| RI | H6492 | Pass | Authorizes the city of East Providence to grant a retailer's Class B license to property located at 136 Taunton Avenue, Map 106, Block 6, Parcel 15 of the applicable city of East Providence tax assessment map.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H5283 | Pass | Mandates insurance coverage for any additional screenings deemed medically necessary for any person who has received notice of dense breast tissue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5685 | Pass | Requires the clerk of the court to return any bail money posted to the defendant or the person who provided the bail money at the time of judgment of the case and that the money shall not be used to pay costs, fines or restitution or any other assess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6026 | Pass | Enables the city of East Providence to offer tax amnesty for two (2) separate sixty (60) day periods for fiscal years 2023 and 2024 for waiver of interest and penalties on overdue tangible tax payments and motor vehicle tax payments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6521 | Pass | Allows the division of motor vehicles to issue a RI state identification card to residents unable to establish lawful presence in the United States upon proof of proper documentation as required with respect to driver privilege cards and permits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5615 | Pass | Includes all books, periodicals and papers in the keeping of the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society to be placed under the care of the state librarian.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-20
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5380 | Pass | Establishes June 19th as a state holiday, to be known as "Juneteenth National Freedom Day".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5535 | Pass | Provides for a registration process for private elevators to include a database of all private elevators to be maintained by the chief inspector.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6094 | Pass | Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Sojourner House, a Rhode Island nonprofit corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6323 | Intro
25% | Provides for the sealing of court files in residential eviction proceedings upon the filing of a motion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
House passed as amended (floor amendment) |
| RI | H5761 | Pass | Removes the sunset provision relative to mediation coverage prior to mortgage foreclosures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5948 | Pass | Transfers the tax exemption classification to a surviving spouse until remarriage or death.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6526 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating Sherry Pocknett On Earning The Coveted Honor Of Attaining The James Beard "best Chef Northeast" Award
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
House read and passed |
| RI | H6529 | Pass | House Resolution Recognizing "juneteenth National Freedom Day" On June 19, 2023
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
House read and passed |
| RI | H5362 | Engross
50% | Increases the amount of time of notice a residential landlord must give to a tenant prior to any rent increase.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5903 | Engross
50% | Expands the crime of false reporting to include shootings or other dangerous events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6034 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-06-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5889 | Intro
25% | Revises CCPRA regarding continued traffic stop data/analysis/reporting by transferring those duties to the office of highway safety effective January 1, 2024, with creation of 12 member advisory committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5421 | Engross
50% | Creates a committee to generate a written report of concrete proposals to attract diverse and traditionally under represented teachers to work in Rhode Island public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | H6504 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating Aimee Couto On Being Named The 2024 "rhode Island Teacher Of The Year" By The Rhode Island Department Of Education
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-08
House read and passed |
| RI | H6471 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring And Celebrating June Of 2023, As "gay Pride Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-01
House read and passed |
| RI | H6165 | Pass | Enables the city of East Providence to offer tax amnesty for two (2) separate sixty (60) day periods for fiscal years 2023 and 2024 for waiver of interest and penalties in an amount not to excide $10,000 on overdue real property tax payments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6437 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring Lucy Rose-correia For Receiving The "ordem Do Dragoeiro" (order Of The Dragon Tree) On Behalf Of The State Of Rhode Island From The President Of Cabo Verde (cape Verde) The Honorable President Jose Maria Pereira Neves
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-25
House read and passed |
| RI | H5780 | Pass | Reduces the fee for an original driver privilege card from fifty dollars ($50.00) to twenty-five dollars ($25.00).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-23
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5645 | Intro
25% | Imposes a ten percent (10%) surcharge on rental property offered on a hosting platform, to be deposited in a restricted receipt account established pursuant to § 42-128-2(3) to provide for homelessness initiatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5818 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $5,000,000 To The Rhode Island Office Of Housing And Community Development To Provide For The Housing Problem Solving Fund (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $5,000,000 To The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5978 | Intro
25% | Creates funding for affordable housing programs within the housing department and land bank development programs as well as residential development programs for the construction of low-income units by the department, cities and towns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6172 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $3,000,000 To Sojourner House In Rhode Island (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $3,000,000 To Sojourner House To Support Its Permanent Housing Development Program That Provides Safe, Secure Housin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6297 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $28,000,000 To Olneyville Housing Corporation (dba One Neighborhood Builders), In Partnership With Crossroads Ri, Foster Forward, And Family Service Of Rhode Island (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5371 | Engross
50% | Allows individuals employed in domestic service or in or about a private home to be included as an employee, for purposes of minimum wages law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | H5561 | Engross
50% | Prohibits an educational institution or school district from accessing or using location data for tracking a student's institutional device or personal device, except in limited circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | H5302 | Pass | Allows the Honorable Leonela Felix to join Kayla Simone K. Rosen and Michael Zachary Mezera in marriage on or about May 20, 2023, within the City of Providence, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6399 | Intro
25% | Establishes a universal, comprehensive, affordable single-payer health care insurance program and helps control health care costs, which would be referred to as, "the Rhode Island Comprehensive Health Insurance Program" (RICHIP).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5622 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) from imposing any fares and/or charges for service provided to the general public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5605 | Pass | Adopts a new tax rate for Class 2 property. Requires tax rate change to be applied at the same percentage rate change for all classes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-10
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6340 | Intro
25% | Provides for the operation and duties of natural organic reduction for the contained, accelerated conversion of human remains to soil. A disposition facility would be used for either cremation or natural organic reduction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5992 | Intro
25% | Provides stop gap health insurance coverage for anyone who is found to no longer be eligible for Medicaid due to the end of the Federal COVID-19 Emergency funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5994 | Intro
25% | Disregards an increase in a recipient’s income due solely to a cost-of-living adjustment to Social Security and Railroad Retirement payments, when determining the recipient’s eligibility for medical assistance and SNAP benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6025 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of human services to obtain an individual's most recent up-to-date contact information prior to disenrollment of benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5998 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the secretary of the executive office of health and human services (EOHHS) to develop a sliding scale decrease in benefits as a beneficiary’s income increases up to two hundred fifty percent (250%) of the federal poverty level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5799 | Intro
25% | Directs the department of human services commencing July 1, 2023, to pay an additional SNAP benefit of $95.00 per month, through to December 1, 2023, to recipients of SNAP benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6357 | Intro
25% | Creates Green Justice Zones to further Environmental Justice for traditionally underserved Rhode Islander communities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H6008 | Intro
25% | Provides that no later than 6/30/24, the dept. of education and the office of energy resources develop regulations for school buildings to meet the latest Northeast Collaborative for High Performance Schools standards of net zero energy capable schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6211 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Authorizing The State To Enter Into A Financing Agreement Relating To School Construction In The City Of Pawtucket (authorizes The State To Finance The Construction Of A New High School And Facilities And All Expenses Incident Theret...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6221 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the state to enter into certain financing agreements with the Rhode Island health and educational buildings corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6343 | Intro
25% | Grants leave of up to three (3) days per month to menstruating employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5388 | Intro
25% | Requires fiscal notes regarding legislation creating a new crime or increasing period of incarceration or modifying sentences.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5640 | Intro
25% | Increases the amount forwarded to Rhode Island Legal Services from court filing fees for the entry of every petition, complaint or action in district, superior and family court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6312 | Intro
25% | Requires the state investment commission to identify pension fund investments in military weapon manufacturers whether held directly or indirectly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5389 | Intro
25% | Provides local education agencies (LEAs) hiring site-based specialists for reading and math to receive state reimbursement based on enrollment and specific guidelines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
To House Finance Committee |
