| RI | H7782 | Intro
Sine Die | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLEAN HEAT STANDARD ACT - Created the Rhode Island clean heat standards act to implement a system of tradeable clean heat credits earned from the delivery of clean heat measures that reduce greenhouse gas emissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H8043 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE AGENCY EMISSION REPORTING - Requires executive climate change coordinating council (EC4) to develop a template to be used by all agencies of the state to track their climate emissions to uphold the pathway to Rho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H8092 | Pass | House Resolution Celebrating "uri Day" At The Rhode Island State House On March 21, 2024
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
House read and passed |
| RI | H7624 | Intro
Sine Die | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Prohibits health insurance providers from requiring preauthorization for in-network mental health or substance use disorder services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7656 | Intro
Sine Die | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOBILE AND MANUFACTURED HOMES - Removes the department of business regulation as the licensing authority for mobile home parks and place the authority with the secretary of housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7699 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING AND CONSERVATION TRUST FUND ACT - Restructures RI Housing and Conservation Trust Fund, increase its membership to 15 members, 11 of whom are to be from the general public and reallocate the percent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7876 | Intro
Sine Die | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Outlines the insurance coverage standards, protocols and guidelines for medically necessary treatment of individuals with mental health or substance abuse use disorders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7875 | Intro
Sine Die | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires insurance coverage for all community health workers' services to include health and promotion coaching, health education and training, health system navigation and resource coordination...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H8010 | Intro
Sine Die | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES - Establishes the Rhode Island purchasing cooperative for procurement of public service and municipal vehicles for all state and municipal agencies to participate in procurement opportunities of zero-emiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H8073 | Intro
Sine Die | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Provides that health insurance plans would provide coverage the use of artificial intelligence technology for analysis of breast tissue diagnostic imaging.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7180 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Requires the secretary of the executive office of health and human services to present to the general assembly a plan for the realignment of state hospitals into a department of ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7325 | Intro
Sine Die | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- FOOD ALLERGY AWARENESS IN FOOD-SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS - 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 i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Small Business Committee |
| RI | H7233 | Intro
Sine Die | FOOD AND DRUGS -- HEALTHY KIDS ACT - Establishes the Healthy Kids Act whereby restaurants would be required to offer at least two (2) healthy versions of children's meals, or twenty-five percent (25%) of the children's meals on its menu, whichever is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7368 | Intro
Sine Die | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- NOISE LIMITS FOR MOTOR VEHICLES - Enables municipalities to install and use automated systems to detect noise limit violations in order to enhance enforcement abilities and reduce noise violations state-wide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7698 | Intro
Sine Die | PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW - Defines deed restricted unit. This act would further limit the increase in annual condominium fees for a deed restricted unit to five percent (5%) of the proceeding year's monthly common expenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7353 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Respectfully Requesting Rhode Island Energy In Conjunction With The Public Utilities Commission To Submit A Proposal For New, Multi-year Electric Vehicle Programming
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7665 | Intro
Sine Die | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- APPOINTMENT, QUALIFICATION, AND TENURE OF OFFICERS - Requires letters of appointment of public officers and employees be sent to the secretary of state's office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H8035 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming March Of 2024, To Be "brain Injury Awareness Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
House read and passed |
| RI | H8034 | Pass | House Resolution Celebrating March Of 2024, As "arts In The Schools Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
House read and passed |
| RI | H8036 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming March Of 2024, To Be "women's History Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
House read and passed |
| RI | H7550 | Intro
Sine Die | THE CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM - Authorizes the submission of proposals for several bonds to the people of the state at the general election to be held in November, 2024. These bonds relate to capital development and the "green economy."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7362 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Establishes general caseload limits for DCYF workers similar to those contained in the Council on Accreditation standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7448 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CONFIDENTIALITY OF HEALTH CARE COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ACT - Amends provisions relative to confidentiality of health care communications and the process for requesting records and/or confidential health care infor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H8021 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming March Of 2024, As "bleeding Disorders Awareness Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
House read and passed |
| RI | H7018 | Intro
Sine Die | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET METERING - Prohibits utility companies from limiting eligibility of net metering site based on prior consumption and requires excess energy not consumed to be credited to consumer. Also amends definition of excess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H7357 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-29
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7516 | Intro
Sine Die | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- PROTECTION OF TREES AND PLANTS GENERALLY - 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 thes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7623 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF 2004 -- HEALTH INSURANCE OVERSIGHT - Requires a report to be produced that focuses on prescription drug prior authorizations by January 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7794 | Intro
Sine Die | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- ARBITRATION OF LABOR CONTROVERSIES - Reduces disruptive labor disputes with municipal police and firefighter unions during the transition to a new collective bargaining agreement by extending the existing collective barga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7438 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | H7230 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | H7352 | Intro
Sine Die | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DUTIES OF UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - Increases the penalties for public utilities for violations of the general law governing the duties of utilities and carriers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7508 | Intro
Sine Die | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES - Provides for the legal governance of licensed electronic literacy materials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7700 | Intro
Sine Die | FOOD AND DRUGS -- ADVERTISING OF RHODE ISLAND PRODUCTS -- LOCAL FOOD - Defines what local means as it pertains to certain food types being sold and advertised in Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H7299 | Intro
Sine Die | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires health insurance policies to provide coverage for the licensed practice of naturopathy and to provide reports.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7521 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- AUTOMATED DECISION TOOLS -- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - Creates requirements for the developers or deployers of artificial intelligence and allows civil action against these developers or deployers by the attorney genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| RI | H7064 | Pass | TOWNS AND CITIES -- OUTDOOR DINING ACT - Establishes standards governing the municipal regulation of outdoor dining at food service establishments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7300 | Intro
Sine Die | FOOD AND DRUGS -- RHODE ISLAND FOOD, DRUGS AND COSMETICS ACT - Prohibits the manufacture, sale and distribution for sale a food product containing brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben and red dye 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7296 | Intro
Sine Die | HIGHWAYS -- CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF STATE ROADS - Authorizes and empowers the department of transportation to plant pollinator-friendly species of trees, shrubs, grasses and plants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7359 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | H7068 | Pass | GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS - Provides that the center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences building at the University of Rhode Island be named as "Joseph '...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7104 | Intro
Sine Die | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- CORROSION PREVENTION AND MITIGATION WORK REQUIREMENTS - Gives authority to the DLT to enforce violations of the laws relating to corrosion prevention and mitigation work requirements. Also adds civil monetary penalties fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7095 | Intro
Sine Die | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DIGITAL ELECTRONICS RIGHT TO REPAIR ACT - Establishes a digital electronics right to repair, which would allow for digital electronic equipment and parts that are sold in this state on or after Janua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| RI | H7079 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Owen Richard Zimmer
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
House read and passed |
