| RI | H5444 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SPEED RESTRICTIONS - Defines slowing a vehicle for purposes of the “move over law” (§ 31-14-3) to mean twenty miles per hour (20 mph) under the posted speed limit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5564 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND ECONOMIC GROWTH BLOCKCHAIN ACT - Establishes an economic growth blockchain, regulates virtual and digital assets, and establishes depository banks for these purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5566 | Intro
25% | CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS -- THE RHODE ISLAND LIMITED-LIABILITY COMPANY ACT - Permits a member or members of a limited-liability company to avoid dissolution by buying the membership interest owned by the other member or members se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5925 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION - Makes it a felony for any person required to register as a sex offender to live within three hundred feet (300’) of a school as defined in § 11-37.1-2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5875 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND LOBBYING REFORM ACT - Expands the lobbying reform act to apply to persons who lobby municipal government executives and legislative bodies, as well as local fire districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5886 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- SMALL BUSINESS REGULATORY FAIRNESS IN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES - Expands the duties of the small business ombudsman, by also having the ombudsman serve as the Rhode Island commerce corporation's small business advocat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Small Business Committee |
| RI | H5856 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VACCINATION, TESTING, AND MASK MANDATES PROHIBITION - Prohibits any person mandating a COVID-19 vaccination without providing individual exemptions that allow a person to opt out of such mandate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5997 | 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] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5957 | 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] | 2025-02-28
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5880 | Intro
25% | GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- AUDITOR GENERAL - Requires the auditor general to conduct performance audits of all state agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5962 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- INDEBTEDNESS OF TOWNS AND CITIES - Requires a municipality or quasi-public agency to file a report with the department of municipal finance if it has not made its payment to its other post-employment benefits trust fund or if it i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5847 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Provide Findings And Potential Solutions To Address The Flooding Of The Pawtuxet River (creates An 11-member Commission To Study And Provide Recommendations And Potential Solutio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5845 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- PUBLIC DRINKING WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM PROTECTION - Requires Rhode Island water suppliers to prepare a resilience assessment and a response plan for the risk of flooding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5994 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Requires the department of environmental management to develop, identify, maintain and update a list of projects that qualify for forest and open space land conservation funding...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6008 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX - Allows an income tax credit for employer contributions to an eligible employee's ABLE account, for a maximum credit of two thousand dollars ($2,000) per employee, per year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5269 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Allows the waiver of interest on overdue taxes for commercial properties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
Committee recommends passage |
| RI | H5753 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX - Exempts subchapter S corporations in the first year of existence from paying the minimum tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5690 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - This act would repeal the chapter entitled "Low and Moderate Income Housing".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5722 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES - Amends the administrative procedures act and provides that on the review of an agency decision by a court upon appeal, the court shall decide questions of law without deference to any previo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5589 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MISCELLANEOUS RULES - Prohibits a person under the age of sixteen (16) from being in a rideshare vehicle such as Uber or Lyft alone.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5608 | Intro
25% | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- LOBSTERS AND OTHER CRUSTACEANS -- BLUE CRABS - Eliminates any limits restricting the harvesting of blue crabs in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5689 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Defines multi-family housing project as over 60 units in municipality with less than 35k residents, also provides for pre-approval conference with local board for review of plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5628 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Mandates all health insurance contracts, plans, or policies provide the same reimbursement to independent healthcare facilities as that of hospital affiliated facilities where the same healthcar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5610 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- 2021 ACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE - Requires the executive climate change coordinating council to evaluate and make recommendations for the use of carbon emissions removal technology as an alternative to reducing carbon emiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5777 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- RHODE ISLAND TURNPIKE AND BRIDGE AUTHORITY - Repeals the act authorizing toll facilities on state roads.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5681 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS -- MERIT SYSTEM - Allows for waiver from testing for temporary or emergency positions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5579 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Requires the public utilities commission to produce a report each January containing an analysis of the electric grid and its ability to supply the electricity needs to power cars, buildi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5725 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS -- COST - Provides that fees for costs charged for search, retrieval or copying of public records shall be waived for members of the general assembly who certify that they are acting in their official capaci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5664 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- STATE CRIME LABORATORY COMMISSION - Increases the membership of the state crime laboratory commission from five (5) to nine (9). The overseer and co-executive secretaries of the commission have been changed to the deans of URI's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5717 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- UNIVERSAL REGULATORY SANDBOX ACT - Establishes a Regulatory Sandbox program designed to provide a depository for ideas in a regulatory approach.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5727 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT - Requires the director of the Rhode Island emergency management agency and the Rhode Island commerce commission to develop and implement a plan to assist businesses in obtaining flood insurance th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5583 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Limits the development of utility scale solar energy projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5609 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STUDY OF MOTOR VEHICLE NON-EXHAUST PARTICLE EMISSIONS - Requires the department of transportation, in consultation with the department of environmental management also to conduct an environmental impac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5692 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Allows the operation of a home-based business, which meets criteria for home office IRS income tax deduction, without securing approval from the municipality with no storage of chemicals/park heavy equipment/no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5663 | Intro
25% | CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- INTERSTATE DETAINERS - Requires state law enforcement agencies to honor all detainer request from DHS and ICE.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5755 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- ESTATE AND TRANSFER TAXES -- ENFORCEMENT AND COLLECTION - Generates an estate tax discharge upon the recording of a statement by the executor or other estate representative that the value of the decedent’s gross estate does not require ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5734 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State -- Line Item Veto (this Proposed Amendment To Our State Constitution Grants The Governor A Line-item Veto On The Budget And...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House State Government & Elections 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] | 2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5702 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES - Increases the number of days a retired municipal employee could work in a calendar year without interruption of pension benefits to ninety (90) days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5418 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- SMALL EMPLOYER HEALTH INSURANCE AVAILABILITY ACT - Amends the definition of "small employer" for purposes of the small employer health insurance availability act to mean a business employing less than one hundred (100) employees rather t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5417 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- WATER SUPPLY - Provides that water utility companies be responsible for all costs associated with maintenance, operation and delivery of water pumping stations to individual parcels of land and schools with no pumping...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5469 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- SMALL BUSINESS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - Appropriates two million dollars ($2,000,000) to the micro-loan program for FY 25-26.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5455 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1990 - Defines "anti-Semitism" for the state human affairs commission to use while investigating and working to resolve complaints of discrimination and for the commission against prejudice and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5159 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT RIGHT TO REPAIR ACT - Provides that original equipment manufacturers, implemented by/with surrogate distributors, of agricultural equipment, provide to independent service prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5414 | Pass | House Resolution Joyously Celebrating The 90th Birthday Of Robert Edward Kenahan On February 8th, 2025
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
House read and passed |
| RI | H5393 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- SIDEWALKS - Requires that all maintenance of sidewalks along state highways, with the exception of snow and ice removal, be the responsibility of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5183 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PASSING, USE OF LANES AND RULES OF THE ROAD - Allows lane filtering, the act of passing stopped or slow-moving vehicles proceeding in the same direction, for motorcycles at low speeds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5158 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- LICENSE PROCEDURE FOR SOCIAL WORKERS - Repeals the examination requirement in order to qualify for a clinical social workers license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5213 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating President Donald J. Trump And Vice President James David Vance On Their Election, And Recognizing The 2024 Election As An Historic Election
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
House read and passed |
| RI | H5184 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Prohibits credit reporting, executions, attachments against a principal residence for judgments based on medical debt. Defines medical debt as an amount for the receipt of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
