| RI | H6276 | Intro
25% | Authorizes South Kingstown to issue up to $125,000,000 bonds and notes to finance the acquisition, construction, improvement, renovation, furnishing and equipping of a new high school, athletic facility, and other school facilities in the town.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-27
[Hearing: May 30]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5424 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Provide Recommendations For The Development And Implementation Of An Anti-littering Education Program For Rhode Island Public Elementary School Students (creates A 9 Member Commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-26
Placed on House Calendar (06/01/2023) |
| RI | H5550 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale: eff. 1/1/24 of screw/bayonet base compact fluorescent lamps; eff. 1/1/25 of pin-base type compact and linear fluorescent lamps with civil penalties for violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-26
[Hearing: Jun 1]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | H5676 | Intro
25% | Amends the retention of x-ray statute by eliminating retention for the life of the individual to retention for whatever period is required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-26
[Hearing: Jun 1]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | H5055 | Intro
25% | Allows individuals, who have not reached the age of eighteen (18) years, to vote in a primary election, as long as the voter will be eighteen (18), as of the date of the general or special election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-25
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| RI | H5761 | Engross
50% | Removes the sunset provision relative to mediation coverage prior to mortgage foreclosures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-25
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H5333 | Engross
50% | Amends the provisions for prompt payment of monies owed by the department of administration to their contractors or subcontractors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-23
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H5006 | Pass | Provides for abortion coverage in the Medicaid program and repeal the abortion coverage exclusion for state employee insurance plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5043 | Intro
25% | Provides that adjunct faculty members at any state college or university who teach at least 50% of the hours regularly worked by full-time faculty in a semester would be eligible for the same medical benefits as other state employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5039 | Intro
25% | Increases the maximum post retirement employment earnings from eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) a year for certain retired educators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5038 | Intro
25% | Restores the cost of living allowance (COLA) to state employees, and/or their beneficiaries, who retired prior to July 1, 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5240 | Intro
25% | Provides that the current COLA suspension schedule would be replaced with a fractional annual COLA of twenty-five percent (25%) of the COLA declared for that plan year, as it pertains to retired teachers, state and municipal employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5667 | Engross
50% | Requires the council on elementary and secondary education to adopt standards which take into consideration the time and cost of transporting students across municipal boundaries and promotes maximum efficiency in other programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
House read and passed |
| RI | H5032 | Engross
50% | Requires all public utilities to maintain a customer service facility within the state to perform services such as addressing customer inquiries and accepting bill payments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
House read and passed |
| RI | H5283 | Intro
25% | Mandates insurance coverage for any additional screenings deemed medically necessary for any person who has received notice of dense breast tissue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5477 | Intro
25% | Requires every individual or group health insurance contract effective on or after January 1, 2024, to provide coverage to the insured and the insured's spouse and dependents for all FDA-approved contraceptive drugs, devices and other products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5233 | Engross
50% | Renames bridges 00201, 17801 and 17601 in South Kingstown after 3 Medal of Honor recipients, to wit, Sgt. William G. Fournier, Sgt. William J. Babcock, Cpl. David B. Champagne, respectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | H5337 | Engross
50% | Prevents insurance companies from treating widowed persons differently than married persons when establishing or maintaining an insured's rate or classification respecting the operation of a personal motor vehicle. Effective 1/1/24
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | H5506 | Engross
50% | Allows health care facility to conduct research on patients subject to 21 C.F.R. Pt 50 and/or 45 C.F.R. Pt 46 (relating to the informed consent in clinical trials).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5953 | Engross
50% | Designate a fishing site at Black Point in Narragansett as the "Stephen J. Medeiros Fishing Area at Black Point".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | H5911 | Engross
50% | Includes the offense of second-degree sexual assault among the offenses to which there shall be no statute of limitations and provides for a ten (10) year statute of limitations for third-degree sexual assault.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6397 | Intro
25% | Allows the department of environmental management to remove freshwater non-native and invasive aquatic plants and assist municipalities in preventing the growth and spread of these and other invasive species in the freshwater lakes and ponds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5224 | Pass | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Provide Recommendations Pertaining To Services And Coordination Of State Programs Relating To Older Adult Rhode Islanders (creates A 16 Member Commission To Study And Provide Rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H6022 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $275,000 To The Rhode Island Department Of Environmental Management (dem) To Purchase Counters, And Maintain, Collect, And Analyze Year-round Data On Bike Path Usage Throughout The State (this Resolution Wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6020 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $25,000,000 To The Rhode Island Division Of Statewide Planning (ridsp) To Fund The Statewide Bicycle Mobility Plan (bmp) (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $25,000,000 To The Rhode Island Division ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5627 | Intro
25% | Exempts new or used bicycles from sale and use tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6148 | Intro
25% | Creates an added 3% tax on taxable income in excess of $417,500 (in 2011 dollars)/ $557,000 (in 2023 dollars). Restricts the revenue generated by the tax to child care, education and infrastructure repairs and maintenance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6345 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the town of South Kingstown to locating within 200' from the premises of schools or places of worship any retailers' Class BV license, allowing retailer to be located at 357 Main St of the applicable town of South Kingstown tax assessment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6119 | Intro
25% | Increases the Medicaid rate of reimbursement for ambulance and wheelchair van services to not less than ninety percent (90%) of Medicare rates for the same medical services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5639 | Intro
25% | Establishes new programs for free breakfast and lunch meals in all public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5792 | Intro
25% | Amends the computation of school housing-aid for school housing projects and would provide that construction of certain projects commence in June, 2024, rather than December, 2023 in order to align such projects with the fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6008 | Intro
25% | Provides that no later than 6/30/24, the dept. of education and the office of energy resources develop regulations for school buildings to meet the latest Northeast Collaborative for High Performance Schools standards of net zero energy capable schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5305 | Pass | Mandates that on each primary for election of national convention delegates and elections for presidential preference primaries, that all public elementary and secondary schools be closed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-01
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5328 | Engross
50% | Requires food service establishments to add an additional warning to their menus relative to food allergens and impose a civil penalty on those establishments that fail to include the required warnings on its menus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-27
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H5803 | Intro
25% | Provides a tax credit for food donations by qualified taxpayers to nonprofit organizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-27
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5323 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of the term "extraordinary costs" for the purposes of excess costs associated with special education students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5396 | Intro
25% | 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 workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5789 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of education and the DCYF to develop a procedure to ensure that the municipalities where group homes or other residential facilities are located are reimbursed for the educational expenses above the cost allocated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6007 | Intro
25% | Requires all public schools to make reimbursable breakfasts and lunches available to all students under the rules and regulations of the USDA and the RI department of education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5146 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $1,000,000 To The Rhode Island Council For The Humanities For Direct Grant Funding To Community Cultural Organizations Throughout Rhode Island (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $1,000,000 To The R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5395 | Intro
25% | Allows for a tax credit of up to $1,000 for any nurse practitioner, physician assistant or physician who provides on-site clinical education as a clinical preceptor to nurse practitioner graduate students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5405 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $200,000 To The Brain Injury Association Of Rhode Island (biari) (this Joint Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $200,000 To The Brian Injury Association Of Rhode Island (biari).)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5977 | Intro
25% | Funds the state crime victims compensation program through and additional two dollar ($2.00) fine on traffic violations, exclusive of violations related to the parking of vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5899 | Intro
25% | Requires landlords to conduct a radon test of all residential rental properties every five (5) years. Short-term residential rentals would be excluded from radon testing requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6179 | Intro
25% | Provides all Medicare recipients over sixty-five (65) years of age applying for Medicare supplement plan guaranteed issue rights regardless of medical or health or receipt of health care by the applicant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-20
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5166 | Intro
25% | Establishes the RI ombud for special education who ensures school districts throughout the state meet the minimum standards required to comply with the individualized education programs for children with disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-19
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5479 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $15,200,000 To Be Used To Purchase Pfas-free Firefighting Gear (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $15,200,000 To Cities And Towns To Purchase Firefighter And Rescue Personnel Protective Gear Which ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-19
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5788 | Intro
25% | Removes requirement for payment of 5% hotel tax to the Greater Providence-Warwick Convention and Visitors Bureau and redistributes the tax to the regional tourism district where hotel or residential unit is located.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-19
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5801 | Intro
25% | Add a "national touring production" to the productions that are considered an "accredited theater production" for purposes of musical and theatrical production tax credits and extends the sunset of the credits to July 1 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5989 | Intro
25% | Eliminates the "until June 30, 2023" sunset on the increase in the total amount of earnings a partial-unemployment insurance claimant can receive before being entirely disqualified for unemployment insurance benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
To House Finance Committee |
