| RI | S0399 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-03-24
[Hearing: Mar 28]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0694 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Gail Breene-delmonico
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0695 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Arthur F. Trahan, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0786 | Intro
25% | Establishes ongoing two percent (2%) regionalization bonus to Education Equity and Property Tax Relief Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0785 | Intro
25% | Creates a restricted receipt account wherein fifteen percent (15%) of revenue collected from the gasoline tax shall be deposited into the account each year and used for the implementation of capital improvements on local public ways in each municipal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0110 | Engross
50% | Amends the Burrillville Town Charter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | S0675 | Intro
25% | Allows holders of a Class P license to purchase alcoholic beverages from either a retail or wholesale establishment in the State of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S0393 | Intro
25% | 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 the vehicle acted in self-defense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0400 | Intro
25% | 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, and acted in self-defense and reasonable belief of harm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0690 | Pass | Senate Resolution Recognizing And Celebrating March Of 2023 As “national Reading Month” In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0677 | Pass | Senate Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Gina Marie Bacon
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0692 | Pass | Senate Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Michael J. Sepe
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0691 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming March 2, 2023, To Be "national Hospitalist Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0681 | Pass | Senate Resolution Honoring Senator Dennis L. Algiere For His Service To The People Of The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0682 | Pass | Senate Resolution Honoring Senator Michael J. Mccaffrey For His Service To The People Of The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0220 | Intro
25% | Secures general assembly appropriations in lieu of property taxes for state-owned properties within the town of Exeter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0066 | Intro
25% | Prohibits total education aid paid to any local education agency from being reduced by more than one percent (1%) of the municipal education appropriation in the previous fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0593 | Intro
25% | Allows municipalities without public transportation extending to urban service boundaries to reduce the low- or moderate-income housing requirements from ten percent (10%) to six percent (6%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0624 | Intro
25% | Adds additional species to the prohibition of hunting, shooting or trapping except in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the department of environmental management governing hunting seasons and limits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0480 | Intro
25% | Prohibits discrimination in postsecondary education of students, faculty and staff based upon medical or religious vaccine exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0626 | Intro
25% | Permits Rhode Island residents, twenty-one (21) years of age or older, to carry a concealed handgun, without a permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0483 | Intro
25% | Provides that school policies which provide for excused absences for participation in a sport or other extracurricular activity be amended and deemed to include attending agricultural fairs as an excused absence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0649 | Intro
25% | 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 bias to use in defining hate crimes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0554 | Intro
25% | 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 District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0664 | Intro
25% | Establishes an occupational regulatory framework by authorizing the issuance of occupational licenses and government certifications by recognition for qualified worker applicants from other states.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | S0538 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $5,000,000 To Eleanor Slater Hospital, Zambarano Unit (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $5,000,000 To Eleanor Slater Hospital, Zambarano Unit For The Purpose Of Re-building A ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0588 | Intro
25% | Provides another method for municipalities to identify and calculate private residences as low and moderate income housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0499 | Intro
25% | Incorporates ethical energy standards to the 2021 Act on Climate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0491 | Intro
25% | Establishes language academies for non-English proficient students and also establishes the Rhode Island education revitalization fund to provide funding to the language academies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0603 | Intro
25% | Limits governor's emergency declaration to 60 days unless extended by the general assembly and prohibits eliminating religious exemption regarding mandatory health injections or inoculations and an unlawful employment practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0497 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Failing School Choice Act, to permit students at failing schools to enroll in any public school. It also establishes the Rhode Island education revitalization fund to provide funding to the school choice program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0526 | Intro
25% | Phases in an annual increase of the net taxable estate exemption over an eight (8) year period until the state exemption equals the federal exemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0493 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Failing School Choice Act and permits students at failing schools to enroll in any public school and also establishes the Rhode Island education revitalization fund to provide funding to the school choice program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0596 | Intro
25% | Adds an eighth member from the town of West Greenwich to the Kent County Water Board. The act would also raise the number required for a quorum from four (4) to five (5), and five (5) members would be required to take action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0569 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a private employer from mandating a COVID-19 vaccination upon any full-time, part-time, or contract employee without providing individual exemptions that allow an employee to opt out of such mandate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0639 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any city or town of licensing authority from charging more than forty dollars ($40.00) for any license or permit to carry a concealed weapon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0487 | Intro
25% | Requires separate restrooms and sleeping quarters for members of the opposite sex at school overnight trips.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0591 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0584 | Intro
25% | Provides a procedure requiring that health care facilities maintain a list with all standard charges for all facility items.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0525 | Intro
25% | Requires general treasurer upon request from RIDE to establish education savings account to assist remote-learning students with educational support exempt from state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0592 | Intro
25% | 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 stations on the property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0084 | Intro
25% | Allows a modification to federal adjusted gross income for all social security income for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0396 | Intro
25% | Requires law enforcement agencies to obtain search warrants for electronic information, data, location information and other identifying information of subscribers and customers, except in specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0383 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0421 | Intro
25% | Requires the employer's workers’ compensation insurance carrier to cover all of an employee’s associated medical expenses from any adverse medical event resulting from the employer mandating that the employee receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | S0265 | Intro
25% | Mandates that any surplus state tax revenue received in any fiscal year would be refunded to the taxpayers of this state on a proportional basis in relation to the personal income tax liability incurred by the taxpayers in that fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0414 | Intro
25% | Provides for a parents' bill of rights related to the health, education and welfare of their minor children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0346 | Intro
25% | 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 public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0297 | Intro
25% | LIABILITY-FREE) PRODUCTS ACT (Prohibits mandating indemnified products to consumers in certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0392 | Intro
25% | 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 for damages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
