| RI | H8190 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- ATTENDANCE FOR SUCCESS ACT - Established the "Attendance for Success Act" which focuses on student attendance in schools, with an emphasis on chronically absent students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7208 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY TAX RELIEF - Increases the income range up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) and tax credit up to eight hundred fifty dollars ($850), for elderly and disabled persons who own or rent their homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7257 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- REAL ESTATE CONVEYANCE TAX - Increases conveyance tax for residential properties sold above $2,000,000 to a rate of $3.30 per $500, to be collected for RI housing for elderly affordable housing development. Provides and exemption to any e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7663 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS - Requires the division of vital records to ensure that the records are accessible to the local registrars and grant local registrars the authority to issue certified copies of certificates and records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Committee recommends passage |
| RI | H7922 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING LAND BANK PROGRAM - Establishes a housing land bank program with the goal of creating affordable housing in the State of Rhode Island. The housing land bank would have the authority to buy, receiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7923 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HOUSING PRODUCTION REVOLVING FUND ACT - Authorizes the department of housing to issue bonds in the amount of $50,000,000 with a maturity date not to exceed 20 years, to establish the housing production revolving fund, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7984 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 - Provides that mobile and manufactured homes be included as affordable housing under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| RI | H8183 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Imposes a tax of five percent (5%) upon the rental of a house or condominium. The funds from the tax to be used exclusively for infrastructure improvements, riverine and coastal resilienc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7407 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- ORGAN DONATION LEAVE TAX CREDIT - Provides tax credits to any private entity that gives paid time off to an employee who is an organ donor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7433 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Amend the standards for issuing Medicare supplemental insurance policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7720 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- PHARMACY FREEDOM OF CHOICE -- FAIR COMPETITION AND PRACTICES - Ensures that independent pharmacies are protected from pharmacy benefit discrimination toward non-affiliated pharmacies and helps protect consumers' ability to choose local, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7716 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT - Requires that healthcare entities and network plans, eff. 1/1/25, include provision in every contract with a provider of mental health/substance use disorders that rates paid pursuant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8056 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Prohibits insurance companies from paying a rate that is less than the approved Medicaid rate set by the executive office of health and human services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8143 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Restricts audits of pharmacists conducted by insurers and their intermediaries, limiting audits to 1 per year unless fraud or misrepresentation is reasonably suspected. The Rhode Island attorney would have t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7258 | Intro
25% | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- STATE FORESTS AND FORESTRY PROJECTS - Directs the general assembly to fund ten full time equivalent positions in FY 2025 to support DEM's efforts in the areas of forestry and forestry projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7590 | Intro
25% | CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM -- 2024 BOND REFERENDA - Submits 2024 capital development program requesting the issuance of $100,000,000 in general obligation bonds to the voters for approval at the November 8, 2024, general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7685 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- OIL SPILL PREVENTION, ADMINISTRATION AND RESPONSE FUND - Provides funds to support Executive Climate Change Coordinating Council to reduce climate emissions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7684 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts urban and small farmers from sales taxes, real, tangible and personal property taxes and income taxes. It also defines urban and small farmers and urban farmland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7611 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- RELOCATION OF UTILITY SERVICES - Utility relocation costs related to highway construction to be partially or fully paid for by the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7859 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- MOTOR VEHICLES OWNED BY A GOVERNMENTAL BODY - Requires that any government owned vehicle that is to be replaced, be replaced with a zero-emission vehicle, defined as a vehicle which produces no emissions from the on-bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7856 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- COMPOSTING AND ORGANIC WASTE DIVERSION - Establishes Compost Fund to award grants related to reducing the amount of solid waste generated in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7918 | Intro
25% | CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM -- 2024 BOND REFERENDA - Submits 2024 capital development program requesting the issuance of $25,000,000 in general obligation bonds to the voters for approval at the November 5, 2024, general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7997 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION - Directs the department of transportation to effectuate a complete and total restoration, reconstruction and refurbishing of the Stone Bridge abutment in Portsmouth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8003 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $10,000,000 To The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (crmc) (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $10,000,000 To The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7995 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- TAX CREDIT FOR FOOD DONATION - Provides a tax credit for food donations by qualified taxpayers to nonprofit organizations up to five thousand dollars ($5,000) per year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8157 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGULATION OF RENTAL OF MOTORIZED BICYCLES, MOTOR SCOOTERS AND MOTORIZED TRICYCLES IN NEW SHOREHAM - Expands the authority of the town council to enact ordinances establishing procedures and standards related to the rental...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7408 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATE AID - Reinstates general revenue sharing of state aid among the 39 cities and towns in RI. The initial amount would be based upon population, and would be increased annually thereafter based on the increase in the Consumer P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7587 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Strongly Supporting A National Infrastructure Bank Through The Passage Of The 118th Congress H.r. 4052
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7999 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT PROGRAM - Provides that the $5,500,000 appropriation to the infrastructure bank from the 2023 budget act be allocated for eligible municipal infrastructure grant program ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7215 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- SINGLE-USE PLASTIC STRAWS - Mandates that food service establishments only provide single-use foodware accessories and standard condiments to a customer upon request.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7515 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MICROPLASTICS REDUCTION ACT - Prohibits a manufacturer from selling, offering for sale, or distributing into commerce any product containing synthetic polymer micro particles beginning January 1, 2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7729 | Intro
25% | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- AGRICULTURE FUNCTIONS OF DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Provides a definition for "agricultural land" and removes the definition of "farmer" within the chapter on agricultural functions of the department of envir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H8071 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT - Does not require the remediation of occurring arsenic in the soil with direct exposure of less than or equal to twenty (20) milligrams per kilogram.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H8127 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ACT - Establishes requirements which would have to be met by an applicant prior to the issuing of permits for an activity that would have an environmental impact on or would increase the cumulativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7809 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- VEGETATION PLANNING AND MAINTENANCE ACT - Establishes the Vegetation Planning and Management Act to provide guidelines for utilities to manage and maintain vegetation near power lines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8013 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL CODE PROVISIONS - Includes "Kei cars" or "Kei trucks" as having restricted public highway use and those vehicles validly registered as of August 1, 2021, would not be denied renewal of that registra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H8119 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- LOW-SPEED VEHICLES - Provides that low-speed vehicles may be operated on limited access highways, state highways, through highways and public highways or roadways provided the speed limit on the highways and roadways is no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7668 | Intro
25% | CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- PRISONER MADE GOODS - Allows correctional industries to conduct business for goods or services with any 501(c)(3) and would require customers of correctional industries to pay fifty present (50%) of an order ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7394 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Respectfully Calling For Publication And Affirmation Of The Equal Rights Amendment (requests That The President, Joseph R. Biden, Publish Without Delay The Equal Rights Amendment As Our Twenty-eighth Amendment To The Constitution Of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7540 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- PRIMARIES FOR ELECTION OF DELEGATES TO NATIONAL CONVENTIONS AND FOR PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE - Establishes the Ranked Choice Voting for Rhode Island Presidential Primaries and provides for new sections on Ranked Choice Voting Tabulation a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7664 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- NOMINATION OF PARTY AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES - Provides a process for local canvassing clerks to notify the state board of elections regarding patterns of forgery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7819 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires the disclosure of the transfer of certain assets of healthcare facilities and would provide penalties for failing to file healthcare facility ownership information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7936 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT - Provides that any disaster response worker shall, in the course of their duties, be considered a state employee under the provisions of chapters 29 through 38 of title 28 and under § 9-31-8 of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7937 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- ARCHITECTS - Provides that architects and other authorized disaster response workers be considered, in the course of performing their duties, state workers and be entitled to all rights in like manner as state employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7285 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- UTILITY THERMAL ENERGY NETWORK AND JOBS ACT - Establishes thermal energy networks network infrastructure by any public utility company that provides electric/natural gas distribution to maximize cost-effective investm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7356 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMPREHENSIVE PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024 - Enacts the Comprehensive PFAS Ban Act of 2024, prohibiting the intentional addition of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances of PFAS in products offered for sale or manufactured in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7617 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BUILDING DECARBONIZATION ACT OF 2024 - Establishes a program for the energy and water benchmarking of large buildings in Rhode Island and a standard for their energy performance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7616 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RENEWABLE READY PROGRAM - Establishes the renewable ready program and fund to promotes the responsible siting/development of renewable energy generating resources in locations where it would be an ancillary beneficial ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7731 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Creating A Legislative Study Commission On Climate Change Impacts And Solutions (creates A 17 Member Commission To Study The Issues Confronting The State Due To Climate Change, And Who Would Report Back To The House By January 5, 202...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7782 | Intro
25% | 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 |
