| RI | H7999 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT PROGRAM - Provides that the $5,500,000 appropriation to the infrastructure bank from the 2023 budget act be allocated for eligible municipal infrastructure grant program ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7993 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Allows for a one-time two percent (2%) supplemental cost of living adjustment for plan year 2025 to the public pension benefits administered by the ERSRI, and allows for those benefits to be deducted from the taxpa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8003 | Intro 25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $10,000,000 To The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (crmc) (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $10,000,000 To The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Coun... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7995 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- TAX CREDIT FOR FOOD DONATION - Provides a tax credit for food donations by qualified taxpayers to nonprofit organizations up to five thousand dollars ($5,000) per year. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8002 | Intro 25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To Day One, Rhode Island's Sexual Assault Coalition And Rape Crisis Center (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 To Day One.) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8007 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- TRANSFER OF VEHICLES - Allows temporary vehicle registration and plates issued to Rhode Island residents by another state to be valid; provided that, the plates and registration issued to an out-of-state resident by a Rhod... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7903 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE MEDICAL PRIMARY CARE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM - Establishes the medical primary care scholarship program to be administered by the commissioner of postsecondary education. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7902 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PRIMARY CARE TRAINING SITES PROGRAM - Establishes the primary care training sites program and appropriates $2,700,000 for implementing the program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7900 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Requires the EOHHS to establish an early childhood mental health hub program focused on improving access to infant and early childhood mental health services for childre... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7930 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- STATE TAX OFFICIALS - Reduces the minimum interest rate on delinquent payments from eighteen percent (18%) per annum to twelve percent (12%) per annum. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7061 | Engross 50% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of the Johnnycake Center Realty Corporation, a domestic nonprofit corporation, located in South Kingstown. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01 To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | H7468 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION FEES - Exempts the Rhode Island Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Inc. from payment of certain vehicles registration fees. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7516 | Intro 25% | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- PROTECTION OF TREES AND PLANTS GENERALLY - Allows the department of environmental management to remove freshwater non-native and invasive aquatic plants and assist municipalities in preventing the growth and spread of thes... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7472 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- AUTOMATED SCHOOL-ZONE-SPEED-ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM ACT OF 2016 - Amends the provision relative to the measurements for signs identifying school zone areas with speed enforcement systems. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 Withdrawn at sponsor's request (02/29/2024) |
| RI | H7728 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMPREHENSIVE FIRE SAFETY ACT - Mandates an entity that owns five hundred acres or more of land to have a forest plan with fire mitigation. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7729 | Intro 25% | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- AGRICULTURE FUNCTIONS OF DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Provides a definition for "agricultural land" and removes the definition of "farmer" within the chapter on agricultural functions of the department of envir... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7744 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT - Provides that a defendant's third and subsequent violation of domestic violence offenses, including both prior felony and misdemeanor convictions, be punishable as a felony. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7216 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Defines "crime gun" and requires law enforcement to submit crime gun or 2 fired cartridge cases seized to state crime laboratory or the BATF for testing and tracing and also requires 2 test-fired cartridge cases to be e... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7427 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- EXCAVATION NEAR UNDERGROUND UTILITY FACILITIES - Amends the provision of notice to be provided for the release of any hazardous gas or liquid as determined by the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Admini... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7447 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2024-02-27 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7576 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT--- RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS OF MUNICIPAL POLICE CHIEFS - Provides protections to appointed police chiefs of cities and towns and provides they would be entitled to a hearing and due process before termination and provides f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7707 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Carol F. Doherty, Rn [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27 House read and passed |
| RI | H7709 | Pass | House Resolution Thanking And Recognizing Dale J. Venturini On The Occasion Of Her Retirement As President & Ceo Of The Ri Hospitality Association (riha) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27 House read and passed |
| RI | H7697 | Intro 25% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- THE RHODE ISLAND INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT - Codifies the federal legislation pertaining to the federal Indian child welfare act into state law. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7053 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS - Permits those persons with felony convictions to have up to six misdemeanor offenses expunged from their criminal record. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7100 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LILA MANFIELD SAPINSLEY COMPASSIONATE CARE ACT - Establishes the process to provide a legal mechanism whereby a terminally ill patient may choose to end their life using medications prescribed by a physician. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7306 | Intro 25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- JUDICIAL SELECTION - Requires individuals seeking a judicial nomination to reapply to JNC every 5 years and make those individuals selected as finalists, eligible only for the court in which they applied and we... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7526 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- IDENTIFICATION AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS - Mandates that the clerk of the district court automatically seal individual counts of criminal complaints upon dismissal pursuant to rule 48(a) of the rules of criminal procedure fo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7524 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- BAIL AND RECOGNIZANCE - Prohibits the courts from setting cash or surety bail on any misdemeanor offense but permits the court to set reasonable non-monetary conditions of bail to assure the defendant's presence in court as requ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7672 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Effective July 1, 2024, entitles environmental police officers to the benefits provided by chapter 45-21.2 entitled "Optional retirement for members of police force an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7642 | Intro 25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Prohibit the family court from detaining any juvenile or committing any juvenile, under the age of 14 years, to the training school, for any offense other than murder, first degree se... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7629 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- INDICTMENTS, INFORMATIONS AND COMPLAINTS - Includes the offense of second-degree sexual assault among the offenses to which there shall be no statute of limitations and provides for a ten (10) year statute of limitations for thi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7685 | Intro 25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- OIL SPILL PREVENTION, ADMINISTRATION AND RESPONSE FUND - Provides funds to support Executive Climate Change Coordinating Council to reduce climate emissions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7638 | Intro 25% | CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- STATE COMMISSION ON PARDONS - Establishes a nine (9) member commission on pardons to provide recommendations to the governor as to who should receive executive pardons per the state constitution. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7064 | Pass | TOWNS AND CITIES -- OUTDOOR DINING ACT - Establishes standards governing the municipal regulation of outdoor dining at food service establishments. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7592 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Extends the sunset provision of § 16-16-24.2 to June 20, 2026. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7573 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Amends the statute punishing child pornography by replacing the term "child pornography" with the term "child sexual abuse material." [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7589 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Raises the earned-income tax credit from sixteen percent (16%) to thirty percent (30%) for the tax years 2025 and beyond. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7591 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC FINANCE -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE AND PUBLIC ASSISTANCE CASELOAD ESTIMATING CONFERENCES - Requires that the department of human services and the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals provide forecasted costs... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7099 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY -- POLICE RELATIONSHIP ACT OF 2015 - Amends the comprehensive community-police relationship act of 2015 to require an annual study by an outside agency chosen by the department. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7234 | Intro 25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- ANIMAL CARE - Prohibits a medical training program from using a live animal while teaching medical procedures if any other accredited training program does not use animals or there is an alternate method that teaches t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7300 | Intro 25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- RHODE ISLAND FOOD, DRUGS AND COSMETICS ACT - Prohibits the manufacture, sale and distribution for sale a food product containing brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben and red dye 3. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7527 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - This act would further delineate the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7068 | Pass | GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS - Provides that the center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences building at the University of Rhode Island be named as "Joseph '... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02 Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7485 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Allows a modification for all taxable pension and/or annuity income includible in federal adjusted gross income for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7433 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Amend the standards for issuing Medicare supplemental insurance policies. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7491 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY - Authorizes the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority to enter into certain projects and procure related services including the transit center project, using design build contrac... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7464 | Intro 25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Extends injured-on-duty (IOD) benefits to police officers and firefighters that suffer from diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorders, except under certain conditi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02 To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7481 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Includes the deputy chief of inspection and inspector within the provision of law related to retirement on service allowance relating to correctional officers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7482 | Intro 25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To The Rhode Island Black Business Association (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 To The Rhode Island Black Business Association.) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02 To House Finance Committee |