| RI | H5025 | Engross
50% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Provides that the trapping and subsequent release of any unowned feral or free roaming cat for the purpose of spaying or neutering of the cat would not be considered abandonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
[Hearing: Jun 17]
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | H5023 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RARE DISEASE ADVISORY COUNCIL - Establishes a rare disease advisory council within the department of health and provides guidance and recommendations to educate health care providers and the citizens of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Placed on House Calendar (06/16/2025) |
| RI | H5188 | Engross
50% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- CORROSION PREVENTION AND MITIGATION WORK REQUIREMENTS - Gives authority to the department of labor and training to enforce violations of the laws relating to corrosion prevention and mitigation work requirements. It also ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/17/2025) |
| RI | H5193 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- OFFICE OF STATE FIRE MARSHAL - Creates a voluntary program through which registrants of electric and hybrid motor vehicles can request stickers to affix to enclosures housing such vehicles to promote first responders' safety in r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Placed on House Calendar (06/16/2025) |
| RI | H5227 | 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] | 2025-06-13
Placed on House Calendar (06/16/2025) |
| 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] | 2025-06-13
Placed on Senate Calendar (06/18/2025) |
| RI | H5548 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- VOLUNTARY RESTRUCTURING OF SOLVENT INSURERS - Makes numerous technical corrections related to insurance, provides a definition for "cybersecurity insurance", and would repeal the chapter relating to reciprocal exchanges and interinsurers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Placed on House Calendar (06/16/2025) |
| 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] | 2025-06-13
Placed on House Calendar (06/16/2025) |
| RI | H5595 | Engross
50% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE GOOD SAMARITAN OVERDOSE PREVENTION ACT OF 2016 - Requires that every institution of higher education provide training in the administration of opioid antagonists to every staff member on the institution's campus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Placed on Senate Calendar (06/18/2025) |
| RI | H5549 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- RHODE ISLAND PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION - Provides a framework through which the department of business regulation can seek grants to fund a home hardening program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Placed on House Calendar (06/16/2025) |
| RI | H5946 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Prohibits the restriction of access in and out of a construction site by using locked gates or fences while work is ongoing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/18/2025) |
| RI | H5855 | Engross
50% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- RHODE ISLAND FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS ACT - Amends the types of products which pharmacists may prescribe as substitute drugs or products to include "devices and supplies" and "therapeutically equivalent drugs and pharmaceuticals."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/18/2025) |
| RI | H5883 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PARKING FACILITIES AND PRIVILEGES - Mandates municipalities to participate in the parking mobility app program where individuals may submit photos on the app of vehicles that are parked in spaces designated for individuals...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Placed on House Calendar (06/16/2025) |
| 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] | 2025-06-13
[Hearing: Jun 16]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | H6157 | Intro
25% | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- LICENSING - Creates a new commercial fishing license for invasive green crabs for Rhode Island residents for twenty-five dollars ($25) annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Placed on House Calendar (06/16/2025) |
| RI | H6187 | Pass | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE LOTTERY - Reduces the number of times the director of the lottery has to confer with the permanent joint committee on state lottery from nine (9) times per year to four (4) times per year or at the call of the ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6270 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE RHODE ISLAND CANNABIS ACT - Prohibits the sale of beverages and drink mix powders containing hemp-derived delta-9 THC in RI, unless such products are authorized and regulated under the state’s cannabis laws, and maintains regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
[Hearing: Jun 16]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | H5029 | Engross
50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Sets the minimum wage for 2026 at sixteen dollars ($16) per hour, 2027 at seventeen dollars ($17) per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-12
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H6413 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating The 60th Annual Gaspee Days Celebration And The Momentous 253nd Anniversary Of The Burning Of The Gaspee
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-12
House read and passed |
| RI | H5565 | Engross
50% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE RHODE ISLAND KRATOM ACT - Authorizes and regulates the distribution of the product known as "kratom."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5730 | Pass | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD LIMITS - Includes boats and marine-related assets in the blanket permit available for overweight or over-dimensional vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5637 | Pass | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CREDIT CARD CRIME ACT - Adds "debit cards" to the section of law relating to fraudulent use of credit cards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6036 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLINICIAN WELLNESS AND SUPPORT ACT - Recognizes the program run by the Rhode Island Medical Society or comparable program for physicians, physician assistants, dentists, and podiatrists, to address burnout, subst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H6402 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating "world Refugee Day" And Recognizing The Work Of Dorcas International Of Providence On June 20th Of 2025, In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
House read and passed |
| RI | H5171 | Pass | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HARM REDUCTION CENTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND PILOT PROGRAM - Extends the sunset provision of the four (4) year pilot program to prevent drug overdoses through the establishment of harm reduction centers for two (2) years to March...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-06
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6163 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 - Includes manufactured homes on leased land under a long-term lease in excess of thirty (30) years at the time of enrollment within the classification of affordable housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6183 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Allows the town of Tiverton, with an aggregate of five hundred (500) or more units proposed in a comprehensive permit project, to enact a short-term emergency moratorium until the permit laws are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6184 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING -- PARKING SPACES - Permits Tiverton to require two parking space for each studio, one-bedroom, or two-bedroom low- or moderate-income housing units upon the determination that limited or no local p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6181 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Permits the town of Tiverton to require additional testing, to be performed by the developer, to ensure that there is no dewatering or loss of effective recharge to surrounding wells within close ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6180 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Ensures that minimum egress requirements for conventional subdivisions in Tiverton apply equally to comprehensive permit applications and cannot be waived, modified, or reduced for such applicatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6177 | Intro
25% | TOWN AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING -- COMPREHENSIVE PERMIT PROJECTS IN TIVERTON - Provides that comprehensive permit projects in Tiverton, involving property not connected to either public water or sewer or both, and for which the pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6185 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- TIVERTON'S NEW CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS ACT - Sets timelines for Tiverton's new construction, including one year for final approval, two (2) years for building permits, and temporary inclusion of units in the town's count until compl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6176 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Allows the town of Tiverton to determine its density bonuses based upon its underlying zoning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6178 | Intro
25% | TOWN AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING -- COMPREHENSIVE PERMIT PROJECTS IN TIVERTON - Prohibits applications filed in the town of Tiverton, for comprehensive permit projects, for low and moderate income housing, to include accessory dwell...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6182 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING -- TIVERTON - Requires any person who applies to rent or purchase a residence located in Town of Tiverton which qualifies as low and moderate income housing, shall require proof of Rhode Island resi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6179 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Requires the Rhode Island housing authority to update the count of affordable housing stock in the town of Tiverton two (2) times per year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6214 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 - Allows the town of Tiverton to allow a half (1/2) credit for affordable housing for manufactured homes in age restricted communities in conformance with all zoning laws and/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6215 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Requires the town of Tiverton to require a minimum number of affordable housing units if there is less than ten percent (10%) of affordable housing in the town.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6213 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RHODE ISLAND COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING AND LAND USE ACT -- COMPREHENSIVE PERMITS PROHIBITED IN WATERSHED OVERLAY PROTECTION - Prohibits applications for a comprehensive permit under the Rhode Island comprehensive planning and land us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6363 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Allows the town of Tiverton to apply different tax rates to all classes of property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5034 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Allows school committees to add item(s) not appearing in published notice to their agendas for purposes of discussion only if the revised agenda is filed with the secretary of state and posted on distri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6111 | Pass | VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF TIVERTON - Validates and ratifies the amendments to the Tiverton Home Rule Charter which were approved by the electors of the town of Tiverton on November 5, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-30
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H5447 | Engross
50% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- TRADE IN FARMED ANIMAL FUR PRODUCTS - Prohibits a person to sell, offer for sale, display for sale or otherwise distribute a farmed animal fur product within the state and provides graduated civil pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | H5196 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Eliminates the sunset on the provision of finding for child care for eligible child care educators and child care staff.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5197 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Removes the requirement that families consent to, and cooperate with the department of human services in establishing paternity and enforcing child and medical support orders as a condition of eligib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5281 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND CHILDCARE IS ESSENTIAL ACT - Creates the Rhode Island Childcare Assistance Program that governs both family eligibility for the state’s childcare subsidy program and expands eligibility for the program to meet the fed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6356 | Pass | House Resolution Recognizing September As Substance Use Recovery Awareness Month In The State Of Rhode Island And Calling For The End Of Stigma And Empowering Recovery Through Language In Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
House read and passed |
| RI | H5145 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL CODE PROVISIONS - Allows for trucks with a gross vehicle weight of eight thousand pounds (8,000 lbs.) or less to have passenger registration license plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5317 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- RELOCATION OF UTILITY SERVICES - Utility relocation costs related to highway construction to be partially or fully paid for by the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5144 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Allows executive office of EOHHS to review current methodology for Medical payments to nursing facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To House Finance Committee |
