| RI | H5204 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOOL PUPILS BEYOND CITY AND TOWN LIMITS - Allows an individual school district that can utilize its own buses or vendors at a lower cost than the statewide system, to obtain reimbursement for these costs from state fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 29]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5400 | Intro
25% | LIBRARIES -- STATE AID TO LIBRARIES - Requires that the state's share to public libraries be fixed at twenty-five percent (25%) of the amount appropriated by the city or town in their budgets for fiscal year 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 29]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5461 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE HEALTHCARE SERVICES FUNDING PLAN ACT - Amends Rhode Island’s existing healthcare services funding plan act by adding an account relating to a new psychiatry resource network to fund Rhode Island’s present PediP...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 30]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5529 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICARE SAVINGS PROGRAMS - Expands eligibility for the qualified Medicare beneficiary program by increasing the income limit from 100% to 138% of the federal poverty line.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 30]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5751 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Provides that a student's enrollment in Medicaid would be included in calculating and determining the student success factor for use in the foundation education-aid formula.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 29]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5775 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Requires EOHHS to establish a 1-year pilot program for nutritional assistance and medically tailored meals, groceries and produce for peoples with diet-related diseases or food insecurity, and other intervention...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 30]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5745 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION -- STUDENT SUCCESS ACT - Reduces the time, from three (3) years to six (6) months, required for a nonimmigrant foreign national student, who has resided in Rhode Island, to be eligible to pay the same i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: May 1]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5743 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS - Extends teacher certifications without fee or penalty for three (3) or five (5) years for teachers who hold certifications as of July 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 29]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5736 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DENTISTS AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS - Permits reimbursement for dental hygienist's from "other insurance" or a third-party payor such as Medicare.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 30]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5649 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- FAMILY COURT - Gives statewide juvenile hearing boards the authority to refer a juvenile offender to a rehabilitative driving course, as part of a disposition of an offense before the board. The order may be en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
Placed on House Calendar (04/29/2025) |
| RI | H5782 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATE AID - Includes municipal detention facility corporations as exempt from taxation, and requires that an amount equal to 27% of all tax that would have been collected if the property was taxable be paid to the municipality ann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 29]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5844 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- WATER POLLUTION - Requires quarterly testing of biosolids for PFAS contaminants by those seeking to apply biosolids to lands, with subsequent reports to the department of environmental management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
Placed on House Calendar (05/01/2025) |
| RI | H5988 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN - Requires the EOHHS to amend the state Medicaid plan and secure sufficient state general revenue to increase Medicaid payment rates to an amount equal to one hundred thirty ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 30]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6045 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATIONAL EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Mandates public schools (K-12) have one full-time certified social worker for every 250 students and allocates $2 million in the fiscal year 2025 budget for school districts and munici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 29]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6125 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Expressing Support For The Lgbtqia+ Community
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
Placed on House Calendar (05/01/2025) |
| RI | H6244 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ABUSE IN HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Prohibits any personnel, in any healthcare facility, from asking the legal immigration status of any patient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: May 1]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5194 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY TAX RELIEF - Increases the income range up to $50,000 and tax credit up to $850, for elderly and disabled persons who own or rent their homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-24
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5361 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ELECTRONIC INFORMATION AND DATA PRIVACY ACT - Requires law enforcement agencies to obtain search warrants for electronic information, data, location information and other identifying information of subscribers and customers, exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-24
To House Judiciary 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] | 2025-04-24
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H6072 | 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] | 2025-04-24
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6073 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND FAMILY HOME -- VISITING ACT - Changes annual reporting requirements for the state’s family home-visiting program and also impacts appropriation and spending of funds in order to access maximum federal funding f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-24
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6106 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- INSURANCE ON MULTI-UNIT DWELLINGS -- TENANT RELOCATION INSURANCE - Requires certain landlords to obtain insurance to cover alternate living accommodations for displaced tenants due to fire or disaster.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6112 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- EMINENT DOMAIN - Requires all entities delegated eminent domain powers under this section to adopt a plan and approval prior to exercising such power for a public purpose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-24
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H6265 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Dorothy Jean Mccaffrey
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-24
House read and passed |
| RI | H5120 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Provides an insurer would not impose prior authorization requirements for any service ordered by an in-network primary care provider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5426 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires the disclosure of the transfer of certain assets of healthcare facilities and provides penalties for failing to file healthcare facility ownership information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5488 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE SCHOOL LIBRARIES ACT - Creates the School Libraries Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5630 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- COMPASSIONATE ACCESS TO MEDICAL CANNABIS ACT - Requires certain health care facilities to allow a terminally ill patient’s use of medicinal cannabis within the health care facility, subject to certain restrictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5836 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM - Would require every high school to offer a yearlong “ethnic studies” course.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H6255 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS -- CENTRAL FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT - Authorizes the city of Central Falls, via home rule charter or city ordinance, to create a school board with all powers and duties thereto, to govern the Central Fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6256 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Repeals the property tax and sales and use tax exemption for boats.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5157 | Engross
50% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT - Provides that any disaster response worker shall, in the course of their duties, be considered a state employee and be entitled to all rights in like manner as state employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H5375 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LEAD POISONING PREVENTION ACT - Allows municipalities to enact ordinances that would permit municipalities and water suppliers to enter properties to perform lead service line replacements and permit tenants to request and schedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5523 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Requires public bodies to offer translation services for all open meetings of said bodies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5762 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHER'S RETIREMENT - Recalculates the retirement allowance related to early retirement and pension benefits for teachers, state employees and municipal employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5966 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Allows city of Providence to levy a tax in fiscal year 2026, in an amount not to exceed seven percent (7%) in excess of the total amount levied and certified by that city for its previous fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (04/22/2025) |
| RI | H6240 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS-DENTISTS AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS - Allows for the expansion of limited registrations of dentists and dental hygienists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5599 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION - Establishes a corrections education and vocational planning group (CEVPG) to consider opportunities for career and educational programming.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-16
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H5374 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE -- RHODE ISLAND INCLUSIVE HOME DESIGN ACT - Establishes a new article in the state building code that provides that certain new housing construction contain at least one floor that meets the requirements for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5499 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Seeks to promote increased consumer access to Medicare supplement health insurance policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5724 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DETENTION FOR FEDERAL CIVIL IMMIGRATION VIOLATIONS - Prohibits state or municipality from contracts to detain individuals for civil immigration violations, and if such contract exists, it must end by July 1, 2026 and p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5963 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND - Allows the applicant for a land development project to utilize the administrative subdivision process established under 45-23-37 to request approval of a proposed subdivision of an oversized lot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5964 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND - Caps the minimum lot size that may be required to not exceed three (3) new separate parameters relating to the availability of public water, sewer, and transit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6118 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires coverage for acute mental health crisis mobile response and stabilization services to eligible individuals enrolled as plan beneficiaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H6117 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires insurance coverage for all community health workers' services to include health and promotion coaching, health education and training, health system navigation and resource coordination...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H6221 | Pass | House Resolution Designating April Of 2025, To Be "second Chance Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
House read and passed |
| RI | H6219 | Pass | House Resolution Recognizing The Celebration Of The Cambodian New Year And "the Year Of The Snake" On April 14-16, 2025
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
House read and passed |
| RI | H6224 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating "national Crime Victims' Rights Week" On April 6th Through April 12th, 2025, In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
House read and passed |
| RI | H6220 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating The 50th Anniversary Of The Cambodian Genocide On April 17th Of 2025
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
House read and passed |
| RI | H5225 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE PROTECTED SPACES ACT - Limits the ability for any federal immigration authority to investigate, detain, apprehend or arrest any individuals for potential violations of federal immigration laws without a judicial wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
