| RI | H8312 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BEVERAGE CONTAINER DEPOSIT RECYCLING ACT - Establishes beverage container recycling to be regulated by DEM. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-05 To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7035 | Intro 25% | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES - Appropriates $1,875,000 for the creation of a 9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline within the department of behavioral healthca... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7031 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- CERTIFICATION OF CHILDCARE AND YOUTH-SERVING WORKERS AND OPERATORS - Repeals the provision that requires new applicants for employment under this section to pay the expense for their background checks. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7924 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX -- CHILD TAX CREDIT - Establishes a child tax credit of one thousand dollars ($1,000) per dependent. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8206 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence, a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation, located in Warwick, Rhode Island. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7253 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- HIGHER EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES - Establishes the Higher Education Opportunities for Students with Disabilities Act. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7339 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION TAX CREDITS - Eliminates the sunset provision for the motion picture production tax credit. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7495 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- 2025 BATTERY-POWERED LEAF BLOWER PILOT REBATE AND EDUCATION PROGRAM - Establishes a new chapter for the 2024 Battery Powered Leaf Blower Pilot Rebate and Education Program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7496 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLIMATE CHANGE AND OCEAN PROTECTION YOUTH EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ACT - Establishes the Rhode Island Climate Change and Ocean Protection Youth Education and Workforce Development Act. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7857 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES -- LEAD BY EXAMPLE ACT - Bans state purchases of plastic bottles and also requires state funds to be used to lease or purchase electric vehicles and renewable energy efficient technologies for use on state... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7205 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE MEDICAID REENTRY ACT - Requires that Medicaid enrollment be maintained or provided to all inmates in the first 30 days of incarceration at the adult correctional institutions within the department of corrections an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8044 | Intro 25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WORKPLACE PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY ACT - Protects bullying/psychological abuse in workplace inflicted upon employees by employers/co-employees/provides civil remedies to affected employees/fines against employers/imprisonment... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7250 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Amends the term "extraordinary costs" for the purposes of excess costs associated with special education students. The new definition of extraordinary costs would be educational costs th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7497 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PREKINDERGARTEN EDUCATION ACT - Establishes guidelines for the continued implementation and expansion of high quality public prekindergarten education programs in the state. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7593 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL FUNDS AND PROPERTY - Directs the department of education to develop and adopt regulations for energy capable school buildings. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7026 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Requires all public school teachers hired on or after July 1, 2024, to participate in the retirement system social security pursuant to chapter 7 of title 36. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7249 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION - Restores longevity payments of five percent (5%) of base salary for employees after ten (10) years of service and increase to ten percent (10%) of base salary after twenty (20) years of service, begin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7054 | Intro 25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES - Provides employees with civil administrative remedies against contractors, subcontractors involved in the contract with joint/severable liability imposed on contractors or subcontractors. Effective 9/1/... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7743 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- TRIAL - Allows a criminal defendant before the superior court to waive their right to a jury trial with the consent of the attorney general. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H8056 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Prohibits insurance companies from paying a rate that is less than the approved Medicaid rate set by the executive office of health and human services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7674 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts new or used bicycles from sale and use tax. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7856 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- COMPOSTING AND ORGANIC WASTE DIVERSION - Establishes Compost Fund to award grants related to reducing the amount of solid waste generated in the state. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7121 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- STATE TAX OFFICIALS - Limits the assessment of interest to 4 calendar years prior to the date on which notice of the delinquent payment is sent to the taxpayer. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Withdrawn at sponsor's request (04/11/2024) |
| RI | H7023 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY FOR PACKAGING - Reduces equitable relationships between packaging producers and local governments and communities by establishing the Package Reduction and Recycling Program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7293 | Intro 25% | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- OLD GROWTH FOREST PROTECTION ACT - Creates a statutory framework designed to protect our forests and biodiversity, also prohibits logging in old growth forests and in the natural area preserves when they are created. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7515 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MICROPLASTICS REDUCTION ACT - Prohibits a manufacturer from selling, offering for sale, or distributing into commerce any product containing synthetic polymer micro particles beginning January 1, 2028. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7783 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PESTICIDE CONTROL - Precludes the use of second generation anticoagulant rodenticide products which contain brodifacoum, bromadiolone, difenacoum, or difethialone, except in certain circumstances. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7200 | Intro 25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES' ARBITRATION - Recognizes that municipal employees have the opportunity to utilize interest arbitration and would establish new factors for the arbitrators to consider. These factors include comparison... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03 To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7202 | Intro 25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FIREFIGHTERS' ARBITRATION - Provides that all contractual provisions in a firefighters collective bargaining agreement continue until a successor agreement has been reached or an interest arbitration award has been render... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03 To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7201 | Intro 25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MUNICIPAL POLICE ARBITRATION - Extends provisions of an existing collective bargaining agreement for municipal police arbitration purposes until a successor agreement is reached or an interest arbitration award is rendere... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03 To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7274 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Amends sections of law relating to retirement of various public employees and the calculation of their final average salary and service accruals. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03 Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H7240 | Intro 25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- OPTIONAL RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE AND FIREFIGHTERS - Authorizes an annual two and one-half percent (2.5%) escalation for all active and retired police and firefighter's retirement pension allowance, compounded each y... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7241 | Intro 25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- OPTIONAL RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE AND FIREFIGHTERS - Amends definition for final compensation, relative to police officers and firefighters, provides them life annuity regardless of age or years of service, upon reti... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7782 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLEAN HEAT STANDARD ACT - Created the Rhode Island clean heat standards act to implement a system of tradeable clean heat credits earned from the delivery of clean heat measures that reduce greenhouse gas emissio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H8043 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE AGENCY EMISSION REPORTING - Requires executive climate change coordinating council (EC4) to develop a template to be used by all agencies of the state to track their climate emissions to uphold the pathway to Rho... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7639 | Intro 25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS -- ANIMALS AS SENTIENT BEINGS ACT - Classifies animals as sentient beings, not property, capable of experiencing pain, stress, and fear. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H7605 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Establishes a definition of consumer accessible fair market value for purposes of determining the value of any vehicle that is damaged or totaled as a result of damage. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7270 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Provides the review and appeal process for individuals applying for a permit or license to carry a handgun with the licensing authority or attorney general. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7455 | Intro 25% | PROPERTY -- BY POSSESSION AND PRESCRIPTION - Denies the right of footway, except within one hundred (100) yards of the Pawtuxet River in the cities of Warwick and Cranston and except in connection with a right to pass with carriages to be acquired by... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7694 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND INDIVIDUAL MARKET AFFORDABILITY ACT OF 2024 - Creates the Rhode Island Individual Market Affordability Act of 2024 to help reduce out-of-pocket costs for low- and moderate-income consumers enrolled in the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7821 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND OLMSTEAD PLAN COMMISSION ACT - Creates an Olmstead Plan for people vulnerable to unnecessary institutionalization to update a continuum of care to receive services and supports in the least restrictive env... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7451 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Establishes a program within the adult correctional institution to permit medication assisted treatment approved by the FDA to be provided for the treatment of opioid use disorder to any incarc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7650 | Intro 25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES -- EXTREME TEMPERATURE EMPLOYEE PROTECTION - Directs employers to take certain actions to protect their employees who are exposed to extreme hot and cold temperatures and failure to implement or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7626 | Intro 25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- THE PRACTICE OF ACUPUNCTURE AND CHINESE MEDICINE - Broadens the definition of a "qualified individual" in acupuncture and Chinese medicine to include any person trained and certified in auricular acudetox. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7799 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY PROGRAM - Allows a licensed health care provider, who is assaulted in the workplace, to use the address of the department of health as the person's substitute address for all purposes, including... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7043 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Prohibits health benefit plans reviewing prescriptions for opioid addiction treatment. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7794 | Intro 25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- ARBITRATION OF LABOR CONTROVERSIES - Reduces disruptive labor disputes with municipal police and firefighter unions during the transition to a new collective bargaining agreement by extending the existing collective barga... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7308 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- MAINTENANCE OF ORDER ON CAMPUS - Mandates arming campus police at public higher educational institutions and includes campus police in the definition of "law enforcement officer" for the purposes of the "Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7369 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Prohibits the division of motor vehicles from placing on a motorist's driving record, a traffic violation which fine has been paid no longer than thirty (30) days after its issuance. This procedure... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7151 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- PHYSICAL THERAPY COPAY - Limits copays, coinsurance or office deductibles for services of a physical therapist to the amount authorized for the services of a primary care physician or osteopath... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Health & Human Services Committee |