| RI | H5174 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CERTIFIED SURGICAL FIRST ASSISTANTS - Allows for the licensing of certified surgical first assistants to assist in surgeries through the department of health and a seven (7) member board of licensure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5349 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS - Provides an exemption for certain incarcerated persons from the payment of fees for a first request for vital statistics from the department of health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 22]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5390 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY -- VICTIMS OF CRIME TRAUMA INFORMED MOBILIZATION ACT - Establishes VICTIM Fund grant program to support nonprofit organizations providing victim services in Rhode Island with the state alloc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5478 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To Nora's Haven (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 To Fund The Vital Services Provided By Nora’s Haven.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5472 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHER'S RETIREMENT - Increases monthly minimum benefit for a spouse, domestic partner, former spouse. Grant a 2.89% COLA for eligible retirees. Provided a modification reducing federal AGI for public pension benefits from the RI employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 22]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5924 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT - Increases minimum sentence for first degree sexual assault and provides first 10 years of a sentence for first degree sexual assault not be subject to a suspension or deferment of sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 22]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5972 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Allows retired state employees who worked for the unified judicial system as certified or qualified court interpreters to be employed or reemployed for a limited perio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 22]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6133 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- INDICTMENTS, INFORMATIONS AND COMPLAINTS - Provides that the statute of limitations for second-degree sexual assault shall be 10 years from the date of the offense, or, in the case of a victim who is under the age of 18, ten yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 22]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6159 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- COURT SECRETARIES, COURT REPORTERS, AND ELECTRONIC COURT REPORTERS - Increases the per page transcription fees for court reporters in court proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6160 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Grants tenants that are the victim of various forms of abuse, including, but not limited to, sexual and domestic abuse and stalking, the right to terminate a lease agreement early without penalty or l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 22]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6165 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE POLICE - Creates the PURPLE alert state system to aid in the search for a missing adult with a serious physical, behavioral health, neurological disabilities or medical condition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H6187 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE LOTTERY - Reduces the number of times the director of the lottery has to confer with the permanent joint committee on state lottery from nine (9) times per year to four (4) times per year or at the call of the ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H6211 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Requires persons convicted of driving under influence or refusal to submit to chemical test, have an ignition interlock system installed in vehicle as part of sentence and to pay an assessment to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6229 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- STATE CRIME LABORATORY COMMISSION - Establishes the Rhode Island state crime laboratory within the department of attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 24]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6238 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Effective January 1, 2025, an annual cost-of-living increase, based upon the yearly Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U), to the retirement allowance f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 22]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5770 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- CIGARETTE, OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS, AND ELECTRONIC NICOTINE-DELIVERY SYSTEM PRODUCTS - Reduces the cigarette tax imposed by 75% for any modified risk tobacco product as defined in § 21 U.S.C. 387 k as a tobacco product sold/distributed to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5404 | 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] | 2025-04-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5395 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Allows an appeal of the valuation of a motor vehicle, upon which the sales tax is calculated, when registering the motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5448 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYMENT SECURITY -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Eliminates the "until June 30, 2025" sunset on the increase in the total amount of earnings a partial-unemployment insurance claimant can receive before being entirely disqualif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5184 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Prohibits credit reporting, executions, attachments against a principal residence for judgments based on medical debt. Defines medical debt as an amount for the receipt of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5794 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOCAL PLANNING BOARD OR COMMISSION - Provides technical amendments to the chapters on subdivision of land and zoning ordinances for towns and cities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| RI | H6186 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Creating A Task Force To Study And Define The Term "houseboat" (authorizes The Creation Of A Special Task Force To Study And Define The Term "houseboat" In Consideration Of Existing Definitions Under Current Law.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5180 | Intro
25% | CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- PAROLE - Requires one elector of the parole board to be a person directly impacted by the criminal justice system who has completed the probation/parole process three (3) or more years prior to selection with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5362 | Intro
25% | Allows eligible individuals serving sentences of imprisonment to seek sentence reductions from the superior court, individuals serving life without parole or minimum mandatory sentences pursuant to law, would not be eligible for such relief.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5350 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Repeals 42-56-38.1 and requires the department of corrections to provide free communication services to inmates and juveniles held in residential placement or detention centers and requires tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5925 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION - Makes it a felony for any person required to register as a sex offender to live within three hundred feet (300’) of a school as defined in § 11-37.1-2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5928 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE BODY CAMERAS FOR CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES ACT -- THE WILLIE WASHINGTON, JR. ACT - Establishes The Body Cameras for Correctional Facilities Act which mandates all department of corrections staff with direct supervisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5228 | Intro
25% | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- QUALITY SELF-DIRECTED SUPPORTS ACT OF 2025 - Ensures that more developmentally disabled adults can self-direct the care they need and want, by incorporating collective bargaining righ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5266 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- CERTIFIED SCHOOL TEACHERS' ARBITRATION - Requires the employers of unionized public school teachers, municipal employees and state employees, to provide the union, at least once every 120 days, a list of all their employe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5506 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYEES' FREE SPEECH IN WORKPLACE - Protects employees' rights in the workplace concerning political and religious matters, by creating a civil action that may provide damages and attorneys' fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5072 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS - Permits those persons with felony convictions to have up to six misdemeanor offenses expunged from their criminal record.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5171 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HARM REDUCTION CENTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND PILOT PROGRAM - Extends the sunset provision of the four (4) year pilot program to prevent drug overdoses through the establishment of harm reduction centers for two (2) years to March...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| RI | H5298 | Intro
25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Prohibits any questioning of a juvenile who is suspected of delinquent or criminal behavior, unless the parent of guardian of the juvenile is present, or unless an attorney is present...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5439 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- IDENTIFICATION AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS - Mandates that the clerk of the district court, upon request of the defendant, automatically seal individual counts of criminal complaints upon dismissal pursuant to rule 48(a) of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5437 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- JAILS AND PRISONS - Prohibits individuals from conveying items to or from the training school for youth without prior consent by the executive director of the division of youth development at the department of children, youth and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5501 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- BAIL AND RECOGNIZANCE - Prohibits the courts from setting cash or surety bail on any misdemeanor offense but permits the court to set reasonable non-monetary conditions of bail to assure the defendant's presence in court as requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5800 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Adds "providing for residential development in all or some of the areas encompassing commercial districts" as a purpose a zoning ordinance must address.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
House read and passed |
| RI | H6151 | Pass | House Resolution Joyously Celebrating "uri Day" At The Rhode Island State House On April 1, 2025
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
House read and passed |
| RI | H5034 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Allows school committees to add item(s) not appearing in published notice to their agendas for purposes of discussion only if the revised agenda is filed with the secretary of state and posted on distri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
House read and passed |
| RI | H5230 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- OPTIONAL RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE AND FIREFIGHTERS - Affords an option for police and firefighters to receive retirement allowances, without reduction, who seek retirement after twenty (20) years of service upon reac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5271 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES - Authorizes retired police officers and firefighters to earn income in addition to their earnable compensation; provided that, the amount would not exceed 5 times the rate of earnable compensatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5372 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Includes police officers to fire fighters who are unable to perform duties as a result of heart disease, stroke or hypertension to be presumed to have suffered an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5471 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- OPTIONAL RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE AND FIREFIGHTERS - Provides an option for members to receive retirement allowances, without reduction, after twenty (20) years of service upon reaching age fifty-seven (57).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6087 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTHCARE WORKER PLATFORM ACT - Creates the healthcare worker platform act, requiring platforms offering healthcare shifts to register with the Rhode Island department of health by June 1, 2026, while exempting them from being c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5443 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- SUICIDE PREVENTION -- VOLUNTARY FIREARM RESTRICTIONS ACT - Creates process for individual to voluntarily be either temporarily or indefinitely added to a list restricting their rights to purchase or possess firearms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5436 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- RHODE ISLAND ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN ACT OF 2025 - Establishes the Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5652 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Precludes a person who pled nolo contendere or convicted of a misdemeanor offense and sentenced in accordance with the hate crime sentencing enhancement act for such misdemeanor, from purchasing, owning, carrying, trans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5889 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS - Allows a law enforcement agency to consider expunged records when issuing a license or permit to carry a pistol or revolver.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5276 | 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] | 2025-03-25
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5275 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- PRIMARY ELECTIONS -- GENERAL ASSEMBLY OFFICES -- RANKED CHOICE VOTING - Establishes an instant runoff form of ranked choice voting limited, to general assembly primary elections, with three (3) or more candidates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
