| RI | H7465 | Pass | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- TOURISM AND DEVELOPMENT - Requires hosting platforms offering short-term rental of residential property for tourist or transient use to disclose on listings the current, valid registration number and its expiration dat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-29 Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H8336 | Pass | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Amends the definition of "low- and moderate-income housing" to include housing secured by a federal government voucher or subsidy, but only if the voucher or subsidy is applied prospectively. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25 Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7586 | Pass | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES GENERALLY - Authorizes Providence canteen vehicles to be equipped with sirens, whistles or bells and would require operators of any canteen vehicle to receive 5 hours of training in the operation ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-17 Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7754 | Pass | Authorizes the Town of Johnston to issue bonds and notes in an amount not exceeding $40,000,000 to finance construction and other improvements throughout the town. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-17 Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7263 | Pass | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS' BILL OF RIGHTS - Creates the law enforcement officer's due process accountability and transparency act. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7477 | Intro 25% | Joint Resolution Conferring Limited Purpose Recognition To The Native American Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe (recognizes The Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe As A Native American Indian Tribe For The Limited Purpose Of Assisting This Tribe In Establishing Eligibi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11 Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| RI | H8261 | Engross 50% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- SOLAR SITING ADVISORY TASKFORCE - Creates a taskforce to provide recommendations, advice and guidance to help expedite and provide technical assistance with regard to the development of solar energy systems on propert... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-10 House read and passed |
| RI | H8323 | Intro 25% | THE TOWN OF JOHNSTON MUNICIPAL COURT - Totally repeals the 1964 public law, which established the Johnston Municipal Court and which has never been amended and would enable the town of Johnston to establish a municipal court and housing court with ex... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-10 Meeting postponed (06/11/2024) |
| RI | H8347 | Intro 25% | Joint Resolution Conferring Limited Purpose Recognition To The Native American Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-08 To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7509 | Pass | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES - Provides that gift certificates issued by state-chartered institutions of higher education would be exempt from the provisions of the gift certificate statute relating to exp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31 Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7959 | Engross 50% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Prohibits a landlord from inquiring about the immigration status of a tenant subject to any federal laws or regulations, but may request financial information. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30 To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | H7539 | Engross 50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Authorizes the division of motor vehicles to issue special license plates in recognition and support of The Preservation Society of Rhode Island. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29 To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | H7027 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- INSPECTOR GENERAL - Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to investigate, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8279 | Intro 25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- CONSUMER ENFORCEMENT OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE WARRANTIES - Requires manufacturers of assisting technology devices to make available to independent repair providers/the owner of the device, any ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7546 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Provides a tax upon the endowment of a private institution of higher education equal to two percent (2%) upon each dollar over $1,000,000,000. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8269 | Pass | House Resolution Recognizing The 76th Anniversary Of Israel's Day Of Independence On May 13-14, 2024, And Reaffirming The Bonds Of Friendship And Cooperation Between Rhode Island, The United States, And The State Of Israel [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14 House read and passed |
| RI | H7111 | Pass | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION -- TOWN OF JOHNSTON - Authorizes the town of Johnston to grant a tax credit to any person over the age of sixty-five (65) years. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10 Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H7669 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT - Increases the department's standard, burial allowance payment from nine hundred dollars ($900) to one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500). [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8255 | Intro 25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To The Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 To The Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence.) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7925 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- TAX CREDIT FOR FAMILY CAREGIVERS - Creates a tax credit for family caregivers in an amount up to $5,000 for eligible family members and $6,000 for veterans based on 50% of the amount of eligible expenditures spent on eligible family membe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8223 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION - Considers state government caseworkers or investigators "public officials" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7589 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Raises the earned-income tax credit from sixteen percent (16%) to thirty percent (30%) for the tax years 2025 and beyond. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8233 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating May Of 2024, As "national Military Appreciation Month" In The State Of Rhode Island [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 House read and passed |
| RI | H8198 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating The Classical High School Boys Basketball Team On Winning The 2024 Division I State Championship And The 2024 Rhode Island Interscholastic League Boys Basketball State Tournament [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 House read and passed |
| RI | H8109 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- STATEWIDE TANGIBLE PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION - Repeals the language that eff. 2025 fiscal year all cities/towns/fire districts would receive a reimbursement equal to the tangible property levy for the 12/31/22 assessment date less the tangib... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7966 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Sets standards and procedures to allow and implement conjugal visitation at state correctional facilities. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H8070 | Intro 25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PSYCHOLOGISTS - Includes licensed school psychologists under the provisions of the general laws governing the regulations of psychologists and expands the licensing of school psychologists for independent practice. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7835 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- RAILROAD, STEAMBOAT, AND BRIDGE POLICE - Provides any police report involving a railroad fatality and all communications between railroad employees not be made public. Additionally, it makes a violation of this section a misdeme... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7459 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- ORGANIZATION OF STATE EMPLOYEES - Requires that if state employee unions are engaged in contract negotiations and/or utilizing the dispute resolution process, all terms and conditions in the collective bargaining agre... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03 To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7372 | Intro 25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Limits residential rent increases to ten percent (10%) plus the increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) annually. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7572 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GAMBLING AND LOTTERIES - Allows social gaming in private residences and in public taverns or private clubs as long as the gambling is incidental to a bona fide social relationship between the participants and no person other than... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7718 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING - Permits the use of telematics by motor vehicle insurance companies to record the driving habits of insured motorists for the purpose of pricing, underwriting and customer service. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8064 | Pass | House Resolution Joyously Celebrating The 105th Anniversary Of The American Legion On March 15, 2024 [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 House read and passed |
| RI | H7381 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Places a cap of twenty percent (20%) on increases in consecutive revaluations of real property in all cities and towns conducting revaluations commencing December 31, 2024, and every December 31 therea... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7375 | Intro 25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTIONS -- DEATH BY WRONGFUL ACT - Expands the statute of limitations with respect to any wrongful act resulting in the death of a child in utero or within six (6) months after the birth of the ch... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7370 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Criminalizes the knowing and intentional failure of a physician, nurse, or other licensed medical person to provide reasonable medical care and treatment to an infant born alive as a felony. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7529 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BORN-ALIVE INFANT PROTECTION ACT - Provides duties/obligations of medical personnel to born-alive infants resulting from an abortion punishable as a felony along with a civil action for compensatory/punitive damages/automatic one... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7789 | Intro 25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES -- HEALTHCARE WORKER OVERTIME PAY - Requires all health care workers who are employed on any Sunday or holiday, to be compensated at the rate of time and one-half. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Labor 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 | H7794 | Intro 25% | 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 | H7369 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Prohibits the division of motor vehicles from placing on a motorist's driving record, a traffic violation which fine has been paid no longer than thirty (30) days after its issuance. This procedure... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7557 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - 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] | 2024-02-27 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7708 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating The 180th Anniversary Of Dominican Republic Independence On February 27, 2024 [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27 House read and passed |
| RI | H7016 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING - Forbids a motor vehicle liability insurance carrier from considering the zip code of where an insured lives for purposes of calculating their policy premium. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7116 | Engross 50% | ELECTIONS -- PRIMARIES FOR ELECTION OF DELEGATES TO NATIONAL CONVENTIONS AND FOR PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE - Would amend certain signature requirements and deadlines regarding primaries for election of delegates to national conventions for presidential... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7199 | Intro 25% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION - Permits family court to make orders of support and education of a child from ages eighteen (18) to twenty-one (21). [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7238 | Intro 25% | PROPERTY -- SELF-SERVICE STORAGE FACILITIES - Amends notice requirements for self-storage facility before perfecting lien, to wit; 7 consecutive days of publication on a publicly accessible website or subsequent written notice to lessee, or publicati... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01 To House Judiciary 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 | H7055 | Intro 25% | House Resolution Expressing Condolences To The People Of The State Of Israel After The October 7, 2023, Terrorist Attacks By Hamas [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-05 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7002 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Chief Joseph P. Razza, Johnston Police Department, Retired [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-02 House read and passed |