires the office of the attorney general to issue a report containing the total cases charged with a firearm in all Rhode Island courts and a list of cases charged with a firearm which have been disposed during the calendar year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-14
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H5197 | Pass | Requires only certified nurse-teachers to be employed as school nurses in elementary and secondary schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-10
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H5410 | Pass | Prohibits cities and towns from performing spot assessments that increase the assessment value of properties that have sold, except in accordance with their revaluation or update schedule.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-10
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H5255 | Pass | Modifies limitations on quantities of malt beverages and distilled spirits that can be sold at retail by certain licensed breweries and distilleries for off-premises consumption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5571 | Pass | Raises the legal age for persons to purchase or be sold or delivered certain tobacco products, electronic nicotine-delivery systems and liquid nicotine containers from eighteen (18) years of age to twenty-one (21) years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6371 | Pass | Increases the annual flat fee given to Lincoln and Tiverton by their respective sports wagering facilities to two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5974 | Pass | Invests the chief justice of the supreme court with the explicit authority to address issues affecting the conduct of judicial business and order whatever response(s) he or she deems necessary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5038 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts from attachment five hundred dollars ($500) in savings or deposits in financial or banking institutions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
House read and passed |
| RI | H6437 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the definition of a redevelopment area to include all population census tracts in the state that have been or are designated as opportunity zones.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (06/30/2021) |
| RI | H5962 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a lessee of a motor vehicle who purchases the vehicle within one year of the lease inception or any renewal thereof shall be exempt from certain registration transfer provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H6481 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Condolences On The Passing Of Patrick Michael Mannix
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
House read and passed |
| RI | H5183 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates special motor vehicle registration plates for the nonprofit entity Rhode Island Fire Chiefs Honor Flight Hub.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-28
House read and passed |
| RI | H5517 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that commencing with the graduating class of 2023 all high school students attending public schools demonstrate proficiency in computer science.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-25
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | H6465 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the process of nominating candidates for the general election, by replacing the political party primary with a primary general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-24
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H6286 | Pass | Removes the word “war” from the sentence “honorable discharged war veteran.”
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-14
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5223 | Pass | Enables the state lottery division of the department of revenue to enter into a contract extension with IGT Global Solutions Corporation and contract extensions with Twin River and affiliates of Twin River.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-11
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5669 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Administration to amend lease to Providence Marine Corps of Artillery to use hall for promotion of the arsenal and to sublease the rented space.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-08
Committee heard and continued |
| RI | H6010 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends IOD benefits to police officers/firefighters suffering from post-traumatic stress injuries/provides municipal police/firefighters retiring due to PTSI accidental disability retirement allowance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-04
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5586 | Pass | Includes the real and tangible personal property of St. John Baptist De La Salle Institute, d/b/a La Salle Academy, a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation, located in Providence, Rhode Island, on the list of properties exempt from taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-01
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5675 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows participating municipalities to elect to its employees the deferred compensation plans offered by the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-27
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6124 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts active members of the retirement system employed as a state public safety professional and/or a municipal police officer from the cost to purchase credit for military service and interest charges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-27
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5536 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the creation of first-time homebuyer savings account from which savings to purchase a home could be deducted from an individual's or couple's personal income taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-25
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5209 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants a tax credit for any tax placed upon the sale of automobile parts which have a core charge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-20
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5606 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2021-05-20
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6217 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Rhode Island hope scholarship act to provide up to the cost of two (2) years of tuition costs and mandatory fees for eligible students in hopes to increase the numbers for enrollment and graduation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-20
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6267 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for an interest and penalty free period for the payment of sales and income taxes due to the state for the calendar year 2021 and continuing through March of 2021 for income taxes and August 2021 for sales taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-20
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6269 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminalizes as disorderly conduct the act of interfering with the lawful movement of traffic on any highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6336 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating May 17-23, As "quahog Week 2021" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-12
House read and passed |
| RI | H6323 | Pass | House Resolution Thanking Reverend Farrell Edward Mclaughlin For Fifty Years Of Faithful Service To God And The People Of The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-11
House read and passed |
| RI | H6321 | Pass | House Resolution Recognizing May 15th As "national Peace Officers Memorial Day" And Commemorating May 9th -15th, 2021, As "national Police Week" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-11
House read and passed |
| RI | H5943 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeal is to follow the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) and to account for permitting voters to cast provisional ballots at the polling place.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6315 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the dates for the creation of a program to prepare teachers to teach reading with scientific reading instruction and structured literacy instruction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-07
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H6216 | Intro
Sine Die | Renames state airport from "T.F. Green state airport" to "Providence T.F. Green International Airport"
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-28
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5477 | Pass | Authorizes the town of Cumberland to issue general obligation bonds and notes not to exceed $2,500,000 for the development/improvement/repair/alteration/construction/renovation/equipping of recreational areas and facilities in the town.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-23
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H6244 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming April 24, 2021, As "armenian Genocide Remembrance Day" To Commemorate The Armenian Genocide Of 1915 To 1923, And In Honor Of Armenian-americans
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-15
House read and passed |
| RI | H5885 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates that police officers qualify in the use of firearms in both daylight and nighttime conditions two (2) times per year and that correctional officers qualify every year instead of once every two (2) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5869 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes sworn law enforcement officers and Rhode Island state troopers in the group of persons who may obtain the name, address and telephone numbers of persons to whom nonpublished service is furnished.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5884 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates that police officers qualify in the use of firearms two (2) times per year instead of one time annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5883 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each police officer during qualification and training sessions to fire a minimum of three hundred rounds effective July 1, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6229 | Pass | House Resolution Recognizing The 73rd Anniversary Of Israel's Establishment On April 13, 2021, And Reaffirming The Bonds Of Friendship And Cooperation Between Rhode Island, The United States, And The State Of Israel
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13
House read and passed |
| RI | H6225 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Sincere Condolences On The Passing Of Antonio Caprio, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13
House read and passed |
| RI | H6228 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring And Thanking John Lanni, Esq., On The Occasion Of His Retirement
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13
House read and passed |
| RI | H5989 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits discrimination against individuals who refuse to be vaccinated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6201 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring Leo D. Covas, Esq., For His Years Of Dedicated Service To The Rhode Island General Assembly
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-06
House read and passed |
| RI | H6161 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating "medal Of Honor Day" On March 25, 2021, In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
House read and passed |
| RI | H6162 | Pass | House Resolution Thanking And Honoring America And Rhode Island's Vietnam War Veterans And Asking That All Rhode Island Residents Remember Their Service And Sacrifice On Behalf Of Our Nation On "vietnam Veterans Day" That Occurs Annually On The Twent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
House read and passed |
| RI | H5873 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that all vehicle model years prior to 2001 would not be required to be issued a title certificate until ownership is transferred or the current owner creates a security interest in the vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5193 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits to the creation of new district charter schools, independent charter schools, and mayoral academy’s. Mandates state to not appropriate funding for charter schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5216 | Intro
Sine Die | SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 - THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT) (Requires charter schools that disenroll or return a student to the sending prior to the end of an academic year, to return all public received by the charter school to educate that s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
