| RI | H8323 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | H7027 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 | H7669 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | H7925 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 | H8109 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 | H7381 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 | 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 | H7369 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 | H7016 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | H7199 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 |
