| RI | H7208 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY TAX RELIEF - Increases the income range up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) and tax credit up to eight hundred fifty dollars ($850), for elderly and disabled persons who own or rent their homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7257 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- REAL ESTATE CONVEYANCE TAX - Increases conveyance tax for residential properties sold above $2,000,000 to a rate of $3.30 per $500, to be collected for RI housing for elderly affordable housing development. Provides and exemption to any e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7922 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING LAND BANK PROGRAM - Establishes a housing land bank program with the goal of creating affordable housing in the State of Rhode Island. The housing land bank would have the authority to buy, receiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8184 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating "national Crime Victims' Week" On April 21st Through April 27th, 2024, In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
House read and passed |
| RI | H7029 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTION AND BENEFITS - Increases the maximum post retirement employment earnings from eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) a year for certain retired ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 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] | 2024-04-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7527 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - This act would further delineate the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7629 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- INDICTMENTS, INFORMATIONS AND COMPLAINTS - Includes the offense of second-degree sexual assault among the offenses to which there shall be no statute of limitations and provides for a ten (10) year statute of limitations for thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7776 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $20,000,000 For The Housing Down Payment Assistance Program (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $20,000,000 To Support The Down Payment Assistance Program.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7801 | 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] | 2024-04-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7747 | Engross
50% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION - Allows victims of violent crime receiving awards under the state's crime victim compensation program to use up to $1,000 of their total award to make reasonable modification to their residence to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7950 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND - Provides amendments relative to the permitting authority of, and acceptable forms of financial security permissible for construction and/or improvement guarantees relating to the completion of required public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7980 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOBILE AND MANUFACTURED HOMES - Makes several amendments relative to manufactured homes, including adding a definition for manufactured home and a provision allowing for certain manufactured homes to be considered a single...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | H7979 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOCAL PLANNING BOARD OR COMMISSION - Provides amendments to the membership provisions of planning boards or commissions and would enable municipalities to establish "combined review boards" to replace separate planning and zoning ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | H8172 | Intro
25% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- FULL ENFORCEMENT OF SUPPORT OBLIGATIONS - Allows a board to modify an obligor's license to a "Provisional Employment Operator's License" allowing the obligor the ability to operate a motor vehicle during designated hours of empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7048 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SENTENCE AND EXECUTION - Requires sentencing court to consider whether defendant is parent of child, or caregiver of elderly, disabled or terminally ill person whose well-being would be adversely affected by the person's incarce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7082 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- NONPROFIT DENTAL SERVICE CORPORATIONS -- THE RHODE ISLAND FAIR SHARE FOR DENTAL CARE ACT - Requires carriers offering dental benefit plans to annually submit information which includes the current and projected medical loss ratio for cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7102 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SECOND LOOK SENTENCING ACT - Establishes the second look act and would permit incarcerated individuals to petition the sentencing court to consider a motion to reduce a sentence after the defendant has served at least ten (10) y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7161 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- THE RHODE ISLAND FIRST STEP ACT - Establishes Rhode Island First Step program requiring DOC to assist offenders with reintegration into society, counseling, medical care, education, early sentence termination or pre-release conf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7433 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Amend the standards for issuing Medicare supplemental insurance policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7525 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Repeals 42-56-38.1 and requires the department of corrections to provide free communication services to inmates and juveniles held in residential placement or detention centers and requires tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7720 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- PHARMACY FREEDOM OF CHOICE -- FAIR COMPETITION AND PRACTICES - Ensures that independent pharmacies are protected from pharmacy benefit discrimination toward non-affiliated pharmacies and helps protect consumers' ability to choose local, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7716 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT - Requires that healthcare entities and network plans, eff. 1/1/25, include provision in every contract with a provider of mental health/substance use disorders that rates paid pursuant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7851 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC FINANCE -- RHODE ISLAND BABY BOND TRUST - Creates the Rhode Island baby bond trust to provide investment funds to children born to families with public health insurance or no insurance living in Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7853 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Increases the minimum wage amount for any person committed to the adult correctional institution from three dollars to five dollars a day for every day the person shall labor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7958 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- MULTIFAMILY HOUSING ACT - Requires single-family residential zoning in municipalities with populations of over 20,000 to allow middle housing and mandates that those municipalities adopt zoning regulations for middle housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7947 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE EDWARD O. HAWKINS AND THOMAS C. SLATER MEDICAL MARIJUANA ACT - Extends the registry identification card renewal for medical marijuana cards from one year to three (3) years; removes the renewal requirement for terminally ill pat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7977 | Pass | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study The Ability Of The Rhode Island Educational System To Offer Degree Or Certificate Programs Within The State To Provide A Supply And A Pipeline Of Planners, Planning Technicians, And ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H8164 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming April 7-13, 2024, To Be "national Library Week" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
House read and passed |
| RI | H7590 | Intro
25% | CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM -- 2024 BOND REFERENDA - Submits 2024 capital development program requesting the issuance of $100,000,000 in general obligation bonds to the voters for approval at the November 8, 2024, general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7684 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts urban and small farmers from sales taxes, real, tangible and personal property taxes and income taxes. It also defines urban and small farmers and urban farmland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7611 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- RELOCATION OF UTILITY SERVICES - Utility relocation costs related to highway construction to be partially or fully paid for by the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7774 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $78,000,000 To The Rhode Island Transit Authority (ripta) (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $78,000,000 To The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7792 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE - Increases the minimum required awarded to minority business enterprises from 15% to 20% and of that, require a minimum of 10% be awarded to minority owned businesses and a minimum of 10% be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7793 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- RHODE ISLAND PARENTAL AND FAMILY MEDICAL LEAVE ACT - Increases the amount of unpaid parental or family leave available to an employee, from thirteen (13) weeks to twenty-six (26) weeks, in any two (2) calendar years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7918 | Intro
25% | CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM -- 2024 BOND REFERENDA - Submits 2024 capital development program requesting the issuance of $25,000,000 in general obligation bonds to the voters for approval at the November 5, 2024, general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7482 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To The Rhode Island Black Business Association (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 To The Rhode Island Black Business Association.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7587 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Strongly Supporting A National Infrastructure Bank Through The Passage Of The 118th Congress H.r. 4052
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7638 | Intro
25% | CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- STATE COMMISSION ON PARDONS - Establishes a nine (9) member commission on pardons to provide recommendations to the governor as to who should receive executive pardons per the state constitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7768 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Respectfully Requesting The Rhode Island Congressional Delegation To Support House Resolution 54 Of The 2023-2024 Congress To Amend The United States Constitution To Prove That The Rights Protected And Extended By The Constitution Ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7933 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- RHODE ISLAND NEW QUALIFIED JOBS INCENTIVE ACT 2015 - Sunsets/discontinues the Jobs Development Act rate reduction as of July 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7968 | 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, 2025 and p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H8049 | Intro
25% | This act serves as the enabling act required by § 16-7-44 of the general laws in order for the principal and interest on bonds issued in support of school housing projects to be eligible for state housing aid reimbursement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8152 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming April Of 2024 To Be "bilingual And Multilingual Learner Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
House read and passed |
| RI | H7734 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DENSE BREAST NOTIFICATION AND EDUCATION - Amends the notice requirement to patients to follow the mandated FDA national reporting standards following a mammogram.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| 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 | H7835 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- RAILROAD, STEAMBOAT, AND BRIDGE POLICE - Provides any police report involving a railroad fatality and all communications between railroad employees not be made public. Additionally, it makes a violation of this section a misdeme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7830 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL - Allows the attorney general to investigate and bring an enforcement action against persistent fraud or illegality in the carrying on, conducting, or transaction of business or governmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H8137 | Pass | House Resolution Celebrating April Of 2024, As "organ Donation Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
House read and passed |
| RI | H7107 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT - Allows governmental employee union contracts to contain specific references to specific health insurance companies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To House Labor Committee |
