| RI | H5203 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL FUNDS AND PROPERTY - Directs the department of education to develop and adopt regulations for energy capable school buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 29]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5746 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RESIDENCE OF CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES - Relieves East Providence from providing any educational/financial resources to children in the CRAFT program or other Bradley Hospital programs. Requires the school district of origin where the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 29]
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] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 29]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6209 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS - Includes any costs paid by an enrollee or on behalf of the enrollee by a third party when calculating an enrollee’s overall contribution to any out-of-pocket maximum or cost sharing requirement under a heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: May 1]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H6244 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ABUSE IN HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Prohibits any personnel, in any healthcare facility, from asking the legal immigration status of any patient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: May 1]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H6277 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STAY INVESTED IN RHODE ISLAND WAVEMAKER FELLOWSHIPS - Clarifies Wavemaker program eligibility to include all full-time Rhode Island medical practitioners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6275 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION FEES - Includes an individual who is seventy-five (75) years of age or older with a combined disability rating of fifty percent (50%), as eligible for disabled veterans license plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
To House Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | H5390 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY -- VICTIMS OF CRIME TRAUMA INFORMED MOBILIZATION ACT - Establishes VICTIM Fund grant program to support nonprofit organizations providing victim services in Rhode Island with the state alloc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-24
To House Finance 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] | 2025-04-24
House read and passed |
| RI | H5514 | Engross
50% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Exempts emergency mail ballots from the requirement to have certain wording regarding "mail voters" on the ballot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-24
House read and passed |
| RI | H5714 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS - Provides that a person eighteen (18) years or older could request that his or her race be modified or amended on their birth certificate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-24
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| RI | H5580 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET METERING - Prohibits utility companies from limiting the eligibility of a net metering site based on prior consumption and requires excess energy not consumed under the net metering system to be credited to the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-24
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5833 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- MOBILE COSMETOLOGY AND BARBERING SERVICES - Provides for the licensure and operation of mobile cosmetology and barber services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-24
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5993 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- CERTIFICATION OF CHILDCARE AND YOUTH-SERVING WORKERS AND OPERATORS - Commences July 1, 2025, this act would eliminate the provision of this section that requires new applicants for employment under this section to pay the expense fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-24
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6267 | Pass | House Resolution Celebrating The 55th Anniversary Of "earth Day" On April 22, 2025, In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-24
House read and passed |
| RI | H6259 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming April 20-26 Of 2025 To Be "medical Laboratory Professionals Week" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-24
House read and passed |
| RI | H5426 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires the disclosure of the transfer of certain assets of healthcare facilities and provides penalties for failing to file healthcare facility ownership information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5488 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE SCHOOL LIBRARIES ACT - Creates the School Libraries Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5630 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- COMPASSIONATE ACCESS TO MEDICAL CANNABIS ACT - Requires certain health care facilities to allow a terminally ill patient’s use of medicinal cannabis within the health care facility, subject to certain restrictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5598 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Requires every public school to have a policy regarding the use of personal electronic devices on school grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
To House Education 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 | H5857 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM AND GENDER AFFIRMING CARE HEALTH DATA PRIVACY ACT - Creates the reproductive freedom and gender affirming care health data privacy act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H6035 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- HEALTHY KIDS ACT - Establishes the Healthy Kids Act whereby restaurants would be required to offer at least two (2) healthy versions of children's meals, or twenty-five percent (25%) of the children's meals on its menu, whichever is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H6252 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- RHODE ISLAND INFRASTRUCTURE BANK - Authorizes the Rhode Island infrastructure bank to establish a fund to provide financial assistance to local government units for resiliency and stormwater abatement projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5866 | Engross
50% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT - Increases the maximum fill for non-opioid, non-narcotic controlled substances found in schedule II, so that a sixty-day (60) supply may be dispensed at any one time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H6038 | Engross
50% | BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Amends current law so that initial contraceptive prescriptions would no longer be limited to a 3-month supply.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
House read and passed |
| RI | H5019 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CONSUMER PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024 - Prohibits a manufacturer from manufacturing, knowingly selling, offering for sale, distributing for sale or distributing for use in the state any firefighting personal protective equipment containi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | H5687 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENERGY FACILITY SITING ACT - Allows for measures to advance the undergrounding of certain utility cables and to have the same funded through utility rate increases to the cities of Providence and East Providence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5189 | Pass | Validates and ratifies the amendments to the Barrington Home Rule Charter which were approved by the electors of the town of Barrington on November 5, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-18
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H5226 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Condemning President Donald Trump's Executive Order To Withdraw Citizenship From Children Born In The United States To Undocumented Parents
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5268 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- HOME-FIT DWELLING UNITS - Creates the home-fit dwelling units act to apply to all new construction of covered dwelling units to incorporate design features that provide safe and convenient use of to the greatest extent feasible, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5633 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Allows a pharmacist to dispense a one-time refill for certain medications for continuation of therapy to patients under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
House read and passed |
| RI | H6223 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming April Of 2025, As "autism Awareness Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
House read and passed |
| RI | H5225 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE PROTECTED SPACES ACT - Limits the ability for any federal immigration authority to investigate, detain, apprehend or arrest any individuals for potential violations of federal immigration laws without a judicial wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5376 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Allows for a special RI license plate to raise awareness for colon cancer. The plate would be designed by the partnership to reduce cancer in RI. The fees for the plate would be divided equally b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| RI | H6161 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES - Updates and expands the current law to include menopause and menopause related conditions in the law on fair employment practices pertaining to pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H6206 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BEVERAGE CONTAINERS RECYCLING ACT - Establishes the Beverage Container Recycling Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H6207 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY - Provides extended producer responsibility for packaging and paper, recycling of beverage containers, and provides general provisions for oversight of single-stage producer organizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5705 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Provides that the legislature would be the body that negotiates on behalf of the state for all activities occurring in, on and over state submerged land extending beyond twenty-five (25)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5613 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES - Provides a duty upon midwives, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to obtain a blood specimen of pregnant women within thirty (30) days after the first professional visit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H5795 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Amends the administration requirements a zoning ordinance must provide and/or designate and would require that zoning certificates be issued within 20 days of the written request.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
Committee recommends passage |
| RI | H5838 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES - Would provide additional procedural safeguards for English as a second language learners and English language learners during the IEP process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5798 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Adds the process of permitting the construction of attached single-family dwellings in identified zoning districts as a factor that zoning ordinances must address.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| RI | H6093 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Provides a procedure for parking modifications near shoreline rights of way.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H6174 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PROTECTIONS OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS ACT - Provides that the prescription label for medication abortion prescription drugs shall include the name of the dispensing health care practice instead of the name of the dispenser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6197 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming April To Be "holocaust & Genocide Awareness Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
House read and passed |
| RI | H6194 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming April Of 2025 To Be "bilingual And Multilingual Learner Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
House read and passed |
| RI | H6192 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming The Month Of April, 2025, To Be "community Development Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
House read and passed |
| RI | H6190 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $118,422 For Rhode Island Parent Information Network, Inc. (ripin) (this Resolution Authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $118,422 For Ripin To Continue The Operation Of The Ripin Dual Ombudsman.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5726 | Intro
25% | LIBRARIES -- THE FREEDOM TO READ ACT - Promotes free expression and access of information by prohibiting the censorship of library materials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
