| RI | S2473 | 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] | 2024-04-23
[Hearing: Apr 24]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | S2150 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- UNLAWFUL CONFINEMENT OF A COVERED ANIMAL - Exempts egg laying hens kept for commercial egg production purposes from the provisions of chapter 4-1.1 until January 1, 2034.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S2464 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Provides that public meetings involving collective bargaining agreements of school teachers shall be open to the public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | S2295 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- MILK SANITATION CODE - Permits and legalize the sale of raw milk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S2198 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- BURGLARY AND BREAKING AND ENTERING - Provides a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing any violent criminal offense that individual is lawfully in a place they have a right to be,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2192 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- BURGLARY AND BREAKING AND ENTERING - Adds a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing robbery of the owner, lessor, or occupant of a motor vehicle and that the owner or occupant of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2518 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM - Repeals the establishment of statewide academic standards for core subjects and the implementation into the curriculum of all public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2266 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- SOLAR PANELS - Requires that all sales representatives selling or leasing solar panels are licensed by the department of business regulation and that a statement be provided to homeowners setting forth pertinent informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S2077 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RIGHTS OF NURSING HOME PATIENTS - Amends the law on nursing home minimum staffing requirements in order that any penalty incurred in calendar years 2022 and 2023 would be abated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2837 | Intro
25% | HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE -- DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE - Provides that the fifth day in April in each year be designated as "Rhode Island Gold Star Spouses Day" with appropriate exercises in public places and with flags flown at half-s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S2112 | Intro
25% | PROBATE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE -- LIMITED GUARDIANSHIP AND GUARDIANSHIP OF ADULTS - Provides that supported decision-making pursuant to chapter 66.13 of title 42 be added to the Limited Guardianship and Guardianship of Adults forms section as one of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2445 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State -- Referendum On Line Item Veto (this Proposed Amendment To The Constitution Would Provide The Governor With A Line Item Ve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2540 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLEAN AIR PRESERVATION ACT - Establishes regulations to prohibit stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), solar radiation modification (SRM) experimentation, and other hazardous weather engineering activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S2053 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE BRIGHT TODAY SCHOLARSHIP AND OPEN ENROLLMENT EDUCATION ACT - Establishes a new educational program that allows students to enroll public and private schools of their choice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2340 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- EDUCATION FREEDOM ACCOUNT PROGRAM - Establishes a new program where the per pupil funding, calculated annually by RIDE, would be transferred into a newly created educational funding account run by the children's scholarship fund to pay f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2154 | Intro
25% | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- BIRDS - Allows the taking of wild turkeys by using a crossbow in compliance with rules and regulations promulgated by DEM.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S2107 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Allows reciprocal concealed carry permits from out of state to be valid in Rhode Island, which is either authorized by the attorney general or subject to other reciprocal restrictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2199 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Allows an individual to lawfully possess a device that would silence the sound of a natural report of a rifle or shotgun to hunt game, as long as the host rifle or shotgun is allowed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2231 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Defines suitable person and establishes reasons for applying for carry permit, establishes what information is required on applications, establishes appeal process if application denied and provides that records are not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2201 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Defines suitable person, establishes reasons for applying for concealed carry permit, establishes what information is required on applications, establishes appeal process for denials, provides that records are not publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2216 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits the sale or possession of firearm silencers unless the person complies with federal law in the sale, possession and use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2015 | Intro
25% | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- DEPARTMENT OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS - Mandates, as of 1/1/26, all recovery housing facilities register with department of behavioral healthca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2421 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Requires that only the mail ballot voter/spouse/court appointed guardian/cohabitant/or adult person related to the voter by blood or marriage, be allowed to physically mail the voted mail ballot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2155 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATEWIDE MUNICIPAL SOLAR PERMIT - Requires as part of the solar permit application an assessment on carbon-neutral, a solar permit would only be approved if it was carbon neutral based on the assessment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S2013 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG COST PROTECTION - Prohibits the state, participating ERISA or any health plan from purchasing referenced drugs for a cost higher than the referenced rate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2423 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MEDICAL ETHICS DEFENSE ACT - Establishes the right of a medical practitioner, healthcare institution, or healthcare payer not to participate in or pay for any medical procedure or service this violates their conscience.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2605 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Restricts audits of pharmacists conducted by insurers and their intermediaries, limiting audits to 1 per year unless fraud or misrepresentation is reasonably suspected. The Rhode Island attorney would have t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2660 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- FAIRNESS IN WOMEN'S SPORTS ACT - Categorizes women by their biological identity at birth rather than their gender identity for purpose of organized sports.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2703 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RHODE ISLAND'S CHILDREN DESERVE HELP NOT HARM ACT -- MINOR'S GENDER TRANSITION - Prohibits gender transition procedures for all minors, uses of public funds for that purpose, discipline for health care providers for providing sam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2611 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Limits the use by insurers of step therapy, a protocol that establishes a specific sequence in which prescription drugs for a specified medical condition are covered by an insurer, by al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2649 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- E-VERIFY COMPLIANCE - Establishes the E-Verify compliance program which would require all non-governmental employers within the state with 3 or more employees to apply to participate in the federal E-Verify program and to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2570 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Of The Legislative Power (proposes A State Constitutional Amendment That No Department Or Other Entity Created By The State Would Hav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2659 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Requires verification of applicant's date of birth and either a Rhode Island driver's license or state identification number with all mail ballot, mail ballot applications and emergency mail ballots.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2615 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- CONSUMER PROTECTION FROM MANDATED INDEMNIFIED - LIABILITY-FREE) PRODUCTS ACT (Prohibits mandating indemnified products to consumers in certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2522 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RIGHTS OF STUDENTS ACT - Provides protections for students and parents against discrimination on the basis of a religious viewpoint or religious expression in schools. Allows students to pray or engage in religious activities before, dur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2114 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- INSPECTOR GENERAL - Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to investigate, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2285 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION - Prohibits discrimination in postsecondary education of students, faculty and staff based upon medical or religious vaccine exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2341 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATE AID - Provides PILOT to Exeter for state owned properties. Imposes no duty on Exeter to protect these properties. Requires payments to be used to create a police department or defray town expenses used to provide police prot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2339 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- ADJUDICATION OF TRAFFIC OFFENSES - Prohibits the state, municipalities, or courts from attempting to collect any motor vehicle violation fines or costs, after more than seven (7) years of the fine becoming final.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2284 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- INNOVATION SCHOOLS - Allows for the establishment of innovation schools for the purpose of improving school performance and student achievement through increased autonomy and flexibility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2338 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATE AID - Secures general assembly appropriations in lieu of property taxes for state-owned properties within the town of Exeter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2352 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS -- NATIONAL GUARD - Raises the amount of life insurance the state would provide at no charge to Rhode Island National Guard members called up for federal duty to five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2348 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- INSPECTOR GENERAL - Establishes office of inspector general which would be charged with preventing fraud and mismanagement of public funds, regardless of their source and would oversee all state programs and operations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2349 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING AND MORTGAGE FINANCE CORPORATION - Establishes a revolving fund to assist first-time home buyers and veterans to purchase a home in Rhode Island by issuing grants of up to forty thousand dollars ($...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2343 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- TOURISM AND DEVELOPMENT - Redirects the distribution of the hotel tax money generated in the South County regional tourism district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2479 | Intro
25% | Senate Resolution Condemning The Barbaric Attacks Against Israel On October 7, 2023, By Hamas And Other Terrorist Organizations
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S2420 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BORN-ALIVE INFANT PROTECTION ACT - Provides equal Medicare for infants born-alive as a result of abortion procedure/natural delivery with violations subject to criminal penalties for medical personnel/loss of license/civil action...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2424 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PARENTS BILL OF RIGHTS ACT - Provides for a parents' bill of rights related to the health, education and welfare of their minor children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2386 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- "THE RHODE ISLAND INFORMED CONSENT PROTECTION ACT" - Requires written consent by recipient or parent before vaccine and prohibits discrimination against those who don't vaccinate and fines up to $25,000 for violation. Al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2370 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT - Requires 10% of all rental fees collected by the water resources board pursuant to a lease with the Coventry Pines Golf Club be paid to the town of Coventry and 10% to the Central Coventry Fire Di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
