| RI | S0039 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales tax scalp hair prosthesis or wigs that are necessary due to hair loss from a medical condition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 22]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0031 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks weighing fourteen thousand pounds (14,000 lbs.) or less from sales and use tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 22]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0048 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $15,200,000 To Be Used To Purchase Pfas-free Firefighting Gear (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $15,200,000 To Cities And Towns To Purchase Firefighter And Rescue Personnel Protective Gear Which ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 22]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0034 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Eliminates the sales tax on taxi services and pet care services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 22]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0036 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Amends the Education Equity and Property Tax Relief Act to set the regionalization bonus at 2% of the state's share of foundation education aid for the fiscal year starting July 1, 2025,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 22]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0075 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- CERTIFICATES OF TITLE AND SECURITY INTERESTS -- VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION CHECKS - Waives the fees for vehicle identification number inspections for veterans, including active duty military personnel and members of the Nation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S0041 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from sales tax the trade-in values of motorcycles as well the proceeds received as a result of an unrecovered stolen or total loss of a motorcycle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 22]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0049 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $250,000 To The Substance Use And Mental Health Leadership Council Of Ri (sumhlc) (this Resolution Would Authorize An Appropriation Of The Sum Of $250,000 To The Substance Use And Mental Health Leadership C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 22]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0040 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Increases the state earned-income credit as of January 1, 2026 to seventeen percent (17%) of the federal earned-income credit, not to exceed the amount of state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 22]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0071 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Provides protection and prevents the unethical, improper conduct and the collection of fees, by anyone advising or assisting a veteran filing a claim for disability benefi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S0101 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX - Repeals the corporation minimum tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0099 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under eight thousand one hundred pounds (8,100 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 22]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0111 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- RHODE ISLAND NEW QUALIFIED JOBS INCENTIVE ACT 2015 - This act would sunset/discontinue the Jobs Development Act rate reduction as of July 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0083 | Intro
25% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- LENDERS AND LOAN BROKERS - Removes the licensing exemption for a lender that originates less than six (6) loans in twelve (12) consecutive months.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S0166 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Amends the definition of the practice of pharmacy to include the administration of all forms of influenza immunizations to individuals of any age pursuant to a valid prescription or prescriber approved proto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0191 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of PROJECT Weber/RENEW, a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0285 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- CONSUMER CREDIT HISTORY EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION ACT -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Prohibits employers from seeking/using credit reports in making hiring decisions concerning prospective employees, asking questions about th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 22]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0592 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Creates a special license plate for the charity Real Access Motivates Progress, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S0475 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS REQUIRED AT PUBLIC PLACES AND HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires public or private golf courses to have an automated external defibrillator on the premises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0503 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Create a process to establish a low- or moderate-income housing that exceeds sixty (60) units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0381 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BARBERS, HAIRDRESSERS, COSMETICIANS, MANICURISTS AND ESTHETICIANS - Allows mobile salons to visit the houses of individuals with special needs or sensory-related disorders or differences in order to provide haircuts or h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S0502 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Specifies that low and moderate income housing exists when a city or town has adopted an inclusionary zoning ordinance requiring that all housing developments include at least fifty percent (50%) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0625 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- RHODE ISLAND VETERANS' HOME - Adds “space force” to the branches of the military included in various sections of general law regarding the veterans home, veterans cemetery and the power of armed forces officers to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S0624 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S0694 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES - Details each of those limited emergency circumstances where a registered nurse and advanced practice registered nurses, may safely administer sedation, such as critical life-saving or emergency situations where ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 22]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0748 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- VIDEO LOTTERY GAMES, TABLE GAMES AND SPORTS WAGERING - Effective 7/1/2026, the state lottery division of gaming stops renewing any existing sports wagering vendor contract. Prior to the expiration of any existing contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To Senate Labor and Gaming Committee |
| RI | S0803 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Adds a provision that allows a tenant to pay the last month's rent or any other prepaid rent. It also increases the amount that a security deposit can be requested from one to two (2) months of rent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 22]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0800 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Allows retired state employees who worked for the unified judicial system as certified or qualified court interpreters to be employed or reemployed for a limited perio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0790 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- LICENSING OF APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS - Changes the name of "applied behavior assistant analyst" to "assistant applied behavior analyst" and makes several changes to provide consistency in the certification language for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0826 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM - Establishes a seven (7) member public-private partnership infrastructure oversight commission to approve all requests for proposals submitted for public-private partn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To Senate Labor and Gaming Committee |
| RI | S0770 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES - Provides that stores offering food product discounts must provide the same discounts to in store customers that are offered to customers using electronic digital coupons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 22]
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S0856 | 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] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To Senate Labor and Gaming Committee |
| RI | S0855 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- PEACE OFFICER MAXIMUM WORKDAY AND OVERTIME COMPENSATION - Establishes a maximum hourly workday for all peace officers as defined in § 12-7-21 and a violation rate of pay of double time and a half.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To Senate Labor and Gaming Committee |
| RI | S0914 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Removes the fee for registration and plate transfer for a Distinguished Service Cross registration plate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S0891 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Requires the PUC to produce report on comprehensive study by April 30, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0890 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET METERING - Changes the excess renewable net-metering credit to a wholesale rate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0932 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Repeals a provision of the minimum prepaid special motor vehicle registration plate orders law that was set to expire on December 31, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S0957 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- COURT CLERKS' INCENTIVE PAY - Extends the incentive pay plan to all full-time court clerks, including the traffic tribunal, who meet the eligibility requirements. It would also repeal § 8-4.1-6 regarding addit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To Senate Labor and Gaming Committee |
| RI | S0976 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MEDICAL AESTHETIC PRACTICES SAFETY ACT - Mandates cosmetic medical procedures be performed by a physician, PA, APRN, or delegated to a qualified non-physician, non-PA or non-APRN under the supervision of a physician, physician as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0983 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE POLICE - Creates the PURPLE alert state system to aid in the search for a missing adult with a serious physical, behavioral health, neurological disabilities or medical condition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0032 | 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] | 2025-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 22]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0984 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEMP THC-INFUSED BEVERAGES ACT - Authorizes the sale of THC-infused beverages to be regulated by the DBR division of commercial licensing. It also establishes licensing and an endorsement process for wholesale and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0978 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Requires the state building commissioner to implement electronic permitting for any category of state or local permit authorized under state law to significantly impact the expediency of construction and dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-16
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0987 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION - Provide protection for the rights of professional, administrative and secretarial employees of the department of education to collectively bargain over all terms and conditions of employmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-16
To Senate Labor and Gaming Committee |
| RI | S0973 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- INSURANCE BENEFITS - Entitles correctional officers with twenty-five (25) years of service and who are at least fifty-five (55) years of age to a non-Medicare-eligible retiree health care insurance benefit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0126 | Engross
50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT -- EMPLOYEE FREE SPEECH RIGHTS - Protects the rights of employees in the workplace relating to free speech, assembly and religion, as well as attendance at employer-sponsored meetings regarding politic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-11
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | S0720 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Authorizes the Providence city council to set the veterans tax exemption limit to an amount determined by the city council via ordinance or resolution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-11
Placed on Senate Calendar |
| RI | S0417 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- CIGARETTE AND OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS TAX - Reduces the cigarette tax imposed by 75% for any modified risk tobacco product as defined in § 21 U.S.C. 387 k as a tobacco product sold/distributed to reduce the harm/risk of tobacco-related di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
Committee heard |
| RI | S0550 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOGS - Increases penalties for animal abuse under this chapter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0559 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Increases imprisonment penalties and adds mandatory community service for violations of § 4-1-9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
