| RI | H5515 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Of Suffrage (would Propose To The Voters Of The State A Constitutional Amendment Regarding Eligibility To Vote And To Be A Candidate....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5605 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Reinstating And Extending The Life And Expiration Dates Of The Special Legislative Commission To Study And Provide Recommendations For The Development And Implementation Of An Anti-littering Education Program For Rhode Island Public ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H6092 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- NOMINATION OF PARTY AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES - Makes several amendments to provide for an online nomination paper portal for election nomination papers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5497 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Requires EOHHS to develop a budget and seek funding to establish an early childhood mental health hub program to improve access to infant and early childhood mental heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5682 | Intro
25% | CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS -- WORKERS' COOPERATIVES - Clarifies the role of a workers' cooperative to allow it to operate as a hiring hall under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 19]
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5683 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE - Increases the minimum required awarded to minority business enterprises from 15% to 20% and of that, requires a minimum of 10% be awarded to minority owned businesses and a minimum of 10% be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 19]
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5684 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE - Requires the department of administration to provide a list of certified minority and women-owned business enterprises to each prospective contractor of a construction project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 19]
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5698 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Establishes the assessed value of owner-occupied low- and moderate-income housing as the most recent sales price of the property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5801 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Amends several definitions relating to low- or moderate-income housing as well as the procedure for the approval of low- or moderate-income housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5929 | Intro
25% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- REGULATION OF SALES - Prohibits the holding of multiple drivers licenses or identification cards and would change the term "re-constructed salvage" to "rebuilt salvage" for purposes of the Rhode Island salvage law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5940 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- THE RHODE ISLAND OPPORTUNITY FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP ACT - Creates RI opportunity for employee ownership, worker gets notice within seven days of sale of business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 19]
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5955 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING LAND BANK PROGRAM - Creates the department of housing land bank program to allow for the deposit of title to real estate assets for the purpose of developing residential housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5921 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- HOUSING MAINTENANCE AND OCCUPANCY CODE - Allows for a tenant to withhold payment of rent, and deposit the rent accruing into an escrow bearing account, upon the issuance of a second notice of violation by an enforcing officer for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5969 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Respectfully Requesting The Division Of Public Utilities And Carriers Take Action To Address High Utility Bills For Residents And Businesses In Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5916 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Increases the notification time about rent increases and termination of tenancy for month-to-month tenants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5920 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RHODE ISLAND FAIR HOUSING PRACTICE ACT - Amends the Rhode Island Fair Housing Practices Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5850 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Requires every individual or group health insurance plan on or after January 1, 2026, that provides benefits to reimburse child service providers for therapy services of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5799 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND - Provides that minor subdivisions would include oversized lot subdivisions under certain circumstances and relative to zoning ordinances, permit a modification to allow "neighborhood character-based modificati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | H5798 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | H6065 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS – RHODE ISLAND BONE MARROW AND ORGAN DONOR LEAVE ACT - Mandates paid leave by allowing qualified employees to take medical leave to undergo donation procedures, medical tests, and recovery related to being a living organ d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 19]
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H6061 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Amends the provisions for insurance coverage of mental health, mental illness, and substance use disorders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H6089 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Increases imprisonment penalties and adds mandatory community service for violations of § 4-1-9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6091 | Intro
25% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES-CENTRAL FALLS - Allows Central Falls to exempt the property located at 913-915 Dexter Street, AP 7, Lot 156 from the law that prohibits any proposed retailers’ license of any class located within two hundred f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6086 | Intro
25% | Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of The Kane-barrengos Foundation
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5042 | Intro
25% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- LICENSED ACTIVITIES - Repeals the provisions of the general laws allowing deferred deposit providers, also known as "payday lenders."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5617 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE PERSONAL HYGIENE PRODUCT SAFETY AND TOXIC METAL REMOVAL ACT OF 2025 - Sets a clear and enforceable standard for reducing the presence of harmful metals in personal care products, prioritizing public health through testing, la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5714 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS - Allows the director of the department of health to authorize the state registrar of vital records to change a person's race designation on their birth certificate, if justified.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5665 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS - Updates the Homeless Bill of Rights to add rules governing the interaction with encampments and include the right to access clean and sanitary conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5629 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND INSURANCE POLICIES - Amends the current law on health insurance coverage for fertility diagnostic care, standard fertility preservation services, and fertility treatment and requires coverage for any medically necessary ovul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5858 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS - Establishes the scope of a certified professional midwife’s authority relating to prescribing medication to patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H6038 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-03-13
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H6080 | Pass | House Resolution Celebrating The 4th Annual "ri Craft Beer Week" In The State Of Rhode Island On March 7th Through March 16th Of 2025
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
House read and passed |
| RI | H5166 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HIGH HEAT WASTE FACILITY ACT - Provides for a prohibition on the licensing of any new high-heat waste facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H6077 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the City of Central Falls to issue bonds and notes in an amount not exceeding $15,000,000 to finance the construction, renovation, improvement, alteration, repair furnishing and equipping of schools and school facilities in the city.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6072 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX -- CHILD TAX CREDIT - Establishes a child tax credit of one thousand dollars ($1,000) per dependent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6073 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND FAMILY HOME -- VISITING ACT - Changes annual reporting requirements for the state’s family home-visiting program and also impacts appropriation and spending of funds in order to access maximum federal funding f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6066 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Includes siblings, grandchildren, and care recipient in the coverage for temporary caregiver benefits and increases the taxable wage base upon which employees make co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H6055 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- INTEREST AND USURY - Allows RI to opt out of the provisions of DIDMCA exempting out of state lenders from interest rate limits which apply to RI lenders. Prevents evasion of statutory interest rate l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H6071 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC FINANCE -- RHODE ISLAND BABY BOND TRUST - This pilot program would create a $3,000 trust for each Rhode Island child ages zero to one year born to a family enrolled in the Rhode Island Works Program (“RI Works”) during the preceding calend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6058 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- DUAL ENROLLMENT EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ACT - Amends references in the dual enrollment act by using the phrase “public higher education institution”.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5121 | Intro
25% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- CURRENCY TRANSMISSIONS - Establishes regulation by DBR over the practices and procedures of virtual currency kiosk operators to prevent fraud related to the use of virtual currency kiosks, by establishing daily transaction l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| RI | H5948 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Ensures that the Rhode Island department of housing is able to access the full calendar year worth of housing choice voucher data for the annual report by moving the report submission deadline bac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5952 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING AND MORTGAGE FINANCE CORPORATION - Provides for a home ownership assistance account administered by Rhode Island housing and mortgage finance corporation to expand home ownership.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5914 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ACTIONS BY AND AGAINST TOWNS - Limits the recovery for personal injuries actions against any town to $3,000 retroactive to all causes of action arising after January 1, 2025, and prohibits the use of subsequent remedial measures i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5892 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- COURT ADMINISTRATION - Protect the personal information of judicial officers and their immediate family members who serve or have served the RI unified judicial system, as well as judicial officers who reside i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5913 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PRESERVING ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE DRUGS - Provides that an agreement resolving a patent infringement claim, in connection with the sale of a pharmaceutical product, is to be presumed to have anticompetitive effects if a nonreferenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5911 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY - Caps damages at $100,000 in tort actions against Rhode Island, cities, towns, or fire districts, except for willful misconduct or extreme recklessness. It also exempts them from § 9-21-10.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5915 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ACTIONS BY AND AGAINST TOWNS - Exempts recovery claims for damages due to a town's neglect in maintaining highways or bridges from the provisions of chapter 31 of title 9 on governmental tort liability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6050 | Pass | House Resolution Recognizing March 8, 2025, As "international Women's Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
House read and passed |
| RI | H5731 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Authorizes driver education schools to offer the driver training curriculum in a classroom setting or an instructor-led virtual format.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-09
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
