| RI | H5144 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Allows executive office of EOHHS to review current methodology for Medical payments to nursing facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5822 | Engross
50% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- SOLAR SITING ADVISORY TASKFORCE - Creates a taskforce to provide recommendations, advice and guidance to help expedite and provide technical assistance with regard to the development of solar energy systems on propert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
House read and passed |
| RI | H6299 | Intro
25% | I) TWO NEW HIGH SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FACILITIES TO REPLACE PILGRIM HIGH SCHOOL AND TOLLGATE HIGH SCHOOL AND ON-SITE ATHLETIC FIELDS, AND (II) RECREATION AND ATHLETIC FACILITIES THROUGHOUT THE CITY (Authorizes the city of Warwick to issue not more than ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Committee recommends passage |
| RI | H6298 | Intro
25% | AUTHORIZING THE AMENDMENT OF THE WARWICK CITY CHARTER TO ALLOW FOR ELECTRONIC NOTICE OF SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETINGS, RAISING THE SMALL PROCUREMENT DOLLAR THRESHOLD BY ORDINANCE, AND ESTABLISHING MINORITY REPRESENTATION APPOINTMENTS TO BOARDS AND COMMISS...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Committee recommends passage |
| RI | H6320 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Provides that the tax rate for Class 1 and Class 2 property be uniform and set to the same percentage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Committee recommends passage |
| RI | H5312 | Engross
50% | ELECTIONS -- LOCAL CANVASSING AUTHORITIES - Establishes a process by which vacancies in a municipal election office and local canvassing board are filled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
House read and passed |
| RI | H5316 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- HOUSING FLEXIBLE SPENDING ACCOUNT ACT OF 2025 - Establishes the Housing Flexible Spending Account Act of 2025 allowing Rhode Island employers to contribute pre-tax income into a housing flexible spending account (H-FSA), for employees to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5513 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Implements a thirty (30) day waiting period following the issuance of a learners permit and the waiting period must expire before the person is permitted to take the road test in order...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| RI | H6039 | Engross
50% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Requires every school district to render assistance and cooperation within its jurisdictional power to further the objects of this chapter, to wit, providing the courts with any infor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
House read and passed |
| RI | H6318 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SCHOOL BUS SAFETY ENFORCEMENT - Requires every school bus, including buses used exclusively for to transport students receiving special education, to be equipped with a live digital video school bus violation detection mon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5852 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- COLLABORATIVE PHARMACY PRACTICE - Expands the existing law regarding collaborative practice agreements between pharmacists and physicians to allow other healthcare providers to enter into such agreements and removes the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H5300 | Engross
50% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION - Considers election officials and poll workers "public officials" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5311 | Engross
50% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Allows the board of elections to tabulate mail ballots in local special elections in the same manner as in tabulate mail ballots in statewide elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5384 | Engross
50% | ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES - Increases from 7 days to 9 days the period of time in which a request for a recount of the votes cast can be made to the board of elections and no certificates of election may be i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5353 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Authorizes a pharmacy technician or pharmacy intern to perform technology-assisted dispensing process validation for medications prepared for distribution by another pharmacy technician or intern within an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5550 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DENTISTS AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS - Standardizes successor appointment language for various boards and adds language providing that a quorum be a majority of appointed members and the language applies across several healthc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5871 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS - Provides that public historical vital records maintained by the state archives shall not be amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H6294 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming The Month Of May Of 2025 To Be “myositis Awareness Month In The State Of Rhode Island”
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-01
House read and passed |
| 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] | 2025-04-30
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] | 2025-04-30
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6047 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Mandates all health insurance contracts from January 1, 2026, to cover FDA-approved contraceptives, sterilization, contraception counseling, follow-up services, and a twelve-month supply for Med...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-30
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5749 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Amends the determination of the state's share statute by amending the calculation for the poverty loss stabilization fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-29
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5742 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- FEDERAL AID - Establishes a statewide “Healthy School Meals for all” universal school breakfast and lunch program in Rhode Island public schools phased in over 3 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-29
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5884 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- NONTRANSPARENT WINDSHIELDS AND WINDOWS - Exempts members of the Rhode Island judiciary from the restrictions on nontransparent windshields and windows in their motor vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-24
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5174 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CERTIFIED SURGICAL FIRST ASSISTANTS - Allows for the licensing of certified surgical first assistants to assist in surgeries through the department of health and a seven (7) member board of licensure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5622 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT - Requires the state to implement the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact no later than July 1, 2025. Also restores access to telemedicine for all Rhode Island residents and allows t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5318 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- ADMINISTRATION - Changes the teacher and state employees' retirement benefit calculations' cutoff date from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2012, for all retirement members eligible to and who retire on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5407 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS', MUNICIPAL AND STATE EMPLOYEES EARLY RETIREMENT PENALTY - Reduces the current varying percentages for early retirement penalty for teachers, municipal and state employees to a cumulative annual reduction of 3% and monthly reduc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5766 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM BENEFITS -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Reinstates the cost of living adjustments for retirees, when the annual investment return of the retirement system, exceeds ten percent (10%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5737 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WORKERS' COMPENSATION COURT - Amend a provision in the general laws relative to additional benefits payable to retired judges and their surviving spouses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5707 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Amends the definition of public record to exempt from public disclosure the city or town of residence of the justices, judges, and magistrates of the unified judicial system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5999 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE POLICE - Amends the pension benefits for both current and former Rhode Island state police members, and would extend the time period a member may serve in the Rhode Island state police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5787 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales tax eligible school supplies, costing less than $30.00, purchased within one week prior to the commencement of the academic year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5678 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES -- OVERTIME - Requires small employers with one to fifty (1-50) employees and large employers with fifty (50) or more employees to pay overtime wages to exempt workers if their salary exceeds varying multipl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5971 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- RHODE ISLAND NEW QUALIFIED JOBS INCENTIVE ACT 2015 - Provides that businesses awarded tax credits, under the qualified jobs incentive act, within a specified time period are able to submit certain required documentation by December 31, 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5985 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND LIFE SCIENCE HUB ACT - Makes technical amendments to the RI life science hub regarding the terms of the directors, advisory committees, powers, disposition of hub assets upon termination, and tax status as a gove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5453 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Replaces CRMC with a newly created division of coastal resources management, a state entity within the DEM and would transfer all authority to the DEM with duties and responsibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5843 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- REGIONAL VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS - Provides for better communication between sending and receiving districts regarding students receiving CTE or pathways education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5228 | Intro
25% | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- QUALITY SELF-DIRECTED SUPPORTS ACT OF 2025 - Ensures that more developmentally disabled adults can self-direct the care they need and want, by incorporating collective bargaining righ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5506 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYEES' FREE SPEECH IN WORKPLACE - Protects employees' rights in the workplace concerning political and religious matters, by creating a civil action that may provide damages and attorneys' fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5942 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- SANITATION IN FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS - Establishes a restricted receipt account at the DLT for hospitality industry workforce training grants, funded by an annual $50 dollar fee to be charged by RIDOH to food service establishments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5260 | Intro
25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Extends the voluntary extension of care (VEC) program pursuant to § 14-1-6 to children in the juvenile justice system and children who attain reunification prior to their eighteenth ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5256 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- EQUAL PAY FOR HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS - Provides for equal pay for healthcare providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5347 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Provides that all extended benefits offered by DCYF to foster children shall be extended to children placed in guardianship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5441 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS - Reduces the time for expungements to three (3) years for a single misdemeanor and five (5) years for felonies and multiple misdemeanors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6041 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SENTENCE AND EXECUTION - Requires the court to set reasonable bail for all those individuals who appear before it as probation violators and establish a presumption of personal recognizance unless the new alleged offense is a cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5034 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Allows school committees to add item(s) not appearing in published notice to their agendas for purposes of discussion only if the revised agenda is filed with the secretary of state and posted on distri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
House read and passed |
| RI | H5372 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Includes police officers to fire fighters who are unable to perform duties as a result of heart disease, stroke or hypertension to be presumed to have suffered an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5471 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- OPTIONAL RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE AND FIREFIGHTERS - Provides an option for members to receive retirement allowances, without reduction, after twenty (20) years of service upon reaching age fifty-seven (57).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5701 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- CANCER BENEFITS FOR FIRE FIGHTERS - Makes the provisions of §§ 45-19.1-3 and 45-19.1-4, benefits for firefighters with cancer, effective regardless of any general, special or specific law, or any charter and/or municipal ordinan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
