| RI | H5050 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of public works so that it would include any public works projects performed for any city or town or quasi-municipal entity and the state and any quasi-state entity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
[Hearing: Mar 29]
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5602 | Intro
25% | Enables all municipalities to offer tax amnesty for two (2) separate sixty (60) day periods during fiscal years 2024 or 2025 for the waiver of interest and penalties on overdue tangible tax payments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
[Hearing: Mar 28]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | H5774 | 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] | 2023-03-24
[Hearing: Mar 29]
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5858 | 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] | 2023-03-24
[Hearing: Mar 29]
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5754 | Intro
25% | Exempts from taxation the real, tangible and personal property of Wood River Health Services, Inc., a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation, with locations in Westerly and Hopkinton, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6194 | Pass | House Resolution Celebrating La Francophonie Flag Raising Ceremony At The Rhode Island State House On Thursday, March 23, 2023
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
House read and passed |
| RI | H5701 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the use of a wireless communication device for the purpose of navigation must be while the device is mounted or otherwise affixed to the vehicle and not held in the motorist’s hand.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| RI | H6178 | Intro
25% | Incorporates ethical energy standards to the 2021 Act on Climate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5503 | Intro
25% | Requires DMV to make, for persons with autism, a operator's license that is clearly marked “autism”, decals that are clearly marked “autism” to be affixed to the vehicle, and blue envelopes that provide written information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5554 | Intro
25% | Caps the total amount that a covered person is required to pay for a covered prescription asthma inhaler to twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per thirty (30) day supply.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5881 | Intro
25% | Requires police training on recognizing the possible existence of mental health disorders and substance use disorders and requires certified crisis intervention team training for all officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5164 | Intro
25% | Mandates credit card companies that collect any sales, hotel, or meals taxes for the state/any other tax for the state/ any tax for a municipality within the state to provide the dollar amount of the tax to the state or the municipality within 48 hou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5366 | Intro
25% | Increases the civil penalty from $100 to a maximum of $1,000, whenever a seller or their real estate agent fails provide a completed seller disclosure form to the buyer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5854 | Intro
25% | Allows holders of Class P license to purchase from either a Class A alcohol retail or wholesale establishment in the state and permit wholesalers to refuse to fill orders, set minimum quantities or dollar amounts as a requirement of filling an order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5834 | Intro
25% | Requires persons or entities receiving government funds to disclose the names of their contractors and subcontractors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5126 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve, Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State -- Four Year Terms And Term Limits For Representatives And Senators (proposes An Amendment To The State Constitution, Article ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5714 | Intro
25% | Enable cities and towns to require notification to the municipal building department and residences within 1,000 feet of a residence being listed for short term rental for tourist or transient use through a hosting platform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6085 | Intro
25% | Amends the required contents of a comprehensive plan providing that the "implementation program" component of the requirements include a 5 year strategic plan to ensure that the comprehensive plan goals and policies are implemented in a timely fashio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6086 | Intro
25% | Amends certain notification procedures relating to comprehensive planning and land use, subdivision of land and zoning ordinances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5173 | Intro
25% | Allows ALFs to provide medical/skilled nursing care services to residents in assisted living setting, as their care needs change, rather than requiring transition to a skilled nursing facility when full-time skilled services are required for the resi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5867 | Intro
25% | Provides that the lieutenant governor serve as the chairperson of the long-term care coordinating council and provides that a quorum of the council consist of twelve (12) members of the council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5565 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any public accommodation, employer, or financial institution from discriminating against any individual based on COVID vaccination status, requires employer to re-hire penalized employees and prohibits governor from mandating COVID vaccines...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5916 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any governmental entity from mandating the COVID-19 vaccination, or from discriminating against any individual or issuing a civil or criminal penalty upon any individual for refusing any COVID-19 vaccination.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5338 | Intro
25% | Allows children to stay covered under the parent's health insurance plan until the child reaches thirty (30) years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5962 | Intro
25% | Raises aggregate reporting to $200, individual/PAC contributions to $2,000. Defines FMV/accounts payable. Prohibits financing to candidates owing fines to BOE. Exempts candidates from aggregate reporting. Provides public financing for primaries in 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5956 | Intro
25% | Modifies the timeline for mail in ballot voting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5329 | Intro
25% | Requires commercial property owners to install vehicle barriers at their retail establishment locations when construction/renovations are being done and permits insurers to consider the installation to provide a discount on the owner's insurance poli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To House Small Business Committee |
| RI | H5716 | Intro
25% | Amends what can be considered an individual household for purposes of zoning ordinances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5940 | 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 House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5941 | 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 House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6133 | Pass | House Resolution Celebrating The 2nd Annual “ri Craft Beer Week’ In The State Of Rhode Island On March 3rd Through March 12th Of 2023
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
House read and passed |
| RI | H5512 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the introduction into court proceedings of any evidence that the fair and reasonable charge for healthcare services is the amount received by the healthcare provider rather than the amount billed by healthcare providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5509 | Intro
25% | Makes litigation loan agreements subject to state usury laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5513 | Intro
25% | Raises the minimum recovery in a civil action to recover for a wrongful death from $250,000 to $365,000 and automatically increases for inflation the minimum recovery annually on January 31. The increase is based on the consumer price index.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6112 | Intro
25% | Provides that in local educational agencies when over 45% of the children have a family income that is at or below 185% of federal poverty guidelines then the student success factor will be 50% by the core instruction per-pupil amount.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-03
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5287 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Woonsocket city council to increase the period of exemption or stabilization of taxes on qualifying property located in designated districts in the city from ten (10) years to twenty (20) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02
House read and passed |
| RI | H5189 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State-of Elections And Campaign Finance (proposes A Constitutional Amendment Authorizing Four (4) Year Terms For Members Of The G...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5518 | 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
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5585 | 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] | 2023-03-01
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5875 | Intro
25% | Provides that school forms pertaining to vaccination requirements include information about religious and medical exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H6019 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Supporting The Reinstatement Of Rhode Island State Worker Pensioners Cost-of-living Adjustments (colas)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6017 | Intro
25% | Allows members of retirement systems who also served in the national guard or reserves to purchase retirement services credits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5885 | Intro
25% | Provides that any person eighteen (18) years of age who is issued a license or permit may carry a stun gun and provides for an appeal process for denial of an application for a license or permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5886 | Intro
25% | Allows members of the state police to utilize mufflers, silencers, or other devices for training.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6010 | Intro
25% | Increases the federal adjusted gross income threshold for modification for taxable social security income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5823 | Pass | House Resolution Condemning The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-28
House read and passed |
| RI | H5806 | Intro
25% | Exempts from state taxation certain pension benefits that originate from, and were taxed in another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5804 | Intro
25% | Increases the aggregate amount of tax credits for contributions to scholarship organizations to $5,000,000 for 2024
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5805 | Intro
25% | Creates a sales and use tax holiday for the second Saturday and Sunday in July, annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5813 | Intro
25% | Extends the time for an inspection of a new motor vehicle from two (2) years to seven (7) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Finance Committee |
