| RI | H7823 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Requires the department of children, youth and families (DCYF) to conduct periodic comprehensive needs assessments to determine whether the department’s programs and servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H8004 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To Gloria Gemma Foundation (this Resolution Would Appropriate The Sum Of $500,000 To The Gloria Gemma Fountain.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8005 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $60,000 To The Rhode Island Fire Academy (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $60,000 To The Rhode Island Fire Academy For Training To Extinguish Small To Large Lithium Battery F...
[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 | H8018 | Pass | House Resolution Joyously Celebrating The 82nd Anniversary Of The Seabees On March 5, 2024
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
House read and passed |
| RI | H7896 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - Increases the number of state child care licensing inspectors to meet the national recommended average of one inspector for every fifty (50) to sixty (60) child care providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7904 | Intro
25% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- SUPPORT OF CHILDREN - Repeals the law requiring a parent to pay support and maintenance to agencies having custody of their child
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7905 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- TUITION WAIVER PILOT PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE - Establishes the tuition waiver program for children in Rhode Island foster care program. The purpose would be to increase the number of youths in foster care e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7112 | Engross
50% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Allows the waiver of interest on overdue taxes for commercial properties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | H7386 | Intro
25% | LIBRARIES -- STATE AID TO LIBRARIES -- FREEDOM TO READ - Encourages and protects the freedom of public libraries to acquire materials without limitations and prohibits materials being removed from public libraries due to partisan or doctrinal disappr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7477 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RECOGNITION OF NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES - Recognizes the Seaconke Wampanoag tribe as a Native American Indian tribe for the limited purpose of assisting this tribe in establishing eligibility for federal benefits and pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7444 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- WHOLESALE PRESCRIPTION DRUG IMPORTATION PROGRAM - Establishes the Wholesale Prescription Drug Importation Program for the importation of wholesale prescription drugs from Canada to provide savings to Rhode Island consumers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7438 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES - Establishes a task force managed by the children’s cabinet to develop recommendations to improve access to early intervention and early childhood special education services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7773 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $1,380,000 To The Rhode Island State Police For The Operation Of A State Police Recruit Training Academy (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $1,380,000 To The Rhode Island State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7087 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- FACILITATING BUSINESS RAPID RESPONSE TO STATE DECLARED DISASTER ACT OF 2024 - Exempts out-of-state businesses and their employees performing services, during declared state or federal disasters or emergencies, from state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7230 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- GROCERY STORES - Requires grocery stores to specifically limit the number of self-service checkout units to six (6) units per location. The consumer protection unit of the department of attorney gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7538 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION FEES - Permits disabled veterans to be issued several disabled veteran plates, permits plates to be transferred to their spouse or caretaker during the veteran's life and would allow disabled veteran plates to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| RI | H7609 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Provides protection and prevent the unethical, improper conduct and the collection of fees, by anyone advising or assisting a veteran filing a claim for disability benefit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7706 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming February 26 Through March 1, 2024, To Be "public Schools Week" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
House read and passed |
| RI | H7072 | 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 For Representatives And Senators (proposes An Amendment To The State Constitution, Article Iv, Section 1, T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H7101 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES - Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7318 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- WRITS, SUMMONS AND PROCESS - Adds those persons with experience as a federal process server as qualifying for certification as a constable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7671 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND SUPPLEMENTAL PAYMENTS FOR THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM IN RHODE ISLAND ACT - Directs the allocation of $3,000,000 from the 2025 state budget to provide cash benefits to participants in the supplemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7676 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- ANNUAL FUNDING FOR RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY ACT - Provides a mechanism for funding the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority through the use of an interest-free loan to advance certain federal funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7687 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOOL PUPILS BEYOND CITY AND TOWN LIMITS - Allows an individual school district that can utilize its own buses or vendors at a lower cost than the statewide system, to obtain reimbursement for these costs from state fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7171 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Includes siblings, grandchildren, care recipient for temporary caregiver benefits of 12 weeks/Increases weekly dependent's allowances from $10 to $20 or 7% of benefit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7598 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring And Thanking Laura Mason Zeisler, M.ed, On The Occasion Of Her Retirement
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
House read and passed |
| 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 | H7291 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION WORKFORCE DATA ACT - Codifies the previously funded Rhode Island early care and education workforce registry data system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7545 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Provides for an appropriation by the general assembly in the amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000) to the various school districts and municipalities to employ additional social wor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7118 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES -- FOSTER PARENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS - Requires DCYF to prepare an annual report of all findings of suspected and/or verified violations of this chapter and share report on its w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7283 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- PRODUCER LICENSING ACT - Amends provisions re insurance producer appointments and clarifies language re insurance claims adjusters. Amends the RI life & health guarantee assoc act. Adds insurance data security and pet insurance acts and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7281 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- EXAMINATIONS - Amends the statutory provisions regarding domestic and foreign insurers and insurer examinations to provide provisions with regard to cybersecurity events involving Rhode Island consumers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7282 | Intro
25% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- POWERS AND OPERATIONS - Amends outdated provisions of the banking statutes and the home loan protection act, adds consumer protections, including minimum capital requirements and limits on investments, for currency transmitt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7359 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PESTICIDE CONTROL - Prohibits the application of lawn care pesticides on the grounds of any public or private pre-school or public or private school with students in grade twelve (12) or lower, except in an emergency situation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7488 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under fourteen thousand pounds (14,000 lbs.) gross weight.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7499 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Allows retired public safety officers to seek secondary employment with the state or any municipality without any reduction or forfeiture of retirement benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7494 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Provides that services provided by graduate student interns who work under a supervisory protocol would be eligible to be paid from Medicaid reimbursement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7418 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating The 81st Anniversary Of The "four Chaplains", The Four Men Of God Who Sacrificed Their Lives During World War Ii So That Others Might Live
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
House read and passed |
| RI | H7196 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE NATHAN BRUNO AND JASON FLATT ACT - Requires public school districts to adopt a policy for responding to the death of a student or staff member. Also amends the title of chapter 16-21.7 to "The Nathan Bruno, Jason Flatt, and Alicia Bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7404 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Relocates certain provisions of the general laws relating to child care assistance from the Rhode Island Works Program to the chapter on child care state subsidies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7399 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Creates a sales tax holiday on August 10 and 11, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7094 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Amending The Joint Resolution Creating A Permanent Legislative Commission On Child Care In Rhode Island (this Resolution Would Amend The Commission Name, Membership, Appointment Process, Purpose, Funding Allowance Designation, Timeli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7331 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Provides a four (4) year expiration period on any certificate of exemption pursuant to this section for writers, composers and artists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7336 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING - Establishes the office of early childhood development and learning to manage a statewide early learning system for children from birth through age five (5), and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7334 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS - Directs the executive office of health and human services to increase Medicaid rates for the Early Intervention and First Connections programs allow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7332 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- INSURANCE BENEFITS - Allows private employees at nursing homes, developmental disability and home care providers whose salaries are 90% funded with federal or state monies to be eligible to opt into the state healthca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7063 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING AND RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 - Incorporates universal design principals into new construction of low- and moderate-income housing to provide greater accessibility for persons with disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7108 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- REFUSE DISPOSAL - Provides time limitations on the collection or hauling of from large trash receptacles (dumpsters) refuse within one hundred feet (100') of a dwelling unit between the hours of ten o'clock (10:00) pm and eight o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7089 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES - Requires that a business entity that is selling goods or services at retail offering a digital coupon to a consumer would also have to offer a paper coupon of identical value...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Corporations Committee |
